OPENING REMARKS
BY
HIS EXCELLENCY DR. GEORGE MANNEH WEAH
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
AT THE
THE CABINET RETREAT
PEACE EMPIRE HOTEL
GANTA CITY
NIMBA COUNTY
July 10, 2022
Her Excellency Chief Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor,
Vice President of the Republic of Liberia;
The Dean and Members of the Cabinet;
Development Partners and Special Guests;
Officials of Government;
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I want to welcome you to this Presidential Cabinet Retreat and thanks to your lively participation within the governance of our nice Nation.
While I commend your laborious work and dedication to responsibility, it’s noteworthy that rather a lot nonetheless stays to be performed to deliver our nation to the promised land, as enshrined within the Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD), our nationwide improvement plan.
Accordingly, we now have rigorously chosen a set of priorities for consideration throughout this retreat, particularly:
- The PAPD efficiency.
- Outlook of the nationwide financial system.
- Management and coordination of overseas assist.
- A assessment of the 2022 Legislative Agenda.
- Increasing accountability and transparency in Government.
- Enshrining a tradition of efficiency and supply of outcomes.
- Improving coordination and teamwork in authorities.
- A assessment of Presidential priorities for the following 16 months.
Over the final 4 years of this Administration, we now have made nice strides within the implementation of improvement initiatives throughout the nation. It is subsequently crucial to assessment the standing of those initiatives, to make sure that they’re absolutely aligned with our targets and intentions to take our nation to its desired vacation spot.
Accordingly, I’ve included a Presidential Development Tour within the retreat actions, in order that I can examine key improvement initiatives and initiatives in Nimba County.
It is my expectation that each one of you contributors will actively have interaction on this Retreat, as we at the moment are coming into a vital interval for this Administration. In October 2023, simply 16 months from now, the Liberian individuals can have the constitutional alternative to reward us for the outcomes we’re attaining. It is subsequently crucial that each one palms are on deck with a full dedication to make sure that we get a powerful victory.
Accordingly, I commend your lively participation within the Performance Management and Compliance System, which requires all Ministries, Agencies and Commissions to develop a complete, important, and analytical report of insurance policies and packages which can be below their course, with explicit emphasis on these which have been instituted through the interval of our stewardship.
You are additionally anticipated to develop Service Delivery Charters to your establishments, to supply readability to the general public of the high-quality companies we’re offering. It can also be of important significance that you simply develop Institutional Strategic Plans which can be well-aligned with the nationwide improvement agenda, the PADP.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
Before I shut, I want to transient you on plenty of important developments which have taken place in our Region and on our Continent prior to now week.
Last Sunday, I attended the 61st Regular Meeting of our regional physique, ECOWAS, which was held in Accra, Ghana. During this convention, the Chairmanship of ECOWAS was handed on from His Excellency Mr. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana, who had served two consecutive phrases, to His Excellency Mr. Umaro Sissoco Embalo, President of the Republic of Guinea Bissau.
The management of the ECOWAS Commission was additionally modified, with the Presidency being handed on from Mr. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou of Cote d’Ivoire, who had served in that capability since 2018, to Dr. Omar Alieu Touray of The Gambia.
Additionally, important progress was made in coping with the navy interventions in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea, by the direct and vigorous engagements of ECOWAS with these regimes, as a way to hasten their return to civilian rule and constitutional governance.
Sanctions had been lifted in opposition to Mali, in response to the declaration by the navy of a hard and fast timetable to show over energy in 24 months, by 2024, which date was acceptable to ECOWAS. Burkina Faso launched the previous President, Mr. Roch Marc Christian Kaboré from all types of detention. And in Guinea, as a way to make progress, the Authority of Heads of State and Government appointed a brand new ECOWAS Mediator for that nation, within the particular person of Mr. Thomas Boni Yayi, former President of Benin.
All of those developments are the results of persistent engagements by ECOWAS as a way to guarantee stability, democracy, and peace in our sub-region.
But peace with out prosperity is an unfinished agenda. That is why final Thursday, I attended the African Summit of the International Development Association of the World Bank in Dakar, Senegal, together with twenty-two (22) different African Heads of State and Government. The convention was additionally attended by the World Bank Group management, heads of regional and UN establishments, and representatives of IDA donor governments.
This Summit was a follow-up to a earlier IDA20 Summit which was held in July final yr in Abidjan, La Cote d’Ivoire, which I additionally attended, and the place African leaders made a joint plea to the IDA and World Bank for a strong and impressive replenishment of IDA assets to help our restoration agenda and to drive the sustainable improvement and financial transformation of our continent.
Our deliberations in Dakar had been profitable, as we championed a robust begin to IDA’s twentieth financing cycle (IDA20). We referred to as the eye of the World Bank and its businesses to the truth that our continent is experiencing reversals of improvement positive factors triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and compounded by local weather change, meals insecurity, battle within the area, and the battle in Ukraine. We subsequently welcomed their constructive response by their resolution to approve an IDA20 financing bundle of US$93 billion to assist all international locations supported by IDA recuperate on a greener, extra resilient, and inclusive path.
In view of this new improvement alternative, I hereby instruct all Government Ministries, Agencies, and Commissions to vigorously have interaction the IDA and World Bank to make sure that Liberia will profit from these funds throughout this transformational interval, significantly within the areas of well being, training, agriculture, digital financial system, youth and ladies empowerment, roads and ports, power and gender. Please learn that the funding obtainable below IDA20 will expire and revert to the donors if not utilized throughout the stipulated time frame.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
The official theme for this Retreat is rightfully framed as “Pushing Forward for A Better Liberia.” As I stated on the Bicentennial Celebrations, it’s crucial that we ask ourselves, “what are those things that we must do to ensure that Liberia is a better place than when we met it?” The solutions to this query should be the first focus of your pondering all through this Retreat.
I welcome you as soon as extra and sit up for frank, constructive, and productive deliberations within the nationwide curiosity.
I hereby declare that the Retreat is now open for enterprise, in accordance with the permitted agenda.
I thanks.
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