Ministry of Finance has on Tuesday 22 June 2021 held a day’s Policy Clinic on Public Financial Management Reforms and Internal Audit in the Public Sector with personnel from Ministries Depart and Agencies. The discussions were guided by two research documents presented by the Research and Delivery and Internal Audit…
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The Minister of Finance Dennis K. Vandi has in two separate meetings assured the New European Union Ambassador and British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone of the commitment of the Government of Sierra Leone to Public Financial Management reforms to enhance transparency and accountability in the public sector. These back-to-back…
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The Minister of Finance Mr. Dennis K. Vandi has stated that the focus of the FY2022 budget would be to consolidate and complete all ongoing priority projects especially, those that have to do with roads, bridges, hospitals, water, energy, and human capital development programs in education and health. He made…
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The Directorate of Stores and Inventory Management at the Ministry of Finance has on Monday 24th May 2021 kick Start the training of over 120 Personnel in various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies across the Country. The event attracts stores and inventory officers or officers in charge of stores commenced at…
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The Ministry of Finance in collaboration with partners has on Monday 24th May commenced a two-week (May 24 – June 2) seminar at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown on Medium Term Debt Management Strategy with World Bank and International Monetary Fund Virtual Mission. This occasion would mark the third…
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Chief Minister Mr. Jacob Jusu Saffa who is the outgone Minister of Finance has officially handed over the Ministry to his successor Dennis Vandi on Wednesday 12th May 2021, at the Ministry of Finance Conference Hall in Freetown. In his statement, the outgone Finance Minister Mr. J.J. Saffa describes the…
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The Ministry of Finance has on Thursday 29th April 2021 held a day retreat on the Country’s Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) for 2020 reporting and action plan for 2021 at the New Brookfields Hotel Jomo Kenyatta Road in Freetown. The CPIA is a diagnostic tool that is intended to…
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As part of his engagements with top government officials, civil society organisations and other stakeholders, the new US ambassador to Sierra Leone, Mr. David Reimer has on Tuesday, 13th April, 2021 paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Finance, Hon. Jacob Jusu Saffa at his George Street office. During…
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It is important that some public education be done on the state of economic affairs in Sierra Leone from time to time. Such education keeps the public better informed of economic progress and contemporary issues. In this piece, I attempt to answer 3 questions; where are we coming from? where…
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Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance Hon. Jacob Jusu Saffa has been unanimously re-elected to serve as Chairman of the Convergence Council of Finance Ministers and Governors of Central Banks of West Africa Monetary Zone (WAMZ) for the third time. This re-election occurred during the 45th meeting (Virtual) of the Convergence…
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