Contact Details:
UNDP - Gambia
Website:
www.gm.undp.org
Telephone number:
4497954
4494760 / 8
4226223 (Banjul, General Service)
4497936
4494820 (Resident coordinator)
Fax number:
4494 758
Email: binta.jabang@undp.org
Head Office
address
See UN House at
Cape Point
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Background Information:
The United
Nations Development Programme
mission in Gambia was set up in 1975 as a partner in development with the
Government in a number of projects spread out among many area, and has
moulded its services in response to the nation's development hurdles,
and attainment of the MDGs. UNDPs support has contributed to
strengthening sector planning capacity and the formulation of key
policies, covering areas such as employment, enterprise development,
youth capacity development and trade among others and hence supported
government in the preparation of its National Poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper (PRSP II) .
Their programme focuses on five Priority Practice areas which are:
Democratic governance
Energy and environmental issues
Crisis prevention and recovery
Poverty reduction
HIV awareness
Empowerment of women
Draft country programme for 2007 - 2011
One key area in which the UN Development System is collaborating with
The Gambia Government and its development partners is
poverty
alleviation. The Gambia's strategy for Poverty Alleviation (SPA) was
formulated with the support of UNDP in close collaboration with other
UN system agencies and development partners and presented to a Round
Table Conference in Geneva in April 1994. UNDP continues to play its
catalytic role through upstream policy level consultations with the
Government and other development partners, to provide direct
assistance in the identification of priority development objectives,
formulation of required programmes, and utilisation of the Round Table
process to mobilise resources for development activities in The
Gambia.
The process of formulating a Poverty Alleviation
Strategy was started in 1991 with the assistance of the UNDP.
Sources of funds for UNDP in Gambia
TRAC 1and 2
Trust Funds
Thematic Trust Funds
Government
Other Resources
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