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Project Components

Community Development and Rural Livelihood Restoration
The output of this component is intended to restore the incomes and livelihoods of rural people, particularly the poor, in the subproject areas. The component addresses the need for effective beneficiary participation in planning, implementation, monitoring, and maintenance that are essential to achieve a poverty-targeted impact from the rural infrastructure investments. The component, with the support of experienced local NGOs, will lead to increased social and financial capital in the subproject areas by;
  • embedding the practice of participation in rural communities;
  • instilling changes in cultural attitudes that inhibit development; increasing the social inclusion of excluded and vulnerable groups; and empowering the poor and disadvantaged, including women; and
  • facilitating and supporting the initiation and operation of other development activities in the communities through supplementary investments. The Project will implement a social mobilisation programme in each district, delivered through local NGOs, using an approach that has been working in conflict-affected districts. The component has the following three aspects:
Community Development

Community development activities will strengthen the capacities of communities and develop the practice of beneficiary participation, ensure the involvement and targeting of the poorest and most disadvantaged groups, and promote social cohesion. These goals will be achieved by support activities that

  • aise awareness of the Project and the opportunities it offers among all social groups in the target area;
  • help communities propose possible local infrastructure subprojects;
  • include social surveys as part of subproject feasibility studies to identify the key target groups for project support;
  • facilitate beneficiary participation and community auditing of implementation through a pro-poor delivery mechanism; and
  • identify, prioritise, implement, and maintain supplementary investments.
Job Creation and Access to Development Opportunities
Unskilled jobs on the main subproject construction works will be reserved for people living in the infrastructure’s influence area. The first priority for employment will be the poor and disadvantaged groups and castes, followed by households affected by conflict and the acquisition of land and other assets. Workers will be paid in full, promptly, and fortnightly. Building on the participatory activities carried out for community development, the social mobilisation programme will;
  • identify poor households of all castes and disadvantaged groups;
  • encourage these groups, particularly women, to take jobs on project works;
  • support the formation of BGs of 15-25 persons; and
  • train the BC in construction and life skills, and group leaders in bookkeeping and leadership skills.
Women will be allocated at least 40% of the unskilled labour where sufficient demand exists, with women-only BGs formed, and women encouraged to become group leaders~ BG members will be expected to convert the BC into a savings group, to ensure that a proportion of construction wages are retained to help pay off household debts and invest in small-scale income-generation activities. The BGs will also receive useful life-skill training, such as;
  • construction skills.
  • support skills for working as a group,
  • bookkeeping and record-keeping, (savings and credit activities), and
  • a range of human development (life skill) needs, including functional literacy, health and education awareness, including on sexually transmitted diseases, gender and vulnerable group awareness, and social and communication skills.
 
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