Description

At this period, Liberia is emerging from 14 hears of civil wars which resulted from 146 years of sociopolitical and socioeconomic systems collapse rendering it a failed state in Africa. After a successful peace pack in 2003 which led to the holding of presidential and general elections, constituting the first true democracy in the nation history in 2005; this paper, delivered as a Keynote Speech, tends to present a strategy for mainstreaming community participation in grassroots governance and socioeconomic development for change as fiscal policy framework. It depths on the failed political and economic history of policies that resulted to wars and links the present realities with a projection for long term sustainable socioeconomic growth and development. But not without the close participation and partnership of the communities and private sectors as well as the international community.