 
Contact Address Details:
Gamworks
Banjul area HQ
Kanifing Institutional Layout
Bertil Harding Highway
PO Box 2640 Serrekunda
The Gambia
West Africa
Tel no: +220 4375343 (Switchboard)
4375341, 4375340
9965069
Fax: 4375344
Email: info@gamworks.gm
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Information:
The Gambia Agency for Management of Public Works
(Gamworks) is a non-governmental, public works construction
institution, dedicated to providing vital public infrastructure
and services, creating employment and building local capacity
through public sector infrastructural improvements and private
sector development.
The overall aim is to reduce poverty in The Gambia. This is
achieved through the management of construction works and
the rehabilitation of public infrastructure, providing technical
assistance and training and implementing of the Technical
Studies Programme.
Ownership & Management:
Gamworks has a joint representative structure through organisational
membership by the Association of Non-Governmental Organizations,
Bar Association, National Youth Council, Chamber
of Commerce, and (GALGA) Gambia Association of Local Government
Authorities.
Representatives from each of the above organisations make
up the Board of Directors which formulates rules and regulations
for Gamworks as well as having a supervisory role. As for
the daily workings this is vested in a management group whose
head is the Director General. He is supported by 3 executive
staff i.e. administrative, technical and financial directors.
Beneficiary Communities:
Metropolitan populations via funding of the various
government
agencies, LGAs and municipal authorities, local community organisations.
The other beneficiaries under the training
initiatives are private and public employees and management.
Funding Agencies & Projects:
The Government of The Gambia supported by the
World Bank -
IDA, the OPEC Fund For International Development and the African
Development Bank have entrusted Gamworks (both as an implementing
agency and contract manager) with the implementation of the following
civil projects which are partly funded by the Government and the funding
agencies named below:
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Education 3. |
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African Development Bank (ADB) |
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Community Skills Improvement Project (CSIP). |
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African Development Bank |
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Gambia Investment Promotion and Free Zones
Agency. |
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(IDA) |
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HIV/Aids Rapid Response Project (HARP). |
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(IDA) |
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Participatory Health, Population and Nutrition (PHPNP). |
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(IDA) |
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Poverty Alleviation and Capacity Building
Project (PACABP). |
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Funding: World Bank, & beneficiaries. |
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Second Public Works Project. |
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OPEC & beneficiaries |
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Third Education Sector Project (TESP). |
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(IDA) |
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