Participatory Budgeting in Senegal

An interview with Mamadou Bachir Kanouté where he discusses experiences with participatory budgeting in Matam, Senegal.

Extract from an interview with Mamadou Bachir Kanouté, a town planner and Executive Director of non-governmental organisation Enda ECOPOP, based in Dakar.

He is the author of Le Budget Participatif en Afrique – Manuel de formation pour les pays francophones (2007) and co-ordinates the activities of the Africa bureau of the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy. In this interview Kanouté discusses his experiences of participatory budgeting in Matam and the opportunities for a nationwide project with sustainable impact in Senegal.

Source: Africa Research Institute
Author information: Edward Paice

Year of publication: 2015