The International Contact Group on Liberia (ICGL) is composed of members from the United Nations

United Nations

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, ECOWAS, African Union

African Union

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, World Bank

World Bank

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, United States

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, Ghana

Ghana

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, Nigeria

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, United Kingdom

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, Germany

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, Spain

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 and Sweden

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. The ICGL was formed from a need for an international and regional response to the Second Liberian Civil War

Second Liberian Civil War

The Second Liberian Civil War began in 1999 when a rebel group backed by the government of neighbouring Guinea, the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy , emerged in northern Liberia. In early 2003, a second rebel group, the Movement for Democracy in Liberia, emerged in the south, and...

. The ICGL was cited by the Accra Comprehensive Peace Accord with a number of tasks, most notably insuring the faithful implementation of the accord by all parties. In September 2005, the ICGL and the Government of Liberia signed GEMAP

GEMAP

The Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program is an effort, started September 2005, by the Liberian government and the international community, via the International Contact Group on Liberia to reshape the fundamentally broken system of governance that contributed to 23 years of...

, a novel approach to the problem of systemic political corruption

Political corruption

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The ICGL now functions under a broader, regional institution called the International Contact Group on the Mano River Basin

International Contact Group on the Mano River Basin

The International Contact Group on the Mano River Basin is an international umbrella organization created to liase in the situation in Liberia....

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