The Department of Rural Development under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation has been improving rural community infrastructure for social economic development in rural areas across the country while implementing the National Community Driven Development Project (NCDDP) with support from the World Bank and other Development Partners since the fiscal year 2013-2014.
Since 2013, the NCDDP Project has benefited about 7.3 million people in 63 townships (approximately 20 percent of the country) and more than 12,000 villages, through financing of over 37,706 sub-projects that improve basic infrastructure and services such as roads, bridges, jetties, water, schools, and electricity.
From the project’s start in 2013 through September 2020, the NCDDP’s sub-project outputs include 4,330 water supply systems constructed, electrification of 3,217 villages, 5,243 schools constructed or repaired, 149 health care centers constructed or repaired, 20,702 village streets constructed or repaired and over 4065 basic rural infrastructures and other community infrastructures built.
Moreover, as the project is designed to implement the activities through “people-centered approach” to development, over 1.1 million community members were trained (of which 46 percent were women) through planning or facilitating over 33,000 training workshops for capacity building and facilitation support for community members who would take direct responsibility for identifying priority development needs and implementing solutions.
The NCDDP mainstreams gender issues by ensuring that women actively participate on project committees and sub-committees (50 percent of members), allowing women to identify priority community needs and improving gender equality and social cohesion among rural communities.
As the project prioritizes approaches to rural community economic development, local resources and laborers are being used for development activities and approximately MMK 45.97 billion in wages have been paid to members of rural households.
The NCDDP project has been implementing the development activities with financing support from the Government of Myanmar, the Governments of Italy and Japan, UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank since 2013.
In January and February 2020, the NCDDP organized “Townships Selection Consultation Meetings” at respective capitals of 13 regions across the country to expand the project coverage to 13 additional townships in the 13 Regions, apart from Nay Pyi Taw Union territory and Kayah State, of which all the townships have been covered by the NCDDP since 2013.
In the fiscal year 2020-2021, the NCDDP is going to implement the rural development activities in these additional townships for four year project cycles, together with the remaining 16 townships to implement two more year project cycles across the country.
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