Project Title: Establishing Transparent and Accountable Local Government Project
Supported by: Manusher Jonno Foundation.
Duration: 2004-2013
Goal: Sustaining local government accountability system to provide improved services for the deprived poor & hard core people.
Purpose: 53476 poor and extreme poor households get improved livelihood support (viz.- health, agriculture, livestock, fisheries, safety net support, infrastructure, etc.) through practicing participatory and coordinated development processes at local level.
Objectives:
1) Strengthening local government and other service providing institutions to make local services easier to receive by the poor communities.
2) Enhance community people’s participation in local development process like- planning, implementation, follow up and coordination
3) Mobilizing civil society to influence local institutions & policies and facilitate communities to control over resources.
Activities:
- Training to newly elected LEBs on the roles & functions of UP as per LG (UP) Act-2009
- Activating standing committees,
- Face to face dialogue with service delivery institute
- Meeting with local management committee
- Exchange visit on best practice
- Ward Sava
- Pre-budget session at Union level
- Open budget declaration session
- Quarterly development coordination meeting
- Tax Fair
- Ward Samajik Uddog Forum meeting,
- Union Samajik Uddog Forum meeting,
- Upazilla Samajik Uddog Forum meeting
- Community score card,
- Assembly of Samajik Uddog Forum.
- Action Oriented Mobilization
- Sharing and planning with SUF and UP
- Social audit
- Five years plane develop of UP
Project Output:
- Develop the livelihood of deprived communities through creating available the entitlements opportunities, services and using local resources.
- Increase underprivileged community participation in the development process as the decision maker.
- Activate local institutions and committees through advocacy and capacity building.
Service deliver institutions will active to provide service to community properly.