Integration of Social Accountability into National and Sub-national Systems

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The proposed project will support national and subnational government implementation of a the second, 5-year phase ofImplementation Plan for the Social Accountability Framework (ISAF II) which aims to scale up from covering more than 60% of therural districts in the country under ISAF Phase I to cover all rural districts and to additionally cover all urban municipalities.Initial financing for the proposed project will cover activities in the ten provinces, seven of which were covered in ISAF I andthree new provinces. Additional financing to allow the project to cover all provinces in the country is planned as contributions tothe main financing source, the Social Accountability and Service Delivery Trust Fund (SASD-TF) are secured over the next year orso. The project aims to facilitate subnational government authorities and public service providers to engage citizens in activitiesthat would allow citizens to hold public service providers accountable for the quality of their services. The four main serviceproviders are District Administrations, Commune Councils, health centers and primary schools. As such, the project is alarge-scale, national platform for multi-stakeholder engagement which will have various design elements intended to ensure theparticipation of a wide diversity of stakeholders in all project activities.