COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM (PAC2)

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The objectives of the Second Phase of the Community Action Program (CAP II) Project for Niger is to improve rural communes' capacity to design and implement in a participatory manner Communal Development Plans (CDP) and Annual Investment Plans (AIP) and therefore contributing to enhance rural livelihoods. There are three components to the project. The first component of the project is capacity building. This component will strengthen: (i) the capacities of communes and communities to carry out their mandates; and (ii) the institutional and legal framework for participatory local and community development. The first component has two subcomponents: a) capacity building for the communes and the communities. This subcomponent aims at strengthening the administrative, technical, and fiscal capacity of selected rural communes to exercise their institutional mandates as stipulated in the Decentralization Law, supporting capacity building for local communities and strengthening civil society organizations; and b) capacity-building for institutional and legal framework for local development. This subcomponent will improve the institutional and legal framework for participatory local development, by working with key national institutions responsible for promoting decentralization and local development and in the framework of the Rural Development Strategy (RDS). The second component of the project is the local investment fund. This component will set up a Local Investment Fund (LIF), a financial facility, whose objective is to stimulate local development and to empower communes and communities to provide a response to their priority needs. The third and the last component of the project is the project coordination, management, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E). This component will support the successful implementation of CAP-II, in particular: (i) administrative and financial management; and (ii) a result based monitoring and evaluation system of the performance and impact of the project.