#ramadanmubarak Have a blessed month!

Meet Gender Champion Kajali Sonko Deputy Perm. Secretary Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare His commitments are; ➡️Recruit & engage fourteen women empowerment champions nationwide. ➡️Finalise scholarships for 20(twenty) vulnerable young girls in partnership with #ECOWAS on vocational & science subjects.

🚨VACANCY ALERT🚨 🔶Have excellent communication skills? 🔶Interested in supporting our work in The #Gambia? Apply now to join our team: unv.org/calls/GMBR0000… Deadline is 2⃣6⃣ April 2021

In partnership with #Fyen Consulting, #MASTER Associates we present the workshop on “Unconscious Bias” for Senior Male Officials. Happening tomorrow at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara Conference Centre. A huge thank you UNDP The Gambia for supporting this workshop. 📹Kerr Fatou

With funding from UNDP The Gambia, Bridging Gaps Advisory together with #Master Associates and #Fyen Consulting brought together senior male officials from government departments and parastatals to discuss unconscious bias in the workplace, and how it affects gender mainstreaming.

Abdou Touray, Programs specialist UNDP The Gambia, in his speech said, Gender equality lies at the heart of any development programming, and the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women is central to the mandate of UNDP and intrinsic to its development approach.

Rohie Bittaye Darboe, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare in her opening statement said, this seminar is one way of combatting unconscious bias in our personal and professional lives to promote gender inclusion and appreciation of diversity, especially around the decision making tables.

According to Neneh Cham, a legal practitioner, women constitute 51% of the population globally, so really there is something wrong when in key decision making positions, or anywhere for that matter; you find that the number of women is very low.

“I get this from men a lot, ‘but you want to take over the world’ and I say, if our hard work gives us the world, we’ll take the world. And what is wrong with that anyway? Men have taken the world since the world came into being.”- Neneh Cham.

SaMu Gambia- Lette Jallow from Bridging Gaps Advisory described the workshop as successful. There was open dialogue between officials from government sectors and parastatal institutions, and the active steps and affirmative actions they’re taking in addressing gender inequality and unconscious bias.

Addressing the root causes of gender inequality in the workplace. Thank you UNDP The Gambia for funding Bridging Gaps Advisory and FyeN

Women Executives from various institutions converged in Cap Skirring for a five day training organised by Bridging Gaps, Fyen Consulting and Master Associates. "There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise" Web Dubois