Message from the Superintendent

The County Development Agenda is one of the most ingenious development processes to have been carried out in our country.

Since the founding of Liberia, the country has operated on a year-by-year basis. There has never been a long-range planning process. All of the decisions for even short-range planning have been generated from Monrovia and sent down to the people. People have always felt left out and alienated; the plans were Government plans, not the people’s plans.

Therefore, the people did not fully participate in development programs or care about their outcomes.

This new process is different; the current “bottom-up” approach involves the people from the beginning and enables the Government to know what the people want. It began with the Government asking the people to say what they wanted. The
Government, with help from the International Community, reached out to the people in the various towns and villages and asked them about the types of development initiatives they wanted undertaken in their communities, their districts, and their county. This information was used to create the five-year development plan, the
County Development Agenda you now hold in your hand.

As a result of this coordinated and wholesome effort by the people of the County, we can safely say that those development projects in the CDA are projects of the people and by the people. Moreover, we can be assured that the people will fully participate in the implementation of these development projects and will own them. They will take better care of the property that results from these projects, because the property will no longer be seen simply as Government property.

We are grateful to this Government, as well as the people of Bong County, yea Liberia, for seizing this opportunity to unite and determine our own destiny together.

Renny Banama Jackson
County Superintendent