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At the district level, the department of
community development, (composed of the
District Community Development Officers (DCDO),
Senior Community Development Officers (SCDO),
and Sub-County Community Development
Officers) and Parish Chiefs are in charge of
direct implementation of the SCG. The Chief
Administrative Officers (CAO) provides overall
oversight, while the DCDO and SCDO provide
the technical oversight and delivery at the district
level. At Sub-county/town council levels, the Sub-
County Chiefs and Town Clerks provide overall
leadership respectively.

A number of activities are carried out in
the implementation of the SCG and local
governments are largely responsible
for a number of programmes processes
highlighted as follows;
village chairpersons and chairpersons for village As part of the
Community sensitisation and older persons councils are key in organizing SCG wider NSSP, the
mobilisation: Local governments play a key pay points and ensuring crowd control. ESP programme
role in creating awareness on social protection, Coordination and reporting: At the district Management is now
particularly, the SCG programme based on level, the SCG programme coordination and implementing the Social
Assistance Grants for
the national social protection policy and reporting has been integrated into the following Empowerment/Senior
implementation guidelines. This information structures - District Executive Committee (DEC), Citizens
touches on the SCG beneficiary selection District Social Service Sub Committee, District Grant.
criteria, verification and registration, enrolment Technical Planning Committee (DTPC), District
and payment by the payment service provider, Community Development Department Meeting
benefit level, complaints and grievance and lower local government (Sub-county) Sub-
management process, to the community. county Executive Committee (SEC). In addition,
Verification and registration of potential the District CDOs and Senior CDOs participate in
beneficiaries: The local government leaders the bi annual planning review and coordination
verify the existence, physical identity and meetings conducted at the programme Regional
eligibility of targeted beneficiaries using the Technical Support Units while the District Local
information on the SCG verification list generated Chairpersons, Resident District Commissioners the senior cdo
from the programme Management Information and Chief Administrative Officers participate in charge of
System against the NIRA data. They also support in the annual planning and review meetings the programme
verified eligible beneficiaries to complete the conducted at national level. undertakes
SCG registration forms and alternative recipient Monitoring and reporting: The CAO leads regular monitoring
authorisation forms before they are presented quarterly missions by the district executive
to the payment service provider for enrolment committee and submits all quarterly narrative missions as per
and payments. reports to the Ministry and ESP programme. programme
Cash payments, complaints and grievance The District CDO is responsible for monitoring monitoring
handling: Local governments support the the programme through scheduled and on framework and
development of district beneficiary payment plans, spot field visits. The Senior CDO in charge of submits monthly
participate in pre and post payment planning and the programme undertakes regular monitoring and quarterly
coordination meetings with the payment service missions as per programme monitoring framework reports to the
providers, mobilise beneficiaries for payments and submits monthly and quarterly reports to the
and monitor cash payments to beneficiaries. They ESP programme through the CAO. The Sub-county esp programme
also ensure programme and payment related CDOs and Parish Chiefs monitor and report on through the cao.
complaints and grievances are captured, escalated, beneficiary verification, registration, enrolment
resolved and feedback provided. In addition, the
and payments processes.

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