Additional Financing - Resilient Municipal Services Project

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The project will cover six (6) components: Component 1: Performance Based Service Delivery Grants. Through this component the project will provide participating municipalities with the performance-based grant financing needed to advance in the process of fulfilling their mandated service delivery responsibilities. To participate municipalities will have to first comply with a series of Minimum Conditions (MCs) which are the basic requirements that all participating municipalities should comply with to become eligible to receive the grants tied to the achievement of performance measures. The grants will finance municipal infrastructure sub-projects that participating municipalities will identify and prioritize based on their Strategic Development and Investment Plan (SDIPs). Municipalities will identify such sub-projects through a participatory public consultation process and will be limited to the sectors outlined in the legal framework. It will finance the transfer of two cycles of bi-annual grants and investments, the first of which will occur during the first year of project implementation and the second two years later. Component 2: Capacity Development. This component will provide capacity development support to municipalities and national level institutions, namely, the MDLF, MoF and the MoLG. The MDLF will prepare a Capacity Development Plan at the start of the project in consultation with all stakeholders, which will provide a detailed description of the priorities, activities and their inter-linkages for this component.Component 3: Natural hazard and Climate Change Resilience (competitive): The component will cover technical assistance as well as offer financing of small-scale physical works supporting municipalities’ effort to reduce natural hazard and climate change related risks in support of the PA’s efforts to climate change and reduction of all forms of environmental pollution. Component 4: Project implementation support and management. This component will finance the functioning of the teams that are part of the MDLF supporting the implementation of the project. It will finance the management costs of the MDLF as well as the required goods and consultant services (local technical infrastructure supervision) needed for the effective monitoring and evaluation, social and environmental safeguards management, procurement, outreach and communications for the project. Component 5: Contingency Emergency Response (CERC).Component 6: This newly added Component, as part of the proposed Additional Financing, aims to support the scaling up of Operationg and Maintenance (O&M) activities to restore or maintain critical municipal services in the West Bank. It will comprise two subcomponents (a) Recurrent Operating Expenditures; and, (b) Emergency labor-intensive O&M municipal services.