Senegal - Project to Support the Promotion of Employment for Youth and Women (PAPEJF)

The Project to Support the Promotion of Employment for Youth and Women (PAPEJF) seeks to help create decent jobs and sustainable incomes through skill development and the promotion of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) for the youth and women. Focusing on the agricultural and services value chains will broaden employment and income opportunities in the targeted regions of Kaolack, Fatick, Thiès, Casamance Naturelle (Ziguinchor, Kolda and Sédhiou) and in the surburbs of Dakar. The project will span five years, with a total cost of UA 23.54 million. It will generate at least 15,000 sustainable decent jobs in rural and semi-urban areas (60% for youth of both sexes and 40% for women) and develop the technical and managerial skills of 17,000 entrepreneurs. It thus provides for the creation of 156 integrated agricultural, aquacultural and poultry farms which will entail the development of approximately 1000 ha of land, the construction of 18 training centres for handicraft trades, the establishment of 15 multifunctional platforms and 40 trading kiosks, and the refurbishing of 3 agricultural vocational training centres.