UNDP Liberia Electoral Support Project (LESP) with funding from Sweden, Ireland, and the European Union (EU), along with other partners, supported the Liberian Government through the National Elections Commission (NEC) to successfully conduct the 2023 Presidential and Legislative elections. LESP also helped strengthen national capacities in the areas of campaign financing, Electoral Dispute Resolution (EDR), monitoring and evaluation, evidence-based electoral planning, knowledge management, as well as ICT and BVR processes.

Each year UNDP’s senior management team, including the Administrator Achim Steiner, honors its country offices with Gender Equality Seal certificates.  Deserving country offices are recognized and celebrated for their achievements in putting gender equality at the heart of the workplace and development work. On gender, the Country Office in 2023 demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing gender equality, resulting in the achievement of a Bronze-level certification in the 2021-2023 round of the UNDP Gender Equality Seal.

The commitment of the Country Office to promoting gender equality was evident in strategic programmatic interventions in its Inclusive Governance and Green Growth portfolios covering the justice sector, empowering women traders, and mainstreaming gender into the National Action Plan for Persons Living with Disabilities 2023-2027.