Senegal - Poverty Reduction Project

The Poverty Reduction Project (PLCP) is a followup to the Project to Support Women’s Advancement Groups (PAGPF) approved by the Bank Group in 1991 and completed in 1999, and aims at consolidating the achievements of the PAGPF in the framework of the implementation of the Government’s national poverty reduction programme. Its area of intervention spans the regions of Dakar, Diourbel, Kolda, Tambacounda, and Thies, which are among the poorest in the country according to the estimates of the National Poverty Reduction Programme (PNLP). The project, which is scheduled for five years, comprises the following four components: (i) capacity building of beneficiaries and partners; (ii) micro-finance and income-generating activities; (iii) infrastructure, equipment and village water supply; and (iv) project management.