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Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 12:30pm

DAKAR – On July 11, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security of the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CCAFS), the National Agency Civil Aviation and Meteorology (ANACIM) and the Institute of Agricultural Research (ISRA) launched a new climate information services project to increase the resilience and productivity in Senegal.

The three-year, $3.5 million Project of Climate Information Services to Increase Resilience and Productivity in Senegal (USAID / CINSERE) will be implemented by the international Consortium in close collaboration with the aviation and agricultural research agencies.  It will support Senegal’s efforts to address the negative impacts of climate change on the primary economic sectors of farming, livestock and fisheries.

USAID and Senegal officials at the annual review
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 7:30am

Senegalese Budget Minister Mouhamadou Makhtar Cissé lauded “exceptional” U.S. development assistance to Senegal at the 2013 Joint Portfolio Review with USAID held in Dakar. The meeting was co-presided by U.S. Chargé d’affaires Sandra Clark and Minister Cissé, who noted that U.S. support for Senegal has increased significantly, from over $24.5 million in 2001 to more than $111 million last year.

Woman reporter Ndeye Yacine Thiam at work at Gindiku FM radio
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 11:45am

Thiénéba, November 20, 2013:  The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a second phase of a project that promotes gender equity and women’s empowerment through community radio for thousands of village women in central Senegal.

The new three-year phase of the project will expand the training and support for a cadre of women by 25 villages in addition to continuing support for the original sixty.  Funding for the project is about $1.5 million.

USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator Richard Greene (front left) shakes hands with Khadim Ba (front right), Director General of
Monday, November 11, 2013 - 5:15am

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and in partnership with the Senegalese government, signed an innovative loan guarantee agreement that will provide Senegalese farmers with unprecedented access to financing for agricultural equipment to boost productivity and increase food security.  

Ms. Clark is shown here in front of a new family planning mobile clinic with USAID Acting Mission Director Alfreda Brewer
Friday, September 6, 2013 - 11:45am

U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Sandra Clark represented the United States at the launch of a national, 10-month communications campaign to promote family planning in Senegal.

U.S. Chargé d'Affaires signs the endorsement document
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 1:30pm

Niamey, July 19, 2013 - The Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy Richard K. Bell represented the U.S. Government on Friday in an endorsement ceremony for the Government of Niger's new Programme Sectoriel  de l’Education et de la Formation. The Chargé d'Affaires joined a community of technical and financial partners of the Government of Niger, including heads of diplomatic missions, as well as non-governmental civil society actors working on education in Niger in endorsing the national program. 

Talibés after receiving their shoes
Tuesday, July 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
Friday, July 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
Monday, July 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
Monday, March 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.

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