With a 400,000 $ budget, UNDP Sierra Leone launched a skills training on waste recycling for 150 youths (120 women and 30 men) in 8 slum communities around Freetown.
People donated anything they could afford; from offering their time as builders, to donating their goats, chicken, palm oil, yam and rice.
“This election is the first time that real attention has been paid to inclusive participation. In the past it has just been lip service.”
“We told them an election is the only way to have a real and pure democratic process. People really wanted to listen.”
The United Nations Development Programme provided technical support to the setting up and functioning of the Women’s Situation Room in Sierra Leone.
UNDP Sierra Leone Annual Report 2017
With gratitude to you all our partners, supporters, donors, we gladly share with you an account of UNDP's contribution towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Sierra Leone in 2017.
Sierra Leone's search for justice goes mobile
The mobile 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”.
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From Prisons to Corrections: The United Nations Development Programme promotes institutional reform of the Sierra Leonean Correctional Services.
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About Sierra Leone
7 million
Population
52.9%
Income poverty rate
1,529 USD
GNI per capita
0.420
Human Dev. Index
