Decentralized development through municipal infrastructure (bus stations and markets)

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As the decentralization process progresses in Zambia, the planned FC measure supports four local authorities (districts) in the Eastern Province and possibly other districts in the province (stock check) in the provision of economic infrastructure. This concerns the construction and expansion of market places and transport hubs (bus stations and parking and transfer points for trucks). The aim of the project is to improve the living conditions of the population through relevant services offered by local administrations and thus increase their legitimacy. The FC measure is intended to strengthen the local administrations' capacity to plan, create, operate and maintain infrastructure and thus enable them to exercise their mandate as part of the government's decentralization efforts. The planned infrastructure is intended to generate income to cover operating costs, thus relieving the district budget and possibly strengthening it. The project also serves to practice and promote transparent administrative action. The project is partly based on the established mechanisms and structures of the ongoing infrastructure program in the Southern Province Strengthening Local Governance I (BMZ No. 2006 66 313). The target group of the project is the population of the catchment areas of the respective projects and the district administrations. The total cost of the project is EUR 5.06 million, which will be financed through an FC contribution of EUR 5 million (stock check EUR 13 million) and a contribution from the local administrations of EUR 0.06 million (2.5% of the construction costs).