Brikama

Brikama is one of The Gambia’s main inland urban centres and an important focus of growth beyond the most constrained coastal parts of Greater Banjul. As population and housing expand, the city’s role depends increasingly on reliable water, sanitation, roads and connections to the wider metropolitan economy.

The new Gambia Water and Sanitation Project includes infrastructure for the Greater Banjul Area centred on new water-production capacity near Brikama, while national climate policy argues that future urban expansion should move inland in a more planned and resilient way. Brikama is therefore strategically placed within the country’s next phase of urbanisation. Its challenge is to ensure that new development is accompanied by services and transport from the outset, rather than allowing infrastructure to follow only after rapid settlement growth.