Central African Republic Human Capital and Women and Girls' Empowerment (Maïngo) Project

The development objective of the Human Capital and Women and Girls Empowerment Project (Maïngo) Project for Central African Republic is to enhance access to essential health services, education and employment opportunities that empower women and adolescent girls in targeted areas of the Central African Republic. The project comprises of four components. The first component, establish safe spaces and clubs to deliver integrated community-based programs will finance the set up and operation of safe spaces for young women (ages 10 to 24 years) and clubs for young men (ages 15 to 24 years). The second component, increase access to systems that improve health, education, and employment opportunities of women and girls will increase women’s and girls’ access to existing social sector services. It consists of following sub-components: (i) extend health system access through community health worker (CHWs); (ii) getting and keeping girls in the education system; and (iii) providing skills training and economic opportunities to out-of-school youth at vocational education and training and literacy (VETL) centers. The third component, national capacity building, communication campaigns to empower women and girls and project management operates at a national level to build capacity within government ministries and spread information to change behaviors through mass media communication. It consists of following sub-components: (i) national capacity building to coordinate and plan human capital investments; (ii) national communication campaigns for women’s and girls’ empowerment; and (iii) project management, supervision, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E). The fourth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) is intended to provide timely support in emergencies.