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� the creation of staff position in the office of the regional president for facilitating interactions and dialogue with civil society, � the willingness in inviting NSA to observe council and sectoral meetings, and � the displayed performance in allocating available resources to support NSA operation and participation. The resource allocation and sharing experience is a best practice worth sharing. All of the major regional NGOs and MBAs have their own office complexes constructed on land allocated by the regional city administration. Even the emerging RNGOs like Mums for Mums (MfM) and HAB are able to acquire and develop urban-plots for expanding service delivery to their target groups. Efforts of the above two RNGOs us also boosted by the financial and material supports from the regional government. The only old vehicle of MfM, which is used for the outreach to the target towns, is a donation from the population Bureau. Likewise, HAB gets occasional financial support from the BOLSA, which delegated it to implement the OVC programme supported by UNICEF. According to the CSO advisor, the regional government is interested to delegate more social service oriented activities to NSA. The conviction is that: one has to be delegated to play the role where it has comparative advantage in terms of effectiveness. To this effect the ongoing networking endeavour is expected to facilitate such negotiations in role allocation, and further strengthen and formalize resource allocation and sharing. Some of the NSA leaders consulted pointed that there is a relative lull in the consultation between regional regulatory bureaus and NGOs implementing sectoral programmes at local levels. The scaling-down of DPP profile, from a self-standing bureau to that of a section within a bureau (Agriculture), is partly blamed. On the other hand, the woreda decentralization is said to have contributed to enhanced interaction and dialogue between the NGOs and local administration, thus shadowing the dialogue with regional Bureaus. Implications of this trend are further discussed in the next section. 7. Engagement in Policy Dialogue Information collected from the different regional actors shows that there is no doubt on the importance of roles and contributions of NSA. According to the deputy head of the BOFED 10 , the government is working on a strategy how best to involve NSA in the regional development coordination processes. The view expressed by the civil society advisor of the regional president (insert below) is also consistent with the above direction of the regional government. No doubt that they are participating and contributing to the development process. Hence, we should provide them with the opportunity to speak/reflect to us on their experiences'. Ato Zemichael G/Medhin, Advisor to the Regional President Much is expected from the regional CSO network (ACSOT) in this regard. However, as it stands now the policy dialogue engagement of NSA at regional level is undeveloped. Sector-based consultation frameworks between NSA and bureaus are rare. For example, the Potable Water Development division 11 of the Water, Mine and Energy Resources Development bureau has acknowledged the weak coordination and integration with NSA efforts. Even where organized, NSA participation is not coordinated (and rather is in individual capacity). 10 Ato Yemane Yosph 11 From the discussion with Ato Kiros Negash 104
At woreda level NSA have relatively better opportunity to participate in planning processes. However, from the discussion with NSA reached by the survey few have managed to promote alternative courses of decisions or actions emanating from their operational experiences. Various factors, including capacity and authority, do affect this situation, and should be strategically tackled after a more in depth investigation of contexts. 8. Engagement in Political Dialogue As indicated under section 3.5, only the MBAs are best-placed and involved in some political dialogue with respect to interests of their constituency. More capacity strengthening support is needed to facilitate the evolvement of the political dialogue to address strategic issues in a proactive manner. 9. Internal Organisation and Resources It can be said that the internal organization and resource base of NSA in Tigray, compared to those in similar contexts, is not that minuscule. The established RNGOs, FBOs and the RDA have the linkages to the national donor institutions, and are able to secure multi-year funding for their projects (USAID, EU, CRDA, AAE, GHF, etc.). Projects of the emerging RNGOs and CBOs are supported by NGO-donors, regional HAPCO, and to some extent complemented by material and financial supports from the regional government. When it comes to the MBAs, annual subscriptions from the 'large' membership pool (refer Table 7, below) are used to off-set administrative expenses. In addition, members (the Youth, Farmers and Women Associations) contribute 20-days of free labour each year, which is used for public work (in environmental rehabilitation) as part of the regular programme of the Associations. Table 7: Membership and resource base of MBAs Size of Size of resource mobilized Name of MBA Membership from membership Tigray Youth Association (TYA) ~ 325,000 Birr 4/member/year Tigray Farmers Association (TFA) ~ 256,000 same a above Tigray Women Association ~ 520,000 same a above ~35% of annual budget Tigray Development Association raised from members & (TDA) ~ 175,000 supporters Mekele Chamber of Commerce and ~1,500 varying levels, from Birr 30 sector associations Tigray Disabled Veteran's to 500/member Association (TDVA) ~20,800 No information Source: based on interviews with each MBA The above explanation should not be interpreted to mean that the regional NSA have adequate resources for their participation. Instead, the regional NSA in unison expressed the shortage and unavailability fund to respond to needs and demands of communities. The huge demand gap is expressed in relation to the prolonged unrest and conflicts and the degradation of the natural resource base of the region. Both TDA and REST expressed, the actual level of operation is below full-implementation capacity due to the resource gap. The coordinator of EOC/DICA also pointed that the number of ongoing integrated programmes has declined from seven to three due to lack of donor support. During the debriefing session of this survey in Mekele, participating have expressed the strong view that the donor community has colluded and marginalized the regional NSA from accessing fund after the May-2005 national election. The fact that none of the 105
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