Africa-Press – Liberia. The Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), through its Department of Economic Management, has completed a five-day training on aid coordination and the macroeconomic framework for NGOs, sector ministries, and agencies, as well as development partners and civil society.
The training, which took place in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, was aimed at improving national development and aid coordination across government, especially for those in the development sector who wanted a better understanding of the Liberia Project Dashboard, NGOs Online Registration, Accreditation Platform, and Commonwealth Meridian for data sharing, input, and reporting.
It was held under the theme: “Strengthening Coordination and Ensuring Efficient Management of Development Assistance” and was funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
Augustus J. Flomo, Deputy Minister for Economic Management, who spoke at the launch, said: “The program aims to expose all middle and senior-level managers at various institutions who are working with development data and currently managing development initiatives.”
Minister Flomo said he is very optimistic that the training will provide participants with the tools they need to achieve maximum results by reflecting on the actual outcome of development resources implemented across the country through statistics, numbers, and programs.
“We want to see a single government strategy to aid coordination and implementation across the country that is linked with the Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD),” he emphasized.
Aid coordination and implementation, he said, will make it easier to integrate these platforms with other systems like the Liberia Project Dashboard and other government systems. Additionally, the training also focuses on the importance of budget support and the macroeconomic framework model, which is utilized for policy analysis, forecasting, and research.
Moreover, it was also about ensuring the efficient management of development assistance to the government of Liberia and its people and highlighted the mechanism through which data is shared across sector Ministries, Agencies, and Commissions (MACs), DPs, and other stakeholders that are involved with collating, analyzing, and validating data.
Stanley Kamara, United Nations Economic Specialist and Officer in Charge of the Strategy and Policy Unit, said that such gatherings help key actors strengthen their capabilities.
“See this not just as a retreat, but see it as a means to understand and market your product,” Kamara told the participants. “After this workshop, I see lots of this happening because you have to come together and make this a standing culture because this is called performance management.”
Meanwhile, the five-day training was attended by development partners, ministers, NGOs, sector ministries, agencies, civil society actors, and senior and junior staff of the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning.
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