member states in ensuring the health safety of plants, animals and foods in the ECOWAS region. Sierra Leone has also adopted and implemented the change from imperial to metric system in its channel of trade through the enactment of the Weights and Measures Act 2010. OBJECTIVE 5: Providing for Accountability of Companies, Directors and Officers 3.4.6 Enactment of the Company Act as a tool provided by Parliament to support the effective implementation of the International Financial Reporting Standards. ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRATION: THE AGENCY ENSURES THE INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN OVERALL NATIONAL PLANNING BY DEVELOPING MODALITIES AND MAINTAINING LINKAGES OR PARTNERSHIPS WITH RELEVANT GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES, DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES. 3.5. SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT The APRM Socio –Economic Development thematic area has 5 objectives that Sierra Leone has during the reporting period been trying to address in terms of recommendations made by the APRM Country Review Report of 2012 as shown below: OBJECTIVE 1: Promoting self reliance in development and building capacity for self –sustaining development 3.5.1 OBJECTIVE 2: Accelerating socio-economic development to achieve accelerated sustainable development and poverty reduction 3.5.3 Enhancing farmers food production capacity – The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security distributed 65,000 bushels of seed rice , 42 000 bags of assorted fertilizers and millions of different varieties of tree crops seedlings to individual farmers and farming groups ( HEs Parliament Speech 2016). Additionally, 52 Agric Business Centers have been selected for transformation into viable processing and marketing entities to meet recovery objectives of creating 10,000 jobs across the agriculture supply chain and increase agricultural production and productivity of targeted crops and livestock. A total of 922.5 km of feeder roads are been rehabilitated in 9 districts and work is in progress in Kailahun, Kenema, Kono and Koinadugu districts. The Ministry also provided 2 292 farm families with access to finance. 3.5.4 – Meeting the UN Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) - Sierra Leone has also been taking steps to implement the global goals. In July 2016, Sierra Leone was ranked 138 out of 149 countries in SDG’s implementation (SLIBS 2016 Report). All of the SDG’s have been aligned with the Agenda for Prosperity and a simplified version of the SDGs was distributed widely as part of the national sensitization drive. The 2016 National Budget was also aligned to the SDGs. OBJECTIVE 3: Strengthening policy, delivery mechanisms and outcomes in key social areas including education and combating HIV and AIDS and other communicable diseases 40 APRM Sierra Leone | Annual Progress Report