Third Party Monitoring Agent – Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF)

Description of actual services provided in the assignment:

AiD is currently working as a Third-Party Monitoring Agent for the Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) Round 2 funded by World Bank. Following up on the 1st round, the 2nd round of MDTF projects expands on support for essential services to the population impacted by various crises, including Terrorism on the border regions with Afghanistan (KPK, FATA, and Baluchistan) and provides investments for short to medium-term reconstruction of the social and economic infrastructure. A bulk of the community Infrastructure is focused on providing Water and Sanitation services to the communities. Specific TPMA tasks of the project are; review of action plans of community organizations in service delivery projects and assess their sustainability; detail review of the documentation during the entire process of matching grants, with regard to the Economic Revitalization of KP and FATA project; verify the existence of the assets and quality validation of the works at its different stages; review Fiduciary aspects in the cases where implementation units are located outside Peshawar in the field; conduct evaluation of the whole process of delivery of services rendered by organization/contractors through various procedures including interviews and surveys with the public and report on the social and environmental impact of the work on the life of the people and regional economy. The on-going phase of the project involves data collection in three districts of southern KPK i.e. D. I. Khan, Tank and Lakki Marwat.