Myanmar Community Livelihood Assistance Project

active

Prospective

The project will support vulnerable communities and safeguard livelihoods by assisting food-insecure households to cover their basic food needs while maintaining or resuming food production and gradually decreasing their need for cash assistance. Project support consists of rapid response food, non-food, and livelihood packages, time-sensitive livelihood kits for crop and livestock production, technical and life skills capacity building, and rehabilitation of households and community productive assets. The project will target vulnerable groups, including Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), landless farmers and laborers, smallholder farmers, and livestock owners by providing (i) community relief assistance; (ii) agricultural rehabilitation packages; (iii) community asset rehabilitation, and (iv) livelihoods and technical training support. The project consists of three components as follows:Component 1: Emergency Relief Assistance, Nutrition Support, and Asset Creation (to be implemented by WFP). This component aims to address immediate food consumption gaps and poor dietary diversity of vulnerable populations affected by conflict and displacement. It will provide emergency food and cash assistance, nutrition support to vulnerable groups, and cash-for-work to rehabilitate basic community infrastructure. It will finance emergency and special nutritious foods, transfer costs, cash transfers, technical assistance, and relevant operating costs. Component 2: Boosting Capacity for Food Production (to be implemented by FAO). This component aims to respond to short- to medium-term needs for food security and agriculture livelihoods of vulnerable groups. It will provide emergency agriculture support and durable rural livelihoods support, inlcuding rapid response food production kits, agricultural inputs, small-scale labor-saving machinery, and training on best agriculture practices to increase production and yields. Component 3: Emergency response and recovery of livelihoods and basic services (to be implemented by ICRC). This component aims to support households affected and displaced by conflict by assisting in the recovery of livelihoods and the provision or repair of small-scale infrastructure. It is based on the approach tested under the Myanmar Community Support Project (MCSP; P179066). It will provide cash transfers, seeds, tools, infrastructure-related goods, technical assistance, and consulting and non-consulting services.

World Bank

Project

Fertilizers, Raw Materials, Government, Commercial