An interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of agro pastoral resilience in the Hodh el Chargui region (Mauritania)

The project "Reducing Agro-pastoral Vulnerability and Improving Resilience in Hodh el Chargui", funded by EUand implemented in the Program "Institutional Strengthening in Mauritania towards Agricultural and Pastoral Re-silience (RIMRAP)" between 2016 and 2019, aims at strengthening the resilience of the actors and communitiesliving in the Hodh el Chargui region and at reducing their vulnerability to crisis generated by climate change im-pacts or by conflicts.The first phase of the project has been focused at performing a diagnosis through the collection of heteroge-neous data concerning environmental and socio-economic information in the region. The data collection has beenperformed through a participatory approach, by involving local actors and by promoting the use of innovativegeospatial technologies to gather georeferenced information on the field.Our contribution aims at presenting the results of the effort spent to generate innovative yet meaningful and easyto use products, able to support a multi-disciplinary analysis of the collected data. This effort has been mainly de-voted to establish a proactive dialogue among several actors having different backgrounds (i.e. NGOs, universities,private companies, local institutions and local communities), for the design of specific tools adapted to the needsof the project and to the local context.The following three tools have been therefore designed to facilitate the access, analysis and sharing of the dataacross the different actors of the project: a database, digital cartographies and a WebGIS platform. All the threetools are conceived to meet the needs of both technical and non-technical users, by providing visual insight intothe relationship between the different elements of the complex environmental system studied.