Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project in the Horn of Africa Phase II

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The Project Development Objective is "to improve access to basic social and economic services, expand livelihood opportunities and enhance environmental management for host communities and refugees in the target areas." The project will run for five years (2022-2027), with a total budget of US$180 million, which will be provided on full grant terms. Geographic coverage. DRDIP II will operate in the six main refugee-hosting regions (Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Somali and Tigray), covering 30 woredas (districts) and 330 kebeles (wards). Expanding the scope of Phase I, it will include one additional region (Amhara), 14 new woredas/city administrations, 213 new kebeles and the 25 refugee camps/sites. Phase I of the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP), which commenced in 2016 and will close in December 2022, has pioneered the long-term, government-led development response to forced displacement in Ethiopia. It has demonstrated the feasibility of such approaches in addressing negative impacts of the refugee presence while building on the opportunities it also presents. Phase II will build on the successes of the first phase while evolving to adapt to the progressive changes in the Government of Ethiopia's policy and legal framework for refugee inclusion. At the same time, Phase II will adjust activities and institutional arrangements to respond to a more challenging operational context, which has been affected by COVID-19, floods, locusts, drought and violent conflict. Major new design features for Phase II include: (a) refugees as direct beneficiaries. This will strengthen opportunities for durable solutions and help the government to meet its refugee inclusion policy commitments, including those articulated in the Global Compact on Refugees; (b) expanded geographic scope to cover all communities affected by the refugee presence, including in and around camps and sites established since DRDIP I began; (c) deeper support to help the government implement policy commitments on refugee inclusion through capacity-building and whole-of-government policy dialogue on refugee inclusion for the peak government agency on refugee affairs, Refugees and Returnees Services (RRS); (d) support for local development planning that integrates refugee concerns. ET-DRDIP II will support coordinated planning and engagement at the humanitarian-development nexus between the local administrations and actors working on the refugee response. Incorporating refugees in the kebele, woreda and regional development plans will make a tangible contribution to the transformation of the current humanitarian-focused refugee response model into a more sustainable and long-term development approach, as envisaged by the GCR; (e) enhanced focus on women's social and economic empowerment: Phase II will increase targets for female livelihood beneficiaries. Through a new sub-component on women's leadership and voice, it will train 12,000 women to lead community development committees established under the project and support gender-based violence prevention; and (f) social cohesion and inclusion. The project will include a new sub-component on social cohesion and inclusion to strengthen collaboration between refugees and host communities to underpin better social relations. Implementation using the CDD approach. Activities will continue to be implemented using the CDD approach, which is a proven mechanism for delivering cost-efficient, high quality, community-based infrastructure for better service delivery and livelihood support in remote, conflict-affected areas in Ethiopia and globally. CDD gives communities control over development resources and decision-making. Under DRDIP II, the local government will support beneficiaries to assess the existing development situation and identify needs and priority investments. The assessment will be captured in a community development plan that will be harmonized with kebele and woreda plans and humanitarian response plans in refugee settings. The project will help the community to form committees to implement their subprojects in collaboration with the local government. Component One: Social and economic services and infrastructure (US$83.6 million)This component will finance interventions to improve access to basic social services and economic infrastructure while building institutional capacities for local development planning and implementation. Support will also be provided to enhance women's leadership and voice and social cohesion and inclusion between refugees and host communities. The component will address service delivery gaps in the target areas, which have been exacerbated by the refugee presence and impacts of the conflict. Focusing on basic services such as education, health and water supply and sanitation, infrastructure will be built in an energy- and resource-efficient manner to help mitigate climate change impacts and support adaptation. Subprojects will be accessible to persons with disabilities (PWDs) and will address potential risk for gender-based violence (GBV) through safety audits. The component comprises four sub-components, as described below.Sub-component 1(a): Community Investment Fund (CIF) & Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) (US$79.6 million)The interventions under this sub-component will include support for social services (schools, water and sanitation, human and animal health facilities, etc.) and economic infrastructure (feeder roads, market centers, storage facilities, etc.). A total of 602 subprojects (544 CIF and 58 SIF) will be completed across the six project regions, benefiting 2.5 million people (1.76 million host community/740,000 refugees), 50 percent of whom will be women. Community Investment Fund (CIF) (US$68.0 million). Each of the 213 Phase II target kebeles and 25 refugee camps/sites will receive two funding cycles of up to US$125,000 for CIF subprojects. Kebeles within an eight-kilometer radius of a refugee camp or site (of which there are 68) will receive a third CIF round, for which subprojects can be located either in or outside the camp/site, based on a joint refugee-host community planning process. Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) (US$11.6 million ). With a ceiling of US$200,000, SIF subprojects operate beyond the needs of individual kebeles and, hence, will target the common and strategic needs of an entire woreda or a cluster of kebeles within a given woreda. Each of the 30 target woredas will receive a maximum of two SIF rounds, for a total of 58 subprojects. Sub-component 1(b): Capacity-building for local planning & decentralized service delivery (US$2 million )This sub-component will build community and local government capacity for planning and service delivery. At the community/kebele level, this will include support for different committees responsible for subproject identification, implementation and accountability, including Kebele Development Committees, Community Project Management Committees, Social Audit Committees, Community Procurement Committees, Community Facilitation Teams and Grievance Redress Committees. At the woreda level, capacity support includes training for local authorities and sector institutions on decentralized local development planning and implementation, strengthening for the woreda technical and appraisal committees and provision of field materials.Sub-component 1(c): Women's leadership and voice (US$1 million)This sub-component will strengthen women’s leadership and participation in the community institutions responsible for project planning and implementation, while also supporting GBV prevention. During Phase I, women comprised 34 percent of the membership of the community committees established for project implementation. Women’s representation in leadership positions was not tracked. Under Phase II, the project will increase the target for women’s participation as members to 40 percent and establish a target of 30 percent

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Social Protection

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Road, Water Supply and Storage, Rail, Waste Processing and Treatment, Commercial, Raw Materials, Government, Education