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BSM for MSP (Backstopping Mandate for the Municipal Support Programme Phase 3, Serbia)

Key message: This BSM provides methodological and thematic coaching to MSP Consulting Ltd. in implementing the Municipal Support Programme.

Description

In this the third phase of the project, an organisation formed by staff of the former project support unit (MSP Consulting Ltd.), is responsible for implementing the Municipal Support Programme. Intercooperation will work in partnership with the Local Government Initiative Development Ltd. (Budapest), to coach the team in the implementation of the project and in their transformation into an independent and sustainable organisation. The backstopping mandate covers the following areas: 1. support to project cycle management; 2. providing recommendations to the project's strategic orientation; 3. providing thematic support in the three working areas and in knowledge management; 4. international networking; 5. support to MSP Consulting Ltd.'s organisational development. The Municipal Support Programme's objective is that partner municipalities show high levels of efficiency, accountability and transparency, fully using and strengthening local autonomy and inter-municipal and regional cooperation in the legal and institutional framework. Through supporting capacity development and reform processes, MSP works in three areas: 1. municipal governance; 2. municipal management; 3. intermunicipal cooperation and regional development.

Local partner: MSP Consulting Ltd., partner municipalities (Arilje, Cacak, Cajetina, Kraljevo, Pozega, Uzice and Lucani), the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities (SCTM)

International partner: Local Government Initiatives Development Ltd. (LGID)

Fact sheet

Type: Long-term mandate
Start: 2008 End: 2011 Status: Current

Region: Eastern Europe

Country: Serbia

Working domain: Local Governance and Civil Society

Key topic: Municipal development and decentralization | Political decentralization | Fiscal decentralization | Legal framework | Local governance | Municipal management | Public services | Organisational development | Participatory methods | OD / ID | Knowledge management and innovation

Funding source: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Staff

Responsible at Head Office: Pascal Arnold

Advisors, programme officers: Lionel Giron | Sarah Byrne

Contact

Address:
Intercooperation P.O. Box 6724, Maulbeerstrasse 10 CH 3001 Berne, Switzerland

Phone: ++ 41 31 385 10 10 Fax: ++ 41 31 385 10 10

E-Mail: info@intercooperation.ch

Website: www.msp.co.rs

Resp. for this entry: parnold

Achieving more together

Helvetas and Intercooperation entered a strategic partnership in 2008. Within the next 12 months, they will become one organisation under the name of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation.