The Mauritania Spotlight report aims to provide a robust diagnosis, based on recent evidence, to support the country's education leaders in their efforts to meet targets for out-of-school enrolment, completion and basic learning (benchmarks) through research, stakeholder dialogue and advocacy.

This country report is part of a series dedicated to early learning in African countries. The research conducted for this report systematically analyzes the extent to which the government's vision is translated into concrete, achievable goals for improving basic skills (e.g. in mathematics), and how these intentions are translated into curricula, textbooks, teacher support mechanisms and assessment of learning.

The second cycle of the Spotlight series uses data collected by mapping four educational inputs - the national curriculum, textbooks, teacher guides and learning assessments - together with information from semi-structured interviews and classroom observations to examine the extent to which learners are offered coherent opportunities to acquire basic skills.