Each office below is described using its own official mandate. If an office appears anywhere on this site without a description here, it is because we have not yet sourced its mandate — the same standard we apply to financial figures applies to civics.
Sets and manages the national budget, plans and finances development projects, and oversees public revenue and spending.
Liberia’s independent supreme audit institution, legally responsible for auditing roughly 85 government ministries, agencies, corporations, and local governments.
The statutory guardian of public procurement, ensuring transparency, fairness, competition, and value-for-money whenever government spends public money on contracts or concessions.
Handles corruption education and prevention, investigation and prosecution, and oversees asset declarations for all three branches of government.
Sets and implements Liberia’s monetary policy and regulates the banking system.
Tracks and publishes what companies pay government for extracting Liberia’s natural resources — mining, oil, timber — and what government reports receiving, so the two can be compared.
Liberia’s bicameral national legislature, responsible for passing laws, approving the national budget, and providing oversight of the executive branch.
The chief administrative officer of a county under the Local Government Act 2018, responsible for implementing national laws and local ordinances, overseeing District Commissioners, coordinating local government services, and helping approve the county’s development plan and budget.
Liberia Revenue Authority · Governance Commission · Ministry of Local Government · Ministry of State for Presidential Affairs. A role description is only published once it comes from that office’s own official mandate.
Primary sources this site draws from. Every figure on every page links back to one of these.