BR Municipal APL: Teresina Enhancing Municipal Governance and Quality of Life Project

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The Teresina Enhancing Municipal Governance and Quality of Life Project for Brazil's objectives are to (i) modernize and improve the management capacity of Teresina Municipal Government (PMT) in the financial, urban, environmental, service-delivery, and economic development fields; and (ii) improve the quality of life of the low-income population of the Lagoas do Norte region of the city. The project was divided into the following three components: (i) municipal management modernization, city development, and project management; (ii) integrated urban-environmental development in Lagoas do Norte; and (iii) social and economic development in Lagoas do Norte. The project's first component includes activities to: (i) consolidate PMT's recent efforts to improve its financial and budget management processes and capacity; (ii) improve service delivery, with a focus on water supply and sanitation and education (for the former by bringing PMT into compliance with the new federal WSS law; for the latter through the development and implementation of a new education policy and strategy for the city); (iii) improve urban and environmental management capacity and processes; (iv) lead the process and dialogue of the city's local economic and social development vision and strategy; and (v) project management support. The project's second component encompasses the undertaking of urban-environmental improvement interventions in the Lagoas do Norte region of the city, including: water supply, wastewater collection and treatment, macro and micro-drainage, recuperation of the natural environmental, urban upgrading, rehabilitation and implementation of parks and leisure spaces, local road network improvements, resettlement of beneficiary families from areas of risk, and implementing housing improvements. The project's third component comprises social and economic development interventions in the Lagoas do Norte region, including: strengthening community associations and groups, provision of improved social services (health, education services), environmental education, employment and wealth creation programs, and community mobilization and participation for works interventions.