Mauritania - Youth Training and Employment Support Project

This project is an institutional support operation costing a total of UA 2 million, spanning the 2014-2018 period, and aimed at improving the employment situation of young people. It revolves around two components: (i) placement of employment at the heart of sector policies; and (ii) improvement of the relevance of the training received by young people. The development of a national employment strategy and its operationalization through the integration of employment in sector policies will help to better structure the State's intervention. The establishment of a labour market and training information system (SIMEF) will make it possible to institute an evaluation culture and ensure the availability of gender-disaggregated data. The project also seeks to enhance the anchoring of training in the productive sector by developing tools for analysing labour market skills needs so as to adjust curricula with a view to improving youth employability.