Why an Integrated Strategy for Economic Growth?
Integrated development is an intentional approach for linking community development across sectors to produce an amplified impact. It is the simple – but profoundly important – understanding that individual and social well-being is connected. Health, education, employment, gender equality, housing, political participation: these are linked and reinforcing cycles that require strategic and coordinated support in vulnerable communities.
FFW has seen the need for integrated development first-hand: thriving female entrepreneurs could be struck off course by a sick child; educational opportunities for a young person could be completely derailed by unattainable school fees; contaminated water can debilitate entire communities; broken housing can lead to health and education and business issues. This is why FFW subscribes to a holistic approach to empowerment and upliftment in Liberia during an exciting and important moment in history: direct foreign investment is increasing dramatically thanks to relatively stable leadership and Liberians are poised to benefit from economic growth and improvements in basic services and infrastructure.
FFW has seen the need for integrated development first-hand: thriving female entrepreneurs could be struck off course by a sick child; educational opportunities for a young person could be completely derailed by unattainable school fees; contaminated water can debilitate entire communities; broken housing can lead to health and education and business issues. This is why FFW subscribes to a holistic approach to empowerment and upliftment in Liberia during an exciting and important moment in history: direct foreign investment is increasing dramatically thanks to relatively stable leadership and Liberians are poised to benefit from economic growth and improvements in basic services and infrastructure.