Rehabilitation of sports facilities for the 2026 Dakar Youth Olympics

The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are a high-level multi-sport event for young athletes aged between 15 and 18. They aim to encourage young people from the host country and participating countries to practice a sport, promote the Olympic values, and contribute to building a permanent legacy of sports facilities and policies to promote sport.

In 2019, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected Senegal to host the 4th edition of the YOG. These games are making history, as they will be the first Olympic sports event to be hosted in Africa. 

The organization of the YOG is in tune with Senegal’s dynamic and attractive sports policy, which aims to use sport as a vehicle for social and economic development. 
 

The project aims to promote a permanent legacy from the YOG for sport in Senegal. It is based on the four following components:

• Renovate, increase and make accessible the range of structural public sports facilities and thereby reduce inequalities in access to public sports facilities;
• Create new local public sports facilities in poor neighborhoods;
• Define and implement a sustainable strategy for the management and maintenance of sites and strengthen project management capacities;
• Implement a cross-dimensional Gender Action Plan to promote gender equality in access to sports facilities.
   

• Improvement in the range of sports facilities enabling the development of sport for all;
• Promotion of women’s sport and gender equality in access to sports facilities;
• Capacity building in the sustainable management of sports facilities.