The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) is a World Bank finance assisted project.
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This will help us to know that they can take certain responsibilities. After the completion of construction, the project will automatically belong to the community. After all the requirements are met, we will start considering the funding issues.: Before the project began, we set out our first task which was poverty mapping. This task enabled us to locate resource-constrained communities.
: We give money in three tranches. After spending the first tranche, the benefiting communities will write to us that they have exhausted the allocation. They will state how they spent the money. Then, we will release the second tranche to them, after that is exhausted, another letter will be written before the third and final tranche of the money is given.
PT: These communities have lots of projects they want. How do you determine the projects that are most important to them?: We do what is called ‘transparent rural approval.’ This means that after they have indicated interest in the project to us, we visit the community, have a meeting with every member of the community, and we will ask certain questions.
Also, the size of the project matters, because we cannot construct more than two macro projects in a community. Before the projects commence, they will state the kind of project they need.: We give them 90 per cent of the money, while they provide the remaining 10 per cent, either in cash or kind. But, before we give the community the money, we will make sure they have an existing account in a bank credited with their 10 per cent. Then, we pay in our first tranche so the projects can start.
They will give periodic account on how they spent their money, including the auditing and procurement activities.
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