Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project in the HoA

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The development objective of the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project for Africa is to improve access to basic social services, expand economic opportunities, and enhance environmental management for communities hosting refugees in the targeted areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Uganda. This project has five components. 1) The first component, Social and Economic Services and Infrastructure, aims to improve access to basic social services and economic infrastructure and improve the service-delivery capacity of local authorities at the target subnational and local levels by financing community and strategic investments as well as capacity-support initiatives. It has two subcomponents as follows: (i) Community Investment Fund; and (ii) Capacity support for local planning and decentralized service delivery. 2) The second component, Sustainable Environmental Management, aims to ensure that environmental and natural resources are carefully and sustainably managed so they can support current and future needs and livelihoods. It has two subcomponents as follows: (i) Integrated natural resources management; and (ii) Access to energy. 3) The third component, Livelihoods Program, seeks to improve livelihoods and increase the incomes of refugee-hosting communities based on a market-system approach. It has two subcomponents as follows: (i) Support to traditional and nontraditional livelihoods; and (ii) Capacity support of community-based organizations for livelihoods. 4) The fourth component, Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), will follow a decentralized approach, using existing government structures at the national, subnational, and local levels and local-level community institutions to be established and or strengthened. 5) The fifth component, Regional support for coordination, capacity and knowledge, aims to support the establishment of the Regional Secretariat on Forced Displacement and Mixed Migration, primarily for the Horn of Africa (HOA), but with relevant linkages to the Great Lakes Initiative.