NRS trains GCAA record officers on Records Management

The training, which was held at the GCAA Conference Hall at the Banjul International Airport was conducted by the National Record Service (NRS).

Bartholomew Marong, the director of the NRS, who was speaking at the closing of the three day convergence, said: “It’s part of the NRS mandate to train public officers on Records Management. Again, it is also our responsibility in ensuring that there are good records keeping practises in the public service and other institutions,” he said.

“In July 1990, The Gambia Government funded a small scale project in cooperation with Overseas Records Management Trust (ORMT) now International Records Management Trust (IRMT) in order to restructure the registry in the Office of the President as a model from which is drawn lessons of best practise for the civil service,” he recalled.

“In the financial year 1990-1991, records management became a component of the UK Overseas Development Administration (ODA) Administrative Reform Program (ARP) and a records management project subsequently set up in the early 1990 at Personnel Management Office with a view to underpin the ARP,” he explained.

Fatou Jobarteh Jallow, the Human Resource Director at The Gambia Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), expressed her appreciation to the management of NRS more especially the NRS facilitators for successfully conducting the three days training.

She described the training as timely as it will go a long way in improving the work of the records officers under her institution.

“Now that you went through the training on records management for the past three days, thus, I want you all to utilise the new knowledge gained. The knowledge must reflect into your work as record officers,” she noted, while assuring the NRS boss of her institution’s commitment to further training their record officers.