Links

This Page contains links to websites that address issues of development and/or culture/history of Mauritania, as located and/or managed within Mauritania or abroad. In addition, websites that address general issues, for example, on techniques, technology and tools, are also included, and that include useful resources for TFT, are also included. While the primary purpose of this categorized list of websites is to serve the needs of TFT, it is hoped that also others working on related issues in Mauritania (and Sahel more generally), will find this useful. Towards this, kindly write to us about other websites that should be included.

The websites are organized in a number over categories. These categories are overlapping, and a particular website may accordingly be listed under more than one category. In several cases additional information are included in order to characterize a website.

The website links are organized in the following categories:

1. Climate,
2. Development, General,
3. Development, Projects,
4. Environment,
5. Gender,
6. Geographic Information System (GIS),
7. Global Positioning System (GPS),
8. Government and public sector,
9. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs),
10. Law and legal,
11. Linguistics,
12. Mauritania, General,
13. Natural resource management,
14. Social science,
15. Technical and technology, and
16. Various.

Climate

1. Vital climate graphics, Africa. Comments: Launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and GRID-Arendal (a collaborator of TFT). The package features 25 explanatory graphics on among other issues water availability, biodiversity and ranges of infectious diseases. The graphics focuses on the special challenges that Africa faces due to expected long term changes in climate, based on among others scientific data provided by the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001. For other vital graphics go to this page.

Development, General

1. Legal and judicial reform. Comments: This World Bank site includes documents relating to legal reform work in RIM, including TFT-related work.
2. Making law at the grassroots level. Comments: This workshop took place in Washington D.C., United States, 27 November 2001. The page contains the workshop program. This material is also available on the TFT site, in Section Output, Page Documents.
3. Programme de Développement Intégré de l'Agriculture irriguée en Mauritanie (PDIAM). Comments: ?.

Development, Projects

1. Cybercommune du Hodh El Gharbi. Comments: This is a PAC/GTZ project (see elsewhere on this Page).
2. Gestion Intégrée des Ressources Naturelles de l'Est Mauritanie (GIRNEM). Comments: This GTZ project closed in 2004. GTZ is a TFT Partner, and GIRNEM's two Directors, Dirk F. Thies and Thomas Sommerhalter are, respectively, one of TFT's Supporters and a member of TFT's Advisory Committee
3. Les 27 commune du Hodh El Gharbi. Comments This is a PAC/GTZ project (see below).
4. Programme de Développement Intégré de l'Agriculture irriguée en Mauritanie (PDIAM). Comments: ?.
5. Projet Appui aux Collectivités Locales (PAC). Comments: This is a GTZ project, GTZ is a TFT Partner.
6. Projet de Gestion Collective des Ressources Naturelles au Guidimakha. Comments: This is a GTZ project, GTZ is a TFT Partner.
7. Support of audit institutions supervising the public administration in Mauritania. Comments: German name: Unterstützung von Kontrolleinrichtungen der mauretanischen öffentlichen Verwaltung. This is a GTZ project, GTZ is a TFT Partner.

http://www.eco-consult.com/glc/

Environment

1. Environmental Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (EIS-SSA). Comments: The EIS-SSA program aims at developing African capacity for the management of environmental information as an integral component of the sustainable development process. The EIS-SSA site on Mauritania contains a few links to secondary sources, and not much else.
2. Mauri Femme. Comments: The first Mauritanian website on women, includes links to, among others, environmental protection.

Gender

1. Flame. African sisters online. Comment: A network of African women committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). French and English text.
2. Mauri Femme. Comments: First Mauritanian web site on women, includes links to, among others, environmental protection.
3. Minterrif. La femme dans le monde rural. Comments: «Menterrif» est une initiative commune entre les ong «TJFAD» pour la partie juridique et «Ntic Citoyenneté» pour la partie informatique avec un premier appui technique du Projet Appui aux Collectivites Locales (PAC/GTZ) qui lui a permis de démarrer ce volet.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

1. Community mapping toolbox. Comments: This page, courtesy Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD), contains material on these community-mapping tools: Participatory GIS, Participatory 3-dimensional modeling (P3-DM - see publication on page Literature), Global positioning system (GPS), Participatory sketch map, Social mapping, Two-stage mapping (2-SRM), and Transect diagramming.
2. Environmental Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (EIS-SSA). Comments: The EIS-SSA program aims at developing African capacity for the management of environmental information as an integral component of the sustainable development process. The EIS-SSA site on Mauritania contains a few links to secondary sources, and not much else.

Global Positioning System (GPS)

1. Community mapping toolbox. Comments: This page, courtesy Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD), contains material on these community-mapping tools: Participatory GIS, Participatory 3-dimensional modeling (P3-DM - see publication on page Literature), Global positioning system (GPS), Participatory sketch map, Social mapping, Two-stage mapping (2-SRM), and Transect diagramming.
2. Environmental Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (EIS-SSA). Comments: The EIS-SSA program aims at developing African capacity for the management of environmental information as an integral component of the sustainable development process. The EIS-SSA site on Mauritania contains a few links to secondary sources, and not much else.

Government and public sector

1. Autorité de Régulation. Comments: Mauritania's official telecom website.
2. Centres des Responsabilities & Montage Institutionnel. Comments: ?.
3. Embassy.org. Comments: Contains information about the Mauritania Embassy in Washington D.C., USA.
4. La Mauritanie en ligne mauritania. Comments: Official Government website. In Arabic, English and French.
5. Support of audit institutions supervising the public administration in Mauritania. Comments: German name: Unterstützung von Kontrolleinrichtungen der mauretanischen öffentlichen Verwaltung. This is a GTZ project, GTZ is a TFT Partner.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

1. Community mapping toolbox. Comments: This page, courtesy Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD), contains material on these community-mapping tools: Participatory GIS, Participatory 3-dimensional modeling (P3-DM - see publication on page Literature), Global positioning system (GPS), Participatory sketch map, Social mapping, Two-stage mapping (2-SRM), and Transect diagramming.
2. Environmental Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (EIS-SSA). Comments: The EIS-SSA program aims at developing African capacity for the management of environmental information as an integral component of the sustainable development process. The EIS-SSA site on Mauritania contains a few links to secondary sources, and not much else.
3. Les 27 commune du Hodh El Gharbi. Comments This is a PAC/GTZ project (see elsewhere on this page).

Law and legal

1. Convention to Combat Desertification. Comments: The United Nations Secretariat of the Convention to Combat Desertification (CDD).
2. Global Legal Information Network (GLIN). Comments: GLIN is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources. The documents included in the database are contributed by the governments of the members from the original, official texts which are deposited, by agreement of the members, in a server presently located at the Library of Congress of the United States of America. Anyone may sign on to the system as a guest and view the summaries and citation information for the laws and legal writings in the database. Searches can be done by jurisdiction, subject, date, or type of legal instrument, or by a combination of these elements. Subject searches are done through a dedicated list of terms, collected in the GLIN thesaurus. The summaries are written in English; in some cases a summary in a second language has been appended. Access to the full texts of the documents is restricted to members. GLIN is a TFT collaborator. Cf. the Mauritania GLIN site below.
3. Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), Mauritania. Comments: This is the Mauritania GLIN site (see the global GLIN site above). This GLIN Mauritania project, as well as this website, was prepared by Lakhsara Mint Dié, a member of TFT's Advisory Committee.
4. Legal and judicial reform. Comments: This World Bank site includes documents relating to legal reform work in RIM, including TFT-related work.
5. Making law at the grassroots level. Comments: This workshop took place in Washington D.C., United States, 27 November 2001. The page contains the workshop program. This material is also available on the TFT site, in Section Output, Page Documents.
6. The Mauritanian Constitution. Comments: This page, located on a University of Wuerzburg server, may have been removed.
7. NTIPO - Le portail du Journal Officiel Numérique en Mauritanie. Comments: NTIPO (dp) renforce la connaissance des textes par la présentation des liens qui les relient en termes d'annotations. Mais c'est aussi et surtout une aide à la navigation à la recherche et la consultation.

Linguistics

Note: These two-way dictionaries, which are available on the CBNRM Net website, contain terms and words within the domain of community-based natural resource management. Further terms will be added. The dictionaries were prepared by Lakhsara Mint Dié, one of TFT's Supporters, as well as a member of TFT's Advisory Committee.

1. Arabic-French dictionary.
2. English-Hassanya dictionary.

Mauritania, General

1. Arab-Net. Comments: Includes separate section on Mauritania.
2. CIA Factbook on Mauritania. Comments: Includes maps.

Natural resource management

1. Environmental Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (EIS-SSA). Comments: The EIS-SSA program aims at developing African capacity for the management of environmental information as an integral component of the sustainable development process. The EIS-SSA site on Mauritania contains a few links to secondary sources, and not much else.
2. Gestion Intégrée des Ressources Naturelles de l'Est Mauritanien (GIRNEM). Comments: This GTZ project closed in 2004. GTZ is a TFT Partner, and GIRNEM's two Directors, Dirk F. Thies and Thomas Sommerhalter are, respectively, one of TFT's Supporters and a member of TFT's Advisory Committee
3. Projet de Gestion Collective des Ressources Naturelles au Guidimakha. Comments: This is a GTZ project, GTZ is a TFT Partner.

Social science

1. Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS). Comments: Contains spatial resources for the social sciences.
2. Flame. African sisters online. Comment: A network of African women committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). French and English text.

Technical and technology

1. Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS). Comments: Contains spatial resources for the social sciences.
2. Community mapping toolbox. Comments: This page, courtesy Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD), contains material on these community-mapping tools: Participatory GIS, Participatory 3-dimensional modeling (P3-DM - see publication on page Literature), Global positioning system (GPS), Participatory sketch map, Social mapping, Two-stage mapping (2-SRM), and Transect diagramming.

Various

1. Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and the Sudan. Comments: The organization is abbreviated "CASMAS".
2. Mauritania - A country study. Comments: From the United States Library of Congress. The site contains a country study on Mauritania, and includes, more generally, vast amounts of information, notably on history and environment.
3. MBendi - Information for Africa. Comments: MBendi bills itself Africa's "leading business, travel and tourism website and a world travel, mining, energy and trade site".
4. University of Pennsylvania. Comments: Contains a large number of links to sites with very varied information. Some time sensitive material (incl. on the Embassy in Washington D.C.), appears to be outdated.