"Strengthening and Adopting Citizen-Centered Approaches in the Planning & Budget Process, PFM and Environment & Climate Change for Poverty Reduction" Project

Implemented under GIZ’s "Local Governance for Poverty Reduction (LG4P)" Project

Overall objective : Enhance the LG’s capacity to effectively undertake their role to ensure inclusive local development by strengthening collaboration and partnership with civil society & central government institutions.

Specific objectives :

• Promote meaningful public participation in the planning & budget process and ensure that inclusiveness, environmental & climate adaptation aspects are embedded in the plans and budgets ;
• Strengthen transparency, accountability and compliance in service delivery at the local government level focusing on sectors that affect the socio-economic lives of people ;
• Promote effective PFM through the analysis of auditor general reports, and strong coordination and partnership in the implementation of audit recommendations and effective implementation and management of contracts ;
• Promote the institutionalization of TI-Rw tools by ensuring their application by the local government, aligning them with state-led tools or transferring their best practices, related to inclusivity, to state-led tools and ensure that service delivery and government processes are more inclusive and citizen-centered ;
• Strengthen partners capacities (citizens, CSOs and local leaders) on public participation, environmental, climate adaptation policies to enable them to act, influence and mobilize.

Our theory of Change :
“If Local leaders are capacitated on the environmental, climate adaptation policies, meaningful & inclusive citizen participation and PFM and fully accompanied in the planning and budgeting process to ensure inclusiveness & public participation ; and further supported with evidence to improve service delivery, promote effective PFM ; strengthen strategic collaboration to institutionalize the accountability tools and promote its effectiveness ; then Local government will be able to fulfil their role as agents of change to ensure poverty reduction and inclusive & sustainable local development in the districts of operations”