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The Return To Planning

February 25, 2019 By HPMcleod 1 Comment

The Sierra Leonean government is about to launch the 5–year plan as part of a 20-year Plan. One of the most important challenges facing planning and the implementation of development programmes in the country now is capacity. Inability to formulate properly designed projects, and manage complex multi sector programmes result in inflated costs and low quality results, or even failed projects.

Filed Under: Development Issues, Government, Growth, Policy

Sierra Leone’s Fragility

April 22, 2018 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

Excerpt from a study of Sierra Leone’s fragility being launched today by the Fragility Commission. “The “social contract” has never been established in Sierra Leone at the national level. Rebellions and strikes before independence, and coup d’états and economic crises after independence, were repeated regularly. Yet the promises of a new beginning after every crisis […]

Filed Under: Development Issues, Government

Have we crossed this way before?

January 28, 2018 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

New post on The Sierra Leone Telegraph by Abdul Rashid Thomas SLPP condemns violence at the APC political rally Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2018: Yesterday’s violence by supporters of the ruling APC, which led to the death of one person at their party’s rally in the capital Freetown, has been strongly condemned by opposition […]

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Bench warrant for opposition ADP party leader Mohamed Kamaraimba

January 23, 2018 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

by Abdul Rashid Thomas Pastor Mohamed Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2018 Magistrate Samai sitting at Segbwema Magistrate Court Kailahun District, has today, 18th January, ordered the arrest of Chairman and Leader of the Alliance Democratic Party, Mr Mohamed Kamaraimba Mansaray and his co-accused, Mohamed Bangura. Granting the bench warrant applied for by the […]

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15 years on

April 11, 2017 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

It is already 15 years since the guns fell silent officially in Salone. For some, it would seem that the past conflict is history and only the bad memories of its horrors reappear from time to time. When one scratches below the surface of our economy or reflect on the state of poverty, it is […]

Filed Under: Government, Policy, SL3T

On Poverty and Corruption

June 2, 2016 By HPMcleod Leave a Comment

I was asked to add my few Leones worth of ideas to the above. I usually avoid getting into the debate for several reasons. First, some reportedly corrupt societies in recent history have displayed remarkable growth at early periods – China after Tianaman, Indonesia twenty years ago, and Salone between 2010 and 2013. The drivers […]

Filed Under: Development Issues, Government, Growth Tagged With: corruption, poverty

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