Burkina Faso Emergency Local Development and Resilience Project - Additional Financing

active

Prospective

The project is an integrated multi-sectoral operation which will finance menus of activities ranging from financing critical infrastructures, essential basic services, food security, local governance to developing employment opportunities and enhance resilience for targeted communities. The proposed project will address some of the key drivers of fragility by putting inclusion at the heart of its design through investing in marginalized territories and promoting social cohesion. It will identify and implement short- and medium-term interventions to prevent fragility and build resilience in conflict and at risk zones while mitigating the impacts of the conflicts on internally displaced people, women and the youth in particular. The project will also support food insecurity affected beneficiaries by helping them access productive inputs and build food and nutrition resilience. The project will seek to complement existing and planned projects funded either by IDA or other donors notably projects focusing on the response and prevention of conflict in the Sahel. The main project components are the following (i) Improve the offer of basic social services; (ii) Improve physical and virtual connectivity and flood protection; (iii) Community Level Recovery and empowerment and (iv) Strengthen Local Governance and Citizens Participation

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Industry, Trade and Services,FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

Project

Raw Materials, Government