Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project (ECRP)

The ECRP operates across 10 counties in South Sudan in order to support key gaps in service delivery and strengthen 
local institutions’ capacity to better manage their own development and intercommunal tensions over services. 

The project aims to contribute to the building of a national local-level institutional structure for governance and 
service delivery, in line with the Local Government Act (LGA) 2009. Under the LGA, responsibility for service 
delivery is devolved to the county/city level. Despite the established legal framework and its mandated responsibilities 
for local services, local governments have been largely unable to do so and their functionality varies across regions. 
Recognizing that sufficiently resourced, effective, participatory, inclusive, and accountable county governments are 
crucial to local service delivery, IOM has assessed the capacity of county governments to determine how ECRP can 
help strengthen governance and capacity as it relates to service delivery.