Source: European Parliament
Mauritania is a solid and priority partner for the European Union in the region of West Africa and the Sahel. The EU’s Global Gateway Strategy and the response to drivers of fragility combining humanitarian-development-peacebuilding will be the focus of a DEVE mission to the country.
The DEVE delegation’s main focus is:
· the investments cooperation and Global Gateway especially in the sectors of digitalisation and the green transition in energy and agriculture.
· human development including Mauritania’s promising universal health coverage programme and progress in good governance and human rights.
· the fragile regional situation and response to the displacements from the Sahel and Mali,
Members will exchange with representatives of government, Parliament, civil society, UN agencies, Team Europe actors, and other development stakeholders.
The mission will feature 2 days on a field visits to EU-funded projects in the easter region to assess first-hand the response in combining humanitarian-development-peacebuilding efforts.
The mission underpins DEVE Committee role in scrutinising the EU’s financing instrument (NDICI-Global Europe) as EU cooperation programmes in Mauritania have increased recently.