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Cash transfers to vulnerable families ensure children go to school
Banjul, 9 September 2024, – Ten-year-old Horija Bojang of Nioro Jattaba village in the Lower River Region in The Gambia suddenly dropped the broom, stood arms akimbo and speechless for a few moments. She had just received news from her aunt and carer that she will be going back to school. “I am going back to scho...
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Education
Our goal for every child in The Gambia 2024-2028, UNICEF Gambia aims, with the support of our partners, to ensure transformational education for children and adolescents across The Gambia over the next 5 years. We want to ensure that every child has access to quality education and 21st century digital skills that ...
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UNICEF, the Government of The Gambia and the Education Above All Foundation launch a landmark project to support 66,765 out of school children to have access to quality primary education
BANJUL, 17 March 2023, – The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, the Office of the First Lady of The Gambia, UNICEF and the Education Above All (EAA) Foundation launched a major project to ensure that every primary school-age child in The Gambia is in school, enabling 66,765 out of school children and adole...
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Primary school students in The Gambia face significant learning losses due to high teacher absenteeism
Banjul, 24 January 2022, – Tens of thousands of primary school students in The Gambia lose significant learning time due to high teacher absenteeism that averages 14 per cent of teacher absence at least once a week, a new UNICEF study has shown. The report,, Time to Teach: Teacher attendance and time on task in pr...
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Education
The challenge, The Gambia Education Policy aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 4, prioritizing accessible, equitable, and inclusive quality education. The Constitution affirms basic education as a right, emphasizing its free, compulsory, and universal availability. However, expanding the education sector annu...
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Early Learning Assessment of Primary Education Entrants in The Gambia
Early childhood is a vital stage in children’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. The human brain begins developing before birth and continues into adulthood, but in the first few years of life, it grows faster than it ever will again. The development of early childhood activities (from birth t...