National Blueprint · One of 195
A nation of 18.9 million at Africa’s western edge, now negotiating a $2.2 billion IMF programme while the World Bank builds its roads, clinics and buses.
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Where Senegalese and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.
Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Senegal: one of a community of selfless people, at home and abroad, building a nation where every citizen has a decent life.
Become a Co-designerDesign Studio · Work with Perfect Nations
Every mandate makes the same four moves for Senegal. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market.
A private session for the people who decide.
Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
Led personally by the President and CEO.
For the Government of Senegal, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.
Green, gold and red, with a green star, under a motto that says it all: One People, One Goal, One Faith. You have kept your democracy through every test, and your new oil and gas fields have begun to flow.
“You have kept faith with democracy through every test. Now keep faith with safe water in every Senegalese home.”
Dispatches
Short analyses of the instruments and investments shaping Senegal, written for ministers, investors and citizens by Preeti Sinha and by Awa Diop, Nation Steward of Senegal.
All dispatchesDispatches appear here as soon as they are published.
Design Studio · Writings
An essay, an article or a true story of up to 1,500 words: your vision of Perfect Senegal and the economic solutions to achieve it. Original and unpublished, published with your name and your permission.
Sovereign Assets
Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Senegal closer to Perfect Capita.
56 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish.
The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned.
Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep.
Enough to supply every home, once it is stored, treated and piped.
Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity.
What each asset is worth, and how far it can carry Senegal toward Perfect Capita, is the question our research and our guests take up below.
Sovereign AssetsDesign Studio · Perfect Capita
The Living LineThe poverty line measures income. The Living Line measures a life: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards. Coverage scores each standard strictly out of 100, and a nation is held at its weakest: Senegal at 27.2, by water, with shelter at 30.1 and education at 31.4 next.
Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Senegal. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures
Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.
The Research · Capital Architecture
The record in figures
The register
Requires corrective action on past misreporting and financing assurances
Commits Senegal to a revenue strategy, stronger debt management and oversight of state enterprises.
International Monetary Fund
SourceHealth care and protection for vulnerable families
Strengthens the health system and protects the poorest households from the cost of care.
World Bank
SourceBuses and urban transport
Moves more people faster and more cheaply through Senegal’s cities.
World Bank
SourceServices and jobs in lagging regions
Brings services and income to two regions that have waited longest.
World Bank
Source
Awa DiopNation Steward of Senegal · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published.
Design Studio · Enterprises
The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Senegal. Suggest one to include.
Suggest an enterpriseDesign Studio · Voices of Senegal
Launching soon“What does Senegal already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
We are looking for the people with real stories from Senegal: the leaders who built something that works, and the keepers of local knowledge who know how their communities live, cope and thrive.
The Senegal Design Studio is open
Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us. Every message receives a personal reply.
