Liberia’s National Adaptation Plan Communication Strategy

Liberia's NAP Communication Strategy provides a roadmap for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to disseminate climate adaptation priorities. It identifies priority audiences—including political leadership, local communities, and the private sector—and proposes tailored messaging for six key sectors: agriculture, coastal zones, energy, fisheries, forestry, and waste management. The strategy emphasizes a multi-channel approach, prioritizing radio as the primary information source for both rural and urban populations, and includes a detailed implementation plan for 2024–2025 with a budget for activities such as community radio contracts and media training.

• The communication strategy is designed to support the broader National Adaptation Plan (NAP), which focuses on six priority sectors: agriculture, coastal zones, forestry, energy, waste management, and fisheries.
• The strategy identifies five primary objectives: raising awareness of adaptation priorities, facilitating stakeholder engagement in decision-making, enhancing knowledge and capacity building, fostering partnerships, and establishing a monitoring and evaluation framework for communication efforts.
• Radio is identified as the most critical communication channel in Liberia, serving as the primary news source for both urban and rural populations, with community radio stations alone capturing 37% of national listenership.
• The strategy outlines specific climate risks and adaptation measures for key sectors, such as the use of disease-resistant crop varieties in agriculture, the protection of mangroves in coastal zones, and the diversification of energy sources including solar.
• A detailed implementation and rollout plan for 2024–2025 allocates funding for specific activities, including $45,000 for contracts with community radio stations and $40,000 for regional training of media practitioners.
• The government intends to establish an 'Adaptation Champions' group consisting of policy-makers, youth, women, and civil society representatives to act as spokespersons and lead locally led adaptation interventions.

APA

NAP Global Network (2024). Liberia’s National Adaptation Plan Communication Strategy. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Liberia-2024-NAP-communications-strategy.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. Liberia’s National Adaptation Plan Communication Strategy. 2024. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Liberia-2024-NAP-communications-strategy.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2024liberias, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{Liberia’s National Adaptation Plan Communication Strategy}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2024}, month = mar, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Liberia-2024-NAP-communications-strategy.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }