This component is expected to cover around 500 sub projects across eight cities (namely Kabul, Herat, Mazar, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Kunduz, Bamyan and Khost Matun) which: (i) have witnessed a high influx of internally displaced persons (IDPs); (ii) were part of Community Investment Project (CIP)/EZ-Kar projects; and (iii) are hubs of economic and private sector activity. The labor-intensive works (LIWs) under this component will provide livelihood opportunities and respond to urgent service delivery needs in urban areas. The LIWs will be selected based on local priorities identified through CDCs, Gozar Assemblies (GAs) or community consultative groups (CGs) in the target cities. The component will finance the engineering feasibility studies, surveys and design, implementation (labor, material, machinery etc) and engineering supervision costs for the LIWs. Interventions will be prioritized in: (i) sectors in which access to urban services are lacking; (ii) neighborhoods in which work opportunities are scarce; and (iii) intervention types that maximize the use of unskilled and semi-skilled labor. The selection of subprojects will be guided by a positive list of eligible investments, and a negative list, outlining projects which are prohibited due to substantial social and/or environmental impacts. Target beneficiaries for participation as day laborers will be individuals from poor households. LIWs will provide around 60 days of work per beneficiary household (and 30 days as the minimum per beneficiary household), directly benefiting approximately 115,000 IDP and poor local urban households and reaching around 2.5 million Afghans overall. The Component 2 implementation will be managed by UNOPS as the Implementing Partner (IP) and will be delivered through private sector contractors in order to help preserve local civil works implementation capacity.
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