Ridde Valéry auteur aut IRD Faye A. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa, many epidemiological or anthropological studies have been published. However, few studies have yet been conducted to understand the implementation of State interventions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. In Senegal, the national response plan was planned before the country experienced its first official case of COVID-19 on 2 March 2020. This qualitative study, conducted in March and April 2021, based on 189 interviews, aims to understand how the national response has been implemented in several regions of Senegal. Implementation of the response to the pandemic was favoured by good preparation, capacity to adapt, responsiveness of health actors, and commitment for both the political and religious authorities. The implementation response was confronted by several constraining factors such as the coercive approach, the challenges of coordinating actors, and the lack of intersectoral response. The central level has sometimes used reflexivity processes to adapt its response, but it has remained highly politicized, centralized, directive, and with little involvement of civil society. In Senegal, the response to the pandemic has been implemented in a relatively political and directive, even coercive manner, without necessarily considering prior knowledge and the need to adapt it to local contexts and to involve civil society and community actors in the process. specialized SENEGAL 056POLSAN 050EPID 2 3 219-233 2022 2662-9267 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087063 10.1007/s43477-022-00053-4 2662-9267 [F B010087063] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087063 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2023-01/010087063.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2022-12-28 2025-02-24 fdi:010087063 fre