2023-06-22 23:07:00
With the strong upward trend in the world’s population to urbanize, the issue of access to housing is more pressing than ever. Despite the social housing policies defined by the Senegalese State and private initiatives, access to housing and social services is still very unbalanced between men and women.
In Senegal, in particular, as in other developing countries, women are mainly concentrated in informal jobs. The results of the Integrated Regional Survey on Employment and the Informal Sector (ANSD, 2017) reveal that they occupy a total of 45.3% of informal jobs, being
disproportionately concentrated in the branches of activity of “Special household activities” (96.5%), “Accommodation and catering” (86.5%) and “Retail trade” (71.0%) and very little present in the branches of activity of transport (1.5%), storage (1.5%) and construction (2.4%). And these women are mainly active in the informal sector on their own account and as heads of units. A large part of the production units in the informal sector in Senegal are thus managed by women, 61.9%. This is indicative of the rise of the female labor force in informal jobs in recent years. To this end, with the 100,000 housing project initiated by the State of Senegal, a gender participatory evaluation study report has been carried out since 2020. It is within this framework that an evaluation and restitution workshop was held on June 22 in Diamniadio.
According to Aïssatou Coly, coordinator of the gender unit of the Ministry of Urban Planning, Housing and Public Hygiene, “In the implementation of our projects, we include the gender designer, whether it be people with reduced mobility, young people, women. We want to evolve and we want to take social inclusion into account. We are making all these efforts to facilitate access to housing for women and especially for people living with disabilities…”, underlined the coordinator of the gender unit at the Ministry of Urban Planning, Housing and Public Hygiene. .
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