Capacity Development of Local Governments (CDLG) Project | projects

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Jaffna

Chavakachcheri

Jaffna

Point Pedro

Valvettithurai Urban Council

Kilinochchi

Karachchi

Mullaitivu

Maritimpattu

Mannar

Vavuniya

Badulla

Monaragala

Trincomalee

Batticaloa

Ampara

Anuradhapura

Polonnaruwa

General Information
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The Capacity Development of Local Governments (CDLG) Project focuses on strengthening the capacities of local authorities to be inclusive, responsive, and accountable, and enables them to plan, enhance resilience and deliver better services. The CDLG project is implemented in four provinces – North, North Central, Eastern, and Uva, with the overall objective of strengthening the capacities of Local Authorities (LAs) to be inclusive, responsive, and accountable and be able to plan, enhance resilience and deliver better services, alongside the Local Development Support (LDSP) Project.

The project aims to improve local governance systems, making governments ‘fit for the future. The CDLG project will support the improvement of institutional, organizational, and individual capacities of Local Authorities (LA’s). Additionally, CDLG is committed to encouraging more public engagement in local decision-making processes, and enhancing downward accountability of elected officials and local governments, by building capacities of communities to hold LAs to account. Through peer-to-peer learning and learning by doing techniques, the CDLG project will ensure all initiatives are centered around its target audiences throughout its implementation.

The project will seek to:

Improve delivery and responsiveness to gender and marginalization issues through better local planning, budgeting cycles, and local service.
Establish an innovative local governance system that provides services that address multidimensional challenges.
Provide a legal and policy framework to facilitate systems change and strengthen the process of decentralization.

Empowering women officials to participate in decision-making processes while increasing their capacities is an important area of work under the CDLG project interventions. Working collectively with partners to enhance women’s participation and leadership, including representation in all committees of local authorities will further enhance and contribute towards better local service delivery processes.

More about CDLG

UNDP official site - CDLG Project

Video - Capacity Development for Local Government (CDLG) project

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Spatial data on various subjects pertaining to the area are presented here, with latitudinal and longitudinal positioning.

Knowledge Transfer

The project is focusing on the development of the capacity of local authorities at the organizational, individual, and institutional levels whilst

Community engagement

Enhancing community participation in local decision-making processes is a key component of the project. The project works closely with community

Local Authority Participatory Development Plans (LAPDP)

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Knowledge Transfer

The project is focusing on the development of the capacity of local authorities at the organizational, individual, and institutional levels whilst empowering the society to engage closely in local decision-making. The main approach utilized is the "learning by doing" approach.

Knowledge products

Number	Training Module/manual	Manual	Module	Duration	Target Group
1	Work Manual for Uva Province	1			Uva Provincial staff
2	Awareness Program on Social Audit Committees		1	01 Day	Members of Social Audit Committees
3	Training Program on Grievances Handling		1	01 Day	Chairman’s & Secretaries
4	Procurement and Auditing Procedures		1	02 Day	Chairman, Vice Chairman & Secretaries of LAs
5	Social and Environment Safe Guard Management		1	02 Day	Community Development Officers & Development Officers
6	Local Government Law and Procedures		1	01 Day	Elected Members of LA s
7	Project Appraisal Process		1	01 Day	Social Audit Committee, Chairperson & Secretaries
8	Business Planning for Economic Infrastructure Projects		1	02 Days	PAT, Chairperson & Secretaries of LAs
9	Solid Waste Management		1	02 Days	Technical Officers
10	Strengthening Community Organizations		1	01 Day	Community Development Officers
11	Communication and Public Relations		1	01 Day	Development Officers & Field Officers
12	Documentation and File Management		1	02 Days	Management Assistants
13	Revenue Management of Las		1	02 Days	Revenue Officers of LAs
14	Public Finance Management (Basic)		1	01 Day	Secretaries
15	Public Finance Management (Advanced)		1	03 Day	Secretaries

Source - CDLG

The project is developing a variety of knowledge products with different stakeholders including the Sri Lanka Institute of Local Governance (SLILG). The target for year 2020 is 50 knowledge products.

Number of staff trained

Female	Male
1256	1738

Source - Information collated by CDLG field staff on trainings so far conducted.

The project is developing a variety of knowledge products with different stakeholders including the Sri Lanka Institute of Local Governance (SLILG). The target for year 2020 is 50 knowledge products.

Systems developed by CDLG

Source - CDLG

Improving digital innovation capacities and supporting digital solutions for local issues, to enable local authorities to be fit for future and deliver effective services is a key component of the project. To that end several transformative digital solutions will be supported throughout the project, with close collaborations with Information and Communication Technology Agency.

Community engagement

Enhancing community participation in local decision-making processes is a key component of the project. The project works closely with community centers and grassroots civil society organizations operating in the provinces. The aim is to improve governance agencies' accountability to their communities.

Participation and engagement of the local population in decision-making processes at the local level remain low. There is a limited understanding of downward accountability and working with the local communities and civil society to achieve development objectives. The project seeks to engage and empower community centers to enhance the participation of citizens at local level decision-making processes.

The number of active community centers and other
The number of citizen charters displayed and others

Community engagement

Province	Number of community centers	Number of LAs displaying citizen charters displayed
North	Col	Col
North Central	595 (161 registered with Commissioner of Local Government	all 27 LAs
East	Col	Col
Uva	Col	Col

Source - Department of Local Government and Management Development and Training Unit, North Central Province

Number of active community centers and other
Number of citizen charters displayed and other

Local Authority Participatory Development Plans (LAPDP)

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Number of SDG integrated plans and other

The Province	Number of SDG integrated Plans
North	To be developed
East	To be developed
North Central	To be developed
Uva	To be developed

Source - Department of Local Government, North Central Province

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Area covered under Capacity Development of Local Governments Project: This project covers an area of 37829.53 sq. Km covering the four main provinces of the island namely North, East, North Central and Uva. Further, 12 districts belonging to the provinces are marked separately on the map. _{Download Map Here} _{Download Spatial Data Layer Here}

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