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e) Political influence: civil servants are victimized and/or excluded due to difference in political ideologies in the workplace. This
influence lead to unfavorable development policies. Example the current situation of the draft constitution
f) Environmental: deforestation penalty laws are not enforced by relevant authorities
g) Poor coordination of development projects: councils are by-passed thus there is duplication of resources
h) Women: facing lack of marketing, transportation, drudgery of farm produce. It negatively affects their finance and health
i) Weak CSO – Government partnership in development intervention
j) Inadequate decentralization efforts.
k) Access to quality delivery of services
l) Policy implementation within health sector
m) Unqualified personnel (high school students) as personnel
n) High mortality rates
o) Wrong drug prescription,
p) expired drugs administered to patients,
q) lack of commitment of medical personnel
r) unskilled medical personnel,
s) inadequate health equipment
t) Poor staff welfare management e.g. inadequate staff accommodation discourages medical to work in the region
u) The lockdown laws have restricted the movement of cars as a result minimized the amount of carbon monoxide
v) The lockdown laws have restricted market activities (e.g. lumos and daily markets activities, cross-borders business transaction
w) Food insecurity due to post harvest loss mainly caused by inadequate cold storage facilities
x) Farmers (including women) lack skills in food preservation and value adding techniques
y) Inadequate farm implements
z) Deforestation
aa) Indiscriminate waste dumping; soil degradation, water pollution and water ways blockages leading to floods e.g Kaaba Kamba
and Samba tako
bb) Heavy rainfall floods farm lands, destroys feeder roads to homes, farms and schools and drought reduce agricultural
productivity.
cc) Land disputes between communities
dd) Women and Children in terms of food insecurity due to erratic rainfall
ee) Ongoing construction of the Basse, Basse-fatato, Yorobaol- basse and completed Lamin-koto passamas roads construction
ff) Construction of the Gambia College

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