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Programme focus The programme seeks to support NSAs in the following two key areas:
- Organisational capacity building and strengthening of NSAs skills to advocate and deliver better services for their communities
The fostering of positive relationships between NSAs and development stakeholders, such as donors and government
Beneficiaries of the programme will be: grassroots/community based organisations, legally registered service delivery organisations, umbrella and platform organisations as well as thematic networks.
In 2009, the program will offer free training to NSAs (NGOs, CBOs, Platform organisations, Professional Associations etc) and grants will be disbursed to NSAs meeting set eligibility criteria and guidelines |
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Institutional Set Up The overall responsibility for the implementation of the programme lies with the National Authorising Officer (NAO) in the Ministry of Finance. A joint Policy-level Steering Committee comprising NSA, Government and the EC representatives is in charge of providing strategic guidance, supervision and monitoring of the implementation of the programme. The NAO has established and partly delegated its authority to a Project Management Unit (PMU) that reports to the NAO entrusted with the task of managing the programme. The PMU is technically supported by a technical assistant team. Click here for our Organogram |
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Programme purpose The purpose of the programme is to strengthen the capacity of NSAs to enable them provide effective and improved services to local communities, define independently their policy agenda and be more actively involved in policy dialogue with the Government and donors including the European Union. Further more, the programme aims at contributing to increased capacity of NSAs to act as an instrument for rural people, women or other less represented groups to formulate their needs, exercise their rights and influence policies affecting their livelihoods. In the same line, the programme will also contribute to increased capacities of NSAs to promote cultural change vis-à-vis discriminatory practices against human rights and to strengthen women’s and vulnerable groups’ roles as actors and decision makers in the country’s development. |
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