TERRITORIALIZATION OF PUBLIC POLICIES AND ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY

During the Council of Ministers held this Wednesday, January 22, 2025, the President of the Republic, His Excellency Mr. Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, defined strategic priorities to strengthen the effectiveness of public policies and boost the national private sector. These orientations are part of Vision Senegal 2050, which aims for a systemic and sustainable transformation of the economy and administration.

The Head of State asked the Prime Minister to accelerate the gradual establishment of territorial centers, an essential device to strengthen the territorialization of public policies in an approach based on solidarity and equity. This initiative, according to the President, marks a sustained desire to bring the administration closer to citizens and to respond in a more targeted and effective manner to local needs.

In the same dynamic, the Head of State insisted on the need to promote a disruptive administration, in particular through the rise of the digital transformation of public services. He called for an update of the texts governing the civil service to adapt them to modern requirements and the imperative of developing a culture of results in all compartments of the administration.

The President of the Republic also underlined the crucial importance of the private sector in the economic and social transformation of Senegal. He asked the Prime Minister to initiate pragmatic consultations with industrialists and economic operators to define, in a consensual manner, the modalities for steering the development of the national private sector.

These consultations aim to identify the constraints and opportunities arising from the global economic context in order to formulate suitable and sustainable solutions. These exchanges will fuel the finalization of the bill on economic sovereignty, a key text which, according to the Head of State, embodies the collective desire to build an endogenous economy capable of meeting the challenges of development and positioning Senegal as a driving force on the regional and continental level.