Happy New Year, Partners!
Thanks to your immeasurable technical and financial support, we are pleased to inform you that we accomplished a number of critical milestones in 2021. As we begin a new year, I’d like to thank you, on behalf of the Board and staff of the Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law, for your extraordinary support to us over the years. The Covid-19 virus has had a significant impact on global economic and development programmes, including the work that organisations like ours do. During the past year, we continued to serve our communities by adapting to the many changes imposed on us by the Covid-19 virus. We are hopeful that 2022 will be much better in terms of our collective ability to respond to the virus and adapt to the emerging variants of the virus. Last year was an all-round good year for CARL in many respects, even though the organization grappled with many challenges. Thanks to our dedicated team at CARL and the immense support from you (our partners), we either accomplished or made significant progress on a number of organisational priorities for 2021. For instance, after years of advocacy, the Sierra Leone Police has finally ring-fenced a budget for the operations of FSU in 2022 (for the first time since the Unit was set up more than 20 years ago). This is expected to enhance the Unit’s ability to deliver on their mandate of investigating and prosecuting sexual and gender-based crimes. See full text of the message here
