## Sierra Leone: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Progress Report

_IMF Staff Country Reports, July 25, 2008_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: July 25, 2008
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451834628.002

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### Executive summary
- Covers progress in implementing the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Sierra Leone for the period 2005–07.
- Main finding: efforts to reform the public sector were not successful.
- Management and Functional Reviews were conducted for several ministries, departments, and agencies, but the recommendations were not implemented.
- A Senior Executive Service program was developed but government and development partners could not agree on an implementation strategy; therefore the funds required for implementation were not provided.

### Public sector reform — findings
- Management and Functional Reviews conducted for several ministries, departments, and agencies.
- Recommendations from those reviews were not implemented.
- Overall assessment: public sector reform objectives were not achieved during 2005–07.

### Program development and financing — Senior Executive Service
- A Senior Executive Service program was developed as part of the reform agenda.
- Implementation stalled because government and development partners did not agree on an implementation strategy.
- As a result, the funds required for implementation were not provided.

### Subjects and keywords
- Subject: Agricultural commodities, Commodities, Education, Health, Labor, Poverty, Public financial management (PFM)
- Keywords: Agricultural commodities, cash budget, CR, discretionary government expenditure, financial support, girl child support policy, Global, government approval, government consumer, government of Sierra Leone, government programme, ISCR, job creation, line item, management system, public funds, trade diversion

*International Monetary Fund. "Sierra Leone: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Progress Report", IMF Staff Country Reports 2008, 250 (2008).*

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