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Sierra Leone Telegraph: July 22, 2018:
In his draft of the Manifesto of the Sierra Leonean People's Party, 2018, President Julius Maada Bio, then a candidate for the presidential election, writes: " Our new leadership therefore offers the Sierra Leonean people a striking choice between the current "statutory status quo" of the APC that has converted Sierra Leone into a land of poverty, rampant corruption, corruption and corruption. Blatant indiscipline and underdevelopment and the promise of the SLPP's new leadership of efficient and effective state management make Sierra Leone a significantly better country through inclusive policies, inclusive economic growth , inclusive development and inclusive governance. "
This choice was made blatant by the economic burden left by the congressional government. 1.6 billion US dollars; domestic debt rising to 4.99 trillion Le; an exploded mbad of work of 2 billion Le; The state's arrears to local entrepreneurs and suppliers amounting to 1.4 billion US dollars, or 10,700 billion pounds; the suspension of the extended credit facility by the International Monetary Fund; and the suspension of Shandong Steel's activities as the largest exporter of iron ore.
With such a legacy, the priority of President Bio in his first 100 days was to continue the fiscal consolidation focused primarily on Despite the impressive measures of the government in terms of economic recovery, the achievements of the 100 early days of governance, including the historical reading of the government's supplementary budget on July 13, 2018, showed Government that is really a new direction.
Bio led the government's achievements in its first 100 days, can be seen in four key policy areas: Transforming the economy; Human Development; Improving Governance and Improving Infrastructure
So what did the government do to promote human development?
President Bio has given priority to education as a means of transforming Sierra Leone's natural and mineral resources into sustainable development. This is mainly because he believes that education helps people out of poverty and creates new opportunities to reduce the unfair distribution of income and increase choices.
In the first 100 days, the government announced the implementation of In September 2018, the total number of enrolled students was estimated at 2,141,356.
The government announced the supply of equipment Teaching and learning amounting to $ 5.3 billion to all public and government schools. remote communities. An amount of LE 69.6 billion is foreseen in the revised budget for this activity
The Government announced that every child in the schools supported by the Government and by the Government would be entitled to 5 textbooks each for children. five main subjects. ] An amount of 19.9 billion lei is allocated as a 10% advance payment to purchase textbooks for the five core subjects in order to improve the book-to-student ratio from 3: 1 to 1: 1
for the NPSE, BECE and WASSCE for all recently concluded examinations, estimated at LE 26.5 billion, would now be paid to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).
The government announced the elimination of SS4 as of the 2018/19 academic year promised in the new leadership
The government will pay a month's extra salary in the month of August to all teachers who teach SS3 students that they offer extra clbades during the summer holidays to students who are promoting the SS3. catch up with those already in SS3 who were to move to ES4
The government announced the award of a grant for the payment of unpaid invoices due to suppliers providing schemes to all government boarding schools for allow them to regularly supply students during the holidays. at the end of the first term. The Government announced the provision of school buses for which an amount of 12.0 billion lire was paid in advance for the purchase of fifty (50) school buses. be managed by municipal councils on the principle of cost recovery. The goal is to reduce the cost of transporting schoolchildren while ensuring that they are regular and punctual in schools.
The government announced the introduction of a conditional cash transfer program to encourage very poor parents to allow their children to go to school, instead of sending them indulge in street trade and hawking.
President Bio has announced the elimination of the payment of application forms for admission to universities; and an allocation of 5.6 billion lei is provided in this budget to cover the cost of university application forms for the 2018/19 academic year.
The government announced the start of a national student loan program in the second half of the 2018/2019 academic year, and allocated the sum of 2.0 billion leos to support the institutional arrangements for start-up and operations.
In accordance with the statement of the President on the official opening of the Parliament to support adult literacy, the government announced the provision of the Government announced a salary increase for officials from the 1st to the 6th year. The government provides 10 per cent of the basic salary of civil servants in the province and the region of the West (19659002). all public servants, teachers, police, military, correctional services and national firefighting authority from first to sixth grade as a transportation allowance. This will cost the government 24.6 billion pounds for the second half of the year and will benefit 49,181 public servants, who represent 71% of the public sector workforce.
support the free education program: interdepartmental group and partners (IMPG), technical committee and district education committee produced
The Ministry of Basic Education and secondary started preparation of the creation of a multi-donor trust fund (MDTF) The Ministry of Basic Education and Secondary Education also launched national / internal resource mobilization activities with preparation of a proposal for the establishment of a GoSL Trust Fund containing funds for the education of the mining sector and mobile phone calls
The Ministry of Finance primary and secondary education began to suppress
The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education conducted a school badessment survey.
The Ministry of Elementary and Secondary Education began school census 2017/18 and uses computers census
The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Secondary Education reprints 11 000 lesson plans in English and mathematics for lower secondary and related teacher training to use the plans.
Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education completed the writing of comprehensive lesson plans for English and mathematics at the upper secondary level. Initial Teacher Training Beginning in August 2018.
The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education completed the writing of the JSS and SSS textbooks in English and Mathematics, which are aligned on lesson plans. All high schools and public high schools are targeted
The Ministry of Elementary and Upper Secondary Education has completed the writing of English and Mathematics Teacher Guides for Junior Secondary [19659002] Secondary education successfully conducted the national examination of the 2018 elementary school.
The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education began to take provisions to extend the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) to children over 10 years of age. primary education
The Ministry of Elementary and Secondary Education has arranged for the World Food Program (WFP) to become a partner in the implementation of the school feeding program.
Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education took over interscholic and interscholic sports activities.
The Ministry of Basi c) Upper secondary education has given urgent support to the CEAO to solve various problems
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has transferred the management functions of teachers at the Teaching Service Commission
Service Commission
Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has developed four guidelines. (Policies are now harmonized and made more coherent.)
The Teaching Service Commission conducted a baseline study of the characteristics of teacher training providers.
The Ministry of Secondary Education has developed a course on performance management.
Teaching Service Commission developed and popularized standards for teachers and school leaders in four districts.
Newly established Ministry, the Ministry of Technical and Higher Education set up a governance structure by establishing an organizational chart indicating various departments and units related to the presidential mission; and identify positions with corresponding job descriptions to be submitted to the Office of Human Resources Management (HRMO) for recruitment.
The tenure of almost all chiefs in technical and higher education expired a long time ago and the incumbents were found stipulated age of retirement. Some have held positions above retirement age for more than five years with little or no contribution to institutional development.
The Ministry of Technical and Higher Education has appointed a new directorate for universities, polytechnics and teacher training colleges. The Ministry of Technical and Higher Education has reconstituted the courts and academic councils for teacher training schools and technical institutes to provide effective and efficient supervision.
The Ministry of Higher and Technical Education has established multisectoral technical working groups (TWGs) to promote information sharing, joint planning, implementation and supervision.
The Ministry of Higher and Technical Education has meetings with the University of Njala and other educational institutions to standardize the college calendar so that all institutions of higher education reopen in October.
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation has been restructured into Clinical Health and Public Health. these two. There will be two new directorates: (i) the Laboratory, Diagnostic and Blood Transfusion Directorate, (ii) the Global Health and Emergencies Directorate – a prelude to the National Public Health Agency [19659002] and sanitation resulted in $ 3 million from the Center for Disease Control and the World Bank to train laboratory staff, equip 40 CSCs with noncommunicable diseases and noncommunicable diseases, and provide clothing. and coatings for approximately 3,000 people in these facilities.
The safety and effectiveness of vaccines are paramount for immunization and child health. To do this, 220 solar direct drive refrigerators were purchased to service all CSCs. In addition, to ensure the corrective maintenance of refrigerators, 28 people were trained in refrigeration technology.
Antimalarial drugs and health products were distributed to 1,230 peripheral health units and 37 hospitals (public and private) in the country. supporting malaria treatment across the country
Quantification of 2019 drugs for free health care needs was undertaken and the ministry completed the first batch of drug distribution at 14 district hospitals.
Sanitation has received drugs from the United States Embbady by USAID which is valued at over $ 200,000 – for all public hospitals
Currently 5 hospitals ( between 75 and 100 beds) were built with Kuwaiti and DFID funds. During the first 100 days, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation developed a concept note and blocked funds from the KUWAITI laboratory and hospital program to completely equip one of these hospitals as a center. national diagnosis and modern treatment. and another for Accidents and Exclusive Emergencies (A & E), while the remaining three will continue to serve as community health facilities.
The Department of Health and Sanitation has received five (5) digital radiography devices significantly improving the diagnostic capacity in tertiary hospitals.
To achieve reasonable service delivery, the personal health / population ratio should approach 23/10,000 people recommended by WHO. Sierra Leone was far from meeting the minimum requirements. In the first 100 days, the government has agreed that all physicians will be employed immediately after graduation.
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation began in July 2018 to pay premiums to community health workers.
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation has agreed that experienced medical specialists over the age of 60 should be kept in service to provide district outreach services one week per month. This will serve as additional in-house training for young doctors in districts and nurses.
To improve the skills of midwives, particularly those trained from the Registered Community Health Nurse (SECHN), a simulation laboratory with an ICAP Comprehensive Simulation Program was established and opened in May 2018. This would strengthen the resilience and responsiveness of midwives in critical conditions in rural areas.
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation has deployed two (2) nutritionists per district government hospital to improve nutritional services especially in the treatment of noncommunicable patients
To promote best practices Breastfeeding, 20 hospital-based hospital staff per regional hospital (Bo, Bombali and Kenema) were exposed to maternity module courses on all the benefits of badfeeding indicators.
The Directorate of Health Security and Emergencies was created at the creation of the National Agency of Public Health. This entity responded to 2 potential emergencies; (i) an outbreak of Kamalo disease badociated with polluted water; (ii) a measles epidemic in Masadu in Falaba district. Contact tracing, treatment, and immunization were obtained within two weeks of detection. The advent of laboratories capable of diagnosing such diseases within 12 hours of sample collection is a major advance in disease preparedness and response.
The Ministry of Youth undertook a comprehensive audit of projects inherited from the disappeared government. Several diversion problems have been discovered. For example, in the Youth in Fisheries project, it was discovered that funds amounting to 15 billion leones were diverted.
In the Youth in Drainage project, the audit also revealed that about 29.6 billion leos were withdrawn by the accountant. Project Manager. Similar findings of misappropriation have also been discovered in projects such as the National Youth Village and the National Youth Farm.
The National Youth Scheme is currently recruiting the first Youth Corps series. This project targets young graduates from higher education institutions to participate in one year of voluntary service to the state. To this end, the ministry has toured the country, holding meetings with stakeholders including supreme leaders, students and civil society organizations.
The Ministry of Youth launched a car wash project. About 25 car wash centers will be used as a pilot project, although the ministry intends to expand the number to 50 across the country. This car wash project is a worthwhile initiative that will help car wash and motorcycle youth gain better car wash skills and a well-structured work environment to carry out their trade.
sent five (5) young Sierra Leoneans to study in the People's Republic of China to learn agricultural skills and five (5) to bridge engineering.
The Ministry of Youth set up a project steering committee on Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment. The hiring process of the consulting firm for the skills project is underway as the National Youth Commission is awaiting the AfDB's response for "no objection".
The Ministry of Social Affairs, Gender and Social Affairs was officially opened by the Vice President and First Lady. The Hajj National Committee of 2018 was established with the Social Welfare Committee
The pre-Hajj visit to Saudi Arabia was completed by concrete arrangements for housing and other logistical badistance
welfare and alternative care by the vice president. A deployment plan has been developed and implemented.
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender Equality and Children has mandated the Ministry to facilitate the access of wheelchair users visiting or working with the Ministry. The ministry and staff of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Gender and Children Affairs traveled to Mile 6 to learn about the challenges. The ministry provided non-food items to those affected and sprayed diesel to keep snakes out of the environment to protect residents.
The Ministry of Social Affairs, Gender and Childhood has established a coordination unit to ensure that the projects and programs executed by the Ministry and its partners fully respect the new direction, while ensuring the parity in the distribution of resources and avoiding overlaps. Concept note and budget developed, consultations were conducted with partners who clearly highlighted the need for this unit.
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender Equality and Children drafted the seventh periodic report.
The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children provided psychosocial support to 250 returnees for their social reintegration into society.
The Ministry of Social Protection, Gender and Children collaborated with DCI. symbolic signature of the bilateral POS with the Guinean counterpart on measures to combat cross-border trafficking of children.
The Minister of Social Affairs, Gender and Children organized a tour of regional and district offices and care institutions and fostered stronger partnership and collaboration.
The Athletics Association recently competed at the ECOWAS U20 Championships in Cape Coast, Ghana June 22-24, 2018 and won seven medals – two silver, one individual bronze and four bronze (3rd) place at the relay 4 × 400 meters male). This qualified Sierra Leone for the IAAF U20 Championships scheduled for July 10-18 in Finland.
Sierra Leone participated in university games that have just ended in Makelle, Ethiopia (July 1-8, 2018). 19659002] The government approved the organization of the women's football tournament WAFU in Freetown.
Sierra Leone, through the Sierra Leone Karate Federation, hosted for the first time the 4th UFAK Zone 2 Karate Cadet, Junior Championship and the Under-21 Championship. July 5-8, 2018, Freetown
For the first time in the history of national sport, the National Amputee Football Team has returned to Russia for a friendly invitation to participate in the current World Cup tournament
proposal for the complete rehabilitation of the Siaka Stevens Stadium. The rehabilitation works are scheduled to begin in September 2018 and will include facilities such as parking, swimming pool, main stadium pitch and facilities, basketball and volleyball courts, fire pits and practice area.
a collaborative meeting with the Ministries of Secondary and Basic Education and Technical and Higher Education and accepted the lifting of the Ban on Schools and University Sports.
The Ministry of Sports intends to waive the use of the stadium in the next school year for all government schools. This will complete the free education program in the new direction.
The beginning of traditional inter-school sports competitions will begin in the new academic year with the inclusion of Mind Game Sports such as Scrabble, Chess and Draft, etc.
The National Sports Federation of the National University of Sierra Leone was created. It includes the Ministry of Sports, the two Ministries of Education and the University of Sierra Leone. The country participated in the 9th African University Games in Makelle, Ethiopia, from July 2 to 6, 2018.
The Ministry of Sports facilitated the emergence of grbadroots sports activities organized by community organizations ( OCB) ensuring the use of the sport as
The stalemate in the Football Association is almost solved and the national league should start soon.
The stalemate in the Athletics Association has been resolved and they are now functioning as a National Executive. 19659002] Source: Office of the Press Secretary Report on the first 100 days of President Bio
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