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Mercredi, juillet 20, 2016 - 12:30pm

DAKAR - L’Agence des Etats-Unis  pour le développement international (USAID) , le Programme de recherches sur les changements climatiques, l’agriculture et la sécurité alimentaire (CCAFS) du Consortium du Groupe Consultatif pour la Recherche Agricole Internationale (CGIAR), l’Agence nationale de l’aviation civile et de la météorologie (ANACIM) et l’Institut de recherche agricole (ISRA) ont lancé le 11 juillet 2016 un nouveau projet de services d'information climatique pour accroître la résilience et la productivité au Sénégal.

 Ce projet triennal d’un montant de 3,5 millions de dollars US, appelé projet Services d'information climatique pour accroître la résilience et la productivité au Sénégal (USAID/CINSERE), sera mis en œuvre par le CCAFS, en étroite collaboration avec l’ANACIM et l’ISRA. Il appuiera les efforts déployés par le Sénégal en vue de faire face aux effets négatifs du changement climatique sur des secteurs économiques de base comme l'agriculture, l’élevage et la pêche.

Talibés after receiving their shoes
Mardi, juillet 23, 2013 - 6:30am

Grand Mbao, July 16, 2013 – In the spirit of giving associated with the holy month of Ramadan, a U.S. based shoemaker has teamed with a project of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide more than 60,000 pairs of shoes to students in daaras across four regions of Senegal.

USAID Deputy Assistant Administator for Global Health Katie Taylor meets Minister of Health and Social Action Prof. Awa Marie Co
Vendredi, juillet 5, 2013 - 12:00pm

Through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the United States participated in Senegal’s launch today of a National Child Survival Action Plan as a commitment to save more than 10,000 mothers and children from death by preventable diseases in the next two years. 

President Obama makes remarks at the agricultural technology marketplace
Lundi, juillet 1, 2013 - 10:00am

U.S. President Barak Obama visited Senegal from June 27-29 as part of a three country trip to Africa which also included South Africa and Tanzania. While in Senegal, President Obama toured a Feed the Future Agricultural Technology Marketplace, which presented leading agriculture technologies used by smallholder farmers in West Africa. Five booths, each with a rural marketplace feel, presented a farmer or producer as well as an end user. The booths highlighted food security technologies and products used in Senegal and more broadly throughout West Africa, including improved seed varieties, bio-fortified crops, portable rice mills, virtual technologies and highly nutritious agricultural products.

Mission Director Patrick and Minister of the Environment El Ali pose by the inaugural plaque
Lundi, mars 11, 2013 - 8:00am

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, has dedicated a 645-meter anti-salt dike that will allow farmers to cultivate and irrigate more than 250 hectares of previously un-arable farmland in the Kaolack region.

USAID Deputy Director Alfreda Brewer chats with Senegal’s Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye before the anti-corruption workshop.
Mardi, Décembre 11, 2012 - 5:15pm

The National Action Plan against Corruption is the first product to be validated and adopted by stakeholders from different sectors of the commission and forwarded to the head of state. As part of its Good Governance program in Senegal, the U.S. Agency for International Development supported the National Commission for the Fight against Corruption and Misappropriation in operationalizing the National Plan for the fight against corruption.

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