Central African Republic (CAR) Emergency Food Crisis Response Project

The development objectives of the Emergency Food Crisis Response Project for Central African Republic are to increase food production and to improve resilience of targeted smallholder farmers and food insecure households in affected areas. The project comprises of four components. The first component, support increased food production will support an accelerated supply response focused on restoring and preserving the productive capacity of farming households to enable continued and expanded production of key staple foods and livestock that is resilient to climate change. It consists of following sub-components: (i) support food production and household nutrition; (ii) support food basket distribution and linkages to market opportunities; and (iii) strengthening hydro‐meteorological information for early warning. The second component, labor‐intensive public works for resilience will finance livelihood support programs through labor‐intensive public works (LIPW) in six prefectures and in Bangui. It consists of following sub-components: (i) rehabilitation and maintenance of small‐scale agricultural infrastructures; and (ii) rehabilitation and maintenance of drainage infrastructure in Bangui. The third component, project management will finance: (i) the project day‐to‐day administrative, technical, and fiduciary management; (ii) the coordination of project activities across the whole scope of project execution, including management costs of specialized service providers; (iii) the establishment and implementation of a robust monitoring and evaluation (M and E) framework that relies on modern information technology (IT) and will continue as a dynamic system to support the operations of the relevant institutions beyond the project, including baseline, mid‐term and final evaluation of the project; and (iv) the implementation of environmental and social (E and S) safeguard policies, citizen engagement, community mobilization measures, as well as a grievance redress...