Project Status:
In Implementation
Funding Topic:
Health
Country:
Senegal
Duration:
2025 – 2026
Target Group:
Women
Direct Beneficiaries:
16.000
SDGs:
- Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3)
- Gender Equality (SDG 5)
- Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
Complete renovation, expansion, and modernization of the municipal health and maternal-child unit
The health project aims to reorganize the premises, clearly separate patient flows, and expand existing capacities. Since October 2025, extensive work has been prepared on relocating the waiting area, redesigning the interior, expanding the neonatal ward, and renovating the sanitary facilities. The aim is to improve the infrastructure, organization, and capacities of the Cité Mame Dior maternity ward in order to provide women, children, and families with better access to high-quality, inclusive primary care.
Project Objective:
- Improve access to quality primary healthcare
- Strengthen maternal and newborn health services
- Modernize maternity ward infrastructure
- Reorganize functional workflows and patient flows
- Expand service capacity for growing demand
- Creation of structural conditions necessary to enhance patient privacy and provide adequate care for more women and newborns
Activities:
- Presentation to management committee and local authorities
- Coordination with health district and technical services
- Validation of technical concept
- Launch and implementation of tender process
- Joint site visit with construction companies
- Selection of most economically advantageous bidder
- Development of operational action plan (Q1/2026)
- Planning of equipment procurement, staff training and community outreach
Results:
- Administrative and organizational requirements fulfilled
- On-schedule transition to implementation phase
- Structured action plan for infrastructure upgrades
- Improved functional separation of patient flows
- Increased maternity ward capacity
- Preparation for procurement of medical equipment
- Design of community-based awareness activities
