AGETIP

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 and public employment service in Senegal. 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.^[1]

History

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

ILO, UNICEF, KfW of Germany and the Canadian International Development Agency, among others.^[1]

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.[2]

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 ^[3]

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

^ ^a ^b ^c AGETIP Archived June 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b World Bank Operations Evaluation Department:Performance audit report: “Senegal—AGETIP: Public Works and Employment Projects,” by Robert van der Lugt and Thomas Kuby
^ "Association Régionale des Agences d'Exécution des Travaux d'Intérêt Public (Africatip)". Archived from the original on 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2008-12-17.

[AGETIP-1] AGETIP Archived June 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

[WB-2] World Bank Operations Evaluation Department:Performance audit report: “Senegal—AGETIP: Public Works and Employment Projects,” by Robert van der Lugt and Thomas Kuby

[3] "Association Régionale des Agences d'Exécution des Travaux d'Intérêt Public (Africatip)". Archived from the original on 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2008-12-17.

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