Strategic Partners & Agencies
The education sector has over the years witnessed meaningful participation of diverse partner institutions in the delivery of education and training services from early childhood development to university education including adult and non-formal education.
Increasingly, the role of the education sector partners, such as religious missions and development partners, is becoming more relevant in the equitable provision of education and training and for improved educational outcomes, especially amongst the disadvantaged and marginalized groups of the population.
In spite of the encouraging mobilization of such partners through the use of memoranda of understanding, the absence of a well-designed partnership strategy that serves as a framework for multi-stakeholder participation in education and training continues to challenge the efforts of the sector in more meaningful engagements.
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Techology will promote and support the establishment of links between tertiary and higher education institutions in The Gambia and other relevant institutions in the sub-region and beyond for closer collaboration and cooperation in research work. MoHERST will encourage public-private partnership in student training and placement.
To this end, the education sector will develop a comprehensive partnership strategy to guide the mobilization of resources, competencies and commitment from the public and private sectors, civil society, Non-Governmental Organizations, Inter-Governmental Organizations and communities. Both MoBSE and MoHERST will use this framework to further develop operational partnership models that support interventions in pursuance of their own mandates. Such models will take account of the comparative advantage that resides within the key actors of the partnership with a view to maximizing the potential for expanding basic and secondary education opportunities, including early childhood development and adult literacy on the one hand and opportunities in tertiary and higher education, technical vocational education and training, research and science, technology and innovation on the other.