KARACHI SPECIAL DEVT

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The objectives of the Karachi Special Development Project are to: (a) strengthen the institutional and financial capacity of local agencies to deliver urban services; (b) improve resource mobilization and cost recovery; (c) demonstrate the feasibility of new approaches to providing services to the urban poor; and (d) directly improve basic urban services. These objectives will be achieved through a series of subsectoral interventions, with physical improvements combined with specific institutional and financial measures in the area of water and sewerage, flood control and drainage, transportation, katchi abadi upgrading, solid waste management, resource generation, and metropolitan management. The main risk to the project will be the ability of some of the implementing agencies to attract and retain capable staff.