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Proposed Development Objective(s)
The Project Development Objective is to support recovery and increase disaster and climate resilience of select public
and private infrastructure in the areas affected by cyclone Kenneth.
Components
Component 1: Recovery and Resilience in the Housing Sector
Component 2: Coastal Resilience and Infrastructure Rehabilitation
Component 3: Integrated Disaster Risk Management and CERC
Component 4: Project Management, Risk Management, Monitoring and Evaluation
Proposed Development Objective(s)
Development Objective(s) (From PAD)
32. The Project Development Objective is to support recovery and increase disaster and climate resilience of select
public and private infrastructure in the areas affected by cyclone Kenneth.
Key Results
33. The proposed key results indicators that will be used to measure the achievement of the PDO are:
• Number of people benefitting from houses rebuilt with resilient standards (of which women are heads
of household)
• Number of people benefitting from housing reconstruction assistance activities and neighborhood
improvements (of which percentage of women)
• Number of people protected with resilient coastal defense system (of which percentage of women)
• Number of people benefitting from primary/main road rehabilitation works (of which percentage of
women)
D. Project Description
34. The proposed Project addresses part of the reconstruction needs in the housing and infrastructure sector with
the aim to strengthen long term resilience of the affected areas. In addition, the project will strengthen DRM capacities.
The proposed interventions support the priority sectors identified in the post-Kenneth Impact Evaluation that received
limited pledges or that no other ongoing development programs can immediately address, and where the World Bank
has added-value. It would particularly support: (1) recovery and resilience in the housing sector, (2) coastal resilience and
infrastructure rehabilitation, and (3) integrated DRM. The project will support interventions in areas affected by Cyclone
Kenneth across the three islands.
Component 1: Recovery and resilience in the housing sector
35. This component aims to support the development and implementation of a national housing reconstruction
program for the most vulnerable cyclone affected households by financing the reconstruction of 1,000 houses across
the three islands. This includes: a transparent beneficiary selection and prioritization process; large training and
dissemination programs promoting safe building standards and practices including resilient habitat construction
techniques across the three islands, development of resilient housing typology designs, supply of construction materials,
TA in construction, supervision, quality control ensured through an inspection/certification process at each stage,
securing permits and land titles, and incentives for contributions from households (e.g. unskilled labor). These activities
require identifying short-term solutions such as development of technical guidelines for resilient housing construction
and creation of Habitat Committees who will play a critical role in land title certification. In parallel, the component will
also support institutional strengthening (e.g. preparation of urban development and habitat policies, legislation and
regulations) to develop longer term resilience in the housing sector. Under this programmatic approach, the Government
would be able to continue implementing the housing reconstruction program for more vulnerable households affected
by cyclone Kenneth as additional sources of financing are secured (beyond WB project funds).
36. The construction would be implemented through a hybrid approach involving community-based construction
as well as technical support from a Delegated Project Management entity or “Maîtrise D’Ouvrage Déléguée” (MOD or
DPM), NGOs, UN agencies, and/or consultants. The MOD would be in charge of the coordination and implementation of
reconstruction subprojects and associated contract supervision and management, communication and outreach, quality
control including compliance with environmental and social (E&S) management framework, support to beneficiaries and
community planning, Housing assistance packages delivery to beneficiaries.
37. This component will also provide support for the rehabilitation or construction of community infrastructure
within the selected communes supporting neighborhood improvements including inter alia small roads/walkways and
associated drainage, public spaces (e.g. parks), small recreational infrastructure (e.g. sport), and solar panels. They will
be selected based on the community development planning work supported by the MOD.
38. To ensure beneficiary ownership in the reconstruction process, beneficiaries will provide in-kind contributions
either in cash or labor or materials, post-construction maintenance, etc. (to be defined). Where a vulnerable household
may not have financial means nor the physical capacity for manual work, the Housing Committee would work with the
community to support these members. Where non-beneficiary households have the resources to build their own core
safe house, and where beneficiary households have the resources to build beyond the core safe house during project
implementation, they could have access to TA to do so using resilient construction techniques.
39. The approach for the selection of beneficiaries will be done in coordination with the Social Safety Net Project
(P150754) additional financing project which has a database of socioeconomic information on households.
Component 2: Coastal resilience and infrastructure rehabilitation
40. This subcomponent will finance resilient coastal defense works in areas affected by the cyclone. Various
stretches of the coastline were eroded and washed away by the cyclone, putting at risk the local residents, their houses,
and critical public infrastructure including hospitals and national roads. These include for instance Foumbouni in Grande
Comore; Djoezi, Fomboni and Nioumachoua in Mohéli; and Pajé in Anjouan. These sites are highly populated,
economically active and located along national roads which in some cases such as in Anjouan, are built against the
mountains, leaving no room to be shifted inland. The objective is to identify the most affected stretches of the coastline
that are subject to potential irreversible loss of land and where there are engineering solutions that can protect efficiently
and in the long term the population and infrastructure. The project will finance: (a) a comprehensive detailed diagnostic
study to better understand the flood risks and erosion phenomenon on the three islands, assess the feasibility and cost
for undertaking coastal defense works, propose resilient and efficient solutions including nature-based solutions (more
adapted to Moheli most likely), and provide cost estimates. In order to prioritize the investment needs on each island,
and because the project cannot cover them all, the diagnostic will provide decision-making tools combining multi-criteria
and cost-benefit analyses for MATU to be able to select the investments to be financed under the project. Preliminary
estimates indicate that the project could finance coastal protection works for up to 2.5-3km total of linear of coastline
(about 1km in Grande Comore around Foumbouni, about 1km in Anjouan, and about 0.5km in Mohéli) and about 25,800
direct beneficiaries; (b) detailed design studies for the selected 2.5-3km; (c) works and associated supervision services.
The works could include a mix of infrastructure combining rehabilitation or construction of retaining structures, barriers,
drainage systems, breakwaters, hydraulic structures such as groins, etc. and other nature-based techniques such as beach
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