Quote from the 'Revised Project Document Amendment and Extension to August 2024, Regional Stabilisation Facility for Lake Chad, August 2021':
'While robust national and multi-national military operations have re-taken territory previously controlled by Boko Haram and factions, a new approach is required to consolidate these gains and establish the conditions necessary to transition from military to civilian responsibility for security. The RSF is a rapidresponse mechanism that relevant authorities can sequence with military operations. The first phase of the Regional Stabilisation Facility concentrated on two results areas:
- Immediate stabilization of specific areas, cleared of Boko Haram and other armed group control, but where communities remain vulnerable to continued infiltration and attack; and
- Initiation of extended stabilization activities across the Boko Haram-affected States and Regions, through support, to implement the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) Regional Stabilisation Strategy.
The amended and extended Regional Stabilisation Facility builds on the results and lessons learned of the nearly first two years of RSF implementation, resulting in a clear proof of concept. The extended phase will thus focus on increasing the scale of stabilisation by connecting, enlarging, or increasing the number of intervention sites. Stabilisation achievements will be consolidated, and the ground prepared for a handover to peace-building and development actors. The Facilitys overall objective is to improve the social contract in insurgency-affected areas of the Lake Chad Basin. As in the previous phase, the Facility is divided into immediate and extended stabilisation. Under the immediate stabilisation outcome "Community stability and State presence increased in JAP locations", which is at the centre of the first 18 months in each site, 3 outputs contribute to the expected results:
1.1 Community security and justice systems established and operational in JAP (Joint Action Plan) locations,
1.2 Essential social services infrastructure constructed and/or rehabilitated, functional, and accessible,
1.3. Targeted households provided with livelihood opportunities.
The extended stabilisation outcome the post-immediate stabilisation phase has 4 outputs with the aim to support local, national, and regional stabilisation structures to oversee, coordinate, and implement stabilisation and recovery efforts:
2.1 Stabilisation actors have knowledge to consolidate the stabilization achievements and promote social cohesion,
2.2. Improved cross-border coordination and cooperation,
2.3 LCBC capacity developed to steer and support RSS (i.e. the LCBC Regional Strategy for the Stabilisation, Recovery and Resilience of the Boko Haram affected Areas of the Lake Chad Basin) implementation and governance structures,
2.4 Improved LCBC coordination and oversight of TAP [Territorial Action Plan] implementation, The amended and extended phase of the RSF has furthermore a stronger focus on conflict sensitivity and gender.'
