CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT UNIT
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The Capacity Development Unit cooperates closely with the Governorate structures through the Governorâs advisors, as well as with relevant ministerial cooperation partners such as the Ministry of Local Development, Ministry of Social Solidarity and others in order to unify and coordinate the various efforts in the field of capacity development of local administration. The capacity development concept provided by PDP focuses on enabling local administration staff on the Governorate and the District level to initiate, plan and manage the process of integrated upgrading of informal areas using participatory development tools. This is achieved through the provision of several training measures to relevant Governorate and selected District staff, in particular:
- Introductory training course on the participatory development approach for upgrading informal areas
- Sequence of training courses (e.g. in cooperation with national training institutes) on the application of each participatory development tool for the upgrading of informal areas, i.e.: establishment of a comprehensive database of informal areas using GIS; coordination of a participatory assessment of the problems and needs of informal areas; coordination of a participatory planning and budgeting process; participatory follow-up and monitoring of upgrading activities and co-management of the Local Initiative Fund
- On-the job-training, follow-up and backstopping on the application of the participatory development tools for the upgrading of informal areas.
- âTraining-of-Trainersâ to consolidate the respective capacities in the Governorate and Districts