Citizenship
Objectives:
- To educate the public on the constitutional provisions of citizenship
- To appreciate the importance of citizenship documents
- To encourage citizens acquire citizenship documents
Content:
- Qualifications for citizenship:
- By birth
- By residence
- By parentage
- Ways of acquiring citizenship:
- By birth
- By naturalization
- By registration
- By marriage
- Citizenship documents:
- Birth certificate
- Identity card
- Passport
- Voter’s card
- Whose citizenship can be deprived?
- Reasons/conditions for deprivation of citizenship
- Restoration of citizenship after renunciation
Knowledge:
- Understanding the requirements for the acquisition of citizenship
- Understand the different ways of being a citizen of the Gambia
- Understanding the requirements for the acquisition of citizenship documents
- Understand that deprivation of citizenship applies to only naturalised citizens
- Understanding how citizenship can be deprived and/or restored
Skills:
- Ability to acquire national citizenship documents
Values:
- Appreciation of the need to acquire citizenship documents
