Technical Assistance Facility for Local Governments (TAF) – Supplementary Component of the Project for Improving the Performance of Local Services (PIPLS)
The intervention aims to inject speed and purpose to the implementation of the newly elected local government leaders’ reform agenda through the provision of expert technical assistance across a number of priority sectors.
Working with newly elected mayors and legislatures, the Facility will offer specialized expert assistance across four principle thematic areas:
- Digital governance; to include improving processes and instruments in the service of better performance and enhanced transparency and accountability.
- Service delivery and infrastructure; to include taking critically important infrastructure projects from concept to maturity, as well as helping set the service delivery agenda for the local community and introducing new service lines.
- Financial management; to include reducing operational expenditures to create fiscal space for capital development projects as well as improving the budgeting process.
- Local economic development; to include developing innovative entrepreneurship and employment incentive and promotion programs.
Activity 1: Selected partner authorities introduce improvements in service delivery and/or general performance through the introduction of digital tools and/or processes.
Activity 2: Selected partner authorities deliver critical improvements in service delivery capabilities through implementation of major infrastructure initiatives.
Activity 3: Selected partner local governments will commit to downsizing their operational expenses to create fiscal space for capital investment projects at risk from the effects of the pandemic;
Activity 4: Selected partner local governments will develop and deploy innovative economic development initiatives to support recovery of businesses in their local communities, as well as the fostering of new entrepreneurship.
The intervention result is defined as follows: Local government leaders are supported in their efforts to effectively deliver their reform agendas aimed at improving the quality of life in their communities, focusing on the delivery of critical public services.
Contact:
Maja Smrzlić, Project Officer, UNDP, maja.smrzlic@undp.org