Since 2017, the EIF has focused on measures to support institutional capacity to integrate Mauritania into global trade. This has included improving coordination among agencies related to trade policy; mainstreaming trade into development strategies; implementing DTIS priorities; and strengthening dialogue and coordination between development partners through a National Trade Facilitation Committee. To deepen the economic reforms being undertaken by the Government of Mauritania, more than 780 public, private, and civil society officials were trained, with 68% of these being women.

Last month the Mauritania Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS) Update was launched before an audience of Government, donors, private sector and civil society representatives, as well as national media. The report, prepared by the World Bank Group with support from the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) and the Mauritanian Ministry of Trade, covers key sectors of the economy, including a macro-diagnostic of growth and trade and an analysis of fisheries, agriculture and services (ICT, transport and tourism), largely based on empirical evidence and fact-finding missions. This report is also the first of its kind to include an explicit gender perspective and link it to trade issues in Mauritania, underlining the important role played by small-scale women traders and entrepreneurs in the national economy.