GZ-MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT

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The Municipal Infrastructure Development Project seeks to continue the thrusts of the Emergency Rehabilitation Project, but will break new ground by helping to initiate significant institutional reform and capacity building in the local government sector. Specific project objectives, therefore, are: 1) to help remove critical infrastructural bottlenecks; improve essential services and facilities; preserve existing infrastructural assets; and create productive employment; and 2) to strengthen the local government system, particularly to rationalize roles and responsibilities and build finance and managerial capacity. The project will consist of the following components: 1) infrastructure rehabilitation and improvement including: (a) a rehabilitation and improvement sub-program; (b) a maintenance sub-program; and (c) a neighborhood upgrading sub-program; 2) local government reform and capacity building comprising: (a) local government technical assistance and capacity building; and (b) selected municipality technical assistance and capacity building; and 3) managerial support and incremental operating expenses.