The Environmental Protection Agency has launched the Sierra Leone coastal resilience project steering committee in Freetown.

They revealed that the Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project is a Green Climate Funded project given to a developing country with climate change impacts through adaptation and mitigation mechanisms.

It has climate change governance, climate resilience, health and education, climate resilience livelihoods, and restoration of ecosystems as its thematic areas and that it will be implemented in Port Loko, Kambia, Moyamba, Pujehun, and Bonthe districts, covering twenty chiefdoms inclusively.

The membership of the steering committee and technical working groups was represented by the related ministries and agencies, with the EPA and Save the Children handling climate governance and ecosystem restoration and providing technical advice and monitoring.

They also maintained that, members of the technical working groups and the steering committee would ensure that the implementation plan is in order, stating the roles and responsibilities and the magnitude of participation required of each member, and a document that all must work with.

The project will further create a new paradigm in Sierra Leone that will strengthen coastal communities’ resilience to climate change through interventions focused on food and water security, diversified livelihoods, and restoration of ecosystems.

The steering committee will also provide strategic oversight and coordination of the project and provide a high-level risk management function by reviewing and providing feedback on performance reports from the project implementation unit, amongst others.

This is regarded as a big step in making sure that the environmental protection issues in the country stays as proactive as expected.