URBAN DEV.III

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The Third Urban Development Project for Tunisia will provide improved shelter and urban services to low-income population groups; strengthen and coordinate the activities of the urban sector's technical and financial institutions; contribute to the elaboration of urban and housing development planning and policies; and introduce new schemes to mobilize private savings for the financing of housing. It will consist of: (i) comprehensive upgrading in four settlements; (ii) a sites and services/housing credit scheme in three of these settlements; (iii) a pilot program of upgrading and reconstruction of the Hafsia neighborhood in the Medina of Tunis; and (iv) technical assistance for project implementation, institution building and pre-investment studies. The Third Urban Development Project for Tunisia will meet 21 percent of the urban poor new demand for shelter in the project sites between 1983 and 1988. It will build up a well coordinated technical, financial, and institutional framework that will allow more effective management and control of the urbanization process.