Local Governance and Resilient Communities Project

The objective of the Local Governance and Resilient Communities Project for Cameroon is to increase community access to climate resilient infrastructure and strengthen local capacity to manage resources and deliver services. The project has four components. (1) Improved community infrastructures and basic services component will support the implementation of activities to support community-led development with an emphasis on the most marginalized and vulnerable communities in conflict-affected and socioeconomically disadvantaged municipalities amongst regions of Far North, North, Adamawa, East, SW, and NW. (2) Improving Multi-level Governance Framework and the capacity of decentralized entities to deliver services. This component will: (i) provide technical assistance to central and local entities to further operationalize the decentralization agenda at the institutional and policy levels; and (ii) build and strengthen the capacity of the decentralized local authorities to manage resources and to exercise their competencies more effectively and in a participatory and inclusive manner. (3) Knowledge management will support the periodic assessment of lessons learned during project implementation: achievement of objectives; suitability of implementing modalities; adequacy and impact of the project interventions; data collection and utilization status; operation of implementing partners; coordination among stakeholders; implementation obstacles; emerging conflicts etc. Lessons learned will be documented and applied to introduce improvements to project implementation. (4) Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC) (US$0 million) will establish an emergency contingency fund that can be triggered in the event of a man-made crisis, public health crisis, or natural disaster, through formal declaration of a national emergency, or upon a formal request from one of the GoC.