EARTHQUAKE RECONSTRU

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The Earthquake Reconstruction Project will help finance sub-projects of high priority in the Government's earthquake reconstruction program, including: (i) sites and services, to accommodate 6,400 low-to middle-income families displaced by the earthquake, about half of the sites are in secondary cities and the remainder in the outskirts of Managua; (ii) industrial credit, to help restore the output of small and medium-size industries and to generate new employment opportunities in the secondary cities; (iii) education, to provide new facilities in Managua at the secondary level, where almost all school buildings suffered irreparable damage, and to establish a post-secondary technical institute; (iv) water supply; and (v) power, both to help restore and repair existing installations and to extend the respective distribution networks to provisional housing locations, taking into account shifts of population and service areas.

World Bank Group

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Water Supply and Storage, Power Generation (CCGT), Manufacturing (Industrial), Government, Education