URBAN DEVT I (SDR-19

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The project would initiate IDA involvement in urban development in Haiti and assist the Government in improving the living conditions of the urban poor in the capital and in two of the three next most important cities. It would include: (i) the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Port-au-Prince central market area; (ii) a sites and services scheme for the relocation of 1,036 families displaced by the upgrading of the market; (iii) a pilot sites and services scheme for 1,093 low-income families in Cap-Haitien; (iv) a pilot sites and services scheme for 278 low-income families in Les Cayes; (v) institutional development of the metropolitan market agency; and (vi) institutional development of the Public Social Housing Promotion Company (EPPLS).