The World Bank and the Government of Liberian have signed the Youth Opportunities Project (YOP) providing additional financing grant agreement of US$1.5 million to provide support to youth under the productive public works component of the YOP. World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Dr. Henry Kerali and Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Samuel Tweah, signed the Agreement in Washington, DC, during the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. The signing ceremonies were attended by members of the Liberian Government delegation and the World Bank Country Manager for Liberia, Larisa Leshchenko. Given the success of the original YOP, the Swedish Government committed to support the project with an additional financing of US$3.5 million. Since January 2017, the project enrolled over 8,000 beneficiaries, over 7,000 of whom are youth living in hard-to-reach rural areas in Liberia.

Source: Daily Observer April 22, 2019 02:15 UTC