Northern Crisis Recovery Project

The Project Development Objective for the Mozambique - Northern Crisis Recovery Project is to improve access to basic services and economic opportunities for internally displaced persons and host communities in targeted areas of Northern Mozambique. The project is designed as an emergency response to the ongoing humanitarian assistance and a bridge to longer-term social and economic development and will have four components - Component 1: Building social cohesion and resilience to conflict: This component will finance activities required to foster institutions and processes that promote stability, cohesion and peaceful coexistence among different social groups and host communities while enhancing trust and confidence between society and state institutions.; Component 2: Provision of livelihood and economic opportunities for IDPs and host communities. This component will support, inter alia: (a) provision of livelihood support through cash-for-work programs for youth and women, as well as agriculture and fishery inputs; (b) support job creation through the provision of kits for micro and small business development; and (c) training on professional skills, entrepreneurship and business management; Component 3: Rehabilitation, construction, and equipment of public infrastructure This component will finance, inter alia: (a) rehabilitation and construction of priority infrastructure needed to provide basic services; (b) rehabilitation and construction of education and health facilities; and (c) construction of community infrastructure and provision of amenities designed to support IDPs and host communities; and Component 4: Project implementation, monitoring and evaluation. This component will finance the technical capacity for strengthening of FNDS and local governments for project implementation, financial management, procurement, compliance with social and environmental standards, reporting and monitoring and evaluation (M&E).