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The Recife Metropolitan Region Development Project includes the following main components: (a) the upgrading of several low-income settlements and poor neighborhoods with a total population of more than 150,000 persons; (b) the provision of infrastructure, including restructuring a trunk road; land development and provision of basic urban services (drainage, paved roads, sanitation, electricity and telephone) for the construction of low- and middle-income housing and for commercial centers, factories, and industrial workshops and warehouses; the development of a small industrial park; and a garbage collection and disposal system; (c) technical assistance and training to small and informal sector enterprises and cooperatives, and improved labor market information services, for employment creation and income improvement; and (d) institutional strengthening and staff training for the metropolitan, state and municipal agencies responsible for project implementation, in order to improve economic and physical planning, as well as administrative and financial management in the metropolitan region.