Program
Emergency Community Development Program (PUDC)
The Emergency Community Development Program (PUDC) aims to significantly improve the living conditions of populations and lead a more sustained fight against social inequalities, through sustainable access to infrastructure and socio-economic services. base, and the contribution to the local development of the beneficiary areas.
Major Achievements:
- Access infrastructure: of the 359 km of tracks planned by the program at the end of 2022, 188 km have been completed;
- Basic socio-economic infrastructure: rural electrification activities, with an achievement rate of 80% and hydraulic activities with an achievement rate of 58%;
- Agricultural value chains: installation of post-agricultural processing equipment.
Outlook 2023:
- In 2023, the program plans to continue efforts to open up access with a target of 255 km of track length to be built. Concerning basic socio-economic infrastructure, the PUDC provides: (i) for access to electricity, the electrification of 341 villages by MV/BT networks and 19 villages by solar power plants, as well as the installation of 70 km of electrical backbone length; (ii) for access to drinking water, the construction of 23 multi-village hydraulic systems, the construction of 19 MFT boreholes; (iii) for the strengthening of the health map, the construction and equipment of 34 health posts; (iv) to strengthen the school map, construction of 21 school infrastructures; (v) delivery of 486 post-harvest processing equipment; (vi) for agricultural value chains, development of 53 community agricultural areas, installation of 8 dairy units, establishment of 25 agri-food processing platforms, installation of 20 storage infrastructures.
RADU Center of Excellence
The overall objective of the project is to support the Operational Monitoring Office (BOS) of Senegal by enabling it to strengthen its capacities and set up a pilot Center of Excellence on “Delivery Units”.
The specific objectives are as follows:
- Strengthen the capacities of the BOS to enable it to play its role as a model in terms of Delivery Unit at the continental level;
- Establish a pilot Center of Excellence intended to support countries wishing to develop a Delivery Unit but also to facilitate exchanges between these countries on the theme of performance.