Overview

In recent years, Liberia has made great strides in expanding access to health services and reducing maternal and child mortality rates despite public health and humanitarian challenges. However, the country still faces many barriers to delivering high-quality, people-centered health services. Far too many women and children still die from preventable causes, and corruption, poor governance and financing, and a weak supply chain prevent the country’s health system from progressing further.

In close partnership with the Government of Liberia, MSH provided guidance and support to four Liberian organizations—all women-led—as we worked together to strengthen the country’s health system through sustainable, locally led interventions. Working at the national and subnational levels, the Local Health Solutions (LHS) Activity focused on promoting inclusive governance structures, strengthening supply chain management, enhancing data use, and improving the quality of services, including maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; malaria services; and laboratory and disease surveillance systems.  

The Activity aimed to:

• Support the decentralization of health governance
• Enable the delivery of high-quality, equitable care
• Improve cost efficiency to reduce out-of-pocket expenses
• Increase accountability and transparency of resources
• Strengthen local capacity to promote systemic, long-lasting change