THE REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA’S COMBINED REPORT ON THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN & PEOPLES’ RIGHTS & INITIAL REPORT ON THE PROTOCOL TO THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA awareness creation and sensitization activities through platforms such as the weekly televised Education Forum, radio programmes and community meetings have increased public interest and knowledge on girl’s education. Finally, the new Education Policy 2016-2030 has made provisions for digitalising the national school curriculum. To this end, students and teachers will use such devises as computers, tablets and mobile phones to facilitate teaching, learning and assessment. Adult and Non-Formal Education (ANFE): In a bid to promote participatory approach in NFE service delivery, ANFE Unit collaborates with NFE stakeholders using Public Private Partnership Approach (PPPA). Non-Formal Education targets 15 years and above age bracket with an intention of improving levels of literacy by 50% by 2015, especially for women. With funding from UNESCO BREDA, a Road Map for Holistic Functional Literacy Programmes in The Gambia was developed, the ANFE Policy was reviewed, finalised and validated, and a Capacity building workshop for Service Providers and media professionals on documentation of ANFE practices in The Gambia was conducted for fifty Service Providers and media professionals. Moreover, thematic instructional materials for literacy and NFE Programmes was developed, validated, pre-tested and produced and there was training of trainers for its use for ten service providers. The Community Skills Improvement Project (CSIP) sponsored by the African Development Bank continued to deliver training for women and out of school youths with the view to enhancing selfemployment ventures and entrepreneurship development. The project targeted 40,000 women and youth in 250 communities but was able to reach 32,377 (80.94%). The total number of participants who are now classified as literacy graduates is 12,678 representing 32% of the target. The Integrated Functional Literacy Project sponsored by the Islamic Development Bank has designed a curriculum for 400 contact hours for 2000 young men and women and produced didactic materials in the national languages in thirteen subject areas including agriculture, literacy, numeracy, health, nutrition, environment, forestry, live skills, livelihood skills, gender, governance, peace and security and human rights. Facilitators numbering two hundred and sixty five have been trained in the use of 78