Strengthening DRM and Climate Resilience Project

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The development objective of Strengthening Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience Project for Haiti is to improve: (i) early warning and emergency evacuation capacity in selected municipalities in high climate risk-prone areas, and (ii) the provision of and accessibility to safe havens. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Strengthening Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Capacity and Promoting Building Regulation and Resilient Construction Practices, comprises two sub-components: (i) Strengthening Disaster Preparedness, and Emergency Response Capacity, and Disaster Risk Data Management, and (ii) Promoting Building Regulations and Resilient Construction Practices at the Local Level. 2) The second component, Construction and Rehabilitation of Safe Havens aims to finance: (a) the construction, reconstruction and/or rehabilitation of selected emergency shelters or safe havens, including those in schools, community centers, markets, and roadside annexes, and the reinforcement of small road infrastructure acting as emergency walkways leading to safe havens, prioritized according to the methodology; (b) the provision of improved basic services to these safe havens (compliant with climate change mitigation approaches); (c) technical studies, including relevant engineering designs, technical audits, social and environmental safeguard instruments, and shelter activation and closure operating procedures for selected investments; (d) training, technical assistance and communication activities aimed at achieving social mobilization and coordination of safe haven's investments among all stakeholders participating in the Project; and (e) monitoring and supervision of works. 3) The third component, Contingent Emergency Response, aims to finance the implementation of emergency works, rehabilitation, and associated assessments in the event of a natural disaster. 4) The fourth component, Project Management and Implementation Support, aims to finance the costs related to overall project management and implementation support.