The overall goal of the project is to improve the effective and accountable use of public resources through the promotion of social accountability tools in Southern Africa. Capacity building to analyse and advocate on government budget spending will be one of the central focus. CSA’s support activities will focus on the selection of actors in the fields of health and rural development. SDC also will encourage partners in the domains of health and rural development to attend CSA course on social accountability tools and develop ways of utilising them. This will serve as a basis in providing further support through governance mainstreaming on a case-by-case and demand-driven basis.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner International or foreign NGO
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    1’440’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    1’200’522
Project phases	Phase 3 01.01.2012 - 31.12.2015   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Public finance management
  Cross-cutting topics	Human rights The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes. The project also supports partner organisation improvements
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Mandate without fiduciary fund Project and programme contribution
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F05055