Welcome to the National Assembly of The Gambia
By The Hon. Speaker - Mrs. Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay
Welcome to The Gambia National Assembly web site and I very much hope that you will enjoy browsing as well as finding it useful. The Assembly, as a key public sector good governance institution, is committed to working with all stakeholders, both public and private, in ensuring that the citizenry in particular and all residents in general optimally benefit from its services especially as regards advocacy for, promotion and protection of human rights as well as good governance and socio-economic development practices, programmes, projects and activities that enhance and ensure sustainable national development initiatives leading to poverty reduction and thus spurring advances towards meeting the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Welcome to The Gambia National Assembly web site and I very much hope that you will enjoy browsing as well as finding it useful. The Assembly, as a key public sector good governance institution, is committed to working with all stakeholders, both public and private, in ensuring that the citizenry in particular and all residents in general optimally benefit from its services especially as regards advocacy for, promotion and protection of human rights as well as good governance and socio-economic development practices, programmes, projects and activities that enhance and ensure sustainable national development initiatives leading to poverty reduction and thus spurring advances towards meeting the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).In this regard, it ensures that it independently performs its core functions including debates, appropriation, legislation, domestication of relevant international conventions, oversight and scrutiny.
The Assembly has a culture of an annual outreach activity through which it dialogues with the electorate including Chiefs and Traditional Authority, Local Government Authorities, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Community-based Organisations (CBOs), women and youth leaders. Such dialogues are primarily aimed at ensuring that the people are involved in decision making processes relevant to sustainable national development and that their priorities constitute the basis for the legislature to be better informed on its fundamental roles of national budget appropriation and monitoring, expenditure tracking and ensuring and enforcing transparency and accountability in accordance with specific National Constitutional Provisions.
One again, I wish you enjoyable and useful browsing.
Thank you so much.
Mrs. Fatoumatta Jahumpa Ceesay
Speaker of The Gambia National Assembly
Taiwan Donates $7000 to Gambia National Assembly
The Taiwanese Ambassador to the Gambia Dr. Patrick Chang yesterday presented a cheque amounting to $7000 to the National Assembly as part of their contribution to the refurbishment of the assembly. Presenting the cheque at the National Assembly building in Banjul, the Taiwanese ambassador to The Gambia expressed his pleasure in making the donation. He described the project as very important
History & Development of The Gambia Legislature