Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Senegal (Ratification: 1967)

Parts I and II of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in September 2013 containing detailed information in response to its previous direct request. The Committee notes that in 2011 the Economic and Social Policy Document (DPES) was drawn up and approved as a reference framework for actions by the State and development partners for the period 2011–15. This document was then revised and updated following a participatory process to become the National Economic and Social Development Strategy (SNDES) for the period 2013–17. The strategy is based on three main areas: growth, productivity and wealth creation; human capital, social protection and sustainable development; and governance, institutions, peace and security. The Government also states that a general delegation for social security and national solidarity was set up in 2012 with the aim of implementing and coordinating public policies in that area. The Committee notes with interest that, as a result of an increase in expenditure and the rate of investment in education, the gross enrolment rate at primary level stood at 79.7 per cent in 2011, up from 75.8 per cent in 2005, and that the completion rate of primary level rose from 49 per cent in 2006 to 66.9 per cent in 2011. Regarding medical care, much progress has been made including a fall in proportional morbidity for malaria from 39.7 per cent in 2000 to 3 per cent in 2009 and an increase in the number of operational mutual health schemes from 80 in 2003 to 237 in 2011. In respect of housing, in 2010, service development work was carried out on 3,677 housing plots, and sanitation was also carried out on 1,249 housing plots. In addition, in the framework of the emergency plan against flooding, construction began of 2,000 houses and a new site for the victims was inaugurated in 2013. The Committee invites the Government to include in its next report information on the results of the application of the SNDES in terms of the improvement of living standards of the population. The Committee also invites the Government to indicate the way in which the implementation of the strategy has made it possible to pursue the objectives of the Convention, which in Articles 1 and 2 provides that “all policies shall be primarily directed to the well-being and development of the population”. It also invites the Government to include statistical data on the improvement of standards of living, especially with regard to housing, clothing, medical care and education (Article 5 of the Convention).