Empowered Bombali District Council for efficient service delivery to the citizens

The Action seeks to respond to challenges in the district especially in the identified sectors of agriculture infrastructure and Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). To address the identified challenges the Action uses a two pronged approach firstly building institutional capacity of the Council to deliver on its mandate of providing improved and sustainable services to the citizens and secondly broadening the resource base for the Council to generate more revenue at the local level and deliver efficient services to the citizens. The Action contributes to component 1.0 of the 11th EDF programme in Support to Civil Society and Local Authorities for local development in Sierra Leone which focuses on strengthening decentralisation and local governance. Overall the Action is designed to achieve the following Specific Objectives (SO) 1) Bombali District Council has improved institutional capacity to deliver on its core mandate 2) Citizens in Bombali District Council are reached with improved and sustainable services in the sectors of agriculture infrastructure development and gender and social protection 3) Bombali District Council¿s revenue base is increased through enhanced revenue collection management and generation investment. The Action contributes to realization of the objectives of the District Development Plan for Bombali that was developed through a consultative process taking a meaningful bottom up approach. It is therefore fully aligned to the aspirations of the people of the district in the identified areas and foresees to generate socio economic impact in the district.