| Employment
and Human Resource Development |
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The
Government of the Gambia is mindful of the employment and
human resource development problems that arise from the
demographic crises, unfavourable weather patterns and
ecological imbalance, migratory patterns, the
international economic climate and its impact on primary
products trade and economic reforms. To this end, the
government is formulating a national employment policy.
The policy and programme issues that the exercise is
expected to address include:
 | the design and
implementation of national employment programme;
| the design and
implementation of a national skills development
programme;
| the establishment of a
labour market information system for timely, accurate
information for intervention strategy design;
| strengthening of the
labour administrative system including labour law
reform, institutional strengthening of units of the
labour administration system, mechanisms for social
security protection, labour inspection and code
enforcement, employment exchange (placement
services), trade unions and employers
organisations ( improving the tripartite forum of
government, employers and workers for effective social
dialogue);
| capacity building for
the private sector through institutional strengthening,
integration and networking;
| poverty alleviation
through enhancing the productive capacity of the
population (human resource development and
utilisation/employment);
| science and technology
policy development, science and technology (including
information technology) for capacity building in
production, service delivery, employment; appropriate
technology policy research; |
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The government is
intensively pursuing collaboration and cooperation in
articulation, mobilising resources for and successful
implementation of the required policies and programmes to
achieve the stated goals and objectives.
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