By Jamesetta D Williams
Monrovia-Nov. 14, 2025: Liberia has recorded important enchancment on the Millennium Problem Company (MCC) Fiscal 12 months 2026 Scorecard, reflecting stronger governance, transparency, and financial administration underneath the management of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr.
Based on the most recent MCC report launched this week, Liberia handed 12 of the 20 efficiency indicators for FY2026-an enchancment from the 11 indicators handed in FY2025. The report highlights progress in key areas similar to Management of Corruption and Authorities Accountability, signaling the administration’s willpower to advertise integrity, transparency, and the rule of regulation.
The nation additionally maintained robust ends in Private Freedom, Property Rights, and Girls within the Economic system, demonstrating continued dedication to democratic values, gender equality, and a conducive surroundings for personal sector development.
Additional evaluation of the scorecard reveals that Liberia made good points in Worldwide Market Entry (93%), Market Competitiveness (60%), and Property and Land Rights (67%), underscoring enhancements in funding confidence and commerce alternatives.
Notably, Liberia’s Management of Corruption indicator-a key benchmark for MCC Compact eligibility-registered a constructive rating of 0.09, inserting the nation above the median.
The Authorities Accountability and Freedom of Data indicators additionally recorded percentile ranks of 73% and 98% respectively. These figures replicate renewed public belief in governance and a rise in citizen participation via open and clear methods.
Whereas acknowledging areas that also require enchancment similar to Pure Useful resource Safety, Little one Well being, and Women’ Main Schooling Completion, the Authorities of Liberia has pledged to speed up reforms and investments focusing on these sectors via the FY2026 nationwide price range.
Responding to the MCC outcomes, Minister of Finance and Improvement Planning Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan expressed delight over the nation’s improved standing and reaffirmed the federal government’s dedication to deepening collaboration with the USA Authorities via the Millennium Problem Company.
“The Authorities of Liberia will proceed to work intently with the MCC to construct on these good points and implement focused interventions that improve public sector accountability, enhance the funding local weather, and increase entry to high quality social providers,” Minister Ngafuan mentioned.
He additionally prolonged gratitude to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai for his “exemplary management” in steering nationwide reforms, in addition to to all authorities establishments and growth companions who’ve contributed to Liberia’s constructive trajectory.
Liberia has cleared a vital milestone in its partnership with the USA after passing the most recent MCC eligibility scorecard, marking a renewed window of alternative for a successor compact that would unlock lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in growth help.
President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr.
The Millennium Problem Company, the U.S. Authorities’s bilateral growth company, publishes an annual nation scorecard assessing nations on governance, financial freedom and funding in individuals. Liberia’s improved efficiency, mirrored within the FY 2025/2026 indicators, alerts to the U.S. that the nation stays a reputable associate for a future compact.
Passing the scorecard is essential as a result of whereas eligibility doesn’t mechanically assure a compact, it’s a pre-requisite. The U.S. Embassy in Monrovia has reminded Liberians that eligibility “doesn’t assure a program,” but it surely does begin the negotiation course of.
A brand new compact would carry large-scale funding, usually starting from US$100 million to US$700 million, aimed toward infrastructure, institutional reform and private-sector development.
It alerts robust worldwide confidence in Liberia’s governance reforms, anti-corruption efforts and institutional strengthening all priorities underneath President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s ARREST Agenda.
The compact course of will power deep diagnostics of Liberia’s constraints to financial development, that means reforms could also be locked in and sustained. It might assist Liberia leverage different investor curiosity, as being MCC-eligible typically alerts a lower-risk surroundings.
Whereas the scorecard go is trigger for celebration, analysts warning that Liberia should now convert eligibility into outcomes. Key duties forward embrace, conducting a rigorous Progress Diagnostic to establish the binding constraints to development and poverty discount, making certain the compact’s design is clear, aligns with nationwide priorities and that procurements are open and aggressive.
Demonstrating implementation capacity-Liberia’s prior compact (signed in 2015) confronted delays and raised questions on absorptive and institutional capability.
Sustaining enhancements on the symptoms that triggered eligibility, to keep away from slipping behind.
