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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