Senegal - Request for Financial Support for Publishing a Book

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Procedure

Apply In-Person

1. To request for Financial Support for Publishing a Book, the applicant should visit Directorate of Books and Reading / General Culture Center to apply, (Please view address details under office location & contacts section below).
2. Express your interest to the receptionist/ secretariat front desk and collect all the necessary Application forms and fill them accurately.
3. Submit the completed forms, attach to the supporting document file {as listed under required document section below} to the department concerned attending officer.
4. The officer will then verify, if all the necessary information and documents have been provided and that the applications comply with the selection criteria. If everything is in order the application file will be registered and recorded, you will be issued an acknowledgment letter containing details of the application.
5. The application file will then be forwarded to the arbitration commission for evaluation and consideration.
6. If approved, you will be registered as a beneficiary of the programme and notified of the outcome by letter, phone or in person and issued with a letter of notification of the agreement, against the acknowledgment letter and your identity card and given further instruction on how to access the financial support.
   

Note:

• In case of rejection, the manuscript can be resubmitted to the reading committee after correction.

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Required Documents

• A handwritten request addressed to the Minister in charge of Culture
• A copy of the manuscript already registered with SODAV
• A reading note (if it is a publishing house)
• A manufacturing estimate for 1000 copies

Office Locations & Contacts

Directorate of Books and Reading / General Culture Center
Address: 19, venue Hassan II-Ex Sarraut.
Postal address: (+221) 3393 Dakar RP
Senegal
Telephone: (+221) 33 889 63 00
Fax: (+221) 33 842 34 09
Email: [email protected]

Ministry of Culture
Arts Department
Address: Address: Adjia Nourou Fatou DIOP building, Allées Papa Guèye FALL. 11th and 12th Floor
Postal address: 4001, Dakar
Senegal
Telephone: (+221) 33 825 59 40
Fax: (+221) 33 825 42 98
Email address: [email protected]
Contact details link:Link
Ministry website:Link

Eligibility

• Senegalese publishing houses
• Any Senegalese, author of a manuscript

Fees

• No fee associate with the service

Validity

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Instructions

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Required Information

• Full name of the author/publisher
• Contact details of the author/publisher
• Residential address
• Reasons for the request

Need for the Document

• The Ministry of Culture provides Senegalese authors and publishing houses with a publishing aid fund.

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External Links

• Senegal Government website: Link
• Senegal Administrative procedures portal;Link

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