This Act was passed to provide development of all sectors of the economy through the incorporation of local content in their productive activities. The Act establishes several aspects of the local content inclusion process such as the Sierra Leone Local Content (SLC) Agency. It also creates a fund to support suppliers, exporters and importers; details provisions for employment and training of citizens; generates a SLC certification, scorecard, and a performance report; and establishes several rules for tendering processes.

This document introduces the PPP legal and institutional framework of Sierra Leone.

The focus of the AICD country reports is on benchmarking sector performance and quantifying the main financing and efficiency gaps at the country level. These reports are particularly relevant to national policy makers and development partners working on specific countries.

Sierra Leone has been struggling to recover from a devastating civil war in the 1990s. One promising sector—tourism—has been held back by an acute shortage of quality hotels in the capital, Freetown. To address this problem, the government hired IFC as lead advisor for a public-private partnership to attract an international hotel operator to redevelop and operate the Cape Sierra Hotel.

Author: Integrated Transport Planning Ltd.

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The PPP Regulations including the PPP Act, were published in 2014 and provide detailed guidelines to the PPP Act.

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Find country-level PPP profile and links to key data and resources.  Find more in our Country Profile section.   

The Government of Sierra Leone established the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Unit in the Office of the President under the PPP Act 2014. Among other things, the primary role of the Unit is to collaborate and provide technical support to Ministries, Departments, Agencies (MDAs) and local councils in engaging the private sector to deliver public sector services