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The Municipal Development Project will assist local governments in providing infrastructure and municipal services to a growing urban population. It hopes to achieve this by: (a) establishing a revolving fund, the MDF, to provide local governments with direct access to long-term development finance; (b) establishing a national-level technical intermediary to assist local governments in identifying investment priorities, evaluating project proposals for financing through the MDF and acting as a liaison with national and external funding agencies. The project will also; (c) strengthen the local technical and financial capacity for project implementation and service management through a training program and organizational and fiscal reforms. The project includes financing for: (i) basic infrastructure including improvements for sanitation, drainage, slum areas, solid wastes management, roads, traffic management and bus terminals, and construction and upgrading of markets and slaughterhouses; (ii) infrastructure maintenance operations; (iii) nation-wide tax mapping; (iv) training programs; and (v) technical assistance for project implementation and structural reform studies.