Liberia

Liberia enacted a work injury regulatory framework in 1943, followed by sickness and maternity and old age, disability, and survivors’ laws in 1956 and 1975. Two social assistance programmes were introduced in 2010 and these are the Youth, Employment, Skills and the Social Cash Transfer programmes. The latter programme, implemented as a pilot, aims to reduce vulnerability among ultra-poor, labour constrained households and the former provides temporarily provided employment opportunities to improve the employability of 59,800 young people with a daily wage ranging between US$3 and US$5. The programme ended in 2016. Social assistance spending in Liberia was 1.15 percent of GDP in 2010, translating to social assistance expenditure per poor person of US$8.98 per year.