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Gambia: IBAS Staff Training Ends
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The Daily Observer (Banjul)
20 June 2008
Posted to the web 23 June 2008
Sheriff Barry
The Indigenous Business Advisory Service (IBAS), one of the leading micro-finance institutions in The Gambia, on Thursday, concluded a two day training workshop at its head office in Bakau.
The training, which aimed at equipping the staff with the requiste skills to enhance micro finance service delivery, brought together IBAS staff from all regions across the country.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Demba Bah, the deputy manager of IBAS, who spoke on behalf of the Managing Director, stressed the need for the staff to remember their duties and responsibilities, and to address problems professionally. He however gave a brief background of the institution, stating that IBAS was piloted way back in 1975, and that it was enacted by parliament in 1976.
"The institution was mandated to assist and promote small scale activities including the provision of financial and technical support to small and medium scale businesses as well as to provide extension services like training, consultancy services and counselling," he said.
Mr Bah further highlighted the constrains the institution encountered over the years, citing the lack of resources to encourage and motivate the staff. "We also face the difficulties of recovering our loans from customers and we do give grace period to pay loans," he said. He further revealed that IBAS is also engaged in viable projects that creates employment for the Gambian youths, such as carpentary workshop, welding and fabrications, food processing, retail business, poultry farms, animal husbandry, horticultural gardening and others.
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Mr Bah then urge people to patronise the institution to enable Gambians to realise their dreams.
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