ISSUE: Child abuse

TACTIC: Don Bosco Catholic Denomination. Education, feeding, care, clothing, shelter for children.

TARGET: Children in need

ISSUE: Corruption and lack of accountability

TACTIC:

1. Executives and government officials required to declare their assets. This prevents people from building private buildings.

2. Ability to track goods from the port to determine where corruption is taking place. Followed by press and led to legal case

3. Strong moral position taken from government.

TARGET:

1. Government officials

2. Corrupt agents, warehouse managers and public

3. General public

ISSUE: Corruption

TACTIC:

Anti-corruption bill set up by government and before parliament. Must include civil society in order to make it credible.

TARGET: Government representatives

ISSUE: Corruption

TACTIC: Freedom of speech. Engage civil society in public forum to discuss social and development issues. Uses telephone calls, newspaper articles. This is an important change in Liberia. That people can speak out and are listened to.

TARGET: Policy makers

ISSUE: Drug abuse by youth

TACTIC: Visit churches and mosques. Expose children to realities of drug abuse. Train them so that they can remain sober. They can then go on to educate their peers.

TARGET: Youth drug addicts

ISSUE: Education

TACTIC:

Ministry of Education - Accelerated learning program for war-affected youth in rural communities. Older children attending school after regular school hours. Teachers are specially trained to provide this special program.

TARGET: Teachers and war-affected youth

ISSUE: Education - specifically human rights education

TACTIC: Movement for the Defense of Human Rights. Basic human rights education in small groups.

TARGET: Geographic area - Bomi, Cape Mount and Montserrado. Administrators. Students.

ISSUE: Exposing illegal arms

TACTIC: Education drive

Awareness and sensitization by youth groups. Encourage people with illegal arms to voluntarily give them up.

Provide compensation (in the future). UNDP supports projects.

TARGET: Youth with illegal small arms

ISSUE: Human rights abuses and torture

TACTIC: Training for law enforcement personnel. Workshop and training for all LE personnel on ethics and law enforcement. Document security reform process.

TARGET:

Security agencies

Leadership (command structures)

Law enforcement personnel

ISSUE: Rape and domestic violence

TACTIC: These problems were rampant after the war. Association of Female Lawyers held a civil society meeting to develop a law that wouild deter criminals. Law was passed in 2005. Child rape is now punishable by life imprisonment. Rape of an adult victim results in a seven year prison sentence.

TARGET: Civil society, legislators, law enforcement system, offenders.

ISSUE: Trauma, healing and reconciliation

TACTIC: CVT and Straight from the Heart

Going door to door within communities. Sensitization and advocacy. Providing care for "survivors," not identifying "victims" and "perpetrators." Getting people to tell their stories. This is an important part of healing. Not working in groups immediately.

TARGET: Survivors of human rights abuses

ISSUE: Unemployment

TACTIC: Public awareness work - Federation of Building Trade. Advocating for equal pay regardless of who people are or where they come from.

TARGET: General public

ISSUE: Victim-perpetrator reconciliation

TACTIC: Used traditional approach that involves elders, women, and children. Victim and perpetrators meet with elders separately. They are convinced that there is a need for reconciliation. Bomi, Cape Mount and some other areas. Includes a cleansing ceremony for the perpetrator. Elders explain about damage to the victim and the community. Perpetrators ask for forgiveness and victim forgives on behalf of the community. This is announced with a big sign. Whoever has done wrong must account for their action. Alternative to other legal solutions.

TARGET: Victims, perpetrators and communities.