ACBF Executive Visits Liberia, Assesses Capacity Building Needs Of The Country

Tuesday, 16th February 2010

The Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) has arrived in Liberia on an assessment mission.

Addressing a news conference at a local hotel upon arrival over the weekend, Frannie A. Leautier said she was in the country to assess the capacity building needs of the Liberian Legislature, civil society and other institutions.

She expressed delight by the progress being made by the Government of Liberia (GOL) in the development of the country as well as the atmosphere being created for job creation and local and foreign investments in the Liberian economy.

She disclosed that US$2 million had been allocated for post-conflict Liberia by the ACBF for capacity building purposes.

Emerging from the civil war, Liberia has had no institution that can formulate and analyze macroeconomic policy for the post-war recovery of its economy.

Emphasizing how vital such an institution would be, the ACBF and the GOL entered a grant agreement in 2007 to establish and provide support for an institution that would build the capacity of the Government in policy analysis, formulation and management.

Against this background, the Liberia Macroeconomic Policy Analysis Capacity Building Project (LIMPAC) was established by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf through Executive Order #7, which was signed on December 27, 2006.

It was renewed through Executive Order #18, signed on February 24, 2008. Visualized as a semi-autonomous entity, LIMPAC is responsible for strengthening and building sustainable national human resource and institutional capacity intervention for key macroeconomic ministries and agencies and academic institutions that would contribute to macroeconomic policy formulation and analysis.

LIMPAC, under the agreement, is also expected to put in place programs and activities that are consistent with the mandate of strengthening the institutional capacity of Government through training, capacity utilization of local and external expertise in policy analysis and management, and to sensitize key policymakers in policy design and implementation.

While in the country, Leautier met with relevant Liberian stakeholders, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in line with her mission.

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