Local Government Performance Assessment Report

The five-year (2020-2025) United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Local Impact Governance Project (Local Impact) supports the Government of the Republic of Zambia's (GRZ) decentralization agenda by strengthening local governance and service delivery in order to support transparency and responsiveness to citizen needs. Local Impact is partnering with national and sub-national authorities, along with local businesses and civil society organizations (CSOs), to achieve the following objectives:

• Objective 1: Citizens improve their collective skills to effectively assess service delivery needs and performance and constructively engage with government;
• Objective 2: The sub-national governance system becomes more responsive to citizen needs, generates, and accountably expends revenue, and improves service delivery outcomes; and
• Objective 3: The program generates learning and facilitates problem solving that supports the development of an effective, financially viable sub-national governance system for devolved services, capable of being scaled up throughout Zambia.

Local Impact currently works in 18 districts in Central and Muchinga Provinces. In the third year of implementation, the project will work in nine additional districts in a third province to be determined in consultation with USAID and GRZ.