Introduction and Background

Introduction: Forum Syd is seeking the services of a qualified consultant to carry out a baseline study for the Social Accountability Program in Tanzania.

Background: Forum Syd has been granted funds from Sida/Tanzania for a Social Accountability Program in Tanzania with the programme office in Mwanza and targeting wards and villages in three districts (Karagwe, Magu and Ukerewe). The programme will start in 2010 and with an initial funding period of three years.

A part of the programme is to conduct a baseline study to provide a background for interventions in the programme. During the baseline the targeted wards will be scanned more in depth in order to find out what citizens locally care about, this in order to be able to focus the programme on a theme/sector which will create motivation for citizen participation.

The social accountability programme will be learning process oriented as well as people centered and aims to learn how Forum Syd and participating organisations/institutions can strengthen their ability to make democratic governance and rights operational in development. In line with the above, opportunities for meetings and exchanges will be provided through e.g. Advisory Group meetings and Annual Programme Meetings. A strategic communication plan for the programme will also be developed.

Forum Syd has a history of supporting and strengthening local civil society organisations by providing technical support to capacity building, organisational development and exchange of information and knowledge between local and Swedish organisations. This support has been provided both through development workers, resources within local partners and external consultants.

Forum Syd has worked in Africa since 1982, through offices in Dar es Salaam, Lusaka and Gaborone, with an African regional office in Nairobi, since 2009. The Forum Syd head office and the regional offices collaborates in programmes with Swedish and local organisations around five central development issues being Democracy and Rights, Gender Equality, HIV and AIDS, Sustainable Development and Conflict Management. A Project Support Team in Sweden is sub-granting financial resources to Swedish organisations for projects with their local partners in Africa.