Peep Sierra Leone

The National Commission for Social Action NaCSA has completed a supervision mission on the implementation of the youth employment support project/cash for work with stakeholders in district and head quarter towns in the southern region.

The objective is to verify data especially the number of direct beneficiaries and assets created on each cash for work sub-project in line with the data base recommendation by the World Bank.

The visit was to also address all outstanding issues relating to the implementation of the cash for work in line with the approval scope of works in the region. Among the eight projects Moyamba district is implementing nothing good to write home about the Mofombo to Njagbahun road that contractors perform body. In Bagruma chiefdom where youths are working on the Gbangbatok junction to Gerehum a three kilometer road search is in progress. Town chief Momodu Jamalanga explained that five communities are currently benefiting from the project.

In Rissi chiefdom two sites were visited, the Moyeimi soko mood lot and the under drushing of pine trees which are used for the production of electric poles and matches.

In Bonthe district, the Kam visited the Mattru township road network, Globa town one and two and the rehabilitation of inland valley swamp at Moriba Town.

In Bo, the team was received by the deputy Mayor Joe Pyne who expresses kind sentiment about the cordial relationship between NaCSA and council but cautioned that contractors should be introduced to the council before commencement of work. Sites visited are the Jimmy junction to Bandajuma road on the Baybo chiefdom, Sumbuya to Sembehun in the Luybu chiefdom were youth are working on the five kilometer road network with Pujehun district youths were cultivating in land valley swamp rice of twenty opportunity James Harding said the objective of then youth employment support project is to increase shot term employment opportunities and improve employability of targeted youth within the ages of eighteen to thirty five years.