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Project Detail:
The Project consists of four components.
Component 1: Institutional Strengthening and Strategic Studies. This component focuses on institutional strengthening of WRD and ASDMA and consists of three subcomponents.
Component 1.1 Institutional Strengthening of WRD activities include: i) preparing the first ever Assam State Water Policy; ii) undertaking a set of Assam-Brahmaputra Basin baseline studies and preparing a “State of the Basin Report;” iii) promoting water resources transboundary knowledge exchange between Assam, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, and collaboration between the northeast India states within the Brahmaputra River basin; and iv) upgrading WRD’s management information systems.
Component 1.2: Institutional strengthening of ASDMA supports a set of studies to inform ASDMA’s strategic approach and improve its effectiveness. This includes: i) a multi-hazard risk financing strategy including a weather-based parametric insurance scheme; ii) improving ASDMA’s post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA) capacity; and iii) a flash flood forecasting feasibility study for Assam’s mountainous regions.
Component 1.3: FREMAA Project Management and Incremental Costs includes i) project management including an overall Project Management and Technical Consultancy (PMTC); ii) communication and outreach; iii) specialized individual consultants; iv) equipment; and v) FREMAA's incremental operating costs; vi) developing a corporate framework for environmental and social management in WRD, ASDMA and FREMAA. The E&S corporate framework will help the agencies better manage environmental and social impacts and risks for investments under the overall Program this includes training and visits for staff on social and environment aspects, and for the operationalization and strengthening of grievance redress mechanisms (GRM).
Total Project Cost: 135 USD
Note: Please Download Project Document attached to this Project for more information.
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