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It’s #LeftHandersDay! Meet @MAswaray UNIDO’s Country Rep in Sierra Leone—and a proud lefty leading bold change. Under her leadership, UNIDO is: Empowering youth, driving climate innovation, and boosting MSMEs. Left-handers making impact! #SkillsForYouth

Today, #UNIDO, #SierraLeone & @JapanGov inaugurated the Centre of Excellence for Automotive Training at Freetown Polytechnic’s Kissy Campus! A game-changer for youth skills & jobs, it offers training in mechanics & entrepreneurship, advancing #SDGs🌍 👉unido.org/news/unido-sie…

I am calling on industrialized countries to fulfill their commitments to end hunger. This means meeting the 0.7% ODA goal & climate finance commitments, ensuring fair trade & market conditions for developing countries, and debt relief for LDCs. A world without hunger is possible!

On the margins of The World Without Hunger Conference in Addis Ababa, I met with Mr. Gerd Muller, the Director-General of @UNIDO. I highlighted the significant strides we have made in transforming agriculture in Sierra Leone. We agreed that our partnership will support the transformative initiatives we have undertaken as a nation in diverse sectors, but moreso with a core focus on agriculture.

Join @actionaidsl5 this morning for the Annual People's Convergence on Climate Change and tomorrow (9th Nov) for the #EarthWalk 🌍💚 #ClimateAction #PeoplePower

Sierra Leone launched a new #climateadaptation project for #MSMEs. Together with @theGEF @dsengeh @PresidentBio @KYumkella we will help farmers & businesses across the country to access to innovative climate adaptation technologies & solutions. Read more👇 unido.org/news/sierra-le…

Twenty-six member states of #UNIDO will benefit from US$22.4 million in new funding, secured from the Multilateral Fund for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol (#MLF) to accelerate #ClimateAction and reduce ozone-depleting substances. 👉unido.org/news/unido-sec…

Here is a coverage of the handing over of two newly constructed schools in Yorgbofor and Mosankoni communities in Moyamba. @actionaidsl5

@actionaidsl5 commissions 2 newly constructed schs in Yorgbofor and Mosankoni communities in Moyamba. Both schools will enhance access to education for over 500 children. Deputy Minister @MOBSSE_SL & @moped2024 NGO Affairs Director were present. Thanks to our supporters in Italy.

The Country representative of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation in Sierra Leone (UNIDO), @MAswaray has handed over equipment to @Protectionleone, at the Polytechnic Kissy Campus, for the establishment of four new Centres of Excellence across the country, as well as the strengthening of the existing one on the campus. The agency during Stage One of the hydrochlorofluorocarbons phase-out management plan (HPMP), with funds provided by the Multilateral Fund Secretariat of the Montreal Protocol, established the first centre of excellence in 2019. Building on the successes and the unique role of the established centre of excellence, @Protectionleone in collaboration with UNIDO under stage (II) of the HPMP and with funds from the Multilateral Fund Secretariat of the Montreal Protocol, has procured equipment such as recovery machines, cylinders, electronic leak detectors, electronic manifold gadgets, brazing um pumps and kits, manifold ammonia digital, charging kit HC, HCFC, and HFC, kits, for the establishment of four additional centres of excellence across the country. Receiving the items on behalf of the Executive Chairman, Sheikh Ahmed Tunis, Director of Research Policy and Innovation, expressed gratitude to UNIDO for their ongoing support of technicians in the conversion of manufacturing processes and products to environmentally sustainable alternatives. #SustainablePractices #OzoneUnit

In my recent trip to Bombali, I was thrilled to hear how our engagement with PoPDA, with funding from the @EUinSierraLeone, is empowering Organisations of Persons with Disabilities to actively engage in governance processes and trying to influence policies in their favour.

Minister Dr. Haja Ramatulai Wurie turns the soil for reconstruction of the Automobile Department of the Freetown Polytechnic, part of a Japan-funded project implemented by UNIDO for #YouthEmpowerment in #SierraLeone 🛠️ Learn more: lkdfacility.org/projects/autom…

Happy to meet our colleagues from UNIDO’s field offices across the world here at HQ in Vienna! You are the face of @UNIDO & I appreciate your hard work! We need your expertise & ideas to successfully implement projects & advance our priorities for ever more impact on the ground.

Happy to sign a new Country Programme with Sierra Leone's Minister of Trade & Industry Alpha Ibrahim Sesay. @UNIDO and 🇸🇱 will work closely together to develop agribusiness, increase trade competitiveness and access to energy for economic growth that benefits all. #UNIDO20GC

Yesterday, I joined @UNSierraLeone Res Coord @AhonsiBA & other 🇺🇳 colleagues for a visit to #GlobalMercy that arrived in 🇸🇱 in August, hoping to do around 2,350 safe, free surgeries & train 200 healthcare professionals. Thanks @sandralako . @MAswaray, @sabancie @MercyShips

🇸🇱’s new Minister of Trade & Ind., Ibrahim A. Sesay, held fruitful discussions with a UN team led by me today on efforts to enhance the country’s trade competitiveness. We focused on how to leverage opportunities (including AfCFTA) for faster progress towards SDGs 1, 2, 8 & 9.

We launched the Climate Change Manifesto which contains citizens demands & expectations from political leaders. I reiterated the call for debt cancellation for Climate vulnerable country like Sierra Leone, which spends a significant amount of its revenue on debt servicing.

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

@FANDAYTURAY Hearty congratulations

It is a great honour to be Chair of the African Group at the UN in NY and to have presided over my first meeting of this esteemed Group, this morning. We discussed important issues which touch and concern our beloved continent.