COLLECTIVE IMPACT ECOSYSTEM - SENEGAL
Unlocking Senegal's Youth Potential Through Collective Impact
SENEGEL is a national ecosystem that aligns skills, entrepreneurship, employment, and governance to turn Senegal’s demographic dividend into inclusive and sustainable growth.
Why SENEGEL Exists?
We mobilize public institutions, private sector leaders, investors, educators, and youth to transform how opportunity is created, accessed, and sustained in Senegal.
50%+
of the population is under 24
Senegal stands at a historic crossroads. With over half of its population under 24, the country’s future depends on whether its youth become a driver of prosperity or a source of deepening inequality and instability.
Youth unemployment is not a single problem. It is a system failure.
SENEGEL exists to fix the system.
As a backbone organization, we enable
A shared national agenda
One direction that every actor commits to, instead of parallel plans.
Mutually reinforcing actions
Each actor strengthens the other to create value greater than the sum of its parts.
Shared measurement
One set of indicators, tracked in common across the coalition.
Radical transparency
Open reporting on how funds are used and what results follow.
Our Vision
SENEGEL recruits, trains, and places youth, women leaders, and SMEs to ignite an ecosystem of transparency, skills, and citizenship.
SENEGEL’s mission is to empower and uplift communities in Senegal by recruiting, training, and placing youth, women leaders, and SMEs to build an ecosystem rooted in transparency, skill development, and active citizenship. By fostering meaningful opportunities for diverse groups, SENEGEL aims to drive economic growth, social cohesion, and sustainable development throughout the nation.
The Four Pillars, 2026—2030
01
Future-Ready Skills
Optimizing Supply
02
Youth Entrepreneurship
Supporting Creation
03
Employment Pathways
Stimulating Demand
04
Governance & Transparency
Strengthening Foundations
Our Network
The People Who Carry the Ecosystem
A backbone organization is only as strong as the people and institutions inside it. Seven groups make up the SENEGEL network — from the core team coordinating the agenda to the trainees the whole system exists to serve.
Your Role In This Coalition
SENEGEL exists to fix the system, not to add another initiative.
Everyone has a role — private sector, investors, funders, educators, technical partners and government.
