Supplementary Agriculture and Natural Resource (ANR) Policy Final Validated Policy

This policy framework is supplementary and aligned to Agriculture and Natural Resource (ANR) Policy (2017 – 2026). It is primarily focusing on the Natural Resources sub-sector, aiming to adequately sharpen the policy guidelines for decision making and implementation. Agriculture and natural resources are inseparable, and this policy is by no means an attempt to divorce the two as a sector. It recognizes the crucial links; and is grounded in the country‟s national development and poverty reduction frameworks. The policy was developed through participatory and consultative processes (from national level to the grassroots) involving a variety of stakeholders from the public, non-governmental, civil society and private sectors. 

The policy provides the framework for our overall direction in the next 10 years, and gives an impetus to focus efforts on the ANR sector, with a wider view and intent of contributing towards sector learning and practice. It sets out comprehensive and crosscutting policy directions, drawing on all sectors of the economy in a spirit of partnership and collaboration. The policy is grounded in the country‟s national development and poverty reduction frameworks, including the Government of The Gambia‟s Vision 2020 and the 2012-2015 Programme for Accelerated Growth and Employment (PAGE). It focuses on building both the capabilities of the citizens and the capacities of the sub-sectors to address critical needs of resource-users, which ranks very high in government‟s development agenda. It sets in place enhanced institutional arrangements for coordination and mainstreaming, and outlines a new integrated approach to resource mobilization and management, focusing attention on key sector priorities.   

The policy provides the framework for our overall direction in the next 10 years, and gives an impetus to focus efforts on the ANR sector, with a wider view and intent of contributing towards sector learning and practice. It sets out comprehensive and crosscutting policy directions, drawing on all sectors of the economy in a spirit of partnership and collaboration. The policy is grounded in the country‟s national development and poverty reduction frameworks, including the Government of The Gambia‟s Vision 2020 and the 2012-2015 Programme for Accelerated Growth and Employment (PAGE). It focuses on building both the capabilities of the citizens and the capacities of the sub-sectors to address critical needs of resource-users, which ranks very high in government‟s development agenda. It sets in place enhanced institutional arrangements for coordination and mainstreaming, and outlines a new integrated approach to resource mobilization and management, focusing attention on key sector priorities.

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