Benin Cities Support Project / PAURAD

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The development objective of the Cities Support Project for Benin is to increase access to urban services and improve urban management in selected cities of Benin. The project has three components. The first component is service delivery improvement through infrastructure rehabilitation, maintenance and expansion. This component will support the improvement of infrastructure service delivery through rehabilitation and expansion of urban community infrastructure in 10 urban municipalities of Benin. The second component is municipal management and deepening decentralization. This component seeks to improve urban governance and municipal management at the municipal or city level while supporting central government's efforts at decentralization including building capacity for monitoring and evaluating the formula-based intergovernmental fiscal transfer system at the central government level. The third component is institutional strengthening, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation and project management. This component will support: (i) the entities involved in the implementation of the project (municipalities, Technical Secretariat (TS), Ministry of Environment, Housing and Urban Development (MEHU), Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MEF), Ministry of Interior and Decentralization (Ministere de la Decentralisation, de la Gouvernance Locale de l'Amenagement du Territoire) (MDGLAAT) to better supervise and monitor municipal development; and (ii) project management, monitoring and evaluation of project results, and targeted training for the municipality and central government officials working on the Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer System (IFTS), technical secretariat and project implementing entity (IE) staff.