The AFENET team in Sierra Leone in collaboration with a team from the Secretariat, held the first strategic planning meeting from 19 -22 April 2022 to discuss the Sierra Leone cooperative agreement (CoAg) which is now in its second year of implementation for a 5-year timeline. The three-day meeting was held in Freetown to review last year’s performance and also plan for the next financial year, which will be the third year of implementation of this CoAg.

AFENET was awarded this CoAg in 2020 and it will run till 2025. Titled Strengthening Sustainability of Global Health Security Objectives in Sierra Leone, the CoAg seeks to support workforce development, surveillance, expanded program on immunization, laboratory, port health, and emergency response to public health events. 

The strategic planning meeting was graced by the presence of the US CDC Deputy Director – Technical, Dr. Monique Foster, and the Workforce Development specialist, Dr. John Kamara). The AFENET secretariat team was led by Dr. Godfrey Kayita together with Finance Liason Mr. Harrison Mubiru and Monitoring & Evaluation specialist Mr. Humphrey Kabugo.