Chad Territorial Development and Resilience Project

The development objective of the Territorial Development and Resilience Project for Chad is to improve access to infrastructure, basic services, and economic opportunities, and enhance local institutions capacity for local service delivery in selected areas of Chad. The project comprises of four components. The first component, investing in resilient local and community infrastructure and services will finance infrastructure investments, including climate-resilient community infrastructure (e.g., boreholes, greening, community gardening, sociocultural centers) that local communities (in cantons and communes) have identified under sub-component 1.1 and larger-scale transformative investments (e.g., markets, drainage infrastructure and dikes) under sub-component 1.2 to increase social, economic, and climate resilience. It consists of following sub-components: (i) community-level investments in basic services, resilience, and infrastructure; and (ii) delivering investments for local economic development. The second component, building community and institutional capacity will finance training and capacity-building activities for the benefit of local stakeholders - communities, local and provincial governments - with a focus on enabling communities to engage in local sustainable development and local institutions to perform development planning and service delivery functions while strengthening state institutions to improve their support to these groups. It consists of following sub-components: (i) capacity building for community planning to strengthen local resilience and inclusion; (ii) local government strengthening; and (iii) strengthening of local state institutions. The third component is project management, and the fourth component is a contingent emergency response (CERC). The project will finance community-level infrastructure investments to build resilience such as installing green spaces, urban farming and green corridors, and silting protection.