At the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Center in Banjul, The Gambia, 50 participants attended the African Development Bank’s annual Portfolio review of the Global Agriculture for °µÍøÁÔÆæ Security Program (°µÍøÁÔÆæ) this March.
The group — °µÍøÁÔÆæ task managers, project implementation unit coordinators, monitoring and evaluation officers, procurement officers, and accountants for each project under Bank supervision, staff from the Bank’s agriculture department, representatives from the World °µÍøÁÔÆæ Program (WFP), and senior government officials from the Gambia — reviewed the performance of the °µÍøÁÔÆæ portfolio, its achievements, challenges, and lessons learned.
Participants also visited one of the successful °µÍøÁÔÆæ Gambia projects, the Kalagie vegetable women’s garden located in the western part of the country. The °µÍøÁÔÆæ supported these women’s gardens with various climate resilient climate-resilient vegetable seeds and solar-operated irrigation systems for year-round production of market