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Lessons Learned & Best Practices

Issue: Identifying and presenting gaps

Year: 2021Income Group: Low incomeSource: VNR
Finding: Faced with insufficient data availability, the government of Sierra Leone complemented statistical information with qualitative data collection for each SDG analyzed in the report. For SDG 4 on education, for example, quality data collection focused on gauging testimonies about the effects of government school feeding and free learning materials provision programs and tuition fee grants on pupils, their parents, and educational outcomes. The government elaborated a survey, which stakeholders validated in a workshop. Responses were solicited from pupils, their parents, and school administrators. Thus the survey was distributed, and the government received input from 249 pupils and 252 parents in 83 provincial government and government-assisted primary schools, with one administrator sampled in each school.

Issue: Using non-official data sources

Year: 2021Income Group: Low incomeSource: VNR
Finding: To face COVID-19 effects, Sierra Leone adopted a Health Sector Response Plan, including the planned cost to robustly respond to pandemics within the sector, capturing Government and partners commitments. It features the financing response gap in the early stage of the pandemic crisis. A table in the VNR shows the needs, financing availability, and the gap between them.

Issue: Efforts to make the VNR Report fully accessible to vulnerable groups

Year: 2016Income Group: Low incomeSource: VNR
Finding: The country explains that conducting an inclusive VNR requires stakeholders to be informed about the SDGs and their national implementation. To allow broad engagement, the government published a simplified version of the 2030 Agenda and related issues, such as the transitioning from the MDGs to the SDGs, reasons for embarking on the SDGs, the correlation between the SDGs and Sierra Leone’s development priorities, and how the SDGs are expected to be implemented in Sierra Leone.