Joint Progress Report on the Agenda for Change
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The Republic of Sierra Leone Joint Progress Report on the Agenda for Change January 2009-June 2010 Stability - Opportunity - Growth ‘It’s Time’ 05 September 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE.......................................................................................................................... 5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 6 CHAPTER ONE: THE PRECONDITIONS................................................................ 13 1.1 Peace, Security and Governance......................................................................................... 13 Peace and Security...................................................................................................... 13 Public Sector Management Reform............................................................................ 18 The Decentralisation Process...................................................................................... 19 Human Rights............................................................................................................. 21 1.2 Sustaining Macroeconomic Stability.................................................................................. 24 1.3 Growing the Private Sector................................................................................................. 26 Private Sector Development ....................................................................................... 26 Competitiveness.......................................................................................................... 29 Tourism....................................................................................................................... 30 1.4 Efficient Management of Natural Resources..................................................................... 31 The Mining Sector...................................................................................................... 31 The Environment ........................................................................................................ 32 CHAPTER TWO: ENERGY......................................................................................... 36 2.1 Energy Sources ................................................................................................................... 36 2.2 Energy Transmission .......................................................................................................... 37 2.3 Governance of Energy Sector ............................................................................................. 38 CHAPTER THREE: TRANSPORTATION................................................................ 39 3.1 Road Network ..................................................................................................................... 39 3.2 Airport................................................................................................................................. 41 3.3 Seaport ................................................................................................................................ 42 CHAPTER FOUR: PRODUCTIVE SECTORS.......................................................... 44 4.1 Agriculture .......................................................................................................................... 44 Crop Production.......................................................................................................... 47 Livestock Production.................................................................................................. 50 Agricultural Export Revenue...................................................................................... 50 4.2 Marine Resources................................................................................................................ 51 Fisheries Surveillance Mechanism ............................................................................. 51 Lifting the Export Ban on Fish to the EU Market ...................................................... 54 Improving Infrastructure and Support Services for Commercial Fishing .................. 54 Capacity Strengthening of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources ............. 55 Supporting Artisanal Fishery Development ............................................................... 56 CHAPTER FIVE: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT .......................................................... 58 5.1 Junior Education ................................................................................................................. 58 5.2 Health Care ......................................................................................................................... 60 Free Health Care Initiative ......................................................................................... 62 HIV/AIDS................................................................................................................... 64 5.3 Water and Sanitation........................................................................................................... 65 5.4 Social Protection ................................................................................................................. 67 5.5 Gender................................................................................................................................. 69 CHAPTER SIX: RESPONSES TO MAJOR RISKS .................................................. 72 6.1 Corruption........................................................................................................................... 72 2 Capacity Building....................................................................................................... 72 Outreach and Education.............................................................................................. 74 6.2 Illicit Drugs ......................................................................................................................... 76 The Joint Drug Interdiction Task Force ..................................................................... 76 The Transnational Organised Crime Unit .................................................................. 77 6.3 Youth Unemployment......................................................................................................... 78 New Youth Employment Strategy.............................................................................. 80 Skills Training ............................................................................................................ 81 YES Agricultural Component .................................................................................... 82 YES Private Sector Component ................................................................................. 83 ACRONYMS................................................................................................................... 85 Annex I: Matrix of sectors showing support from the International Community ... 86 Annex II: Committed (USD), Disbursed (USD) by Donor Agency in 2009............... 88 Annex III: Aid Disbursed (USD) by Sector in 2009.................................................... 89 Annex IV: The Joint Communiqué............................................................................... 90 Annex V: Overview of Progress in Decentralization................................................... 95 Annex VI: The Exchange Rate ...................................................................................... 98 Annex VII: Inflationary Trends .................................................................................... 99 Annex VIII: Selected Economic and Financial Indicators, 2005-2009 .................... 100 Annex IX: Stock of External Debt............................................................................... 102 Annex X: Report on SLA achievements since 2007................................................... 103 3 Foreword by H.E. the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma 4 PREFACE The Peacebuilding Commission High-level Special Session on Sierra Leone that took place on 10 June 2009 welcomed the Agenda for Change noting that it was a robust national framework for growth, economic development and peace consolidation. The Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) subsequently aligned its future engagement with Sierra Leone to the Agenda for Change as the national peacebuilding strategy for Sierra Leone . The PBC called on its member States, and all development partners of Sierra Leone, to realign their respective assistance programmes and strategies to the Agenda for Change. This message was reinforced in November 2009 during the Consultative Group Conference in London. It was further agreed at the PBC that there would be reviews of the progress that the Government of Sierra Leone has made in implementing its Agenda for Change and also how the international community has been able to assist in the achievement of the country’s goals in the Agenda for Change . This was discussed in Freetown at the Development Partners’ Committee meeting on 20 May 2010. As a result the Government, with its international development partners, agreed to prepare Progress Reports on the Agenda for Change for submission to the PBC. This is the first such Progress Report. Information for this report was collected through the Development Assistance Co-ordination Office and the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit that are located