Details of projects funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) in Sierra Leone from 2004 onwards can be found on the DFID website at:
http://projects.dfid.gov.uk/
Projects from the beginning of 2000 until mid-2004 are provided in the following table with individual commitment figures. Precise expenditure figures could be extracted from historic data only at disproportionate cost.
Project title Start date Commitment (£) Budget Support for Government of Sierra Leone 2000 26 January 2000 5,500,000 Police: Training for Public Order Activities 1 February 2000 650,000 Media project with Government of Sierra Leone: Redesign Team 1 February 2000 11,000 Budget Support and debt relief—2000-01 1 March 2000 24,555,000 Short wave transmitter: Peace Building 1 March 2000 127,000 Budget Support 2000—Technical Cooperation Component 1 March 2000 41,000 Primary Health Care, Bo District 25 April 2000 632,000 Government of Sierra Leone Budget Planning 26 May 2000 303,000 Post Peace Radio Equipment 30 May 2000 256,000 Campaign for Good Governance 30 May 2000 195,000 Emergency Seeds and Tools Assistance 31 May 2000 487,000 Humanitarian Assistance to the Sierra Leone Police Force 31 May 2000 350,000 Police Project Community Safety 6 Year programme 1 June 2000 27,148,000 Water, Sanitation and Shelter 27 July 2000 190,000 Integrated Community Environment and Agriculture project 4 September 2000 85,000 National Workshop Emergency Watsan and Shelter Response CARE INTERNATIONAL 11 September 2000 50,000 Newly Displaced people 1 October 2000 302,000 Emergency Healthcare Response Programme 9 October 2000 291,000 Sierra Leone Anti Corruption Commission Project: 8 Year Project 1 November 2000 5,545,000 UK/EL) engineering Technical Support 1 November 2000 500,000 Government of Sierra Leone: Medium Term Expenditure Framework 1 November 2000 87,000 Refurbishment MoD HQ Paramount Hotel Technical Cooperation 29 November 2000 100,000 ICRC Sierra Leone Programme 21 December 2000 2,000,000 Conciliation Resources 31 January 2001 76,000 Social Development coordinator 1 February 2001 71,000 Support to Demobilisation Process 98 1 February 2001 60,000 Government Assistance Programme: British Council Project 13 February 2001 1,277,000 Budget Bureau—Stuart Kane 26 February 2001 60,000 Community Development Initiative Pujehun: 5 Year project 1 March 2001 14,400,000 Transition to Development: Refugee camps water/Sanitation 1 March 2001 850,000 Refurbishment Ministry of Defence HQ Paramount Hotel 14 March 2001 1,024,000 UK Contribution UNICEF 30 March 2001 1,000,000 Adult literacy training 30 March 2001 4,000 Technical assistance to National Commission-Reconstruction Rehabilitation Reintegration 1 April 2001 290,000 International Medical Corps: health care in Disarmament Demobilisation Reintegration centres 1 April 2001 150,000 Debt Recording and Management system project 1 April 2001 8,000 Mercy Ships: New Steps 20 April 2001 111,000 Medical Research Centre Tonkolili 26 April 2001 1,195,000 Media Development Project: Training 21 May 2001 800,000 Support to Ferry 29 May 2001 10,000 Assist Nat Commission Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration 1 June 2001 45,000 Budget Support to Gov of Sierra Leone 2001-04 1 August 2001 30,000,000 Governance Reform Secretariat Phase 1: 7 Year Programme 8 August 2001 4,050,000 Strategy for the diamond producing areas 21 August 2001 440,000 World Bank Country Profile 28 November 2001 19,000 Budget support to Gov of Sierra Leone 2001-2004 19 February 2002 400,000 Second Governance and Corruption Survey 13 March 2002 155,000 UNICEF Water/sanitation 26 March 2002 500,000 ICRC Resettlement, Internally Displaced Peoples 26 March 2002 500,000 WHO—Health sector, Internally Displaced People Needs 26 March 2002 100,000 Post Flood Seed Distribution 10 April 2002 75,000 Sierra Leone: UNDP: Junior Programme Officer 22 April 2002 194,000 GTZ: ReAct: Programme in Kono and Kailahun: 3 Year project 31 May 2002 3,350,000 Promoting Peace, Security and Stability in Sierra Leone 1 June 2002 747,000 Chiefdom Governance Review 26 June 2002 45,000 Support to Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys 2 July 2002 290,000 Merlin Medical Research Centre 29 August 2002 50,000 Social Development 19 September 2002 40,000 Establishing access to emergency primary health Merlin Kono 1 October 2002 563,000 Civil Society Strategy 1 October 2002 103,000 Internally Displaced People Resettlement Programme 1 October 2002 50,000 CARE: Food Security Rights-Based Approach 1 November 2002 232,000 Social Development Adviser FREETOWN 20 November 2002 70,000 Decentralisation & Local Government 1 December 2002 500,000 100% Debt Relief for Sierra Leone to UK's ECGD 1 January 2003 500,000 Sexual Assault. Referral. Centres. (SARC) 4 February 2003 921,000 Operation PEBU: Housing and sanitation: 5 year project 1 March 2003 4,000,000 Liberian and Ivorian Refugees 20 March 2003 600,000 ICRC APPEAL 2003 Sierra Leone 20 March 2003 500,000 Care of Liberian Refugees 20 March 2003 500,000 Control of Vaccine Preventable Diseases 20 Mar 2003 400,000 Improve Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper 31 March 2003 1,362,000 Local Government Elections 1 June 2003 4,100,000 Phase V Health Care Tonkolili 11 July 2003 423,000 Support of Civil Society Good Governance and Human Rights 22 August 2003 741,000 Judges and Prosecutor 1 October 2003 350,000 Investment Environment 19 January 2004 23,000 Support to Improved Services 1 March 2004 50,000 UNICEF Malaria Prevention 17 March 2004 400,000 UNICEF Immunisation Programme 18 March 2004 500,000 UNHCR Assistance to Liberian Refugees 18 March 2004 400,000 Civil and Political Rights 19 March 2004 350,000 ICRC APPEAL 2004 Sierra Leone 19 March 2004 200,000 Oxfam GB's Women in Leadership 29 March 2004 171,000 Youth Empowerment Programme: 5 Year programme 1 April 2004 1,159,000 Merlin Lassa Emergency Funds 13 May 2004 103,000 Community Development Programme 1 June 2004 111,000
We are providing £16 million over three years specifically to improve the reproductive health of women in Sierra Leone.
In Sierra Leone the Department for International Development (DFID) has developed a Gender Action Plan to track its performance on a quarterly basis. The action plan has five key gender indicators, including the establishment of an informed public debate on female genital mutilation. We have been working closely with the World Bank, EU and African Development Bank to promote this discussion along with improving our joint work on gender issues more broadly. DFID has also collaborated with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to organise a forum with civil society counterparts on female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone.
The Department for International Development (DFID) has not provided direct financial support to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs (MSWGCA) in the last 12 months. DFID is supporting the International Rescue Committee UK (IRC UK) which is working closely with MSWGCA to implement the 2007 Gender Acts in Sierra Leone. Over the last 12 months IRC has spent £8,000 in UK aid on activities in direct support of the Ministry. As a condition of receiving assistance all NGOs including IRC have to submit annual audited statements as well as quarterly financial and reports.