The Government of The Gambia first recognised and expressed the need to address population and development issues in a 1979 cabinet paper entitled “Framework for the Development of a Population Policy”.This led to the formulation of the first National Population Policy in 1992 which was revised in 1996 and in August 2006
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National Population Policy 2007-2011
No. of pages: 66
Publication date: 2007
Author: National Population Commission Secretariat
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