In 2008, the Government of Sierra Leone acted upon the TRC's recommendations and, with
support from the UN Peace Building Fund and the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM),
founded the Sierra Leone Reparations Programme (SLRP).
The project is implemented by the National Commission for Social Action. Up to today, over
33,000 victims have been registered and 20,000 of them have already received a cash allowance
as livelihood or education support in 2009 in line with the reparations conditions. In addition,
over 250 particularly affected victims received fistula surgery or other emergency medical
treatment.
Psychosocial support sessions were organised in all four districts of the country and 40
communities received financial means to hold at the community level symbolic reparation
events such as burials and other forms of recognition. As recommended by the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, the 28,000 primary beneficiaries of the SLRP were:
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Amputees
War wounded civilians
War widows
Orphans
Victims of sexual abuse
The National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) yesterday began a new round of cash
payments to 10,753 victims of gross human rights violations suffered during Sierra Leone's
decade long conflict that ended in 2002. The payments, financed by UN Peace Building Fund
(UNPBF) and implemented by NaCSA with IOM support, were worth a total of USD 860,240 and
were disbursed nationwide. Some 20,000 Sierra Leoneans have already benefited from the
scheme. The payments, averaging USD 80 per victim, were part of the USD 4.55 million PBFfunded Sierra Leone Reparations Programme (SLRP), which received technical, administrative
and operational support from International Office of Migration. Since its inception in 2009 the
SLRP has registered and verified 32,148 civilian victims of war, of whom 13,283 were war widows,
8,677 child victims, 5,448 war-wounded, 3,602 victims of sexual violence and 1,138 victims of
limb amputation.
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