Senegal - Emergency COVID-19 Response Support Programme (PUARC)

The present intervention relates to award of a loan of EUR 88 million from African Development Bank (AfDB) resources to finance the Emergency COVID-19 Response Support Programme (PUARC) in Senegal. It is crisis response budget support as defined in the COVID-19 Rapid Response Facility (CRF). As of May 14th, 2020, the country had 2105 confirmed cases, of which 21 died and 782 were cured. The first case was reported on 2 March 2020 and since then the curve has been rising with the first death recorded on 31 March 2020. Given the current context of a growing epidemic in the country, and a world economy brought to a halt by the pandemic, Senegal has requested for Crisis Response Budget Support (CRBS). The operation aims to support social response and contribute to the mitigation of macroeconomic risks engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic. PUARC is aligned with the Economic and Social Response Plan (ESRP) deployed by the authorities to address the health, social and economic aspects of the crisis.