ECA capacity building effort in Mauritania focuses on livestock and SDG related statistics

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The Economic Commission for Africa completed today a fiveday mission in Nouakchott, to provide capacity-building support to Mauritanian statisticians in order to better calculate statistics related to livestock. The ECA delegation worked with accountants from the Mauritanian National Statistics office on livestock related accounts and finalized projects initiated in February and March 2017 to improve the collection of data related to fisheries, transport, trade, the administration sector and Nonprofit institutions (NPIs). To achieve these objectives, the ECA team worked in partnership with experts from Niger and Morocco. This work is to prepare for a national workshop, scheduled to take place in Nouakchott on 11-13 December to help produce a roadmap to strengthen the Mauritanian statistical institutional environment and production processes. This workshop will take place with the participation of official statistics producers, policy makers, and other stakeholders as well as NGOs and experts from various organizations.