GYIN Gambia Welcomes Interns from ASA-Program
The Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia Chapter on 30th June 2022 welcomed two interns from the Arbeits- und Studienaufenthalte (ASA- Program) in Germany. This initiative started in 2018 as part of GYIN Gambia’s efforts in a global partnership in the fields of youth development. ASA interns, mainly students and young experts in various fields, […]
GYIN Gambia Celebrates Decade of Transformation and Service Par Excellence
The Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter) is a household name for youth empowerment, the network is a National Youth Organization that was launched at an international workshop held from 8th to 10th October 2011 in Cotonou, Benin. GYIN is funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the government […]
Jimara Cooperative’s President Yields Bumper Harvest
The President of the Jimara Multi-Purpose Cassava Cooperative Society, Muhamadou Dahaba has expressed his delight in registering a bumper harvest in this cassava farming season. Dahaba, a beneficiary of the defunct Cassava Out-Growers Scheme, was able to successfully multiply the improved variety of cassava on his farm, which yielded more cassava stems that helped him […]
Mitigating Youth Unemployment: Trade Ministry Official lauds GYIN Gambia, GYCC and Empretec Interventions
Mr. Basiru Secka of the Employment Directorate at the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment (MoTIE), has acknowledged the crucial importance of the interventions of key institutions such as the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia Chapter, Gambia Youth Chamber of Commerce (GYCC), and Empretec Gambia, in mitigating youth unemployment by providing entrepreneurship […]
GYIN-ITC Partnership: 40 Youths Poulterers, Apiculturists Complete Digital Marketing Training.
The Gambian chapter of a youth network called Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN), and its partner in youth development-International Trade Centre (ITC), on Friday, 8th April 2022 graduated 40 women and youth entrepreneurs, after a forty- five (45) days of training in poultry and beekeeping. The youth poulterers and apiculturists, drawn from the Central River […]
Dr. Amina Sillah (PhD) Named among Extraordinary African Women in Development
Dr. Amina Sillah(Ph.D), an educator, entrepreneur, and international development analyst, who currently works at the Department of Political Science at Towson University, USA, has won an international award that recognizes sixty (60) extraordinary African Women in Development, including activists, change-makers, government representatives, and social innovators from 15 countries. She had been named as an awardee […]
UNESCO, GYIN Gambia prepare Gambian youth leaders as agents of sustainable peace
With the financial support of the UN Peace Building Fund, UNESCO Dakar, in partnership with the Global Youth Innovation Network – Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia), has trained youth leaders in The Gambia on conflict transformation and peacebuilding. The three-day capacity-building workshop which ended on Wednesday, 23rd February, was aimed at equipping youth leaders with skills […]
Three Young Entrepreneurs Receive GamDiaspora Tank Grants
Three young Gambian entrepreneurs have received financial support in the form of a grant, from GamDiaspora Tank, which is collaborating with the Gambian Chapter of Global Youth Innovation Network–popularly called GYIN and EBROSSO Consulting Services. The grant Prizes amounting to D20,000 is to support the young entrepreneurs to expand and strengthen their businesses. The trio, […]
Meet Amie Colley, the ROOTS Covid-19 Grant Beneficiary who is overcoming Barriers to Growth in Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
Ms. Amie Colley, a female entrepreneur who benefited from Covid-19 relief support in the sum of US$1,200 (GMD 60,000.00), bankrolled by the Rural Poor Stimulus Facility (RPSF) through the Resilience of Organizations for Transformative Smallholder Agriculture Project (ROOTS), has utilized the funds to equip and upscale her business so as to meet the entrepreneurial demands […]
GYIN Gambia, UNESCO-Dakar validate manual on Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding Education
The Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia in partnership with the UNESCO Dakar office, on 8th February 2022 held a workshop to review and validate a Training Manual on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Education for Youth Organisations at Baobab Holiday Resort in Bijilo. The manual is the outcome of the Organisational Capacity Needs Assessment exercise […]