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Two women walk in front of a billboard, which says "Ebola must go. Stopping Ebola is Everybody's Business" in Monrovia, Liberia - 15 January 2015 - Photo: UNMIL/Emmanuel Tobey

futurehealthsystems.org - by Sehwah Sonkarlay - June 12, 2018

 . . . The ‘Understanding and Strengthening Community Resilience in Liberia’ meeting, which took place from 28th February – 1st March, was attended by representatives from the Ministry of Health, research organisations, and community members. Its aim was to understand the experience of Liberia in identifying and building resilience at the community level in the context of the recent Ebola epidemic, combined with its post-war and unique sociopolitical history.

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As Government and TRANSCO- CLSG dialogue with Kenema District on regional energy, members of the Kenema District monitoring committee on Wednesday elected Alice Koroma as the Chair for the District Monitoring Committee.

Alice Koroma is the Regional Director, East for the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs and a member of the district monitoring committee that will monitor project activities as contractors by TRANSCO-CLSG carry out technical and infrastructure work.

During the two-day local committee meeting, representatives from the various sectors in the Kenema district administration, including representatives from the chiefdoms to be affected during the West African Power Pool (WAPP) energy project to be implemented by TRANSCO- CLSG converged at Paloma conference room in Kenema.

The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) and the Ministry of Youth Affairs has on Monday 16th May, 2016 established a strategic working relationship aiming at addressing the high pace of indiscipline and lawlessness among the youth population in Sierra Leone.

In this new dispensation of strategic partnership, the Secretariat will work closely with Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government as well as Community Based Organizations to share the platform in a bid to promote positive attitude and behaviour.

As Plan International turns 40 years in dedicated service to Children in Sierra Leone, Youth Empowerment becomes critical. Plan is currently implementing the Post Ebola Early Recovery Strategic Framework 2015. In this plan, there is a strong focus on Livelihood support focusing on Women and Youth engagement to strengthen their income base to build their resilience against the effects of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

On Friday 13th May 2016 The Minister of Youth Affairs Mr. Bai Mahmoud Bangura teamed up with Plan International Sierra Leone on a two- day working visit to the National Youth Farm at Masiaka.

The purpose of the visit by the newly appointed Minister of Youth Affairs was to conduct a tour to update himself on project achievements and challenges and to develop a revised road map to respond to the immediate next steps of the ongoing projects.