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