KRL International LLC (KRL), a DC-based consultancy specializing in emerging markets, with an unrivaled expertise in West Africa, has signed up the government of the Republic of Liberia in a one-year agreement to support President George Weah and his administration’s Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD). The remit includes increasing donor support and foreign direct investment in critical economic sectors. The contract is signed by the country’s information and finance ministers.

KRL was the company of record for the two terms of the previous Liberian administration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and is credited with facilitating hundreds of millions of dollars of donor assistance and foreign direct investment to the post-conflict nation which enabled the rebuilding of Liberia’s security forces, energy, agriculture, healthcare and education infrastructure. KRL also led the global advocacy push during the Ebola health emergency of 2014 when the U.S. approved an unprecedented US$500 million urgent supplemental appropriations and deployed the 101 ^st Airborne to Liberia to assist in building a logistical bridge to fight the disease.

Given the country’s current economic and fiscal challenges, KRL aims to play a similar catalytic role in mobilizing U.S. and international support in the public and private sectors.

KRL’s CEO Riva Levinson has been active in Liberia and West Africa for 30 years and wrote an award-winning book about her journey: Choosing the Hero: My Improbable Journey and the Rise of Africa’s First Woman President. She is also a regular contributor to the Hill writing on development, Africa and foreign policy.

For more information contact: garret@krlinternational.com