Our Vision: A World in which gender disparities in education are eliminated and all African girls have access to education, perform well and complete their studies.

Our Mission: to promote gender equity and equality in education in Africa by fostering positive policies, practices and attitudes towards girls’ education.

In keeping with this vision and mission The Gambia Chapter is committed to “creating an enabling environment for the Girl Child to be an educated, responsible, and assertive citizen in line with Education for All.”

Objectives:

Policy Advocacy: To continue influencing the integration of gender issues in education policies and plans in order to improve girls’ access, retention and performance.

Scaling – up of interventions: To continue to replicate FAWE’s Gender responsive interventions in order to scale them up in more countries, while developing new models to address emerging challenges in girls’ education.

Community Advocacy: To advocate for girls education and gender equity in education at community level

Capacity Building: To build the National chapter   to improve its functionality and ability to deliver programs and influence policy.

Restructuring: To undertake organizational development in order to ensure the sustainability of the organization and enhance the effectiveness of its structures and programs

Monitoring & Evaluation: To institutionalize on effective monitoring and evaluation system across the entire organization.

Description of the Organization

FAWEGAM is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) supporting Girls and Young Women to acquire Education for Development, working in collaboration with the Ministry for Basic and Secondary Education (MOBSE) to meet the Education for All goals (EFA) and MDGs.

FAWE’s headquarters is based in Nairobi; The Gambia chapter FAWEGAM has a membership of women and men interested in the education of women and girls. The Forum‘s activities among others are the Ambassadors Girls Scholarship program (AGSP)up to 2011 has sponsored 800 girls and 125 boys in West Coast Region from grade Seven to nine and 114 Girls and 84 boys in Senior secondary schools. FAWEGAM has also sponsored 80 students who are pursuing tertiary education through collaboration with Insight Training Centre in Churchill’s Town. Other successful activities are the Take our Daughters to Work, Math, Science and   Technology Clinics, Career days and recently, the “TUSEME” ( let’s speak out) with clubs established in seven Upper Basic Schools.

 Clubs nationwide; they are trained to become advocates in education to influence Policies on Girls’, Gender Equity and Women’s Rights. The Mother’s Clubs are involved in community mobilization and sensitization in education and other community development initiatives. They undertake income generating activities from the seed money given by UNICEF through FAWEGAM for the clubs and schools sustenance. They mentor the girls, support and compliment the guidance and counselling units in the schools.

The American Embassy in Banjul pilot project on empowering rural women through mobile phones to improve communication and access to information with a start of one thousand women benefiting in the Upper River Region has been an effective medium for advocacy.