The programme ensured the inclusion of vulnerable individuals by offering integrated professional workshops in cooking, micro-gardening, and fruit and vegetable processing thereby expanding livelihood opportunities.
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Inclusive Local Development to Advance the SDGs in the Commune of Fass-Dakar

Duration: July 2021– December 2024
Budget: US$2,074,010 (UNTFHS: $1,084,010; Pooled Funding: $990,000)​
Implementing Agencies: UNFPA (lead), UNICEF, UNDP, UN WOMEN, UNRCO

Vulnerable women and youth in the town of Gueule Tapée-Fass-Colobane face significant and interconnected challenges. Unemployment rates are high, especially among young women, and many of those who work are employed in the informal sector, where jobs can be precarious and access to social protection is limited. Opportunities to improve their economic prospects are constrained by limited access to education and vocational training, barriers to financing entrepreneurial activities, and legal restrictions that can hinder women from starting businesses. This economic insecurity undermines their food and health security, which is further compounded by limited health and social services.

The programme builds upon an initiative supported by the UNTFHS in 2019 to strengthen the application of human security towards accelerating the achievement of the SDGs at the local level in West Africa.

The key objectives of the programme are to: (i) develop employment and improve income generation for the most vulnerable groups, in particular women and youth, to promote their economic, food and health security; (ii) increase the availability and access of women, adolescents and youth to quality services in reproductive health, education and literacy, and to fight against GBV and other harmful practices in order to strengthen their empowerment; (iii) improve the integration of the concept of human security in local and sectoral development programmes in the municipality and at the United Nations System.

KEY MATERIALS
Programme Summary
Article: “Sécurité Humaine et Développement Durable” (FR)
Article: “Le Centre Socioculturel de Fass-Colobane-gueule-tapé Doté de Matériels”
Article: “Fass-Gueule Tapée-Colobane : 50 Jeunes Formés à l’Entrepreneuriat Durable” (FR)
Article: “Le Projet de Gueule Tapée Colobane Fass Émergent Lancé…” (FR)
Article: ONU Femmes Accompagne les Femmes pour Renforcer leur Participation et leur Leadership Politiques (FR)
Article: “Autonomisation des Femmes de la Commune de Gueule Tapée/Fass/Colobane : Mise à Niveau des Femmes sur le Leadership Politique et Économique (FR)