Quick Impact Projects for Communities

Quick Impact Projects (QIPs) are small-scale and low-cost projects, funded by our missions, that are planned and implemented within a short timeframe.

QIPs respond to the needs expressed by local communities. As a result, they cover a wide range of activities, from refurbishing a school to providing women with safe water access points. QIPs are mainly implemented through local authorities, non-governmental and grassroots organizations. These projects are funded for a maximum cost of US$ 50,000 and a maximum 6-month duration.

QIPs helping fight the pandemic

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, missions rapidly reoriented available QIPs funds to address the urgent needs of the communities. Missions focused on addressing people’s needs that are directly related to the health emergency.

Throughout the pandemic, missions have distributed medical, food, and cleaning supplies and hygiene kits to the population, as well as trainings on handwashing and making of soaps and masks.

For example, in the Central African Republic, local women groups implemented a project to make soap and produce masks for the population. Similarly, MONUSCO implemented a project on protective mask manufacturing that resulted in the production of over 2,000 masks per day.