Abstract

Since Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Prevention (MHP) had decided to meet the new challenges related to local and global initiatives such as the Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Ministry of Health began carrying out reforms intended to improve the management of outside support and the effectiveness of health expenses with the assistance of the Ministerial Leadership Initiative (MLI). Thus, the MLI, which has been cooperating with the Ministry of Health and Prevention since 2008, will present several of its accomplishments in this report. A task force led by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health is monitoring the activities of the MLI. This task force is assisted by a national consultant hired by the MLI on a part-time basis. The report is composed of three parts: (1) the background; (ii) the main activities carried out; and (iii) the next steps.