Foni – Women in The Gambia have long navigated hazardous waters to collect oysters from mangroves without knowing how to swim. That reality is now changing thanks to a swimming programme run by the global aquatic value chain development programme FISH4ACP, which has reached one in four harvesters nationwide — and...

The Agri-accelerator project in the Gambia supports agricultural investment by young people. This report examines selected sub-sectors within the agrifood system to inform enterprise development and guide strategic decision-making. It is intended for youth, business coaches, mentors, and programme teams seeking to align business planning with market conditions, resource levels,...

All the resources by Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group on Gambia

Over the past two decades, efforts to integrate forest and farm smallholders into modern value chains have aimed to achieve positive social and environmental impacts. However, business partnerships within these chains are often shaped by underlying power imbalances, failing to address deep disparities in information, resources and capacities.  Because of this,...

Recently in The Gambia, the African Forestry and Wildlife Commission gathered to reflect on the bonds between people and the forest landscapes that sustain them. The meeting took place as countries manage shifting markets, rising demands on land and resources, and the changing realities of rural livelihoods. These landscapes continue...

This case study identifies climate change impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptation in capture fisheries with SSF in the Gambia, and mitigation and adaptation measures as planned and supported for action. It shares/communicates the observed and predicted impacts on coastal and inland waters to SSF communities.The case study notes that the impacts...

This document describes the process led by ActionAid International The Gambia (AAITG) to build rural women’s capacities to advocate for land rights in The Gambia, and provides guidance for scaling the approach in other contexts.

Innovative approaches are needed to achieve the United Nation’s Agenda 2030, including reducing gender and other social inequalities. Land rights, understood here broadly as bundles of rights to access and make decisions over the use of land, is one area where inequalities are particularly prevalent. In development practice and policies,...

The Guide contains four training modules, information for facilitators and training organizers, to be used as a tool for capacity building during training events. It targets a broad group of stakeholders, such as local authorities, government representatives, community members and elders, women’s groups, religious leaders, and other relevant actors involved...

Co-creation is a collaborative process for generating shared visions, knowledge and strategies that lead to action. Co-creating actionresearch pilots with intended service users or programme partners is a more responsive approach to developing interventions. Apart from being more strategic (as it is more likely to be effective and/or sustained), it...

Despite constitutional provisions ensuring equal treatment and opportunities for women, implementation of these laws, particularly in rural areas governed by customary land tenure systems, often falls short. Customary and religious practices tend to favour men, with limited representation of women in positions of authority. Recognizing the institutional barriers faced by...

Sense-making is a form of validating research data with research participants. It is not only important from an ethical and beneficence standpoint to return data back to the people and communities who have been involved in research where possible, but it can also help to cross-check and add nuance and...

This brief provides an overview of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approach employed for a GTA project, outlining the M&E strategy used and offering recommendations and hands-on tools for similar initiatives to enhance effectiveness, while fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Climate risk poses significant challenges to agriculture in The Gambia, especially for smallholder farmers reliant on rain-fed farming. Adaptation efforts will be ineffective unless farmers' perspectives of climate change are understood. The objectives are to examine smallholder farmers’ perceptions of climate risk, identify their adaptation strategies, and examine the factors...

The Resilience of Organisations for Transformative Smallholder Agriculture Project (ROOTS) project was engaged as a co-financing mechanism as per the Gambia National Agricultural Investment Plan-Food and Nutrition Security (GNAIP-FNS II, 2017-2026) - to address the government’s priority concerns including account deficits, public services, population growth, outmigration of youth, agricultural productivity,...

Land ownership in The Gambia is a complicated issue. It lives at the intersection of traditional customs, legal processes, competing needs, and momentum from the public sector and local NGOs towards more equitable governance.  Many women face significant disadvantages in owning land due to long-standing customs that govern land distribution within...

FISH4ACP is an initiative of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) to support sustainable fisheries and aquaculture development. The five-year value chain (VC) development programme (2020 to 2025) is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with funding from the European Union...

Qualitative data collection is very important for understanding gender issues, and particularly for a deeper dive to understand contexts and norms. These key insights are very diffi cult to gain using quantitative methods like surveys, as surveys are prone to existing (gender-blind) biases on how questions are asked and interpreted....

Agroecology aims to recover the relationship between humans and ecosystems by working with, not against, the elements of the natural environment. In West Africa, CIRAWA is working with communities of small-holder farmers to achieve this and more sustainable and climate-resilient food supply systems. About CIRAWA project: Bringing together 14 partners...

Across many parts of rural Gambia, women farmers often start their days before dawn to ensure that they have enough water to irrigate their gardens and to cook, clean and bathe at home. “Some of us would wake up as early as 3.00 a.m. to 4.00 a.m. just to get water....