Senegal – Networked Action for Employment Promotion and Strengthening SMEs

Region	Africa
Start	2021
Sector	Public Sector, Private Sector, Civil Society
CLI Project Manager	Elisabeth Kuehn, Moussa Gueye

Region

Africa

Start

2021

Sector

Public Sector, Private Sector, Civil Society

CLI Project Manager

Elisabeth Kuehn, Moussa Gueye

Project context

In October 2021, CLI started the first of a four-part Collective Leadership training series in Senegal. The key actors included the GIZ Partnership Program for Employment and SME Strengthening in Senegal (Invest for Jobs Senegal) which is creating new employment opportunities through strengthening small and medium enterprises in the realms of renewable energy, textile, cosmetics, tourism, and urban development. A network of key actors from private and public sector needed to come together to drive public-private collaboration in those key sectors overall, and implement such cooperation on the ground in selected initiatives.

Project Facts

Project time

2021-2022

Stakeholders

representatives from public, private and civil society sectors who are involved in leading sectors of the sustainbale economic development in Senegal

Outcome

Foundation of the network ‘task force DPP Senegal’, with the purpose to continue support and advice for collaboration internally, and expand and advocate for that same approach externally in all of Senegal; a draft theory of change for the network is defined; along-term vision, overall goal, transversal strategies, and a short-term action workplan for the next three months of the network is developed; a core group driving the network’s strategy development and consolidation is defined; committed engagement by the group to continue collaborating across sector boundaries in the mid- and long-term future is generated.

Senegal - Networked Action for Employment Promotion and Strengthening SMEs

Establishing a Collective Leadership Ecosystem for Employment Promotion and SME Strengthening

Project context