Freetown, January 30th, 2023 – The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) through its Directorate of Risk Reduction and Preparedness, in collaboration with the National Fire Force and other partners have commenced community engagement on fire prevention and social behavioural change in twenty-eight (28) fire-prone communities in Freetown. The essence of community engagement is to minimize...Read More

NDMA Headquarters, January 27th, 2023 – The Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs has completed a two-day capacity building training on gender mainstreaming for the management and staff of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA). On January 19th, 2023, the President of Sierra Leone, His Excellency Brig. Rtd. Dr Julius Maada Bio signed into law...Read More

Freetown, Monday, January 23rd, 2023 – The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), through its Directorate of Relief and Response has responded to the Wilberforce fire victims by providing temporary shelter to 37 households affected by a fire incident which occurred on the 20th of January 2023. Although the cause of the blaze is yet to...Read More

Mile Six, January 13th 2023 — The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), with funding support from the African Union (AU), through the Solidarity Assistance Disaster Relief Fund, has commissioned a community market and solar panel water well; distributed food and non-food items and provided direct cash transfer to the August 2017 mudslide victims at Mile...Read More

Freetown, December 31st, 2022 – The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), with support from its partners, has commenced the provision of relief support to the Funkia Market Fire Victims. The Directorate of Relief and Response of the NDMA distributed food and non-food items to 211 households. It facilitated the direct cash transfer as livelihood support...Read More

NDMA Headquarters, Aberdeen, Freetown, December 29th 2022 – The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) through its Directorate of Relief and Response presented an Assessment Report on the Funkia Market Fire Incident to key partners such as the UNDP, UNICEF, IOM, WFP, SLRCS, CARITAS, ALL FOR ONE and others during a Coordination Meeting to solicit support...Read More

NDMA Headquarters, Aberdeen – Freetown, November 30, 2022 – Bournemouth University Professor of Crisis and Disaster Management and Deputy Dean of Business School, Lee Miles visited the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) and discussed impactful research and best professional practice in the management of disasters in Sierra Leone. During his visit, Professor Lee Miles engaged...Read More

Bumbuna Town, Tonkolili District, 15 November 2022 – The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), with support from the World Bank under the Resilient Urban Sierra Leone Project (RUSLP), has commenced a five-day National Simulation Exercise at the Bumbuna Hydroelectric Power Dam which seeks to promote disaster preparedness by testing policies and plans, standard operating procedures,...Read More

NDMA Headquarters, Freetown, Friday 11 November 2022: A cross-section of the 2022 Budapest-Bamako Rally delegation has donated a NISSAN XTRIAL T30 E vehicle to Sierra Leone’s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) with a view of helping to address the vehicle constraints of the Agency to effectively respond to reported incidents across the country. The donation...Read More

Bank Complex, Kingtom, Freetown, November 3rd 2022 – The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary School Education (MBSSE) and the Sierra Leone Meteorological Agency (SL Mets), with funding from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has launched the School Disaster Risk Reduction Teaching Guidelines (SDRRTG) and the Climate Information,...Read More