Guinea Support to Local Governance Project

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The objective of the Support to Local Governance Project for Guinea is to improve local government capacity in managing their public financial resources in a transparent and participatory manner, and in mitigating local conflicts. There are four components to the project, the first component being supporting the operationalization of the FNDL. The aim of this component is to provide incentives to improve the availability and management of resources at the local level of government by supporting reforms, aiming at strengthening the availability of resources transferred to LGs, and the accountability mechanisms for LGs’ use of public resources. The second component is the building institutions and capacity for inclusive and accountable local governance. The component aims to support the implementation of the inclusive and accountable decentralization process through the following three complemental sub-components: strengthening and digitalizing LGs Public Finance management, support to decentralization implementation, and citizen engagement and community-based early warning and response system. The third component is the project management support. This component will therefore finance costs of the PIU’s core management functions, such as: a) M and E (including studies and field visits); b) financial audits of the project; c) operational and other recurring costs of the PIU that are not covered by the ANAFIC’s fiscal budget nor PANAFIC, and; d) communication. Finally, the fourth component is the contingent emergency response component. This zero-budget sub-component establishes a disaster contingency fund that could be triggered in the event of a natural disaster through formal declaration of a national emergency, or upon a formal request from GoG. In such a case, funds from the unallocated expenditure category or from other project components could be re-allocated to finance emergency response expenditures to meet emergency needs. To ensure the proper implementation of this component, the Borrower shall prepare and furnish to IDA an operations manual that describes in detail the implementation arrangements for the IRM and that is satisfactory to IDA.