Background: 

On December 12, 2016 the National Road Fund Act, was enacted and published January 26, 2017. The National Road Fund Office (NRFO) is located between 9th and 10th Street, Payne Avenue, Sinkor. The NRFO is responsible for the day to day management and administration of the National Road Fund and headed by the National Road Fund Manager, Republic of Liberia.

Purposes:
1. A National Road Fund for the purpose of financing road and bridge maintenance works and directly associated planning, programming and management activities;
2. The governance and oversight of the Road Fund including the approval of the Annual Road Maintenance Expenditure Program submitted by agencies authorized to undertake road and bridge works in Liberia;
3. An administrative structure that is capable of undertaking the core functions associated with collecting, managing and disbursing funds to and on behalf of agencies authorized to undertake road and bridge works in Liberia.

Objectives: 

1. To ensure that road assets are sustained and that sufficient funds for both periodic and routine maintenance are allocated for this purpose. 

2. To ensure that each of the categories of national, sub-national and feeder roads have a sufficient share of the total budget such that these roads can operate as an integrated network. 

3. To defray the costs of loans approved by Government to extend the length of maintainable roads. 

4. To ensure that the needs of the road users and those impacted by roads are considered in terms of safety, security and environment. 

The National Road Fund monies collected would be exclusively devoted to Periodic and Routine maintenance of roads, bridges and directly associated facilities maintenance throughout the Republic of Liberia. Emergency works to a maximum of 7% of annual expenditures on road maintenance by the fund. Rehabilitation and improvement works including paving of roads to a maximum of 40% of its annual revenue only through servicing of long-term loans for improvement of strategic roads. The road maintenance program is to be managed by the MPW / IIU. 

In 2016 the Government also introduced a fuel levy of 25c per gallon to resource the NRF. The National Budget Law for 2018 / 2019 factored a 30cent on per gallon of fuel. The GOL through the National Road Fund Office, and the Infrastructure Implementation Unit at MPW will be collaborating with various partners, World Bank, Millennium Challenge Account Liberia, Millennium Challenge Corporation, African 

Development Bank, GIZ, Swedish Government, Europeans Union etc. in the implementation of the Annual Road Maintenance Expenditure Program throughout the Republic of Liberia.