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USAID, Poland, 1998 – 2000
The overall purpose of the Local Government Partnership Project
was to assist Poland to decentralize government administration
and to improve the capacity of local governments to respond
to the needs and concerns of its citizens and to be more effective,
responsive and accountable. TCGI’s role was to assist
the gminas (municipalities) to privatize the management services
by using private/public partnership, simplify and facilitate
the process of creating and implementing housing strategies
in partner gminas and, inter alia, to support local activities
that lead to these goals.
As a subcontractor to Chemonics, TCGI carried
out the following: (a) development of models of good practice
for governance by working with more than two dozen partner
gminas; (b) dissemination of those models throughout the country;
(c) building and strengthening Polish institutions to adopt,
disseminate and carry the work forward into the future; (d)
promotion of strategic management principles integrating sectors
with municipal administration and incorporating input from
and responsiveness to its constituents; and (e) influence
on national policy to support an enhanced role for local governments.
In the process TCGI:
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Conducted survey of 20 gminas that provided
information on capacity-building needs of housing sector;
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Negotiated agreements with 36 gminas which included
support for housing capacity-building; |
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Completed an inventory and assessment of tools and best
practices; |
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Initiated pilot projects with three gminas to develop
participatory housing strategies; |
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Facilitated the evaluation of 20 housing software packages
by a public/private experts group and prepared related
information for country-wide dissemination; and |
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Designed a pilot project for privatization
of property management in three gminas. |
By the end of the program,
ten gminas had developed or were developing strategic housing
plans, four cities had undertaken or were initiating housing
development projects with non-profit partners, and two gminas
had privatized housing management.
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