President of Republic Chairs Meeting of COVID-19 Fund Management Committee

The President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, chaired, Thursday at the Presidential Palace in Nouakchott, a meeting of the committee responsible for monitoring the management of the Special Fund for Social Solidarity and the Fight against COVID-19. The meeting provided an opportunity to exchange views on how the Fund has been managed and the obstacles encountered. In their various interventions, the members of the committee, who are senior officials, diplomats, elected officials and representatives of civil society organizations, underlined the important role played by the Fund in mitigating the effects of the pandemic. They highlighted various problems which could hamper the operation of the Fund. In this regard, the President of the Republic assured the different speakers that the fund is aimed at vulnerable classes to help them cope with the effects of the coronavirus. He also assured them of the continuation of the transparent operation of the fund, the strengthening of permanent monitoring mechanisms of its resources and the identification of disbursements. Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani instructed the Minister of Finance to overcome all the difficulties raised and those which have hampered the monitoring of the Fund’s intervention at the regional level, insisting on the role of the media in this regard. His Excellency finally thanked all the speakers, in particular the donors, for their support to our country in this particular period, recalling the objective for which the Fund was created, namely to face the pandemic and to mitigate its effects to enable government sectors to pursue their development programs aimed at improving the living conditions of citizens.