Dakar, Senegal

Safeguards strengthening for employment-focused infrastructure investments

Supported deployment and refinement of environmental and social management practices for investment projects in Senegal.

Context

Projects ranged from infrastructure and industrial activities to agroforestry and waste-management operations, requiring risk-proportionate safeguards.

Challenge

  • Sectors with different risk profiles required consistent but adaptable controls
  • Early implementation feedback had to be translated into workable process updates

Intervention

  • Supported implementation updates using lessons learned from first project cycles
  • Contributed to legal gap analysis and practical compliance interpretation

Outcome

  • More coherent application of safeguards requirements across investment projects
  • Stronger country-level understanding of compliance triggers and controls