The Informer (Monrovia)
6 July 2009
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This period is of critical importance as Liberia shifts from post-conflict stabilization to laying the foundation for inclusive and sustainable growth, poverty reduction, and progressing toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the 14-chapter and 188-page PRS document states.
The donor-dependent US$1.6bn program is crafted with four major pillars including Enhancing Peace and National Security (Pillar), Governance and the Rule of Law (Pillar II), Economic Revitalization (Pillar III) and Rehabilitation of Infrastructures and Delivery of Basic Social Services (Pillar IV).
The implementation of the PRS is donor dependent (financial wise) because of the US$1.61 billion needed during the three-year period for implementation, government is committed to providing only US$510 million and the balance US$1.1 billion left at the mercy of donors.
Under the ambitious PRS program, government plans to make all primary roads pliable year round, while aggressively opening secondary and feeder roads around the country.
During the three-year life span of the PRS, the government is building or reconstructing 1,187 miles of primary roads of which 1,075 miles will be paved (surface dressing) and 300 miles of all-weather secondary road around the country to connect the headquarters of the 15 counties and other cities.
In addition, 400 miles of feeder roads plus 33 bridges will be built and rehabilitated nationwide during the PRS period.
The Public Works Ministry is fully responsible to spearhead the execution of task mentioned above, and its states that its major goal is to ensure that roads and bridges are pliable and to build capacity for sustained road maintenance.
Meanwhile, as Public Works engages AECC for due diligent in its performance, the over twenty contractors remain in their struggle.
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