UNESCO Dakar, Partners Disburse D600,000 to 10 Youth Organisations Across Gambia
A total of ten national and regional youth organisations across The Gambia have received a cumulative amount of D600,000.00 for the implementation of activities on Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in their respective communities. The sub-grant disbursement is coordinated by the Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia) with funding from UN Peacebuilding Fund […]
Tropics Magazine Honors Mansa Banko Online Publisher for the second time
The Tropics Magazine has this year, 2022 honored Mamadou Edrisa Njie, Publisher and Managing Editor of Mansa Banko Online alongside other top influential personalities for the second time. Mr Njie is among the Tropics Magazine’s ‘Top 700 annual power list 2022’, thereby being recognized by the award-winning magazine’s list of ’influential Africans’. Tropics Magazine, according […]
Gov’t commends UNESCO, GYIN for Training Youth Leaders on MIL Mainstreaming
The Gambia government through its Information Minister, Hon. Lamin Queen Jammeh has commended the efforts of UNESCO for training 40 youth leaders of different organisations in the country on Media and Information Literacy (MIL) and its previous trainings. While speaking at the opening ceremony of the two-day training at the Seaview Garden Hotel in Kololi, […]
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 […]