International Development Grant

Strengthening Capacities in the Education Sector

Project Number: CA-3-A033829001

Status: Closed

Country/Region:

Senegal 100.00%

Maximum Contribution: $1,416,098.00

Start Date: August 15, 2007

End Date: October 03, 2016

Duration: 9.1 years

Project Description

The goal of this project is to help improve the performance of Canadian assistance for education in Senegal and to achieve significant results in education. The project aims to support the Government of Senegal in implementing its national education and training plan. Canadian education and management specialists will help the Ministry of Education strengthen its capacity in the areas of planning monitoring and evaluation. Activities will include training on results-based management and the budgetary cycle. This project makes Canadian education and management specialists available to the education sector in Senegal. These specialists help to build the planning monitoring and evaluation capacities of the Ministry of Education through the National Education and Training Support Program . The project helps to improve the medium- and long-term performance of Canadian assistance to education in Senegal and to achieve significant results in education.

Progress & Results Achieved

Results achieved as of March 2014 include: (1) management and education support given to key directorates in the Ministry of Education. With this support the Ministry of Education is now applying result-based management methodology in most of its operations (planning monitoring accountability and so on); and (2) the Government of Senegal also improved its leadership in coordinating concerted activities with donors local communities and civil society in the context of the Ten-year Education Plan. The project results have helped support implementation of Canadian education assistance and foster coordination and buy-in by the Senegalese.

Key Information

Executing Agency:
Government of Senegal - Ministry of Preschool Elementary and Middle High School Education and of National Languages

Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada

Program:
WGM Africa

Last Modified:
September 19, 2025

Development Classifications

DAC Sector:

Education policy and administrative management 80%
Primary education 20%

Aid Type: Donor country personnel

Collaboration: Bilateral

Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation

Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP

Policy Markers
Level 2 Children's issues
Major Funding (>$1M)
Budget Breakdown
2007-04-01 to 2008-03-31 $1,416,098 CAD
Geographic Information
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Project Number: CA-3-A033829001