Contracting authority: European Commission

Support to civil society organisations to contribute to the achievement of

the sustainable development goals (SDGs) - Collect more spend better.
Annex A.2 – Grant application form – Full application

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Strengthening the capacity of Civil Society
Organizations and Rwandan Citizens to actively
engage in Government budget process and
advocate for improved fiscal transparency
CLADHO (Collectif des Ligues et Associations
de Défense des Droits de l’Homme au Rwanda)
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 Table of contents

FULL APPLICATION FORM.....................................................................................................4

1 General information.................................................................................................................4

2 The action..................................................................................................................................4
2.1. Description of the action..............................................................................................................4
2.1.1. Description (max 13 pages).............................................................................................................5
2.1.2. Methodology (max 5 pages)..........................................................................................................10
2.1.3. Indicative action plan for implementing the action (max 4 pages)................................................11
2.1.4. Sustainability of the action (max 3 pages).....................................................................................12
2.1.5. Logical Framework........................................................................................................................12
2.1.6. Budget, amount requested from the contracting authority and other expected sources of funding
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FULL APPLICATION FORM
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1 General information

Reference of the call for proposals

EuropeAid/164455/DH/ACT/Multi

[Lot number you are applying to:] Lot 1

Number of the proposal7 1

Name of the lead applicant CLADHO (Collectif des Ligues et Associations de

Défense des Droits de l’Homme au Rwanda)
Title of the action Strengthening the capacity of Civil Society Organizations
and Rwandan Citizens to actively engage in Government
budget process and advocate for improved fiscal
transparency
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specify country(ies) region(s) that will benefit from the action
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1 The action 8

Strengthening the capacity of Civil Society Organizations and Rwandan Citizens to actively
engage in Government budget process and advocate for improved fiscal transparency

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allocates a proposal number.
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The evaluation committee will refer to information provided in the concept note as regards objectives and the
relevance of the action.

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1.1. Description of the action
The overall objective or goal of this project is to strengthen and engage CSOs to advocate for
more civic space in budget preparation process and improved fiscal transparency, engage citizens
in budget preparation process and provide an enabling environment to become more effective in
influencing national public policy formulation and implementation including budget preparation
and general budget monitoring as a result, GoR increases its engagement with them, and is better
prepared to receive their inputs and avail detailed budget information for public consideration.

1.1.1. Description (max 13 pages)

The action which is strongly anchored locally responds to several key priorities of the
Rwandan Vision 2020, National Strategy for Transformation One (NST1) and to the
US Embassy and builds on the good results and lessons learnt from CLADHO’s
interventions in government planning and budget preparation process since 2008.
It indeed addresses several challenges faced by Civil Society Organization (CSOs),
Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Media and Citizen which now have an
improved access to accountability fora in the country but are still struggling to actively
participate in planning and budget preparation process. This project will strengthen
the capacity of Civil Society Organizations, Media, Community Based
Organizations and Joint Action Development Forums in technical budgetary
knowledge (planning and budget preparation process), communication and advocacy
skills, to enthusiastically engage in influencing budget process, monitoring its
execution and holding government accountable. This will help to better link the
national budget to the population's priorities, needs and human rights through
informed analysis and contributions to budget proposals, monitoring and tracking
public revenues and expenditures, and supporting citizens' budget literacy. CSO
active engagement will ensure a more needs-responsive and inclusive policy-making
fostering a stronger governance and improving public authorities’ accountability and
fiscal transparency. This will help to mobilize, bring together and work with civil
society stakeholders from the sector level, community level, and district level to
the national level in order to institutionalize budget preparation process that
embraces public accountability, effectiveness and gender responsiveness. An
improved collaborative approach between the CSOs and the media, will contribute
to an enhanced domestic accountability at local and national levels as it will guarantee
a better timely accessibility to information both in terms of content and visibility.
Strengthening community participation in budget preparation and tracking
processes will help to ensure that government guarantees a full engagement of
citizens in budget process and fiscal transparency. Citizens in the following 6 districts
will closely benefit from the project operations; these are Gisagara, Ruhango,
Muhanga, Rusizi, Rutsiro and Rubavu districts and at national level with the CSOs and
Media.
Transparency and accountability across all institutions and individuals is a key ingredient to
Transformational Governance Pillar as enshrined in the National Strategy for Transformation
One (NST1) and vision 2050 where increased citizen participation, engagement and partnerships
in development are cemented. They emphasize citizen participation as a way of ensuring
ownership and feedback for efficiency and sustainability. It also focuses on increased citizen
participation, strengthening partnerships between Government institutions, private sector,

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citizens, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) to fast track
national development and people centered prosperity as a way of ensuring ownership and
feedback for efficiency and sustainability. However, citizens do to a small extent participate in
planning and budget preparation processes at 7%, 12% and 29% as respectively published in
RGB’s Citizen Report Card of 2015, 2016 and 2017. Citizen engagement in the budget
preparation process is low. They do not access draft budget information before its final approval
by parliament. Besides this, approved budget information is also not made available to all
citizens at the glass root level. Even for the few ones who have managed to participate, it
becomes difficult for them to scrutinize whether what they proposed for inclusion in the national
budget was considered or not and if not why it was excluded. This unfortunately, makes the
budget unable to address comprehensively citizens’ specific needs and challenges since no timely
feedback is made available before its final approval and ultimately the budget ends up becoming
non-citizen centered. Citizens and CSOs members have little or no information about
government budget process and this becomes an impediment to PFM compliance thus making,
monitoring budget execution and accountability cumbersome.

Citizen participation in budget preparation process is necessary in fast tracking the

implementation of sector strategies plans (SSPs) and district development strategies (DDS).

There is also a visible need to strengthen the capacity of CSOs, Community Based
Organizations, and Faith Based Organizations to promote citizen participation in budget process,
its transparency, hold their leaders accountable, promote citizen engagement in prioritization and
allocation of resources, budget tracking, and above all improve fiscal transparency. Therefore,
Civil Society Organizations need to be fully equipped with information pertaining to budget
process so that they can be better positioned to advocate for citizen engagement in government
budget process and advocate for improved fiscal transparency.

There is an urgent need to address these bottlenecks to hasten citizen engagement in government
budget process. This necessitates capacitating and skilling CSOs’ members in budget preparation
cycle to enable them raise timely public awareness on government budget process and skillfully
engage citizens, their councillors and leaders in budget preparation process and above all, help to
ameliorate fiscal transparency through availability of timely reliable, adequate budget proposals
and availability of approved government budget information for public consumption on time.
From the above highlighted facts, this project is highly needed.

0. Geographical coverage
This project will cover six (6) districts namely; Gisagara, Ruhango, Muhanga, Rusizi, Rutsiro
and Rubavu. These districts are lagging behind in terms of citizens’ participation in planning and
budgeting according to the 2017 Rwanda Governance Board’s Citizen Report Card. Citizens in
these districts need to be supported through a number of identified project initiatives so to have
their needed priorities heard and considered by the districts in the national budget. In terms of
Engaging CSOs and Government through advocacy, the project will operate at National level.

1. Project goal and objectives

1.1. General objective

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The overall objective or goal of this project is to strengthen and engage CSOs to advocate for
more civic space in budget preparation process and improved fiscal transparency, engage citizens
in budget preparation process and provide an enabling environment to become more effective in
influencing national public policy formulation and implementation including budget preparation
and general budget monitoring as a result, GoR increases its engagement with them, and is better
prepared to receive their inputs and avail detailed budget information for public consideration.

1.2. Specific objectives

 To build the capacity of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Community Based
Organizations (CBOs) to actively participate and engage citizens in government budget
preparation process, general budget monitoring through Public Expenditures Tracking
Survey (PETs) and promote the engagement of the Government of Rwanda with all Civil
Society Organizations.
 To empower JADFs (Joint Action Development Forums) to knowledgeably participate in
the budget cycle and in the general budget monitoring and increase civil society
participation in enhancing fiscal transparency.
 To empower CSOs and media in accessing budgeting information and raising public
awareness in budget process and fiscal transparency.

2. Expected results/impacts

6.1. Result 1 - CSOs and, CBOs understand the whole process of budget formulation and general
budget monitoring framework, their roles in engaging citizen in budget cycle and budget related
technical capacities in supporting long term engagement with public authorities are strengthened.

6.1.1. Key outputs of result 1

 Atleast 200 people from CSOs and CBOs will be trained on budget process, ELBAG
(Economic Literacy & Budget Accountability for Governance), HRBA (Human Rights
Based Approach), Gender Budget Statement, budget monitoring skills/methods and
expenditures tracking using Public Expenditures Tracking Survey (PETs);
 At least 200 people from CSOs and CBOs will be benefit from awareness workshops on
national planning and budget process and country development agenda.
 1 public dialogue on the role of CSOs and Citizen in budget process is organized.
 Live radio and TV programs using community and national radio stations are organized
 Public awareness campaign and community dialogues on sources of own revenues,
spending and public investment will be organized in all districts of interventions using
community dialogues.
 Organization of consultative meetings between local authorities and citizen to inform
budget formulation.
 Produce and disseminate district citizens guides to budget.

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6.2. Results 2: JADF members are empowered in the budget cycle and in the general budget
monitoring.

6.2.1. Key outputs of Result 2

 All 6 districts JADF members have adequate understanding in budget cycle and budget
monitoring
 Local and opinion leaders (Councilors, Sector and Cell Executive Secretaries,
Community Representatives) are trained on participatory planning, budget preparation
processes, monitoring and evaluation of priority implementation.

6.3. Result 3- CSOs and media capacity to increase and improve budget information and
knowledge
visibility and accessibility to the public, local, national and regional stakeholders and raise
public awareness on budget process and fiscal transparency.

Thus result 3 will empower the activities of CSOs and media organizations’ actions by holding
accountable the public authorities, and enhancing transparency around budget planning and fiscal
transparency. Also the capacity of the CSOs and media houses to improve visibility and
accessibility to budget information and knowledge will be strengthened.

The above action will support CSOs to disseminate the results of their analysis on national
budget spending and to share these findings at a national level during dialogues. This will require
improved capacity to collect stories of change, to engage the media, to report on budget related
information, to simplify this information in order to reach a wider public, and to improve their
communication on their websites and social media. Sharing learning from their analysis will thus
contribute to raising awareness among the Rwandan population on national budget and fiscal
transparency.

Journalists of national media will be sensitized and trained on budget process and finance laws so
that they can better record the different challenges and evolutions in that area. Bringing matters
related to national budget and spending, fiscal transparency in national media programs will
advance the national debate on improving public participatory mechanisms in budget planning,
implementation and monitoring.

6.3.1. Key outputs of Results 3

 At least 100 journalists will be trained on analysis and dissemination of budget
information.
 Stories of change will be developed by trained journalists, and 4 awards will be given to
the most innovative stories of change on budget and fiscal transparency.
 4,000 information materials on budget process and stories of change will be developed
and disseminated.

7. Project Activities
7.1. Preparatory Activities:
7.1.1. Internal start-up workshop.

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A start-up workshop will be attended by CLADHO staff specifically those involved in the project
with the aim of strengthening the capacity of the staff involved in the project covering
partnership management, compliance with Donor (US Embassy) rules and regulations,
Monitoring and Evaluation and Communication.

7.1.2. Inception workshop and project orientation

It will be conducted in the project location. The inception workshop will bring together multiple
stakeholders who will be involved in project intervention, inclusive of local authorities and
representatives of line Ministries and media houses so that they can be part of the foundation
building of the project and jointly own the process.

7.2. Activities to achieve project results

7.2.1. Activities to achieve Result 1 :
 Awareness building workshops on national budget and respective role of
citizen, targeted CSOs and CBOs,
 Training of CSOs and CBOs on Economic Literacy Budget Accountability
for Governance (ELBAG) and on Human Rights Based Approaches
(HRBA),
 Training of CSOs and CBOs on budget making process, Gender Budget
Statement and on Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETs).
 Training of CSOs and CBOs on how to advocate for improved fiscal
transparency through better understanding of fiscal transparency, and CBOs
will advocate for citizen participation in budget process and facilitate citizen to
engage effectively their duty bearers and make them accountable in budget
process cycle (Preparation, implementation and monitoring)
 Support CSOs and CBOs to hold pre-budget hearing meetings with district
and local authorities. The pre-hearing meetings are opportunities to hear from
local authorities and citizens the priorities and other community concerns that
need budget in the following fiscal year.
 Support CSOs to conduct Joint annual budget analysis to produce alternative
budget (recommendations) to be submitted to the parliament and the Ministry
of Finance and Economic Planning (Gender budget Statement will also be
considered ),
 Support CSOs and CBOs to conduct a consultative session and public dialogue
with government representatives on budget issues.
 Conduct public awareness campaign and community dialogues on sources of
own revenues.
 Produce and disseminate districts citizens guide to budget.
 Support citizens to conduct community score card on citizen participation in

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 planning and budget process.

7.2.2. Activities to achieve results 2 :

 Training of members of JADF on budget preparation, implementation and monitoring,
 Training of Local and opinion leaders on participatory planning, budget preparation
processes, monitoring and evaluation of priority implementation.

7.2.3. Activities to achieve Result 3 :

 Sensitization and training of media houses on budget preparation and budget monitoring
work. This activity will ensure that national media houses are involved in the action and
play a significant role in holding the public authorities accountable in budget process
and fiscal transparency.
 Train CSOs and media to collect stories of change and linking them with media and skills
to report on budget related information.
 Award to best journalist reporting and covering stories of change on budget process and
fiscal transparency. To boost journalists’ eagerness to cover issues related to citizen
participation in budget process and fiscal transparency, every year CLADHO will
organize a reward ceremony that will give a prize to the best article published on this
issue.
 Produce and disseminate information on budget in an accessible format: Disseminating
information on budget and fiscal transparency in a more systematic way is fundamental
for holding public authorities accountable and enhancing the general public interest in
budget
matter, that’s likely to support an increased citizen and CSO’s participation in the budget
cycle. This will also involve media strategies to inform target communities about their
constitutional role in the planning and budget preparation process
 Support districts and CSOs to strengthen their websites and become hubs of quality and
quantity information sharing to the public on budget and respective citizen participation in
budget process.

1.1.2. Methodology (max 5 pages)

 Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA)

CLADHO’s way of work recognizes that human rights promotion, eradication of injustice and
promotion of accountable governance can only happen if the rights of the citizen including
vulnerable groups are protected, promoted, respected and fulfilled. In relation to this action, we
recognize that there are underlying power structures that perpetuate non-inclusion of citizen and
CSOs in the governance and decision making processes eventually determining their livelihood,
dignity and self-esteem. We believe in the empowerment of our target groups as an approach that
ensures that people are at the center of the struggle for rights. This aims to build capacities of

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citizen, enhance their awareness and capacity to critically analyze the context, power relations,
and their position in society and motivate them to take part in public affairs such as policy
formulation and budget preparation process.
 Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA):

CLADHO will also use a participatory approach in programming through active engagement of
the citizens. This participatory approach adopts a friendly adult learning technique which enables
women, men and youths to identify key challenges in their participation in planning and budget
process, constraints faced, root causes, solutions and what amount of resources are needed to
address them. Equipped with this information, they then prepare local development plans by
analyzing the resources available at the village level.

 Economic Literacy & Budget Accountability for Governance (ELBAG)

The ELBAG approach will enable communities to take appropriate action in making economic
development aspects particularly those pertaining to planning and budgeting more democratic
and people centered. Therefore, ELBAG is a process and methodological framework that
combines organizing people, developing grassroots monitoring mechanisms,
democratizing knowledge and using participatory tools and methods for building public
accountability and transparency to initiate people centered advocacy processes. ELBAG
simplifies economic tools like budgets by explaining how they are prepared, who prepares them
and how money is sourced.

 Public Hearings:
A public hearing is a tool where people discuss their development needs in a public forum which
is presided over by an independent bench. Usually local officials are also present and are asked
to respond to the queries from the community. A report of the outcomes with plans for future
action is prepared and shared with the concerned ministry and parliament and a follow-up for
report consideration is done.

 Community Score Card:

It is a useful participatory tool for constructive engagement between the state
and citizens. The CSC is a community-based approach for assessing government services or
facilities by grading them according to a range of scores. The CSC process uses the “community”
as a unit of analysis, and is focused on monitoring progress at the local level. This method draws
different stakeholders into discussions with the major aim of finding out whether the
beneficiaries have received the promised inputs; grading the services by the community
members; self-assessment of the service providers and further improvement plan for the
problems identified. Here we will emphasize on planning and budget process.

 Participatory review and reflection processes:

Actions and processes will be reviewed annually in a participatory manner by communities, local
authorities, CSOs, CBOs and by social accountability and monitoring team and other interested
groups involved in the project. This is to enhance participation, accountability, and transparency
among all key stakeholders in the activities implementation. It will also serve as a forum for
sharing lessons learned and best practices.

 Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETs)

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Public expenditure tracking system (PETS) will be used to implement the project objectives. It
will help to avail budget information that is consistent, complete, transparent and easily
accessible on time.

1.1.3. Indicative action plan for implementing the action (max 4 pages)

Attached

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 Indicative Action Plan for Implementing the Action For 36 Months

Year 1
Half-year 1 Half-year 1
Activity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 CLADHO and 12 Member
Organisations
Internal start-up workshop CLADHO and 12 Member
Organisations
Inception workshop and project orientation CLADHO and 12 Member
Organisations
Awareness building and workshops with CSOs, CLADHO and 12 Member
CBOs and Districts Organisations
Training of CSOs , CBOs and citizens on CLADHO and 12 Member
Economic Literacy Budget Accountability for Organisations
Governance (ELBAG) on Human Rights Based
Approaches (HRBA)
Training of CSOs, CBOs and citizens on budget CLADHO and 12 Member
making process, Gender Budget Statement and Organisations
on Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETs)
Training of CSOs , CBOs and citizens on CLADHO and 12 Member
advocacy for budget issues and fiscal Organisations
transparency
Produce and disseminate district citizens budget CLADHO and 12 Member
briefs for that fiscal year Organisations
M&E CLADHO Project Staff

Annual report writing and feed back CLADO Project Staff

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Year 2
Half-year 2 Half-year 2
Activity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Support CSOs. CBOs and citizens to hold pre- CLADHO and 12 Member
budget hearing meetings Organisations
Support CSOs and citizens to conduct Joint CLADHO and 12 Member
annual budget analysis Organisations
Support CSOs CBOs and citizens to hold a CLADHO and 12 Member
consultation session with parliamentarians and Organisations
conduct a public dialogue on budget issues
Training members of CSOs and citizens on CLADHO and 12 Member
budget preparation and M&E Organisations
Produce and disseminate districts citizen guides CLADHO and 12 Member
on budget. Organisations
Support Citizen to conduct community score card CLADHO and 12 Member
on citizen participation in planning and budget Organisations
process.
Quarterly Radio and TV shows CLADHO and 12 Member
Organisations
Support districts and CSOs to strengthen their CLADHO and 12 Member
websites and social media skills Organisations
M&E CLADHO Project Staff

Annual Report Writing and Feed Back CLADHO Project Staff

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Year 3
Half-year 3 Half-year 3
Activity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Implementing body
Training members of JADF on budget CLADHO and 12 Member
preparation, implementation and Organisations
monitoring
Training of local and opinion leaders on CLADHO and 12 Member
participatory planning, budget preparation Organisations
process and M&E
Sensitization and training of media houses CLADHO and 12 Member
on budget preparation and M&E Organisations
Train CSOs and media to collect stories of CLADHO and 12 Member
change Organisations
Award to best journalist/media house CLADHO and 12 Member
Organisations
Produce and disseminate district citizens CLADHO and 12 Member
budget briefs for that fiscal year Organisations
Support districts and CSOs to strengthen CLADHO and 12 Member
their websites and social media skills Organisations
M&E CLADHO Project Staff

Report writing CLADHO Project Staff

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 1.1.4. Sustainability of the action (max 3 pages)

The goal of this project is to strengthen the capacity of Civil Society Organizations and Rwandan
Citizens to actively engage in Government budget process and advocate for improved fiscal
transparency. At the end of this project, we hope to see Rwandan CSOs and citizens at all levels
continuing to enthusiastically participate in government budget preparation process and have
timely access to reliable detailed budget proposals before the BFP is discussed by the law makers.
Beneficiary districts will be encouraged from the beginning to own the project activities and
successes since this will be helping them indirectly to also excel in Imihigo evaluation where a
number of criteria such as citizen participation, accountability among others are considered. This
project will be an excellent opportunity to the districts to enhance citizen participation since it will
have become a culture, the impact of the project activities will continue to manifest. CLADHO
will also have disseminated technical instruments to conduct budget tracking and we expect that
at least 75% of the final beneficiaries (citizens) will be able to use Community Score Cards, and
PETS to continue demanding accountability from their leaders, initiate discussion frameworks
with their leaders and take responsibilities in the prioritization of their needs in their
constituencies due to mindset change. In addition, at least 90% of the targeted CBOs and CSOs
will have acquired knowledge in HRBA and budget process to become drivers of budget
preparation process in their communities and engage in sustained development actions through
advocacy and campaigns to enable them claim their rights and influence policy change.
This will strengthen solidarity networks between like-minded organizations and institutions at the
district and national levels and will enable CSOs and CBOs to rally and start to act together
towards their common aim of improving budget and fiscal transparency. Media engagement will
also sustain project activities.

1.1.5. Logical Framework

Attached

1.1.6. Budget, amount requested from the contracting authority and other expected
sources of funding

Attached

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1.2. Lead applicant’s Experience

The below information will be used to assess whether you have sufficient and stable experience of
managing actions in the same sector and of a comparable scale to the one for which a grant is being
requested.

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Name of the Organisation: CLADHO (Collectif des Ligues et Associations de Défense des Droits de l’Homme au Rwanda)

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Lead applicant t YES
Project title: Strengthening the capacity of Civil Society Organizations and Sector (ref. list of sectors in Sectorial experience in PADOR):
Rwandan Citizens to actively engage in Government budget process and
advocate for improved fiscal transparency
Location of the Cost of the action Role: coordinator, Donors to the action Amount contributed Dates (from..to)
action (EUR) co-beneficiary, affiliated entity (name)9 (by donor) dd/mm/yyyy
Rwanda … KNH 494,798 EURO 5 years

Objectives and results of the action

Engaging Human rights organisations in advocating for girls‘ rights socio protection through fighting against
early and unwanted pregnancies project in Rwanda

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If the donor is the European Union or an EU Member State, please specify the EU budget line, EDF or EU Member State

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 (ii) Experience in other actions in the past 3 years (Max. 1 page per action and max. 10 actions)

Name of the organisation: CLADHO (Collectif des Ligues et Associations de Défense des Droits de l’Homme au Rwanda)
Lead applicant X
Project title: Strengthening the capacity of Civil Society Organizations and Sector (ref. list of sectors in Sectorial experience in PADOR):
Rwandan Citizens to actively engage in Government budget process and
advocate for improved fiscal transparency
Location of the Cost of the action Role: coordinator, Donors to the action Amount contributed Dates (from..to)
action (EUR) co-beneficiary, affiliated entity (name)10 (by donor) dd/mm/yyyy
Rwanda 149,000 Coordination UNICEF 149,000 5 Years

Objectives and results of the action Strengthening Citizens’ Participation in National Planning and Budgeting for Increased Transparency and
Accountability in Rwanda

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If the donor is the European Union or an EU Member State, please specify the EU budget line, EDF or EU Member State

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Signed on behalf of the lead applicant

Name: Emmanuel SAFARI

Position: Executive Secretary

Signature:

Date and place: 20th August 2019

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1.3. Mandate (for co-applicant(s))

Name: Ms. NYIRAMANA Verdiane

Organisation: BENIMPUHWE
Position: Executive Secretary
Signature:

20th August 2019

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