PUBLIC WORKS & EMPLO

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The main objectives of the Public Works and Employment Project are to: (a) finance a program of small municipal works; (b) promote local private contractors and consulting firms in project execution; (c) improve the individual skills of the workers and the competitiveness of firms that will carry out works; (d) create substantial new employment in urban areas; (e) review existing public works management procedures; and (f) demonstrate the feasibility of labor-intensive projects and test the procedures that will enable the public sector to commission such projects. The components of the project are: (a) a program of public facility and infrastructure rehabilitation and maintenance in urban areas to be carried out under labor-intensive schemes by local contractors; (b) a package of services related to work organization, management, and labor force training to be offered on a voluntary basis to the local contractors who will be awarded contracts under component (a); (c) a supervision and monitoring component in order to monitor progress of the project and to prepare the transition toward locally supported employment of the target group; (d) a selective audit of public works programs; and (e) a package of consultant services related to a training program for the beneficiaries and engineering firms, and a program aimed at increasing grassroots participation in urban infrastructure maintenance.