The government of Liberia has commenced the process leading to the implementation of district development projects through the Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment as approved in the national budget.
The implementation process is preceded by the deployment of a team of engineers to access the projects agreed upon by the people and their lawmakers.
According to a press statement issued in Monrovia, Sunday, LACE said over three hundred projects are drawn from the 73 electoral districts of Liberia 15 political subdivisions.
The kickoff of the District Development Project follows a meeting in April with the House of Representatives where LACE Executive Director Julius Sele presented the body, the Legislative Support Project (LSP) Implementation Framework.
The LSP Project is intended to allow the various Representatives to construct various projects within their constituents in their respective counties.
To carry out these projects, LACE authorities have partitioned the country into seven regions for easy mapping and accessibility of the earmarked project.
Executive Director Julius Sele speaking Friday, shortly before dispatching the technicians expressed excitement that the people will now begin to see impactful projects from their government as a demonstration of inclusion in the overall governance of Liberia.
The LACE Executive Director emphasized President Boakai’s resolve to see the ordinary people benefit from government’s development initiatives and reminded the assessment teams to reach out to project sites enabling them get firsthand information on the proposed projects.
He encouraged other lawmakers who are yet to submit their proposed projects to do so as others are already ahead of them in the implementation circle beginning  from budget approval, submission of projects, assessment, bidding and actual construction.
After the assessment, the LACE is expected to open a tender for construction companies for competitive bidding following which contracts will be awarded to winners for the actual constructions or implementations of the projects.
Proposed projects being prioritized by the beneficiaries include but are not limited to road rehabilitation, clinic and schools construction or rehabilitation.
Already, the LACE has pushed tenders for projects in Montserrado County following the completion of a similar assessment mission across the seventeen districts of the county.
Each budget year, the government of Liberia allocates funding to counties and electoral districts for infrastructure projects within their constituencies implemented by the Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment.
LACE was established by an Act of the Liberian National Legislature to implement community driven development projects changed to improve the welfare of poor communities legislative budget support.
