FiTI implementation in Mauritania:
Authority
Ministry of Fisheries, Maritime Infrastructure and Ports
Point
Mr Sidi Ali Sidi Boubacar
Secretariat
Mr Lamine Camara
Members of FiTI Multi-Stakeholder Group
FiTI Reports
Compliance Validations
Locating fisheries information in Mauritania
For fisheries and marine-related matters, information is available on the websites of the national authorities responsible for fisheries management, maritime safety, and port operations:
Additional information is available on the website of the Ministry of Finance concerning the budget allocated to the MPIMP, as well as on the website of the National Agency for Demographic and Economic Statistics (ANSADE), which publishes data on exports and imports of fishery products via the foreign trade directory.
Mauritania’s FiTI Reports
FiTI Reports are joint publications of the country’s FiTI National Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) and the FiTI International Secretariat. These annual reports comprise an assessment of fisheries transparency as well as recommendations for improving transparency and stakeholder participation in the country’s fisheries sector.
FiTI Report 2019
Calendar year assessed: 2018
Approved: May 2021
FiTI Report 2020-21
Calendar year assessed: 2019-20
Approved: April 2022
FiTI Report 2022
Calendar year assessed: 2021
Approved: April 2023
FiTI Report 2023
Calendar year assessed: 2022
Approved: December 2023
FiTI Report 2024
Calendar year assessed: 2023
Approved: December 2024
FiTI Report 2025
Calendar year assessed: 2024
Approved: December 2025
More information about Mauritania’s FiTI implementation
February 2016 – The Government of Mauritania announced its commitment to join the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) at the 1st International FiTI Conference in Nouakchott/Mauritania.
A public commitment demonstrates a sincere intention of the country’s government to increase transparency in fisheries management through the FiTI. However, the commitment should not be misinterpreted as official acceptance into the initiative. Only when such a commitment is followed by concrete implementation activities (such as the establishment of a FiTI National Multi-Stakeholder Group) and the subsequent approval of the country’s application by the FiTI International Board will the country be formally recognised as a FiTI Implementing Country.
Mauritania’s official application documents were submitted by members of the country’s National Multi-Stakeholder Group to the FiTI International Board during its 5th meeting in Berlin/German in December 2018. The FiTI International Board approved Mauritania’s application during this meeting.
The FiTI International Board has recognised Mauritania’s efforts to implement the FiTI Standard with a overall score of ‘compliant’ in the country’s second validation (time frame: April 2022 – July 2024).
This achievement makes Mauritania the second country globally to achieve an overall compliant status in implementing the FiTI Standard. The FiTI International Board congratulates Mauritania on this significant achievement, which demonstrates that all necessary aspects of the validation requirements have been met for the period under validation.
The FiTI International Board is confident that Mauritania, inspired by this significant result, will maintain and reinforce its efforts to strengthen and institutionalise its fisheries sector transparency and participatory governance further, thus ensuring that the country’s compliant status in the FiTI is retained over time. For this, the FiTI International Board formulated in its Compliance Statement several corrective actions to be undertaken by Mauritania. The Board will review the implementation status of these corrective actions until April 2026.
Your contact for Mauritania within the FiTI International Secretariat:
Mr Mansor Ndour
Regional Coordinator Francophone Africa
(based in Senegal)
Relevant posts
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- Mauritania stakeholders celebrate nation’s FiTI “compliant” status
- Mauritania achieves ‘Compliant’ status under the FiTI Standard
- Mauritania publishes 5th annual FiTI Report
- FiTI, stakeholders discuss upcoming compliance validation for Mauritania
- Mauritania reviews implementation progress, prepares for second FiTI validation
- Mauritania publishes 4th annual FiTI Report, covering calendar year 2022
- Mauritania publishes 3rd annual FiTI Report, covering calendar year 2021
- FiTI International Board sees ‘meaningful progress’ of FiTI implementation in Mauritania
- Mauritania releases 2nd FiTI Report, boosting access to fisheries information for calendar years 2019 and 2020
- Webinar: Transparency of fisheries in Mauritania (and beyond) | 27 July 2021
- Mauritania launches its 1st FiTI Report!
- Mauritania shares experience in providing first FiTI workplan
- Mauritania becomes 1st FiTI Candidate country
- PRCM & FiTI join forces to promote fisheries transparency in West Africa
- Mauritania consolidates progress towards a FiTI Candidate application
- 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Launching a new era of transparency and participation in fisheries
- Mauritania launches its FiTI National Multi-Stakeholder Group
