| Grant Profile: |
| Project Title: |
Consultative Service Delivery Program (Phase II) |
| PCF/LICUS/SPF: |
SPF |
Status: |
Open |
| File Number: |
| Region: |
MENA |
| Sector: |
Health and other social services |
Country: |
Iraq |
| FY approved: |
2010 |
Grant Theme : |
Social dev/gender/inclusion |
| Keyword(s): |
Community-driven development |
Approved Amount: |
$4,985,000.00 |
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Grant Recipient:
ACDI/VOCA
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Grant Purpose:
The program builds upon the completed pilot in Sulaymaniya governorate within the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) by scaling up consultative service delivery from one KRG province (Sulaymaniya) to an additional two provinces within the KRG (Dahuk, Erbil) and piloting the earlier approach in three governorates outside of the KRG (Ninawa, Diyala and Kirkuk).
The main strategic objective is to develop local communities’ capacities for sustainable, consultative decision making on resource allocation and service delivery. Two project developmental objectives flow from this:
(1) to further the World Bank’s knowledge to inform the future establishment of a National Community Development Program (NCDP) while directly expanding tangible improvements in essential service delivery to additional geographic areas; and
(2) to deepen the long-term, ultimately sustainable, process of consultative development in diverse environments within Iraq to promote greater social inclusion, more equitable resource allocation and increasingly accountable local governments.
The intended beneficiaries of this program would be the community members and local authorities in twenty-nine communities who participate in the facilitation, identification, selection, implementation, and monitoring of community-driven projects.
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Grant Activities:
The project will be composed of two components. The first, Component A, will scale up the
Sulaymaniya pilot throughout the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). In Component B, the methodology of the Sulaymaniya pilot will be introduced in non-KRG governorates. Each component will have four activity areas:
(1) community grants, (2) public awareness and information (PIA), (3) social analysis and
evaluation, and (4) capacity building.
The methodology of community organizing used in the earlier pilot will also be used in each component. The CSDP will be implemented as a unified community driven development (CDD) program amended as appropriate to the diverse environments in northern Iraq. The tiered approach, which was successfully implemented under CSDI, will be replicated in the Ninawa, Diyala, Kirkuk, Dahuk and Erbil provinces. Within Sulaymaniya, this approach will be broadened and deepened as part of scaling up the CSDI model. Using a tiered approach allows the implementing organization to readily gauge the level of supervision Community Action Groups (CAGs) need so that needs can be addressed and participation levels in key program activities can be
quickly determined.
Under community grants, ACDI/VOCA staff will mobilize selected communities to reconstitute eight to twelve members “Community Action Groups” (CAGs). With facilitation, CAGs will engage in joint government-citizen participatory assessments and planning processes to identify, plan and apply for community grants for projects that meet a resource need or service delivery gap. As part of the process, the CAGs must identify and coordinate with a “project holder” (normally a local government office or department) that will agree to support the service or community asset and maintain it once it is complete.
Given the short program time-frame, transparency challenges and aggressive program targets,
communities will be preselected (see Figure 1 for a list of preselected communities). Community
selection criteria include demographics (population and number of villages within a project area), preexisting CAG experience and capacity, local government capacity and willingness to cooperate with citizens, the presence of internally displaced populations or potential returnees, geographic location for logistical clustering, and areas where there are few related interventions by other donors or international organizations. Based on these criteria, 29 communities representing a broad spectrum of Iraq have been identified. Preselected communities represent a cross section of experience and capacities to further test the mobilization methodology.
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