Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

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

Parts I and II of the Convention. Article 2. Improvement of standards of living. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in August 2008, which briefly enumerates the four fundamental pillars of the poverty reduction strategy for the period 2006–10: the creation of wealth, access to basic social services, social protection and the prevention and management of risks and catastrophes, governance and decentralized and participatory development. It hopes that the Government will provide in its next report updated information illustrating the manner in which the objective that “all policies shall be primarily directed to the well-being and development of the population” is implemented and has resulted in an improvement in the well-being and development of the population.

The Committee also notes the issues raised by the National Confederation of Workers of Senegal (CNTS), forwarded to the Government in September 2008, concerning the implementation of the Convention and the measures to be taken to prevent the dislocation of family life, the rural exodus and in respect of the migration policy. It invites the Government to submit a report in 2009 containing its own comments on the issues raised by the CNTS.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2009.]