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SLRS Content Management Group

This group is focused on building content for the Sierra Leone Resilience system and Content Management within Sierra Leone

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davidmc foday haddi daramy Hank Rappaport Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald MDMcDonald_me_com
Obilia Kamara Paulshido

Email address for group

slrs_content_management@m.resiliencesystem.org

News: Stakeholders validate Tourism Crisis Recovery planning

The Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the World Bank yesterday held a one day validation workshop on Tourism Crisis Recovery planning at the Miatta Conference Center in Freetown.
The validation exercise attracted several stakeholders from the tourism industry and Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies with a view to validating a document done by a UK based consultancy Dunira Strategy, a sustainable business solutions in Tourism.

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Sierra Leone News : ABC and MOYA Establish Strategic Working Relationship

The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) and the Ministry of Youth Affairs has on Monday 16th May, 2016 established a strategic working relationship aiming at addressing the high pace of indiscipline and lawlessness among the youth population in Sierra Leone.


In this new dispensation of strategic partnership, the Secretariat will work closely with Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government as well as Community Based Organizations to share the platform in a bid to promote positive attitude and behaviour.

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Inside the World Bank's Pandemic Emergency Facility

On Saturday, the World Bank Group officially launched its much anticipated Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility — a financing mechanism designed to quickly mobilize funds to tackle global disease outbreaks and create a new insurance market for pandemic risk. Questions linger about how effective the new mechanism will be, how much money it can leverage, and whether it can stand the test of time against pandemics that are growing more frequent and more costly.

The international community struggled to effectively mobilize funds to bring an end to the Ebola virus outbreak that ravaged West Africa in 2014, killing thousands. The latest global health emergency to grip the world’s attention — the Zika virus — is highlighting again just how ill-prepared the international community is to fund cross-border outbreak response. Three months after the U.S. White House requested $1.9 billion for Zika, the U.S. Congress is still arguing over the sum.

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New Global Education In Emergencies Fund To Be Launched At World Humanitarian Summit

The world's leading countries, companies and philanthropists will join forces to create a 'major breakthrough' to provide education for millions of children displaced by conflicts and natural disasters.The new 'Education Cannot Wait' fund will be launched next week at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul.


A historic, global-first hailed a 'game changer,' the fund targets the needs of 75 million children and youth impacted by crisis, disaster and conflict.

 

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WHO confirms Zika virus strain imported from the Americas to Cabo Verde

 Sequencing of the virus in Cabo Verde by Institut Pasteur, Dakar confirms that the Zika virus currently circulating in Cabo Verde is the same as the one circulating in the Americas - the Asian type- and was most likely imported from Brazil. This is the first time that the Zika strain responsible for the outbreaks linked to neurological disorders and microcephaly has been detected in Africa.

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USAID Awards Tetra Tech Additional $84 Million to Expand Power Africa Program

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Company an additional $84 million to its current $64 million contract under the U.S. Government-led Power Africa partnership.

“The Tetra Tech team is tracking a pipeline of more than 140 active energy transactions at various stages of development, representing more than 20,000 MW of potential generation capacity in sub-Saharan Africa”

Two out of three people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to power. Power Africa, launched by President Obama in 2013, aims to connect the African population to the electricity grid and provide access to those who live beyond the grid. Electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa will be expanded to 60 million homes and businesses by adding more than 30,000 megawatts (MW) of cleaner, more efficient electricity generation capacity by the year 2030.

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Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone form football team to heal wound

The Ebola scourge hit the shores of Sierra Leone almost two years ago when a man contracted the deadly virus in Kailahun, northeast of the country, in May 2014.

From there the disease spread like wild fire in the harmattan season, killing more than 3,000 Sierra Leoneans.

It also devastated the economy, and brought the country almost to a stand still.

Even though a number of victims survived the virus, they had to cope with mental wounds caused by it, and seek ways of healing.

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Private Sector the only Way to Grow Salone’s Economy – Cordaid Event Shows

Developing the private sector is the only way to grow the economy and individuals have to adopt better attitudes and discipline to grow themselves and their businesses, Oluniyi Robin-Coker former Minister of Energy said at a business seminar hosted by Cordaid on May 14 at Bintumani Hotel in Freetown. He is currently the Coordinator of the private sector component of the ebola recovery strategy.
“Private sector development is the only way forward to grow this economy. If we do not
grow this economy, we are going to sink, Mr. Robin-Coker said. “And for us to grow the economy individually we have to grow ourselves, we have to adopt better attitudes, better discipline, better time keeping, better efficiency.

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Le622 bn Funding Gap in Education -EFA Report

Education For All Sierra Leone Coalition has stated in a validated report Tuesday 17 that there is about six hundred and twenty-two billion Leones funding gap which is about 15 percent.
“About 51 percent of that gap is related to uncovered development expenses. Interventions such as handicapped accessible schools and WASH facilities fall under development spending,” the report states.
The report, titled ‘National Research on Education Gap and Domestic Financing in Sierra Leone’ was validated at No.

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Beyond Contact Tracing: Community-Based Early Detection for Ebola Response

Introduction: The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa raised many questions about the control of infectious disease in an increasingly connected global society. Limited availability of contact information made contact tracing diffcult or impractical in combating the outbreak. 

Methods: We consider the development of multi-scale public health strategies that act on individual and community levels. We simulate policies for community-level response aimed at early screening all members of a community, as well as travel restrictions to prevent inter-community transmission. 

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