In The Gambia, a week-long national conference on the finalization of the National Education Policy 2016-2030 is under way. During the conference, the UNICEF deputy representative, mentioned that the education sector had paid significant dividends through leveraging millions of dollars from the Global Partnership for Education.

He also said that GPE encouraged the Government of The Gambia to progressively increase the national budget allocation to the education sector, to reach and even surpass the GPE target of 20%. Thanks to this, the target for pupil- textbook ratio (1to1) was reached and there are hardly any overcrowded classrooms. 

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