📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P175834
Region: Africa east
Commitment Amount: Us$ 250.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 250.00 million
Implementing Agency :
North Kivu Provincial Administration, Ituri Provincial Administration, South Kivu Provincial Administration, Fonds Social de la République Démocratique du Congo (“FSRDC”)
Development Objective
The Project Development Objective is to (i) improve access to community infrastructure; (ii) enhance the socio-economic reintegratio n and resilience of individuals affected by conflict; and (iii) strengthen the capacity of the administrations in Selected Provinces .
Given the dynamic and volatile context the project is going to remain simple and build on the achievements and lessons of previous projects. The project activities will includecommunitydevelopment activities focusing on improvement of livelihoods, basic infrastructure and cohesion and security in target locations. Beneficiaries will be poor and conflict-affected communities in the eastern provinces of DRC, more specifically the North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri province. With regards to implementation arrangements, the project will establisha decentralized ‘stabilization’ project-platform, embedded in the provincial administration, combined with strengthening public financial management systems so that state revenues can eventually sustain such interventions. A project-platform would prepare a foundation for longer term stabilization and recovery investments.The proposed project will be implemented through four components, as described below:Component 1: Community-based Stabilization: This will be based on the experience of PASU and STEPwhile also incorporating aspects from successful peacebuilding programs (such as CISPE) and linking socio-economic interventions with agreements between the state, citizens and project identifying key challenges and sub-project priorities. Key elements will include: (i) Communication, sensitization, conflict-sensitivity analysis, mediation, conflict management training; (ii) Identification of mechanism for local state-citizen accountability and project planning; (iii) Delivery of emergency goods to crisis-affected areas (this sub-component will be further assessed during project preparation); (vi) Support to local infrastructure(as every community is different, interventions will be tailored to the specific ethnic, social, physical and economic dynamics ofeach community, paying special attention to the needs and preferences of vulnerable groups such as women and the displaced).Component 2: Community-based Reintegration: This component will consist of two sub-components: (i)Community reintegrationand (ii) labor-intensive public works(LIPW). Community reintegration activities will include provision of small grants, pyscho-social support and other capacity building activities. LIPW activities will largely follow the methodologie
