IWL convened a one-day Legislative engagement at the Boulevard Palace Hotel in Monrovia on Friday, February 25, 2022.

The Legislative engagement accorded members of the 54th Legislature a platform to dialogue and engage with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) and Civil Society actors on analysis made by CCSI in a Red Flag Memo issued on the Bao Chico Mineral Development Agreement. 

The Red Flag Memo issued by CCSI is a high-level review and analysis of the Bao Chico MDA submitted to the legislature by the office of the president in November 2021. These analyses were made upon request from the Bi-partisan Legislative Caucus on Illicit Financial Flow and Tax and with support from the Liberia Economic Policy Dialogue Activity (LEPDA).

The Bao Chico MDA is a Class-A Iron Ore mining operation that is expected to take place in Gbarpolu county for 25years when passed into law. 

Legislators at the dialogue showed commitment to channel analysis made in the Memo through both Houses and to present it before the joint Conference Committee currently reviewing the Bao Chico MDA.

Support for the Legislative engagement is provided by the Liberia Economic Policy Dialogue Activity (LEPDA), a USAID Project