The Gambia

Region: Africa

  • Localizing SDGs – Improving the Livelihoods of Vulnerable Women and Youth around the Senegambia Bridge

    Duration: July 2021 - November 2024
    Budget: US$2,210,926 (UNTFHS: $1,110,938; Pooled Funding: $1,099,988)?
    Implementing Agencies: UNFPA, ITC and UNRCO?

    The Senegambia bridge is a major infrastructure project that promises significant economic?opportunity for The Gambia and the subregion. While it has brought some economic gain to?the local communities, those in the most vulnerable situations have experienced negative?consequences to their economic, health and personal security. As such, the overall?purpose of the programme is to strengthen?capacities of the local authorities?and?communities towards creating an environment to?safeguard?the?economic and social rights?of vulnerable groups whose livelihoods have been negatively impacted by climate change?and the Senegambia Bridge,?while activating new opportunities that emerge along?the?Trans Gambia?corridor.
     

     

     
  • A boy is smiling as he jumps into the water, while several boys are cheering him on.

    Managing water and energy services for poverty eradication in rural Gambia

    Duration: July 2003 - March 2008
    Budget: US$1,335,000
    Implementing Agencies: DESA

    To reduce rural poverty through integrated and decentralised management of water and energy services, the programme aimed to provide increased access to reliable, affordable and sustainable water and energy services to vulnerable communities