Author: Alline Dunbar

Buchanan, Grand Bassa County – After several consultations and meetings with miners in several mining communities around Liberia with the sole aim of promoting sustainablemining within the artisanal and small scale mining sector (ASM), the Ministry of Mines and Energy in consultation with the Environmental protection Agency (EPA) and the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia (SCNL) along with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Wednesday, December 22, began a two-day training of trainers workshop for miners on the proper use of a newly developed handbook for ASM.

Ganta, Nimba County – The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Wednesday, October 20 begin a three-day capacity building workshop for the purpose of enabling the MOCI to create windows at the county service centers (CSCs) so as to provide business advisory services and business management services for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

Careysburg, Montserrado County – Serene Health Incorporated (SHI) in partnership with the Carter Center on Monday, October 11, organized a one-day event in commemoration of the 29th celebration of World Mental Health Day.

MONROVIA – Liberia, a small country on the west coast of Africa, still experiences people of different nationalities entering and creating companies in the country without declaring the actual value of those companies to the government through the Liberia Revenue Authority.

Tahn, Grand Cape Mount County – The Society for the Conservation of Nature (SCNL), an environment civil society in collaboration with the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forestry Development Agency Thursday, September 16, ended a two-day training workshop for persons associated with artisanal and small scale (ASM) mining activities in Tahn, one of the towns around the Gola forest.

Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount – The Government of Liberia, through the Environmental Protection Agency on Saturday, September 11, launched Liberia’s first eco brigade named “Piso Eco-Brigade”.

Tubmanburg, Bomi County – The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in partnership with the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia (SCNL) along with several partners on Thursday, August 26, began a two-day Environmental safeguard training workshop for artisanal and small scale miners operating within the Gola Forest Landscape.

BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa County – The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), on Wednesday began a three-day training workshop for over 90 program and finance technicians from 45 Civil Society Organizations across the country on UNDP’s standard operating procedures for partners’ engagement as it relates to acquiring low value grants.

BUCHANNA, Grand Bassa – United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in partnership with the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Finance  and Development Planning Wednesday began a two-day awareness and training workshop on National Aid and NGO policy and the Liberia Project Dashboard-LPD.

Ganta, Nimba County – Artisanal and small-scale miners participating in the second leg of the multi-stakeholders’ workshop on environment monitoring and human rights have called on the Government of Liberia and partners for more awareness on how to eradicate harmful mining activities in the country.