Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project

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The Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project for Nigeria aims to increase sustainable access to basic urban services through investments in critical infrastructure. There are three project components. Component 1, Upgrading Component, will build the capacity of the Lagos State Urban Renewal Authority (LASURA) to assess, develop, plan and coordinate the execution of a city-wide upgrading program, through the execution of the upgrading subprojects in nine of the largest slums identified in 1995: Agege, Ajegunle, Amukoko, Badia , Iwaya, Makoko, Ilaje, Bariga, Ijeshatedo/Itire. Its two sub-components will develop a long-term technical solution to flooding, and unbundle solid waste activities to segregate collection, transfer, and disposal activities, and initiate private sector participation in transfer and disposal activities. Component 2, Public Governance and Capacity Building, supports public finance and budget reforms, and the institutionalization of the use of information systems for policy making and performance management. Component 3 finances monitoring and evaluation., knowledge management and strengthening metropolitan policy dialogue, communications, and operating costs.