The explosive growth of Monrovia, close to 10% annual, requires a metropolitan planning and management policy. The uncontrolled informal sector and the scarcity of public resources make the challenge even more difficult.
As a Master Plan would not be possible to enforce, the metropolitan planning approach of Monrovia should be a more flexible Strategic Plan that would set priorities and leave to management capacity of the administration to enforce as possibilities allow those policies in the right direction.
This D4D Document provides the ‘Metropolitan-Plus’ vision on how to integrate the national infrastructures with the metropolitan and urban ones. An integrated set of win-win potential. Sooner or later (let’s hope sooner) Liberia and Monrovia will have to undertake this task. Here is the metropolitan strategy that needs implementation.