ILO project in Senegal's Saloum Delta reports 1,200 jobs created or supported, seven in ten of them for women
19 October 2026
A promotional event called Made in the Saloum Delta was held in Dakar on 10 October 2026, showing mangrove honey, oysters and ark clams from the region.
The Green Jobs for Women and Youth in the Saloum Delta project was implemented by the International Labour Organization and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
It ran from 8 December 2022 to 30 April 2026.
The project trained 530 women and young people in oyster and ark clam farming, 407 in beekeeping and 400 in green entrepreneurship.
It created or supported 1,200 jobs, 70 per cent for women and 30 per cent for young people, and brought 3,471 people under health insurance.
Fifteen cooperative societies were set up under the OHADA Uniform Act relating to cooperative societies.
In plain words
OHADA Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa — A grouping of mainly francophone African states with a common set of business and cooperative laws.