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References and suggested further reading
1. UNDP. Guidance for Community Infrastructure
Sector. PDNA Annex: 7 Template. May 2009.
2. UNDP Nepal. Quick Impact and Peace Support
Initiative First Phase (QIPSI-I) Completion Report.
November 2008.
3. UNEP. Background Paper on Green Jobs. 2008,
p.7.
B and C interventions) are also important. Accordingly, the exit strategy should articulate
how the project is expected to contribute to progress toward the goals of national recovery
and development strategies and plans.
3.3.3 Addressing crosscutting priorities
Like all livelihoods and economic recovery projects, those involving infrastructure rehabilitation
can successfully promote gender equity and women’s empowerment, reduce
conflict and disaster risk, strengthen market activity, and avoid causing harm in any of
these areas only if they are designed carefully with these objectives in mind. This section
provides points to consider for addressing these crosscutting priorities in programming
for infrastructure rehabilitation.
Gender sensitivity. Gender-sensitive work on infrastructure rehabilitation promotes gender
equality and women’s economic and social empowerment. It is gender-responsive
in both design and process. The needs, concerns, and priorities of both women and
men are taken into account in designing the project. Women are consistently part of the
decision-making process and hold leadership positions in the organizations that carry
out the rehabilitation work. In this way, the infrastructure rehabilitation process can set
precedents for expanding women’s roles and influence in the public domain. Rehabilitation
efforts also offer important opportunities for providing short-term employment for
women and girls. The key points on gender sensitivity in emergency employment projects
(see section 3.1.3 above) are also relevant to employment for infrastructure rehabilitation.
Conflict and disaster-risk sensitivity. For infrastructure rehabilitation to promote social
cohesion and reduce vulnerability, the process must be conflict and disaster-risk sensitive.
The new infrastructure—and the rehabilitation process itself—should create space for more
frequent and constructive interaction within the community. Any potential for exacerbating
social tensions should be identified and mitigated prior to project implementation.
Disaster risk reduction and conflict prevention expertise may be required to ensure that
the resulting infrastructure is disaster-resilient and that local conflict management systems
are set up and strengthened to avoid conflicts stemming from the rebuilding process.
Market sensitivity. The project design should take into account all available information
about the local market. Information on the market for goods and services will help to
identify and prioritize the infrastructure rehabilitation schemes that are most important
in terms of for reviving market activity. Information on the labour market will help to
determine the availability of labour for infrastructure rehabilitation work and the appropriate
wage rates for skilled and unskilled workers. Information on the local market
for the inputs the project will procure (equipment, tools, construction materials, project,
supplies, etc.) is essential for a smooth procurement process and for avoiding any market
distortions that the project may create. Ongoing monitoring of market conditions is
necessary throughout implementation in order to ensure that the project has a positive
impact on local economic recovery.
For additional information, please see discussion papers in Annex:
9. Infrastructure Rehabilitation.
10. New Approaches to Livelihoods Stabilization: from Emergency Employment to Long Term
Employment
12. Community Contracting
Livelihoods & Economic Recovery in Crisis Situations