About NaCSA
Background
The National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA)
was established as a "Social Fund" in
November 2001 by an Act of Parliament as the successor
to the National Commission for Reconstruction,
Resettlement and Rehabilitation (NCRRR). NCRRR
was a ministerial-level government commission
that co-ordinated post-conflict humanitarian,
relief and reconstruction assistance and provided
oversight to donor-funded projects, including
ones financed by the World Bank, African Development
Bank (ADB), Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
NaCSA is governed by a seven-person Board of
Directors with a majority drawn from civil society.
It is responsible both for completing the remaining
tasks of the NCRRR in the areas of humanitarian
co-ordination, reconstruction, resettlement and
rehabilitation (RRR) and helping to assure a transition
from relief to sustained economic growth and development.
The "Social Fund" approach has been
necessitated by the need to build durable human
and technical capacity rapidly in one entity that
can then provide effective assistance in multiple
sectors in a post-conflict environment marked
by extensive physical, institutional and psycho-social
damage, weak and destroyed government infrastructure
and capacity, and the need to re-establish governance
in large parts of the country.
NaCSA funds projects that build physical and
social capital, help reduce poverty and promote
sustainable development, thereby helping to reduce
the risk of renewed conflict. NaCSA does this
in several ways, including by using a participatory
approach to empower the poor, thereby enabling
them to become actively involved in their own
development. By working directly with communities,
often in remote parts of the country, NaCSA supports
government's decentralisation strategy and helps
rebuild local governance structures to enable
them progressively to take over project identification,
approval and implementation responsibilities.
Multi-Sector Presence
NaCSA solicits financial contributions from donors
interested in supporting projects in the following
key areas:
1. Agriculture (including forestry and fisheries)
2. Water and Sanitation
3. Shelter
4. Community public works infrastructure (including
health, sanitation, education and feeder roads)
5. Environmental protection and management
6. Voluntary resettlement and/or support to internally
displaced people, refugees and vulnerable groups
7. Aid to disabled people and groups formed by
them and
Capacity building.
Institutional Structure
NaCSA has three programme "windows"
through which donors may channel funds to support
reconstruction and development efforts and four
support units as follows:
