Pakistan Community Support Project (CASA-1000)

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The developing objective of Community Support Project (CASA-1000) for Pakistan is to improve access to local infrastructure and strengthen community engagement in the project areas. This project has five components. 1) The first component, Community Outreach and Communications for CASA-1000, aims to create the conditions for a smooth construction of the CASA-1000 infrastructure and establish a two-way communication channel with the communities that may experience inconvenience but will not benefit directly from it. 2) The second component, Community Mobilization and Capacity Building, has the following subcomponents: (i) Mobilization for Implementation of Infrastructure Schemes ; and (ii) Mobilization for Citizen Engagement and Youth Inclusion. 3) The third component, Community Investments in Small Infrastructure Schemes, aims to provide subgrants for local infrastructure schemes to address local development priorities identified through the participatory processes. 4) The fourth component, Project Management, Implementation, and Monitoring and Evaluation, aims to finance operational expenditures and selected capital expenditures incurred by the project implementing agency for overall coordination, management, and supervision of the project activities. 5) The fifth component, Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC), aims to potentially providing immediate response to an eligible crisis or emergency, should there be a need for emergency response during the Project implementation period.