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INVESTMENT AREAS FOR THE FIVE ENABLERS TO DRIVE THE BIG 5s
Enabler 1: Scaling up efforts to diversify the economy. Delivering a resilient economy for sustainable development requires adequate structural transformation and economic diversification. Sierra Leone’s economy has endured protracted effects from external shocks, like the Ebola epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. This characterisation can largely be attributed to the highly concentrated nature of the country’s economic activities for the generation of state revenue to finance development. In light of this, the Government will continue to work with development partners to scale-up the country’s economic diversification programme. Under this Enabling Area, therefore, the Government will focus on pursuing specific catalytic strategies under the following broad sectoral areas: 1.1 Transforming the tourism sector; 1.2 Strengthening the private sector for trade and sustainable development, effectively implementing the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA); 1.3 Value addition and efficient management of natural resources; and 1.4 Financial inclusion for strengthened rural and informal economies.
Enabler 2: Governance and accountability. Sustained improvement in the general governance landscape of the country is fundamental to maximising the chances of achieving desired development outcomes. This calls for mobilising needed support to ensure effective political administration, build trust in state institutions, instil integrity in service delivery, as well as full enforcement of the rule of law backed by strong security institutions and legislature, judicious use of state resources, and effective decentralisation of governance and service delivery. Under this Enabling Area, therefore, the Government will focus on pursuing specific catalytic strategies under the following broad sectoral areas: 2.1 Political modernisation for consolidating peace and national cohesion; 2.2 Strengthening the fight against corruption and illicit financial flows; 2.3 Public financial management; 2.4 Audit services; 2.5 Inclusive and accountable justice institutions; 2.6 Public trust in state institutions; 2.7 Decentralisation, local governance, and rural development; and 2.8 Security institutions.
Enabler 3: Advancing climate resilience and environmental action. In a world continuously challenged by widespread effects of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and natural disasters, it remains critical that every nation on the earth scale-up investment in this enabling area to save the planet and humanity, and indeed to save itself. It remains critical in the spirit of leaving no one behind, ensuring that human activities are conducted such that both the needs of the present and generations yet unborn are sustainably met.
Under this Enabling Area, therefore, the Government will focus on pursuing specific catalytic strategies under the following broad sectoral areas: 3.1 Building national environmental resilience; 3.2 Scaling up forestry management and wetland conservation; and 3.3 Increasing investment in disaster management and governance.
Also, the workstreams of the presidential initiative on climate change, renewable energy and food security focus on specific policy actions under the following broad sectoral areas: a) Reducing risks and impacts of climate-related disasters; b) Increasing renewable energy in the electricity supply mix, promoting energy use efficiency, and encouraging the transition to clean cooking to reduce demand for fuelwood; and c) 4.3 Bolstering food and nutrition systems by enhancing productivity and green agricultural transformation.
Enabler 4: Gender mainstreaming. Besides the articulation of a specific strategic direction for advancing women’s empowerment within the context of driving Human Capital Development (Big 2), this plan has seen the need to separately treat the issue of gender mainstreaming as a critical and outstanding enabler. This treatment aims at maximising efforts in narrowing the gender gap in critical socioeconomic areas, drawing from the National Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy and Legislation; noting that while tremendous efforts have been made to address gender differential, the state continues to remain widely gender unequal across levels.
Under this Enabling Area, therefore, the Government will focus on pursuing specific catalytic strategies under the following broad sectoral areas: a) Gender and education, economic participation, technology and communication; b) Gender and health, living with disability and sexual and gender-based violence; c) Gender and governance; d) Gender and justice, human rights and peacebuilding; e) Mainstreaming gender into policies, programmes and legal frameworks; and f) Gender and the environment.
Enabler 5: Financing, partnership for implementation & risk management. This enabler directly provides the means of implementing the plan in terms of mobilisation of the required public and private financial resources, ensuring effective management of these resources through enhanced systems for robust project management, having an effective implementation follow-up, reporting and public engagement mechanism, and managing risks to implementation.
Under this Enabling Area, therefore, the Government will focus on pursuing specific catalytic strategies under the following broad areas: 5.1 Cost of the plan and financing gap; 5.2 Implementation of an integrated financing strategy; 5.3 Strengthening external relations and economic diplomacy; 5.4 Implementation arrangement; 4.4 Monitoring, evaluation, performance management and service delivery; 5.5 Strengthening statistical systems; 5.6 Communication for development; and 5.7 Risks and mitigation strategies.
Sierra Leone’s Medium Term National Development Plan 2024 – 2030 (Abridged Version)
A Transformative Acceleration Agenda for Food Security, Human Capital Development and Job Creation
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