The Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE) has pushed tenders for projects in Montserrado County following the completion of similar assessment mission across the 17 districts of 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 Legislature to implement community driven development projects changed to improve the welfare of poor communities legislative budget support
Meanwhile, the government has commenced the process leading to the implementation of district development projects through the LACE 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.
The over 300 projects are drawn from the 73 electoral districts of Liberia 15 political subdivisions otherwise known as counties.
The kickoff of the District Development Project follows a meeting in April with members of the House of Representative where the LACE Executive Director 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.
LACE Executive Director Julius Sele speaking shortly before dispatching the technicians expressed excitement that the people will now begin to see impactful projects from government as a demonstration of inclusion in the overall governance of Liberia.
The LACE Executive Director emphasized President Boakai’s resolve to seeing the ordinary people benefit from government’s development initial and reminded the assessment teams to reach out to project sites to get firsthand information on the proposed projects.
He encouraged other communities or districts who are yet to submit their proposed project 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 not limited to road rehabilitation, clinic and schools construction or rehabilitation.
