Sierra Leone: RESOLVE Announces the ReGrow West Africa Partnership and Peace Diamonds with First $1 Million Donor Pledge

Jan 22, 2015 | Globe News Wire
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Today at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Stephen D'Esposito, President and CEO of RESOLVE, and Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Mining and Metals, announced the launch of an initiative to catalyze sustainable economic recovery in the three West African countries most affected by Ebola – Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. The initiative, ReGrow West Africa, seeks to rally donors and investors behind a portfolio of implementation-ready economic development projects. It is being designed and executed by RESOLVE in partnership with Cordaid, a Dutch NGO, and the general membership of the Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group, which includes more than 100 private companies operating in the region. ReGrow West Africa receives financial and technical support in its initiation phase from the German Development Agency, funded by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development.