| Project Detail |
The objective of the Reconnect, Recover, Revitalize (3R) Project for Ukraine is to improve transport connectivity and promote agricultural sector recovery in project areas with the active engagement of conflict-affected communities. The project has four components. (1) Reconnect. Road Investments to Link Rural Communities to Processing, Markets, and Services component will provide support to: (a) rehabilitate roads in Luhansk Oblast GCAs in support of the agricultural sector; and (b) connect rural communities to urban service centers in Luhansk Oblast GCAs. (2) Recover. Agriculture Investments to Support Sector Recovery and Modernization component will complement the connectivity investments of Component 1 through agricultural investments that address some of the conflict’s impacts on the agricultural sector in the Luhansk Oblast GCAs, and that contribute to regional economic recovery and development. Some of the key challenges to sector recovery and modernization include: (a) the lack of local agricultural hubs to stimulate growth and economic spillover effects; (b) the lack of access to agricultural storage and processing facilities and urban markets lost to the NGCAs; (c) the limited market presence and limited negotiation power of small- and medium-sized producers of agriculture commodities (grains and oil seeds); (d) the need for public capacity and service provision in agricultural product testing and food safety management since the regional laboratory that provides official certifications is located in the NGCAs and is now inaccessible; and (e) the small-scale and scattered backyard production of fruits, vegetables, and other products by semi-subsistence or subsistence producers that cannot access markets effectively because of limited scale, uneven quality, poor access to technology, and lack of information on consumer markets. (3) Revitalize. Implementation Support Platform component will support development of an implementation support platform for project investments, recognizing the capacity constraints, deficits in state-citizen trust and communications, and requirements for national-regional-local cooperation in effective delivery of 3R Project activities. The component will support activities that reinforce the linkages between Components 1 and 2. (4) Contingent Emergency Response Component (~US$0). The proposed operation will include a contingent component, which in the event of an urgent need for assistance in response to an eligible crisis or emergency, will enable the GoU to reallocate project funds to response efforts. In light of the COVID-19 outbreak and continued conflict and instability in Eastern Ukraine, this provisional zero component is designed as a mechanism that will allow for rapid access to project funds for Ukraine’s response and recovery to a crisis. |
