Third Municipal Development Project

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The project will assist cities and municipalities in the Philippines to address existing deficiencies and improve priority infrastructure, services and facilities for their residents by strengthening the National Government's institutional framework for assisting local governments and the local governments' planning and management capabilities. The project will support further evolution of the system established under the Bank-assisted First and Second Municipal Development Projects to promote local government development and improve local government access to credit financing. The project will compromise : (a) Subprojects including construction and/or rehabilitation of basic infrastructure facilities, procurement of equipment, and hiring of consultants; (b) a Maintanance Program to improve maintenance planning and implementation in selected local governments; (c) a Real Property Tax Administration Program to improve real property collection; (d) a Municipal Training Program to train local officials; and (e) Technical Assistance for : (i) a study of institutional options for further lending to local governments; and (ii) and environmental sanitation and solid waste study.