MoYS Leadership Engages National Assembly Select Committee on Youth and Sports
The Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports, Bakary Y.
The Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports, Bakary Y.
The Gambia Vovinam Viet Vo Dao Association today paid a courtesy call on the Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports at his office in Banjul, where they presented certificates and medals in recognition of the Ministry
The Action Aid International the Gambia (AAITG) in collaboration with the Department of Youth and Sports (DoYS), Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) has conducted the distribution and installation of equipment earmark
The Honorable Minister of Youth and Sports, Bakary Y. Badjie, officially opened a two-day capacity-building training on Financial Reporting and Budget Analysis for 20 sports journalists.
Female staff of Ministry of Youth & Sports Friday joined the Ministry of Gender, Children & Social Welfare to celebrate International Women’s Day 2025 under the theme “For All Women and Girls: Rights, Equity,
The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS) is a Key Component of the Government of The Republic of The Gambia that is bestowed with the responsibility to coordinate, facilitate and ensure the development of youth and sports in the country. It provides the Policy direction (Youth and Sports Policies) for the smooth implementation of youth and sports activities and programmes throughout the country. The Gambia’s youth constitute over 60%of the population which necessitates the need for their effective mainstreaming and assuming center of focus to drive socio-economic change and national development. The ultimate goal of the policy is to function as a guide for the MOYS and its partners to ensure that investment in youth takes place across all sectors and in all policies and programmes..
The Ministry is responsible for policy evolution and overall coordination of the activities of youth and sports, while implementation is carried out through its six(6) satellite institutions which are Department of Planning and Programmes (DOPP), National Youth Service Scheme (NYSS), President’s International Award (PIA), National Youth Council (NYC), National Sports Council (NSC), National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI) and the Independence Stadium and Friendship Hotel.
Read MoreTo deliver excellence in youth and sports development by ensuring that youths are guided towards entrepreneurship, employability, leadership and encourage mass participation in sports and exercise for well being.
To be perceived as the centre/platform for empowering youth as effective aggregates in national development and for excellence in sports that generates value.