Programme Four: Community Development

Programme Four: Community Development

 

Project Two: Community Development at the Governorate Level

Project Objectives:

1. Ensure the establishment of participatory integrated community-based development structures in fifteen communities in three governorates.
    
2. Ensure that all UNICEF interventions in the three governorates are implemented in at least the fifteen communities and through their participatory structures.

Major Strategies:

1. Role pattern and capacity analysis of stakeholders and duty bearers working in community development.
2. Supporting the development of the needed infrastructures and systems needed for the convergence of all UNICEF programmes at community level.
3. Empowerment of community volunteers through community structures, district and governorate structures.
4. Advocacy to partners at governorate and community levels and community mobilisation.
5. Provision of limited service delivery activities considered essential for programme success.

Major Activities:

1. Conducting meetings, workshops, seminars to mobilize stakeholders and duty bearers at governorate and community levels.
2. Support to training workshops on the community empowerment approach and development concepts.
3. Establishment of networking and intersectoral coordination mechanisms at all community, district and governorate levels.
4. Supporting conducting PRAs and baseline surveys in the selected communities.
5. Supporting the implementation of selected projects identified by local communities as they are related to strengthening community empowerment infrastructures in identified communities.
6. Providing technical assistance to establish networking between selected communities and potential donors.
7. Providing technical assistance to ensure the convergence of all UNICEF programmes in community empowerment areas.

Major Partners:

• Ministry of Planning
• National NGOs and community- based organisations
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• World Health Organisation (WHO)
• World Food Programme (WFP)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Indicators for verification of achievement:

• Existence of relevant community structures, including their degree of operationality, i.e. number of meetings, minutes prepared and implementation progress report shared in community structures.
  
• UNICEF interventions in the three governorates that have been implemented in at least the fifteen communities and through their participatory structures.