Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Responding to the impacts of COVID-19 in Western and Central Africa, the World Bank has supported the rapid...
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Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
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I want to talk about an area that is little known, often misunderstood, yet promising – what we know about...
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Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Sierra Leone
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Sunday, March 31, 2019
BLOG: Les taux de mortalité infantile et maternelle au Mali sont parmi les plus élevés au monde. Selon l’UNICEF, le Mali se classe au neuvième rang des pays ayant les taux de mortalité infantile les plus élevés. Sur 1 000 bébés nés dans le pays en...
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Africa, Mali, Sierra Leone
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Monday, August 13, 2018
To support many of those hit by the emergency, nearly two thousand affected households have been directly supported with cash to rebuild their lives, delivered through mobile money transfers, funded by UK aid from the British people (also known as DFID...
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Jointly funded by ECOWAS and the Ministry, the project will ensure at least 400 orphans from Western Area and up to 600 from the Provinces get school bags and other school items as well as cash transfer of Le200,000 given to guardians of orphans in...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Deadly mudslides in Sierra Leone’s capital last week has destroyed whole neighbourhoods and left thousands of already vulnerable residents homeless and exposed to disease. CARE, a member agency of the Humanitarian Coalition, will distribute emergency...
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Africa, Sierra Leone, America, Canada
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Monday, August 21, 2017
Women and girls are often disproportionately impacted during times of crises. They have unique health and hygiene needs, and shoulder increased burden of work, caring for children, the sick and the elderly. They are also rendered more vulnerable to...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
UNAIDS, in collaboration with Sierra Leone Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs have on Tuesday 27th June, 2017, commenced a two day workshop on the theme “Conducing HIV and Social Protection Assessment in Sierra Leone.” The HIV and...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab for Africa (J-PAL Africa) are partnering on a programme to promote children’s health in Moyamba district, one of the districts in Sierra Leone most affected by...
Friday, January 6, 2017
Cash transfers to farmers are a very new concept in Sierra Leone but this has been a tried and tested method of poverty reduction for some time now in some countries.
In development circles, the very notion of particular groups living under the...