Gbarnga

Gbarnga is a major inland service centre at the junction of routes connecting Monrovia with northern and eastern Liberia. This position gives the city a regional market role, but it also means that local street conditions, drainage and land management directly affect how efficiently people and goods move through the urban area.

The Liberia Urban Resilience Project includes Gbarnga among the secondary cities receiving support for spatial planning, investment planning and stronger municipal service delivery. Wider road programmes have sought to improve the national corridors linking the capital with inland centres. For Gbarnga, the key urban issue is to align these regional connections with neighbourhood infrastructure. A better planned street network and serviced expansion can support the city’s role as a transport and service hub while reducing the cost of retrofitting infrastructure later.