Senegal

In the health sec­tor, the year 2021 saw, among oth­er things, the open­ing of the emer­gen­cies skills and care train­ing cen­tre using med­ical sim­u­la­tion in Dakar, the upgrad­ing of equip­ment in cen­tres receiv­ing and han­dling calls, as well as emer­gency and inten­sive care ser­vices in hos­pi­tals, and the pro­vi­sion of mobile emer­gency and inten­sive care ser­vices through the dona­tion of 18 med­ical ambulances. 

In terms of voca­tion­al train­ing, the pro­gramme has so far sup­port­ed 400 young entre­pre­neurs, 40 of whom have received start-up loans. It has also sup­port­ed 20 voca­tion­al train­ing cen­tres to include their train­ing pro­grammes in depart­men­tal eco­nom­ic strate­gies, as well as short-term train­ing pro­vid­ing qual­i­fi­ca­tions to 1 200 young people. 

Dur­ing Min­is­ter Franz Fayot’s first vis­it to Sene­gal, in Novem­ber 2021, he point­ed out the impor­tance of Luxembourg’s sup­port in var­i­ous sec­tors. This was also under­lined by Min­is­ter Amadou Hott, Min­is­ter Fayot’s Sene­galese coun­ter­part, at the 15^th part­ner­ship com­mit­tee meet­ing, which was held dur­ing the vis­it. At the meet­ing, Min­is­ter Fay­ot announced addi­tion­al sup­port of EUR2 mil­lion to fur­ther strength­en coop­er­a­tion with the nation­al emer­gency med­ical assis­tance ser­vices, and to sup­port two his­toric part­ners of Luxembourg’s com­mit­ment in Sene­gal, name­ly the Abbas Ndao hos­pi­tal and the Thiès Tech­ni­cal Lycée. The min­is­ters also agreed to extend the fourth Indica­tive Coop­er­a­tion Pro­gramme for 12 months to address delays in imple­men­ta­tion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mul­ti­lat­er­al­ly, the Unit­ed Nations Pop­u­la­tion Fund (UNF­PA) con­tin­ued its activ­i­ties to strength­en the health and social pro­tec­tion sys­tem with a view to improv­ing access to high-qual­i­ty health­care, despite the health cri­sis. The Inter­na­tion­al Labour Office (ILO) has con­tin­ued to imple­ment its pro­gramme, designed to equip the voca­tion­al and tech­ni­cal train­ing sys­tem with appro­pri­ate human resources and strength­en the train­ing of train­ers in entre­pre­neur­ship and method­olog­i­cal monitoring.

Lux­em­bourg con­tin­ued its sup­port to Sene­gal for the com­bat of COVID-19 by pro­vid­ing cold chain equip­ment to the Insti­tute for Health Research and epi­demi­o­log­i­cal sur­veil­lance and train­ing to the Pas­teur Insti­tute. This has enabled them to ade­quate­ly store patient sam­ples, the bio­log­i­cal mate­ri­als need­ed for screen­ing and sequenc­ing and COVID-19 vac­cines, and in the longer term will sup­port their research capacities.