The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has budgeted $1.44 million jointly with the Government of Sierra Leone to provide monthly cash to Ebola survivors in the hardest-hit districts of Sierra Leone.
The project will provide livelihood skills and monthly stipend to beneficiaries over a fixed time period and at the end of the skills trainings they will be presented start-up kits, UNDP said in a statement.
Sierra Leone recorded 14,124 cases of Ebola, 3,956 deaths, and more than 4,000 survivors who have not been able to return to their previous jobs.
The country declared the end of Ebola human-to-human transmission on March 17, 2016.
UNDP Country Director, Sudipto Mukerjee, however emphasized that the success of the project will depend on how engaged the community will be. Additionally I believe that under the leadership of the UNDP and the Government of Sierra Leone, we’ll have so many success stories out of this project, he said.
“The larger substantive bit of the project is about building skills to actually make their livelihood much more sustainable. We want them to lead a life as normal as possible, to have the same chances as they did before Ebola,” he said.
Government of Sierra Leone, UNDP Representatives, UNWOMEN, and the Sierra Leone Association of Ebola Survivors (SLAES) will provide strategic direction and oversight to the project funded by the Ebola Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF).
Monday June 27, 2016
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