General objective of the RIMDIR programme: To strengthen the resilience of populations vulnerable to food and nutritional insecurity in Mauritania.

Specific objective of the RIMDIR programme: To improve sustainable and equitable access to productive and energy services and infrastructure for the most vulnerable populations.

Component 1: Productive rural infrastructure and overall coordination

General objective: To strengthen the resilience of populations vulnerable to food and nutritional insecurity in Mauritania.

Specific objective: To improve sustainable and equitable access to productive and energy services and infrastructure for the most vulnerable populations.

Results: 

• R1: Vulnerable populations have access to water in quantity and quality for all their needs and activities throughout the year.
• R2: The production areas covered by support for the value chains are accessible all year round.
• R3: Vulnerable populations have access to healthy, sufficient and diversified food throughout the year by securing, developing and sustainably managing agricultural and pastoral land.
• R4: The management and coordination capacities of the productive infrastructure sub-sector are improved.

Implementer: Enabel

Partner institutions: Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Livestock

Amount: €25 million (EU)

Component 2: Access to renewable energy

General objectives :

• Achieve sustainable and equitable improvements in access to productive and energy services and infrastructure for the most vulnerable sections of the population.
• Provide access to electricity for people in areas that are not connected and improve the connection rate in areas that already have electricity, by investing in energy infrastructure (mini-grids and hybrid solar/thermal production systems).

Specific objectives :

• Make investments in energy infrastructure for the electrification of the project area;
• Structure a technical assistance component to strengthen SOMELEC's capacity (i) to manage rural electrification projects as PPPs and (ii) the private operator's capacity to optimise the management of the electricity supply service for local populations;
• Support SOMELEC in the selection of a private delegate responsible for the construction, operation, maintenance and renewal of equipment in the project area;
• Set up an incentive mechanism for rural electrification to make the public-private partnership scheme more attractive;
• Coordinate inter-donor action (i) in the energy component of the RIMDIR programme and donor funding (ii) aimed at increasing access to energy in the project area and contributing to the programme's objective of strengthening the resilience of beneficiaries, the vulnerable populations in rural areas.

Results:

• Connection of around 19,800 people in around 28 localities with more than 500 inhabitants;
• 0.9 MW of new renewable capacity installed;
• Implementation of a new rural electrification scheme: decentralised electrification by mini-grids via a public service delegation scheme;
• Activation of local rural services with a positive impact on sustainable job creation.

Implementer: AFD

Implementing partners: Ministry of Petroleum, Mines and Energy (MPME), Société Mauritanienne d'Electricité (SOMELEC).

Amount: €9 million EU + €4 million AFD