The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning is consulting with sector ministries, agencies and commissions on Non-Governmental Organizations sectorial clearance.
The objective of the consultation is to enhance the accreditation and registration process of NGOs operating in the country.
Representing Finance and Development Planning Minister, Boima S. Kamara at the consultative forum on Wednesday, May 22, 2022, the Deputy Minister for Budget and Development Planning, Tanneh G. Brunson disclosed that the Ministry through the Department of Economic Management developed and revised the Aid and NGOs Policy guidelines, and procedural manual in 2022, a one stop shop NGO online registration and accreditation system.
According to her, the program was developed and launched on August 18, 2022 to enhance the accreditation and registration process of NGOs operating in the country.
Prior to the launch of the platform, NGOs’ registration and accreditation were done through a manual process which had several challenges including long bureaucracies, loss of documents, and too much paper trail taking two weeks to complete.
She indicated that the development of the new platform was completed to remove the bottlenecks associated with the manual process.
She said both parties had an engagement with partners from the civil society organizations, National NGOs and international NGOs operating in Liberia to address major concerns raised by partners including issue of discrepancy in fees for sector clearance across government and high fees charged at various entities.
