The Supervisor of the Nationwide Street Fund (NRF) of Liberia, Mrs. Joseta Neufville-Wento, has joined African Street Fund Chief Govt Officers on the Govt and Technical Conferences of the African Street Upkeep Fund Affiliation (ARMFA), which coincided with the inauguration of Rashid Selleemani Kalimbaga as President-Elect of the Affiliation in Tanzania.
Engineer Kalimbaga, of the Tanzania Street Authority, was elected throughout ARMFA’s twenty second Common Meeting held in Monrovia from November 17–22, 2025. He succeeds Essai Moussa Aubin of Cameroon.
The Govt and Technical Conferences centered on complete experiences from the outgoing management and deliberations on the Affiliation’s forward-looking technique. Key areas mentioned included capability constructing for member establishments, addressing funding gaps, figuring out alternatives to extend funding throughout the continent, and sustaining and increasing ARMFA’s membership.
Mrs. Neufville-Wento, who at the moment serves as Vice Chair of ARMFA’s West Africa Focus Group, actively contributed to the discussions. In her remarks, she inspired ARMFA to leverage interns to help the Govt Workplace and proposed the event of regional packages or tasks that could possibly be collectively offered to improvement companions.
She emphasised that regional initiatives are sometimes extra enticing to companions than country-specific proposals. Citing her latest participation within the Mid-Time period Evaluation Conferences of the World Financial institution and the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Coverage Program, Mrs. Neufville-Wento underscored the necessity for tangible investments to deal with climate-resilient infrastructure challenges.
In line with her, improvement companions ought to more and more shift from coverage discussions to concrete investments. She particularly proposed the event and implementation of a Bus Fast Transit (BRT) system in Liberia as a sensible intervention to enhance mass mobility and ease congestion by effectively shifting giant populations between densely populated corridors.
Via ARMFA, the NRF positive factors direct publicity to superior governance frameworks, trendy fund-management programs, and accountability requirements practiced by peer establishments. These engagements improve the NRF’s capability to strengthen inside controls, enhance income predictability, and guarantee extra meticulous oversight of highway consumer expenses and upkeep expenditures, outcomes that instantly help nationwide infrastructure priorities.
The NRF’s rising credibility is additional mirrored within the 2025 Annual Audit, by which the Common Auditing Fee ranked the Nationwide Street Fund because the best-performing public establishment. Constructing on this recognition, the NRF is at the moment endeavor a transition from a first-generation to a second-generation highway fund by means of a proposed legislative modification now earlier than the Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee. The reform goals to strengthen the Fund’s authorized and operational framework, deepen transparency, and align Liberia’s highway financing structure with worldwide finest practices championed inside ARMFA
