The Gambia has not benefited from the donor community since we came to
power, despite several promises - Yahya AJJ Jammeh.
The Gambia has received £4.8m (96 million Dalasi) in aid from Britain since
the resumption of bilateral aid in 1998.
Making the disclosure yesterday at the opening of the Department for
International Development (DFID) office in The Gambia, the British High
Commissioner, Tony Millson, explained that the programme covers areas like
economic management and capacity-building, assistance to the office of the
Auditor General and mainstreaming poverty and gender.
Others are records management, capacity-building for community-based
organisations and support to the country's Education Master Plan through the
Education Management Project.
He expressed the belief that the DFID office will, among other things,
strengthen existing partnerships and develop new ones as well as work more
closely with the Gambia government and the civil society and other donors
towards achieving poverty reduction in the country.
Asked to comment on a statement credited to President Jammeh that since he
came to power six years ago, The Gambia has not benefited from the donor
community, despite several promises, the high commissioner said, "it is
surprising," considering the active involvement of the World Bank and the
European Commission, 17% of whose financial commitments are of British
extraction, in the country's economic development process.
The DFID resident representative, Maureen Morrison, later spoke in an
interview of her delight at the "healthy and productive" dialogue among
stakeholders in the country's poverty alleviation framework, a point
corroborated by Dr Robin Milton, the agency's social development adviser for
West and North Africa.
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