# Senegal - Link: https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/ - Published: 2026-05-22T22:16:09-04:00 - Author: Preeti Sinha National Blueprint · One of 195 # Senegal 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. * **18.9m**Citizens, 2025 * **$2.2B**IMF programme agreed by staff, 2026 * **45%**Of land under forest [Enter the Design Studio](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/#bp-studio) [Read the Letter](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/#bp-letter) [The three mandates](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/#bp-mandates) You are entering ## The Perfect SenegalDesign Studio Where Senegalese and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in. [Mandates](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/#bp-mandates)[Assets](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/#bp-assets) [Perfect Capita](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/#bp-pc)[Capital](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/#bp-capital) [Enterprises](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/#bp-enterprises)[Voices](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/#bp-voices) 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-designer](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/contact@perfectnations.org?subject=Becoming%20a%20Co-designer%20of%20Perfect%20Senegal&body=Your%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0AHow%20you%20would%20like%20to%20contribute%20%28writing%2C%20a%20voice%20for%20the%20podcast%2C%20an%20enterprise%2C%20your%20expertise%29%3A%0D%0A) Design Studio · Work with Perfect Nations ## One mission. Three depths. Every mandate makes the same four moves for Senegal. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market. 1. **01**Identify the assets 2. **02**Estimate Perfect Capita 3. **03**Co-design the capital architecture 4. **04**Launch the instruments and structures 1. Mandate 01 2. ### The Nation Briefing 3. 3 hours 4. A private session for the people who decide. 5. a. **01**Identify the assetsThe five sovereign assets on this page, walked through. b. **02**Estimate Perfect CapitaCoverage of 27.2 and the Gap, explained. c. **03**Co-design the capital architectureThe instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted. d. **04**Launch the instrumentsThe path to market, outlined. 6. You leave withThe gap, named and sized 7. [Request a Nation Briefing](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?about=studio&country=Senegal) 8. Mandate 02 9. ### The Blueprint Lab 10. 3 days 11. Your team and ours, working the blueprint together. 12. a. **01**Identify the assetsThe ledger tested against your ministries’ own data. b. **02**Estimate Perfect CapitaEach of the seven standards costed in Senegalese prices. c. **03**Co-design the capital architectureOne financing structure, drawn with your team. d. **04**Launch the instrumentsA term sheet and the partners to approach. 13. You leave withThe structure, drawn 14. [Plan a Blueprint Lab](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?about=studio&country=Senegal) 15. Mandate 03 16. ### The Sovereign Mandate 17. End to end 18. Led personally by the President and CEO. 19. a. **01**Identify the assetsA full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified. b. **02**Estimate Perfect CapitaPerfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan. c. **03**Co-design the capital architectureThe full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing. d. **04**Launch the instrumentsTaken to investors and development partners, through to close. 20. You leave withA structure ready for market 21. [Discuss a Sovereign Mandate](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?about=commission&country=Senegal) For the Government of Senegal, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins. Senegal in BloomNation Portrait · [The Gallery](https://perfectnations.org/gallery/) Perfect Nations™ · Letters to the NationsSenegal ## Dear Senegal, 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.” Yours in design,**Preeti Sinha**President and CEO, Perfect Nations [Read the full letter](https://perfectnations.org/dear-senegal/) Dispatches ## Letters from the markets. 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 dispatches](https://perfectnations.org/state-of-nations/) Perfect Nations™ · State of NationsForthcoming ### The first dispatch on Senegal is in preparation. Dispatches appear here as soon as they are published. Design Studio · Writings ## Write Perfect Senegal _into being._ 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. [Submit your writing](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/contact@perfectnations.org?subject=Writing%20for%20Perfect%20Senegal&body=Your%20name%2C%20or%20a%20pen%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0ATitle%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AYour%20vision%20of%20Perfect%20Senegal%2C%20and%20the%20economic%20solutions%20to%20achieve%20it%20%28up%20to%201%2C500%20words%29%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20confirm%20that%20this%20is%20my%20own%20original%20writing%2C%20and%20I%20give%20Perfect%20Nations%20permission%20to%20publish%20it%20with%20credit%20to%20me.%0D%0A) or email [contact@perfectnations.org](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/contact@perfectnations.org) Sovereign Assets ## Five assets no balance sheet counts. Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Senegal closer to Perfect Capita. * 01 * ### The People * 18.9mCitizens, 2025 * 56 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish. * 02 * ### The Land * 49.4%Of land in farms and pasture * The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned. * 03 * ### The Forest * 45%Of land under forest * Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep. * 04 * ### The Water * 1,462 m³Renewable fresh water per person * Enough to supply every home, once it is stored, treated and piped. * 05 * ### The Power * 13.3%Of energy from renewables, 2021 * 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 Assets](https://perfectnations.org/sovereign-assets/) Design Studio · Perfect Capita ## The Senegal wheel: held at 27.2 by water * **To set**Perfect CapitaThe yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Senegal in its own prices. * **To set**The price of Perfect SenegalPerfect Capita times the population: the national bill, each year. * **27.2**CoverageOut of 100, set by water, the standard Senegal provides least. * **~14m**The GapSenegalese without safely managed drinking water at home: 73 in every hundred. **The Living Line**The 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](https://perfectnations.org/perfect-capita/#pq-measures) * Food**72.3%**Not food insecure; 27.7% are moderately or severely food insecure [FAO, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS?locations=SN) * Water**27.2%**Safely managed drinking water[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=SN) * Shelter**30.1%**Safely managed sanitation[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.SMSS.ZS?locations=SN) * Energy**39**39% cook with clean fuels and technology[World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS?locations=SN) * Education**31.4**31.4% of children read a simple text by the end of primary school; 2019, dated[World Bank, 2019](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.LPV.PRIM?locations=SN) * Health**48**WHO service coverage index[WHO, 2023](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/universal-health-coverage-index?country=~SEN) * Livelihood**62.5%**Above the national poverty line; 37.5% live below it[National statistics, 2021](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.NAHC?locations=SN) 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 ## Senegal is resetting its finances in the open. Next, safe water in every home. The record in figures * **$2.2B**Extended Credit Facility (staff-level agreement): Requires corrective action on past misreporting and financing assurances[IMF, 2026](https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2026/09/01/pr26282-senegal-imf-reaches-sla-ecf-arrangement) * **$135M**Health system and financial protection: Health care and protection for vulnerable families[World Bank, 2026](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/03/18/world-bank-group-approves-135-million-strengthen-senegal-health-system-financial-protection-for-vulnerable-population) * **$140M**Road connectivity in the north and centre: Roads for farming regions [World Bank, 2026](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/07/15/world-bank-approves-140-million-to-improve-road-connectivity-in-senegal-s-northern-and-central-agricultural-areas) * **$100M**Urban mobility in Dakar and secondary cities: Buses and urban transport [World Bank, 2025](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/06/17/world-bank-supports-senegal-with-100-million-to-transform-urban-mobility-in-dakar-and-secondarary-cities) * **$40M**Territorial development in Casamance and Kedougou: Services and jobs in lagging regions[World Bank, 2026](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/06/29/world-bank-approves-40-million-to-accelerate-inclusive-territorial-development-in-casamance-and-kedougou) The register * MultilateralAgreedExtended Credit Facility (staff-level agreement)Agreed 1 September 2026 · 36 months, subject to Board approval$2.2B * 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 * [Source](https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2026/09/01/pr26282-senegal-imf-reaches-sla-ecf-arrangement) * MultilateralActiveHealth system and financial protectionApproved March 2026 · Investment project financing$135M * Health care and protection for vulnerable families * Strengthens the health system and protects the poorest households from the cost of care. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/03/18/world-bank-group-approves-135-million-strengthen-senegal-health-system-financial-protection-for-vulnerable-population) * MultilateralActiveRoad connectivity in the north and centreApproved July 2026· Investment project financing$140M * Roads for farming regions * Connects farming areas to markets and services. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/07/15/world-bank-approves-140-million-to-improve-road-connectivity-in-senegal-s-northern-and-central-agricultural-areas) * MultilateralActiveUrban mobility in Dakar and secondary citiesApproved June 2025· Concessional financing$100M * Buses and urban transport * Moves more people faster and more cheaply through Senegal’s cities. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/06/17/world-bank-supports-senegal-with-100-million-to-transform-urban-mobility-in-dakar-and-secondarary-cities) * MultilateralActiveTerritorial development in Casamance and KedougouApproved June 2026 · Investment project financing$40M * Services and jobs in lagging regions * Brings services and income to two regions that have waited longest. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/06/29/world-bank-approves-40-million-to-accelerate-inclusive-territorial-development-in-casamance-and-kedougou) ### The Senegal Newswire [State of Nations](https://perfectnations.org/state-of-nations/) ![Awa Diop, Nation Steward of Senegal](https://perfectnations.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2026/10/awa-diop-nation-steward-of-senegal-150x150.png) **Awa Diop**Nation Steward of Senegal · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published. Last updated 30 October 2026 * 1 Sep 2026[**IMF staff agree a USD 2.2bn programme with Senegal**](https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2026/09/01/pr26282-senegal-imf-reaches-sla-ecf-arrangement) IMF * 15 Jul 2026[**World Bank approves USD 140m for farm roads in the north and centre**](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/07/15/world-bank-approves-140-million-to-improve-road-connectivity-in-senegal-s-northern-and-central-agricultural-areas) World Bank * 18 Mar 2026[**World Bank approves USD 135m for health and financial protection**](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/03/18/world-bank-group-approves-135-million-strengthen-senegal-health-system-financial-protection-for-vulnerable-population) World Bank [Capital Architecture](https://perfectnations.org/capital-architecture/) Design Studio · Enterprises ## Already working in Senegal. [Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/contact@perfectnations.org?subject=An%20enterprise%20for%20Perfect%20Senegal) * In preparation * ### The enterprises building Perfect Senegal * The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Senegal. Suggest one to include. * [Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/senegal/contact@perfectnations.org?subject=An%20enterprise%20for%20Perfect%20Senegal) Design Studio · Voices of Senegal Launching soon ## The people already⏎ _building it._ The question every guest answers > “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. [Nominate yourself](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?nation=senegal&topic=nominate-self) [Suggest a guest](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?nation=senegal&topic=guest) The Senegal Design Studio is open ## Design Perfect Senegal with us. Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us. Every message receives a personal reply. [Enter the Perfect Nations Design Studio](https://perfectnations.org/design-studio/) [Write to us](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?nation=senegal) [All 195 nations](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/) Sources 1. World Bank, World Development Indicators: population 2025, urban share, agricultural and forest land, renewable fresh water per person and renewable energy share, read 30 October 2026. 2. Strict Perfect Capita inputs: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF water and sanitation, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and poverty lines, UNESCO completion and the WHO service coverage index (2023, via Our World in Data). 3. International Monetary Fund and World Bank press releases for each register line, as linked.