New York, USA – Liberia’s Minister of Gender, Kids and Social Safety, Gbeme Horace Kollie, has urged the worldwide neighborhood to step up financing for the Girls, Peace, and Safety (WPS) agenda, cautioning that progress will falter with out sustainable funding.
By Endurance M. Jones
Talking on the UN Basic Meeting’s Ministerial Excessive stage Session on Girls, Peace, and Safety, the Minister underscored that whereas Liberia has achieved significant beneficial properties in gender equality and put up battle restoration, persistent underfunding stays the best barrier to affect.
The excessive stage session was hosted by Japan and Norway, 2025 Co chairs of the WPS Focal Factors Community, in partnership with UN Girls, underneath the theme “Deepening WPS Commitments for Motion: Innovating and Adapting to Ship on Peace and Safety.”
“Our collective credibility rests on translating commitments into tangible outcomes for girls and ladies,” Minister Horace Kollie instructed world delegates. “Resourcing and accelerating motion for Girls, Peace, and Safety isn’t optionally available.”
She reminded the meeting that Liberia was the primary put up battle nation to undertake a Nationwide Motion Plan on WPS in 2009, later renewing it in 2019. The second plan, prolonged by way of 2025, shall be adopted by a 3rd era plan (2026–2031) at present in growth. The following section, she mentioned, shall be guided by classes realized and formed by way of consultations with grassroots girls, safety actors, and worldwide companions.
Highlighting nationwide progress, the Minister cited key milestones:
Girls now maintain 60% of Supreme Court docket seats and 33.3% of county superintendent positions.
A Gender and Safety Sector Taskforce is driving inclusion throughout the navy, police, and immigration providers.
Authorized reforms and affirmative motion measures are dismantling limitations to girls’s political participation.
She additionally pointed to Liberia’s flagship REALISE Challenge, which has reached over 53,000 weak households, most of them feminine headed. Its Social Money Switch program alone helps 16,000 women-led households throughout 4 counties, lowering meals insecurity, strengthening resilience, and fostering girls’s financial empowerment foundations of peace and stability.
Regardless of these achievements, Minister Horace Kollie warned that restricted financing continues to undermine coordination, weaken implementation, and limit the attain of lifesaving interventions similar to gender based mostly violence providers and ladies led peacebuilding initiatives.
“Liberia stands able to play its half, however we can’t do it alone,” she mentioned. “Collectively, we should be certain that financing matches ambition and that no lady or lady is left behind.”
Because the world marks 25 years because the adoption of UN Safety Council Decision 1325, Liberia’s message was clear: progress is achievable, however provided that political will and monetary commitments align to drive sustainable change.
