Yesterday, 12 January, saw the launch in Dakar of PRO-IMPACT (Technical Assistance and Research Project for the Analysis and Impact Assessment of Employment Policies in Senegal), aimed at supporting formal employment in Senegal, with a particular focus on young people, women and people with disabilities. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), with an allocation of one million euros.

The National Research Council is participating with the Department of Human, Social and Cultural Heritage Sciences (CNR-DSU), the Institute for Research on Sustainable Economic Growth (CNR-IRCrES) and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (CNR-ISMed), as part of an international cooperation aimed at promoting the development of employment policies through the transfer of skills, knowledge and data analysis, in dialogue between researchers and policy makers.

Project coordinator: Salvatore Capasso (CNR-DSU)
CNR-ISMed scientific director: Bruno Venditto
Project partner: ANSD Senegal (Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie du Sénégal)
CNR-ISMed staff involved: Luisa Errichiello, Daniela de Gregorio, Tania Toffanin, Luigi Guadalupi, Pietro Evangelista, Stefano Gallo, Antonio Rossi, Antonio De Lorenzo

NEWS on the CNR Portal

Project details on the CNR-ISMed website