INCOME RECOVERY PROGRAMME IRP

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INCOME RECOVERYPROGRAMME (IRP)
Restore Livelihoods
Build Back Better
Partners
ILO UNDP World Bank
March 2006
TECHNICALSUPPORT
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Contents

• Contents
• Introduction to IRP
• Operational Framework of IRP
• From RIRP to IRTAP
• Achievements
• Introduction to Divisional Livelihood Development
  Plans (DLDP)
• The Way Forward

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Income Recovery Programme (IRP)
IRP Goal
To rebuild sustainable livelihoods and jobs by
reviving tsunami-affected local economies, and to
move people out of poverty and dependency as soon
as possible
IRP Objectives

• To facilitate immediate protection to vulnerable
  individuals and families, and for those for whom
  there is no work
• To provide temporary employment
• To provide longer term alternatives to income
  generation, and rebuilding livelihoods of tsunami
  affected community

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Income Recovery Programme (IRP) Strategy
Three main interventions
Immediate
Short/ Medium term
Long term

• Social protection temporary cash and food
  benefits for those affected by the tsunami and
  without work / Longer term social assistance for
  disabled in the disaster, widowers and elderly
  persons e.g. Cash transfers, Samurdhi assistance
  
• Community Infrastructure/ temporary employment
  work on community and public infrastructure
  development and associated training
• Rebuilding local economic activities
  facilitating access to finance and other
  services such as capital, loans, income
  generating assets, grants, capacity and skills
  training and sector growth

Community infrastructure Recovery
Economic Rebuilding
Social Protection
Income
Time
Jan 05
Jan 08

• Cash grant
• Food relief
• Other relief support

• Cash-for-work (cleaning)
• Temporary Employment (infrastructure)

• Access to capital
• Income generating assets
• Micro-financing
• Start-up capital (grants)
• Skills development
• Business support (counseling)
• Vocational training
• Other training

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Institutional Framework of the Livelihood Unit
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IRP From RIRP to IRTAP
Rapid Income Recovery Programme (RIRP) May
October 2005
Cash-for-work
Economic Recovery
Cash Transfers

• Monitoring Progress of Cash Transfer Schemes

• Monitoring Progress of Cash for Work Schemes
• Developed 3 Guidelines

• Monitoring Progress of Emergency Relief Donation
  and Activities

Income Recovery Technical Assistance Programme
(IRTAP) Oct. 2005 January 2007 (ILO)
Community Infrastructure Recovery
Local Economic Development
Social Protection

• Ensure vulnerable groups will be included into
  social protection schemes

• Coordinate targeting of infrastructure works
• Improve capacity, standards and quality of
  investments

• Lead a joint comprehensive approach of local
  economic development to ensure sustainable
  livelihoods

Cross-cutting Components Information Management
and Capacity Building
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Social Protection
IRTAP - Instrument 1

• Output 1
• Advice on future planning of cash transfer
  programmes (to access livelihood opportunities or
  social protection schemes)
• Output 2
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of existing
  social protection schemes/instruments (such as
  Samurdhi) in tsunami-affected area by analizng
  level of disaster-proofness to future.
• Output 3
• Advice on means needed by local administration to
  effectively execute social assistance provisions.

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Community Infrastructure Recovery
IRTAP - Instrument 2

• Output 1
• Preparation and implementation of policy and
  strategy recommendations
• Output 2
• Better targeting of CFW activities
• Output 3
• Establishment and implementation of CFW standards
  and implementation guidelines
• Output 4
• Provision of training programmes to build
  implementation capacity
• Output 5
• Monitoring and evaluation of CFW activities

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Local Economic Development (LED)
IRTAP - Instrument 3

• Output 1
• Provision of policy guidance and technical
  expertise
• Output 2
• LED planning at division and district level
  (Include Template for Divisional Plans)
• Output 3
• Provision of training programmes to build
  implementation capacity
• Output 4
• Monitoring and evaluation of LED activities

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Management Information System
IRTAP - Cross-cutting Instrument

• Output
• Management of ensuring equitable distribution of
  resources to affected society
• by
• Bringing together demand for assistance
  requirements at village, division and district
  level
• Match these demands with supply and present this
  to all stakeholders e.g. use of DAD to identify
  supply
• Produce strategic policy information

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Achievements
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Institutional Strengthening
IRP Achievements - 1
National

• Human Resource Development
• Equipment and logistics
• Horizontal linkages strengthened
• Vertical linkages strengthened

District
Division
Community
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IRP Achievements - 2

• Coordination - National Level
• Linkages between public, private sector and
  development agencies
• Ministry of Nation Building development
• Ministry of Agriculture
• Ministry of Fisheries
• Ministry of Tourism
• Ministry of Skills Development
• Ministry of Public Administration and Home
  Affairs
• Ministry of Samurdhi and Poverty Alleviation
• Ministry of Rural Development
• UNOCHA
• Central Bank
• Universities
• Development Agencies (National and
  International)
• MoU with CHA
• MoU with FCCISL
• MoU with Ministry of Labour Relation
• MoU with UNDP (CADREP)

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IRP Achievements 2 continued

• Coordination - Sub-National Level
• (Districts, Divisions and Communities)
• Strengthened District Secretaries in the
  Livelihood sector
• Establishment of livelihood teams (9 districts)
• Being provided equipment and logistics
• Strengthened Livelihood Coordination Committees
• Improved Information Management
• Establishment of close links with
  district/divisional committees
• Established linkages with civil society and
  private sector
• Strengthened Divisional Secretaries in the
  Livelihood sector
• Placed divisional Livelihood Officers (37
  Divisions out of 51)
• Being provided equipment and logistics
• Strengthened Communities
• Establishment of VRC to represent affected
  community

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Decentralization of RADA Livelihood activities
IRP Achievements 2 contd
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Decentralization of RADA Livelihood activities
IRP Achievements - 3
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IRP Achievements - 3

• Capacity Building of district/divisional staff
  on
• Divisional Planning Process
• Livelihood Concepts
• Participatory Approaches
• Information Management
• Information Technology
• Technical Aspects of Community Infrastructure
  Development
• Local Economic Development

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Policy or Strategy Development
IRP Achievements - 4

• Guidelines for Livelihood Development
• Circulars on Community Infrastructure Recovery
• (Labour, Engineering, Contracting, Planning and
  Monitoring)
• Template for divisional planning process
• Policy Guidance
• Needs Assessment Survey Income Recovery (NASIR
  I, II, III)
• Review of Income Recovery Programme
• Cash For Work Technical Notes (1,2,3)

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IRP Achievements - 5

• Information Management
• Coordination and Planning System (CAPS) at
  District/Division
• Case studies
• Monthly Livelihood Updates
• District Profiles
• Information Dissemination (Newsletters,
  Situation reports, Website updates)

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The Divisional Livelihood Development Plan
IRP Achievements 6
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IRP Achievements 6 contd
Who?
How?

• Government
• Development Agencies
• Private sector

• Planning
• Monitoring
• Counselling
• Policy Development
• Fast-tracking
• Implementation

Who?
What?

• Affected Communities
• Those who cannot work
• Those who need temporary employment
• Those who need to rebuild their livelihoods

• Grants in cash (not business related)
• Cash For Work Schemes
• Community Infrastructure Development
• Grants in kind (for income recovery)
• Microfinance
• Small Medium Enterprise (SME) loans
• Start-up capital
• Business support
• Vocational training
• Other training programmes

Where?
Tsunami affected Divisions and Districts
Results
Move affected people out of poverty and dependency
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.IRP Achievements 6 conts

• Divisional Livelihood Development Plans (DLDPs)
• By community consultation
• Through participatory planning by
• Government
• Private sector
• Development agencies / (I)NGOs
• Decentralization of decision making
• Holistic approach
• By matching supply and demand while filling gaps

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Salient Features of Divisional Planning
Governments policies procedures
Divisional Plan
Affected communitys needs
UN, I/NGOs or Private sectors mandates

• Participatory
• Holistic

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Implementation Plan

• Template formulated by RADA
• Formulated by district/divisional committees
• Lead by GA, AGA (tsunami), DS
• Facilitated by out source agencies identified for
  each district e.g. for Ampara district-
  PracticalAction
• Includes medium-term/long-term activities
  depending on divisional requirements
• Jointly monitored by a team representing all
  stakeholders active in the division/district

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Main characteristics of the DLDP methodology

• Holistic
• allows for identification of key development
  partners active in divisions. Existing activities
  and plans form point of departure, while
  compilation and analysis allow identification of
  gaps
• Needs-based
• allows affected communities to forward their
  priority livelihood needs during
  multi-disciplinary workshops
• Technically Sound
• uses recognized Participatory Planning
  Techniques like LED, Integrated Rural
  Accessibility Planning (IRAP) and other
  Participatory Rural Appraisal Techniques (PRA)
• Inclusive
• includes endorsement/approval of division and
  district authorities in identifying possible RADA
  interventions to restore/fast track income
  recovery at divisional level

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Process of developing DLDPs
1. Collect and review available data on
livelihood.
2. Conduct focus group discussions / workshop
(1) to (i) validate key information, and (ii),
if required, update this information.
3. Conduct planning workshops (2) with all
stakeholders to identify priority actions.
4. Elaborate Divisional Livelihoods Development
Plans
5. Seek endorsement for DLDP from divisional
secretariat/divisional livelihood committees.
6. Submit the final version of development plans
to RADA, DS and other stakeholders after District
Secretarys approval
For implementation
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Expected outcome of the DLDP

• A joint report for the division that captures
• Analysis of current situation and local
  resources/potential
• Compilation of existing activities and plans
• Identification of Gaps and Demand by
  participatory problem analysis
• Joint planning of prioritized action projects
  detailing
• Fields of intervention ( SP, CIR, ER)
• Intervention level (e.g. GN, DS, Supra DS)
• Approximate budgets
• Proposed implementing agents
• Time frame

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Areas Covered by DLDP
35 livelihood development plans at following
divisions
District DS GN Jaffna, 02 32 Killinochchi
01 Ampara 09 126 Trincomalee 06
52 Batticaloa 07 88 Hambantota 04
33 Galle 06 132
Timeline for completion 50 by the end of
March 100 by end of April
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Organizations Facilitating DLDP
District Lead Organization Jaffna, University
of Jaffna Killinochchi University of
Jaffna Ampara Practical Action Trincomalee Univer
sity of Colombo Batticaloa University of
Colombo Hambantota Practical Action Galle
University of Colombo
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Medium and Long Term ApproachSocial Protection
to Improve Livelihoods of Vulnerable Groups
The Way Forward

• Create a platform for representatives of society
  (social partners, research institutes,
  universities, students, consultants, etc.)
• to provide improved inputs to Government
• in order to improve social policy
• To improve regional delivery system of social
  protection schemes by
• proper identification and
• targeting of vulnerable groups
• to better match supply and demand
• To design a strategy of disaster preparedness in
  field of social protection

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Medium and Long Term ApproachCommunity
Infrastructure Recovery to Improve Livelihoods
The Way Forward

• Channel CFW investments into Community Access
  Programmes to construct and maintain sustainable
  community infrastructure investments using local
  resources creating
• temporary employment and
• permanent employment for tsunami and war
  affected people.
• Will guarantee improved access of communities to
• basic needs and services
• while facilitating local economic development
  where needed

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Medium and Long Term ApproachLocal Economic
Development to Improve Livelihoods
The Way Forward

• Encourages the best utilization of local
  potentials
• Mobilizes private and public stakeholders by
  jointly designing and implementing a common
  development strategy
• LED makes use of regional capabilities and local
  competitive advantages (LOCA) in a local,
  regional, national and global context

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Medium and Long Term ApproachLocal Economic
Development to Improve Livelihoods
The Way Forward

• Number of methodologies, such as LOCA, IRTAP and
  regular business climate surveys will structure
  and support LED planning, implementation and
  monitoring.
• Development of standards and procedures to enable
  the fast-tracking of tendering, implementation
  and monitoring of livelihood projects

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The Way Forward
Other developments

• To develop a Medium and Long term Strategy that
  will expand livelihood activities from
  tsunami-affected areas to war affected regions.
• To ensure that there is regionally balanced
  approach to Livelihood Development
• To ensure Inclusion of the informal sector

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Thank You
Contact us
RADA Livelihood Unit
Phone [phone]Fax [phone]Email
livelihood_at_tafren.gov.lk
Technical Team-Income Recovery Programme
Rajapaksa, RADA Director, Livelihood indhra_at_ta
fren.gov.lk Doekle, ILO Chief Technical
Advisor doekle_at_ilo-irtap.lk Nissanka, RADA
National Program Officer/DD-Livelihood nissanka_at_ta
fren.gov.lk Christoph, ILO, Local Economic
Development Advisor christoph_at_ilo-irtap.lk Sam,
ILO National Advisor sam_at_ilo-irtap.lk
Haniffa, RADA Economic Recovery
Officer mazahim_at_tafren.gov.lk Susantha, ILO
Economic Recovery Advisor susantha_at_ilo-irtap.lk
Tim, ILO Monitoring and Infrastructure Planning
Advisor tim_at_ilo-irtap.lk Shihara, RADA
Communication and Data Coordinator shihara_at_tafren.
gov.lk Ranjith, RADA CFW coordinator ranjith_at_ta
fren.gov.lk Upali, ILO CFW Advisor upali_at_tilo-
irtap.lk Hans, ILO, Social protection
Advisor hans_at_ilo-irtap.lk Somaratne, ILO,
Training Facilitator somaratne_at_ilo-irtap.lk Bawa
n ILO, GIS Expert bawan_at_ilo-irtap.lk