ACORDS Programme Management Unit (2008) Manual regarding health (annexes)/ Guide d’intervention communale en matière sante (annexes)

In the framework of the ACORDS programme in Madagascar, the PMU elaborated this guide to support local authorities as executing agencies in the health sector. 

The objectives of this guide were to build capacity of local authorities regarding how to...

- planify activities

- prepare budgets

- implement planified actions

- manage post-investment

It covers the following aspects:

- what to take into account before launching the identification of an action in a particular sector

- roles and responsibilities of different actors (municipal authorities, technical deconcentrated services, local population) throughout different phases of the action;

- norms and regulations to be taken into account with regards works and post-investment management.