SPEC INTERVENTION PR

closed

The objectives of the Special Interventions Project are include: (a) enhancing employment opportunities among low income and unemployed urban workers through labor intensive work programs such as drainage and house construction; (b) providing finance for mortgages for low and middle income houseowners; (c) assisting small contractors and entrepreneurs; and (d) strengthening project planning, monitoring and management. The project components include: (a) provision of housing and plot mortgages through a Housing Refinancing Facility (HRF) and commercial banks, (b) strengthening of the National Housing Corporation; (c) improvement of about 12,000 meters of side drainage along selected national roads; (d) carrying out a drainage masterplan study and an urban services study; (e) providing technical assistance to small industry; and (f) strengthening project planning, management and monitoring in the Department of Finance and Planning.