Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project

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The PDO will be achieved through: (a) a surge of high-impact, immediate interventions for enhancing the coping capacity of the affected communities while humanitarian operations continue in tandem through other partners; (b) activities that transition toward medium-term recovery such as restoration of productive capacities of the communities and rehabilitation of critical community infrastructure across multiple sectors; and (c) interventions to reduce community hazard risk vulnerability through community level structural and non-structural mitigation. Component 1: Providing Immediate Support for Cyclone Recovery: This component will provide immediate and integrated livelihoods and healthcare solutions to cyclone-affected people, including: (a) restoring livelihoods through conditional cash transfers to provide food assistance, and through unconditional cash transfers for most vulnerable groups; (b) restoring agricultural crop and livestock production, including distribution of agricultural inputs for small farmer households, and the re-stocking and treatment of livestock and poultry, and; (c) accelerating the revitalization of basic health services, including the provision of a basic package of health services and referral pathways related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Sexual Exploitation and Assault (SEA), and child protection measures. All activities under this component will specifically target women and female-headed households. This component will also finance project management and overheads costs for the above activities, such as needs and beneficiary assessments, preparation of technical designs and technical quality control, etc. Component 2: Enabling Medium-term Cyclone Recovery and Resilience-building: This component will support the rehabilitation of critical community infrastructure , such as water and sanitation systems, irrigation networks, community schools, and community roads, as well as community level structural mitigation efforts for risk reduction, such as slope protection and environmental rehabilitation. This component will also finance project management and overheads costs for the above activities, such as needs and beneficiary assessments, preparation of technical designs and technical quality control, etc. Component 3: Providing Project Management and Technical Assistance: This component will include:• Project Management. This will provide project management support for UNOPS, for overall coordination and oversight functions and for centralized project services, across all components, such as M&E, environmental and social safeguards performance, technical quality assurance, grievance redressal, GBV/SEA and referral and protection systems, and for engaging third party monitoring services for project results validation. • Technical Assistance (TA) under the Project will include a range of activities that will be progressively determined on a needs basis, to facilitate the strengthened implementation of the various project components. These could include, but not necessarily be restricted to: (a) supporting community risk assessments and monitoring and preparedness planning; (b) supporting community infrastructure damage assessment; (c) enhancing existing systems for displacement monitoring and targeting, as well as conducting intention surveys for internally displaced persons (IDPs); (d) developing health information and epidemic surveillance systems; and (e) strengthening project strategic communications and citizen engagement; The remaining US$3 million will be distributed based on a set of agreed criteria at the Project’s mid-term stage. This will provide incentives for performance and needs-based flexibility in the project’s resource allocation across various sub-components through the life of the project. Criteria for such resource allocation determinations will include implementation performance of the various components, and the varying levels of support from other development partners, and associated financing gaps in the various components. Such allocation shall be decided by World Bank Management, based on advice from the Task Team Leaders and in consultation with the Consultative Group being set up under the Project.