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Strengthening County Institutional Capacity for Service Delivery in Liberia

Project description

This project’s goal is to enhance the capacity of Liberian Counties to meet service delivery requirements under the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) and the County Development agendas (CDAs). It aims at improving the quality of local governance by building local capacities which enhance leadership, through the promotion of key competencies in local leadership, enhancing the capacity of counties to promote local economic development and strengthening the financial management abilities to better plan, manage and implement a broad range of services and projects for the benefit of communities. The project will do this by undertaking a feasibility study for developing centres for regional training and developing a national capacity building plan. More so, the project will conduct a number of training of trainers programmes and workshops on leadership,, local economic development and local government financial management with cross cutting themes on project management, gender and youth. The output of the project will be enhanced training capacities for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as enhanced capacity for county based development and administrative management. The project will be implemented jointly by the UN-HABITAT Regional Office for Africa and Arab States and the Training and Capacity Building Branch.

Location: Monrovia and elsewhere in Liberia

Branch:

-	Shelter and Sustainable Human Settlements Development Division
-	Training and Capacity Building

Partner: Government of Liberia

Themes:

-	Urban Development and Management
-	Training and capacity building
-	Urban Economy and Financing Shelter
-	Housing finance
-	Urban Finance

Budget: USD 600,000

Received/Pledged:

Focus Area(s)

-	FA2: Promotion of participatory urban planning, management and governance

Background

In support of the United Nations County Support Team (UNCST) process, a joint UN project “Strengthening Capacity of Local Administration”, was created in September 2006 to build capacity of local administration in assessing, planning, coordinating and raising resources for, and delivering essential services in support of the consolidation of civil authority and recovery. Working closely with other UN partners, the project focuses on 3 areas: 1) Restoring functionality of county administrative offices / transportation, 2) Developing capacity of county officials and 3) Strengthening data and information management in the counties. CSTs have also played an important role in supporting the Government’s decentralization efforts and provide an innovative and integrated mechanism which greatly facilitates the UN “At Work Together” through a “One UN” approach. UN-HABITAT has been invited by UNDP to join this initiative by bringing its local governance capacity building expertise to oversee the implementation of a range of capacity building tools, methodologies and processes and ensure their effectiveness, relevance and overall sustainability.

Objectives

To impart the knowledge, skills and attitudes which appointed and elected leaders require for better civic leadership, positive interaction with their central government agencies, local authority officers and non-governmental and community-based organizations, and for effective local development and management.
To create a pool of resource institutions who can facilitate Local Economic Development through (LED) strategic planning and implementation within the context of the national PRA and CDAs
To improve county level public financial management by building the competencies of accounting staff, service managers and local leaders to understand and evaluate their financial conditions, understand financial policies and planning principles as well as managing their operating budgets.

Target group

Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Planning, County based development and administrative managers including Supritendents and Deputy Supritendents

If you may be interested in funding this project, please contact us: info.rmu@unhabitat.org