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The Liberia Governance and Economic Management
Assistance Program (GEMAP) is a partnership between the
Government of Liberia and the International Contact Group on
Liberia, including the United Nations (UN), the European
Commission, the Economic Community of West African States, the
African Union, the United States and the
World Bank. Civil Society and the International Monetary Fund
are active observers in
GEMAP
programs.
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf starts
implementing GEMAP programme: Foreign nationals step into
government positions to combat graft.
IRIN, March 3, 2006
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GEMAP
Interim leader Bryant on September 13, 2005 signed the
controversial GEMAP document giving foreign financial experts in
key positions co-signatory powers.
More here.
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Preparations 2005: Liberia under
tutelage? Previous controversial loans and their malignant consequences were:
Corruption and Reconstruction in Liberia
By Nicholas Jahr
"(...) In September 2005, the transitional government signed an
agreement with the international donors who have supported Liberia’s
recovery: GEMAP, the Governance and Economic Management Assistance
Program. Sold as an anti-corruption measure, it has been decried by a
few Liberians as little more than neocolonialism. For their part, the
donors and other influential members of the international community see
GEMAP as the culmination of the reconstruction process and a new form of
humanitarian intervention. (...)
Under GEMAP, the Central Bank and five state-owned enterprises (SOEs)—as
well as several other government institutions—will be subject to
internationally recruited experts with co-signature authority over their
budgets. Revenues from the SOEs will be channeled into escrow accounts
to protect them from further pillage, and management contracts will be
put out on the SOEs in what proponents insist will be a transparent,
competitive bidding process."
(More:
dissentmagazine) |