EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This combined 2015 and 2016 report on Sierra Leone’s progress in the implementation of the APRM National Programme of Action (NPOA) presents various assessment of interventions as well as challenges of the country in attempts to implement recommendations made by the Country Review Report of 2012. It captures the various efforts made by the country in implementing the APRM NPOA in the four thematic areas of democracy and political governance; economic governance and management , corporate governance , socio-economic development as well as in the crosscutting issues. The report is divided into the following sections: INTRODUCTION METHODOLOGY STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS CONCLUSIONS The report provides an assessment of progress in the implementation of Sierra Leone’s APRM NPOA during the period of 2015-2016 in the four APRM Governance thematic areas and cross cutting as shown below: DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE • Submission of completed Constitutional Review Commission Report to the Government with significant recommendations for improving the 1991 Constitution Act No.6 of Sierra Leone including the need for • Passing into law of the National Civil Registration Act 2016 that requires compulsory registration of citizens and non-citizens resident in Sierra Leone as well as the provision of registrants with multipurpose E-cards. With this arrangement in place , citizens will no longer requested to do multiple registrations with various government agencies for services • Provision of increasing resources to the National Electoral Commission (NEC), the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) and the National APRM Sierra Leone | Annual Progress Report Commission for Democracy (NCD). • Great strides in fighting corruption with the introduction and implementation of a Pay No Bribe (PNB) programme that seeks to ensure the reporting by citizens of petty corruption. • Code of Ethics and Services Standards for Paramount Chiefs • Alignment of Core Mineral Policy ( 2015) to African Mining Vision • Community Development Agreement to regulate mining companies contributions to local communities development • Relaxing of SO 75 to allow presentation of Audit Reports to the general public and increase in coverage and quality of external audit • Strengthened and operational Legal Aid Board to ensure access to justice by majority poor Sierra Leoneans • Coordinated security sector efforts to develop a National Security Chapter to be included in the reviewed National Constitution • Developed the National Security Policy and Strategy (NSPS) • Developed a National Flood Response Plan that enables Sierra Leone to respond to any flood disaster in a timely manner with or without international/ foreign intervention • Developed a National Border Security Strategy that will enable the country to address its border security problems and other border related issues • Developed a Counter Terrorism Strategy • The Global Peace Index (GPI) ranked Sierra Leone 43 with an index of 1.805 in June 2016. ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT • The country’s economy is recovering with a projected growth of 4.9 % in 2016 from a contraction of 21% in 2015. Economic reform programme achieved key objectives of ensuring more inclusive growth despite the exogenous shocks of the Bola epidemic and the collapse of iron ore prices. The implementation of more belt tightening fiscal and proactive monetary policies in the short and medium terms sector policies in agriculture ,fisheries 11