Donor Support: Lomé Peace Agreement
Implementations
Donor Support – 1999
Immediately following the signing of the Lomé Agreement, UN General Secretary Annan recommended that the UN encourage donor countries to make contributions towards the reconstruction of war ravaged Sierra Leone.1
Sierra Leone received international support for the DDR program. Funding for the program, which was led by the World Bank, was expected to cost $33 million. The DDR was financed by a Trust Fund set up by the World Bank in agreement with donor countries.2 Support from the international community for reconstruction and rehabilitation in Sierra Leone was very minimal in comparison to donorsÕ one billion dollar support for Rwandan refugee camps.3
- “UN calls for concerted efforts to re-build Sierra Leone,” Deutsche Presse-Agentur, July 10, 1999.
- “Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone Fact Sheet #1,” Africa News, October 7, 1999.
- “Pay up to keep the peace; Sierra Leone badly needs foreign help to recover from its civil war,” The Guardian (London), October 11, 1999.
Donor Support – 2000
The Security Council, in its Resolution 1289 (February 4, 2000), asked the international community for, “sustained and generous assistance for the longer terms tasks of peace-building, reconstruction, economic and social recovery and development in Sierra Leone, and urges all States and international and other organizations to provide such assistance as a priority”(p.4).
Donor Support – 2001
Donors at a World Bank conference, held from June 11-12, 2001, failed to offer specific commitments to replenish the multimillion-dollar Trust Fund set up for war-weary Sierra Leone. “With just US $6 million dollars left in the fund, the Sierra Leonean government expects this to last no later than August, the World Bank Country Director for Sierra Leone told reporters in Paris. The money was being used to pay for post-war reconstruction and socioeconomic development.4
Donor Support – 2002
“A delegation of donors from 12 counties ended a week-long mission to Sierra Leone on Friday declaring that although peace had come, the problems and needs facing the country were ‘enormous,Õ the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) reported. Alan Doss, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Governance and Stabilisation, told reporters that the response from donors was ‘extremely positive,Õ as Sierra Leone moved from emergency relief to the reconstruction phase, UNAMSIL reported. The purpose of the visit, Doss said, was not to make financial pledges but to discuss with the government the prospects and priorities for reintegration and recovery.”5
Donor Support – 2003
No additional information available on donor support.
Donor Support – 2004
“Sierra Leoneans from all walks of society would participate in a two-day donor conference scheduled to take place on September 4 and 5 in Maryland, USA in a bid to rebuild and develop the Marampa Chiefdom in Lunsar, Port Loko district, and other parts of the country destroyed during the decade old conflict. The programme organized by the Marampa Self Help project, a non-profiting making organization that has reconstructed over 12 houses destroyed during the war in that township, would bring together Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora to contribute meaningfully to post-war development exercise in the country.”6
Donor Support – 2005
No additional information was available on donor support in 2005 related to the Lomé Agreement. There was still insufficient funding for reparations to war victims.
Donor Support – 2006
No further developments observed.
Donor Support – 2007
No further developments observed.
Donor Support – 2008
No further developments observed.
Donor Support – 2009
No further developments observed.