Tanga Civil Societies Coalition: FCS Narrative Report

FCS Narrative Report

Introduction

A. Full name of organization

Tanga Civil Societies Coalition

B. Name you regularly use

TASCO

C. Full name of project

The Broader Public Engagement in social accountability Development monitoring of Public and private Sectors Services Providers in Korogwe and Muheza Districts

D. Contract reference number

FCS/MG/3/10/023

E. Period covered by this report

Dates: July to September

Quarter(s): 3 2011

F. Project Coordinator

David Chanyeghea

Project Description

A. What Key Result Area (KRA) of the Foundation for Civil Society does your project address?

Governance and Accountability

B. Briefly describe how does your project addresses the KRA selected above.

Empowering Citizens to participate in decision making process so that they can hold government accountable in Korogwe and Muheza District, further more we used citizen score card to evaluate and monitor the services providing by government in Korogwe and Muheza district, specifically in health and education sector

C. In which Region(s) and District(s) are the people your project support living?

Region	District	Ward	Villages	Total Beneficiaries
Tanga	Muheza	3	6	187
	Korogwe	3	6	430

D. Total beneficiaries reached

	Direct Beneficiaries	Indirect Beneficiaries
Female	279	2790
Male	338	3380
Total	617	6170

Project Outputs and Activities

A. Outputs as shown in appendix E. Key Performance Indicators in the contract

Increased awareness of 120 Districts wards based SAM oversight management and monitoring team by the end of the project

B. What activities were planned for this quarter as per your Contract?

Conducting public sectoral provider performance assessment Citizen report card in the Muheza and Korogwe districts

2. Monitoring and Evaluation

C. Achievements this quarter

1. public sectoral provider performance assessment Citizen report card in conducted in 6 villages from each 3 wards of Muheza and Korogwe districts

2. Conducting be annual PETS in Muheza District

3. Monitoring and evaluation conducted

C. If any difference, what is the reason?

PETS has stated, but we stack some where in Muheza District, they refused to give us information in time, the activity now is in progress, we had to go back to the Regional Administrative Secretary for assistance

D. Resources used

1. public sectoral provider performance assessment Citizen report card 1,839,400

2. PETS 4,900,500

3. Monitoring and Evaluation 481,500

Project Outcomes and Impact

A. Intended Results as per appendix E. Key Performance Indicators in the contract

Improve public coordination practices in the social accountability monitoring and public expenditure tracking survey in Muheza and Korogwe

B. Actual Outcomes/changes

Improve public/private sector services providers accountability to the public services delivery in Muheza and Korogwe districts

C. Other outcomes/changes originated from implementing the project

1.Establishment of 6 groups on social monitoring accountability in 6 villages of Muheza and Korogwe district
2. Citizens started to make followup on issues affecting their life, example citizen of Mindu requested assistance to formulate action plan, so that they can start to truck issues of accountability in the schools and health centers, Citizen of Kelenge holding the head teacher who has been beaten by teacher until he admitted in the Magunga District Hospital in Korogwe

D. Reasons for difference

(No Response)

Lessons Learned

Describe any experience and ideas that you obtained from implementing the project

Explanation
Fear of government to be investigated on issues of money
Villagers are understand many things of government, including governments promises in their localities, unfortunately they did not have platform where they can address their issues or where they remind government about their promises
Trust of citizens for their leaders has been decreased, as they refused any village leader to be included in their committees

Challenges

Describe any challenges encountered in implementing the project and how they were overcome.

Challenge	How it was overcome
We did not given cooperation to get information for PETS activities, which caused us to postpone PETS activity	Postpone PETS activity to next quarter and went back to Regional level to seek assistance
Citizens in villages are not trust NGOs, as there were some NGOs went to their villages to get information, and they never back for feed back and or deal with issues they raised	We told them TASCO is deference will go with them shoulder by shoulders until the changes happen
Fund are very limited, as those groups need some money to make follow up of issues in their villages (funds for stationary, refreshment and transporter)	promised to assist on issues of stationary and transport, we also assist volunteerism spirit so that we can reach the together

Linkages

Describe your linkages with other stakeholders

Stakeholder	How you worked with them
Local government of Korogwe and Muheza District	assist us during PIMA card and they gave us permition to work in their area
Korogwe Civil Societies Coalition	Identification of wards and pre-mobilization
Muheza Civil Society Coalition	Mobilization and its members assisting us in the field, where we never been before

Future Plans

What are your plans for the next Quarter reporting period?

Activities Planned	1st Month	2nd Month	3rd Month
Training workshop to public sector service providers on social accountability monitoring	v
Conducting be annual Public expenditure trucking survey		v	v
Quarterly public Sectors service provider performance assistance assessment citizen reports card		v
Monitoring and evaluation			v

Beneficiaries Reached

Indicate the total number of beneficiaries reached by your project from each of the following constituency groups.

		Direct Beneficiaries	Indirect Beneficiaries
Widows	Female	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Male	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Total	(No Response)	(No Response)
People living with HIV/AIDS	Female	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Male	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Total	(No Response)	(No Response)
Elderly	Female	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Male	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Total	(No Response)	(No Response)
Orphans	Female	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Male	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Total	(No Response)	(No Response)
Children	Female	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Male	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Total	(No Response)	(No Response)
Disabled	Female	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Male	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Total	(No Response)	(No Response)
Youth	Female	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Male	(No Response)	(No Response)
	Total	(No Response)	(No Response)
Other	Female	279	2790
	Male	338	3380
	Total	617	6170

If "Other", provide details:

(No Response)

Events Attended

Indicate any FCS organized events that your organization benefited from or attended.

Type of Event	When	Lessons	Actions Taken
information session	July 2007 and September 2009	How to write proposal for fund from FCS	Three proposals sent to FCS and funded
Annual forum	2009, 2010 and 2011	experience exchange from other organization	Improving TASCO work according what we lent positively from others and from presentations made by facilitators
Manage your grant	December 2010	How to manage project and reporting	positive supervision of the project and addthere with the skills we got from training
Experience sharing	September 2011	Book keeping	Make some positive changes in our financial system