Sierra Leone - Rehabilitation and Community Based Poverty Reduction Project

The Rehabilitation and Community-Based Poverty Reduction Project is a relief operation aimed at restoring the pre-war living and production standards of farming communities in the districts most affected by the civil war in Sierra Leone. The IFAD-financed project is twinned with the Agricultural Sector Rehabilitation Project funded by the Bank. It aims to take rapid action to assist communities as part of a broader regeneration process. The project is articulated around the following activities: (i) support and empowerment of community institutions and promotion of participatory development; (ii) empowering the poor by enabling them to more easily access and control core assets such as capital, knowledge and technology; (iii) rehabilitation of rural infrastructure to improve production conditions, access to markets and living conditions.