Lead Canadian partner

Lead developing country partner

Dalhousie University Canadian project director: Dr. Grant Wanzel, Professor, Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Planning Phone number: (902) 494-3972 E-mail address: Grant.wanzel@dal.ca

Gambia Technical Training Institute, The Gambia Developing country project director: Ms. Fatou Lamin Faye, Director Phone number: 011-220-392-841 E-mail address: ffaye76@yahoo.com

Link to The Gambia's national development priorities The Government of The Gambia has set national higher education goals in the fields of community planning, design and construction recognizing the need for the country to develop capacity in planning, construction and maintenance of built facilities for rural and urban settings. Project purpose The project will create a community development-oriented, studio-centered, undergraduate university program, focusing on design-planning and design-construction for The Gambia. It will work with the existing construction sector and several communities to gain broad acceptance of the critical need to use knowledge of nature and culture, such that students, graduates and others create more favourable conditions for the growth of a sustainable built environment. Expected outcomes Expected outcomes include the innovative partnerships between selected communities and the Gambia Technical Training Institute (GTTI); capacity for collaborative peer education models in which communities share expertise and experience; more effective partnerships between GTTI and stakeholders in the planningdesign-construction sector; increased capacity of the sector to assess its education needs and develop programs to address them; and improved capacity of The Gambia's university system, the planning-designconstruction sector and selected communities to create a sustainable built environment. Beneficiaries Project beneficiaries include GTTI faculty and students, stakeholders in the planning-design-construction sector and members of at least four communities in The Gambia. Key activities Key activities include faculty training, curriculum development, student training, community-based projects, sector- and community-based workshops and the establishment and maintenance of baseline information. Key results to date The project is still in its initial stage. To date, three people from the Gambia Technical Training Institute have started their training in Canada. Two pilot community sites have been identified. The first sector-based workshop was delivered in the fall of 2003. CIDA priorities addressed Official development assistance area(s): Universal access to basic infrastructure services (primary) Shelter (secondary)

Sector(s): Housing policy and administrative management (primary) Higher education (secondary) Policy priorities: Private-sector development (secondary) Project value Original CIDA commitment: $749,519 Partners' commitments: $666,044 --------------------------------------------------------------------------A Sustainable Built Environment in The Gambia Canadian partner: Dalhousie University Developing country partner: Gambia Technical Training Institute Project duration: March 2003 - March 2009 Project purpose: The project will create a community development-oriented, studio-centred, undergraduate university program, focusing on design-planning and design-construction for The Gambia. It will work with the existing construction sector and several communities to gain broad acceptance of the critical need to use knowledge of nature and culture, such that students, graduates and others create more favourable conditions for the growth of a sustainable built environment. Key results to date: The project is still in its initial stage. To date, three people from the Gambia Technical Training Institute have started their training in Canada. Two pilot community sites have been identified. The first sector-based workshop was delivered in the fall of 2003.

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