The territorial approach as a central component of the project's intervention logic, guiding the action.

 

 

As part of the RESILAC project :

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• The territorial approach takes into account the territories that make sense for the stakeholders and communities

       in order to adapt to local specificities and realities;

• The territorial approach coordinates a multi-sectoral response and adopts a holistic approach, taking into account

        the needs of all the social groups living in the area;

• The territorial approach places local stakeholders at the heart of the intervention, recognising their leadership and

       diversity and developing responses with them based on the principles of consultation and co-decision.

 

The aim is to improve the living conditions of households, particularly the most vulnerable (refugees,

internally displaced persons and host communities), and to help local players become drivers of change.

 

The project therefore targets the driving forces in the area (young people and women in particular),

vulnerable households (displaced persons, refugees, host communities), local players who drive life in the area and local

associations that bring about positive change.

The project operates at several levels: local (at the heart of its action), regional/provincial and national (advocacy).

 

This territorial approach is structured around the project's three specific objectives (SOs or components), which interact

at different levels in complementary ways.

 

• Component 1 (SO 1): Strengthen access to basic services, livelihoods and social inclusion opportunities for displaced,

       returnee and refugee populations and vulnerable host communities;

• Component 2 (SO 2): Improve the capacities of authorities, community organisations and civil society organisations

       at local, regional and national levels to ensure social cohesion and natural resource management (NRM)

       around Lake Chad;

• Component 3 (OS3): Support economic recovery and promote cross-border trade through access to employment

       for men and women and to diversified agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries production systems adapted

       to climate change.

 

Three other cross-cutting components round off the project's objectives:

 

• Gender: The project intends to make an active contribution to promoting gender equality, by integrating this dimension

      transversally into its action and aiming for reactive and even transformative action in terms of gender 

• Advocacy: As a continuation of its actions in the field, the project aims to bring its work to the attention of local,

       national and international decision-makers in order to support messages that will bring about change aimed at national

       decision-makers and donors in the sub-region.

• Producing and managing knowledge that is useful for decision-making: The project relies on a solid and dynamic

       monitoring-evaluation system that is capable of monitoring achievements in real time, measuring their impact,

       learning and adapting on an ongoing basis which is essential for ‘doing no harm’ and for the quality of

       interventions. The production of knowledge will be aimed at those involved in implementing the project and, more

       broadly, at those involved in the aid sector.

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RESILAC is designed as an agile solution that is constantly adapting to the climatic and security challenges

challenges of the region. 

 

This adaptive project management approach makes it possible to: 

• Monitor the project's progress and learn continuously by drawing lessons , and ensuring that

       the project respects the ‘do no harm’ principle, 

• Shed light on operational issues that arise during the course of the project using the knowledge generated over a

     short period of time. 

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For more information, see the podcast on agile aid, episode 3 on the case of RESILAC here

 

ANCHORING THE PROJECT >

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The territorial approach of the RESILAC project means working in close collaboration with stakeholders in each territory

and country. This includes in particular:

 

Community leaders and traditional chieftaincies: Involved from the outset through participatory self-analysis to initiate

a multi-stakeholder dialogue on the main issues in a given area. They make a major contribution to community leadership

of collective debates;

CSOs and CBOs: Community-based and civil society organisations supported by the project, promote civic engagement

in all its forms. In particular, they are called upon to support the implementation of activities in the field, so that they can

play their role at the heart of local development;

Local authorities, decentralised technical services and local public or semi-public institutions: These players play

a central role in the local development of the regions and also facilitate the implementation of the project

 

​Finally, the steering committees, which are held at regular intervals, play a major role in monitoring the project,

and enable all the stakeholders to discuss the progress of the project, the context in the areas of intervention, the points

of vigilance and proposed adjustments, and the new activities being developed.

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PROJECT GOVERNANCE & STRUCTURE  >

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Find out more about organisations that make up the RESILAC regional network: here

• The RESILAC regional office, based in N'Djamena, is responsible for the overall management of the project.

       It ensures the smooth running and coordination of the project, as well as the consistency of programmes between

       countries. It is made up of a regional representative and regional technical experts in charge of methodological and

       technical support for each component of the project, as well as experience sharing and capitalisation.

• In each country, a project implementation unit, made up of project component managers and field staff from the various

        implementing organisations, is responsible for implementing the actions. A RESILAC national coordinator oversees

        each unit.  

• In terms of institutional governance: in addition to the operational and national steering committees in each country,

       the project is governed at regional level by a global steering committee co-chaired by the European Union and

       the Agence Française de Développement. 

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INTERVENTION AREAS >

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This second phase is implemented in Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, more specifically:

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