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abrj-205	Omotosho, Oyejide Felix ; Abatan, Olajide Olusegun 	Re-Defining Youth and Women Empowerment: Interogating the NAFA Program Initiative in The Gambia	2024	8	.pdf	application/pdf	8466	307	37	Abstract With the extreme poverty level and its widespread in the Gambia as of 2012 and government’s concern to counter it, empowerment became one of the strategies to tackle the problem through social protection program, gazette as a policy for reduction of the shocks on the marginalized and the vulnerable. The Gambia’s journey to social protection program as a policy instrument or a social policy began in 2012 during the implementation of the 2010-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which ushered in the “Programme for Accelerated Growth and Employment (PAGE)” under the Jammeh administration of the second republic when the concept of “Grow what you eat and eat what you grow” was lauded and embraced as a food sufficiency programme as well as policy towards “Girl child education” and “Women empowerment program” (UNDP Report, 2016, Omotosho, 2019).	cache/abrj-205.pdf	txt/abrj-205.txt