Upazila Governance and Development Project (UGDP)

(1) Goal

Enhance the capacity of Upazila Parishads to deliver more effective and responsive public services to citizens through providing additional development fund and a series of capacity development opportunities to concerned stakeholders.

(2) Objectives

• To provide Performance Based Allocation (PBA) to Upazila Parishad, toward responsive public service delivery and infrastructure development.
• To improve mutual accountability between LGIs and line departments both at Upazila and Union level, and to facilitate synergy effects between them.
• To improve transparency of LGIs and line departments to local communities through Union Development Coordination Committee (UDCC) and other good governance measures.
• To strengthen the capacity of public servants both in LGIs and line departments and their collaboration mechanism.
• To facilitate an appropriate decentralization process through series of governance & financial improvement activities.

(3) Project period

December 2015 to June 2021

(4) Type of project

Loan (approximately BDT 11,515 million)

(5) Counterpart agencies

Local Government Division (LGD), Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (MLGRD&C)

(6) Project Components and Sub-components

Component 1: Upazila Development for Improving Service Delivery (PBA as an additional fiscal transfer on top of ADP)

Component 2: Capacity Development and Governance Improvement
Sub-component 2.1 Capacity Development (to all Upazilas)
Sub-component 2.2 Upazila Governance Improvement Action Program (with dispatching Upazila Development Facilitators)
Sub-component 2.3 Upazila Parishad Sector Reform

Component 3: Project Management Support
Sub-component 3.1 Baseline Survey and Engineering Support
Sub-component 3.2 Audit Support
Sub-component 3.3 Governance Performance Assessment Support

Component 4: Consulting Services

(7) Target areas

All Upazilas in Bangladesh. Gradual coverage throughout the Project.

(8) Beneficiaries

Citizens of Upazilas, Upazila Parishads and LGD.

2. Documents and deliverables

(1) Project documents

Serial	Document title	Date	Document type	Language
1	Progress Report	DD/MM/YYYY	Work plan	English

(2) Deliverables

Serial	Document title	Date	Document type	Language
1		DD/MM/YYYY	Work plan	English

3. News and media

Serial	Title	Language
1	Project Website (external link)	English/Bangla