Executing Agency for Public Interest Works Against Underemployment (french: Agence d’Exécution des Travaux d’Intérêt Public contre le sous-emploi, AGETIP) is the

public works Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community. They include public buildings ( municipal buildings, sc ...

and

public employment service A public employment service is a government's organization which matches employers to employees. History One of the oldest references to a public employment agency was in 1650, when Henry Robinson proposed an "Office of Addresses and Encounters" ...

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...

. It provides mostly small-scale basic infrastructure (roads, water supply, sanitation, health centers, hospitals, schools etc.) and other services such as micro-enterprise credit, nutrition and female literacy programs for the benefit of the poor, while creating employment and promoting the local private sector. The term is also used to describe similar agencies created based on the model of the first AGETIP in Senegal.AGETIP

History

AGETIP in Senegal was created in 1989 during an economic crisis by the Senegalese government with the support of donors, in particular the

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. It is not a public entity, but a private non-profit entity (''Association à but non lucratif'') that is financed entirely by fees for the services it provides, without receiving government or donor funds to cover its administrative expenses. Its general-director is appointed by a Board that includes both government and non-government representatives. AGETIP Senegal does not carry out works itself, but contracts them out (delegated contract management). According to the World Bank, "AGETIP has acquired a virtual monopoly in construction management" in Senegal. World Bank Operations Evaluation Department:Performance audit report: “Senegal—AGETIP: Public Works and Employment Projects,” by Robert van der Lugt and Thomas Kuby AGETIP typically works closely with municipalities, which submit proposals and must provide counterpart funds. The agency initially worked only in urban areas, subsequently broadening its activities to rural areas. The AGETIP's quality control procedures have been certified by the Bureau Veritas Certification. The donors that carry out or have carried out development projects through the AGETIP Senegal are the World Bank, the

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, the

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, the

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, the ILO,

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of Germany and the

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, among others. An evaluation by the World Bank's evaluation department carried out in 1996 praised AGETIP as a "development success and a model of efficient and effective public works management" with "transparent, streamlined procedures", crediting it for "significantly improving the management of donor finances". Accounts are paid in an average of three days and about 90 percent of contracts awarded by AGETIP are completed within the specified time. However, the evaluation also states that "grassroots participation by local communities will have to increase if benefits are to last over the long term" and that surveyed beneficiaries said they felt left out of the identification and planning process.

Related agencies

By 2008 the AGETIP model has been replicated in 17 other African countries using different names: *NIGETIP-Niger *GAMWORKS-Gambia *FASO BAARA-Burkina Faso *ASSETIP-Rwanda *AMEXTIPE-Mauritania *AGETUR/AGETIP -Benin *AGETUR-Togo *AGETIPE CAF- Central African Republic *AGETIPE-Guinea *AGETIPE-Mali *AGETIPA-Madagascar *AGETIER-Mali *AGEOPPE-Guinea Bissau *AGECABO-Cap Verde *ADU-Mauritania *ADETIP-Djibouti *ABUTIP-Burundi The AGETIP model is similar to a Social fund, a term more commonly used for a similar type of institution in developing countries in Latin America and African countries outside West Africa.

References

{{reflist Government of Senegal Economy of Senegal Public employment service Public works ministries International development in Africa