Friends of Liberia Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Since 2020 the Liberian Health Team has been offering continuing professional development workshops with the financial support of Friends of Liberia.These continuing professional development workshops not only enable both faculty and clinical nurses and midwives around Liberia to continually update and expand their knowledge, skills, attitudes and enhance evidence-based practices throughout Liberia, it also allows them to lead efforts to improve the Liberian healthcare delivery system.Since 2022, it has been determined that a majority of workshop participants have shared workshop resources in their respective institutions either through uploading of workshop resources on to personal or institutional computers or more formally through organized workshops.This facilitates the circulation of evidence-based practices throughout the Liberian health care system. With the support of the US Health Team of the Friends of Liberia and Global Giving, FOLs Liberian Health Team (LHT) conducted a three-day workshop for nursing/midwifery faculty and a three-day workshop for practicing nurses/midwives in January 2025.The 2025 workshops were again held at Phebe Hospital from January 6 through January 10, 2025. FOLs Liberian Health Team (LHT) conducted a three-day workshop for nursing/midwifery faculty and a three-day workshop for practicing nurses/midwives in January 2025. In-service training was provided to nursing/midwifery faculty and practicing nurses/midwives to provide evidence-informed and context relevant continuing professional development (CPD) training to support their professional development and improve ongoing practice.In addition, the workshops offered the opportunity for health professionals from across Liberia to share experiences, concerns and successes in their work. Workship objectives included that the nursing/midwifery faculty would be competent in writing well formatted learning objectives and be knowledgeable and competent in evaluating their own institutional programs. Additionally, practicing nurses/midwives would be effective in handling postpartum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and birth aphasias which are among the causes of maternal-infantsmorbidities and mortalities in Liberia.These topics were the focus of the midwifery experts during our 2025 workshop.Through these efforts FOL, through the LHT, is helping the Liberian government in its objectives to reduce maternal-infantsmorbidities and mortalities in Liberia. An additional planned component of the workshop was that the participants would share what they had learned with the staff at the clinics and hospitals where they were based.Consequently, the LHT was able to report several follow-up training events: 1.At Kolahum Hospital in Upper Lofa County, during a day long training, 26 staff were provided refreshing training in pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. 2.At F J.Grant Hospital in Sinoe County,20 staff were provided an in-service training that included post-partum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and birth asphyxia. 3.At Government Hospital, Buchanan, Grand Bassa,25 staff were retrained in post-partum hemorrhage, eclampsia, and birth asphyxia. 4. At Rally Time Hospital in Grand Kru County,9 staff were trained in workplace ethics.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92
• Fundraising efficiency: $19.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
  • Requires narrative reports: Limited
  • Conducts field audits: Limited
  • May suspend future funding: Limited
  • Requires financial reports: Limited
  • Conducts site visits: Limited
  • Requires grant agreements: Limited
  • May require repayment: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -20.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.48; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings