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11 September 2024

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 schoo...
Programme
15 November 2018

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...
Report
15 November 2018

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...
Press release
30 October 2018

National wealth does not guarantee education equality

FLORENCE/NEW YORK, 30 October 2018 – Living in a rich country does not guarantee equal access to quality education, according to Report Card 15 from UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti. Children in less wealthy countries often perform better at school despite fewer national resources, the report says. An Unfair St...
Programme
03 October 2018

Protection and inclusion of children

The challenge, For every child, a fair chance in life UNICEF The Gambia is committed to providing for all children a fair chance to realize their full potential. Children deprived of a fair start in life often never catch up and the gaps grow only wider with time and age. This has consequences on numerous aspect...