Upgrading Water and Sanitation Systems Incorporating Skills-Based Training and Employment for Youth in Ebola-Affected Slum Communities

This project proposal is pursuant to the need to expand basic sanitation, improve environmental conditions and hygiene, and promote youth employment in the slum communities of Monrovia. The proposal is made as an urgent component of the UN’s overall support to the implementation of the post-Ebola recovery strategy in Liberia. The project will constitute the first phase of a long term slum upgrading programme, which will help to strengthen resilience, and reduce vulnerability to Ebola outbreaks and other public health disasters in the urban areas of Liberia. The project has been conceived within the framework of the Joint UN programming approach with UN-Habitat, UNICEF and ILO as the main UN partners to collaborate with GoL partners, including the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, the Ministry of Gender and Social Development, the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) and the Liberia Water and Sewerage Corporation (LWSC). The project will employ the labor-intensive approach to implement the solid waste management component of the intervention. In addition, it will help build the capacity of Community Based Enterprises that will be responsible for environmental sanitation. By using this strategy, the project will not only contribute to local economic development in the project area, but will as well help ensure to some degree sustainability of the project. With regards the skills training component, established vocational centers in the project area will be engaged to conduct these training with technical supervision and support from the ILO.

Project symbol

LBR/15/01/UND

Admin unit

CO-Abuja

Start date

01/02/2016

End date

31/07/2017

Total allocation

284620

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

283809

Development Partners

Multi Partner Trust Fund Office, UNDP

Country/Countries

Liberia

Outcomes

More and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved youth employment prospects