Pillars of a successful REACH
Food security Poverty alleviation Disaster risk reduction Empowerment
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Project Guidelines
Municipal Implementing Team
TWG / Technical & Financial Monitoring Team
Rural Economy Advancement through Cash-for-Work for Households (REACH)
Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP)
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Regional Technical Working Group (TWG) and Technical and Financial Monitoring Team (TFMT) composed of technical and financial staff of the regional office/s of concerned NGA/s. The TWG is multi-sectoral. It represents the various areas of interventions (e.g., CIS, FMR, watershed, mangrove, fisheries, post-harvest, shoreline protection) and is tasked to review project proposals using approved guidelines and criteria, and recommend possible improvements. The TWG ensures that a project is technically sound, financially feasible and beneficial, socially and environmentally sound, gender-fair and conflict-sensitive. During the project implementation phase, the TWG is transformed into TFMT and tasked to regularly implement the physical and financial monitoring plan with the MIT based on the approved Work and Financial Plan (WFP). It is also the responsibility of the TFMT to provide feedback or recommendations immediately based on observations made. A separate Financial Monitoring Team (FMT) may be formed if deemed more effective. This pillar ensures the presence of external assistance to complement and strengthen local capabilities especially during critical points of project development and implementation.
Figure 1. The above figure illustrates how REACH is supported by the four pillars as it is used as a “bridge� for poor and unskilled households in attaining the goals of food security, poverty alleviation, disaster risk reduction and local empowerment.
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