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Description of the Project
The World Bank Idai Recovery Project is a four-year response to the devastation left by the cyclone, specifically to
support livelihood recovery in worst affected areas. UNOPS has been designated as direct fund recipient and
implementer, with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World
Health Organization (WHO), and World Food Programme (WFP) as sub-component technical lead agencies (herein
referred to as Technical Leads). The Project Development Objective is to address the early and medium-term resilient
disaster recovery needs of cyclone-affected peoples.
The project will take a multi-sectoral approach, which utilizes an integrated and holistic strategy by combining
interventions across sectors, requiring active coordination and planning across organizations and components.
Drawing on the consultative group, the ZIRP will sequence and integrate activities across UN and external partners,
assuring coordinated and complementary investments, including the use of a central targeting mechanism. The ZIRP
components details and anticipated activities are as follows:
The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to “address the early and medium-term resilient disaster recovery
needs of cyclone-affected people.” This objective 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.
Project Components are as follows:
Component 1: Providing Immediate Support for Cyclone Recovery: This component will provide immediate and
integrated livelihoods and healthcare solutions to cyclone-affected people, including sub components such as:
(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 Abuse (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, quality assurances of livelihood supports, 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 risk reduction and mitigation
efforts, such as slope protection and environmental rehabilitation. This component will also finance project
management and overhead costs for the above activities, such as needs and beneficiary assessments, preparation
of technical designs, technical quality control assurance, etc.
Component 3: Providing Project Management and Technical Assistance: This component will provide UNOPS
Project Management support, for overall coordination and oversight functions and for centralized project services,
across all components, such as monitoring and evaluation (M&E), managing and monitoring environmental and
social performance, technical quality assurance, grievance redressal, GBV/SEA and referral and protection systems,
and for engaging Independent Verification Agents (IVA) for beneficiary verification, technical quality assurances,
project results validation; and Technical Assistance (TA) for a range of activities to be progressively determined on a
needs basis, to facilitate strengthened implementation.
These could include, but are not necessarily restricted to: (a) social assessment; (b) supporting community risk
assessments, monitoring and preparedness planning; (c) supporting community infrastructure damage assessments;
(d) setting up the ZIRP Management information system (MIS); (e) developing health information and epidemic
surveillance systems; (f) strengthening project strategic communications, media relations and citizen engagement;
(g) building the capacity of the Project’s environmental and social staff.
Component 4: Unallocated Fund: To allow flexibility and adaptability during implementation, the Project envisions
an unallocated US$3 million to be distributed midterm based on a set of agreed criteria such as performance of the
various components, 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 recommendations
from Task Team Leaders and in consultation with the Consultative Group being set up under the Project. |
