NaCSA works with five types of partners as follows:

1. Implementing Partners - who are also our clients and beneficiaries (e.g., village community-based organisations and local interest-based community organisations)

2. Facilitating Partners - who build capacity and backstop our implementing partners (e.g., NGOs, training institutions, private contractors)

3. Enabling Partners - who provide the local framework essential for development initiatives to succeed (e.g., Chiefdom and District Recovery Committees and emerging post-war local government structures)

4. Strategic Partners - such as line ministries and policy making commissions (e.g., the ministries of health, education and agriculture)

5. Funding Partners - including the African Development Bank (ADB), the U.K. Department for International Development (DfID), Government of France, Government of Sierra Leone, Islamic Development Bank (IDB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and World Bank.

Our partnership strategy is designed to empower the poor by building synergies among partners so that each may contribute optimally to our common objectives: national reconciliation and peace, poverty reduction and sustained growth and development.

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Implementing Partners

NaCSA works primarily with the following types of implementing partners:

Village Community-Based Organisations (CBOs). These groups either currently exist in communities where NaCSA is or plans to be active, or NaCSA helps them to organise for the purpose of working with NaCSA to achieve local development objectives. NaCSA uses participatory poverty assessment methodologies to engage local people and ensure that project ideas emerge from the community and that the community "takes ownership" of them in order to increase the prospects for sustainability.

Interest-Based Community Organisations. These groups can be found in both rural and urban areas and they may or may not have a geographic focus. For example, women's groups, associations of the handicapped, social clubs with their own development committees, youth groups, associations of people living with HIV/AIDS and issue-based civil society organisations (e.g., an environmental conservation group).

Local Private Contractors. NaCSA's Public Works Programme works directly with local contractors in order to rebuild schools and clinics, fabricate school furniture and develop sustainable labour-intensive public works activities.

Local Micro-Finance Providers. Sierra Leone has very few banking facilities outside the main cities. NaCSA is working with NGOs and other local micro-finance providers to build their capacity and enhance policy coordination in this area

Strategic Partners

NaCSA's strategic partners include:

a) The Ministry of Finance
b) The Ministry of Development and Economic Planning
c) The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
d) The Ministry of Health and Sanitation
e) The Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources (MANR)
f) The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development
g) The Ministry of Works
h) The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs
i) The Sierra Leone Roads Authority
j) The Sierra Leone Water Company
k) Statistics Sierra Leone
l) The National Commission for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration
m) The Anti-Corruption Commission

Funding Partners

NaCSA is supported by the following funding partners (in alphabetical order):

African Development Bank (ADB)
The ADB is providing US$16.5 million over five years (September 2003-August 2008) through its Social Action Support Project to fund NaCSA's Public Works Programme, Micro-Finance Programme and provide management support funds. This support follows on from ADB co-financing of the emergency recovery activities of NaCSA and its predecessor agency the National Commission for Reconstruction, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (NCRRR).

Department for International Development (DfID/UK)
DfID provides technical assistance in the form of an expatriate advisor for the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation unit and for Resettlement and Reintegration. DfID also cooprates closely with NaCSA to ensure effective coordination of our respective activities.

Government of France
The French government has provided NaCSA with 1.3 million euros for use exclusively in the Kono and Kailahun Districts for post-war reconstruction, peace building and poverty alleviation. A French technical advisor is attached to NaCSA and he also advises and facilitates French aid to UNICEF, UNHCR and GTZ.

Government of Sierra Leone
The GOSL provides counterpart funds for projects financed by our other funding partners. The GOSL is committed to providing US$3.5 million for the World Bank NSAP Project, US$1.83 million for the ADB SASP Project and US$2.4 million for the IDB Project. It also provides smaller amounts of counterpart funds for our associated projects described elsewhere on this website.

The GOSL also provides NaCSA with funds generated through the HIPC debt relief programme to facilitate the achievement of goals in the education and other sectors.

Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
The IDB recently concluded an agreement to provide NaCSA with its largest ever credit to Sierra Leone, US$15 million to be used over five years (2003-2008) for labour-intensive public works designed to maximize income-generation among war-affected populations. This follows two previous credits from the IDB that have been successfully implemented through NaCSA and its predecessor agencies.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The UNDP has been a NaCSA partner for several years. Through its Support to Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project (SRRP) and its predecessor, UNDP has enabled NaCSA to respond rapidly to immediate post-war needs. The current UNDP commitment is about US$1.6 million.

World Bank
From 2000-2003, the World Bank co-financed the $35 million Emergency Recovery Support Fund (ERSF) with the ADB that provided NCRRR and now NaCSA with the bulk of its funding for post-war recovery efforts. The World Bank has now provided further support to Sierra Leone through NaCSA with a $35 million credit for the National Social Action Project (NSAP). The NSAP is the donor vehicle that will fund community-driven initiatives through NaCSA's Community-Driven Programme (CDP) window and will also support NaCSA's Public Works Programme with US$2 million for feeder road upgrading. The credit also includes US$2 million for a pilot shelter programme to be implemented by NGOs and technical assistance for the Micro-finance Programme.

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