International Development Grant
Integrated Nutrition and Gender Project in Senegal (PINGS)
Project Number: CA-3-P007542001
Status: Operational
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Maximum Contribution: $35,000,000.00
Start Date: September 15, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2028
Duration: 7.3 years
Project Description
This project seeks to positively transform gender relations to improve the health of women and adolescent girls in Senegal particularly their nutrition and reproductive health (RH). The project targets 200 000 pregnant/nursing women and 600 000 adolescent girls in the 5 regions most affected by gender inequalities and malnutrition and worsened by the impact of the pandemic: Kaffrine Kédougou Kolda Sédhiou and Tambacounda. Project activities include : (1) offering professional development in the field of women’s nutrition; (2) developing a strategy to attract women and adolescent girls and build their capacity in positions of leadership collective action and advocacy on health matters (nutrition and RH); (3) conducting communication and awareness raising activities to help women and girls better understand their rights and needs when it comes to nutrition RH and gender equality; (4) providing entrepreneurship training to build women’s capacity to manage and ensure the sustainability of micro- small and medium enterprises that promote nutrition; (5) providing technical assistance to institutionalize gender equality in 12 ministries that contribute to people’s good nutritional status with the goal of improving service quality; and (6) supporting communities to ensure influential people are engaged in promoting the equitable sharing of power and responsibilities between women and men with regard to health (nutrition and RH).
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) women and adolescent girls are empowered to exercise their rights and improve their health (nutrition and RH) and the health of those around them in the context of the coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic; (2) gender equality is institutionalized in the multisector approach of the target ministries in order to improve the quality of integrated nutrition services for women and adolescent girls; and (3) the practices of key actors particularly communities are improved to ensure better gender equality and equitable access to health (nutrition and RH) for women and adolescent girls.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of March 2025 include: (1) trained 170 women at community regional and national levels in leadership strengthening their decision-making power; (2) trained 296 women and youth with advocacy skills including transversal principles and action plan development; (3) trained 141 women from economic interest groups in business strategy marketing packaging and legal formalization; (4) trained 133 women through Senegal’s directorate of literacy and national languages (DALN) in a functional literacy program integrating modules on nutrition reproductive health and gender equality; (5) supported 125 village savings and loan associations and 33 economic interest groups involving over 3 300 women with training in financial education governance entrepreneurship income-generating activity management. In addition to that the project trained 105 women on gender-based violence;?6) raised awareness 10 766 adolescent girls through girls’ clubs focused on reproductive health menstrual hygiene and early marriage prevention; (7) distributed 2 220 menstrual hygiene kits; (8) trained of 164 religious leaders in the Channel of hope approach who conducted 149 activities reaching 3 998 people; (9) raised awareness 7 656 grandmothers in awareness sessions on women’s health and the equitable sharing of domestic responsibilities.?
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Micronutrient Initiative
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
WGM Africa
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated