Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment D T C E

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Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment(D T C
E)

• 6th December 2004

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Mission

• Create an enabling environment for citizen
  participation and community empowerment in all
  Unions of Pakistan by 2009

In every local area, a group of non-elected
citizens may, for energizing the community for
development and improvement in service delivery,
set up a Citizen Community Board - Section 98,
Local Government Ordinance 2001
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Vision

• Empowered communities of proactive citizens
  engaged in self-development with the support of,
  and working together with, local government and
  the rest of civil society.

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Objectives

• Promote organization of CCBs and facilitate
  implementation of community development projects
• Build capacity of union officials and community
  leaders in relation to CCB mobilization
• Provide grant funding for selected CCB identified
  community development projects, through cost
  sharing with local councils and CCBs
• (Cont)

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Objectives

• Put in place an incentive and awards systems to
  give momentum to CCB mobilization campaign
• Facilitate establishment of alliances and
  associations of local governments and local
  officials to consolidate and strengthen the local
  government system
• Conduct social audit across the country to
  establish a baseline and undertake ends-oriented
  annual evaluations of the results of the
  devolution of power process
• To promote and sustain a viable police-public
  relationship and behavioral change via incentive
  systems.

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Strategy

• Partnership with Union Council
• Energize local social capital at grassroots level
• Networked movement, maximum outreach by
  outsourcing all activities
• Information intensive, knowledge based,
  ends-oriented

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Donor Support

• UNDP
• Canadian CIDA
• Norwegian NORAD
• SDC
• USAID
• UK DFID

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DTCE CCB Mobilization Model
Activity
Beneficiaries
Output --------------------------- Outcome
Social Mobilization
MOU signed with Union Councils for CCB
Mobilization
Nazims, Naib Nazims, Councilors
Union Assessment Form
Nazims, Naib Nazims, Councilors, Secretaries of
UCs, Local Organizations (Associations, NGOs,
Clubs, Alliances, Networks etc.) as well as
Tehsil Nazims and EDO-CD
Familiarization about DTCE Signed MOUs with
CSOs/Consortium ----------------------------------
-------------------- Local Organizations
supportive of CCBs
Orientation Meeting One day event
Event Registration Forms
EMPOWERMENT
Union CCBM Action Plan formulated Sectoral
Classification of Schemes notified ---------------
---------------------------------- Informed LG
Community leaders on CCB Rules LGO 2001
Nazim, Naib Nazim, Councilors, Secretaries and
Selected Leaders (3 from existing CCBs, 3 from
existing COs, 3 leaders who wish to form CCBs)
CCB Mobilization Training Two Day Event UC based
Capacity Building Evaluation Union Action Plan
Form Classification of Schemes Form
CCB Project Cycle Management Three Day Event
Project proposal for each CCB --------------------
----------------------------------- CCBs involved
in community development
CCB Office Bearers Secretary UCs
Capacity Building Evaluation
Grant Funding Institutional Support System Award
System
Potential CCBs CCB Projects Government
Functionaries
Project Implementation Performance
Management ---------------------------------------
---------------- Motivated CCB LG Officials
EDO CCB Registration Report Union Monthly
Activity Report CCB Assessment Form CCB
Quarterly Report
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Information, Monitoring Evaluation System
Actors
IME Ground Assessment
IME Continuous System
Union Council
Union Monthly Activity Report
Union Council Assessment Form
DTCE Data Center
CCBs
CCB Quarterly Report
CCB Assessment Form
EDO (CD)
EDO (CD) CCB Registration Report
Data Entry System
Press Club
Press Club Monthly Activity Report
Bar Association
Bar Association Monthly Activity Report
IME DATABASE
Training Organization
Training Report (one for each training event)
Capacity Building Evaluation Report Union Action
Plan Form Sectoral Classification of Schemes Form
IME CSO
DTCE Field Teams
Field Campaign Report Training Assessment Form
DTCE Field Teams
Local Organizations
CSO Evaluation Form
Event Form
Event Organizer
Registration Form
Event Participants
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Social Capital Before Involvement of DTCE
Local Government (Union Council)
DTCE
Local Associations
CCB
COs
CSOs
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Social Capital After Involvement of DTCE
Local Government (Union Council)
DTCE
Local Associations
CCB
COs
CSOs
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Role and Functions - LGO 2001, 98 (1)
Potential of CCB Movement

• Improvement of delivery of service by a public
  facility
• Development and management of a new public
  facility
• Welfare of the handicapped, destitute, widows and
  families in extreme poverty
• Establishment of farming, marketing and
  consumers cooperatives
• Identification of development and municipal needs
  and mobilization of resources
• Formation of stakeholders associations (means
  voluntary associations such as Parent Teacher
  Associations or Farm Water Associations or
  Citizen Police Associations etc.) for community
  involvement in the improvement and maintenance of
  specific facilities and
• Reinforcing the capacity of a specific Monitoring
  Committee at the behest of the concerned Council

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DTCE Partnerships

• Alliance for Community Empowerment (ACE)
• DTCE
• NCHD (Capacity Building of Local Govt.
  Officials)
• RSPN (CCB Mobilization Trainings and Project
  Cycle Management Trainings)
• Local Bar Associations
• Local Press Clubs
• Local IME CSO Partners

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Strengths of DTCE Model

• Decision making by the community
• Union, Tehsil and District level capacity
  building
• Immediate nationwide execution capacity through
  mobile field operation teams and outsourcing to
  civil society
• Using and strengthening the existing government
  machinery in accordance with LGO 2001
• Direct injection of grant funds by DTCE for CCBs
  at grass roots level with huge absorptive
  capacity
• Fast track registration of CCBs and support for
  CCB project cycle to unlock Rs. 15 Billion
  accumulated at District and Tehsil levels
• Nationwide CCB movement to consolidate the local
  government system
• 2.5 headquarters overhead at level of 85
  districts with 5743 unions

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DTCE Organizational Structure
Leadership Level
CEO
Internal Auditor
Legal Counsel
Secretary DTCE
Chief Technical Adviser
PMU (NPD)
Dir CLGR
Dir IME
NPM
Dir PDR
Support Level
Network Administrator
Social Audit Coordinator
Public Relation Officer
Donor Relations Officer
Manager Finance
Admn Officer
DB Specialist
Planning Training Spec
External Data Focal Point Officer
Finance Assistant
Admn Assistant
Admn Assistant
IT Assistant
Action Plan Specialist
Field Level
6 x Field Operation Teams Managers
2x Social Organizers
1x Admn Assistant
1x IT Assistant
Total Approx 60 Including Interns, YPOs, RAs,
etc.
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Thank You