Rural Mobility and Socio-economic Baseline Pilot Study in Liberia: Final Report
This report gives guidelines on conducting socio-economic impact baseline and follow up studies on rural road projects in Liberia
Abstract
The Liberian Ministry of Public Works (MPW) is working towards the establishment of a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system for assessing the socio-economic impacts of rural road improvement projects. The system is being established with the assistance of ReCAP using the Liberian Swedish Feeder Roads Project (LSFRP) funded by the Swedish Government as a case pilot study under a consultancy agreement with the University of Birmingham.
This Final Report presents the outcomes of the study and gives guidelines on conducting socio-economic impact baseline and follow up studies on rural road projects in Liberia. Key issues arising from the study include the need to focus on creating synergies amongst ministries, agencies and projects that are active in the rural roads sector to enable the effective sharing of resources and data required to build the M&E System. The Road Fund is seen as key to ensuring sustainability of the system through providing funds for revamping MPW’s IT system in the short term, and funding data collection activities in the future.
This work is part of the Applied Research on Rural Roads and Transport Services through Community Access Programmes in Africa and Asia (AFCAP2 and AsCAP)
Citation
Bopoto, C., Addai-Yeboah, A. (2019). Rural Mobility and Socio-economic Baseline Pilot Study in Liberia, Final Report. London: ReCAP for DFID.
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