Senegal

Senegal introduced sickness and maternity, work injury and family allowances before independence in 1960 and enacted the old age, disability and survivor law after independence. A social assistance programme named the Conditional Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children was introduced in 2008 to provide support for the education and training of orphans and vulnerable children with a minimum of US$491.39 and a maximum of US$1,273.97 every year. The other social assistance programme, the Programme National de Bourses de Sécurité Familiale, started in 2013 with the objectives of combating the vulnerability and social exclusion of poor families, reducing extreme poverty and promoting the development of human capital among participants. The programme started with 50,000 household participants receiving an average of US$109.61 quarterly. These programmes are fully funded by the government of Senegal. The social assistance expenditure was 0.7 percent of GDP in 2015, translating to social assistance spending of US$16.79 per poor person per year.