Economic Recovery:-

This component will promote job creation and entrepreneurship with a focus on youth and women. It will also support the reconstruction of major markets to recover commerce. Additionally, tailored training to upgrade the skills of artisans and equip them to better participate in the economic opportunities arising from public work programmes resulting from reconstruction and rehabilitation of infrastructure in component 1 and other economic integration activities that will be undertaken. The component will also support vulnerable households (IDPs) to enhance the economic reintegration and the building of livelihoods that focus on agribusiness. To ensure better targeting of interventions for the vulnerable, the project will support the development of a state unified social registry which in turn will contribute to the development of the National Registry compilation for the safety nets programme, co-financed by the World Bank. Given the socio-cultural context, promoting women’s entrepreneurship and job for females, accessing skills and training programmes and facilitating women access to markets, require specific gender-focused interventions. Expected results for this component will therefore include:-

1. Youth/Women MSMEs and entrepreneurship promoted.
2. Unskilled youth (50% female) trained in viable economic ventures and life skills.

• poor household food security and agriculture livelihood opportunities enhanced (60% of economic livelihood interventions will benefit women);

1. Cattle of fish markets reconstructed.
2. Institutional strengthening and project management:-

Institutional strengthening interventions include:-

• Support for the project steering committee capacity strengthening to enhance its coordination role at the state level.
• Technical assistance to the woman empowerment fund to facilitate loan disbursement to women MSMEs.
• Enhanced capacities of the relevant Ministry for enforcement & monitoring of employments regulation.
• Enhanced capacity of the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB to implement the State Education Management Information System.
• To support Primary Health Care evidence-based facility and strategy development in the sub-sector of primary Health.
• The programme will also facilitate the development of programme implementation manuals and monitoring and evaluation framework as well as impact evaluation.
• The project implementation unit capacities will also be built to enhance implementation efficiency.