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EU to fund health sector in Liberia

Xinhua, May 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

The government of Liberia and the European Union (EU) have signed a new 45 million euros (about 50.8 million U.S. dollars) "State Building Contract" to provide funds to health services.

Liberia's Minister of Finance and Development Amara Konneh signed for his country in the presence of the EU Ambassador to the country Tiina Intelmann.

The program, which is part of the EU's cooperation programme with Liberia, will provide funds to the national budget with a focus on critical health services during and after the Ebola crisis.

It will also help in building a robust justice and security services and improving the country's management of public funds, according to a EU statement reaching Xinhua on Tuesday.

Intelmann said this project is the first of the wider 279 million euro Liberia-EU multi-year programme that was signed in Brussels in March during the International Ebola Recovery Conference.

EU said the programme has been carefully designed and agreed with the government of Liberia and those who will have to contribute to its success, and it will align with the government's own objectives of improved budget management, and contribute to increased budgetary allocations to health services. Endi