Contact Address Details:
UNDP
- Gambia
Banjul area head office
UN House
5 Kofi Annan Street
Cape Point, Bakau
PO Box 553 Banjul
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: +220 4497954
4494760
/ 4226223
4497936
4494
820 (Resident coordinator)
Fax no:
4494 758
Email: registry.gm@undp.org
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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
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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