ADWP – Adjustment, Draw-down and Withdrawal Plan
AFL – Armed Forces of Liberia
AFRC – Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
AFTC – Armed Forces Training Centre
AGOA – Africa Growth and Opportunity Act
AOR – Area of Responsibility
APC – All People’s Congress
BANARTY – Bangladesh Artillery
BANBATT – Bangladesh Battalion
BANENGR – Bangladesh Engineers
BANLOG – Bangladesh Logistics
BANSEC HQ – Bangladesh Sector Headquarters
BANSAL – Bangladesh-Sierra Leone Agricultural Project
BANSIG – Bangladesh Signals
Bde – Brigade
CACD – Community Arms Collection and Disposal
CACDP – Community Arms Collection and Disposal Programme
CCSSP – Commonwealth Community Safety and Security Project
CDF – Civil Defence Forces
CEIP – Community Education Investment Programme
CivPol – Civilian Police
CONOPS – Concept of Operations
CPTF – Commonwealth Police Task Force
DDR – Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration
DFID – (UK) Department for International Development
DO – District Officer
EU – European Union
ECOWAS – Economic Community of West African States
ECOMOG – Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group
FACOVA – Famous Agricultural Organisation for Africa
GAF – Guinea Armed Forces
GoSL – Government of Sierra Leone
GTZ – German Agency for Technical Co-operation
HDI – Human Development Index (UN)
HR – Human Rights
ICRC – International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
ICTR – International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
ICTY – International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
ICC – International Criminal Court
ICG – International Crisis Group
IDP – Internally Displaced Person
IHL – International Humanitarian Law
IMATT – International Military Advisory and Training Team
IMF – International Monetary Fund
IRC – International Rescue Committee
ITAT – Infantry Training Advance Team
JP – Justice of the Peace
LDP – Law Development Project
MACPC – Military Aid to Civil Power Capability
MDTF – Multi-Donor Trust Fund
MDP – Media Development Project
MilObs – Military Observers
MOCKY – Movement of Concerned Kono Youths
MoD – Ministry of Defence
MRP – Military Reintegration Programme
MRU – Mano River Union
MSF – Médecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders)
NCDDR – National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration
NACSA – National Committee for Social Affairs
NCRRR – National Committee for Relief, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
NEC – National Electoral Commission
NGO – Non-Governmental Organisation
NPFL – National Patriotic Front of Liberia
NRC – Norwegian Rescue Council
NSC – National Security Council
OCHA – Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
ODA – Official Development Assistance
OHCHR – Office of the (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights
PAC – Partnership for Africa Canada
PAKCON – Pakistani Contingent
PLP – Peoples’ Liberation Party
PI – Public Information
PRFA – Poverty Reduction Framework Arrangement
QIP – Quick Impact Projects
RSLAF – Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces
RUF – Revolutionary United Front
RUFP – Revolutionary United Front Party
SLA – Sierra Leone Army
SLP – Sierra Leone Police
SLPP – Sierra Leone People’s Party
SLRA – Sierra Leone Roads Authority
SLIRP – Infrastructure Reconstruction Programme (Sierra Leone)
SRL – Sierra Rutile Limited
SRSG – Special Representative of the Secretary General (UN)
TRC – Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Sierra Leone)
ULIMO – United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia
UNAMSIL – United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
UNDP – United Nations Development Programme
UN DPKO – United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations
UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Fund
UNHCHR – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNHCR – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UN MilObs – United Nations Military Observers