Achievements

PROGRAMME FUNDING: As of late 2002, NaCSA was receiving donor funds from the following sources (in alpnabetical order):

African Development Bank
Department for International Development (DFID/UK)
Government of France
Government of Sierra Leone (COunterpart funds)
Government of Sierra Leone (HIPIC Funds)
Islamic Develpment Bank
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations High Commission for Refugees
World Bank

DFID provided a Technical Assistant to advise on policy and would be funding additional Technical Staff.

RELIEF AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE: The Commission provides relief assistance to displaced persons and communities in camps, newly resettled communities, for returning refugees and non-camp IDPs. Various gifts received from abroad have been distributed to IDPs, the war-wounded and amputees. The Commission remains grateful to the UN Agencies and NGOs for the delivery of relief and humanitarian assistance to camps, host communities and other categories of IDPs. Additionally, the inter-agency body of food pipeline agencies, donors and government, known as the Committee on Food Aid (CFA), continues to be very instrumental in developing national food aid policies and strategies and in the coordination of operations. Through the untiring efforts of the Humanitarian Community, IDPs continue to benefit from health, water and sanitation, non-food items and educational support.

REPATRIATION AND RESETTLEMENT: As the security situation continues to improve, more and more refugees continue to express willingness to come back home. As the disarmament process progressed, Government set up the National Recovery Committee, co-chaired by the Ministry of Development and Economic Planning and the NCRRR. The primary task of the NRC is to plan for and facilitate the recovery process and the quick restoration of civil authority in newly accessible areas. In this light, the NCRRR actively participated in the assessment missions into Kambia, Bombali and Koinadugu in the North and Kono in the East. Already, Round Table Conferences have been organized for Kambia and Kono and donors have pledged their support. In fact one of our programmes, the SRRP, has reconstructed the administrative building, magistrate court and the prison in Kambia. District offices have already been established in Kambia and Kono in readiness for repatriation and resettlement of returnees and IDPs. They have to facilitate and ensure the speedy resettlement of these people together with the quick restoration of their livelihood...(continue)