Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Sierra
Leone is a resilient country that has
gone through political transitions and negative economic evolutions as a result
of geometric shocks not limited to; the
11 year rebel war, the Ebola pandemic in
2013, and the recent past mud slide and flooding in the city of Freetown and
other parts of the country; cholera outbreak and the closure of the mining
companies and other businesses in the private sector that have been the major
contributor for job creation and worsened the situation to the already
vulnerable socio-economic status in the Country. A grim assessment of sectoral
quality assurance was adopted purposely to give a clear understanding of the
status of sectors in the Sierra Leone’ economy as a result of the negative
impact of the Covid-19 scourge that ravage the all regions in the country. The
study reveals that, it was during the first quarter in 2020 when Sierra Leone
recorded its first Covid-19 pandemic case as the most recent in a series of
natural and artificial disasters Sierra Leone has faced taking cognizance the
11 years civil war that spanned from 1991 to 2002, cholera in 2012, Ebola in
2014, flooding and a mudslide in 2017. Since the inception of the virus to
June, 2021, 5,887 confirmed cases and 109 death cases were recorded in the
country. The emergence of the Covid-19 on the economy in Sierra Leone has
incubated a systemic/country risk effect creating quality Assurance challenges
in economic sectors with huge tendency to reverse gains especially in
businesses - both in the private and public sector. Worthy to note also from
the study was that despite the negative ramification of Covid-19 to all
economic sectors has created an unfriendly environment in the economic sectors
with quality assurance challenges, it gives rise to digitization in some facets
of life especially the educational and
commerce sector adopted the Learning Method System (LMS)- zoom Cloud e-learning
platform and Podcasting that stimulate unlocking the potentials of businesses,
academic staff, administrative staff and students.
Country : Sierra Leone
IRJIET, Volume 5, Issue 11, November 2021 pp. 4-9