| Grant Profile: |
| Project Title: |
Community Driven Recovery and Development (CDRD) Project - Bank-executed Portion |
| PCF/LICUS/SPF: |
LICUS |
Status: |
Open |
| File Number: |
80
| Region: |
AFR |
| Sector: |
Health and other social services |
Country: |
Somalia |
| FY approved: |
2009 |
Grant Theme : |
Social dev/gender/inclusion |
| Keyword(s): |
Community-driven development |
Approved Amount: |
$835,400.00 |
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Grant Recipient:
World Bank executed |
Grant Purpose:
The primary objective of the Community Driven Recovery and Development (CDRD) Project is to continue the process being implemented in the first CDRD LICUS supported program which also strengthens decentralized service delivery through community-driven interventions. Intended beneficiaries are selected communities in the north-west (Somaliland) and north-central (Puntland) of Somalia.
The Community Driven Recovery and Development Project (CDRD) entails the articulation of the community’s self-perception and future vision and a community action plan (CAP) to realize the vision. The CAP generally comprises a series of prioritized actions beginning with specific tangible sub-projects that have been identified through a broad-based participatory and inclusive local consultative process within the community.
Through the community-driven process, community members review and analyze their resources and needs, prioritize their requirements, develop a plan of action, organize into a decision-making body, herein described as the Community Development Committee (CDC) (or refine an existing one), receive and manage resources, carry out the sub-project, and ensure quality and accountability.
Through the Base Line Survey and its participatory approach with vulnerable community groups in developing CAPs, CDRD has the potential to be more responsive to the community needs and poverty reduction by including the vulnerable groups, which include widows, the poor, etc.) in the decision making process. External partners typically and only facilitate the process, including ensuring inclusive and participatory consultations with the community and looking into issues of technical design, feasibility, sustainability and implementation arrangements according to the eligibility criteria outlined in the operations manual, rather than selecting or implementing the sub-projects on behalf of the community.
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Grant Activities:
Component 1: Community Block Grant and Social Access Grant provides an untied block grant to finance the community action plans (CAPs) developed by the target communities which may receive more than one grant. For each grant received, the community will contribute a minimum of 20% of the value of the grant in kind or cash. For Social Services Access Grants to average about US$3,000 per grant provides financial support to the poorest and most vulnerable families and members in the target communities for their access to certain social services such as antenatal and neonatal maternal care, school fees and school textbooks according to the criteria and guidelines that have been developed and approved by the communities themselves. A priority will be given to support, in the form of a voucher unless otherwise agreed, those activities funded under a Community Block Grant scheme and SRCS program unless stated otherwise by the community.
Component 2: Baseline Survey and Community Mobilization are done in collaboration with indigenous institutions and NGOs such as the Somali Center for Analysis and Center for Research and Dialogue. It also outlines economic and social composition and structure of target communities and collects quantitative socio-economic baseline data to be used for monitoring and evaluating indicators and assessing progress and impact as well as mobilizes target communities and supports them in organizing themselves to participate in the project.
Component 3: Local Capacity Building provides both demand- and supply-driven training and technical assistance to local implementing partners (CDCs), target local and neighboring communities and local authorities to nurture participatory decision making, project management, project proposal and budget preparation, financial management and procurement in line with the PFM programs being supported by DfID and the Bank, maintenance, collection of socio-economic data, and etc.
Component 4: Project Implementation Unit (PIU) Costs enables the PIU to supervise day-to-day implementation of CDRD on the ground and ensure that the project implementation follows the procedures and requirements specified in the Operations Manual. PIU staff will also function as technical and quality assurance advisors to local implementing partners, target communities and local authorities. A monitoring and evaluation system is being developed to capture changes in the quality of service and demand side of good governance through a set of indicators.
Component 5: Fiscal Agent Fee covers the necessary costs of the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) to perform as the Fiscal Agent for the project.
Component 6: Independent Evaluation of the project. Independent experts will be hired at the end of the project life to review and evaluation of the project against the project objectives.
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