Localizing SDGs – Improving the Livelihoods of Vulnerable Women and Youth around the Senegambia Bridge

The Senegambia bridge is a major infrastructure project that promises significant economic opportunity for The Gambia and the subregion. While it has brought some economic gain to the local communities, those in the most vulnerable situations have experienced negative consequences to their economic, health and personal security. As such, the overall goal of the programme is to strengthen capacities of the local authorities and communities towards creating an environment to safeguard the economic and social rights of vulnerable groups whose livelihoods have been negatively impacted by climate change and the Senegambia Bridge, while activating new opportunities that emerge along the Trans Gambia corridor. ​

The programme builds upon an initiative supported by the UNTFHS in 2019 to strengthen the application of human security towards accelerating the achievement of the SDGs at the local level in West Africa.

The key objectives of the programme are to: (i) increase access of women and youth to economic support services; (ii) strengthen resilience, local capacities, mechanisms and networks to reduce the incidence of violence and conflict over natural resources; and (iii) enhance national capacity to utilize the human security approach in planning and implementation of development programmes. ​

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Programme Summary​