Urban Development Project

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The development objective of the Urban Development Project for Kyrgyz Republic is to improve the quality of municipal services and pilot energy efficiency and seismic resilience retrofits of urban infrastructure in participating towns. The project comprises of three components. The first component, urban development will finance activities aimed at improving service provision in participating towns. It consists of following two sub-components: (i) municipal services; and (ii) safe and energy efficient social infrastructure pilot. The second component, institutional strengthening will support the government’s urban policy reform agenda at the national level with specific interventions at the local level aimed at strengthening service provision capacity in participating towns. The third component, implementation support will support implementation of the project including: (i) contracting of local experts to assist the implementation unit and participating towns in the implementation of the project activities, (ii) the maintenance of the monitoring and evaluation (M and E) system created under the Bishkek and Osh Urban Infrastructure Project (BOUIP), to continuously monitor and evaluate the performance and results of the project; (iii) the project related operating costs of the implementing unit including consulting fees and in-country travel expenditures; (iv) project operating costs including contributions towards the cost of backstopping assistance by community development and investment agency (ARIS) staff (the so-called administrative pool of ARIS); and (v) an annual audit of project accounts.