Support to the municipality of Chinguetti

Country: Mauritania

Sector(s): Agriculture and rural development - Economic development

Date: 11/2002 - 01/2007

Client / Beneficiary: National Officer encharged for FED

Financing Agency: EC - FED

Project Value: 3,500,000 €

Description of the project and Services provided:

The activities carried out by the Technical Assistance provided by the company werein the different sectors concern:

1) Support at the municipality. Support at the training and organisation of common services;

2) Fight to desertification. The programme will contribute to achieve, initially, new technical solutions, and eventually the organisation, the technical supervision and the monitoring of works; the desertification interventions will concern both the oasis and the old cities.

3) Water resources. New interventions are foreseen; anyway, the technical support will be joint by training and social activities;

4) Roads maintenance. Two roadworks will be executed to the rehabilitation of D'Amojar way through and the repairs of adjacent roads to the route Nouatil-Chinguetti.

5) Restoration and conservation of ancient manuscripts.

Subsectors of activities:

  • Public and administrative buildings
  • Educational buildings (schools, universities, etc.)
  • Municipal administration (refuse, land registry, rates)
  • Hydraulic engineering (dams, feeder channels, pipelines, etc.)
  • Applied geology/Material geotechnics
  • Civil engineering
  • Rural development policies and stragegis
  • Agro-economics
  • Agriculture
  • Horticulture
  • Diary
  • Rural engineering (tracks, irrigation, buildings, etc.
  • Desertification
  • Waste Management and clean technologies
  • Public Finances/Budget
  • Taxation
  • Local government/local authorities
  • Decentralisation of regions and municipalities