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Thursday, November 20, 2008
The Gambia national youth conference and festival commonly abbreviated for NAYCONF is a biennial national youth gathering that seek to address the one thousand problems that the young people of the country used to encounter.
The organization of this event is a policy directive of the National youth policy and the national youth council Act 2000. During the gathering, which used to be attended by over one thousand five hundred participants, both from international and national delegates, burning issues such as youth unemployment, youth and illegal migration and the importance of young people in national development are discussed.
It also provide room for the young people to renew their commitments for the sustainable development of their country, as the event equip them on how to become responsible future leaders.
At the end of the gathering, resolutions and recommendations that were derived from the conference are later presented to the youth and sports department by the event’s national organising committee, through the Gambia national youth council before they finally reach to the national assembly for ratification and the subsequent implementation or addressing of those resolutions.
Mambanjik Njie, permanent secretary at the department of state for youth and sport has call on Gambians to view NAYCONF as a national event, saying it came to existence by an Act of the Gambia national parliament.
The 2006, youth gathering was hosted in Brikama, in the Western Region. Since then, there was little or nothing that was heard about its impact and Pamalick Ceesay, the executive secretary of the national youth council has made it clear that the 2006 NAYCONF resolutions were only partly achieved during a meeting of the Gambia national assembly youth and sport committee.
However, the North Bank Region will be hosting this year’s youth gathering, with Farefenni as the ground. Many promises were given that this year’s event will be a different one. This year gathering will commence from the 16 to 24 December with the theme “Invest in youths for sustainable development”.
According to the Alagie Kebbeh, chairman of the national youth council, the event will attract about two thousand young people and stakeholders from The Gambia and the sub region.
Information gathered by the youth matters indicated that preparations are on the move at both the local, regional and national levels to in order to attain the successful implementation of the event and the achievement of its resolutions there after.
The theme for the year is “Invest in Youths for Sustainable Development.”
The event has numerous objectives ranging from empowering the young people to have better understanding of the issues hampering their lives and the possible ways to explore the country’s national resources towards national development.
The organization of this event is a policy directive of the National youth policy and the national youth council Act 2000. During the gathering, which used to be attended by over one thousand five hundred participants, both from international and national delegates, burning issues such as youth unemployment, youth and illegal migration and the importance of young people in national development are discussed.
It also provide room for the young people to renew their commitments for the sustainable development of their country, as the event equip them on how to become responsible future leaders.
At the end of the gathering, resolutions and recommendations that were derived from the conference are later presented to the youth and sports department by the event’s national organising committee, through the Gambia national youth council before they finally reach to the national assembly for ratification and the subsequent implementation or addressing of those resolutions.
Mambanjik Njie, permanent secretary at the department of state for youth and sport has call on Gambians to view NAYCONF as a national event, saying it came to existence by an Act of the Gambia national parliament.
The 2006, youth gathering was hosted in Brikama, in the Western Region. Since then, there was little or nothing that was heard about its impact and Pamalick Ceesay, the executive secretary of the national youth council has made it clear that the 2006 NAYCONF resolutions were only partly achieved during a meeting of the Gambia national assembly youth and sport committee.
However, the North Bank Region will be hosting this year’s youth gathering, with Farefenni as the ground. Many promises were given that this year’s event will be a different one. This year gathering will commence from the 16 to 24 December with the theme “Invest in youths for sustainable development”.
According to the Alagie Kebbeh, chairman of the national youth council, the event will attract about two thousand young people and stakeholders from The Gambia and the sub region.
Information gathered by the youth matters indicated that preparations are on the move at both the local, regional and national levels to in order to attain the successful implementation of the event and the achievement of its resolutions there after.
The theme for the year is “Invest in Youths for Sustainable Development.”
The event has numerous objectives ranging from empowering the young people to have better understanding of the issues hampering their lives and the possible ways to explore the country’s national resources towards national development.
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