State Avenue, State House, Freetown, Wednesday, September 10, 2026 — Chief Minister Dr David Moinina Sengeh has convened a High-Level Strategic Delivery Clinic with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to review the Ministry’s priorities and to reorient Sierra Leone’s foreign service as a driver of national development under the Government’s Big Five Game Changers and the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2024–2030.
The clinic provided a structured forum for the Ministry to present a comprehensive vision for transforming the Foreign Service into a modern, accountable, and results-driven institution. Participants discussed how diplomatic representation, protection of citizens, consular services, economic diplomacy and international cooperation can be better aligned to yield measurable outcomes that directly support Sierra Leone’s development agenda.
Chief Minister Sengeh, in his opening remarks, restated that the Strategic Delivery Clinics are meant to help his Office better understand the priorities, progress, and operational challenges of Ministries, Departments and Agencies. The clinics, he stressed, are meant to identify bottlenecks, strengthen implementation accountability and ensure that Government plans are translated into tangible, measurable actions that contribute toward national development.
Hon. Mohamed Rahman Swaray, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, thanked the Chief Minister and his team for organising the clinic and highlighted the importance of the engagement in improving coordination across government. He said the clinic gave the Office of the Chief Minister a better understanding of the Ministry’s work and reiterated the need for the Ministry’s operations to align with the Government’s development priorities.
Hon. Swaray presented a bold vision for the Ministry, seeking to redefine the Foreign Service from its traditional ceremonial and representational roles. His reorientation proposal stresses accountability, measurable performance and the delivery of direct benefits to Sierra Leone and its citizens. Critical to this ambition is the deliberate alignment of the Ministry’s diplomatic mandate, overseas missions and international engagements with the Big Five Game Changers and the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2024–2030.
The Minister’s vision is built on five delivery pillars: Perform, Protect, Serve, Earn and Represent. Under Perform, the Ministry seeks to develop mission baselines, performance compacts, scorecards, and digital records to improve institutional accountability, inform resource allocation, and enable evidence-based management. Protect focuses on strengthening citizen protection, consular emergency response capacity, and labour migration governance to protect Sierra Leoneans abroad. Serve will improve services for the diaspora and travellers by expanding digital consular channels and improving access to national identity services. Place economic diplomacy at the heart of the Ministry’s role in national development by directly linking diplomatic engagements to trade, investment, market access, and national priorities such as Feed Salone. Finally, Represent aims to ensure that Sierra Leone’s regional, multilateral and treaty engagements, as well as development cooperation and public diplomacy efforts, are clearly anchored to national interests and contribute measurably to development objectives.
To translate the vision into action, the Ministry has rolled out a 100-Day Delivery Framework. Key actions against the timetable include publishing a Strategic Direction Note, creating a Foreign Policy Delivery Unit, and establishing a central delivery dashboard to monitor progress. It also envisions establishing mission performance baselines and compacts, strengthening inter-agency coordination mechanisms, and modernising digital systems for consular and citizen services. The 100-day program also targets urgent improvements in citizen protection and labour-migration governance, enhanced diaspora and traveller services, a sharper focus on economic diplomacy and market access, modernisation of consular revenue collection, and clearer prioritisation of regional and multilateral commitments and treaty management.
Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Alan C. Logan, gave a technical presentation on the Ministry’s 100-Day Delivery Priorities. In his briefing, he outlined the precise actions, anticipated results, timeframes and accountability procedures required to put the Minister’s vision into practice. Day 100 seeks to achieve, among other results, a clear strategic direction for the Foreign Service, established baselines for measuring mission performance, improved services for citizens and the diaspora, a stronger pipeline of trade and investment leads, and a coordinated, government-wide framework for delivering foreign service.
The Strategic Delivery Clinic is a crucial step toward improving Sierra Leone’s foreign policy machinery and aligning it with its national development priorities. One way the Ministry seeks to ensure overseas engagements generate tangible benefits at home and underpin delivery of the Big Five Game Changers is by repositioning the Foreign Service to contribute more directly to economic diplomacy, investment promotion, trade facilitation, citizen services, and international cooperation.
The clinic also underscores the Chief Minister’s Office’s continued focus on improving coordination, accountability, and measurable delivery across Government. The engagement will turn the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2024–2030 into tangible results that improve Sierra Leoneans’ lives by clarifying priorities, defining specific outcomes, and setting practical implementation mechanisms.
