📋 Tender Overview
IATI identifier 46002-P-Z1-EBZ-003
Country Multinational
Sector Water Supply & Sanitation
High 5 Improve Life of People in Africa
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign Sovereign
Environmental Category [1] High Risk
Climate Safeguards Categorization [1] Projects may be very vulnerable to climate risk.
Gender Marker System Categorization [GEN II] Gender Outcomes
Commitment 89,920,000
Project General Description
PREDIRE focuses on the development of the Ubangi River water resources for the socio-economic growth of its riparian countries (DRC, CAF) in a context of climate change and increased fragility, following a programmatic approach. Sub-programme 1 focuses on improving the information system on the Ubangi, preparing investments and building climate-resilient WATSAN infrastructure. Sub-programme 2 will finance infrastructure for: (i) water transfer for the DRC's agricultural transformation programme (PTA); (ii) improved navigation throughout the Oubangui basin (CAR, DRC, Congo); (iii) protection and resilience of the population to the effects of climate change.
Project Objectives
PREDIRE’s development objective is to sustainably improve the socio-economic living conditions and resilience of communities and the ecosystem in the Ubangi’s cross-border basin. This subprogramme 1 concerns the CAR-DRC corridor of the Ubangi cross-border basin. This Water-Food Security-Climate Nexus subprogramme 1 specific objectives are to: (i) build knowledge, safeguard and ensure optimal development of the shared water resource in order to support the population’s sustainable social and economic development; (ii) develop resilient infrastructure to provide water security for the population, agriculture and agricultural product processing industries in order to improve regional integration; (iii) build the regional (CICOS) and national capacities of institutions involved in managing, safeguarding and developing cross-border water resources.
Beneficiaries
The PREDIRE target area concerns the provinces of Nord-Ubangi, South-Ubangi and Mongala in the DRC and Greater Bangui in the CAR. It is anticipated that 2,407,400 people, 51% of whom will be women will be direct project beneficiaries. People living in a state of absolute poverty account for 69% of this population and71% of the mare young people, 50% of whom are girls. They will benefit from 3,400 jobs, 1,200 of which will be permanent, created by the works, training in entrepreneurship for women and youths, water& sanitation service delivery and navigation, etc. The resilience and social cohesion building programme in collaboration with UNHCR will benefit 25,000 people. The capacities of regional (CICOS, ECCAS, etc.) and governmental institutions and community organisations involved in cross-border water resource management and protection and navigation on the Ubangui River will be strengthened to ensure the sustainable management of shared water resources with water security. Capacity building will affect 1,3
