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NaCSA's Programmes
The
Community Driven Programme (CDP)
The goal of the CDP is to enable communities
to be fully involved in the identification,
design, implementation, management,
evaluation and maintenance of NaCSA
projects. The CDP finances demand-driven
community-based sub-projects, social
mobilisation and capacity building
of community groups, and sub-project
monitoring and evaluation. Special
emphasis is placed on reaching under-served
areas, including communities in remote
and/or "newly accessible areas".
Sub-projects eligible for CDP funding
include rehabilitation and/or construction
and equipment for primary schools
and health posts, community centres,
latrines, sewage and drainage, drying
floors, IEC campaigns, functional
literacy programmes, community-based
conflict resolution activities, community
nutrition, rehabilitation and construction
of economic infrastructure such as
markets, small-scale water supply
and sanitation, access roads and bridges
and natural resource management. Investments
in agriculture are limited to those
considered to be public goods.
Public Works Programme (PWP)
The PWP has four objectives:
- To improve rural and urban infrastructure
for enhanced food security and
improved quality of life;
- To provide transitional post-war
household income generation through
labour-intensive job creation
- To complete the process of
reintegration of about 60,000
ex-combatants
- To help build the capacity of
local contractors and local governments
to sustain public works.
The
PWP is a flexible and rapid mechanism
that supports sub-projects for unemployed
war-affected youth and other vulnerable
groups and builds on an ADB-funded six
month pilot exercise carried out in
early 2003 in the Eastern and Northern
Regions of Sierra Leone that tested
procedures and helped define priorities.
Most sub-projects cost less than $50,000
except for some feeder roads that may
be budgeted up to the cap of $80,000.
Sub-project selection criteria are detailed
in the Operations Manual and include:
- At least 40% of sub-project funds
are to be paid as wages
- Consistent with international
best practice standards, the cost
per job created should be below
$2.50 per work day
- At least 30% of job should be
provided for women and the handicapped
- Wages should be at or below average
labour market rates to maximize
the number of those who benefit
among the poor and ensure that non-poor
people do not take the jobs
- Sub-projects must not compete
with any other NaCSA activities
that involve donated community labour
- Benefiting communities or institutions
must have a viable sustainability
plan and a maintenance plan
- HIV/AIDS and malaria control awareness
must be integrated into all sub-projects;
and
- National norms and standards must
be respected as to the quality of
work
Public
works are locally based but implemented
mostly by local private contractors
operating in the districts or regions
where the projects are located. Public
works projects are either carried
out for clients that have already
identified their priorities (e.g.
a ministry) or respond to urgent transitional
post-conflict priorities, especially
in the most severely war-affected
parts of the country. In the former
case and where relevant, the client
is responsible for ensuring community
participation before NaCSA is provided
with project implementation requests.
In the latter case, priority projects
are identified by National Recovery
Committees and by other means.
The
Micro-Finance Programme (MFP)
The MFP builds on experience gained
from an ADB-funded project with a
major micro-finance component, the
Social Action for Poverty Alleviation
(SAPA) Project. The MFP heavily targets
poor women engaged in productive activities
and uses NGOs extensively for delivery
and repayment operations since there
is currently no rural banking system.
The MFP is primarily a technical assistance
and training vehicle for building
a viable, sustainable and growing
MF sub-sector. It does not provide
loans directly to borrowers but can
promote borrower group formation,
facilitate the establishment of community
banking systems, help rationalise
and coordinate MF policy nationally
and provide impact and output assessments.
The MFP is led by a director and supported
by two full-time project officers
who work with and through NaCSA's
regional and district offices.
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