📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P174635
Region: Africa east
Commitment Amount: Us$ 150.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 150.00 million
The project will strive to improve the resilience of vulnerable communities in selected landscapes of Northern Mozambique, ultimately contributing to addressing some of the key drivers of fragility hampering development and poverty reduction in those areas. More specifically, it will intersect with the following FCV challenges, which it will seek to address: (i) limited capacity and resources of formal institutions to manage access to resources in a sustainable and inclusive manner; (ii) insufficient knowledge and enforcement of legislation to protect and manage the country’s resource base; (iii) exclusion of the youth and women from socioeconomic opportunities and fromfinding sources of livelihoods; (iv) limited capacity and inclusion of local communities in the sustainable management of resources; and (v) exposure to natural hazards and climate variability that put additional pressure on the resource base. The projectwill aim at achieving the ambitious objective of enhancing communities’ resilience by strengthening human and social capital of vulnerable and natural resource-dependent communities, increase their access to basic infrastructure and services, and promote food security (agriculture and fisheries). It will also support relevant institutions to adopt sustainable natural resources management policies and practices, to protect the natural resource base on which the poor depend on for their livelihoods.The project design will revolve around four components: (i) Enhancing livelihoods in targeted communities, which will be rolled-out through a Community-Driven Development (CDD) approach; (ii) Institutional strengthening for sustainable management of natural resources; (iii) Project Coordination and management; and (iv) Contingency emergency response (CERC). 17.Figure 1 below provides a visual description of the Theory of Change behind the operation, explaining the causal link between activities, outputs, short-termoutcomes, medium-term outcomes (PDO), and longer-term outcomes (‘aimed scenario’ expected to occur beyond project closure). MozNorth Theory of Change is built on the basis of the current fragile scenario (2020) as depicted by the World Bank RRA. The Theory of Change clarifies the main challenges to be tackled, and then explains through which approach the project will address them, to achieve the desired objectives. The two critical assumptions that guide this theory of change are the following: i) Communities’ improved perception of natural resources management results in more sustainable behaviors towards natural resource use; and ii) Improving livelihoods and economic opportunities increase resilience to fragility risk and shocks.
