Local Governance Project Afghanistan 2018 FIRST QUARTERLY PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT
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Local Governance Project Afghanistan 2018 FIRST QUARTERLY PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME DONORS EU Italy SDC Sweden Switzerland PROJECT INFORMATION Project ID: 90448 Duration: 1 October 2015 – 31 December 2019 ANDS Component: Governance, Rule of Law and Human Rights Contributing to NPP: National Priority Programme for Local Governance and Accountability and Transparency CPD Outcome: CPD Outcome 1: Improved legitimate, transparent, and inclusive governance at all levels that enables progressive realization of the human rights UNDP Strategic Plan Outcome: Outcome 3: Countries have strengthened institutions to progressively deliver universal access to basic services. Total Budget: US$ 37,073,867 Annual Budget: US$ 2,161,074 (for interim period) Unfunded Amount: US$ 1,842,353 Implementing Partner: Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) Responsible Parties: 13 Provincial Governor Offices (PGOs), 13 Provincial Councils (PCs), 22 Municipalities (8 Provincial, 14 District), Civil Society Organizations in 17 provinces Project Manager: Abdul Hameed Omar Programme Officer: Aminuddin Hamedi COVER PAGE PHOTO: Left: DM. Popal and Mr. Omar, LoGo Project Manager cut ribbon at Mahmoud Raqi (Kapisa) CSC Inauguration Right: Mr. Mohammad Elas Wahdat, Paktika Governor gives opening remarks at Provincial Planning Guideline workshop ACRONYMS CSC Citizen Service Centre CSO Civil Society Organization DMM Deputy Ministry of Municipalities EU European Union IDLG Independent Directorate of Local Governance ISLA Initiative to Strengthen Local Administration LG-MIS Local Governance Management Information System LoGo Local Governance Project – Afghanistan MAB Municipal Advisory Board MoEc Ministry of Economy NTA National Technical Assistance PC Provincial Council PDP Provincial Development Plan PGO Provincial Governor’s Office PPG Provincial Planning Guideline REAP Revenue Enhancement Action Plan SMC School Municipal Committee SNG Subnational Governance SNG-NPP Sub-National Governance National Priority Program SNGP Subnational Governance Policy UNAMA United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan UNDP United Nations Development Programme US$ United States dollar USAID United States Agency for International Development TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 5 II. RESULTS .................................................................................................................... 5 A. OUTPUT 1: Capacity of PGOs and Provincial Councils has improved for accountability and transparent service delivery ................................................................................. 6 B. OUTPUT 2: Municipalities with improved revenue generation are able to deliver services in an accountable and participatory manner ................................................. 8 C. OUTPUT 3: Civil Society has improved oversight capacity of local governance ........ 10 D. OUTPUT 4: IDLG is able to develop policies to improve local government accountability and service delivery ........................................................................... 12 III. GENDER SPECIFIC RESULTS ................................................................................... 14 IV. PARTNERSHIPS ....................................................................................................... 14 V. ISSUES ...................................................................................................................... 15 VI. RISKS......................................................................................................................... 15 VII. LESSONS LEARNED ................................................................................................ 16 VIII. FUTURE PLAN .......................................................................................................... 16 IX. ANNEXES .................................................................................................................. 17 ANNEX 1: FINANCIAL TABLE .............................................................................................. 17 ANNEX 2: EXPENSES BY OUTPUT .................................................................................... 18 ANNEX 3: EXPENSES BY DONOR ...................................................................................... 19 ANNEX 4: ISSUE LOG ......................................................................................................... 21 ANNEX 5: RISK LOG ........................................................................................................... 23 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Local Governance Project – Afghanistan (LoGo), which started in October 2015 will now end on 31 December 2019 as approved at the project board meeting of September 2017. The project is funded by the European Union (EU), Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland. In the current reporting period, a seven-member technical team (3 women) from the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) conducted a substantive project revision in line with the recommendations of the 2017 Mid-Term Evaluation and provisions of the draft Sub-National Governance Policy (SNGP). The project has submitted a revised project document, updated Results and Resources Framework (RRF) and multi-year work plans for review and subsequent approval by the donors. In addition, there is evidence of an improved collaborative relationship between IDLG and UNDP. Overall, the project implemented 82 percent of the interim work plan activities over six weeks of the quarter. The project in collaboration with IDLG, Provincial Governor’s Offices (PGOs), Provincial and District Municipalities, and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) achieved: o Five Provincial Development Plans developed. Output 1: The project provided technical o Provincial Citizen Service Centre (CSC) Manual support for development of PDPs for Kabul, drafted. Kapisa, Panjshir, Paktika and Nimruz. The 269 provincial authorities (11 women) trained on the revised Provincial Planning Guideline, used the technical knowledge in provincial planning. At two district outreach events in Khost and Paktika; 50 percent of the 32 raised issues were resolved by Provincial Councils (PCs); the remaining are being followed up. o Two service delivery projects on sanitation and Output 2: The project completed business masonry lining completed. process mapping for three municipalities and o Mahmoud Raqi Citizen Service Centre (Kapisa) inaugurated, 70 people (15 women) attended. trained 80 Municipal Advisory Board (MAB) members (14 women) of Guzara, Injil, Balkh, and Khulm on their functions as well as citizen diplomacy. Consequently, Guzara and Injil MABs conducted one citizen diplomacy event (football tournament) to improve social cohesion; 300 citizens attended. o 10 coordination meetings by 130 government Output 3: The project conducted 60 officials and civil society representatives awareness campaigns and cross-cultural facilitated sharing of best practices on accountable service delivery. events on accountable local service delivery, citizen’s rights and responsibilities and anti-corruption; 2,002 citizens, government officials, local activists and youth (681 women and girls) across 10 provinces participated. Output 4: The project reviewed the Capacity o Local Governance MIS is 65 percent completed. Development Strategy and the Sub-National o Grievance Guidelines for Municipalities launched, 43 municipal officials attended. Governance National Priority Programme concept was developed and submitted to His Excellency President Ghani for approval. The total expenditure for quarter 01, 2018 is US$1,013,000; details are provided in Annex 2. 5 | P a g e II. RESULTS A. OUTPUT 1: Capacity of PGOs and Provincial Councils has improved for accountability and transparent service delivery The project continued to support provincial authorities in participatory provincial planning processes. The project trained 269 provincial stakeholders (11 women) of Kabul, Panjshir, Nimruz and Paktika on the revised Provincial Planning Guideline (PPG). The trained authorities applied the newly acquired technical knowledge Figure 1: Group work during the provincial consultation workshop, in local planning processes including Nimruz collating community needs and priorities from 295 citizens1 (33 women). Then, the project provided technical support to the Ministry of Economy for 2019 (1398) provincial development planning; five2 gender-inclusive provincial development plans are completed and will be implemented from the next quarter. “The PPG workshop helped us to resolve the The Provincial Councils (PCs) oriented 332 issues with line departments and increased citizens (1 woman) on PC roles and coordination between provincial and district responsibilities and oversight of service stakeholders for PDP development. I now know delivery during outreach events to Matakhan how to develop needs based projects using participatory approaches.” and Tani districts of Khost and Paktika Mr. Abdul Rahim Rashid, District Governor, respectively. The 32 service delivery issues Mirbachakot (Kabul) include lack of educational infrastructure and learning materials, lack of health facilities and personnel, deforestation, road rehabilitation needs and water supply; 16 issues were resolved and the PCs are following up on the remaining 16 issues with the responsible authorities. The