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Senegal National Strategy for Economic and Social Development 2013-2017 is organized as follows: the first chapter provides the growth, poverty and inequality profile and outlines the challenges it poses. The second chapter describes the Strategy through the long-term vision, the sectoral strategic orientations and the policies and programmes that make them operational. Finally, the third chapter outlines the mechanism identified for the implementation of the Strategy. It discusses the financing of the strategy, the roles and responsibilities of actors as well as the review mechanisms to be set up. This last chapter also defined the external monitoring and evaluation framework as well as the risk factor linked to the implementation of the strategy.
Chapter II specifies the Strategic objectives divided into the following three Pillars: P.1 Growth, productivity and wealth creation (including: macroeconomic framework within the Agriculture; Livestock production; Fisheries and aquaculture; Irrigated agriculture; Food security; Industry and agri-food processing); P2. Human capital, social protection and sustainable development (including: Sustainable human development; education and skills development; Reinforcing social protection; Risk and disaster prevention and management; Sustainable development and the environment, etc. and; P3. Governance, institutions, peace and security.
The 2013-2017 Strategy advocates sustainable development that incorporates natural resources management. Integrating the sustainable development perspective will entail taking into account environmental impacts as a priority at all levels of the local and sectoral planning processes. To this end, the environment and natural resources sub-sector will implement its policies and strategies to reach the following strategic objectives:
- Mitigate the effects of climate change on ecosystem
- Strengthen capacities in environmental and natural resources management
- Promote green growth
- Make rural ecosystems less vulnerable to the effects of climate change