Secka1

“Gumbo du Geateh Rubab Jernn”

[EPL Champions 25/26 @SallahBabou]

Today, @EUinTheGambia and the Govt of The Gambia 🇪🇺🤝🇬🇲 signed the Financing Agreement for the YEP Tourism and Creative Industries Project.

This initiative, to be implemented by @ITCnews, aims to boost competitiveness, inclusiveness, and sustainability in these vital sectors.

[ITC Gambia @ITC_Gambia]

Thank you, Executive Director @CokeHamilton!

We remain committed to supporting small businesses for sustainable and inclusive development.

[Pamela Coke-Hamilton @CokeHamilton]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again.

Our country-based staff are the human face of ITC.

Your presence on the ground tells us if our cheese has moved, when and where… and where we need to go next.

Thanks for your hard work, innovation and sacrifice. We stand on your work!

[ITC Gambia @ITC_Gambia]

This week, a delegation from our office, led by our Country Representative (a.i) @SallahBabou, is in Geneva, Switzerland, for the ITC@60 celebrations.

They’re also participating in a series of meetings with colleagues from Geneva and ITC country offices.

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

Thank you Sai, my Gambian sister. Lovely experience in Geneva.

[Susanna Pak 💁🏻‍♀️ @susannapak]

Spotted at our Innovation Fair:

Monitoring and evaluation expert Kebba Secka from @ITC_Gambia…

Repping his home country in his attire, while donning a Nigerian cap.

“Regional integration” at its finest! Let’s goooo, West Africa. ✨

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

#ITC60 anniversary in Geneva. Transforming Trade, Changing lives.

[International Trade Centre (ITC) @ITCnews]

🎼 Hello, it's us.

We interrupt your regular social media feed with a collective hello from all ITC staff around the world, gathered at the Geneva headquarters this week to celebrate our #ITC60 anniversary.

Here are the people who make trade happen for #SmallBusiness.

Learn more about our work: https://t.co/ACimQhrbHb

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

We are living in a very inhumane and unjust world. How can this be justified in name of self defense. Israel should simply be forced to stop the massacre.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I am horrified by the reported attack in Gaza on an ambulance convoy outside Al Shifa hospital.

Now, for nearly one month, civilians in Gaza, including children & women, have been besieged, denied aid, killed & bombed out of their homes.

This must stop.

[ITC Gambia @ITC_Gambia]

We are thrilled to join GBOS and partners to hold a validation workshop for the 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣-2️⃣3️⃣ #Gambia Labour Force Survey.

The survey provides crucial information critical in evaluating and monitoring the progress of development goals, especially #SDGs 5️⃣ & 8️⃣.

[ITC Gambia @ITC_Gambia]

Kebba Secka, @ITC_Gambia 🎙: “this survey is a critical step towards understanding and addressing the challenges faced by our labour force after the Covid-19 pandemic during which many people lost their jobs and many small businesses closed.”

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

@ITC_Gambia, we continue to deliver on our commitments to Government, BSOs and MSMEs in The Gambia. It was with honor that I lead ITC’s technical and financial support to Gambia’s Labour Force Survey 2023. A big congratulations to @GBoS and @MoTIEBanjul

[ITC Gambia @ITC_Gambia]

Kebba Secka, @ITC_Gambia 🎙: “this survey is a critical step towards understanding and addressing the challenges faced by our labour force after the Covid-19 pandemic during which many people lost their jobs and many small businesses closed.”

[ITC Gambia @ITC_Gambia]

Kebba Secka, ITC: “The training focused on enhancing the skills of young people & women in fruit, nut & cereal processing.

We’re sure the participants have made the best use of the opportunity, but it must not stop here. We’re urging them to start putting skills into practice.”

[The Youth Empowerment Project @yepgambia]

Scam Alert 🚨

We would like to inform the public that we are currently not offering any funding schemes, and any messages or posts claiming to be from us with our logo offering such schemes are false.

We advise everyone to disregard these messages and not click on any links.

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

Lessons learned;
1) politician must incorporate scientific methods in their strategy formulation 2) in God we trust the rest must bring evidence. 3) respect that marginalized group in society called academics. Well done team @_ceprass #proud

[Center for Policy @_ceprass]

Again, according to the official results from IEC, our predictions for each region in the mayoral and chairmanship elections were 100% accurate.
Important lesson: Don't contest scientific findings only because they don't go in your favour.

For The Gambia our homeland

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

Privileged to be a member Technical working group for LFS 2022. Also coordinating ITC’s support to GoTG to collect a comprehensive, reliable and quality labour market information.

[The Youth Empowerment Project @yepgambia]

Kebba Secka, @ITC_Gambia🎙 “The focus of the LFS this year is to:

Measure the extent of employment & underemployment in all regions of the country;
Measure the size of the informal sector;
Measure the gender dimension of employment & unemployment;
Measure level of decent jobs.

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

@JengSallah01 2/2 That means our labour force is only 52.2% of our working age populations. Idle resources! An Idle mind is crime hub.

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

@JengSallah01 I had thought that unemployment is Gambia’s biggest economics problem until i read that 47.7% of our working age population are inactive. They are neither employed nor unemployed (IHS 2015/2016).

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

The excessive demand for liberty, aka freedom, at the expense of everything else including morality is a plague in my country. What i see on social media is beyond my wise grandfather’s imagination.

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

The go to model for youth empowerment anywhere and anytime. @yepgambia =technical skills training + entrepreneurship training +access to finance.

[The Youth Empowerment Project @yepgambia]

👷2099 jobs created
👨‍💻1339 youth completed a TVET programme
👨‍💼630 youth benefitted from entrepreneurship services & business support

We continue to empower young people to contribute in the socio-economic advancement of 🇬🇲.

Read our 2021 annual report⬇️: https://t.co/6UmvVW2s3W

[Secka1 @Sbaye1]

Skills for Youth Employment(SkYE) is market led approach to skills development initiated by @YEP. Glad to lead this initiative with @IIHT_gm

[The Youth Empowerment Project @yepgambia]

Today, with funding from @EUinTheGambia, we join the Indian Institute of Hardware Technology for the graduation of 4⃣0⃣0⃣ students in emerging technology fields.

The hall is painted with hope, zeal and commitment to transform The #Gambia.

[Moved to @ITCnews @innovation_ITC]

And it's a wrap!
The event, that is. The programmes are just getting started. 😎

We had such a fun time with colleagues from HQ,
@ITC_Gambia, 🇮🇳 & 🇳🇬.

The Champions & Challengers are super excited to be part of the initiatives & we can't wait to see the solutions they create!