MONROVIA – Local government officials including Mayors, Superintendents, District Commissioners on Monday dialogued on the formulation of a National Urban Policy for Liberia. The main objective of the forum was to appraise stakeholders on the state of the National Urban Policy (NUP) development process in Liberia and seek input and commitment to ensure timely completion of the diagnosis phase of the Liberian NUP. The forum also reviewed and appraised the outputs of the NUP process in Liberia and key outputs of the Diagnosis phase. “The first step to tackle this long existing problem is to embark on the development of a national urban policy. UN Habitat has been supporting the Government of Liberia (GoL) through the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), and in partnership and support of Cities Alliance to develop a National Urban Policy (NUP) for Liberia, under the Cities Alliance Liberia Country Programme since 2016.

Source: Front Page Africa November 27, 2019 00:22 UTC