Access
to skills training is transforming
life of the young people
in The Gambia.
» Serrekunda February
2nd 2011
Samsideen Bojang a 22
year old young man is from
Serekunda, one of the most
populous towns in The Gambia.
He hails from a poor family
whose entire livelihood
depends on farming. At some
point he had to fetch firewood
which he sells to local
bakeries in order to pay
for his school fees. Just
like many young youth in
Serrekenda, Samsideen was
unemployed and paying school
fees was always a challenge
for his parents.
Youth
Employment & Waste Management
in the Kanifing Municipal
Council
» 2nd February
2011 Serrekunda, KMC
The increasing unemployment
of Youths in the Gambia
is one of the major problems
faced by the Government
of The Gambia. According
to the Demographic Report,
2009 published by the UNFPA
Gambia, 59 percent of the
population are unemployed.
The youth from other parts
of the country are mounting
up in Banjul area search
of jobs and opportunities
to travel to Europe to work.
There are very few job opportunities
in the private and public
services in the country.
A
Nation wide sensitization on
volunteerism by the national
Volunteers Service Center
» Basse 26th December
2010
The National Volunteer Service
Centre (NVSC) Project is the
product of collaboration between
the Government of The Gambia
and UNDP Gambia in their joint
quest to accelerate the pace
of achieving the essential targets
of the MDGs, PRSP and Vision
2020 following earlier studies
which had showed serious gaps
in achievements. The project
was conceived and designed on
the premise that volunteerism,
strongly embedded in traditional
Gambian culture, could be invoked
or revived to add impetus to
national development, particularly
at the grassroots level. Consequently,
the NVSC is to become the entry
point for citizens’ participation
in the attainment of the above
development goals.
International
Volunteers Day Celebrated in
The Gambia
» Soma 5th December
2010
The National Volunteers Service
Centre successfully hosted the
celebration of International
Volunteers Day through its Regional
Office in Mansakonko, Lower
River Region. Despite this being
the first time for NVSC to host
the event, remarkable success
was achieved during the December
5th celebration. One of the
most successful activities of
the event was a cleansing exercise
in Soma and Mansakonko on the
eve of the celebration.
GAMJOBS
creating employment opportunities
for women and youths and fighting
migration
» November 2010,
Kanuma,
The Campaign Against Rural
Urban Drift (CARUD) was established
in September 2001. As the name
suggests, its objective is to
fight against rural-urban migration
by creating avenues for employment
of youths in the areas poultry
and agriculture. In this manner,
it is believed that keeping
young people occupied and gainfully
employed will keep them away
from the city where they find
it difficult to acquire jobs
and thus resort either to criminal
activities as a means of sustenance
or attempting desperate measures
to travel illegally to Spain
and other parts of Europe.
Gambian
CBOs, NGOs benefited US$304,
650 from the GEF Small Grant
Project
» 2010-06-08
The Deputy UNDP Resident Representative
to The Gambia has disclosed
that the since the proposal
for Small Grant Programme (SGP)
was launch in the last quarter
of 2008 to date, over 12 Community
Based Organizations (CBOs),
and Non-Governmental Organizations
(NGOs) have benefited from its
funding to the tune of US$304,
650. She said these projects
covered various sustainable
livelihood and environmental
protection initiatives that
aims to make a difference in
the lives of the rural poor
whose livelihoods depend on
the eco-system, biological diversity
and its support systems.
The
Face of MDI Changes with UNDP
Intervention
2010-06-05
The University of the Gambia received
seed money in the amount of GMD
4,572,676.00 (Four Million Five
Hundred and Seventy-Two Thousand
Six Hundred and Seventy-Six Dalasis).
An amount of GMD 5,143,975.00 (Five
Million one hundred and forty three
thousand nine hundred and seventy
five dalasis) was also given to
the Management Development Institute
(MDI) and the Law Faculty at the
University of The Gambia (UTG) for
campus rehabilitation under the
Memoranda of Understanding (MOU)
signed with United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) on November 18
, 2010.
The
Gambia
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