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Online discussion today: Creating Fiscal Space During the Covid-19 Era

 

 

The CSIS Global Health Policy Center invites you to join us for an online event:

 

Creating Fiscal Space
During the Covid-19 Era

 

Thursday, April 29, 2021

2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT
 

 

 
Keynote remarks by

Andy Baukol

Performing the Duties of the Undersecretary for International Affairs
U.S. Department of the Treasury
 

Followed by a conversation with

Mark Bowman

Director General
International and European Union at HM Treasury
 

Gargee Ghosh

President of Global Policy and Advocacy
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 

Nancy Lee

Senior Policy Fellow
Center for Global Development
 

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G20 leaders vow to supply vaccine to needy countries, despite funding shortfall

The world’s 20 most powerful economies pledged Sunday to lead a global battle against the coronavirus health and economic crisis — even as their own virtual gathering revealed the risks of national competition for the quickest access to vaccines and other therapeutics.

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NutriCare Sierra Leone works in partnership with local communities.


More than a billion people on a wider perspective suffer from chronic malnutrition and hunger. In spite of official pledges to halve the world's hungry, the trend now runs in the opposite direction. More than thirty million people die of malnutrition and starvation every year - nearly 100,000 every day.

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President Launches Mega Road Projects

The 103 kilometer Bandajuma – Gendema Highway project was launched in Bandajuma Sowa, Pujehun district by President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Tuesday May 24, 2016. The project, linking Sierra Leone and Liberia, is the largest European Union (EU) project ever commissioned in the country. The president later proceeded to launch another 32.8 kilometer Moyamba Junction - Moyamba township road, and four bridges - Magbele, Mabang, Gbangbama and Moyamba Bridges at Moyamba junction on Wednesday May 25, 2016.

 

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One more time; keep the City Clean

Freetown after Independence in 1961 up to the early seventies was a reasonably clean city. Local dump sites for garbage were strategically located all over the city and were regularly cleared out by either the City Council or the Ministry of Health. The City Council was then a vibrant entity focused on providing municipal services to the City. Drains were cleaned out regularly by Council or through the services of Contractors such as the late Ajibu Jalloh and others. Markets were washed through an arrangement with the Fire Force. 

 

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MRC to rebrand and invest in tourism Industry

 

As a way to boost the country’s economy and to rebrand the tourism industry, the Monuments and Relics Commission (MRC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs has on Thursday revealed to journalists about the on-going project for the enclosure and renovations of some historical sites.

Highlighting some of the benefits in rebranding the tourism section, the Deputy Minister of Cultural Affairs, Honourable Dixon Bella Fofanah noted the hard work of the commission in using the available fund appropriately adding that the desire to create the said revenue needs government’s full support.

published - By Sylvia VillaFriday May 13, 2016

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Pregnant girls should not be forgotten -Save the Children CEO

 

Helle Thorning- Schmidt former Denmark Prime Minister now Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Save the Children during his two days visit in the country has said that one of the messages for the government is not to forget the girls that suffered through ebola.

Addressing journalists on Thursday at the Save the Children’s office, about the visit they had with the president and other donor partners the CEO disclosed that they had three issues, which they came with and discussed. “Our main messages are that firstly, we are in line with the governments in their ebola recovery plan as it is good to set this kind of plan for the country.  We also asked that the girls that suffered through ebola should not be forgotten and the group of children we are thinking of are those pregnant girls”.

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