Here’s an attempt to connect some dots -
If one initiative in Liberia can train ex-combatants with skills to keep out of the violence business and get them into the sustainable development business, why can’t the private sector do the same thing? See this article: Innovative waste management training for former Liberian combatants launched.
The 200 ex-combatants benefiting from the programme, funded by the Federal Republic of Germany and implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), will learn the fundamentals of waste management, and also learn to manufacture simple composting devices for converting waste into organic manure. In addition, the trainees will go into various communities to carry out clean-up campaigns, and educate the people on waste management through street theatre.
Meanwhile, in the northern part of the country, royalty money is potentially going to reignited violence, as explained in this story from Monrovia.
Internal Liberian politics aside, wouldn’t it be possible for some of the royalty money to be given to an organzation like IOM for such an initiative? Who would have to be sitting around the table for an idea like this to develop?
