Central

The Ministry of Women, Children and the Family is responsible for:

• Developing and implementing a National Social Protection Policy;
• Developing and upholding legislation and designing programmes on women and children’s rights;
• Expanding educational and care facilities for young children, supervising the quality of their programmes and ensuring the quality of the training of teachers;
• Implementing programmes for poor families, led by women;
• Promoting family stability and developing and implementing family education and parenting programmes; and
• Combating all forms of violence in the family;
• Drawing up and implementing the national gender strategy and promoting gender mainstreaming in national development strategy;
• Promoting female entrepreneurship and developing female microfinance;
• Promoting women’s legal status, its inclusion in decision-making and its contribution to development;

The Poverty Reduction Strategy paper 2011 – 2015 includes development and adoption of the national social protection strategy, which will increase access to risk management instruments and social protection systems for the most vulnerable and poorest segments of the population as well as other social groups at risk.

A National Social Protection Policy is in place.

Regional

The Regional Directorate for Health and Social Affairs is competent at regional level and represents one of the regional services.

Local ​

At local level, the municipal council gives its opinion on all matters of local interest, in administrative, economic, social or cultural terms.

Responsible ministries/bodies

The Ministry of Women, Children and the Family

Sources

The Ministry of Women, Children and the Family

IMF, Poverty Alleviation Strategy Paper 2011 – 2013, Review of year on of PRSP III implementation, p. 11

Article 29 of Order No 87-289 of 20 October 1987, op. cit.

S. M. Ould Beidy, (2009) L'administration territoriale et le développement local en Mauritanie (Paris, L'Harmattan,) p. 123 et seq