Kaolack, May 8 (APS) – The governor of the Kaolack region (center), Ousmane Kâne, and the director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Alyssa Leggoe, inaugurated, Tuesday, the regional office of this American agency for the central zone, noted the APS.
The ceremony took place in the presence of several personalities as well as the regional director of rural development (DRDR) of Kaolack. With this infrastructure, it will be “Senegal helping Senegal” with the support of the American government, said Alyssa Leggoe.
After years of presence in Ziguinchor (south), Kédougou (southwest), Kolda (south), Saint-Louis (north) and Tambacounda (east), she said, this office in the central zone will strengthen the presence of USAID on the ground.
According to the USAID director, it will thus facilitate the implementation of the new localization strategy consisting of working directly with local organizations in the country and using more resources to support them.
”We hope that this presence will be able to develop the partnership between USAID and the private sector, NGOs and territorial and governmental authorities in the central zone of Senegal,” said Alyssa Leggoe. She recalls that the United States and Senegal have maintained, for “more than sixty years,” a partnership in many areas, contributing, “significantly,” to strengthening the well-being of the Senegalese people.
For the governor of the Kaolack region, Ousmane Kane, the construction of this building demonstrates, “once again”, the “good attention and remarkable availability” that UASID has always shown to the place of the State of Senegal in relation to national initiatives to promote the socio-economic development of the country.
The head of the regional executive maintains that the director of USAID understood that “coordination remains extremely important” in relation to the coherence of actions carried out on the ground.
This center makes it possible to improve the working environment and ensure the performance of the regional service in charge of agriculture in the regions concerned, especially since agriculture is a ”key service”, because being the ”engine of socio-economic development” of Senegal, he stressed.
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