About This Publication
As a developing country, The Gambia’s economy was not spared by the impact of the global
pandemic; Corona virus. The Gambia government had to take swift emergency measures to control
the spread of the virus (in a country that is struggling with a weak health system) by establishing
emergency response fund with more than a billion dalasi already committed to it.
During the early days of covid-19 in The Gambia, I led a team that investigated the spending of
the D500m covid-19 emergency funds with concerning outcomes over the misappropriation of this
fund in a report called “Corona the Gambia and the Millions”. With the not-so-good record of
health sector corruption in the Gambia, the question we asked ourselves at Gambia Participates is;
how do we ensure high level of transparency in the management of these funds during emergency
crisis? Thus, we commissioned this survey to establish how transparent, corruption free and
effective the government’s distribution of the food aid package is.