Bahia Municipal Inf. Dev't. and Mgm't.

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The primary objectives of the Bahia Municipal Infrastructure Development and Management Project (PRODUR) are to improve the urban poor living conditions, through developing detailed, reliable systems for mapping urban poverty and a poverty-targeted program of urban upgrading in critically poor urban areas; to increase municipal public sector efficiency and sustainability in financing key municipal services; to support privatization and service delivery concessioning; increase cost recovery of municipal investments; and to strengthen municipal financial management capacity. The project will consist of four primary components: (1) the Municipal Reform component will finance basic reforms to reduce the municipal government's role in providing urban infrastructure and social service delivery, by privatizing or using private concessions; (2) the Institutional Development component consists of technical assistance, training, and equipment purchases for municipalities and for the state regional development authority, as well as modernization and administrative reforms studies; (3) the Urban Infrastructure component will focus on investment projects in urban infrastructure, water, sewage, solid waste, paving and drainage, and complementary, and regional investments; and (4) the urban upgrading component, targeted to areas with average household income below a maximum income ceiling will consist of a package of integrated urban infrastructure investments; to repair macro and micro-damage, complementary investments, and regional investments; and (4) the urban upgrading component, targeted to areas with average household income below a maximum income threshold level, will consist of a package of integrated urban infrastructure investments.