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Action Aid Lunches District Citizens Report on Community Score Card in Bombali District


By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-Wilson)
In their strives to promote gender sensitivity, and to continue to implement development projects that will positively impact the people of the north, the country and other implementation areas at large, Action Aid, through its Makeni based office in the Bombali District of Northern Sierra Leone with support from European Union (EU) has successfully launched the “District Citizens Report on Community Score Card in Bombali District” at the Sierra Leone Teachers Union Hall in Makeni.

The day’s event brought together various stakeholders in the district plus Action Aid staff who all sat and dialogue on the report and it set goals.

Statements after statements were made by some of the stakeholders all geared towards checkmating the report and it was indeed confirmed by them all that the report is the exact one that was gathered by the enumerators from their communities that were selected and trained to carry out the  they survey.

The report was officially launched by Foday Yamba Koroma, the Deputy Chairman of the Bombali District Council (BDC) who thanked action aid and its partners for producing such a report at a time when them as a council and the people of Bombali District needs it most. He further said that BDC as a Council will ensure that the report is handed over to his bosses and as well to the Development and Planning Officer for consideration of some of key recommendations for sustainable development and gender responsiveness as they are in the report.

“I am pleased as the Deputy Chairman of my Council to launch this Citizens report in front of Civil Society Organizations operating in the district and other stakeholders who are some of our Partners in development process in the district. I believe in you all here and thus urge all and sundry to make wise use of this report to enable us match up with the globally accepted SDG’s. 

The report according to the project consultant Tsitsi Muvund, she explained to Northern Times that the report is looking up to increasing the gender responsiveness rate among all Sierra Leoneans mostly for Women and Girls in the country to attain Sustainable Development Goals as championed by Action Aid – Sierra Leone.

She expressed her gratitude to the people of Bombali and Action Aid for the robustness as a team throughout the survey and urged the public to make use of the report. 

C-CEND’s Director Ahajie Okeyan Conteh, Bombali District in an interview with Northern Times, express thanks to Action Aid on behalf CSOs in the district for working with them side by side to put together a report like this.

He however, implore on Bombalians and all to use this report as their tool in drafting and facilitating their advocates and development processes they may wish to undertake subsequently.

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