Our aim here is to build the capacity of NGOs, youth groups and other community based organisations in the areas of citizens’ right to participate in planning and budgeting processes at the district level. We will learn about the roles and responsibilities of district authorities, enabling participants to gain the skills needed during budget dialogues and negotiations. Trainees will get the chance to share their knowledge with their teams, club or members, in an effort to advocate for their concers to be taken into account when the district authorities decide on the three year rolling investment plans (IP3). Moreover, our trainers will provide technical and logistic support, as welll as teach participants how to actively engage their members, collect issues and inputs from them and effectively represent them in the district annual planning and rolling investment planning processes.

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This course is similar to the previous one (LG1), and it has the same target groups and methods, but it focuses on planning and budgeting at the level of communes and sangkat administrations. Trainees representing youth groups or other civil society organisations will get the chance to advocate for their concerns to be taken into account by commune or sangkat officials, and to be integrated into the annual Commune Investment Plans (CIPs).

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Here, we are also addressing youth groups and community based organisations with an ambition to engage in decision making processes at the local level. However, the main goal of this course is to teach participants how to analyse commune budgets using a simple digital tool. After undertaking the analysis of the current Commune Investment Plans (CIPs) of their local administrations, trainees will have an overview of the expenditure, and their chance to succeed in making concrete requests and suggestions for future budget allocations to their favourite sectors or activities will therefore improve.

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During this course, local councillors will reflect and try to clarify their roles and responsibilities in opening spaces for and encouraging community based organisations, youth and other citizens to engage in various activities, such as the monthly meetings of local councillors, public fora, awareness raising activities or other events. Officials will be reminded about their mission to serve citizens as the right holders who elected them, as well as about the need to respond to the citizens’ requests, including requests for public information disclosure. By the end of the course, local councillors will better understand their general mandate and permissive function. Moreover, they will learn how to better monitor the implementation of local projects, how to decide on budget plans and expenses, and how to ensure all expenses are effective, efficient, and transparent.

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