Public Works and Urban Management Project

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The development objective of the Public Works and Urban Management Project for Burundi is to increase access to basic socioeconomic services and short-term employment opportunities in target areas. There are three components to the project. The first component of the project is infrastructure. This component will support the rehabilitation and expansion of demand-driven infrastructure in all urban communes of the country and trunk infrastructure in Bujumbura, Gitega, and Ngozi in order to improve their effectiveness as economic growth poles. The second component of the project is municipal and urban management, this component will target principally the three main cities of Burundi (Bujumbura, Gitega, and Ngozi) to improve governance, municipal management, and fiscal performance through the provision of technical assistance, training, and equipment. The third component of the project is institutional strengthening, monitoring, and evaluation. This component will finance activities aimed at strengthening: i) institutional partners to better support and monitor communal development; ii) the local construction private sector to improve its capacity to deliver quality infrastructure; and iii) monitoring and evaluation of project results, support to project management, and targeted training for the technical secretariat and ABUTIP (Burundi Agency for the Execution of Public Works - Agence burundaise pour la realisation des travaux d'interet public) staff.