BASICS is a key CIDA project that is helping to improve decentralized local governance in Sulawesi. BASICS focuses primarily on capacity development at the district/city level to assist governments and/or legilative councils in exercising their roles and responsibilities to plan and budget for the delivery of social services. At the provincial level, the project is helping to provide improved guidance, support and supervision to the districts/cities within their jurisdiction. At both districts/city and provincials levels, the projects assists in strengthening selected civil society entities to be able to provide constructive input to government planning and budgeting processes, and to develop their skills as technical service providers for local government.