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Sierra Leone
Economic Development, Environment, and the Internet

• African Development Bank Group on Sierra Leone (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• Bank of Sierra Leone (Freetown)
  The official web site of the central bank of Sierra Leone, with recent news, publications, some brief statistics, speeches, and related links.
  
  
• Development Assistance Coordination Office Office of the Vice President, Government of Sierra Leone. (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
  The DACO website features links to key economic, political, and statistical information from the government. "In February 2004, a Technical Working Group chaired by the Director of DACO was established to supervise and fast track the completion the Sierra Leone-Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. Since then, DACO has been key in all activities relating to the completion of the SL-PRSP. The final draft of the document was circulated in March 2005 and subsequently launched in April 2005."
  
  • Sierra Leone Encyclopedia 2008, which includes:
    -- PRSP 2006-2007
    -- District profiles
    PDF format
  • PRSP 2005-2006 PDF format
  • See also: The World Bank below.
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on Sierra Leone (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: Sierra Leone (2008) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• FAO Aquastat Programme: Sierra Leone, 2005 (Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome)
  A profile of water resources in Sierra Leone. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
  -- See also: Sierra Leone in the FAO Document Repository
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: Sierra Leone Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• Mano River Union -- Official Site (2006) (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
  The last meeting of the member states of this organization took place in 2004. "The Mano River Union (MRU) is an international association established in 1973 between Liberia and Sierra Leone, with the objective of sub-regional economic integration. In 1980, Guinea joined the union."
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia: Sierra Leone (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  A basic economic & investment profile.
  
  
• Ministry of Mineral Resources Government of Sierra Leone. (Freetown)
  
  
• National Information and Communications Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1999 (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  General background, Internet connectivity data, and project information.
  
  
• Network Startup Resource Center: Sierra Leone Internet Providers and Connectivity, 1994-99 and 2004-2006 (University of Oregon, Eugene)
  
  
• Official Statistics Online Government of Sierra Leone (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
  An official website of the government with census data from 2004 and 2005, recent consumer price index data, trade data, recent news, and related links.
  
  
• Partnership Africa Canada: War and peace in Sierra Leone: diamonds, corruption, and the Lebanese connection. (November 2002) By Lansana Gberie. -- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: PAC, 2002. (PDF format)
  • "PAC [founded in 1986] is a coalition of Canadian and African NGOs working together on issues of human rights, human security and sustainable development."
  • See also: Diamonds and Human Security
  
  
• Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, Gola Forest, southern Sierra Leone
  "...Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA) together with local communities, launched a project in May 2002 to restore Tiwai Island in southern Sierra Leone as a model for protected area management and community development. The overall goal of the project is to revive biodiversity research, conservation and ecotourism activities at Tiwai by engaging local communities in small-scale and well-targeted activities on the island...The project had a variety of stakeholders, with Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund (CEPF) support, EFA in partnership with Njala University College (NUC), the Forestry Department and the local communities participated in coordinating the project."
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme on Sierra Leone (New York ; Freetown)
  • UNDP in Sierra Leone
    
    
  • Empowering Local Government for Sustainable Human Development and Poverty Reduction--Sierra Leone Human Development Report 2007 PDF format
  • Human Development Index for Sierra Leone (2007-2008)
  
  
• UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Sierra Leone Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
  
  
• United States Agencies on Sierra Leone
  • USAID on Sierra Leone -- Country Information
    
    
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
    • US-Sierra Leone Trade Balance, 1992--
    • US International Trade Statistics: Sierra Leone, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Sierra Leone economy (International Trade Administration)
  
  
• Sierra Leone Vision 2025 -- National Long-Term Perspectives Studies (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
  This site includes an overview of the program and draft documents, plus an online questionnaire. "The creation of this website is primarily to solicit the aspirations of Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora..."
  
  
• The World Bank on Sierra Leone (Washington, DC)
  • The World Bank on Sierra Leone, 1999 to present
    A country brief and data (PDF file); plus a searchable database on project information.
    -- Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, 2003-2006