PPP and investment law

Senegal: PPP and investment law

The laws that govern PPP and concessions, investment guarantees, dispute settlement and legal terms, with links to the official texts.

Checked on October 25, 2026Information, not legal advice

In brief

Senegal regulates PPPs through Law No. 2021-23 of 2 March 2021 on public-private partnership contracts (Loi n° 2021-23). It covers all sectors except, among others, PPPs under the sector laws for energy, mining and licensed telecoms, defence and security, and in-house arrangements (quasi-régie). The competent body is the National PPP Support Unit (UNAPPP) under the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Planning. Senegal has been an ICSID Contracting State since 1967 and is a party to the New York Convention.

PPP and concession law

In force

Loi n° 2021-23 du 02 mars 2021 relative aux contrats de partenariat public-privé

Number / reference: Loi n° 2021-23
Adopted: March 2, 2021
Published: March 15, 2021
Official publication: Journal officiel de la République du Sénégal n° 7407 (numéro spécial) du 15 mars 2021, p. 285

The PPP law in force; the UNAPPP lists it as the PPP law in 2026. Article 3 defines the autorité contractante, the titulaire, the opérateur économique and the offre d’initiative privée, as well as concession, affermage, régie intéressée and PPPs paid by the public body or by users. The law creates the UNAPPP. Article 57 repeals Law No. 2014-09 of 20 February 2014 and Law No. 2004-14 of 1 March 2004. The link leads to a scan of the Journal officiel hosted by the UNAPPP.

Official text (opens in a new tab)

Investment protection

We have not yet checked a separate foreign investment or investment screening law for this jurisdiction against an official source, so we do not summarise one here.

Constitutional protection of property

The constitutional property provision has not yet been checked against the official text, so we do not summarise it here.

Dispute settlement

Disputes go first to amicable settlement before the Comité de règlement des différends, which sits within the public procurement regulator. Arbitration or the courts follow, as the contract provides (Art. 52). Senegalese law governs (Art. 53).

ICSID Convention

Contracting State

Signed: September 26, 1966
Ratified: April 21, 1967
In force: May 21, 1967

New York Convention (1958)

Party

Legal terms

How the law names each party, in the original language. Useful when reading tender documents and contracts.

Public side

autorité contractante

Private side

titulaire
opérateur économique

Who proposes a project

offre d'initiative privée