The project activities are aiming at increasing the awareness at the community level of the importance and benefits of the transparent and open process of discussion over the community’s annual budget, taking into account the various stakeholders’ interests and strategic plan for the community development, as well as local governments’ capabilities to perform independently in this area as a model for small rural communities.
General results - up to 10 communities will benefit from a targeted assistance to increase peoples’ awareness of the local budget priorities established via a participatory process involving main local stakeholders.
Specific results – increased human capacity of the officials from the selected local governments to prepare and conduct on their own by the time of project completion the public hearings on budget based on provided methodology. It is expected that about total 40-50 people from these local governments (mayors, counselors, accountants, tax collectors, secretaries, local NGOs etc.) will benefit from the project training activities.
Sustainable results – a replicable model for small rural communities will be established and disseminated based on case studies of the project activities in the selected communities.
Immediate results – needs assessment of rural communities in terms of their budget process preparation and implementation will be determined and evaluated. About 10 representatives of the selected local governments will benefit from an exchange of experience with their peers from Poland during the study tour. 10 budgets from rayon’s prepared and adopted using the provided approach and transparent process of public hearings with the participation of the main local stakeholders. An ex-post survey to determine the people’s awareness of the budget process in target communities in comparison with other communities which did not benefit from such assistance will be conducted.
Upon completion of the project, the necessary instruction manuals will be available for disseminating the practice throughout similar communities around Moldova. In addition, an analitycal material will be prepared to highlight the needs of small rural communities in Moldova. The final report will be presented at conference in Chisinau, printed and sent by mail to target audience, placed at CASE and CASE Moldova websites.
The project will be implemented by CASE and CASE Moldova. Our donors are:
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, program "Polish Aid 2007";
- Central European Initiative (Italy).
