On March 3^rd, 2014, the National MEWINA Project Management Unit in the Ministry of Water and Sanitation in Mauritania held its national 3-days Capacity Building Workshop. The Project’s Regional Coordinator, the Regional M&E Specialist, Mauritania’s AMCOW TAC member, the national coordination team, National M&E Specialist, and the National Task Force members and stakeholders, gathered to discuss the regionally agreed upon and unified set of 15 water indicators The regional experts explained how water indicators were calculated and how they are used in assessing the national SOW comprehensively and systematically. The training workshop was also a great opportunity to widely discuss any specific procedure required for indicators’ detailed calculation method in Mauritania, and to discuss methodology of preparing the national SOW which will be published in the second quarter of 2014.