Integrated Urban Development and Resilience Project for Greater Antananarivo

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The objectives of the Integrated Urban Development and Resilience Project for Greater Antananarivo Project is to enhance urban living conditions and flood resilience in selected low-income neighborhoods of Greater Antananarivo; and to improve the Recipient’s capacity to respond promptly and effectively to an Eligible Crisis or Emergency. There are four components to the project, the first component being improving urban drainage, services and resilience in targeted areas. This component, via its integrated design, aims to invest in resilience building in selected target areas of Greater Antananarivo. More specifically, this component will invest in both: (i) flood and drainage risk reduction, (ii) urban upgrading and integration of vulnerable neighborhoods into the urban fabric, while ensuring (iii) effective and inclusive citizen engagement in diverse processes of design and implementation. This component includes three subcomponents: improvements of canal, drainage and sanitation infrastructure; neighborhood upgrading; and citizen engagement. The second component is the strengthening institutional capacity for resilient urban governance. To ensure the sustainability and scalability of interventions under this project, this component would seek to build the capacity of local authorities, the CUA and a selection among the other 36 communes that make up GA, to improve inter-communal governance, municipal finance, planning, and collaboration at both municipal and metropolitan levels. The objective is to institute an integrated approach to municipal governance and urban development to better manage existing settlements and urban growth. This component includes three subcomponents: strengthening capacity for inclusive and resilient urban management, municipal management, and capacity enhancement and sector reforms for environmental sanitation. The third component is the project management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation. This component will finance the following activities: (a) incremental operating costs (including delegated contract management costs); (b) fiduciary activities; (c) audit, studies and assessments required under various project components; (d) communication; and (e) monitoring (including of safeguards processes) and evaluation. Finally, the fourth component is the contingent emergency response component. This component will provide immediate response to an Eligible Crisis or Emergency, as needed. This would finance emergency works in the case of another disaster event by including a ‘zero-dollar’ Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC). This will help recover damage to infrastructure, ensure business continuity, and enable early rehabilitation. In parallel, following an adverse event that causes a major disaster, the Government of Madagascar may request the Bank to channel resources from this component into an Immediate Response Mechanism (IRM). The IRM will enable the use of up to 5 percent of uncommitted funds from the overall IDA portfolio to respond to emergencies. This IRM has already been established for Madagascar and is now operational.