Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) are funded by MINUSCA and implemented with the aims of fostering trust between the population and the Mission, serving communities, supporting the overall mandate and the national peace and reconciliation process.

QIPs have a maximum budget of $50,000 and an implementation timeline of no more than 6 months. They help strengthen national institutions to enable:

• The gradual return of state authority;
• Improved delivery of basic social services;
• Initiatives to foster reconciliation and improve the protection of civilians.

These projects, which were created and established by the United Nations General Assembly, provide MINUSCA with the means to build trust and respond to the needs of communities affected by conflict. They further assist the creation of jobs, the provision of basic services (through health centres, boreholes, rehabilitation and construction of schools, markets, etc.), support small-scale income-generating initiatives, the rehabilitation of administrative infrastructures (prefectures, town halls, police stations, courthouses, etc.), and address community security needs.

These initiatives provide the peace dividends to the population and bolster the Mission’s efforts to support community dialogue, the restoration of state authority and the protection of civilians.

QIPs have a quick and sustainable impact to meet the priority needs of the population and build confidence in the peace process, the Mission and its mandate.

Examples of QIPs

Protection of Civilians (POC)

• Rehabilitation of bridges to support the free movement between communities and facilitate access for the MINUSCA force
• The construction of water points and standpipes to facilitate the access of women and children to drinking water and to reduce the risk of violence
• Rehabilitation of prisons and correctional buildings and capacity-building of police and gendarmes

Social Cohesion:

• Rehabilitation or construction of local markets to promote exchanges between communities and encourage the recovery of economic activities

Restoration and extension of State authority (RESA)

• Rehabilitation and furnishing of prefectural and sub-prefectural administrative buildings; as well as gendarmeries, police stations and other infrastructures  related to the strengthening of the judicial and penal chains