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Donors at the high level conference in London pledged some US $158 million on Monday to peace building measures in Sierra Leone, the UN Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.
A concluding statement from the chair of the conference, jointly hosted by the UN, World Bank, and Britain’s Department of International Development (DFID), said donors discussed the funding requirements as well as the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme (DDR).
They agreed that the DDR process, and its financing, needed to be accelerated. The ways for achieving this, the statement said, would include shortening the length of stay of ex-combatants in DDR camps and strengthening district level reintegration.
Support for the effort was pledged by Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, the African Development Bank and the European Commission.
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