Joint programme on local governance and decentralised service delivery, UN-JPLG (Phase II)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The overall objective of JPGL II is to promote improvements in local governance quality that can contribute to peace consolidation, development and equitable service delivery. The Joint Programme, which has five partners including ILO, UNCDF, UNDP, UN-HABITAT and UNICEF, is aligned with the UN Somali Assistance Strategy (UNSAS), 2010 – 2015 and contributes to at least five of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). JPLG II focuses on strengthening local government as a means of enhancing the delivery of services to citizens and restoring confidence and credibility in the state and improving state-citizen relations by linking local governments to their constituent communities and engaging the private sector transparently and accountably. The programme outcomes are structured around three mutually reinforcing strategies: i) Supporting policy and legislative reforms for functional, fiscal and administrative decentralization that clarify and enhance the role of local government, its relationship to central government, and as a means to improve local service delivery. ii) Improving cooperation between local and central authorities in planning, financing, regulating and monitoring local governance and development. iii) Improving and expanding the delivery of sustainable services to citizens in an equitable, responsive and socially accountable manner.

Project symbol

SOM/13/01/UND

Admin unit

CO-Addis Ababa

Start date

01/01/2013

End date

31/12/2017

Total allocation

765434

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

765434

Development Partners

Multi Partner Trust Fund Office, UNDP

Country/Countries

Somalia

Outcomes

Employment Promotion