Economic opportunities for Resilience Project

pipeline

Building on key achievements from the previous Safety Net Project (P124015), the project supports the implementation of the government’s PAMPV flagship program. In particular, the project aims to contribute to strengthening access to economic opportunities for poor and vulnerable households, including IDPs and host communities, women’s economic empowerment and resilience, the employability of vulnerable youth, and increased household resilience to shocks, including those induced by climate change. The project also aims to contribute to strengthening Burkina Faso’s social protection system to reach the most vulnerable and to optimize interventions outcomes.The total project cost is US$105 million, which consists of US$100 million IDA credit and US$5 million from the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program (SASPP) Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF). Project implementation will be supported also by technical assistance provided under the programmatic Advisory Services and Analytics (P507383) supported by a grant from the SASPP MDTF and Trust Fund resources mobilized to adapt interventions to the FCV context, to improve service delivery in host communities and insecure localities, while promoting social cohesion. The project adopts a flexible and pragmatic approach to the ongoing security situation, adapting interventions to areas’ insecurity classification, ensuring the appropriate trade-off is struck between simplicity and impact (see Annex B). The proposed design and activities fully leverage synergies and collaboration with other sectors, including infrastructure, agriculture, health, private sector, digital development. Reflecting an intersectoral nature of social protection and labor and recognizing that poverty reduction and economic empowerment require a multi-sectoral approach, the project has been and will be closely coordinated with other sectors. For example, the proposed public works programs will support different types of work, including local infrastructure. The economic inclusion refers to a package of programs and services which aim to increase the resilience of individuals and communities, with agriculture activities and extension services being considered as an important pillar to improve the livelihoods of beneficiaries in rural areas. Furthermore, a unique ID supported under the WURI project is a prerequisite to realize an integrated system envisioned under this project.To achieve the PDO, the project is articulated around four main components. • Component 1. Empowerment Support. (indicative allocation: US$50 million). This component aims to increase access to social protection programs for poor and vulnerable households, including climate-vulnerable households. This component supports the operationalization of the priority components of the PAMPV, specifically, economic inclusion (subcomponent 1.1) and accompanying measures (subcomponent 1.2). • Component 2. Strengthening adaptive social protection system. (Indicative allocation: US$21.5 million). This component aims to make the country’s social protection systems more inclusive, efficient, and shock-responsive. The component will focus on the national roll out of the social registry (RSU) (subcomponent 2.1) and the increased integration and interoperability of the system (subcomponent 2.2).• Component 3. Capacity building and capitalization (Indicative allocation: US$23.5 million). This component aims to reinforce the government’s institutional and logistical capacity to manage food security and humanitarian crisis and implement the national social protection strategy and its flagship program (PAMPV). Component 3 will focus on enhancing logistical capacity (subcomponent 3.1), strengthening intersectoral coordination (subcomponent 3.2) and monitoring, evaluation and learning process (subcomponent 3.3).• Component 4. Project Management (Indicative allocation : US$10 million). This component will support project management, including supervision, M&E, fiduciary functions, and grievance redress system. • Component 5. Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC). A zero-dollar CERC will only be activated and funded in case of any eligible crisis in the country. A CERC manual will be annexed to the Project Operations Manual (POM) and can be later updated to better address specific types of shocks.A new PIU should be established for the implementation of the project, as the formal PIU for the Safety Nets Project is no longer in place.