Integrated Flood Resilience and Adaptation Project

The development objective of the Integrated Flood Resilience and Adaptation Project for Pakistan is to improve livelihoods and essential services and enhance flood risk protection in selected communities affected by the 2022 floods. The project comprises of six components. The first component, community infrastructure rehabilitation will finance the rehabilitation of priority community infrastructure damaged by floods, including irrigation and flood protection infrastructure, water supply schemes, roads, bridges, and small community facilities located in calamity-declared districts of Balochistan. It consists of following sub-components: (i) rehabilitation of irrigation and flood control infrastructure; (ii) restoration of water supply schemes; (iii) reconstruction and rehabilitation of roads and bridges; and (iv) restoration of small community facilities. The second component, strengthening hydromet and climate services will improve the capability of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) to generate and utilize hydromet information for decision-making. It consists of following sub-components: (i) modernization of the observation infrastructure, data management, and forecasting systems; and (ii) provision of technical assistance, institutional strengthening, and capacity building. The third component, resilient housing reconstruction and restoration will finance: (i) resilient housing reconstruction grants to beneficiaries for the reconstruction of core housing units damaged by floods; and (ii) institutional strengthening and technical assistance for the reconstruction. It consists of following sub-components: (i) beneficiary-driven housing reconstruction grants; and (ii) technical assistance and institutional strengthening. The fourth component, livelihood support and watershed management will finance the provision of livelihood grants to smallholder farmers and agribusinesses for enhancing agricultural and livestock-based livelihoods and to communities for...