Backgrounder - Announcement of projects in Senegal
Backgrounder
Canada has announced that it will contribute a total of $112.6 million to Senegal to fund four development projects, enabling the country to better protect and enhance the well-being of its youth in school, combat malnutrition and help grow its agricultural and mining sectors.
Training support in the search for solutions to climate change
$19.6 million (2016 to 2021)
Partners: African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the International Development Research Centre
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences is a pan-African network of centres of excellence offering African graduate students a world-class education in mathematical sciences. To date, over a thousand people from 42 African countries have graduated from the institute, including about a hundred from Senegal. The initiative has also contributed to the advancement of women in the fields of science and mathematics. The support will help the institute adopt a mathematics-based approach to combatting climate change and establish a new centre of excellence in francophone Africa.
Enhanced support for the protection of children in Senegal’s education system
$20 million (2016 to 2021)
Partners: Senegal’s Ministry of National Education, Plan Canada and UNICEF
The project seeks to enhance the well-being of children in eight regions of Senegal (Kaffrine, Kaolack, Kédougou, Kolda, Matam, Sédhiou, Tambacounda and Ziguinchor) and offer them adequate protection while they attend school. This will enable them to live and study safely and will optimize their chances of doing well in school. This objective will be achieved thanks to stakeholder capacity building in the fields of protection and education, the creation of a secure school environment and raising student and community awareness of children’s rights. The project will directly affect 750,000 students between the ages of 3 and 18 attending 1,700 public education institutions and 10,000 out-of-school or uneducated youth between the ages of 14 and 18.
Capacity building in the repair and physical management of textbooks
$3 million (2016 to 2018)
Partner: New Brunswick Community College
The project seeks to develop capacities in the repair and physical management of textbooks in Senegal. Desired outcomes include the improved supply of textbooks to nearly 400,000 students in 1,557 elementary schools located in the regions of Kaolack and Thiès, and the improved preservation of textbook stocks in the schools. In addition to the students mentioned, this project will affect nearly 120 jobless youth who will receive training as textbook repair workers, as well as nearly 3,150 managers or administrators of schools and academies in Kaolack and Thiès, who will receive training in textbook inventory management. The repaired textbooks can be used an additional three years at least, translating into annual savings of nearly $1 million for Senegal.
General budget support and technical assistance for the Plan Sénégal Émergent [emerging Senegal plan]
$70 million (2015 to 2020)
Partner: Government of Senegal
The project helps the Government of Senegal implement its emerging Senegal plan, the national strategy for economic and social development, whose objective is to position Senegal as an emerging country by 2035. Thanks to a general budget support initiative valued at $50 million, the Government of Canada is helping the Government of Senegal implement structural reforms in key sectors for the country’s growth, namely agriculture, nutrition, the mining sector and the management of public finances. The sum of $20 million will be earmarked for technical assistance to go along with the budgetary support with a view to building the capacities of the Senegalese government by targeting improved management, planning, monitoring and assessment of internal controls and auditing. This funding will also provide technical expertise to support the development and implementation of sectoral policies and programs.
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