Social and Economic Infrastructures

  1. Community Physical Infrastructure. Community and UC Plans prepared under GLLSP I show an immediate need of around 479 priority community infrastructure schemes covering around 72,000 households. GLLSP II will provide funding to address these needs after updating the UCDP’s in all 40 UCs/358 villages ensuring that at least one priority need of each village is addressed and where there more than one scheme is prioritized will also be considered. Existing CO/VO plans will be updated to ensure that the project responds to the current situation. Women’s priorities will be discussed and identified in separate meetings.  In case male and female priorities should not match each other, preference will be given to the priorities indicated by the women.  Based on the GLLSP I experience, the existing UCDP’s prepared by NRSP in 2016, and mission observations, over 70 per cent of investments are likely to be for water provision for drinking, agriculture and fisheries, followed by sanitation and solar power for households. Other investments are likely to be household solar power, RO plants, street pavement and sanitation, fisheries related small infrastructure, check dams and flood protection structures. The project will ensure that climate change resilience is made a central factor in CPI prioritization and selection. No targets are being specified for various types of schemes to allow demand-driven identification under the union council development planning.
  2. Rural Farm to Market Roads. The main agriculture production areas will be connected to the national trunk road network and the new road network which is being developed through CPEC/BRI through 40 km black top roads. Priority links will be identified through the Union Council Development Plans, as per selection criteria, and the lengths may vary from 02 km to 15 km. Climate change resilience will be built in the design of roads and support structures. Road side tree plantations will be integrated as part of the road design process.

 

Implementation Arrangements: All activities under this component, except rural roads, will be implemented by the social mobilization partner through a strategy and human resource availability specified in the contract between PMU and SMP. Rural Roads, identified on the basis of selection criteria specified in the PIM, and identified through Union Council Development Plans to be endorsed by PSC, will be implemented by C&W Department on standard farm to market road specifications. Household nutrition and on-farm climate resilience interventions will be implemented in collaboration with Nutrition Section/ SUN Movement Secretariat, Planning Commission, SMP by PMU as per the terms of collaboration agreed.