The Focal Points of the Campaign (Women's Forum, Forum for Women Educationalists - FAWE) carried out the following actions to mark the launch of the Campaign in Sierra Leone:

- Collecting signatures from a wide category of persons including MP's, paramount chiefs, human rights activists, womens' organisations, private sector teachers, women in the security sector (police, military, prisons), students and teachers. The list contains 121 signatures so far...!

- Radio discussion on the Campaign Declaration at the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service and the Talking Drums Studio.

- Sensitised participants at the following meetings;

  • Urgent Action Fund Africa workshop on building organisations with a soul in Nairobi, Kenya - 7th March 2009
  • Debriefing Meeting on the Colloquium in Liberia held in Freetown with particular emphasis on the UN Security Council Resolution 1325-18th March 2009
  • Conference on Women, Water, Sanitation and Electricity at the British Council in Freetown. Posters displayed in strategic areas of the Council
  • National Commemoration of International Womens Day On 21st March in Kono,Eastern Region

- Sent letters to key stakeholders including; UN agencies, The World Bank, UNIFEM, UNDP, The United Nations Peace Building Mission in Sierra Leone, Line Ministries-Foreign Affairs and International cooperation, Social Welfare and, Gender and Childrens' Affairs and Finance and Economic Development.

- Distributed posters, stickers and badges to many women countrywide.

LUMICRON DIGITAL STILL CAMERA Rosaline Mcarthy, President of the Women's Forum at the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service Studio (SLBS) on 18th March,2009

LUMICRON DIGITAL STILL CAMERA Rosaline at the post colloquium meeting in the capital, Sierra Leone on 18th March

LUMICRON DIGITAL STILL CAMERA Rosaline at the post colloquium meeting

LUMICRON DIGITAL STILL CAMERA Rosaline Mcarthy and Bernadette Jojo (President of Forum for Women Educationalists - FAWE) with Haja Kadi Johnson (Producer) at the SLBS Studio

LUMICRON DIGITAL STILL CAMERA Bernadette and Rosaline at the SLBS Studio

LUMICRON DIGITAL STILL CAMERA Participants at the Advocacy Forum to mark International Womens Day on the theme "Stop Violence Against Women - unite to end maternal deaths", in Kono district, Eastern Region on the 19th to 21st March, 2009