The Gambia's Five-Year Plan aims to slow down rapid population growth by educating parents, providing family planning services, and implementing sector-specific actions. The plan projects a 2.6% annual population increase until 2000, leading to environmental challenges like desertification. To address this, the plan focuses on reducing mortality and fertility rates, controlling immigration, and promoting family planning. Specific actions include strengthening population planning, educating communities, introducing primary healthcare in rural areas, and raising public awareness about population issues.