Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan 2025-2029.

This Environmental Protection Agency's Strategic Plan outlines an ambitious vision for enhancing environmental governance and management in Liberia from 2025 to 2029. This comprehensive Plan seeks to address core mandates while tackling contemporary environmental challenges, ultimately aiming at improving the agency’s operational effectiveness. The strategic directions are concentrated on strengthening governance structures, building institutional capacity, nurturing public engagement, enforcing compliance, enhancing international collaborations, increasing decentralisation to enhance local capacities in environmental governance, investing in human resources, technological advancements, and infrastructure improvements, facilitating alignment with environmental international standards. This Strategic Plan is built upon the following pillars: Governance & Management, Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building, Information, Education and Communication, Compliance & Enforcement, and International and National Environmental Commitments. The Strategic Plan is divided into six chapters: chapter 1 discusses the critical importance of environmental protection on a global scale and outlines Liberia's commitment through various national agendas and policies, focusing on key environmental concerns facing Liberia, such as climate change and deforestation; chapter 2 provides a comprehensive assessment of Liberia's political, economic, social, environmental, and technological landscapes, highlighting the challenges and opportunities associated with environmental management in the country; chapter 3 focuses on evaluating the institutional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats faced by the agency; chapter 4 outlines the strategic objectives the agency aims to achieve from 2025 to 2029, organised into various pillars; chapter 5 presents the funding sources and details the financial requirements necessary to implement the strategic activities planned; chapter 6 provides an implementation matrix that outlines the framework for executing the Strategic Plan.