[04-May-07] Education Statistic Brief 2005/2006: The effectiveness and efficiency of a department can be enhanced by monitoring and evaluation of its service delivery. The Planning and Budgeting Directorate of Department of State for Education has always strived hard to fulfill its mandates. The Directorate has a task among other things to contribute towards policy formulation and analysis, planning, budgeting and provision of reliable, timely and accurate education statistics to stakeholders for informed decision making.[more...]

[07-May-07] FTI Completion Report 2005: At the Dakar World Education Forum in 2000, the international community collectively endorsed the Dakar Framework for Action, which aims to achieve six education goals,including the elimination of gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005 and the achievement of universal primary education by 2015. The International community also pledged to ensure that any country “seriously committed” to the goals of Education for All (EFA) receive the additional resources needed to meet them.[ more...]

[07-May-07] FTI Completion Report 2006: It has been six years since the community of nations converged on the capital of Dakar to re-commit themselves to the attainment of universal primary education along with other education for All goals. As a catalyst to accelerate progress toward the goal of universal primary education, the Education for All/Fast Track Initiative (EFA/FTI) was created as a global partnership within the framework of the Monterry Compact.[ more...]

[07-May-07] Sector Report 2006: Until recently, the Department of State for Education (DoSE) was responsible for the provision of general education ranging from early childhood development to higher education. However, in 2007 a new Department of State was created for Tertiary & Higher Education, Research and Scientific Technology while the portfolio of Basic and Secondary goes to Department of State Basic & Secondary Education (DoSBSE).[ more...]

[07-May-07] Technical Proposal FTI 2007: 1.1 - Demographic and Economic Characteristics With a per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of US$350 (2001), The Gambia is amongst the poorest countries in the world, ranked 151st out of 175 in UNDP’s Human Development Index for 2003. It has a human population of some 1.4 million (2003 census preliminary results), with an annual growth rate of 2.7 percent and density of 128 per square kilometre, one of the highest in Africa. Three quarters of the population is rural. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, accounting for 27percent of GDP in real terms (2001), followed by tourism, 12 percent.[ more...]