Foundation for Civil Society: FCS Narrative Report

FCS Narrative Report

Respondent:	Tanga Civil Societies Coalition
Time Submitted:	September 5, 2011 at 12:58 PM EAT

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: Apri to June 2011

Quarter(s): quarter 2

F. Project Coordinator

David Chanyeghea, chanyeghea@yahoo.com, Tel 0272645240, P.O.BOX 5344, Tanga

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.

Impowering Citizens to participate in decision making process so that to 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	Korogwe	Mombo	Jitengeni, Chekelei	100 people inteviwered
	Muheza	Masuguru, Bombani and Lusanga	Lusanga, A,B and C, Masuguru	100 people interviewed

D. Total beneficiaries reached

	Direct Beneficiaries	Indirect Beneficiaries
Female	50	400
Male	50	300
Total	100	700

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

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

1. 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 of from 3 wards of Muheza and Korogwe districts
2 Monitoring and evaluation conducted

C. If any difference, what is the reason?

(No Response)

D. Resources used

1. public sectoral provider performance assessment Citizen report card in conducted in 6 villages of from 3 wards of Muheza and Korogwe districts 1,839,400

2 Monitoring and evaluation conducted 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 District by December 2011

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

it is earl to see the real outcome/changes, but the project gave us to understand the situation in those areas, where we interviewed 200 people and observing the situation in those areas, (see photos)

D. Reasons for difference

(No Response)

Lessons Learned

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

Explanation
poor services in health and education in the local community level (see photos and separate implantation report)
rigidness of local leaders in community service provision, example in Makuyuni executive officer stop us to interview community and Hale ward WEO refused to work with TASCO if we engage citizen in the project, he wanted us to interview leaders only
Citizen have solution for their problems, but they are not listened by local leaders
promises of Member of parliaments and councilors are not fulfilled

Challenges

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

Challenge	How it was overcome
working with local leaders in this project, some of them turned to be enemy	Seek assistant from District council, lobbying and telling them how the project will help to improve education and health services in their area
Some of interviewed people claimed for payment	We explained to them, that they are part of the project and we implement it for their own benefit and the entire community

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
Conducting public sector service providers performance and assessment citizen report card	Ougust 2011
conducting bi annual PETS in Muheza and Korogwe Districts		September 2011
Monitoring and evaluation			End of September 2011

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	100	400
	Male	100	300
	Total	200	700

If "Other", provide details:

General population

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 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