Governance and Economic Management Support (GEMS)

$96.89M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	IBI International, Inc.
Country	Liberia
Start Date	Jun 28, 2015
End Date	Mar 03, 2019
Duration	1,344 days
Number of Grantees	132
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`194578-76`

Grant Description

The Liberia Governance and Economic Management Support Program (GEMS) is a five year, $45 million program to strengthen public sector capacity in Liberia.

GEMS is a follow on to the highly successful Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP) in Liberia that IBI implemented for USAID between 2006 and 2010, a program featured in World Development Report 2011 as an example of successful post-conflict recovery.

GEMS will build on the systematic and institutional advances achieved in fiscal and financial management under GEMAP by working with Government of Liberia institutions to build human and institutional capacity in financial, organizational, and performance management.

Specifically, the program will work with key ministries, agencies, and state-owned enterprises of Liberia to build management capacity, implement a comprehensive civil servant training initiative, strengthen the governments capacity to manage natural resource concessions, facilitate the implementation of the governments national ICT policy, and enable the Central Bank of Liberia to operate a modern national payment system.