Millennium Challenge Account Senegal

The rich and strong bilateral cooperation between the Governments of Senegal and the United States has made it possible to develop and implement a program aimed at reducing poverty through economic growth. This program materialized by a first Compact of 540 million dollars signed between Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of Senegal in September 2009 and implemented over a period of five (5) years, between 2010 and 2015 to through a partnership called Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Senegal.

Following a successful implementation of its first Compact and having achieved significant improvements on the main governance indicators of the MCC scorecard , especially on the issues of democracy promotion and the fight against corruption, Senegal has been declared eligible to develop a second Compact by the Board of Directors of the MCC, meeting in December 2015.