The principal aim of these policy instruments was to promote development, social empowerment (poverty alleviation) and environmental conservation through participatory or community-based management and exploitation or utilisation of forests and forest resources.

UNESCO: Community-Based Forestry Management Programme

It is on the basis of this enabling policy environment that the Gambian government instituted the Community-Based Forestry Management Programme (CBFMP) in 2001.

UNESCO: Community-Based Forestry Management Programme

In addition, the community provides space for the setting-up of community-based adult learning centres (ALCs) and is also responsible for the management of ALCs and for the identification of potential programme facilitators in their communities.

UNESCO: National Literacy Programme (NLP)

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UNESCO: Free and Open Source Software for E-learning