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GAMCOTRAP conducts sensitisation with Gambians in Catalunya, spain

GAMCOTRAP in partnership with AMAM - a women’s right organisation against female genital mutilation in Spain conducted sensitisation meetings in ten villages and towns in Girona, Catalunya district, Spain.   The twelve-day bridge building visit was an opportunity to create awareness on women and children’s rights, traditional practices, and the Spanish government’s protocol against female genital mutilation in particular. The participants were African immigrants, mostly Gambians from the Upper...

WANEP trains stakeholders on ECOWAS Convention on SA&LW

The West African Network for Peace Building (WANEP), began yesterday a two-day capacity building and sensitisation workshop for stakeholders. The training session aims at raising awareness on the relevant of the international instruments with a particular focus on the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons  following the  Convention on Cluster munitions that was recently negotiated and adopted in Dublin, Ireland. The workshop also provides the opportunity to develop, lobby and...

GAF on HIV/AIDS Sensitization

A week-long sensitization training workshop on HIV/AIDS, organised by The Gambia Armed Forces, began on Monday, at the Fajara Barracks. The workshop, which was sponsored by the Embassy of the United States of America, brought together 124 participants, mostly private soldiers of The Gambia Armed Forces. In his welcoming remarks, Lt. Col. Yakuba Drammeh, on behalf of Major General Lang Tombong Tamba, highlighted the importance of the workshop noting that this was not the first of its kind to be...

Gamcotrap organises sensitisation forum

The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practice affecting the health of Women and children (GAMCOTRAP) in partnership with Save the Children, on Thursday, organized a day long sensitization on traditional practices, sexual and reproductive health at Paradise Suite Hotel. The programme was centred on presentation and discussion of the role of community leaders in protecting the girl-child from female genital mutilation (FGM) Declaring the workshop opened, Lamin Sanneh, governor, Western region said...

Manufacturers’ concern

Recently, the issue of the high cost of living, precisely food, has persistently dictated the direction of global discourse.   All along the ordinary people had been chitchatting, at least for as far as we know here in The Gambia. Little did some of us know that businessmen themselves have constraints! The recent call on the office of the President by members of the Manufacturers Association of the Gambia, suggests how intricate the situation is. Nonetheless, the formation of such a fraternity...

Local Government Reform and decentralisation in the Gambia Putting the legislative framework and institutional processes into motion

The way forward continued:On the proposed way forward suggestions were made in the first part of this article published two weeks ago (Friday 27th June). These touched specifically on selected procedural and structural measures needed now as part of the progress towards the institutionalisation of the local government Act 2002 and local government finance and audit Act 2004, and their amended versions. The accounting policy and manual, multidisciplinary facilitation teams, and the...

Legal Practitioners to be sensitized on CEDAW, others

The African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) with support from the American Embassy in Banjul will on Wednesday, June 11, organise a three-day sensitization workshop for Legal Practitioners in The Gambia, at the Jerma Beach Hotel and Resort in Kotu . The objective of the workshop is to sensitize legal practitioners on international instruments such as the convention against all forms of discrimination on women (CEDAW), UN Resolution 1325, as well as regional documents -...

Journalists sensitized on TB prevention

The National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Programme of the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare on Tuesday began a two-day sensitization workshop for journalists on Tuberculosis prevention and control held at the Paradise Suites Hotel. In his opening remarks, Mr Ismaila Njie, chief nursing officer, who deputized on behalf of Dr Malick Njie, SoS for Health and Social Welfare said, the aim of the sensitization workshop is to inform and empower journalists with the knowledge and...

Fandema Kafo hold sensitization workshop

Fandema Kafo, a local community base organisation, over the weekend organised a two-day sensitization workshop, held at Kalabatang Nursery School in Sukuta Nema.   During the sessions, members of the organisation brainstormed on various presentation by resource persons, which centred around HIV-AIDS, child right, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, crime prevention, gender, democracy, equality, children and the media. Fatou Faye, President of the Fandema Kafo, in declaring the workshop open,...

Bakary Tamaba Returns after Championing Women’s Rights at a Conference in Italy

The National Coordinator for Tostan in The Gambia, Mr. Bakary Tamba, has recently returned from Italy.  He was there for a ten-day Sensitization program concerning Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In an exclusive interview with The Point at Tostan’s headquarters in Kololi, Mr. Tamba said he started working with Tostan in Cassamance.  There he worked with a regional coordinator where they issued declarations in December 2003 on FGM to 118 villages after which he said the villages accepted to...