The Vision
A governing framework built around three questions every Sierra Leonean family already asks.
Livable
Rebuild a shared Sierra Leonean identity above region and party; graded, examinable civic education from primary school; honest teaching of the civil war and Truth & Reconciliation Commission findings; cross-district youth contact programmes.
Read the chapter →Affordable legal help in every chiefdom via a national paralegal network; end detention without trial; independent, merit-based judiciary; stronger customary courts; rehabilitation-focused prisons.
Read the chapter →Merit-based hiring and promotion; biometric payroll verification to remove ghost workers; performance management with real consequences; a public-service training academy.
Read the chapter →Fix the health-worker shortage through training, retention, and diaspora specialist partnerships; make free care actually free via a health equity fund for the poorest ~1 million citizens; fix medicine supply-chain transparency.
Read the chapter →Upgrade informal settlements in place — water, sanitation, drainage, secure tenure — rather than demolish; enforced city plans for Bo, Kenema, Makeni and Port Loko; disaster-resilient drainage and hillside protection.
Read the chapter →“A court strong enough to check this government will be strong enough to check the next. That is precisely the point.”
Workable
Halve post-harvest food losses, raise yields toward potential, targeted irrigation, scaled farmer–agribusiness outgrower partnerships, competitive financing across the entire value chain — inputs, production, storage, processing, market access, not just the farm gate — and a flagship youth and women poultry-and-vegetable programme feeding schools and hospitals district by district.
Read the chapter →Reclaim territorial waters from illegal foreign fishing, rebuild fish stocks, build local landing sites and cold storage so value is captured at home, transparent public licensing register.
Read the chapter →Enforceable local-employment and skills-transfer targets, rising local-content requirements for procurement, enforced community-benefit obligations, environmental compliance and mine-closure funding.
Read the chapter →Financing for small businesses through movable-asset collateral and credit reference systems, land titling as collateral, faster commercial dispute resolution, support for digital, diaspora and export enterprise.
Read the chapter →Extend the grid where economic, decentralized solar mini-grids for the rest, industrial anchor customers to justify generation investment.
Read the chapter →Complete economic corridors connecting farms, fisheries and mines to markets and ports; rural feeder roads and bridges; a ring-fenced road-maintenance fund; regional and mineral-rail connectivity.
Read the chapter →Fix the Lungi airport transfer and visa regime, promote the beaches, Tacugama and the Gola Rainforest immediately, preserve Bunce Island and pursue World Heritage status.
Read the chapter →“Sierra Leoneans do not lack the will to work. They lack a system that turns hard work into ownership.”
Affordable
Produce well, move it better with value addition, widen the plate beyond rice, protect the vulnerable through targeted rather than blanket support.
Read the chapter →Defend the value of money honestly, spend within honest means, prepare the field rather than crowd the players the state is meant to enable.
A lifeline tariff giving every household an affordable basic block of electricity.
Read the chapter →Economic corridors and urban transport investment framed to lower the cost of moving goods and people.
Read the chapter →Serviced land, incremental home-building finance, housing cooperatives, home-improvement loans, expanded mortgages, settlement upgrading with secure tenure.
Read the chapter →A health equity fund guaranteeing free care for the poorest ~1 million citizens.
Read the chapter →“Dependence is not our fate; it is a policy choice, and like any policy choice, it can be changed.”
Roughly 78% of households are food insecure; about 71% spend over 75% of their income on food; rice self-sufficiency sits near 73%. Those three numbers set the standard any programme of government has to meet.
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