Municipal Administration Modernisation (MAM) (Syria)

EU contribution: € 18 million 

Objectives: Improve the quality and effectiveness of local governance

Examples of actions:

  • Implement a one-stop-shop
  • Support seven Syrian Municipalities: Damascus (and rural Damascus), Aleppo, Lattakia, Homs, Tartous, Deir ez-Zour and Palmyra
  • Several senior-level workshops and conferences
  • Draft Laws on Local Administration and Local Financial and Revenue Management
  • Implement a new budget classification
  • Technical assistance to the cities of Tartous and Lattakia in Solid Waste tender procedures
  • A Leadership and Management training program for future leaders and managers of local government agencies
  • Strategic planning for the ministry (MLAE) and redesign of the organization
  • Internal decentralization of service delivery to city district level in Aleppo
  • Grants program, 400,000 Euros were given to eight NGOs
     

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