Sierra Leone

A research report on the motivations for young people volunteering in urban slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone:

This report summarises the findings from research in the slum communities of Kroo Bay and Dworzack in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 2012. The report

This paper features Australian investment in disaster risk reduction, which helps partner countries save lives, reduce the costs of responding to disasters, protect their economies, and safeguard critical infrastructure. It highlights three good practices

This report examines existing laws in Sierra Leone relevant to international disaster response in light of global practice and the IDRL Guidelines. It is part of the International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) project in Sierra Leone

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in West Africa. For the purpose of this review, West Africa is defined as including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia

This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

This paper proposes a methodology to examine the potential of existing National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans NAFSIPs to generate climate change benefits. A rapid screening methodology is presented and applied to 14 NAFSIPs, all of which

This report focuses on results achieved from 27 participating countries in the fourth year of the Education in Emergencies and Post-Crisis Transition (EEPCT) programme developed to rapidly restore quality education while 'building back better' in

This inventory is an attempt to pull together the threads and to identify what does and what does not work in relation to legal, institutional and planning frameworks for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. It aims to further support the