Overall Objective
GGGI supports the Government of Senegal (GoS) in its transition to a green, emerging Senegal, focusing on greening the country’s growth engines: Cities as well as on sectors key to the achievement of its NDCs and where growth connects to green job creation. Building on its early work on guidelines for green cities, and assessment of rural renewable energy for productive use (RE4PU), GGGI has helped the GoS design its National Green Growth Strategy.
GGGI supports Senegal in the implementation of the second Priority Action Plan of the PSE (2019-2023) and the achievement of its SDG and NDC targets. Senegal’s CPF 2019-2023 articulates three focal outcomes, in link with GGGI’s Global Operational Priorities (GOP):
- Enhanced green and inclusive governance for green growth and climate action (GOP1, GOP5) and increased access to finance for NDCs and SDGs (GOP2).
- Accelerated low-carbon urban development and strengthened resilience to climate change of Senegalese secondary cities (GOP 4).
- Investment mobilized for renewable energy for productive use in agriculture and climate smart practices in rural areas (GOP3).
Strategic Outcome Targets
| S01 -GHG Reductions | 3,506,180 tCO2 (Next 25 years) |
|---|---|
| S02-Green Jobs | 21, 248 (2021-2023) |
| S06-Enhanced Adaptation to Climate Change | 385, 297 benefited (2021 - 2023) |
Themes
Contact
Resource Partner
GGGI Core Funding
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Government of Grand-Duche of Luxemburg
Bill & Melinda gates Foundation
Qatar Fund For development
Open Society Initiative for west Africa – OSIWA
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ
Implementation Partner
Waste Management Unit Coordination – UCG
Sanitation National Office – ONAS
Senegal IT State Agency – ADIE
Sovereign Strategic Investment Fund for Senegal
Agricultural Bank
National Land Development Society for the Delta and Falémé region SAED
Government Counterpart
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
Ministry of Urbanization, Housing & Public Hygiene
Ministry of Water and Sanitation
Ministry of Energy & Petroleum
Ministry of Agricultural & Rural Equipment
National Sanitation Office of Senegal (ONAS)
Solid Waste Coordination Unit (UCG)
State Information Technology Agency (ADIE)
Municipality of Touba
Municipality of Tivaouane
Municipality of Kaolack
Municipality of Kolda
Context
GGGI operations in Senegal started in 2016 during the phase 1 of the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE). In line with the second phase of Senegal’s Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE), GGGI supports the Government of Senegal (GoS) in its transition to a green, emerging Senegal, focusing on greening the country’s growth engines: Cities as well as on sectors key to the achievement of its NDCs and where growth connects to green job creation. Building on its early work on guidelines for green cities, and assessment of rural renewable energy for productive use (RE4PU), GGGI has helped the GoS design its National Green Growth Strategy. During the 2019-20 biennium, GGGI’s advice has helped progress from setting the agenda in favor of national and subnational green growth pathways, to mobilizing finance for secondary cities’ green infrastructure. GGGI’s work has resulted in the approval of 9 municipal strategies and roadmaps, the launch of Senegal’s Secondary Green Cities network and green buildings platform, and the mobilization of 3.3 M USD at the benefit of transformative solid and liquid waste treatment and valorization projects. GGGI’s program also helped identify opportunities for renewable energy to be used at the benefit of improved agricultural productivity and resilience to climate change in the rice value chain. The transverse focus on the financing of Senegal’s NDC targets led to the structuring of innovative partnerships with financial institutions (FONSIS, La Banque Agricole) and investment project preparation for scalable financing vehicles such as the Renewable and Energy Efficiency Fund (REEF). Taken together, these initiatives are expected to deliver a reduction of more than 30 million tCO2e over the next 20 years, provide access to sustainable waste management infrastructure to 1,860,000 people and create 700 green jobs.
Senegal’s economic growth has been high, over 6% since 2014 (WB, 2019), and the forecast pre-Covid19 was optimistic. Questions of sustainability and inclusiveness remain, as growth prospects are correlated with oil and gas production, and as job creation is insufficient to absorb internal migration and a growing labor force. Most labor is informal, entailing low remuneration, underemployment, and limited social protection and the PSE has identified the creation of green jobs as one of its priorities. In light of the Covid19 economic and social impacts, improving productivity and employment in sectors where the poor are most active, and work is informal is essential for the country to maintain course towards the achievement of SDGs and NDCs.
News
News • April 26, 2022
The basics of Article 6 shared with the national ecosystem
Article 6.4 of the Paris Climate Agreement to allow private companies to access this new market is being configured, a Senegalese official announced. The carbon market is a mechanism for trading greenhouse gas emission rights. It is one of the incentives provided for by the Kyoto Protocol to encourage states to reduce their emissions and […]
News • April 6, 2022
GGGI held the ordinary session of the senegal cooperation steering committee
The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development convened the ordinary session of the steering committee of the GGGI country cooperation programme in Senegal in the presence of the statutory party members. As usual at the beginning of each year, the steering committee meets to examine the evolution of the implementation of the programme in 2021, […]
News • March 29, 2022
GGGI Participation in the World Water Forum 2022
The GGGI Senegal country office took part in the 9th World Water Forum in Dakar from March 21-26, 2022. GGGI Director-General, Dr. Frank Rijsberman, took part in the opening ceremony and conducted a series of meetings with government partners to review GGGI’s country cooperation portfolio. The country office exhibited in Hall B to share its […]
News • March 24, 2022
Director General’s agenda of hearings on the sidelines of Dakar World Water Forum 2022
Our Director General took part in the World Water Forum. 9th edition and first in Sub-Saharan Africa. On the fringes of his visit to Senegal, he visited the Senegal River Valley, a pilot site for the solarization of pumping stations for climate-smart agriculture, as well as rice mills supported by an energy audit and capacity […]
News • March 17, 2022
Senegal Minister of the Environment held meeting with the GGGI Senegal Country Representative
As is customary when a new Country Representatives take office, the Ministry of the Environment, as the entity endorsing our cooperation agreement with the State of Senegal, received the mission letter from GGGI to share the vision of our mandate. The Minister was delighted to receive GGGI’s new Senegal Country Representative and took the opportunity […]
News • March 17, 2022
Korean International Development Agency – KOICA welcomes GGGI Senegal Country Representative
The Country Director of the Korean Development Agency welcomed the GGGI Senegal Country Representative accompanied by the team in charge of the agriculture component in the Senegal River Valley. The meeting commenced with an overview presentation of the two organizations and their vision in the framework of their mandates in Senegal. KOICA is a governmental […]
News • March 14, 2022
Senegal Country Representative met the WEEE management partners
In continuation of the programmatic portfolio working visits, Assana Alio, Country representative to Senegal accompanied by the project coordinator Alé Badara Sy and the technical referent of the component Modou Fall met with all the implementing partners for the waste electrical and electronic equipment management component. A component of the project on liquid and solid […]
News • March 9, 2022
International Women’s Day celebrated in Touba
As part of the celebration of International Women’s Day, our Country Representative Assana Alio Aïda Diongue-Niang Deputy Country Representive Aïda Diongue-Niang to Senegal and the Waste Management team project Coordinator Alé Badara Sy and the team Faty BABOUHeejung CHO J. Christella INNACK ELOUGA met with the association of women waste pickers from the Touba landfill. […]
News • March 9, 2022
Sustainable and Inclusive Rice value Chain workshop in Saint Louis
An inclusive forum on the rice value chain was organised by the Korean Embassy on Friday 04 March 2022 in Saint Louis. At the invitation of His Excellency Kim Ji Joon, our organization led by the resident representative Assana Alio participated in the session chaired by the governor of the region, the director of KOICA […]
News • March 9, 2022
An on site mission led on the Senegal River Valley to visit Rice Mills
As a part of the project funded by GIZ for the energy auditing of 05 rice mills in the Senegal river valley. The Country Representative Assana Alio led a site visit with project staff members and implementing partners during her field mission in the region at the intervention areas of the solar irrigation project to […]
News • March 4, 2022
A mobilization meeting Ahead of the Dakar World Water Forum
GGGI has signed a convention with the World Water Forum Executive Secretariat SEFME as a key partner in promoting this international event. As part of the mobilization of high-level partners, GGGI and SEFME colleagues organized a preparatory meeting on the participation of our organization in this forum. GGGI as the privileged advisor of the State […]
News • February 9, 2022
Country Representative Visited H.E Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Senegal
The GGGI Senegal Country Representative visited the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Senegal. His Excellency KIM Ji-Joon to further mark the quality of relations between GGGI and the Republic of Korea. With 6 months since he took his official position in Senegal, H.E. Ambassador shared his appreciation of Senegal with regard to the […]
News • February 3, 2022
Country Representative introductory visit in Senegal River Valley for projects under implementation
A delegation from the Senegal Country Office, led by the Resident Representative, made a contact visit to follow up on the implementation of projects underway in the Senegal River Valley. The project in collaboration with the Qatar Fund for Development on climate smart agriculture was reviewed. The project aims to introduce climate smart agriculture practices […]
News • January 18, 2022
Technical Committee selected policy approaches as part of DAPA project
SENEGAL; December 20, 2021 – The National Committee on Climate Change – COMNACC chaired a technical committee for the selection of policy approaches as part of the DAPA project phase II. The technical committee was composed of representatives from sectorial ministries embedded in the process, including the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Ministry of […]
News • January 11, 2022
Accelerating investment in nature for the green recovery in Senegal strategic workshop held
The strategic orientation workshop was held on December 16, 2021 for the project “Accelerating investment in nature for the green recovery in Senegal through the structuring of the green PES” organized in partnership with the Operational Office for the monitoring of the PES, the MAVA Foundation and the European Union. The objective was to share […]
News • December 2, 2021
Selection of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices in the Senegal River Valley
The Solar Irrigation Project for Climate Smart Agriculture in the Senegal River Valley is a partnership between the State of Qatar, through the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). It aims to contribute to the reduction of poverty and greenhouse gas emissions and to improve the livelihoods of rice […]
News • December 2, 2021
Training program on Electronic Waste Dismantlement Techniques
GGGI delivered a training program on waste dismantling techniques for electrical and electronic equipment in Senegal as part of the Solid and Liquid Waste Management project in Senegal’s secondary cities, financed by the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The project’s approach specifies the cultivation of waste into resources according to the principles of […]
News • December 2, 2021
Touba Local Operators site visit to Plastic Recycling Units
As part of the plastic waste management component in the city of Touba, local operators recently trained on the development of a business plan for the creation of a plastic unit visited plastic recycling units in Senegal. The purpose of the visit was to allow local actors in Touba to see the plastic recycling industry […]
News • December 2, 2021
Technical Structuring Workshop for the Green Senegal Rising Plan
November 29, 2021; Saly, Senegal – The Director-General of the Operational Office for the Monitoring of the Emerging Senegalese Plan (BOS/PSE), El Ousseyni Kane, took part in the opening of the preparatory technical workshop of the Green PSE Programme with the presence of the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD), Amadou […]
News • December 2, 2021
Senegal celebrates World Toilet Day 2021
As every year, Senegal celebrated World Toilet Day on November 19, 2021, with this year’s theme focusing on raising awareness of decision makers of the importance of proper toilet facilities, as sanitation is still underfunded in many part of the world. According to a joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, 4.5 […]
Projects
SN14
Thematic Areas
Countries
SN14 Solar-Powered Irrigation for Climate-Smart Agriculture in the Senegal River Valley
| Start Date | Q1 January 2021 |
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| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 0 |
| Status | Active |
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SN12
Thematic Areas
Countries
SN12 Energy auditing and capacity building on energy management for five rice mills in the Senegal River Valley
| Start Date | Q1 January 2020 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 0 |
| Status | Active |
| Thematic Area |
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Thematic Areas
Countries
Project Reference Profiles – Senegal(SN2) Green Secondary Cities Wastewater, Plastic Waste and WEEE Management: Innovative Business Model
| Start Date | Q1 Jan 1 2019 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 837,171 |
| Status | Active |
| Thematic Area |
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Thematic Areas
Countries
Project Reference Profiles – Senegal(SN05) National Finance Vehicle in Senegal: The Renewable and Energy Efficiency Fund
| Start Date | Q1 May 1 2019 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 34,663 |
| Status | Active |
| Thematic Area |
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Thematic Areas
Countries
Project Reference Profiles – Senegal(SN07) Support to CNCAS for GCF pipeline development as DAE
| Start Date | Q1 May 20 2019 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 6,797 |
| Status | Active |
| Thematic Area |
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Thematic Areas
Countries
Project Reference Profiles – Senegal(SN08) Solar PV electricity for agricultural development
| Start Date | Q1 Aug 1 2019 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 43,372 |
| Status | Active |
| Thematic Area |
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Thematic Areas
Countries
Project Reference Profiles – Senegal(SN09) Senegal Green building readiness program
| Start Date | Q1 July 1 2019 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 38,967 |
| Status | Complete |
| Thematic Area |
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Thematic Areas
Countries
Promoting city-wide inclusive sanitation through the Climate Resilience and Green Growth agenda in Senegal
| Start Date | Q1 2019 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 0 |
| Status | Active |
| Thematic Area |
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Thematic Areas
Countries
Green Secondary Cities Wastewater, Plastic Waste and WEEE Management: Innovative Business Model for Recycling and Valorization in Senegal.
| Start Date | Q1 2019 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 3,000,000 |
| Status | Active |
| Thematic Area |
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Thematic Areas
Countries
Biogas Cogeneration Project Senegal
| Start Date | Q1 2016 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 0 |
| Status | Active |
| Thematic Area |
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Thematic Areas
Countries
Green Growth Pathways in Senegal
| Start Date | Q1 2017 |
|---|---|
| Funding Source | |
| Actual Budget (USD) | 2,428,000 |
| Status | Active |
| Thematic Area |
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