Senegal faces significant risk due to climate change, which affects the transport sector in multiple ways. Most impacts relate to extreme weather and hydrologic events, like torrential rain, storms and extreme wind, sea surges, flooding or heatwaves which are likely to occur more frequently in future due to climate change. These events cause damages to costly transport assets but also disrupt services provided through these assets. 

Damages to assets, loss of lives and economic production loss associated with floods along the coast in 2017 were estimated to cost Senegal economy a total of $230 million or 1.4% of GDP. In the greater Dakar region, floods in 2009 affected approximately 380,000 people with losses estimated to be roughly US$82mn, of which damages and losses in the transport sector were estimated to be US$ 11mn. The City of Dakar’s annual budget, in comparison, is approximately US$ 70mn.

The project objectives include: i) improving the overall operation of the transport system to support the accelerated growth strategy and promote regional integration; and (ii) providing a rapid link between the heart of Dakar and St Louis through the ‘gateway’ for the northern cities to help establish the region as a new economic development pole, through following African Development Bank Projects, the $117 Million Dakar Transit Network Project and the $181.9 Million Dakar-St Louis HW Project

The development and rehabilitation of transport infrastructure in Dakar will also contribute to the achievement of national development goals for a low-carbon, integrated public transport system including the Regional Express Train (TER) and the Bus-Rapid Transit (BRT).

• High-resolution, asset-level climate risk and vulnerability assessments to quantify climate risk to the transport assets 
• Innovative solutions for climate smart transport asset management through the climate risk and vulnerability assessment
• Capacity enhancement for resilient transport sector planning through two broad activities: 
  • Masterclass for Climate Resilient Infrastructure PPPs: Upstream TA and capacity building to mainstream resilience for infrastructure PPPs.
  • Adapt Now Challenge on Unlocking Digital Solutions for Resilient Transport in partnership with AAAP’s Youth and Jobs pillar
• Conduct a national transport adaptation needs assessment to ensure that resilient assets translate into resilient services in the transport sector requires analysing climate impacts through a systems approach
• Identification of adaptation needs at a national scale to inform downstream investments from the government and other development partners

• Development and rehabilitation of 30 km roads and networks, 13 bus terminals, 77 stops, and 2 depots for storage and maintenance within the African Development Bank Dakar Transit Network Project
• Construction of 80km of highway lanes on private financing and 120km on public funding, as well as interchanges, recovery lanes and lower crossings within the African Development Bank Dakar-St Louis Highway Project
• Development of runways, roads with solar public lighting, development and/or rehabilitation of social and commercial infrastructure, and restoration of natural assets
• Acquisition of rolling stock, implementation of integrated systems, and institutional, financial, and operational structuring of the network operations
• Technical assistance for the development of complementary studies, capacity building and gender-responsiveness

• Improvement of performance of transport services (reduce number of accidents, increase flow capacity, improve traffic and safety conditions, and improve access to social service and facilities
• Contribution to economic development and trade flows
• Reduced vulnerability of population in the area