The objective
Liberia is one of the world's wettest countries, yet safe water, sanitation and hygiene remain major public-health and dignity challenges. Weak sanitation also contributes to disease, missed school days, unsafe neighbourhood conditions and pressure on already fragile health services.
The Weah 2029 programme would treat WASH as essential infrastructure with permanent maintenance responsibilities, not as a series of disconnected projects.
Programme direction
Urban water investment would focus on treatment, distribution, metering, leakage reduction and reliable service expansion. Rural programmes would combine protected water points, small piped systems and sustainable maintenance arrangements suited to local conditions.
Every public school and health facility should progressively meet minimum standards for safe water, toilets and handwashing. Sanitation policy would combine infrastructure with enforcement, community-led approaches and practical support for households and settlements where open defecation remains common.
Drainage, solid-waste collection and disposal need to be planned together, particularly in fast-growing urban areas exposed to flooding and pollution. County and municipal service providers should publish basic performance information so residents can see coverage, outages, collection schedules and investment priorities.
What success should look like
More households with reliable safe water, fewer communities practising open defecation, functional WASH in schools and clinics, cleaner urban areas and service systems that can be maintained after donor-funded projects end.
Key Commitments
- Set minimum WASH standards for public schools and health facilities and publish progress against them.
- Expand safe rural water through maintainable boreholes, protected sources and small piped systems where appropriate.
- Strengthen urban water treatment, distribution, metering and leakage reduction.
- Integrate sanitation, drainage and solid-waste planning in major urban centres.
- Require public service providers to report basic coverage, reliability and maintenance indicators.