WFP provides assistance in Liberia through a countrywide Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation in all 15 counties, a school feeding programme in 12 counties, a Purchase for Progress (P4P) local food procurement pilot project, and an emergency operation (EMOP) assisting Ivorian refugees and vulnerable host populations in eastern Liberia. WFP’s recovery and development programmes, including the P4P pilot, aim to support Liberia’s social and economic recovery and improve food security. The EMOP aims to address the food and nutritional needs of refugees and host populations affected by the Côte d’Ivoire refugee crisis. WFP works in Liberia's 15 counties through sub-offices in Gbarnga and Zwedru; field offices in Saclepea and Harper as well as a sub-office co-located within the main office in Monrovia. WFP has been present in Liberia since 1968.

Overview

Endowed with vast and varied natural resources, a large biodiversity, lush vegetation and a climate favorable to agriculture, Liberia has enormous potential in mining and ecotourism, as well as food and cash crop production. But decades of economic plunder and social disinvestments, amplified by two civil wars, eroded human capital, laid waste to social infrastructure and ravaged productive assets.

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Country at a glance 2012
Planned Beneficiaries521,000
Beneficiary needs (mt)19,031
Beneficiary needs ($US)31,092,646