06/10/2026
NAYMOTE-Liberia Report Indicates More Than Half of Liberia's AAID Interventions Are Underway, but Only 12 of 385 Are Complete
Work on Liberia's ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development (AAID) has moved past the early start-up phase, but few interventions are complete. That is the finding of the September 2026 update of the President Meter Project, published by Naymote Partners for Democratic Development.
The project is Naymote's independent accountability mechanism. It follows the AAID, the country's five-year national development framework, and turns government commitments and implementation evidence into information that citizens can easily understand. The framework rests on six pillars: Economic Transformation, Infrastructure Development, Rule of Law, Governance and Anti-Corruption, Environmental Sustainability, and Human Capital Development.
Naymote assessed 385 interventions between January 2025 and September 2026. Of these, 225 are either completed or ongoing, for an overall activation rate of 58.4 percent. Just 12 (3.1 percent) are complete, while 213 (55.3 percent) are still in progress. Another 57 (14.8 percent) have not started, and 103 (26.8 percent) could not be rated. Naymote stressed that the activation rate measures implementation activity. It says nothing about completion or impact.
Since the 2025 report, completed interventions have risen from 3 to 12, and ongoing ones from 165 to 213. Those that could not be rated fell from 134 to 103.
Infrastructure Development posted the highest activation rate at 67.3 percent. Governance and Anti-Corruption followed at 63.7 percent, then Environmental Sustainability at 63.3 percent, Rule of Law at 60 percent, Economic Transformation at 55.4 percent, and Human Capital Development at 53.1 percent. Naymote pointed to visible activity in roads, utilities, public transportation, domestic revenue mobilization, electronic procurement, decentralization, national security, climate governance, and education and school feeding, among other areas.
Naymote's 2025 monitoring matrix listed 378 interventions, while the Government's 2026 dashboard lists 385. Naymote treated the difference of seven as a data-reconciliation issue, kept its 2025 report as published, and used the 385-intervention framework for this update. Because the total has changed and the quality of evidence varies, the organization cautioned that the figures should be read as directional evidence, not as a perfectly comparable time series.
Naymote said the picture emerging is not one of inactivity. It is one of a large portfolio of work in progress. The question for accountability, it said, is no longer simply whether implementation has begun. It is whether ongoing interventions will be finished on time, within budget and to an acceptable standard, whether they will reach all counties equitably, and whether they will deliver measurable benefits to citizens.
Independent verification, the organization said, remains essential. Domestic revenue of more than US$1 billion, for example, only becomes meaningful when citizens see matching improvements in roads, schools, healthcare, water, electricity, jobs, agriculture, local services and accountable institutions. Naymote added that institutional reforms should be judged by whether they improve people's experience of government, and not merely by the passage of laws, the adoption of policies or official launches.
By 2029, Naymote said, the real test of the AAID will be whether its commitments have been completed, delivered fairly and turned into lasting improvements in people's lives. It pledged to keep the accountability chain in public view, from promise and budget through implementation and completion to impact.
The report aims to deepen public understanding, encourage evidence-based dialogue and support sustained accountability for the delivery of Liberia's national development commitments.
