Number of children dropping out of school poised to increase, emerging evidence shows NEW YORK, 30 March 2022 – As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, 23 countries – home to around 405 million schoolchildren – are yet to fully open schools, with many schoolchildren at risk of dropping out, according to a new UNICEF report released today. Are children really learning? features country-level data on the impact of...Read More
The Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary School, Dr. David Moinina Sengeh has stated that there is no way the government alone can transform education without the contribution of Non-State Actors. His comment came at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Tuesday, March 29, 2021 “When people talk about non-state actors, we immediately look at private schools, but in a place like Sierra Leone 60% of our schools are...Read More
The Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on Friday, April 1, 2022, effectively commences Sierra Leone’s Validation against the 2019 EITI Standard. In accordance with the new validation model adopted by the EITI Board, the process will assess whether EITI implementation in Sierra Leone is in line with the provisions of the EITI Standard; and whether the process is contributing to Government reforms in the extractive sector. Considering...Read More
Last week, stakeholders made significant progress in the preparation stage of the Freetown Cable Car project through the completion of a due diligence mission by the C40 Cities Finance Facility (CFF) team. Council had previously applied for technical support from the CFF to get the Freetown Cable Car Project ready for financing and to link it to the most suitable financing solutions, according to a statement. Freetown crossed a critical...Read More
