Liberia: CSOs Want 10 Percent Budgetary Allotment to RMNCH

Civil Society organizations and Citizen Groups have petitioned the National legislature to ensure 10% budgetary allotment to Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH) in adherence to every woman, every child initiative or the conventional mandate which Liberia has acceded to.

In a statement recently, the groups said after an intensive National Budget Research in May 2019 organized and conducted by the Partnership for Sustainable Development involving the participation of several civil society organizations under the project Action for Accelerating Sexual Reproductive Health and Policy Implementation funded by Amplifying Change, a British Charity, the research which covers 2014-2019 fiscal years showed that the government of Liberia during the five fiscal years did not fund health to reach 15% target set by the Abuja Declaration.

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