Liberia's Cocoa Sector Gets Big Boost as Regional Collaboration Gears to Overcome Binding Constraints on Growth
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- 15 Aug 2022
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As part of efforts to improve cocoa production in Liberia; the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) in collaboration with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) has held a one-day validation workshop study on Liberia’s Cocoa value-chain.
The Institute for Research and Democratic Development (IREDD), the Center for Policy Action and Research (CePAR), and the Center for Democratic Governance (CDG) are the CSOs working with ACET on this project.
The study title: “Regional Collaboration on Overcoming Binding Constraints on the Growth of Liberia’s Cocoa Value Chain” adopts a whole country economy approach that examines the challenges confronting the Liberian cocoa value chain and benchmarks against good practices and success stories on the continent and elsewhere.
The one-year study outlines barriers to the growth of Liberia’s cocoa value chain and recommendations to leverage opportunities available in the sector.
The study is funded by the USAID under the Liberia Economic Policy Dialogue Activity (LEPDA). LEPDA is a four-year technical assistance, capacity development, and grants project that aims to foster self-reliance by spurring private sector-led economic expansion in Liberia.
The project seeks among other things, to increase citizen participation and advocacy in the policy-making arena by strengthening CSOs’ capacity to conduct robust policy analysis and become effective partners in the policymaking process.
Speaking on the importance of this study, Dr. Julius Gatune, Lead Researcher at ACET, praised the study which he said was done in three cocoa-growing counties of Liberia -Bong, Lofa and Nimba.
“It is our expectation that the findings of this study will provide key policy lessons for reforms that target farmers and women in the cocoa industry in Liberia, and improve policy engagement between the Liberian government and the citizenry,” Dr. Gatune said. Read More...
