Decentralization support program
The German financial cooperation program aims at strengthening eight secondary cities in terms of good governance and decentralization. It attempts to achieve this goal through the promotion of local economic circuits (supply of and support in the exploitation of sustainable economic infrastructures) and the improvement of local governance by installing a citizens monitoring system. The program covers three main components: (1) Construction or rehabilitation of economic infrastructure, (2) support and capacity development of local administration and other local actors, and (3) design, installation, commissioning and sustainable use of a system for SMS-based citizen monitoring.