 
Contact Address:
Gamworks
Kanifing Institutional Layout
Bertil Harding Highway
PO Box 2640 Serrekunda
The Gambia, West Africa
Tel no: 4375343 / 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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