Press
release
In
light of the spread of the COVID 19 pandemic and its unavoidable socio-economic
consequences, the European Union has taken the decision to increase funding to
the successful Building Resilience through Social Transfers- BReST project
being implemented by UNICEF, National Nutrition Agency NaNA and Ministry of
Women, Children and Social Welfare.
This
increase of 11,000,000.00 Gambian Dalasis (209,000.00 EUR) will be used to fund
a new ‘’COVID-19 Cash Transfer response’’ activity. This activity will target
the most vulnerable households in the BReST implementing regions of CRR, URR
and NBR and involve provision of an immediate cash transfer of 1500 GMD per
mother and child pair. The transfer will be used as an immediate stop gap for
purchase of essential food and hygiene items to combat the spread of COVID 19.
The transfer is intended to be by cash or more likely by mobile money to 6,000
mother-child pairs using details already held by UNICEF and NaNA.
‘’The
European Union stands in support of the Gambian people in efforts to combat the
spread of COVID 19’’ says the European Union Ambassador to the Republic of The
Gambia, Attila LAJOS.
BReST
is a successful EU funded 3,000,000 EUR cash transfer nutrition social
protection project targeting pregnant and lactating mothers with children under
the age of 2 and has been under implementation since 2017.
