Décentralisation - Droits Humain - Développement Local (3D)
For Capacity-building Of Women's Organizations To Engage In Decision-making About Public Services
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Amount$450,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/16/2017
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Term30.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
ONG-3D is a Senegalese organization that promotes budget transparency and builds the capacity of local citizen groups to use information about their government’s policies and development plans to demand better public services. Through this grant, the organization will design and implement a project that tests approaches for achieving gender equity in local decision making. As a result of this grant, women’s organizations in two municipalities in Senegal will have better access to budget and other information about government services in their localities, know how to interpret and use it, and who within their municipality to contact to express their priorities and concerns.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ong3d.org
Address
Comico Mermoz villa No 59, Dakar, BP 47311, Senegal
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
ONG 3D (Democracy/Governance, Human Rights, Local Development) is a Senegalese civil society organization whose mission is to enhance and strengthen citizen initiatives and actions, promoting good governance, while respecting human rights at both the national and local levels. Its vision is to consolidate its contribution to national political and socioeconomic transformations and to influence through its actions, the emergence of pluralistic, democratic societies that are open to the world in the subregion. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support
ONG-3D is one of Senegal’s leading civil society organizations supporting people’s participation in democratic governance and is implementing a new strategy for strengthening its capacity, geographic reach, and impact. ONG-3D works in rural and urban areas to raise awareness and opportunity for citizen groups (women’s associations, youth groups, health and education management committees, etc.) to access and use information about government budgets, policies, plans, and performance. ONG-3D builds the confidence and capacity of citizen groups to navigate how to engage with government bodies responsible for managing resources and key services. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability.)
for improving citizen access to fiscal information and participation in Senegal's budgeting process
ONG-3D promotes democracy through government transparency and people’s participation in local governance in Senegal to ensure their rights to basic public services are met. This grant will support a program to improve citizens’ access to Senegal’s national budget information by creating and publishing a version of the budget that is easily understandable by citizens and that meets the standards of the International Budget Partnership for "citizen budgets." This grant will also support experimentation and mechanisms for citizen engagement in local government budget processes as Senegal decentralizes public services.
