By Adama Makasuba

Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund (ATJLF) has commenced a two day national consultative meeting on transitional justice for different professional institutions in The Gambia.

The meeting aims to identify and scope out potential ideas for funding in the Gambia, collect and collate information of the past and ongoing civil society initiatives on transitional justice issues and identify needs and gaps on transitional justice issues in the Gambia.

ATJLF- is implementing a 3 years funded projects and countries benefitting from the project include The Gambia, Ivory Coast, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Ghana.

And it brought together various civil society organisations, lawyers, media practitioners, researchers, nongovernmental organisations, and development institutions.

Africa Transitional Justice Legacy with its headquarters in Accra- Ghana seeks to support community-base supervisor led transitional justice projects and provide transformative and impactful interventions in transitional justice.

The Institution’s also aims to rebuild communities and reactivate survivor agency in transitional justice processes in West Africa.

Meanwhile, Makmid Kamara, an official from ATJLF presentation was centred on the challenges of transitional Justice Issues in the Gambia.

And as he engaged participants, some blamed the government of vesting all powers on it while some lambasted the former regime of weakening the civil society in the country.

However, a participant lays his blame on people attending series of training without imparting the knowledge to their colleagues at their various offices.