Government of Liberia Turns Over Vehicles and Motorbikes to LWEP Partners and ActionAid to Enhance Women Empowerment Work in Liberia, Eases mobility challenges
The turning over ceremony took place at the Ministry of Gender
The government of Liberia through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social protection has officially turned over four new vehicles and twenty-two motorbikes to ActionAid Liberia and other service providers of the Liberia Women Empowerment project (LWEP).
The turning over of the vehicles and the motorbikes to the implementing institutions is part of the project’s logistics and mobility support all geared towards easing the transportation challenges experience by the implementing partners in getting to hard-to-reach communities, and towns and villages.
The keys to the 22 motorbikes and four cars were handed over by the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection (MoGCSP) at a short ceremony held at the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social protect on August 7, 2025 in oldest Congo Town.
During the presentation, the lead implementer of the LWEP, Plan International received two vehicles, and 4 motorbikes, ActionAid received one vehicle and four bikes, then Catholic Relief Service (CRS) received one vehicle 4 motorbikes, and Media Liberia received 4 motorbikes.
Other partners, KEEP Liberia, Defense for Children International, Foundation for Community Initiatives and others received two bikes each.
The Liberia Women Empowerment Project has a development objective to development objective to enhance women’s empowerment by addressing social norms and improving access to livelihoods while building the capacity of national institutions. All these are geared at building resilience, to drive sustainable change.
Presenting the keys of the assets, the deputy minister for administration, Hon. Fredrick S. Cooper, thanked the implementing partners for the progress made and expressed the Ministry of Gender was delighted to turn over the keys to the vehicles and the motorbikes to the partners.
“We are delighted to turn over these keys, as the minister can always say, ‘impact is what we want to see and the government wants to see that the money is invested so that there is a trigger down effects on the citizenry themselves.” Deputy Minister Fredrick Copper spoke when he proxy for the Minister of Gender, Hon. Gbeme Horace-Kollie.
ActionAid Liberia Business and Development Manager, Madam Victoria Torlo Koiquah, who proxy for the country director, thanked the Government of Liberia for the donation describing the turning over of the vehicles and bikes as one that reinforces ActionAid and the implementing partners’ commitment to women’s empowerment.
She told attendees a the ceremony that the assets will reinforce the change ActionAid Liberia wants to see in advancing and improving girls and women’s life describing the turning over of the assets as one that will capacitate not just ActionAid but also all the implementing partners of service providers of the Liberia Women Empowerment project.
Madam Koiquiah than called on the partners to continue working together to build Liberia for the purpose of advancing girls and women lives of Liberia regardless if their geographical locations.
For her part, Plan International Country Director Miriam Murray thanked all the partners institutions that are working with plan at different levels to fight inequalities and promote gender equality and women’s empowerment adding that the provision of the vehicles and the motorbikes is critical to system strengthening to reaching the beneficiaries in the most remote areas which she said shows the partners commitment to supporting the country’s national development plan.
“It’s about system strengthening, it’s about facilitating a stronger system to be able to reach the beneficiaries in the most remote places, but also to be able to show our commitment to the national development plan, so we as organizations and civil societies are equally interested in women’s empowerment and fighting inequalities.”
Madam Murray added continued by saying “that is why our country’s strategies are aligned with the national development plans.”
Plan International Country Director climaxed her remarks by renewing commitment to women’s empowerment, their rights, and equality assuring the ministry of gender, that the vehicles and motorbikes will be used properly and for the intended purposes.
The Liberia Women Empowerment Project (LWEP) is a three-year government of Liberia’s project with funding from the World Bank that seeks to enhance women's empowerment in Liberia by addressing restrictive social norms, improving access to livelihoods, and strengthening national institutions to support women and girls. It is being implemented across Liberia across five of Liberia’s 15 counties, which includes, Montserrado, Bomi, Gbarpolu, Rivercess, and Grand Gedeh.
It comprises of five major components all aimed at empowering Liberian women from the grassroots, and across communities with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protecting serving as main implementing institution, alongside seven service other providers which includes; Medica Liberia, KEEP Liberia, Foundation for Children International, Foundation of Community Initiatives, the Catholic Relief Services, Plan International Liberia and ActionAid Liberia.
Component 1b of the projects is being implemented by ActionAid Liberia. Component 1b focuses on strengthening community engagement and active citizenship.
Component two focuses on health and education. With this component, the project is supporting women’s health rights and education activities to address local access to gender base violence (GBV) and support adolescent have access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) services promote girls education, and combat community engagement on social norms related to early marriage, pregnancy and girls’ education.
The third component, component three which focuses on economic and social empowerment, is providing women business training, life skills, and supports women-led livelihoods. Through small grants using a community-driven, group-based approach.
Component four institutional capacity building. The project is providing institutional capacity building for the Ministry of Gender, Children and social Protection, (MGCSP) the ministry of Agriculture, to enable them to better generate sex-disaggregated data and deliver gender-focused programs in line with Government of Liberia policies.
And Component five of the LWEP is about project & knowledge management which seeks to ensure coordination, oversight, monitoring, and learning. management, and knowledge management. It mostly focuses on the implementation, management, coordination and has oversight of the project.