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• Oumie, Economist at UNRCO, delivered a brief presentation about CCA to familiarize participants with the process. She highlighted the importance
of CCA as the new consultation process that includes analysis of the country context and evidence generation of the development challenges and
priorities, to inform the next Cooperation framework between the government and the UN which takes effect in 2022.
• The CCA is a multi-stakeholder and inclusive engagement of partners including government and CSOs and should be gender sensitive and inclusive of
all relevant groups to ensure that no one is left behind
• It is the beginning of a process that will be updated annually to get latest updates to support the cooperation framework
• The PDA at UNRCO, Becky Adda-Dontoh shared the background of PHDP collaboration and explained why and how the collaboration is necessary as
follows:
- Central to Sustaining Peace and Development is the recognition of a nexus of humanitarian, development and peacebuildinng actions, underpinned
by human rights, gender equality, people-centred approaches and conflict
- The CCA needs to bring all relevant actors together for a multidimensional analysis of the country’s risks across sectors and levels, and
- Identification of existing mechanisms, structures and capacities that enable collaborative problem-solving and enhance social cohesion
- Indicated the need to focus and invest in preventive measures to sustain the peace, which is in sync with the aspiration of the NDP.
- Highlighted the need to make use of the demographic dividend of the youth population for positive benefit
• She further presented the key messages on the PHDP related to the Gambia based on Desk Review as follows:
- 1) Retention of archaic legal provisions, 2) polarization of ethnicity along political lines, 3) rights of minority groups, 4) young people as both peace
engines and conflict drivers, 5) Gender inequality, 6) Governance deficiencies, 7) politicization of COVID-19 response, 8) stigmatization and hate
speech, and 9) unprotected children

Feedback and contribution from Participants

• The CDA 2018/2019 that were jointly developed by Office of President, Ministry of Interior, Civil Society Organizations supported by UN, and
highlighted 31 recommendations that are still relevant to the national context.
• Some of the key recommendations indicated in the 2019 CDA needs to be managed properly and promptly e.g the slow progress on SSR needs to be
looked at urgently as the foreign troop’s (ECOMIG) presence in the Gambia is not widely welcomed given the history of foreign troops linked to the
1994 coup
• There was emphasis on the role of MOI as a coordinator in peacebuilding in the country and the need for its capacity to be strengthened for a better
and more comprehensive coordination.
• Representatives from the government (DSPD at OP) mentioned the importance of utilizing the existing peace engines such as traditional and local
networks, which have been not been spotlighted.

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