Enhancing CSOs Contributions to Governance and the Development Process in Pakistan – Effective Citizenship and Responsive Governance

Status: Completed
Start Date: Mar 2018
End Date: Mar 2019
Geographic Coverage: 2 Districts in Sindh, 1 District in Balochistan
Focus Area: Good Governance & Democracy
SDG Goal: 4 Ensuring good health and well-being for all
Implementing Partner: SPO
Funding Partner: OXFAM

The project was funded by Oxfam and European Union to orient Local Governments and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) for effective, transparent and inclusive governance. The project envisioned empowering the Local Government, encouraged inclusive governance, enabled social accountability and developed effective coordination and over sight mechanism in three districts of Sindh and Balochistan (Karachi East, Badin and Lasbela). The project aimed to achieve SDG goal 4 which calls for good health and well-being for all.

The Objectives of this Programme were:

1. To develop a comprehensive data on the elected Local Government representatives in selected districts.

2. To conduct introductory meetings about the project at the district level.

3. To conduct project orientation meetings with elected representatives and selected CSOs at various tiers of local governance.

4. To organize meetings with CSOs to identify and select rights-based organizations.

5. To organize introductory Meetings with Secretary, Local Government, Officials of Sindh Civil Services and Local Government Academy.

The SPO regional team began the data mapping process by involving the Local Government Department, the Election Commission of Pakistan at Provincial and District levels along with District administrations. The data collected was about elected representatives, LG officials and CSOs operating in respective Districts. The data mapping tool was designed and shared with Oxfam GB.

Various one-on-one meetings were conducted with Local Government officials at the Provincial level to obtain support letters which were later submitted to the District administration and the Local Government officials based in District Lasbela of Balochistan, District Badin and District Municipal Cooperation (DMC) Karachi East to seek required data of elected representatives and relevant department officials as per the shared template.