Ulaanbaatar
The Sustainable Livelihood - 3 Project Implemented in 2023
Society
Ulaanbaatar,
December 21, 2023 /MONTSAME/. The third stage of the Sustainable
Livelihood - 3 project will be over in 2023.
Since 2017 as part of the Sustainable Livelihood-3 project, MNT 48.5
billion incentive was given to
the the soums whose activities of the Local Development Funds (LDF) have been
evaluated well. Also, MNT 1.8 trillion allocated to the LDF from 2013 to 2023
was spent on investments based on the needs of residents.
The Sustainable Livelihood - 3 project implements multi-faceted
activities aimed at supporting LDF, improving the legal environment,
capacity-building of civil servants, and increasing citizen participation.
Annual Performance Assessment is carried out on the performance of the LDF, and
an average score of 330 soums in 2016 increased from 32 percent to 71 percent
in 2023.
Mongolia has been implementing the Sustainable Livelihood project since
2002, implemented in three stages as well as policies of decentralization,
ensuring the balance of territorial development of Mongolia, and enhancing
participatory budgeting since 1990. Within the framework of the
"Sustainable Livelihood - 3" project, citizen participation increased
4 times.
Since the Budget Law
introduced the Local Development Fund (LDF) at the 2nd stage of the project in 2013, for over 10
years residents have been proposing from January to June how to improve their
living environment through LDF.
As part of the Sustainable Livelihood -3 project, more than 50,000 civil
servants were trained, and accessible information provided to 1.6 million
residents in aimags and 3.6 million people nationwide to increase citizen
participation. Over the past two years, approximately 600,000 electronic votes
have been collected through a mobile phone application of the LDF Management
Information System.
