Empowered Pujehun District Council for efficient service delivery to the citizens

The Action seeks to respond to local government challenges in the identified sectors of agriculture, infrastructure and gender and social protection in Pujehun district by building institutional capacity of the Council to deliver on its mandate of providing improved and sustainable services to the citizens. The overall objective of the Action is “Local Councils' resources base and institutional capacity to sustainably deliver and account for services are improved; well-managed priority gender-sensitive development actions, consistent with updated existing Local Development Plans, are implemented with EU funding and in cooperation with Civil Society actors”. 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. Principally, the Action is designed to achieve the following Specific Objectives (SO);
1) Pujehun District Council has improved institutional capacity to deliver on its core mandate;
2) Citizens in Pujehun District Council are reached with improved and sustainable services in the sectors of agriculture, infrastructure development and gender and social protection;
3) Pujehun District Council’s revenue base is increased through enhanced revenue collection, management and generation/investment.
The Action include activities in response to COVID 19.