In Kailahun, access to pure water was a serious constraint. Life wasn’t as easy as it once was for Amara.
Kamara thought about a solution to the blackout problem, but couldn’t fix it alone. He teamed up with two colleagues – a hydrological expert and a research assistant.
Youth creativity steals the show in this year’s Social Good Summit (SGS) held on Thursday, October 12 in Bo, Sierra Leone’s second capital.
When the village savings-scheme was introduced in Shaika village six months ago, Seima was among the first to embrace the idea.
The Sierra Leone Judiciary, with UNDP, launched a new Samsung mobile app to fast-track court cases in one of the world’s overstretched judiciaries.
Just more than a month after flooding and a mudslide killed hundreds and displaced thousands, many communities remain steadfast, in affected and high-risk areas around Freetown.
The event welcomed university and high school students to engage, debate, and become Sierra Leone’s sustainable development goal ambassadors.
Human Development Report 2016
In past decades, there has been significant gains in human development levels in almost every country; but millions of people have not benefited from this progress. Who has been left behind and why? The Human Development Report 2016 ’Human Development for Everyone’ looks into these two questions. It recognizes that in every society certain groups are far more likely to suffer disadvantages than others and identifies deep-rooted, and often unmeasured, barriers to development.
Sierra Leone's search for justice goes mobile
The app was developed by the Sierra Leonean technology company, iDT Labs, and funded by the US Department of State, specifically the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs through the UNDP project, “Promoting Transparency in Sierra Leone’s Judiciary”.
Analysis of the Causal and Trigger Factors of the August 2017 Landslide in Freetown
This report provides both technical and social analysis of the triggers and root causes of the 14 August mudslide; and proposes vulnerability reduction recommendations for sustainable landslide risk management – in Sierra Leone, in general, and in Freetown, in particular.
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About Sierra Leone
7 million
Population
77.5%
Poverty rate
$684
GNI per capita
0.413
Human Dev. Index