The Project is geared towards strengthening local communities MZs and will empower women and include the marginalized groups into economic, social and political mainstream.
The overall Project objective is to contribute to better quality of life of BiH citizens through increased democratic participation and accountability, enhanced local services and infrastructure and social inclusion. The chosen means to achieve this goal is through encouraging community-led local development and revitalising community government by MZs, as the places where government comes closest to the people and as grass-roots organisations that serve communities of around 1, people, with the possibility for real participation and joint action.
In doing so, the Project places MZs and their communities at the centre of its work, while also relying on a broad range of relevant stakeholders to sustain and expand Project results and increase democratic accountability. This approach will be capitalised upon to address the current flaws in the system, and to build momentum and drive forward the process of local governance reform to produce long term and sustainable change.
To reach this goal, the Project will utilise existing legitimate local governance structures and processes to implement planned interventions, thus ensuring that improvements related to capacity of MZs and local governments, quality of service outcomes, enabling MZ-related regulatory environment and accountability of municipal decision-making processes are embedded and sustained within the system.
The Project will work with app. Support, coordinate and oversight implementation and quality assurance of the Project assistance for partner MZs, with focus on MZ-level participatory processes, local partners and project initiatives and activities and facilitate knowledge building and management focusing on quality, control, from formulation to implementation. Facilitate and support monitoring of the community development and participation aspects of the project under outcomes 2 and as needed under outcome 1 and 3, especially the Seed Fund for civil society organisations; also potential forms of formal partnerships with partner local governments and MZs; especially motivation of citizens to partake in community initiatives.
