TAMKIN Project –
Lebanon Municipal Capacity Building and Service Delivery

TAMKIN was focused on helping Local Authorities, and working towards Decentralization.  This effort was targeted at clusters of municipalities all across Lebanon, and RMF was responsible for 44 semi-urban and rural municipalities.

The primary object was to transform those 44 municipalities into effective agents for leading local socio-economic development. The method for this transformation focused on democratic engagement with the private sector and local community residents.

Project Methods:

• Mobilizing local communities and municipalities by electing Municipal Development Committees (MDCs) composed of 8-12 members representing various community stakeholders.
• Training the MDCs on how to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as well as prioritizing investment needs and resource allocation.
• Identify initiatives which will increase micro-enterprise productivity, incomes, improve livelihoods, and socio-economic status of the community.
• Develop results of research, and create proposal using local investment, community resources to match contributions from TAMKIN funding.

Implement project using all formal methods including tendering, bidding, monitoring and evaluation to teach valuable skills to MDCs