Monrovia — Naymote Companions for Democratic Growth has launched its President Meter Report 2025, delivering the primary unbiased, evidence-based evaluation of the Liberian authorities’s implementation of the ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Growth (AAID) throughout its preliminary 12 months in workplace.
Overlaying the interval from January to December 2025, the report tracks 378 interventions throughout 52 core applications and 6 strategic pillars, offering a broad image of progress, bottlenecks, and systemic challenges dealing with President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr.’s flagship nationwide growth plan, launched on January 15, 2025.
In accordance with the findings, solely three interventions—representing 0.8 %—have been absolutely accomplished inside the first twelve months. Whereas 165 interventions (43.7 %) recorded some degree of progress, 76 interventions (20.1 %) had not began, and 134 interventions (35.4 %) couldn’t be assessed attributable to a scarcity of publicly accessible knowledge. Total, the report concludes that 55.5 % of AAID interventions are both inactive or lack ample info for verification, elevating considerations about implementation tempo, coordination, and transparency.
Efficiency different throughout the six pillars of the AAID. Governance and Anti-Corruption posted a 56.9 % activation price, adopted intently by Environmental Sustainability (56.7 %) and Infrastructure Growth (55.3 %). Naymote attributes these comparatively stronger outcomes to digital governance reforms, donor-supported local weather initiatives, and visual infrastructure tasks.
In distinction, Human Capital Growth (36.7 %) and Financial Transformation (35 %) emerged because the weakest-performing pillars. The report cites underfunding, weak inter-ministerial coordination, and restricted reporting as main constraints undermining progress in these crucial areas.
The evaluation additionally highlights persistent challenges in service supply on the subnational degree. Critiques of County Service Facilities present that greater than 60 % of core authorities providers stay unavailable exterior Monrovia, reinforcing long-standing considerations that decentralization has lagged behind official coverage commitments.
Regardless of the gradual tempo total, Naymote notes a number of areas of tangible progress. These embrace the institution of the Conflict and Financial Crimes Courtroom workplace, the rollout of biometric nationwide ID registration reaching over 710,000 residents, pilot implementation of e-procurement methods, key legislative reforms, and focused investments in agriculture, vitality, and tourism. The report says these positive aspects show that significant outcomes are attainable when political will, assets, and institutional capability align.
Commenting on the findings, Naymote warned that the present implementation price is way beneath what’s required to satisfy the AAID’s 2029 targets. At the moment tempo, the report estimates that implementation would wish to speed up greater than twenty-fold to remain on observe.
To handle these gaps, Naymote recommends pressing reforms, together with the creation of a devoted AAID coordination secretariat, obligatory quarterly public reporting by all implementing establishments, improved finances execution, and deeper decentralization of authority and assets to counties.
The President Meter Report 2025 was produced below Naymote’s Democracy Development Program with assist from the Embassy of Sweden and the Swedish Worldwide Growth Cooperation Company (Sida). Naymote burdened that the views expressed within the report are its personal and don’t essentially mirror these of its companions.
As a part of its accountability and citizen engagement efforts, Naymote introduced it’ll proceed quarterly monitoring of AAID implementation via 2029, publicly releasing findings and fascinating authorities, civil society, the media, and residents to advertise results-driven governance.
