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“I have never participated in a trade fair. That was my first time,” Ndey said. “I am very happy to have participated in the trade fair because I was able to share contacts with other businesses and customers. I was also able to learn from them to support the growth of my business.”

For many years, farmers in The Gambia cultivated crops without putting into consideration what the market required. The production of crops is not market driven. As a result, this causes many of them to sell their produce at a loss because of the lack of a good market, thereby pushing them into poverty. Now this is changing thanks to the intervention of the International Trade Centre`s Jokalente Market Platform Project.

At a ceremony held at Sterling Technical Training Centre, through its EU-funded Youth Empowerment Project & Jobs Skills & Finance Programme, the International Trade Centre handed over toolkits to 300 TVET graduates to promote self-employment.

International Trade Centre through its Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF)-funded Jokalente Market Platform Project is partnering with relevant stakeholders to improve market access for women onion farmers to enhance income generation.

In 2016, a year after completing his high school education, Baboucarr would embark on an irregular route with the hope of reaching Europe through Libya. According to Baboucarr, two things motivated him to embark on the perilous, risky journey: a billboard that painted a dark and gloomy picture for people opting to continue their education in Gambia and his friends who reached Europe via the Mediterranean Sea.

The International Trade Centre (ITC) through its European Union-funded Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) launched a packaging hub to improve the competitiveness of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in The Gambia. This is the first of its kind.

International Trade Centre (ITC) through its European Union-funded Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) in partnership with the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) and the community of Bakoteh, officially inaugurated the Bakoteh Production and Innovation Center (BPIC). The center aims to support training as well as the production and commercialization of textile and hand-woven products.

In the Strategic Youth and Trade Development Roadmap of the Gambia (2018-2022) developed by ITC through YEP, textile and fashion was identified as a subsector under the creative industries with the potential to boost ...

ITC’s Tekki Fii Project in The Gambia – targeting job creation for young people – comes to a close; focus now shifts to job creation under the new National Employment Policy.

32-year-old Omar Fofana has grown to become an ardent cultivator on a 50-meter square land. Annually, he cultivates groundnut and has so far expanded to grow cashew trees. For years, this has been the young farmer’s source of living. He is also a poultry farmer with 35 chickens and 4 ducks. He has a sizeable plantation of cassava. Farming is a daily activity for Omar.