Are you looking for a new professional perspective? The Senegalese-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration supports you in this. It is open to everyone. Here, you can get advice on the following:

• Work and training opportunities in Senegal
• Support for people who have returned to Senegal
• Support in setting up your own business through training and qualification.
• Regular migration to Germany 
• Work and training opportunities in Germany

You can come and talk to our staff at the Centre in Dakar. Or you can ring them, or ask questions by email. 

If you would like to make an appointment to come and talk to one of our staff, please arrange a date and time with them in advance. Advice is free-of-charge. 

We also offer regular trainings on various topics such as entrepreneurship, job search or job mobility. Our trainings are also free of charge.

Our Advice Centre works closely with the following organisations:

• ANPEJ: Agence Nationale pour la Promotion de l'Emploi des Jeunes – National Youth Employment Agency Senegal
• DGASE: Direction Générale d'Appui aux Sénégalais de l'Extérieur – Directorate of Senegalese Abroad
• OFII: L’Office Français de l’Immigration et de l’Intégration – French Office of Immigration and Integration
• The EU delegation in Dakar
• International organisations (such as UNHCR, AECID, UNESCO and IOM)
• German organisations (such as the German Embassy, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)
• Non-governmental organisations (such as ASADIC TAATAAN, ACTED, COFLEC – Collectif des Femmes pour la Lutte contre l'Emigration Clandestine au Sénégal, CONFESEN, fka - House of Hope)

Video: How we help you to return to your home country

Returning home and reintegration in achievable steps. This video shows you how the services provided by “Returning to New Opportunities” can help you with this. You will learn

• how you can plan your return to your home country even while still in Germany
• and the opportunities for help that are available.

You will see

• who will advise you locally after you arrive back home, so that you can turn your plans into reality and make your new start.

Positive benefits from digital advice

Adrien Michel Diedhiou is an advisor at CSAEM. He gives an interview to explain how his work at CSAEM has changed due to the corona pandemic.

Let us train you!

Do you want training for yourself, your youth association, your economic interest group or another organisation?
The Senegalese-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (CSAEM) offers regular training courses on various topics. These include:

• Entrepreneurship and financial management
• Personality development
• Processing of fishery products (conservation techniques)
• Processing of local products (cereals, fruit and vegetables)
• Poultry farming
• Growing vegetables
• Cooking and confectionery
• Producing soap and bleach

Our training courses are free of charge.
We and our team will also be happy to organise a training course in your region.

Contact us by phone or via e-mail so that we can discuss how best to help you!

"There are a lot of job opportunities in Senegal"

Many people want to return, although the political or economic instability in their home country puts them off. Yet there are lots of success stories: returnees often find market niches when investigating business ideas.

Returning to Senegal well prepared

Going back home is not always easy. Spending time abroad changes people. And their country of origin will have changed too. There is a new guidebook on reintegration that provides lots of information for Senegalese nationals. It contains useful tips on the best ways to prepare for going back home from Germany.  

"We speak the language of truth"

Abdourahmane Idaly Kamara is the director of the CSAEM. In this interview he talks about the support offered by the centre.

Podcast episode 3: "Supporting young people to seize their opportunities".

In this episode of the German-Senegalese Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (CSAEM) podcast, we have Idaly Kamara, the head of the Migration for Development Programme in Senegal, as our guest. We talk to him about professional challenges for young people in Senegal, this year's programme highlights and how returnees can contribute to the country's development.

A delivery service on two wheels

Starting my own delivery service means I can offer career prospects to other young people.

Training for further processing of fruit and vegetables

The Senegalese-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (CSAEM) regularly offers training courses on entrepreneurship. Training courses on processing fruit and vegetables into juice, jam or compote are in great demand. The video shows a training in November 2020 in Dakar for around 20 young Senegalese.

Fashion for mothers and children

I’ve set up a business in Senegal making maternity and baby clothing. The advice I got from the Senegalese-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (CSAEM) helped me a lot with this. A business start-up seminar taught me a lot about managing a business, bookkeeping, attracting customers and marketing. I also received financial assistance. The money enabled me to rent a studio and fit it out with furniture, sewing machines and mannequins.