Senegal

Working areas

STEP activities in Senegal beneficiate from various favourable factors among which the existence of a well-organized civil society is materialized by a multitude of organizations. This context recognizes that the activities of the programme are dense in this country. The experiences supported in Senegal have also allowed getting an important knowledge base and making STEP programme’s objectives and methodology to evolve gradually.

STEP in Senegal includes its interventions in the framework of the Strategic Document to Reduce Poverty (DSRP) in which the Social Protection National Strategy (SNPS) constitutes one of the main axis. The SNPS sets the common political vision of all social protection actors at a national level.

In Senegal, programme activities are oriented toward the support to large scope systems (national coverage and important target populations) aiming in particular populations of the informal economy. Based on these experiences developed by health micro-insurance, these systems need to create new mechanisms for information flow management, technical management and financing systems.

Principal objectives

STEP activities in Senegal are organized based on three main axis:

• Support to the Social Security National Strategy (SNPS) and advocacy role to the State and to different active actors in the social protection sector; More information on this subject
• Support to the setting up of new social protection schemes;
• Support to health micro-insurance systems through:
• The set up of IT management tools and creation of a database;
• Support to the development of healthcare mutual organizations unions to build up national supporting structures;
• Reinforcement of capacities and follow-up of supporting structures to carry out the project of promotion and diffusion of mutual organizations’ movement.

More information

Various experiences have been set up since the start of STEP programme in Senegal. These experiences have made possible to do the research-action work on the organization and management of Community based Social Protection Schemes (SPSC).

• Women in Urban Areas Programme (PROFEMU), Wer Werlé healthcare mutual organizations case
• Strategy to assure the contribution: story of an ordinary case of women in underprivileged areas • pdf 356 KB in French
• General presentation of the healthcare mutual organization of MS-PAMECAS • pdf 726 KB in French
• Site on micro-insurance: Micro-Insurance Centre
• Site on micro-finance: Case Studies, CGAP Working Group
• Site of the Senegalese Ministry of Finance • In French

Contacts

ILO/STEP office Senegal

8 Cité Pyrotechnique Mermoz
BP 414
Dakar - Senegal
Phone/Fax: +221.860.11.25