Located
in Kinshasa, DRC the UNOPS office in Central Africa covers the DRC, CAR and RC.
The office has developed a strong working relations with the international
partners, UN agencies including UN Missions and Governments of Central Africa
over the years. It provides technical support and capacity building in
strategic development areas including infrastructure rehabilitation and
development across health, education, public works, governance/public
administration sectors; procurement, project management and sectoral advisory
services; peace and security, environmental preservation and protection among
others.
Background Information - Project CAR
The Security Council, by its resolution 2149
(2014), established MINUSCA for an initial period until 30 April 2015 and
decided that, as from 15 September 2014, MINUSCA would initially comprise up to
10,000 military personnel, including 240 military observers and 200 staff officers,
1,800 police personnel, including 1,400 formed police personnel and 400
individual police officers, and 20 corrections officers.
The Mission will deploy in up to 45 locations
in the Central African Republic (CAR), including a Mission headquarters in Bangui,
three integrated sector headquarters (Kaga Bandoro, Bria and Bouar), five
integrated field offices (Ndele, Bambari, Bossangoa, Bangassou and Berberati),
three sub-offices (Paoua, Obo and Birao) and 31 additional locations with only
a permanent military presence.
UNOPS is already supporting MINUSCA in the
erection of three integrated interim soft walls camps in Bouar, Bria and
KagaBandoro to host MINUSCA priority personnel. UNOPS is constructing the
infrastructures necessary to erect the soft walls camps and is providing
complementary furniture to the three interim camps. Each camp has a capacity of
100 people with a possibility of extension to 200 on a second phase.
In May 2015, the Mission requested additional
support from UNOPS, more specifically the mission seeks UNOPS to establish in
three HQ sectors (Bouar, Bria and KagaBandoro) catering and camp maintenance
services for a 12 months period. In December 2015, additional requests came
from DDR section of MINUSCA.
MINUSCA DDR program has requested UNOPS
services and todate UNOPS has signed 3 Financial Agreements on registration of
ex-combatants, food distribution and distribution of non food items to
ex-combatant beneficiaries in several locations in CAR. Other pre-DDR services
requested include support to community violence reduction (CVR) programs.