FAO in Sierra Leone

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22 December 2020
Freetown – The Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL) workers in Teko, Sierra Leone, confirmed dog rabies for the first time using Fluorescent antibody test (FAT), since many years, after operationalization of the laboratory by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) under Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) project funded by...
05 October 2020
Inception workshop to launch FAO’s blended learning programme to enhance responsible agricultural investment in Liberia and Sierra Leone. FAO organized an inception workshop to kick off the implementation of its blended learning programme “Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems”. The workshop took place simultaneously in...
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...