Environment Protection Agency
At the Environment Protection Agency (EPA-SL), we utilize every avenue to bridge the communication gap between us, the partners we work with, and the public we serve. Today, the Executive Chairman, Dr Abu-Bakar Massaquoi, gave a keynote address to a gathering of leading environmental NGOs, who are reviewing two previous documents: the Nationally Determined Contributions …
The Executive Chairman, Dr. Abu-Bakar S. Massaquoi ,and senior staff of Environment Protection Agency (EPA-SL) paid a courtesy call on the Honourable Chief Justice, Komba Kamanda, and senior judges to strengthen the agency’s growing partnership with the judiciary of Sierra Leone.
26/6/2025- The Executive Chairman, Dr. Abu-Bakar S. Massaquoi ,and senior staff of Environment Protection Agency (EPA-SL) paid a courtesy call on the Honourable Chief Justice, Komba Kamanda, and senior judges to strengthen the agency’s growing partnership with the judiciary of Sierra Leone. The judiciary has been quite supportive in the execution of our mandate as …
We conducted our midterm review (MTR) at our headquarters with the following goals in mind
Monitor and evaluate the first and second quarters of our EPATS’s second-year implementation. ▶️ Consistent progress reporting and alignment with sector-wide objectives. ▶️ Make significant progress in our three thematic pillars (environmental health, nature and biodiversity, and climate change) as well as the six enablers: gender, advocacy and brand development, partnerships and funding, data and …
The Environment Protection Agency participated in an interagency meeting convened by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change at the New Brookfield’s Hotel in Freetown.
19/8/2025, The Environment Protection Agency participated in an interagency meeting convened by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change at the New Brookfield’s Hotel in Freetown. The meeting’s purpose was to bring together all departments and agencies within the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change to review progress on key programmes, prepare for upcoming parliamentary …
#BBNJ #Treaty #Ratification #Committee
Today, we came together to recognise and commend the #BBNJ #Treaty #Ratification #Committee, co-led by the #Conservation #Society of #Sierra #Leone and the #EPASL, for bringing together diverse priorities across institutional and sectoral lines and working hand in hand with the House of #Parliament to see the #BBNJ instrument ratified. This step gives full domestic …
The Environment Protection Agency has concluded trainings for stakeholder members in the recently established Chiefdom Environment Enforcement Coordination Committees (CEECOM) for decentralised environmental governance.
Stakeholder committee members in ten chiefdoms from Bo, Moyamba, Kenema, Tonkolili, and Port Loko districts were selected based on the composition stated in section 68 of the EPA Act of 2022. They were trained to operationalize the objectives of #CEECOM and guided by the Action Plan to carry out joint field monitoring activities effectively, chiefdom-level …
The Environmental Health and Safety Directorate of the Environment Protection Agency (EPA-SL)has conducted a two-day training manual for effective environmental laboratory operations for staff in the Northern, Eastern, and Southern regional offices.
As outlined in our Act of 2022 and the Environment Protection Agency Transformation Strategy (EPATS), the training goals complement institutional capacity and the improvement of our regulatory activities. As we create an environmentally safe future for Sierra Leone, the agency would be able to establish itself as a hub for reliable environmental monitoring data from …