For over a decade, poverty-related issues have been at the heart of Senegal's public of Senegal's public authorities. Thus, the Senegalese government Senegal, through the two PRSPs, the SNDS and now the Plan Sénégal Emergeant (PSE), has made the fight against poverty its top priority. However, the unidimensional approach to poverty, based on the observation of income, is proving to be restrictive, insofar as it fails to capture the phenomenon in all its complexity. complexity of the phenomenon. Hence the urgent need to develop a measurement approach that can the phenomenon in all its complexity. This report is a response to this need. that need. Through a multidimensional poverty index for Senegal, it aims to equip Senegal, to equip decision-makers in their policies to combat poverty. The multidimensional multidimensional analysis of poverty, following the methodology of Alkire and Foster (2007) indispensable insofar as it enables poverty to be assessed within a socio-economic framework economic framework, such as health, education, living conditions, food insecurity insecurity, etc. As such, it provides a better understanding of the notion of poverty as a whole. The analyses were carried out on data from the Enquête Harmonisée sur les Conditions de Vie des Ménages au Sénégal (EHCVM 2018/2019). The results from these analyses show that in Senegal, almost one household in two (50.19%) is multidimensionally poor, and that on average a poor household suffers from almost 54% of deprivations. In addition, households identified as poor suffer 27.22% of all possible deprivations that all households in Senegal could experience. This level of deprivation is essentially attributable to the precarious situation of less urbanized or peripheral regions, but also to adult illiteracy and the level of schooling nationwide; to the food insecurity that prevails in urban areas; and to the lack of comfort facilities, difficulties in accessing electricity, quality sanitation and cleanliness services in rural areas. As with monetary poverty (ANDS, EHCVM 2018/2019), households headed by women are less exposed to multidimensional poverty than those headed by men. On the other hand, households with married heads are more (3.4 times) likely to be multidimensionally poor than those under the authority of a single head. As a result of these analyses, a household vulnerability assessment tool has been designed to regularly monitor the impact of anti-poverty policies.
