Rural Community Infrastructure
Rural Community Infrastructure is one of the major programme components of PAF. PAF promotes access to the target communities empowering and helping them to develop social and economic community infrastructures. Such infrastructures are implemented, managed and maintained by the beneficiaries themselves. Community infrastructure are linked with target communities' livelihood improvement, and include rural roads, trails, mule tracks, culverts, suspension bridges, truss bridges, short distance gravity cable ways, river bed land reclamation, drinking water systems including sanitation, water management - plastic tanks, sprinkler/drip systems, and farmer-managed small irrigation systems, collection centers and market including rural energy systems.
Proposals of the community infrastructure sub-project prepared by the Community Organization
(CO) with the help of Partner Organization (PO) are submitted to PAF for funding and implementation.
The proposals include:
- Infrastructures which contribute to
improving basic health conditions
especially of women, children and
vulnerable groups such as drinking
water, sanitation facilities, alternative
source of energy like micro-hydro,
improved stoves etc.
- Infrastructures that increase agriculture
production, cropping pattern and intensity
such as community-based irrigation etc.
- Infrastructures that ensure access to the
market centre for local products such as
agriculture roads, trails, culverts, bridges
and community buildings etc.
- Infrastructures that enhance human capital
such as primary schools, health posts,
conference halls etc.
- Infrastructures with innovative ideas and
technology
Community themselves identify, demand, take part
in planning, implementation, operation and
maintenance of community infrastructures.
Infrastructure sub-project has linkage with IG
activities so that after intervention it may generate
employment and income, increase productivity
to secure sustainable livelihoods.
Before approval of proposals for implementation
of sub-projects, technical and social appraisal is
carried out to verify eligibility criteria and
requirements through site visits and checking
of technical reports of the sub-projects. Similarly,
environmental and social assessment of all subprojects
are carried out through environmental
and social screening by completing
environmental and social check-list format and
mitigation measures are suggested with
management action plan for adverse
environmental and social impacts. If
environmental and social impacts are significant,
further environmental and social assessment is
carried out in the form of Initial Environmental
and Social Examination (IESE).
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