A delegation from the Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation, MWRS, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and the National Water Resources Management Agency, NWRMA, on 29th August 2023 engaged Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister, Dr David Moinina Sengeh, on the need to launch the National Water Fund, NWF, contained in the National Water Resources Management Agency Act of 2017.
Director General of the agency, Junisa Patrick Bangali, informed the Chief Minister that his agency had continued to manage water from its sources and on the role of the National Water Fund Steering Committee, the highest decision-making body of Water Fund.
“The government has made a commitment to put forward a seed amount of US$2 million so that the Water Fund will be operational. Similarly, the agency is partnering with the Catholic Relief Services, a non-governmental organisation, which has made a commitment to source US$20 million to put in the Water Fund for the management of the Western Area Peninsula,” he said.
Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Dr Sao-Kpato Hannah Isata Max-Kyne, informed the the meeting that the NWF steering committee was being chaired by the former Chief Minister, while calling on him to give her the permission to co-chair the committee meetings because in most cases his busy schedules might not allow him to be present at such meetings.
“We are going to present the Greenbelt Committee Report to enable us review it to meet the current purpose,” she said.
In his response, the Chief Minister instructed the NWRMA to officially open the Fund’s bank account, noting that the Ministry of Water Resources should work in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change to look into the greenbelt committee report.
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