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To learn more about cookies, click here. Where We Work Sierra Leone. The World Bank in Sierra Leone The World Bank works closely with development partners to support Sierra Leone in fighting poverty, promoting economic development and improving living standards.
Sierra Leone Overview. Recent Developments Headline inflation fell to 8. Development Challenges Until the outbreak of Ebola in , Sierra Leone was seeking to attain middle-income status by , but the country still carries its post-conflict attributes of high youth unemployment, corruption, and weak governance.
Last Updated: Oct 27, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency MIGA MIGA recognizes the heightened perception of political risk and in particular the prevailing fragilities alongside increased interest in foreign investment in the country. What's New.
In Depth. Oct 06, Additional Resources. Country Office Contacts. Main Office Contact. For general information and inquiries. For project-related issues and complaints. The development of an interactive education data visualization platform prototype is an important first component in enabling better decisions to be made for school children.
The prototype allows decision makers at the Ministry to access data from multiple sources that they can filter, visualize, and learn from. For DSTI, this is a first step towards having a fully integrated education analytics platform that will include data dashboards and customized user-defined interfaces; for UNICEF, framed within a larger initiative called Project Connect around mapping schools and connectivity, this is another step towards providing quality education to children in Sierra Leone.
UNICEF is exploring opportunities to generate insights using machine learning based on this platform. Machine learning techniques may also help the Government to evaluate which parts of the country will require more investment, and in which area. This could include forecasts on maintenance costs, teacher allocation, and textbook distribution among others. Drones can rapidly deliver supplies like vaccines or blood to inaccessible areas quickly; capture images of areas affected by natural disasters; and deliver communications connectivity.
These solutions could provide urgent services to women and children in Sierra Leone. Poor housing and health, high infant and maternal mortality, high illiteracy, limited access to clean water and very low incomes are also commonplace, especially among woman-headed households, landless young people, and small-scale farmers.
As a result productivity is low. Improving agriculture is the priority for reducing poverty. It contributed 59 per cent of GDP in and employs 62 per cent of the labour force. Farmers need better access to land, credit, inputs and technologies. IFAD supported the government in its fight against the Ebola outbreak and during the aftermath. About 26 per cent of people in Sierra Leone are food-insecure and cannot afford a basic diet, while 75 per cent live in poverty.
Sierra Leone. Country Facts About 26 per cent of people in Sierra Leone are food-insecure and cannot afford a basic diet, while 75 per cent live in poverty. Only five per cent of farmers are believed to have access to financial services. Country documents. Related Assets. Expert-Country-Highrise no delete. Ann Turinayo Country Director a.
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