WFP Sierra Leone Country Brief, December 2020 Format - USD 0 cash-based transfers made - USD 6.6 m six months (January-June 2021) net funding requirement - 365,000 people assisted in December 2020 Operational Context Sierra Leone is a low income country marked by food-deficit, with 63 percent of Sierra Leoneans estimated to be food insecure (June 2020 Food Security Monitoring System survey). Food security has drastically deteriorated since January, demonstrating the considerable impact of COVID-19 on households that rely on fragile livelihoods. Poverty levels are high, with 53 percent of the population living below the income poverty line (with less than USD 1.25 per day), and the country is still socially and economically recovering from the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak which ended in 2016.