• The organisational and functional audit of the National Water Company (SNDE) forms part of Component 3 of the Water and Sanitation Sector Project (PSEA).

 

• The SNDE is responsible for the production, transport, distribution and sale of drinking water in the urban centres of Mauritania.

 

• The specific objectives of the study are to establish a complete inventory of the organisational structure and technical and commercial performance of SNDE by:

1. designing an institutional scheme for SNDE;
2. assessing the current SNDE organisational set-up and departments;
3. detailing the institutional environment and the main stakeholders working with SNDE;
4. conducting a detailed analysis of the current situation, designing and proposing a plan to reorganise and modernise SNDE;
5. building SNDE’s capacities to ensure service continuity.