Sierra Leone

The overall objective of the Economic Development Unit is to assist Sierra Leone with policy support, capacity development and technical assistance aimed at fostering robust, equitable growth and well-managed development processes to attain the MDGs.

UNDP’s support to growth and poverty reduction in Sierra Leone has evolved into a comprehensive programme including private sector development, microfinance, agribusiness stimulus and aid coordination.

Dedicated initiatives focus on strategic growth sectors like minerals, tourism and high potential cash crops like ginger and cashews.

UNDP also provides analytical support to the Government, feeding into a detailed policy dialogue as well as the overarching process of development planning. Apart from critical support to the preparation of the National Recovery Strategy (2003-2005,) as well as both the first (2005-2007) and (2008-2012) Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), this has included analysis on emerging issues such as mitigating the impact of the global financial crisis and managing the inflow of foreign remittances.

UNDP Sierra Leone also responds to the organisation’s core mandate of fostering human development and monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by producing flagship knowledge products like the National Human Development Report (NHDR) and MDG Report as well as by building national capacities for tracking and analysing the MDGs.

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