Senegal and the World Bank

In order to provide financial security to the most vulnerable people and poor regions, the International Development Association (IDA) approved a $40.5 million credit package to aid Senegal in the establishment of a national social safety net system.[8] The safety net functions as a conditional cash transfer program that provides qualified candidates with 25,000 West African CFS francs or $50 USD every quarter for 5 years.[8] A condition of the program is that children are required to attend school during the 5 years. The Government of Senegal established the program to provide financial security for the poor and education opportunities.[8] The beneficiaries of the program are selected by using community and geographical data that provides guidelines for selecting the most vulnerable and in need people.[8] In 2016, of the 280,000 households in the registry, 180,000 were already receiving the benefits from the program.[8] An added benefit of the program is the new capacity to respond to crises. Cash transfers can be used as tools to respond to humanitarian crises and create new methods of more immediate and required responses according to needs.[8] On January 3, 2019 the IDA approved a second round of financing for the social safety net program and loaned another credit package of $57 million USD. [9] The extension of funds were to address specific issues in regards to sustainability, institutionalization, and upscale of the use of the key frameworks.[9] Component 1 of this project was to establish the Safety Net System and has so far been a success.[9] Component 2 of the project was aimed at being able to provide a cash transfer service for low income households and has been able to provide transfers to farmers, beneficiaries, and as a use for productive exchanges.[9]

The development objective of this project is to be able to provide people from rural communities with safe and equitable water sanitation and services.[10] This project also focuses on providing people with proper methods of water resource management as well as oversight of water services.[10] The project was approved on June 22, 2018 at an estimated total cost of $130 million USD.[10] In many countries water is still not a fully guaranteed utility due to social economic barriers that make it difficult to provide water to all people.[10] The main barriers to universal access in Senegal are the lack of funds for the government to maintain and provide consistent water to rural communities as well as lack of funds for rural communities to be able to seek private investment form resource providers.[10] There are four main components to this project that address the issues of water access.[10] The first component is the improvement of the rural water supply system that requires the upgrading of already existing systems as well as opening new routes for accessibility.[10] The second component focuses on sanitation services and provides rural communities with household ad community toilets to be able to maintain clean water sources and clean communities.[10] The third component of this project discusses the issues wth water resource management and provides the community with training on water management and pre-planning for water resource use and allocation.[10] The final component of this project prepares the community for project coordination and increased capacity building so that the needs of the community can be fulfilled with the water supply systems and training of the community.[10]

Senegal in September 26, 2019 received a $140 million USD loan from the IDA to expand the government capacity for nutritional services for women and kids.[11] The project seeks to provide necessary funds for government projects aimed at improving the health and nutritional condition of women and children in low socioeconomic areas. [11]The first component of the project is to improve the availability and quality of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) packages.[11] This component will seek to achieve this by increasing the availability and quality of health workers, mobile midwives, and medical resources available so that rural communities are also receiving the same level of care as urban communities.[11] The second component of this project is to promote adolescent health and women’s empowerment.[11] The project has developed multiple strategies to implement this component through the use of mass media, social and behavioral changes in communities, life and employment skills training, and cash transfers to adolescent girls to help keep them in school or to enroll them in schools.[11] The third component is supporting reforms to strengthen governance, equity, and financing sustainability in the health sector.[11] The project seeks to remove any previous barriers that barred people from necessary services.[11]