The African Development Bank Group has launched RASME, a digital project supervision platform designed to improve how development projects are monitored, assessed and delivered in Liberia.

The platform- Remote Appraisal, Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation (RASME), was officially unveiled in Monrovia by Rees Mwasambili, the Bank's Country Manager in Liberia. It forms part of the institution's wider digital transformation agenda and is being progressively rolled out across Africa.

The launch opened a four-day capacity-building workshop, held from 22 to 25 June, which brought together more than 50 participants, including representatives of Bank-financed projects, implementing agencies and African Development Bank project managers based in Liberia.

Using mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, together with drone and satellite imagery, RASME enables teams to collect accurate field data in real time. The platform generates georeferenced datasets, photographs, videos and maps, giving project teams stronger evidence to guide decisions and improve supervision missions.

"With RASME, project data collection becomes faster, more efficient, and more cost-effective. The faster we deploy future operations, the better designed and more impactful they will be," Mwasambili said.

Participants also discussed how modern digital data collection and analysis tools can strengthen monitoring and evaluation across sectors, improve collaboration between project implementation units, government counterparts and Bank experts, and support more result-oriented development interventions.

Liberia is a founding member of the African Development Bank. Since 1964, the Bank has invested about $1.03 billion in nearly 76 projects in the country. These include five regional projects amounting to $405 million, and 71 national projects amounting to $625.46 million. The Bank's current portfolio in Liberia comprises 19 operations totaling $419.19 million across transport, power, agriculture, multisector and finance.