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A joint team representing international financial institutions, UN bodies and donors will start assessing Sierra Leone's reconstruction needs on Monday 20 September, a World Bank official in Washington told IRIN.
Led by the World Bank Country Director for Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Mamadou Dia, the mission includes representatives of the US Agency for International Development, Britain, the Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Germany, Norway and the African Development Bank (ADB).
It also includes officials from the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the UN Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Action (OCHA), the World Bank official said.
The mission will also enable the World Bank and donors to define jointly a framework for moving from humanitarian to development assistance, the World Bank said.
Timely donor assistance is critical in helping to consolidate the peace, the World Bank argues, in light of the signing of the Lome peace agreement and recent improvements in the security situation.
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