The Municipality of Ulaanbaatar and the Mayor of Ulaanbaatar have been implementing the Urban Governance Programme (UGP)-under the framework of the Governance and Decentralisation Programme 2-in cooperation with TAF and with financing from the SDC since July 2015. The programme is due to operate until December 2018. The UGP aims to strengthen sub-municipal governments’ capacity to deliver local public services that are responsive to the priorities identified by citizens. As part of achieving this, the SDC commissioned IRIM to identify institutions that may be appropriate to deliver capacity-building programmes.  

The objective of the consulting services was to assess training institutions  

that could potentially deliver services including training programmes, to public servants. This involved:  

• an assessment of the training needs of public servants 

• identification of factors important in assessing training programmes  

• identification of the training content that would meet the needs of public servants 

• identification and assessment of training service providers.  

To accomplish this, a training-needs assessment of public servants was  

conducted, and a capacity assessment of training institutions.