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    • Program: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in Liberia:Developing a Comprehensive Framework for REDD Incentives Targeted at Communities and Conservation
    • Grantee: Conservation International, NCRC, Forest Trends
    • Date: March 2009
    • Commitment: 2 years
    • Sector: Environment
    • Region: Liberia

    This joint project conducted by the 3 NGOs CI, FT and NCRC is the second phase of the previous grant made in 2007 by the Foundation to two of these actors and is a renewal of MMF commitment to Liberia’s National REDD Strategy. Their joint efforts will position local communities and the government to tap new markets and increase revenues from ecosystem products and services, ranging from non-timber forest products to carbon credits in voluntary carbon markets in Liberia as well as strengthening national technical capacity and institutional structures for developing a low-carbon economy in the country.

    • Program: Improving Adult Literacy
    • Grantee: Alfalit
    • Date: June 2009
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Education
    • Region: Liberia

    Alfalit has been educated over 8,000 Liberians in basic education over the past 3 years. With this grant, Alfalit will be able to teach additional 1,650 Liberians in the south east of the country.  

    • Program: Strenghtening the University of Liberia
    • Grantee: AHED-UPESED
    • Date: July 2009
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Education
    • Region: Liberia

    With this grant, AHED (Academics for Higher Education and Development) will provide 2 consultants to work with the President of the University of Liberia to update the 5-year strategic plan of the University as well as improving the top-management organization. 

    • Program: Writing Liberia Mental Health Policy
    • Grantee: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare / Massachusetts General Hospital
    • Date: 
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Health
    • Region: Liberia

    MMF contracted external consultants from Massachusetts General Hospital to assist in providing expertise to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to complete the Mental Health Policy of Liberia. 

    • Program: Liberian Law Fellows
    • Grantee: Center for Global Development
    • Date: December 2007
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Other
    • Region: Liberia

    The goal of this grant is to support the reconstruction of the judicial system and build legal capacity in Liberia by funding three Lawyers through ‘Liberian Law fellowships’ to provide training and pro-bono support work for the Ministry of Justice in Liberia.  This is a joint grant with Humanity United, with the logistic and administrative support of the Center for Global Development.

    • Program: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Liberia
    • Grantee: Conservation International
    • Date: October 2007
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Environment
    • Region: Liberia

    Liberia is situated within the tropical rainforest belt on the West Coast of Africa: forests cover 45% of Liberia. In this context, it is important that the Liberian Government adopts appropriate policy that balances forest conservation with other national priorities such as economic development. The NGO Conservation International worked with the Liberian Government to prepare a national plan for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in Liberia. This REDD plan was presented at the UNFCCC Conference in Bali in December 2007.

    Conservation International also works with the Liberian authorities to protect and preserve the country’s forests while pioneering innovative solutions for increasing community employment and government revenue generation through carbon financing.

    • Program: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Liberia
    • Grantee: Forest Trends
    • Date: October 2007
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Environment
    • Region: Liberia

    With MMM support, Forest Trends assists the Liberian Government’s newly created Carbon Working Group (CWG) to develop pilot projects to promote community economic development based on natural resource management and payments for carbon sequestration credits in Eastern Liberia.

    The primary goal of these pilot projects is to help create additional income and jobs for local communities and to provide them with vested interests in conserving their natural resources. These pilot projects also form part of CWG’s strategy to create Reduced Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) credits at the national level.

    • Program: Zwedru Midwifery School, Grand Gedeh
    • Grantee: Merlin
    • Date: August 2008
    • Commitment: 2 years
    • Sector: Education
    • Region: Liberia

    The lack of skilled health workers is a key challenge in Liberia, mainly in rural areas. The international NGO Merlin will restart Zwedru Midwifery School in the south of the country, in collaboration with the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and with the financial support of MMF. First students are expected to start the training in January 2009; the school will train 40 students from the South-East region per year.

    • Program: School Buses in Monrovia
    • Grantee: Liberian Education Trust
    • Date: July 2008
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Education
    • Region: Liberia

    Going to school can be an issue in urban areas for young students as public transport are almost non-existent in the country. MMF provided funding to the Monrovia Transport Authorities (MTA) to fix 11 buses and purchased 10 new ones in order to establish an efficient bus system in Monrovia, that will benefit both students and the local population. This grant was made with the administrative support of the Liberian Education Trust.

    • Program: Sport for Peace and Development in the South of Liberia (Maryland, Sinoe & Grand Gedeh)
    • Grantee: Right To Play
    • Date: October 2007
    • Commitment: 3 years
    • Sector: Education
    • Region: Liberia

    Right to Play is an international humanitarian organization that uses sport and play as a tool for the development of children and youth. The sport and play sessions organized by Right to Play in the most disadvantaged communities serve as learning opportunities for participants as specifically designed messages relating to peace building, health promotion and good citizenship are embedded within the programs. Right To Play started to work in Liberia in 2006 in the counties of Montserrado and Lofa. This grant allows them to expand their activities into three counties in the south of Liberia (Sinoe, Maryland and Grand Gedeh) and reach over 25,000 children on a regular basis through the effort of 960 trained coaches.