Senegal - Community Feeder Roads Project to Support the National Rural Infrastructure Programme (PPC/PNIR)

The project of community tracks in support of the National Rural Infrastructure Program (PPC / PNIR) stems from the urgency of facilitating access to these community infrastructures and opening up production areas and Rural Communities (RC) on the basis of a participatory approach to local development based on broad consultations involving representatives of the RCs. It's designed as a complement to rural infrastructure projects and should contribute both to removing the constraints of opening up and strengthening the empowerment of rural communities and the decentralization process. The project is expected to provide 90 Rural Communities (RCs) with financial resources for ADF and OPEC loans as well as the contribution of the government and beneficiaries to improve community roads and strengthen their capacity to manage and maintain community trails and the works. Improved community roads should facilitate access to rural markets for inputs and agricultural products that should have a positive impact on productive activities (agricultural and otherwise) that would result in increased incomes for the rural populations concerned. The project is structured around two (02) main components, namely: (i) improvement of community tracks and (ii) project management.