Rio Grande do Norte: Regional Development and Governance

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The objective of the Rio Grande do Norte Regional Development and Governance Project for Brazil is to support the borrower's efforts to: (i) increase food security and access to productive infrastructure and markets for family agriculture; (ii) improve the quality of, and access to, health, education and public security services; and (iii) improve systems for public expenditure, human resource and physical asset management in the context of a results-based management approach. The project has three components. (1) Sustainable regional development component will reduce regional inequalities and increase productive inclusion. (2) Improving public services component will support the human development and citizen security pillars of the state's poverty reduction strategy by improving the quality of, and access to, basic public services. (3) Public sector management component will provide support for the modernization of the state's public sector management in strategic sectors in order to strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of central budget, finance and planning processes and management, as well as in service delivery in health, education and public security sectors.