The Gambia Association of Local Government Authorities and its partners has launched the Project Steering Committee (PSC) of a United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security UNTFHS) that aimed at strengthening the economic and social rights of vulnerable groups whose livelihoods have been negatively impacted by the Senegambia Bridge.
The project is titled: Localising SDGs Improving the Livelihoods of Vulnerable Women and Youth Around the Senegambia Bridge.
“The development of the project is part of celebrations marking UN’s 75 years that coincides with the development of the UN Common Country Assessment (CCA) and Human Security Trust Fund in the Gambia. The current United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) will end in 2021 and the subsequent transitioning of the UN system in The Gambia to the next generation of UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (CF).
“The CCA is the UN system’s independent, impartial and collective assessment (i.e., a description of a country situation) and analysis (i.e., a description of causes and their implications) of a country’s situation with government’s involvement in the process. A key element of the CCA is Stakeholder engagement whilst the consultations on the UNHSTF is to ensure that the targeted interventions are context specific and address the needs and aspirations of the targeted beneficiaries in the Kerewan (NBR) and Mansakonko (LRR) local government areas,” it said.
“The aim of the Community Consultations, which was conducted last year, is to engaged in the UN75 dialogue; collect their feedback/recommendation on the 2 draft HSTF proposal for localizing SDGs – improving the livelihoods of vulnerable women and youth around the Senegambia Bridge; and for the CCA to undertake feasible gender and conflict-sensitive community consultations amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure an inclusive lens in the analysis, especially where data is inadequate.
Objectives of the project,” it added.
GALGA’s partners include National Youth Council, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs (MOFEA), Women’s Bureau, the Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (TANGO), the UN system and other development partners) will launch the Project Steering Committee (PSC) of a United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security UNTFHS) project that aimed at strengthening the economic and social rights of vulnerable groups whose livelihoods have been negatively impacted by the Senegambia Bridge.
The project is titled: Localising SDGs Improving the Livelihoods of Vulnerable Women and Youth Around the Senegambia Bridge.