Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project Phase II Services of Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) Agent
ECRP-II’s Project development objective is to improve access to services, strengthen flood resilience, and enhance institutional capacity for local service delivery and integrated disaster risk management at the national and sub-national levels.
ECRP-II comprises five components designed to improve service delivery, flood resilience, and institutional capacity in the more vulnerable areas in South Sudan. The five components of ECRP-II are as follows:
- Component 1. Infrastructure and Services for Community Resilience (US$ 113 million): This component will support eligible investments in community-level infrastructure and services as well as physical investments for flood risk reduction. There are three sub-components that focus on eligible sub-project priorities, flood risk reduction investments, and operations and maintenance.
- Component 2. Institution Strengthening (US$10 million): This component supports the participatory planning process for the identification of subprojects to be financed under Component 1, monitoring of the construction of subprojects, and capacity-building of relevant national and sub-national institutions. Three sub-components focus on community institution strengthening, county government strengthening, and national and state government strengthening.
- Component 3. Emergency Flood Response (US$14 million): This component will support targeted emergency flood response in Warrap and Northern Bahr el Ghazal (NBeG) implemented through NGOs with a pre-existing geographic footprint and technical expertise in the two target states. The selection of the NGOs was based on: (i) geographic footprint; (ii) technical expertise on emergency flood response; (iii) adequate absorptive capacity; and (iv) suitable E&S and security risk management mechanisms.
- Component 4. Project Management and Learning (US$ 13 million): This component will support: a) project management including technical planning, FM, procurement, environmental and social (E&S) risk management, and communications; (b) project monitoring that includes a geo-enabled monitoring system and a beneficiary feedback/grievance redress mechanism (GRM), which will be accessible to refugees, IDPs, and host communities and will complement the existing GRMs in refugee areas; (c) impact evaluations; (d) financing for a third-party monitoring agent (TPMA); and € the PMU operating costs.
- Component 5. Contingency Emergency Response (US$ 0): A contingency emergency response component (CERC), initially without a budget allocation, will allow for the rapid reallocation of project funds in the event of natural or man-made crisis and major disease outbreaks of public health importance during the implementation of the project.
The overall objective of this TPM terms of reference is to provide third party monitoring of project implementation activities undertaken under Components 1- 3 to strengthen awareness of project risks, benefits, opportunities for correction, and conditions requiring timely intervention.