FAO in Sierra Leone

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27 August 2020
FAO conducts an after-action review of Sierra Leone's Integrated Animal Disease Surveillance and Reporting system
11 August 2020
FAO signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Stats SL Freetown – The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) for effective collaboration in capturing reliable data that will help in tracking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals...
08 July 2020
FAO donates personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect healthcare workers responding to COVID-19 pandemic Freetown – Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) experience and expertise in strengthening communities’ safety nets and resilience to food insecurity, in food safety and trade can help efforts to safeguard people’s food security, nutrition and livelihoods. Thus FAO is reorganizing its humanitarian and resilience programming...
20 March 2020
FAO refurbished the unit with modern electronic equipment/furniture and personnel trained and skilled in epidemiology disciplines. Freetown – To complement the Government of Sierra Leona’s efforts to improve surveillance, reporting and control of infectious animal diseases, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) handed over the newly created epidemiology unit to the Ministry of...
13 March 2020
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in close partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) concluded a training workshop on Event Mobile Application (EMA-i) to improve animal diseases real-time reporting, early warning and surveillance. With funding support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...