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DARKHAN CITY FORUM (DCF) SET-UP

The Darkhan City Forum (DCF), a unique executive and legislative authorities and to
facility for mainstreaming and strengthening the business associations.
the process of social inclusion and participa- The DCF will be headed by a Convenor.
tory governance, will provide the FRIEND- The Convenor will hold regular meetings
SHIP project with more acceptability based with the DCF members to discuss various
on the fairness and transparency goals of issues related to social inclusiveness and
the project. The forum will seek to encour- civic matters and liaise with the Darkhan
age dialogue on economic policies cutting City officials in resolving them. The DCF will
across the topics of governance, social in- provide the vital link between the work of the
clusion, greening, and innovation and will IDEF network and local-level participation to
set up an enhanced mechanism between provide social acceptance of the efforts. The
the Darkhan-Uul Province Municipality, the DCF Rule Book is going through the phase
private sector, non-governmental organiza- of assessment and consolidation of baseline
tions, academia, and citizens. This will be assessment and will be aligned with the pro-
in addition to discussing the facing issues posed structure of the Rule Book. The Rule
affecting the municipality. Moreover, the fo- Book will provide Darkhan-Uul Province Mu-
rum will contribute to the process of finding nicipality and its’ soums a direction to make
appropriate solutions by conveying recom- progress towards localization of SDGs and
mendations to decision-makers in both the SDG-aligned budgeting.

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