Welcome to the NCCE Website

The National Council for Civic (and Human Rights) Education (NCCE) is an independent, non-partisan governmental institution created by the Constitution of the Second Republic of The Gambia (1997), chapter XVII, article 198 (1). The decision to institutionalise a Civic Education Council and Programme in The Gambia was to address weakness of the key elements of the governance structures in order to enable the proposed reform initiative make an impact. Civic Education is considered to have the potentials of promoting the acquisition of knowledge about the role of the individual in providing the welfare of his/her society and the mechanisms, instruments and processes available in their societies.

Civic Education is an important component of the National Governance Programme of The Gambia along with Constitutional Review and Reform of Electoral Systems and Processes, Reform of Parliamentary Structures and Processes, Reform of Legal and Judicial Processes, Public Sector Management and Administrative Reform and Decentralisation and Local Government Reform. NCCE has been chosen as the IEC (Information, Education and Communication) arm of the Governance Programme in The Gambia.

NCCE is neither an activist organisation nor an institution for the defence of victims of human rights abuses. Other institutions, organisations and NGOs exist for these purposes.

NCCE has been created to inform through civic education programmes about human rights, the Gambian Constitution and other matters that affect the Gambian population. The National Council for Civic Education is there to remain as a permanent institution in The Gambia.