Governance to Enable Service Delivery (GESD) project is a $100 million grant from the World Bank Board of Executive Directors with an objective to “strengthen Local Authorities’ institutional performance, responsiveness to citizens and management of resources for service delivery.

The project intends to among others, enhance local authority capacity and finance performance based grants to 28 District Local Authorities to deliver priority development projects that enhance service delivery.

It is a results-based approach that will incentivize effectiveness and accountability for performance of Local Authorities.

The project has four core components; Performance-based Financing for Service Delivery which has $73.2 million allocation, Intergovernmental Accountability Systems which has an allocation of $3.8 million, Performance Improvement Support with an allocation of $18 million and Adaptive Management and Innovation Support with $4 million.

The three main indicators which will assist in monitoring if the project is being implemented in line with the main objective which include; Number of local authorities that increase their score on the local authority performance assessment by 5 percentage points; Number of local authorities that complete 80% of the capital investment projects in their annual investment plans and Increased citizen satisfaction through implementation of annual investment plans.

The project will run for a period of 5 years with Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and Development, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, National Local Government Finance Committee (NLGFC) and Local Authorities as lead implementing agencies.