📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P173702
Region: Africa
Approval Date (as of board presentation): May 20, 2020
Closing Date: May 25, 2023
Commitment Amount: Us$ 195.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 160.00 million
The proposed emergency MPA seeksan overall funding envelop of US$500 million. The first phase of the MPA, will cover the four first-mover countries (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda) with a US$160 million investment. MPAobjective would be achieved by supporting investments across three pillars that form the technicalcomponentsof the project: •monitoring and controlling locust population growth and curbing the spread of swarms while mitigating the risks associated with control measures; •protecting and rehabilitating the livelihoods of locust-affected households to prevent human capital and asset loss, ensure food security, and return them to productivity; and •preventing future locust upsurges by strengthening capacity for ex ante surveillance and control operations to facilitate national and regional early warning and early17.The project would maintain quality despite preparation and implementation under emergency procedures by defining the scope of activities and creating standard operating procedures and guidelinesthrough an operations manual for investment projects under the program. A brief description of the standardized components follows:Component 1: Surveillance and Control Measures.This component will limit the growth of existing desert locust populations and curb their spread, while mitigating the risks associated with control measures and their impacts on human health and the environment. Component 2: Livelihoods Protection and Rehabilitation.Theobjective of Component 2 would be to help protect the poor and vulnerable in locust affected areas from human capital and asset loss, enhance their accessto food, and rehabilitate livelihoods that have been damaged or destroyed by swarms.
