COMMUNITY INFRA.DEV.

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The project's primary development objective is to improve the living conditions of the poor by providing essential physical and social infrastructure services. A secondary objective is to improve the capacity of selected institutions to deliver infrastructure services to the poor in an effective, efficient, and targeted way. The five components comprising the project are: 1) upgrading on-site water supply and drainage, school, community, and health center infrastructure in squatter settlements; 2) upgrading on-site water supply and sewage treatment, and transport infrastructure in refugee camps; 3) upgrading off-site sewage treatment and disposal infrastructure in refugee camps and adjacent areas -all in the Central Region; 4) upgrading low-income municipal and village physical and social infrastructure, including drainage and access roads, solid waste equipment, primary health centers, and community and youth centers; and 5) project management, consultancy services, training, and pilot programs; and funding poverty and unemployment surveys and public awareness programs.