Project Description

The objective of the project is to enable the Federal Government of Somalia to independently deliver tangible services to its citizens by developing its capacity to conduct community consultations, design, manage, and implement small scale infrastructure projects. Testing the use of national systems to channel the funds is one of the main objectives of this project in order to build the capacity of the FGS to effectively manage funds and to pave the way for other donors to use its systems. The Ministry of Finance will assume full programmatic and financial accountability for the funds disbursed to them in line with the principles of national ownership enshrined in the New Deal Compact. The main deliverable of this project will be the rehabilitation of two small scale infrastructures each in a different Federal Member State or Interim Regional Administration.

This pilot project will run concurrently to the World Bank Special Financing Facility for Local Development Project which will support the core staffing structure and capacity building needs of the Project Implementation Unit during the implementation period of this IRF project.