Executive Director of the National Disaster Management in The Gambia, Sanna Dahaba, has received a donation of eight desktop computers, eight printers, and two projectors from ECOWAS to help in data collection.
Dahaba said that the donations showed ECOWAS was taking crucial steps to systematically enhance disaster resilience in the region through collective actions to prevent, prepare for and reduce risks of natural and man-made disasters.
‘All processes relating to the improvement of the governance systems and operational capacity of disaster response institutions in the country will no doubt breed efficiency in the overall national disaster management mechanism’, he said, calling on other partners and stakeholders to emulate ECOWAS.
Permanent representative of ECOWAS in The Gambia, Vabah Gayflor, says the regional body hopes the equipment will really go a long way in helping the work of NDMA.
She noted that If they work together in a collaborative and constructive way, they will tackle some of their challenges.
‘We are pleased that we are finally going to deliver, unfortunately the giant photocopier couldn’t come but it is expected to be arriving’, Mrs Gayflor said.
Director at Regional Integration Ministry of Trade, Yahya Samateh, said that the donation of equipment was timely given the disaster situation in the country.
He said: ‘This equipment will strengthen disaster risk management and data collection which is going to help NDMA in terms of collecting information because the equipment provided here is to help them in terms of data collection that will help in informed decision-making policies’.
Source: Foroyaa
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