It is my pleasure to introduce the Environmental Protection Agency’s ICT Policy. This document represents a major step forward safeguarding the Agency’s information assets, improving service delivery, and strengthening our ability to fulfil our mandate to protect Liberia’s environment. Information and communication technology is now central to how we deliver programs, manage environmental data, coordinate research, engage stakeholders, and administer our operations. This policy sets out clear, practical and enforceable measures to ensure our ICT environment is secure, resilient, efficient and user‑focused. It establishes standards for data protection, regular backup and recovery, malware and antivirus controls, access and password management, secure network use (including cloud access), asset procurement and disposal, email and communication usage, and ICT support and staff development.

These measures are designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of environmental and financial data while enabling timely access to information for legitimate business needs. The Policy further emphasizes governance, risk management and accountability. Roles and responsibilities are clearly defined so that the ICT Unit and staff users understand their obligations. Regular testing, monitoring and review are mandated to ensure backup and recovery processes meet our recovery time and point objectives and that security practices evolve alongside emerging threats and technologies. Equally important, the strategy commits to capacity building and service excellence, investing in staff skills, user training and collaborative arrangements that will improve the quality, accessibility and reliability of our ICT services