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The project development objective (PDO) is to improve livelihoods and essential services and enhance flood risk protection in selected communities affected by the 2022 floods.The development objective of the Integrated Flood Resilience and Adaptation Project for Pakistan is to improve livelihoods and essential services and enhance flood risk protection in selected communities affected by the 2022 floods.

Livelihood Support and Watershed Management

This component will finance grants to help enhance productive, inclusive, and resilient natural resource-based livelihoods while restoring degraded watersheds for flood resilience. The component aims to promote climate-smart agriculture, support value chain development, and promote livelihoods. This component will support two complementary grant schemes: (i) matching grants for enhancing agriculture and livestock-based livelihoods; and (ii) community grants for watershed restoration.

1. Matching Grants for Enhancing Agricultural and Livestock-based Livelihoods.

These grants will enable cash-constrained farming communities to restore and diversify agriculture and livestock production, add value, and enhance market access. Support will be provided to demand-driven activities identified through community consultation that seek to promote climate-smart agriculture practices. Agricultural activities to be supported will include support for efficient water use. Details of the grant mechanism will be provided in the Project Implementation Manual (PIM).

2. Community Grants for Watershed Restoration.

These grants will enable the restoration of degraded watersheds. Specific interventions will include soil and water conservation, vegetative stream and riverbank protection, agro-forestry and reforestation, farmer-managed natural regeneration, and rehabilitation of degraded rangelands. Details of the grant scheme will be provided in the PIM.