MN-Sustainable Livelihoods II

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The Mongolia Second Sustainable Livelihoods project is the second phase of a three-phase adaptable program lending (APL) program. The overall objective of the program is to enhance secure and sustain livelihoods in communities throughout Mongolia. The project has four main components with the first being the pastoral risk management (PRM) component. The main objective o f the PRM component is to scale up and replicate effective strategies to prepare for and respond to pastoral risk. The primary target group is herder households, while recognizing that risk preparedness and response also requires well-coordinated support from national and sub-national governments, and private-sector and civil-society institutions. The second component is the community initiatives (CI), the objective o f this component is to establish, on a nationwide basis, effective, transparent and socially inclusive mechanisms that empower citizens to identify and implement small public facility improvement projects. The third component is the microfinance development (MD), the overall objective for the MD component will be to deepen and widen access to sustainable financial services to rural citizens. Finally, the fourth component is for capacity building and project management (PM). This component would finance all the necessary functions to ensure effective, efficient, and timely implementation and management o f all project activities at the national level.