In Senegal, public resources are raised and spent inequitably and ineffectively, leaving millions of people— especially women and girls— without access to the quality public goods and services they need to thrive.
In particular, Senegal has stark inequalities in women and girls access to healthcare due to gaps in how public money is raised and spent, which are exacerbated by climate change, sanitation gaps, and other challenges.
Senegal’s public resource governance system faces several challenges, including inequitable and low domestic resource mobilization, under-resourcing of key social sectors, overdependence on outside donors, and a lack of spaces for excluded communities, particularly women, to have a say and infiuence how public money is raised and spent.