Mauritania

Since its launch in 2006, PWYP Mauritania has focused on four key goals to uphold transparency in the extractive industries: implementing the EITI, influencing national legislation, promoting social responsibility through transparent revenue use, and campaigning for contract transparency. The coalition has formed groups on advocacy techniques and allocating revenues back to communities located in mining areas. In recent years, it has focused on capacity building for civil society, raising awareness among elected representatives about the need for transparency in the extractive industries, and engaging with the authorities to improve sector regulations. PWYP Mauritania also works on the rights of communities living alongside the mining industry, protecting workers’ rights, monitoring environmental impacts and including the fishing sector within the scope of the EITI.