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country metrics what nl actors do profile government policies trends & limitations senegal interventions & plans main result areas Senegal This country profile, commissioned by The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Department of Inclusive Green Growth), gives a snapshot of what is happening in in the closely related themes Food & Nutrition Security, Water and Climate and Renewable Energy in Senegal. It provides basic statistics on Senegal’s performance on key indicators and indexes, but also analyses relevant national policies, current donor interventions, and the main trends on the abovementioned themes. Combined with an overview of Dutch support to Senegal, this profile ends by suggesting possible priority result areas for The Netherlands. In total, 12 countries profiles have been made, plus one regional profile for the Sahel. burkina faso chad egypt iraq jordan lebanon niger nigeria somalia sudan tunesia sahel region 1 country metrics what nl actors do profile government policies trends & limitations senegal interventions & plans main result areas Metrics general indicators climate/renewable energy indexes UN Human Development Index Anti-corruption and Accountability World Bank ESMAP Electrification Index 188 countries: 1st = best opportunities for development 100 = strongest policies and practices population with access to electricity mauritania – 1 – 100 % #47 – 61 #162 – – 188 – 0 Word Bank Doing Business Index Gender Inequality Index ND GAIN Index 100 = most conducive environment for business 188 countries: 1st = smallest gender divide 181 countries: 1st = least climate change vulnerable, senegal and best ready to improve resilience – 100 – 1 – 1 Dakar 60.8 – gambia mali #120 – #130 – – 0 – 188 – 181 burkina faso guinea-bissau food nutrition security indexes guinea Global Hunger Index (IFPRI) Global Food Security Index (Economist) Land Management Index (UNCCD) Range 0 – 100: 0 = no hunger 113 countries: 1st = best food security 180 countries: 1st = most sustainable land governance – 0 – 1 – 1 sierra ivory ghana leone coast 18.4 – #82 – #134 – liberia – 100 – 113 – 181 senegal, facts water indexes Government Population FAO AquaStat World Bank Drinking Water Index JMP Sanitation Index Variation per capita internal renewable water resources population using at least basic drinking water services population with access to improved sanitation facilities Unitary semi-presidential republic • 2018 estimate: 16,294,270 President: Macky Sall • Prospect 2050: 34,031,000 Languages: Balanta-Ganja, Hassaniya, • Density 68,7/km2 (134th) 4% % 1% Arabic, Jola-Fonyi, Mandinka, Mandjak, GDP (PPP) 2017 estimate 21. 75 24. Mankanya, Noon, Pulaar, Serer, Soninke • Total $ 43.347 billion Religion: slam, Christianity, traditional GDP (nominal) 2017 estimate African religion • Total $ 16.172 billion Area: Total 196,712 km2 (86th) • Per capita $ 1,090 2 country metrics what nl actors do profile government policies trends & limitations senegal interventions & plans main result areas Government policies Food security Water Climate/renewable energy For several years, Senegal has Senegal’s Millennial Program for Water Senegal has not yet submitted a NDC invested in a countrywide nutrition- and Sanitation (PEPAM, renewed in to the UNCCC, instead it has prepared specific programme that has helped 2016) is based on the thought that only and Intended Nationally Determined to significantly reduce the national joint efforts of the state, civil society, Contribution (INDC) for the Paris 2015 stunting prevalence. In 2015, the local authorities, NGOs, private sector conference. Significant benefits are prevalence of stunting was 17.1%, and development partners will enable expected from the adaptation options which is far better than many Sahelian to achieve goals. According to data from to be implemented by Senegal by 2035. countries. With the adoption of a new PEPAM, Senegal is on track to meet the For soils and agriculture: Reducing the National Policy for the Development national targets for drinking water. incidence of poverty; Contribution to of Nutrition (2015-2025), Senegal’s improved food and nutrition security; government has renewed its The 2012 floods in Dakar were of Building resilience; Job creation; commitment to tackle undernutrition significant importance in catalyzing Increased average agricultural yields to and has adopted a more multi-sectoral a turning point in Senegal’s flood 3.2 tons in 2035. For fisheries: Creation approach. Each nutrition-sensitive risk management, as the government of an added value of 9,200 million US sector should, more efficiently, adopted the Decennial Flood dollars in the sector by 2035; Better contribute to the human and economic Management Program. The Storm Water economic and social contribution development of the country1. Management and Climate Change of the sector through sustainable Adaptation Project (PROGEP) started in management of fisheries (control of The Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE, 2016) December 2013, is investing in necessary crises and climate). For water resources sets food security as one of its top infrastructure and also working on Limitation of rural exodus and its priorities. Its national efforts are further institutional capacities, urban planning, harmful effects; Obtaining a “productive delineated in the National Strategy for wetland management, community water” sector that generates added Food Security and Resilience (SNSAR, engagement in flood risk reduction, value in agricultural regions Recharging 2015-2035). Recently established waste management and climate change of groundwater; Contribution to the initiatives, including interventions adaptation. fight against salinization problems; related to rice self-sufficiency, child Participation in the fight against floods; malnutrition (Nutrition Enhancement Marine submersion risk adaptation Program) show promise in addressing benefits in St. Louis; Reduced Coastal the country’s priority FNS needs. Erosion. 1] European Commission, 2017. Country Profile on Nutrition - Senegal 2] http://www4.unfccc.int/Submissions/INDC/Published%20Documents/Senegal/1/CPDN%20-%20Sénégal.pdf 3 country metrics what nl actors do profile government policies trends & limitations senegal interventions & plans main result areas Donor interventions and plans Top 3 donors (based on 2017 IATI data3) Food security Water donor amount (in $) AFD supports job-creation via two ENABEL is realising hydro-agricultural a regional cooperative management areas: Strengthening vocational infrastructure such as embankments, body. The OMVS has implemented the World Bank Group 186,436,000 training to ensure it matches market anti-salt dams and boreholes to meet principle of equitable sharing among needs, financing vocational training the growing need for water of the member states when it comes to EU Institutions 99,546,700 centres’ and the construction of agricultural sector. The population of ownership of infrastructure constructed 2 higher vocational education five regions of the Groundnut basin in the river basin or water resource African Development Bank 79,042,300 institutions for agricultural activities; (Diourbel, Fatick, Kaffrine, Kaolack benefits. and Supporting SMEs, now extended to and Thiès) was invited to identify their three regions: the Senegal River Valley, needs in this respect and to submit Climate/renewable energy the South-East and Casamance4. a project application, communities started a consultation and decision- The Energy Development Senegal TOTAL The Global Agriculture and Food making process involving farmers, project (GiZ) comprises two major AMOUNTS Security Program (GAFSP) is village heads, women and youths. components: improved cook stoves and 712,279,619 implementing a Food Security Support Overall, some 200 rural communities rural electrification. Project in Louga, Matam and Kaffrine submitted a project application5. Regions (PASA/Lou-Ma-Kaf) to For 2018 the Green Climate Fund promote livestock and crop production The development objective of the approved USD 9.98 million for building Top 3 Sectors attracting development funding in vulnerable zones, including Urban Water and Sanitation Project the climate resilience of food insecure investments focused on provision of for Senegal (World bank) is to improve smallholder farmers through integrated sector amount (in $) water management systems, rural access to water and sanitation services management of climate risk project in roads, and animal vaccination centres. in selected urban areas in a financially Senegal with the United Nations World Transport and storage 105,668,000 sustainable manner6. Food Program (WFP). and the Senegal Through Feed the Future, USAID works Integrated Urban Flood Management Agriculture 100,059,000 with the Government of Senegal to Stretching for more than 1,800 Project. reduce poverty and undernutrition kilometres across Guinea, Mali, Senegal Other social infrastructure and services 99,735,700 by promoting agriculture as a driver and Mauritania, the Senegal River is the for economic growth. Focus is on third longest river in Africa. In a region improving the value chains for four plagued by drought, poverty, and key agricultural products: rice, maize, underdevelopment, access to a water millet, and fish. The program aims resource such as the Senegal River is to improve productivity, harvest and critical to local populations who rely on collection, processing and the delivery it for energy production, land irrigation, of the right product quality and and potable water.