Liberian Council on Rural Poverty Alleviation(LICORPA)

enghten village households' economy. This intervention had enabled 350 persons (75% women, 10% men, and 15% youths) to establish small business ventures to overcome the entrenched level of hardship amongst beneficiaries. Initially, beneficiaries’ per capita income per day was 1.50USD for a household of six persons, but it had rose to 3.00USD per day. Also, women beneficiaries have become assertive in confronting the problem of gender inequity. Approximately 80% of Bomi County total population of 82,035 people depends on farming for livelihood support and income, and lives below the socioeconomic scale of Liberia. Baseline surveys show that 44% of male farmers and 72% of female farmers in village towns in Dewoein and Klay Districts in Bomi County cultivate less than 1 hectare of land per household for farming due to the lack of needed farming inputs and credit opportunity. As a result of this, villagers in these districts go short of food, especially during pre-harvest period. LICORPA had enabled these villagers to overcome the problem of food insecurity by accessing them with micro-loans to procure needed farming inputs and cultivate more hectares.

100 farmers (women and men alike) had benefited from this micro-loan program, and we wish to access 300 farmers in these districts in the county with credit in 2012