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A Citizens' campaign to fuel and keep the Voice of Gbarpolu On-Air is ongoing in Gbarpolu county. Voice of Gbarpolu is the only county and functional radio in the county. It has run out of fuel!
Fuel2KeepVOGOnAirAug31/2019
email gbarpolu voice@gmail.com
or call +775704224 to fuel and keep the radio on now!.
Welcome to this engaging TV and Radio program on Liberia’s #Development Matters, funded by USAID. It engages citizens through dialogue on Development Matters, promoting local communities in positive discussions about Liberia’s development challenges and innovative approaches to solving them.
In this podcast series, we bring you three episodes featuring community participation in key development issues.
This is episode three on Decentralization.
In Zorzor City, Lofa County a Community Media Forum (CMF) was held and the Development Matters TV program on Decentralization was screened for the audience. Later, a panel of four persons of the community was selected to further give the local perspective on the Decentralization.
Find out how the CMF unfolded in this third episode.
In Gbarpolu County, two principal: Mr. John S. Geeton of Belle Yellah Junior high school and Mr. Kutu sheriff of Bopolu Central High on electoral reform issues. Please tune in and listen for yourself.
Welcome to this engaging TV and Radio program on Liberia’s Development Matters, funded by USAID. It engages citizens through dialogue on Development Matters, promoting local communities in positive discussions about Liberia’s development challenges and innovative approaches to solving them.
In this podcast series, we bring you three episodes featuring community participation in key development issues.
In this first episode, we look at Health Care Financing.
In Bopolu City, a Community Media Forum (CMF) was held and the Development Matters TV program on Health Care Financing was screened for the audience. Later, a panel of four persons of the community was selected to further give the local perspective on the Health Care financing.
Find out how the CMF unfolded in this first episode.
NOTE: To watch the Development Matters video on Health Care financing yourself, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1YdNWSEF3o
Local Voices Henry Gboluma high lights ordinary concerns on Pumah 106.3 FM in Bomi, County:
In Gbarpolu County, some concern citizens and members of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of Bomboma town are seeking answers from More Than Me after the American charity dismissed a principal of their community school.
“Then the principal held my blouse and my hand and carried me down there, to his house,” she said.
Find out yourself.
Development Matters is an engaging TV and Radio program funded by USAID. It engages citizens through dialogue on Development Matters, promoting local communities in positive discussions about Liberia’s development challenges and innovative approaches to solving them.
In this podcast series, we bring you three episodes featuring community participation in key development issues.
In this first episode, we look at Public private Partnership (PPP) for Schools in Liberia.
In Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, a Community Media Forum (CMF) was held and the Development Matters TV program on PPP was screened for the audience. Later, a panel of four persons of the community was selected to further give the local perspective on the PPP module.
Find out how the CMF unfolded in this first episode.
NOTE: To watch the Development Matters video on Public Private Partnership (PPP) for Schools in Liberia yourself, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYBV04zqKIQ\
Exclusive Interview: Henry Gboluma Looks Deeper Into why a Hospital Went Out Of Fuel & Some Essential Drugs in Gbarpolu
"All the clinic in this county depend on this hospital"
The focus Group discussion gathered extra views from selected ordinary citizens on the Health Care Financing community media forum organized by Local voices media network on the 29th of November 2018 in Gbarpolu.
It was a Liberia media Development program been implemented by Internews in Liberia sponsored Liberia development matters Community media forum held on the topic of Private Public Partnership (#PPP) for Education in Liberia. Over 100 people of grand Bassa county attended the event which was organized by Local Voices Media.
It was a USAID funded community media forum organized by local voices media network through the technical support from Internews. it was held on health care financing in Gbarpolu. Over 100 people participanted in the forum on November 29, 2018 at the bopolu city hall.
Gbarpolu Project Management Committee chair: Sam Zinnah; "If you check the finance ministry record, we have a little over 1.4 million for developments. Those projects that the honorable talk about, we paid half of the money, the milestones have been achieved, those people have performed and now there is now money in the account to pay those people for the work they have done. So, we will not complete those projects if the money is not transfer in the county account. And that is why we need the support of the caucus. The caucus need to be structure so we can move there as a team.
Superintendent Saah of Gbarpolu on October 15, 2018 calls for citizens backup to keep the County’s Radio on.
Funding for the radio project was allotted during the last time Gbarpolu held her County sitting in August 2016 where 56 delegates approved the project.
In that same year, on September 28, the PMC, county administration, district commissioners and stakeholders held a one day consultative meeting where the working group reviewed, corrected and harmonized errors in the past resolution and then approved the US$190,666.00 for the radio station project.
The fund was intended for the construction, purchasing of equipment, furnishing, and operation of the radio station, according to the working group’s meeting’s minutes.