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Usaid Local Governance Project in Tajikistan USAID LOCAL GOVERNANCE PROJECT IN TAJIKISTAN Quarterly Performance Report October-December, 2014 January 31, 2015 This report is made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the sole responsibility of the Local Governance Project and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government 1 USAID LOCAL GOVERNANCE PROJECT IN TAJIKISTAN Quarterly Performance Report October-December, 2014 Prepared for: USAID/Tajikistan, Office of Democracy & Governance Prepared by: Contract No. AID-176-C-12-00002-00 January 31, 2015 The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. Table of Contents Abbreviations and Acronyms .................................................................................................. i Executive Summary ............................................................................................................... 1 Component 1: Policy ..................................................................................................................... 1 Component 2: Practice .................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. Component 3: Participation .......................................................................................................... 2 Project Overview ......................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Annex 1: Progress by Performance Indicators .............................. Error! Bookmark not defined. Result 1: Strengthening the Enabling Environment to Support Sub-National Governance .................................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Result 2: Sub-National government entities are more effective in meeting citizen’s needs .................................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Result 3: Increased participation of constituents in sub-national government decision- making and service provision .................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Annex 2: National level and Jamoat Officials Trained in Year 2 ............................................... 3 Annex 3: Performance Indicator Tracking Table ........................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Abbreviations and Acronyms Aga Khan Foundation AKF Capacity Improvement Plan CIP Central Asian Republics CAR Chief of Party CoP Civil Servant Department CSD Civil Servants Training Center CSTC Civil Servants Training Institute CSTI Community-based Organizations CBOs District Republic of Subordinated DRS Donors Coordination Council DCC Financial Advisory Services FAS Geographic Information System GIS Gorno Badakhshon Autonomous Oblast GBAO Government of the Republic of Tajikistan GoRT Inter-ministerial Working Group IMWG Local Development Initiative LDI Mahalla Committees MCs Management Systems International MSI Ministry of Finance MoF Ministry of Foreign Affairs MFA Mountain Societies Development Program MSDSP Public Finance Management PFM Regional Development and Cooperation Strategy RDCS Small Infrastructure Projects SIPs State Service Department SSD United Nations Development Programme UNDP United States Agency of International Development USAID USAID Central Asian Republics Local Governance Project in Tajikistan LGP Village Development Plans VDPs i Executive Summary The third implementation year of the Local Governance Project (LGP) began on October 1, 2014. This document summarizes its performance of activities outlined in its USAID-approved, Third Year Annual Implementation Plan. As in all of LGP’s reports, each of the project’s three Expected Results is rendered as one of three components: Policy, Practice, Participation. A brief summary of the accomplishments of each component is given in the sections below: Component 1: Policy The policy component of the Local Governance Project attempts to improve the enabling environment for sub-national governance. Under this component, the project works to remove legal and policy barriers to the implementation of the 2009 Law on Self Government by Towns and Townships. The policy component consists of activities in support of a budget pilot and activities intended to improve the enabling environment for decentralized local governance. Regarding the budget experiment, in December LGP witnessed all 4 of the jamoats participating in its pilot have their 2015 budgets approved. On December 15, the People’s Majlis of Yavan District approved the budget for Jamoat Yavan with the councils of B. Gafurov District approving the budget for Jamoat Shahrak Gafurov, and the budgets of Jamoat Ismail Karimov and GBAO being approved by their district councils shortly thereafter. In each instance, the amount allocated to jamoats who had completed a rigorous budgeting process exceeded the allocation made to the surrounding jamoats who had not prepared a budget. In addition, during the month of December, former Home Office Manager and short term technical advisor Eric Uggen visited Tajikistan to define the contents of a budget execution manual for use by jamoats participating in the project’s experiment with fiscal decentralization. Regarding the broader legal environment for local governance, in October, the Anti-Monopoly Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan formally approved a water user’s fee proposed by Galchagi village, Jamoat Chorsu, Vahdat District. The village was the recipient of LGP’s first small infrastructure drinking water project, opened by U.S. Ambassador Susan Elliot on September 25, 2014. The fee was approved in accordance with the Procedure for Holding Public Hearings on Draft Tariffs for Commodities (Labor, and Services) of Natural Monopoly Entities. That procedure itself was drafted with assistance of LGP during its previous implementation year, adopted by the Anti-Monopoly Committee in November 2013 and recorded by the Ministry of Justice in April 2014. It represents a change in the enabling environment for local governance and affects all 427 jamoats in the country, not just those in LGP’s service area. Component 2: Practice Its emphasis on policy reform and budgets notwithstanding, LGP was designed to be practical. The policy changes it is pursuing are intended to increase both the authority and capacity of jamoats to perform the role envisioned for them in the 2009 law. 1 The activities under its Practice Component therefore aim at increasing the capacity of local governments to improve the quality of their citizens’ lives. In December, LGP led a Study Tour to Astana, Kazakhstan. Organized the week of December 8-11, 2014, the tour exposed Tajik officials to how the Kazakh government had made most of its services accessible with just a few clicks of a mouse. Via a personal computer or a smart phone or through any one of a number of ‘single window’ service centers around the country, those services include: 1) general information, 2) real property, 3) social status (pensions, etc.), 4) marriage, births & deaths registry, 5) drivers’ licenses, and 6) services for legal entities. Co-sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme, the trip typified donor coordination, and it exposed persons in the Tajik government new to LGP as well as ideas that are new to Tajikistan. The trip showed all participants what was possible for Tajikistan as it implements its own strategy for the computerization of citizen services. Of more immediate benefit to the 20 jamoats in the LGP service area, in the first quarter of its third implementation year, the project enhanced the capacity of jamoats to deliver basic services, with both small purchases of ‘hardware’ and the ‘software’ of coaching. Both are required of its Service Delivery Improvement Program (SDIP). On the ‘hardware’ side, in October LGP’s Grant Manager and Water Engineer completed their tour of the GBAO and their technical and environmental assessments of short-listed projects there. The environmental report for a water system in Khojaabdolon was pre-approved by the USAID Environmental Officer in Almaty, and a new sub-contract for a water infrastructure project in Soviet town, Temurmalik district was awarded. On the ‘software’ side, LGP’s Grants Manager, Water Policy Specialist and Legal Specialist developed a description and flow chart of the 12 steps a recipient jamoat has to follow once a water project has been awarded. The highlight of the Practice component in the first quarter, however, was undoubtedly the dedication of LGP’s second water infrastructure project. On November 25, 2014 the well, located in Shohon village of Jamoat Ismoil Somoni, Ghonchi district, was dedicated by the district chairman and USAID Tajikistan’s new Team Leader for Democracy, Governance, Health & Education, Will Trigg. Component 3: Participation For its third Component, LGP strives to increase citizen participation in local decision making and service provision. Its efforts are directed at enhancing the contact between both the government and the governed by working with both sides to ensure opportunities for citizens to be informed and engaged in decisions that affect their community. During its third implementation year, LGP is working with both formal and informal representatives of civil society. As much of LGP’s service area consists
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