Communal Services Development Fund

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The objective of the Communal Services Development Fund Project for Tajikistan is to improve basic communal and municipal services in participating cities and towns. The project has three components. (1) Support for the establishment of the communal services development fund and for required reforms component will finance procurement of consultant services and goods to support activities required for the establishment of the Communal Services Development Fund (CSDF), and provide financial assistance to national government entities in undertaking reforms identified in the Municipal and Communal Services Development Strategy (MCSDS), and in the Government’s Decree on Concept of Housing and Communal Services Sector Reform (2010-2015). (2) Sub-grants for the benefit of local governments and local utilities for communal services investments component will provide financing in the form of results based grants for investments for local government and utilities in participating cities and towns both prior and after the set-up of CSDF. It will also provide assistance to the participating cities and towns in developing feasibility studies for investments and in improving their results, as per the terms of the grant. The component will finance procurement of goods, works and services. (3) Implementation support, monitoring and evaluation component will finance project management costs for the Project Management Unit and the CSDF once it is established.