Project Identification:

The Libya “Taqarib” project It strengthens the foundation of a more unified

Libyan state by empowering local governments, reinforcing community bonds,
and improving people’s standard of living. Taqarib helps citizens engage in public
dialogue, prioritize public resource allocations, and understand the roles and
responsibilities of local government. The project links enhancements to service
delivery at the municipal level with national efforts to improve the execution of
decentralization policy, and with efforts to undertake evidence-based reform.

This project consists four main themes and it works together to

provide the best service to the local institutions and
municipalities.Moreover, they interact with each other to achieve the
project objectives.

1-Improve local service.

2-Role of civil society should be enhanced for the local government
3-Working on policy reforms and legislation on local governance

1-First objective :Improvement of municipal service :

Through this axis that provide a range of municipal service that
could support close technically and professionally on the targeted
municipalities that range role groups have defined service in
accordance to its standardised needs .Furthermore,The project
works
In cooperation with municipalities to design implementation of
strategies In service delivery across local countries. Taqarab Project
staff will work they're a group of qualified personnel in the same
workplace that provide technical consultancy for municipalities and
related governmental authorities. The project will use a template for
measuring performance and the functional capacity for the targeted
municipalities.

Second Objective : strengthen local civil society

Taqarib engages local communities and community organizations to
ensure that citizens have a voice in prioritizing and monitoring the
expenditure of public resources. The project also acknowledges that,
at times, the ways and means of improved service-delivery can be
unpopular in the short term. Taqarib therefore partners with
community organizations to generate public support for solutions
like local revenue generation, public-private partnerships, city-to-city
collaboration, and other tools that are important for achieving long-
term, sustainable development.

Third Objective :working on improving laws and the policy that is

related to the local government to enhance decentralization.
Through this scope Taqarab will work with governmental authorities
and civil society specialized in this major to present law proposals to
improve the laws policy that related to the local government
especially law 59 implementing regulation 130.As well, Taqareb
works to ensure recent local municipalities receive strong support
from project strategy to improve municipality service. Providing that
the project will bring network support to the elected women to
enforce their role and to activate women participation in the local
government .