Inclusive Local Development to Advance the SDGs in the Commune of Fass-Dakar
Duration: July 2021– December 2024
Budget: US$2,074,010 (UNTFHS: $1,084,010;?Pooled Funding: $990,000)?
Implementing Agencies: UNFPA (lead), UNICEF, UNDP, UN WOMEN, UNRCO
Vulnerable women and youth in the town of Gueule Tap¨¦e-Fass-Colobane face significant and interconnected challenges. Unemployment rates are high, especially among young women, and many of those who work are employed in the informal sector, where jobs can be precarious and access to social protection is limited. Opportunities to improve their economic prospects are constrained by limited access to education and vocational training, barriers to financing entrepreneurial activities, and legal restrictions that can hinder women from starting businesses. This economic insecurity undermines their food and health security, which is further compounded by limited health and social services.
The programme builds upon an initiative supported by the UNTFHS in 2019 to strengthen the application of human security towards accelerating the achievement of the SDGs at the local level in West Africa.
The key objectives of the programme are to: (i) develop employment and improve income generation for the most vulnerable groups, in particular women and youth, to promote their economic, food and health security; (ii) increase the availability and access of women, adolescents and youth to quality services in reproductive health, education and literacy, and to fight against GBV and other harmful practices in order to strengthen their empowerment; (iii) improve the integration of the concept of human security in local and sectoral development programmes in the municipality and at the Âé¶¹APP System.
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