Capacity Building For Local Government And Service Delivery: UNDP
Programme Coordinator – Capacity Building For Local Government And Service Delivery: UNDP
| Title | Programme Coordinator – Capacity Building For Local Government And Service Delivery: UNDP |
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| Job Information | The Ministry of Local Government, Urban and Rural Development (MoLGURD) with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) designed a four year support programme on “Capacity Building for Local Government and Service Delivery” with the view of strengthening the Local Government (LG) sector capacities and improve service delivery to the people. The Support Programme focus areas are on harmonization of policy and legislative frameworks, institutional capacity building, fiscal and management transfer system, civic participatory and service delivery. Specifically, the Programme will support the Local Government sector to:
– Develop an internally coherent and consistent policy and legislative framework It also seeks to build strong partnerships between the parent ministry, local authorities, local government associations and the private sector in addressing accountability and service delivery challenges through, among others, promotion of public/ private partnership arrangements. The Ministry has the role to facilitate, coordinates, regulate, monitor and supports all local government bodies in a bid to provide efficient and sustainable services, improve the welfare of the people. To this end, the Ministry will require the technical and support services of a Programme Coordinator to support the execution of the programme. Under the guidance of the UNDP Deputy Country Director (Programme) and the Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Local Government, Urban and Rural Development, the Programme Coordinator will be responsible for overall management of the programme on Capacity Building for Local Government and Service Delivery. In managing the programme, the Programme Coordinator will be supervised by the Assistant Resident Representative (ARR) and the Ministry’s Programme Manager, work closely with the UNDP GGM Unit and MoLGURD. The Programme Coordinator will ensure that implementation of this capacity building support programme is consistent with UNDP rules and regulations and will focus on the following areas. To apply |