Background
The Environmental Protection Agency is the institution in Liberia charged with the responsibility of protecting the environment. The Agency has developed a Strategic Plan for the period 2022 – 2026 to direct environmental governance and management in Liberia. The Plan, among other things views institutional capacity building as critical. Human capital development is a key component of this institutional capacity building. To this end, the Plan calls for enhancing human capital development aimed at equipping the Agency with enough technically trained personnel in all its undertakings.
A human capital development program will include the following: An assessment of the manpower needs; prepare a comprehensive human capital development program; and mobilize resources for implementation of the human capital development program.
All these must be guided by an enabling policy. Hence, this institutional training policy.

Goals
This Training Policy articulates the commitment of the Agency to a dedicated and sustained human capacity development of its employees. It affirms that the employees of the EPA are valued as its most important resources to the work they do towards achievement of the Agency’s mandate.