RESILAC 2, Economic and socially inclusive recovery in Lake Chad

Project presentation

Co-financed to the amount of 40 million euros for a period of 5 years, RESILAC 2 is continuing its sub-regional approach with activities deployed in the countries around the Lake Chad basin, in Cameroon, in the Far North region; in Niger, in the Diffa region (subject to donor approval); in Nigeria, in the State of Borno and finally in Chad, in the Lake Province. The main aim of the project is to build people’s resilience through economic recovery, social cohesion and sustainable land management in the areas most affected by the Lake Chad crisis and climate change. The aim is to improve the living conditions of households, particularly the most vulnerable (refugees, internally displaced persons), and to help local players become drivers of change. This will be made possible by a combination of factors implemented through the activities and by the creation of a collective bottom-up dynamic involving local stakeholders in the implementation of the project.

The project has 3 components:

• Component 1: Strengthening access to basic services, livelihoods and social inclusion opportunities for displaced populations, returnees, refugees and vulnerable host communities;
• Component 2: Improving the capacities of the authorities, community organisations and civil society organisations at local, regional and national levels to ensure social cohesion and the management of natural resources around Lake Chad ;
• Component 3: Support economic recovery and promote cross-border trade by giving men and women access to employment and to diversified agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries production systems adapted to climate change.

Groupe URD’s role in the consortium

Groupe URD, as the project’s learning partner and knowledge manager, will be responsible for developing and managing the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) strategy, as it was for the first RESILAC. This will be based on complementary tools, methods and approaches that will enable :

• to support the adaptive management of the project,
• to assess the progress of the action and its effects on the ground,
• to produce useful and relevant knowledge
• to encourage iterative learning.