Enhancing Community Driven Development Project

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The development objective of the Enhancing Community Driven Development Project for Myanmar is to enable poor rural communities to benefit from improved access to and use of basic infrastructure and services through a people-centered approach. The project comprises of four components. The first component is community block grants. Block grants are allocated through a participatory planning process comprising all villages within a village tract. The second component is facilitation and capacity development. The third component, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), knowledge, and learning will support a series of bottom up participatory M and E activities that are fully integrated into the annual community planning and sub-project cycle. The fourth component, project management and implementation support will support project management by Department of Rural Development (DRD) at the union, state and region, district, township, village tract and village levels, including financial management, procurement, environmental and social safeguards management, and communications, audits and rehabilitation of DRD offices necessary for project implementation.