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Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project, Phase 2 (ECRP II)

Due to a confluence of factors, including years of protracted armed conflict, near-universal poverty, and pervasive environmental degradation, South Sudan is entrenched in a humanitarian crisis of vast proportions. Within this context, providing basic services helps alleviate societal tensions generated by poverty and a dearth of socio-economic opportunity, particularly in areas with high returnees. ECRP-II builds on the preceding and completed Local Governance and Service Delivery Project (LGSDP) and the ongoing South Sudan Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project (ECRP-I) to address the immediate needs for basic services in selected areas of the country and to promote government ownership, youth engagement, gender inclusion, refugees’ inclusion, flood risk reduction, and institution strengthening for disaster risk management. It also includes an operation and maintenance (O&M) component intended to maximize the impact and sustainability of the infrastructure built under the project. The project has two parts, namely, (i) Infrastructure and services for community resilience and (ii) Institution strengthening.