Information:
UNICEF's
goals for its programmes of assistance in The Gambia
are: support of the sustainability of the expanded programme
of immunisation (EPI); achievement and enhancement of
the Primary Health Care (PHC) services through the Bamako
Initiative principles of community costs-sharing; support
to the meeting of basic leaning needs through quality
formal and non-formal education and emphasis on importance
on early childhood education, policy development services
and facilities.
It also includes expansion of potable water supply and
improvement of schools and household sanitary conditions;
support of mechanisms to co-ordinate national sensitisation
on child survival, protection and development; and strengthening
the capacity in typing and monitoring the status and
of women and children. |