National Recovery Strategy Sierra Leone 2002 - 2003 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 4. RESTORATION OF THE ECONOMY 48 INFORMATION SHEET 7 MAPS 8 Agriculture and Food-Security 49 Mining 53 INTRODUCTION 9 Infrastructure 54 Monitoring and Coordination 10 Micro-Finance 57 I. RECOVERY POLICY III. DISTRICT INFORMATION 1. COMPONENTS OF RECOVERY 12 EASTERN REGION 60 Government 12 1. Kailahun 60 Civil Society 12 2. Kenema 63 Economy & Infrastructure 13 3. Kono 66 2. CROSS CUTTING ISSUES 14 NORTHERN REGION 69 HIV/AIDS and Preventive Health 14 4. Bombali 69 Youth 14 5. Kambia 72 Gender 15 6. Koinadugu 75 Environment 16 7. Port Loko 78 8. Tonkolili 81 II. PRIORITY AREAS OF SOUTHERN REGION 84 INTERVENTION 9. Bo 84 10. Bonthe 87 11. Moyamba 90 1. CONSOLIDATION OF STATE AUTHORITY 18 12. Pujehun 93 District Administration 18 District/Local Councils 19 WESTERN AREA 96 Sierra Leone Police 20 Courts 21 Prisons 22 IV. FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS Native Administration 23 2. REBUILDING COMMUNITIES 25 SUMMARY OF RECOVERY REQUIREMENTS Resettlement of IDPs & Refugees 26 CONSOLIDATION OF STATE AUTHORITY Reintegration of Ex-Combatants 38 REBUILDING COMMUNITIES Health 31 Water and Sanitation 34 PEACE-BUILDING AND HUMAN RIGHTS Education 36 RESTORATION OF THE ECONOMY Child Protection & Social Services 40 Shelter 43 V. ANNEXES 3. PEACE-BUILDING AND HUMAN RIGHTS 46 GLOSSARY NATIONAL RECOVERY STRATEGY - 3 - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ▪ Deployment of remaining district officials, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY including representatives of line ministries to all With Sierra Leone’s destructive eleven-year conflict districts (by March). formally declared over in January 2002, the country is ▪ Elections of District Councils completed and at last beginning the task of reconstruction, elected District Councils established (by June). reconciliation and consolidation of peace. The challenge is enormous, as are the financial and human 2. Sierra Leone Police capacity constraints faced. However, with security The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) have now deployed to and unhindered access to all parts of the country now all districts in the country, but despite recent enjoyed, government has joined with its international rehabilitation of key infrastructure and retraining and and national partners to make a concerted push re-equipping, their capacity is generally constrained towards recovery. This National Recovery Strategy, by the destruction of most police stations, police based on needs assessments conducted in every posts and barracks throughout the country. A total of district in the country, provides a framework for 700 new officers were recruited into the force in these recovery efforts. 2001-2002 and there are plans to recruit a further 1,000 officers in 2003. While certain vital cross cutting issues such as HIV/AIDS and preventive health, Youth, Gender and the Environment are acknowledged as important, Benchmark for 2003 the overall recovery strategy is broken down into four ▪ Increased SLP strength from the current level of priority areas of intervention: 6,500 to 7,500 (trained, equipped and deployed). 1. Restoration of State Authority; 3. Courts 2. Rebuilding Communities; Despite considerable improvements made during this 3. Peace Building and Human Rights; & year, the extension of the judiciary throughout the 4. Restoration of the Economy. country remains inadequate, held back by lack of court infrastructure, qualified judges, magistrates and In all of the key intervention areas of recovery, court officers. progress made to date is highlighted, target benchmarks to be achieved by the end of 2003 are set Benchmarks for 2003 (unless a different completion date is specified) and ▪ Justices of the Peace appointed for all districts. general strategies for achieving these benchmarks are ▪ Magistrates appointed and functioning Magistrate articulated. Where possible, geographical priorities Courts established in all districts. are also highlighted, and the indicative financial requirements for achieving benchmarks are calculated. 4. Prisons Despite some progress being made this year, the majority of prisons in the country had been either 1. RESTORATION OF STATE AUTHORITY destroyed or had sustained major damage during the last ten years, and substantial rehabilitation of 1. District Administration and Councils facilities is required in all districts across the country. Tangible progress has been made over the past year in the deployment of key district officials; all District Benchmarks for 2003 Officers are now in post and representatives to the ▪ Priority prisons rehabilitated in Kambia, Makeni, District Councils are scheduled to be elected in 2003. Bo and Koidu (by June). Most representatives of line ministries have also ▪ Number of prison officers and personnel returned to the districts, but all local government increased to 1,140, from current level of 790 . officials suffer from inadequate office facilities, logistical and staffing conditions. 5. Native Administration Paramount or Regent (caretaker) Chiefs are now in post in every chiefdom in the country. However, Benchmarks for 2003 despite the rehabilitation of 36 Court Barries to date, NATIONAL RECOVERY STRATEGY - 4 - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY the extensive destruction of related infrastructure However, the severe shortfall outside of Freetown of (including Court Barries and chiefdom lock-ups) technically qualified health staff remains a huge continues to hamper the effectiveness of the native impediment to progress. Average full immunisation administration. coverage of under one-year-olds remains low (34%), and the high maternal mortality rate (1,800/100,000) Benchmarks for 2003 shows no sign of decreasing. Access to primary ▪ Elections completed to fill 63 vacant Paramount health care services (in terms of population per PHU) Chiefs positions (by January). is worst in Kailahun district, followed by Kono, ▪ Training workshops conducted in all chiefdoms Bombali, Koinadugu and then Kambia. for Paramount Chiefs, local court chairmen and chiefdom police (by May). Benchmarks for 2003 ▪ Court Barries and lock-ups rehabilitated in fifty ▪ All Community Health Centers (CHCs) and chiefdoms. Community Health Posts (CHPs) rehabilitated, staffed and equipped appropriately ▪ All CHC staff quarters rehabilitated and equipped. 2. REBUILDING COMMUNITIES ▪ A functional referral hospital in every district. ▪ Increased number of medical doctors serving 1. Resettlement of IDPs and Refugees outside of the Western Area. The Government Resettlement Programme has now ▪ Increased level of full immunization coverage successfully resettled virtually the entire registered (target of 60% national average). IDP caseload (206,000), and over 97,000 returnees. While IDP resettlement is expected to be completed 4. Water and Sanitation in 2002, support interventions will continue in 2003 Sierra Leone suffers from an acute lack of safe to facilitate the resettlement of returning Sierra drinking water sources and sanitation facilities. Leonean refugees. Estimates of access to safe drinking water range from ▪ Benchmarks for 2003 35% to 54% and access to sanitation facilities range ▪ Repatriation and resettlement of at least 50,000 from 15% to 63%. District assessments highlight returnees. Kailahun, Kono, Bombali and Tonkolili districts as ▪ If not achieved in 2002, completion of the having particularly low levels of access. resettlement of the outstanding caseload of 10,000 IDPs. Benchmarks for 2003 ▪ Safe drinking water source provided to an 2. Ex Combatant Reintegration additional 846,000 beneficiaries. Of the 72,490 ex-combatants disarmed and ▪ Sanitation facilities provided to an additional demobilized, 56,351 subsequently registered for 550,000 beneficiaries. reintegration opportunities. Of these, 32,472 ex- combatants (58%) have so far been provided with 5. Education reintegration opportunities. The largest outstanding The introduction in 2000 of free primary school caseloads yet to be serviced are in Kailahun District, education up to Class 6 has continued to stimulate followed by Kono, Bo, Bombali and Pujehun. enrolment levels, and primary school enrolment increased by 20% in the last year to 660,000 pupils. A Benchmark for 2003 substantial gender imbalance remains, however, as ▪ Programmes identified for the remaining shown by the male/female pupil ratio of 156:100, caseload of 23,879 registered ex-combatants. and only 52% of teachers are qualified. In the last three years approximately 472 primary schools and a 3. Health total of 60 secondary schools have been rehabilitated An additional 221 Peripheral Health Units (PHUs) or reconstructed by government and development have been made functional this year, bringing the partners. However, the demands for destroyed or national total of primary healthcare facilities to 631 dilapidated schools to be rebuilt or rehabilitated PHUs, 86% of the pre-war number. District remains enormous, with priority for rebuilding being hospitals are functional in all but two districts. NATIONAL RECOVERY STRATEGY - 5 - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY in Kailahun, followed by Koinadugu, Kono, Port ▪ Basic disability programmes established with Loko and then Kambia districts. extension capacity in each region. ▪ Six drop-in centers set-up and outreach Benchmarks for 2003 services extended to four urban centers ▪ An additional 200 Primary Schools rehabilitated. providing referral services and appropriate ▪ Two secondary schools rehabilitated and at least medical care for survivors of abuse and sexual three functioning per district. violence.