Contact Details:
Main Office
address
Gamworks Agency
Website: www.gamworks.gm
19
Kairaba Avenue, KSMD
PMB 2640
Serrekunda
The Gambia
West Africa
Telephone:
4376225
4375343 (Switchboard)
4375341
4375340
4375412
4375342
Fax: 4375344
Email: info@gamworks.gm
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Background Information:
Gamworks is a non-governmental and not for profit institution,
dedicated to providing vital public infrastructure and services,
creating employment and building local capacity through public sector
infrastructural improvements and private sector development. The
overall aim is to reduce poverty in The Gambia.
This is achieved through the management of
construction works
and the rehabilitation of public infrastructure, providing technical
assistance and training and implementing of the Technical Studies
Programme.
Ownership & Management:
Gamworks
has a joint representative structure through organisational membership
by the Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, Bar Association,
National Youth Council, Chamber of Commerce, and (GALGA) Gambia
Association of Local Government Authorities.
Representatives
from each of the above organisations make up the Board of Directors
which formulates rules and regulations for Gamworks as well as having
a supervisory role. As for the daily workings this is vested in a
management group whose head is the Director General (Ebrima Cham). He is
supported by 3 executive staff i.e. administrative, technical and
financial directors.
Beneficiary Communities:
Metropolitan populations via funding of the various
government
agencies, LGAs and municipal authorities, local community
organisations.
The other beneficiaries under the training
initiatives are private and public employees and management.
Funding Agencies & Projects:
The Government of The Gambia supported by the
World Bank -
IDA, the OPEC Fund For International Development and the African
Development Bank have entrusted Gamworks (both as an implementing
agency and contract manager) with the implementation of the following
civil projects which are partly funded by the Government and the funding
agencies named below:
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Education 3. |
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African Development Bank (ADB) |
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Community Skills Improvement Project (CSIP). |
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African Development Bank |
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Gambia Investment Promotion and Free Zones
Agency. |
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(IDA) |
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HIV/Aids Rapid Response Project (HARP). |
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(IDA) |
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Participatory Health, Population and Nutrition (PHPNP). |
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(IDA) |
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Poverty Alleviation and Capacity Building
Project (PACABP). |
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Funding: World Bank, & beneficiaries. |
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Second Public Works Project. |
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OPEC & beneficiaries |
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Third Education Sector Project (TESP). |
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(IDA) |
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