Strengthening Local Government Authorities in support of Decentralisation by Devolution (D-by-D) in order to improve service delivery at local level
NICHE-TZA-002
Sector
Decentralisation
Project budget
The maximum budget for this project is € 1.6 million.
Organisations
This project has been developed by the Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) and Tanzania Public Service College (TPSC). The tender for this project expired on 11 January 2010.
Nuffic has awarded this tender to MDF Training & Consultancy BV, which has formed a consortium with Wageningen University (WU) and CINOP, including MDF-ESA and CDI. For specific tasks, support can be hired from ITC Enschede and IoAE.
Project description
This NICHE project aims to strengthen Local Government Authorities (LGAs) to implement the D-by-D policy in the light of Local Government Reform Programme II (LGRP II). This includes strengthening the coordination and management tasks of LGAs in order to improve service delivery at the local level.
The Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) and Tanzania Public Service College (TPSC) are government institutions which conduct training, research and consultancy in the fields of development planning and public services aimed at improving the performance of central and local government authorities. The two institutions offer courses with a service delivery focus.
The project aims to strengthen the IRDP and TPSC through staff and student capacity development by making training and education competence based, labour market oriented, gender sensitive and environmentally oriented and by making research action oriented in order to strengthen the LGAs in improving their service delivery and management tasks.
Local Government Reform Programme
The Government of Tanzania is currently implementing the second phase of the Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP II) aimed at attaining gender equity, democracy and sustainable development. The overall goal of LGRP II is to achieve accelerated and equitable socio-economic development, public service delivery and poverty reduction across the country.
LGRP II aims to achieve devolution of government roles and functions. To that end, LGAs will be transformed into competent strategic leaders and coordinators of socio-economic development, accountable and transparent service delivery and poverty reduction interventions in their areas of jurisdiction.
However, local governance needs to overcome a number of development bottlenecks to implement the D-by-D policy. LGAs lack strategic leadership and there is inadequate involvement of the public, civil society and the private sector.
LGAs are seen as mere implementers of national and sectoral development plans developed by the central government. There is lack of capacity and gender awareness/gender mainstreaming and sensitivity among LGA councillors and senior managers.