AA/ Dakar/ Alioune Ndiaye
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Monday presented the new framework for Senegal’s public policies which aims for a systemic transformation of the country over the next 25 years.
Called “Senegal 2050: national transformation agenda”, the framework based on four strategic axes was officially presented at the Cicad in Diamniadio (25 km from Dakar) in the presence of Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, members of the government, diplomatic representatives, as well as as financial and technical partners.
“The Senegal 2050 vision, a national transformation agenda, reveals the dynamics of a national social pact to build a sovereign, just and prosperous Senegal. This document deeply reflects our ambition to overcome divisions and challenges and to completely revise the classic patterns of the past which lead to unacceptable stagnation and social regression,” noted President Faye in his speech.
To reverse the trend and put the country on the path to systemic transformation, the document is the result, according to President Faye, of design work between the government, state services and national experts from the public and the private, intends to rely on four strategic axes.
These are called good governance and African commitment, quality human capital and social equity, sustainable planning and development and competitive economy. Their implementation should make it possible to “build a sovereign, just and prosperous Senegal”.
“This roadmap for the next 25 years which is being shared today is the result of collective reflection and broken down into five-year and ten-year strategies,” he noted.
“The 2025-2029 five-year plan to be implemented from next year, with the help of the new public policy document, must be financed with 18 billion 496 million 83 thousand CFA francs”, underlined, for his part , Souleymane Diallo, director of planning and economic policies at the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Cooperation.
He indicated that 62% of the said amount will come from the state budget. Diallo also underlined the need for a reprofiling of public debt which should go from 84% of GDP to 70% in the 2025-2029 sequence.
“This agenda of hope and mobilization is not limited to economic forecasts. Above all, it illustrates the desire to strengthen national cohesion, reduce inequalities and guarantee each citizen a place in the Senegal of the future which is emerging and which we are building with determination,” underlined President Faye.
“The path we are taking is demanding but is the only one to guarantee our lasting success,” he said, calling on his fellow citizens to unite in the work of national construction offered by the new framework which thus replaces the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE) laid out by his predecessor Macky Sall for an emerging Senegal by 2035.
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