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Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.

Last update in December 2008: A website with basic geographical information, maps, some statistics, etc."The Atlas of the Gambia project is a public education project aimed at providing authoritative data and statistics on biophysical, social, cultural and economic dimensions of life in the Gambia."

--See especially: Gambia Atlas of 2003 Population and Housing Census

This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts from other web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to The Gambia, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.

A profile of Gambian water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
-- See also, Gambia in the FAO Document Repository

GAWFA is a not-for-profit NGO established in 1987 to serve as 'a financial intermediary to enhance the entrepreneurship development of women'. The incomplete website offers general information about the association's credit schemes, contact, and a brief annual report for 1997/98.

--See also: GAWFA on Facebook (2019)

Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.