Democracy and Governance

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Democracy & Governance

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USAID/Liberia works to help Liberia build the institutions and processes essential to consolidating its democratic gains by providing support for, among other things, the transparent and accountable management of public resources, civil service reforms, free and fair elections, the rule of law, domestic resource mobilization, decentralization, stronger civil society organizations, and a more professional media sector.

Democracy, Rights and Governance

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USAID is helping build the institutions and processes essential to consolidating Liberia’s democratic gains by providing support for transparent and accountable management of public resources at the national and local levels, domestic resource mobilization, an active and engaged citizenry, strong civil society and media organizations, and targeted peacebuilding efforts.

Economic Growth

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Economic Growth

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USAID/Liberia is working to help spur private-sector led, inclusive growth through strategic policy reform initiatives and direct engagement with private sector partners interested in the opportunities presented by Liberia’s rich agricultural and natural resources.  Expanding and strengthening agricultural value chains and conserving forest and biodiversity resources are central elements of USAID’s economic growth strategy in Liberia.

Liberia Economic Policy Dialogue Activity

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The Liberia Economic Policy Dialogue Activity (LEPDA) is USAID's four-year technical assistance, capacity development, and grants project that works with the Government of Liberia and Civil Society to foster self-reliance by spurring private sector-led economic expansion.

Portfolio Loan Guarantees Activity

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Development Credit Authority (DCA) assumes a share of lending risks to encourage financial institutions to provide loans to actors sectors and segments important to development. DCA works with missions that offer technical assistance to build the credit-worthiness of borrowers, increase the willingness of lenders to extend credit, and create linkages between borrowers and lenders

Rural Liquidity and Financial Inclusion in Liberia Activity

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The Rural Liquidity and Financial Inclusion in Liberia (RLFIL) activity is designed to increase access to critical liquidity and banking services in financially underserved areas of Liberia. The country’s financial and banking services are concentrated in Monrovia, which makes it difficult, time consuming, and expensive for many Liberians to meet basic financial needs such as accessing cash, receiving salary payments, and obtaining a loan.

Health

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Breakthrough ACTION Program

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The goal of the Breakthrough ACTION program is to deliver effective quality social and behavior change (SBC) activities in Liberia that will result in improved demand and use of health services for malaria, maternal, neonatal, and child health and nutrition (MNCH+N); family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH); adolescent health; and water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH); and to help communities engage in behaviors that help prevent zoonotic and non-zoonotic infections in line with the Global Health Security Agenda.

Health

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Building on decades of partnership and collaboration with the Government of Liberia (GOL), USAID/Liberia’s health program seeks to improve the health status of all Liberians, especially the most vulnerable: women, girls, and children under age five.  USAID pursues this goal through interventions that support the GOL’s Investment Plan for Building a Resilient Health System in Liberia.  Our work is guided by the following objectives:

Health Sector

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Building on over a decade of partnership and collaboration with the Government of Liberia, USAID/Liberia’s health program seeks to improve the health status of all Liberians, especially the most vulnerable: women, girls, newborns and children under the age of five.  USAID pursues this goal through interventions that support the GOL’s Investment Plan for Building a Resilient Health System in Liberia 2015-2021.

INFRAWASH Activity

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The purpose of the INFRAWASH activity  is to provide construction oversight services in support of the water pipe network expansion in Voinjama and Sanniquellie.  Additionally, the activity will provide WASH infrastructure services to 24 selected health facilities in Lofa, Bong and Nimba counties.

New Partnership Initiative Expand Activity

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The New Partnership Initiative (NPI) Expand Activity provides support to the Health Federation of Liberia (HFL), a newly formed private sector health organization whose aim is to strengthen the role of the private sector in health care delivery and services and improve and strengthen its relationship with the public sector. NPI EXPAND also supports the Government of Liberia and USAID Liberia’s private sector engagement strategy by strengthening the capacity of the HFL to serve as an organizer and leader in the private health sector.

Partnership for Enhanced Engagement in Research Activity

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The Partnership for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) activity works to improve specialty care services for Liberians in Family Medicine, Ophthalmology, and Infectious Diseases through the establishment of a clinical residency program, training of specialist doctors, training of additional faculty for preclinical teaching, and the promotion of clinical research activities to improve the quality of care. The activity focuses on increasing the quality of and access to specialty care services for Liberians by increasing the number of Liberian medical specialists able to provide critical services in various disciplines and enhance retention of Liberian specialists through locally directed research and training opportunities

Education

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Education

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USAID/Liberia, in concert with other donors, works with the Ministry of Education (MOE) to address access to education, quality of instruction, and improved governance of the Liberian education system. USAID education programs focus on improving the quality of teaching and learning (especially early grade reading) and increasing equitable access to safe learning opportunities for all learners, including students with disabilities, girls, and out-of-school youth. USAID programming also taps into the energy and dynamism of Liberia’s large youth population through a new activity that emphasizes developing the capacity of young Liberians to be key players in their country’s journey to self-reliance. USAID/Liberia’s education programming focuses on the six central counties with the largest populations (Bong, Grand Bassa, Lofa, Margibi, Montserrado, and Nimba).

Education Sector

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The Liberian education system is emerging from a prolonged and brutally destructive period of civil unrest. Long standing impacts from the war, compounded by the recent school closure due to the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) outbreak continue to take a toll on the fragile education system. Liberia is significantly behind most other African countries in nearly all education statistics.

Liberia Accountability and Voice Initiative

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The Liberia Accountability and Voice Initiative (LAVI) is designed to strengthen multi-stakeholder partnerships to advocate for and monitor policy and accountability reforms.  LAVI focuses on developing a portfolio of initiatives with the potential for cumulative impact around issues that have the greatest potential for positive change and are responsive to locally defined priorities.  In particular, LAVI works to:

Preparing the Next Generation of Liberia’s Civil Service Leaders

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USAID is supporting the President’s Young Professionals Program of Liberia to help prepare the next generation of Liberia’s civil service leaders by supporting a new cohort (Class IX) of 20 young and talented Liberian college graduates who will be placed in government ministries and agencies and private sector institutions and organizations through a 2-year fellowship on mentoring and training. The organization youth leadership capacity building model balances the government’s immediate need for competent junior staff with the longer-term goals of increasing the capacity of the civil service and preparing a new generation of talented youth for leadership roles in government.  

Read Liberia Activity

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The Read Liberia Activity provides technical assistance to the Ministry of Education to improve early grade reading skills for 57,600 students in grades 1 and 2 in 640 schools and pilot a model for improving oral vocabulary for 2,700 kindergarten students 60 out of the 640 schools. The activity aims to increase the Liberian Government’s commitment to improve evidence-based reading instruction, provide teaching and learning materials, and improve early grade reading (EGR) classroom instruction, service delivery, parent, community, and private sector support.

Gender