About: 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.