Senegal

Supporting education and nutrition

Food Security

While one of the region’s more stable countries, Senegal remains a low-income, food-deficit nation with malnutrition rates as high as 26 percent in children under the age of five. Counterpart works to create a food secure environment for children through its Food for Education and Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement projects.

Both projects support the overarching goal of ensuring that school management committees can serve as a sustainable pathway to community-led school feeding, even after the projects are complete.

The programs work directly with parents, schools, community members, and government agencies to improve school attendance, dietary practices and local engagement through improved nutrition, health practices and education.

Counterpart has implemented food security projects in Senegal since 2008.

Results from the last year

8.5M

meals served

6000+

adults trained

270

schools reached

PROJECTS

Our work in Senegal

McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program
July 2023

McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program

The USDA McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program in Senegal - Sukaabe Janngo (Children of Tomorrow) - continues to build stronger systems to ensure that future Senegalese children will benefit from a wholistic set of activities that support healthy families and students with improved academic performance.
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Local and Regional Food and Procurement Project in Senegal
February 2023

Local and Regional Food and Procurement Project in Senegal

Counterpart International implemented two USDA funded projects in Saint Louis, Senegal to support the goal of ensuring that School Management Committees can serve as a sustainable pathway to Community Led School Feeding.
Food Security Senegal
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Dispatches from Senegal

See all of our stories from Senegal where we work with local organizations and communities to build resilient food systems.

Stories
Serving Up an Education Through School Feeding Programs
March 2024

Serving Up an Education Through School Feeding Programs

In many countries around the world, school lunch is the only meal that children in low-income communities can reliably count on. Today, on International School Meals Day, it is important...
Food Security Food Systems
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Counterpart Chief of Party Talks Sustainability of Senegal School Feeding Project
February 2024

Counterpart Chief of Party Talks Sustainability of Senegal School Feeding Project

Kathryn Lane, the chief of party of our USDA McGovern-Dole school feeding project in Senegal, was interviewed by ITV Senegal’s Assane Gueye about the project’s integrated approach to education, nutrition,...
Food Systems Senegal
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Feeding Schoolchildren in Senegal Through Increased Mung Bean Production
January 2024

Feeding Schoolchildren in Senegal Through Increased Mung Bean Production

Despite being one of the region’s more stable countries, Senegal remains a low-income, food-deficit nation with malnutrition rates as high as 26 percent in children under the age of five....
Food Security Food Systems Senegal usda
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Water Conservation Practices Strengthen the Resiliency of Food Systems
October 2023

Water Conservation Practices Strengthen the Resiliency of Food Systems

Through the USDA McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition program, Counterpart strengthens the resiliency of food systems by fostering the conservation of resources, particularly water. Counterpart supports sustainable...
Food Systems
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