Dominica Housing Recovery Project

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The development objectives of Housing Recovery Project for Dominica are to contribute both to the recovery of housing for households affected by Hurricane Maria and to improve the application of resilient building practices in the housing sector. The project comprises three components. 1) The first component, Support for Housing Recovery Systems and Capacity Building, aims to set up systems to manage, expedite, and monitor the housing recovery program and will build capacity and a sustainable framework for development planning in the housing sector. It has the following three subcomponents: (i) Development Planning Support to Technical Assistance Centers and the Project at the Local Level; (ii) Development of Management Information Systems, to Support Planning and Monitoring Processes in Project Agencies; and (iii) Technical Design of a New Physical Development Planning Office. 2) The second component, Support for Reconstruction of Houses, aims to provide subsidies in the form of small grants for owner‐driven reconstruction or replacement of houses that were classified as destroyed. It has the following two subcomponents: (i) Support for Reconstruction of Houses; and (ii) Design and Supervision of House Reconstruction. 3) The third component, Project Management and Coordination, aims to finance the establishment and operation of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) under Ministry of Housing, Lands and Water Resource Management (MoH) to serve as the unit responsible for the overall implementation and coordination of the project activities, as well as the setting up of the IST to be established within Ministry of Finance( MoF).