Agenda For Transformation: Steps Toward Liberia RISING 2030.

Developing Liberia’s medium-term growth strategy required intense intra-sectoral and cross-sectoral coordination to ensure that the process benefited from synergy and complementarity between sectors. To achieve this level of cooperation, 25 sector working groups (SWGs) analyzed and formulated sector plans. Each SWG followed a common results-focused approach, emphasizing outcomes and capacity development, rather than the output-focused approach in the PRS. The SWGs were led by government M&As and co-led by one development partner designated for each sector. Liberia has an aspiration to become a middle-income country by the year 2030. The government is leading the development of Liberia RISING 2030, a visioning exercise that includes the perspectives of diverse stakeholders from Liberian society and takes a broad view of Liberia’s economic, political, social and human development over an 18-year timeframe (2012–2030). It aims at directing public spending toward infrastructure and human capital development that will enable expanding production of tradable goods and services—for export or to replace imports. Agricultural development, enhanced competitiveness and modernization can improve the diversification of the economy, reduce poverty and improve food security (and hence risks on the import side), while limiting the damage to the rainforest.