The Federation for Environment, Education, Development and Equal Rights (FEEDER) – District Mansehra Tehsil Balakot and Tehsil Oghi

The project focuses on newly unveiled Local Governments (LGs) in provinces under grant cycle 10, building on the project's effort for efficient, responsive, transparent, and accountable LGs. A Training Needs Assessment (TNA) conducted in 18 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) revealed that 83% of newly elected LG representatives had no prior experience of contesting for any elected public office. This situation required intervention to strengthen the capacity of LGs to deliver. The CVP will contribute to strengthening LGs by capacitating the newly elected LG representatives, particularly those elected at Village/Neighborhood Nazims and Naib Nazims and Councilors of District Council, Tehsil Council, and Village/Neighborhood Councils in five districts of KP. The project's objective is to strengthen and support the local government system by capacitating the newly elected LG representatives through building their capacity, preferably by engaging LG-related training/research institutions in the public or private sector. The project consists of three major activities: building capacity of the newly elected LG representatives through cascade trainings, facilitating training workshops for elected LG representatives, and engagements/partnerships with LG training institutes or rural development academies. The project will develop nine modules to cover all three tiers of the LG, focusing on LG laws, structure, and mandate, resource management and budget oversight, and participatory development planning. The modules will be designed specifically for each tier of LG, and the project will hire six trainers, two each for assigned categories, to conduct training sessions as per approved training schedules and manuals developed by CVP. The project has devised a detailed implementation strategy for smooth, transparent, and effective interventions. The hiring of project staff, including a project manager and project coordinator, will be initiated in the first month of the project. The partner organization will advertise the position in daily national newspapers and collect minimum three CVs for the post. The project manager and project coordinator will be responsible for carrying out all project activities as per the Statement of Work (SOW) and will be well-versed about the Local Government laws, procedures, and structure. The project will also hire six trainers, two each for assigned categories, to conduct training sessions as per approved training schedules and manuals developed by CVP. The trainers will be responsible for ensuring their 100% attendance during the entire session of "Training of Trainer" (ToT) organized by CVP. The project will also mobilize project resources, including training of project staff on programmatic, operational, and financial aspects of project management and implementation.