UWA REVENUE SHARING GUIDELINES

By

Olivia Biira (CCW-BINP)

REVENUE SHARING GOAL

To ensure strong partnership between protected areas management, local communities and local governments for sustainable management of wildlife resources in and around protected areas.

OBJECTIVES OF RS PROGRAM

To establish good relations between the PAs and

their neighbouring communities

To demonstrate the economic value of PAs and

conservation to communities

To strengthen support and acceptance of

PAs/conservation from the local communities living

adjacent these areas.

WHO IS INVOLVED ?

•Community in Frontline LCI

-Project Management Committee (PMC)

-Community Procurement Committee (CPC)

-Frontline LCI Chairperson

•Parish Development Committee (PDC)

-Parish Chief

WHO IS INVOLVED ?

•LLG- Sub county Chief

•LLG- Community Development Officer

•LLG -Council

•HLG -Community Development Officer

•HLG- District Planner

•HLG -Council

•CAO

•DEO

•DNRO

•CAM-UWA

•CCC-UWA

PRINCIPLES OF RS INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN

•Decentralization of decision-making and action to

the lowest levels possible.

•Maximization of RS Fund efficiency,

effectiveness and impact

ROLES OF COMMUNITY IN FRONTLINE LCI

Identify community needs and priorities.

Identify potential projects for possible funding under the RS program.

Select members of the Project Management Committees & Community Procurement Committees for the identified projects.

ROLES OF COMMUNITIES IN FRONTLINE LCICo-fund RS projects in cash, labor or kind

Agree on modalities of benefit sharing among

beneficiary households in Frontline Community

Agree on feedback mechanisms for RS projects

Monitor & evaluate RS projects

Submit monthly monitoring reports on RS

projects (PMC) to the Parish chief.

ROLES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

COMMITTEE (PMC)

Write RS project proposals

Submit RS project proposals to the LCI

Chairperson

Day to day implementation of RS projects

Participate in procurement planning with the CPC

Award contracts to bidders selected by the CPC

Supervise suppliers/service providers and make

recommendations to the subcounty Chief for

payment

CON’T ROLES OF PROJECT

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (PMC)

Preparing quarterly reports for RS projects and

submit them to the Frontline LCI Chairperson during

the first week of the last month of the quarter

ROLES OF COMMUNITY PROCUREMENTCOMMITTEE (CPC)

Participate in procurement planning with the PMC

Responsible for community procurement –soliciting, receiving and evaluating bids or direct contracting of single suppliers/service providers

Keep all procurement records including adverts,names of bidders, evaluation criteria, respectivescores, and reasons for selecting some bidders andrejecting others

ROLES OF SUB COUNTY CHIEF

Participate in selection of RS project proposals

for integration into LLG Development Plan

Submit quarterly narrative & financial reports on

RS projects to CAO

Effect payments to RS projects suppliers/service

providers on recommendation by PMCs

Monitor & evaluate RS scheme

ROLES OF CAO

Forward approved Frontline Community RS

projects to CAM for funds release

Submit quarterly narrative & financial reports

on RS projects to CAM

Monitor & evaluate RS program

ROLES OF CAM-UWA

Declare available RS Funds for Projections (IPFs) & RS Projects Funding Criteria at the beginning of LGs planning cycles

Participate in selection of RS projects proposals for integration into LLG Development Plan

Release RS Funds upon approval of the proposals by HLG Council

Monitor & evaluate RS scheme

CON’T ROLES OF CAM-UWA

Provide technical guidance on RS Program

implementation

Prepare and disseminate consolidated RS

M&E reports to all stakeholders

REVENUE SHARING FORMULA

Boundary Index = Length of protected area-LG

boundary divided by protected area perimeter;

and

Population Index = total population of affected

parishes in an affected LG divided by total

population of affected parishes in all the

affected LGs

REVENUE SHARING FUNDS FLOW

UWA will deposit RS funds to Districts General CollectionFund Accounts

. 5% of the district RS share will be set aside for the S/C LGand DLG supervision, monitoring and evaluation.

35% of the 5% will be retained by the district and 65% of the5% will be sent to sub counties. 95% of the district share plus65% of the 5% for monitoring will be sent to sub counties RSaccounts with Schedules specifying amounts allocated torespective projects.

RS funds will be paid by subcounties’ accounting officers toRS projects suppliers/service providers on recommendationby respective PMCs

PROJECTS REPORTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PMCs will report to Frontline LCIs Chairpersons withrespect to RS projects performance and accountability ofRS Funds.

Frontline LCIs Chairpersons will account to ParishChiefs who will then account to the sub county Chiefs.

Sub county Chiefs will account to the CAOs and theCAO will account to UWA CAMs.

Reporting on RS projects performance andaccountability will be on a quarterly basis and willcomprise both narrative and financial reports.

RS PROJECTS SUPERVISION, MONITORING

& EVALUATIONRS projects supervision, monitoring & evaluationwill be a shared responsibility between communitiesin Frontline LCIs, local governments and UWA.

Communities in Frontline LCIs and Chairpersons ofFrontline LCIs will oversee the work of PMCs withrespect to implementation of RS projects

Parish Chiefs and S/C CDOs will conduct regularsupervision visits to RS projects locations to ensurethat projects are implemented as planned utilizingpart of the funds allocated to subcounties forsupervision, monitoring and evaluation

CON’T RS PROJECTS SUPERVISION,

MONITORING & EVALUATION

PA staff-CAMs, CCWardens and CCRangers will

conduct regular supervision visits to RS projects

locations to ensure that projects are implemented

as planned

UWA HQs staff will conduct periodic visits to PAs,

adjacent local governments and communities to

monitor performance and evaluate impact of RS

projects.

Note: RS funds is a conditional grant

THANK YOU