Welcome to the Post Ebola Recovery Social Investment Fund (PERSIF) Official Website

Launching of the PERSIF Project

Launching of the PERSIF project by his excellency - President Dr. Julius Maada Bio
launching - in 2020

Launching of Training of Trainers in IDSR

The Minister of Social Welfare, Bendu Dasama Kamara (Mrs.) on Wednesday 19th October, 2022.
officially launched the Training of Trainers workshop in Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR)
for health workers in the Eastern Technical University (ETU) and College of Medicine and Allied Health
Sciences (COMAHS) at the Kenema District Council Hall in Kenama City.

“Sierra Leone is an example of good practice when it comes to Disease Surveillance and Response…”

Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Mohamed Haji Kellah at the Closing Ceremony of the Training of Trainers
in Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response, held on Friday, 28th October, 2022 at the
main hall of the National School of Nursing in Freetown.

A Cross Section of Medical Practitioners from the National
School of Nursing that benefited from the IDSR Training of Trainers

The Minister of Social Welfare, Bendu Dasama Kamara (Mrs.) amidst beneficiaries
of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) Training of trainers

The PERSIF Project provides capacity building for 30 Trade Monitors

Co-facilitator, Adbul Kamara addressing Trade Monitors in Makeni

Co-facilitator, Adbul Kamara providing instructions to Trade Monitors in Makeni

Co-facilitator, Mary Hawa Turay addressing the Kenema participants

WARD-C Chief Administrator, Raman Tom Farma

Social Welfare Minister and Women's Group

Social-Welfare-Minister-Madam-Baindu-Dassama-Kamara

Minister of Social Welfare, Madam Baindu Dassama-Kamara officially launches the symbolic handing over of PERSIF Project sites for the construction of WASH and Health facilities in Western Area Rural District. This development followed a succession of symbolic handing over of project sites for the construction of the same facilities in Kailahun, Kenema, Bombali, and Port Loko districts.

Welcome to the PERSIF Project

Events of 2023

10th – 20th January, 2023: Symbolic Handing over of Project Sites for the Construction of WASH and Health Facilities
Events of 2022

3rd – 4th February 2022: Monitoring of Tuition Grant Fees at the Njala University Bo Campus

7th – 19th April, 2022: Training of Community Groups in Former Ebola Hotspot Districts

17th – 29th October, 2022: Training of Trainers for health practitioners in Eastern Technical University (ETU) and College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) in Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) / International Health Regulations (IHR)

14th to 21st November 2022: African Development Bank (AfDB) Implementation Supervision Mission

19th – 23rd December, 2022: Capacity Building of Trade Monitors on Business Advisory Services and Information Systems
Events of 2021

24th – 26th February 2021: Preliminary Discussions with the Njala University Administration for the Management of the Njala Students Tuition Grant Scheme

20th April – 4th May 2021: Training of 220 Healthcare Workers in Infection, Prevention and Control (IPC)

12th – 27th July 2021 – Training of Social Workers to Provide Psychosocial Support and Counselling in Communities

16th July – 12th August 2021 – Psychosocial Counselling in EVD and CoVID-19 Hotspots Communities

17th September – 6th October 2021: Identification, Assessment and Confirmation of Rehabilitation/Construction of Sites for WASH and Health Facilities, and Multi-Purpose Trade Facilitation, and Information Learning (MTFIL) Centres in Selected Communities
SOCIAL WELFARE MINISTER UNVEILS TRAINING OF TRAINERS WORKSHOP

The Minister of Social Welfare, Bendu Dasama Kamara (Mrs.) on Wednesday 19th October, 2022, officially launched the Training of Trainers workshop in Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) for health workers in the Eastern Technical University (ETU) and College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) at the Kenema District Council Hall in Kenama City.
THE PERSIF PROJECT EMPOWERS 220 HEALTHCARE WORKERS

The Post-Ebola Recovery Social Investment Fund (PERSIF) Project has benefitted two hundred and twenty (220) Healthcare Workers across fifteen (15) communities in the nine (9) beneficiary districts of the Project through training in Infection, Prevention and Control (IPC).

Component 1:

Basic Social Services. Works

Component 2:

Local Economic Livelihoods and Job Creation

Component 3:

Project Management and Coordination

The Project Beneficiaries

Generally, the project intends to provide benefits in targeted communities:

(a) Ebola Virus Disease(EVD) survivors and oprhans;
(b) Community Groups;
(c) Cross-Border Traders;
(d) Social Workers; and
(e) MIcro and Small Enterprises.

EVENTS UPDATE

Social Welfare Minister amid Health Workers

A cross section of the PERSIF Team and beneficiaries of the Njala Tuition Grant Scheme

Female component of the Kenema participants

Members of the High Table

Participants in Makeni

Group photo of the Kenema participants

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OUR PARTNERS

Ministry of Social Welfare

As part of its mandate, the Ministry empowers and transforms the lives of vulnerable and underprivileged persons or families including young people, women, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities. Through coordinated development and implementation of laws, policies and programmes that promote their welfare and safeguard their rights including religious tolerance.

Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Intitiative (RWSSI)

The Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI) is an Africa-wide intitiative managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The initiative is funded through contributions from the Bank, bilateral and multilateral agencies, African governments and communities

African Development Bank (ADB)

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB or ADB) or Banque Africaine de Développement (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution, headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, since September 2014. The AfDB is a financial provider to African governments and private companies investing in the regional member countries (RMC)

ABOUT US

The Post Ebola Recovery Social Investment Fund (PERSIF) project, targets Ebola-affected communities especially along the borders of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone seeks to contribute to the availability of selected basic social services, restoration of livelihoods and economic opportunities.

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CONTACT US

PERSIF Office
New England Ville Freetown
Sierra Leone - West Africa

Tel: +232 123 456

Email: info@persif.mosw.gov.sl