Municipal Services and Social Resilience Project

Results achieved as of May 2023 include: (1) improved access to quality essential services and employment opportunities in 21 municipalities benefiting over 2.8 million people (22% Syrian and 45% women); (2) created 45 000 person-days of employment through labour-intensive public works. These works include improving 995K square metres of road installing 1 200 streetlights and constructing 4 100 square metres of public buildings and 12 000 square metres of public park; (3) improved local governance of inclusive municipal services in 21 target communities. The project contracted three experts to build the capacity of the Ministry of Local Administration’s Project Management Unit in various areas. These areas include safeguarding and fiduciary compliance gender integration and community outreach. Also the International Labour Organization built the skills of municipal-level staff. These skills include service provision project planning labour-intensive public works monitoring occupational health and safety and ensuring decent working conditions; and (4) conducted extensive community engagement on needs and project ideas and delivered 27 sub-projects. Women formed 67% of the project selection committee members and women provided 30% of the labour for the sub-projects. They also setup grievance redress mechanism to allow for community feedback and increase accountability.