Seulement 17 % des enfants en crèches : un déficit criant qui freine l'autonomisation des femmes
In Senegal, where equal opportunity and inclusive growth are priorities, childcare remains a major challenge. According to a recent study by the Regional Consortium for Research in General Economics (CREG), only 17% of children aged 0 to 6 have access to formal childcare, revealing a glaring lack of infrastructure adapted to early childhood. This deficit directly impacts families, particularly working women, who, lacking reliable childcare solutions such as safe daycare centers or nurseries, often have to give up jobs, reduce their working hours, or limit themselves to precarious informal activities. This situation hinders women's economic empowerment, which is essential for sustainable development, and alarms early childhood sector stakeholders and feminist organizations.
Fa Diallo: A plea for professionalization
Fa Diallo, a leading figure in early childhood, proposes concrete solutions: creating community structures, training qualified personnel, and offering targeted subsidies to improve family conditions, foster children's development, and promote equity. She highlights the efforts of the African Institute for Early Childhood (IAB), which, since 2018, has trained more than 1,000 learners with a 90% placement rate, demonstrating the sector's potential, particularly for women. However, she deplores the lack of structural responses to this challenge. "With our birth rate, the need for daycare is critical. In 2025, it is unacceptable that women drop out of school or work due to a lack of accessible or affordable daycare. The state must urgently invest in transformative measures to regulate formal and informal structures, because a child's first 1,000 days are the foundation of all human development," she insists.
Alert on sector deficiencies
Fa Diallo is sounding the alarm about the sector's weaknesses: a lack of professionalization, training, logistical, and financial support. The IAB has identified more than 550 structures in five regions (Dakar, Thiès, Kaolack, Ziguinchor, Saint-Louis), a number that is largely insufficient given the estimated demand for more than 20,000 structures and 300,000 qualified professionals to meet the birth rate. She calls for urgent reforms: regulatory oversight, fair pricing, improved service quality, professionalization of stakeholders, and integration of local cultural values. For Fa Diallo, investing in early childhood is a key lever for reducing social inequalities and strengthening human capital.
A national issue for early childhood
Fa Diallo emphasizes the need to place childcare at the heart of national priorities. “It’s not just about creating daycare centers, but about democratizing access to safe spaces adapted to children’s development. The first 1,000 days, crucial for health, nutrition, and protection, must be a national priority to build an inclusive Senegal,” she concludes.
Feminist organizations as reinforcements
The National Network of Working Women of Senegal (RENAFETS) shares this observation, denouncing a system that confines childcare to an exclusively female responsibility. Its members demand inclusive public policies to support women and promote their equal access to training and employment. They warn that neglecting this issue would permanently hinder women's contribution to Senegal's socioeconomic progress.
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Commentaires (5)
Le système veut vos enfants. Il veut casser les familles et endoctriner vos enfants. L’autonomisation n’est qu’une ruse. Autonomiser de qui?
trop trompeur ces occidentaux,
ils veulent nous réduire à néant, atention à nous les femmes, nous n'avosn pas les même modéle de sociétés que ces occidenteux (LGBT, gays, capitalisme, SDF, suicide, Drogue..)
oui à notre sociale, religion et entraide
Crèche diam ? Laissez les mamans porter leurs enfants ! Vive la vie, portez vos enfants !
C'est l'évolution de la société qui crée ce type de besoin, or le Sénégal n'en est pas encore là. Les supermarchés ont vu le jour lorsque les femmes ont intégré massivement le monde du travail à cause du manque de main d'œuvre résultant de la mobilisation de dizaines voire centaines de milliers d'hommes lors de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale ; il était alors plus commode pour une femme après le travail daller acheter les céréales, le lait, la viande le pain, les légumes à un seul endroit que d'aller les acheter séparément chez le boucher, le boulanger, etc. Il en est de même des crèches: elles ne deviendront une nécessité nationale que quand l'écrasante majorité des femmes - pour ne pas dire toutes - seront actives au même titre que les hommes. Or, pour le moment l'écrasante majorité des femmes sont des "femmes au foyer" dont la plupart (des citadines) ne font même pas de travaux ménagers qu'elles considèrent comme des affaires pour domestiques. Donc, pour le moment, les priorités sont vraiment ailleurs, par exemple l'éradication des abris provisoires.
Faisons moins de gosses et le probème sera résolu.
Ce n'est pas des crèches qui résoudraient la démographie galopante. Des familles avec une trentaine de gosses ....🤥
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