In 2015, Liberian Red Cross Society, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, initiated a technical assistance project to strengthen legal frameworks for international disaster assistance, following which an International Disaster Response Law (IDRL) workshop was carried out and an IDRL taskforce set up to do a full legal review of the country’s disaster management laws.
In 2020, IFRC Disaster Law carried out a desktop mapping of Liberia’s legal framework applicable to international disaster response, using the Checklist on the Facilitation and Regulation of International Disaster Relief and Initial Recovery Assistance (IDRL Checklist). This activity formed part of a larger exercise to map the IDRL frameworks within the African region, to identify and analyse the legal and policy arrangements for international disaster response across the continent.
