URBAN DEVT

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This Urban Development Project for Cameroon is designed mainly to provide basic infrastructure, school and health facilities and improved shelter to lower urban income groups at appropriate standards and reasonable cost in the country's two largest cities and economic centers. The project will introduce the concept of slum upgrading in the Government's urban development program strengthen existing institutions, and provide site-specific assistance to artisans to increase productivity. The infrastructure and building credits to be provided by the project are expected to be an important incentive to private sector and self-help house construction. The project, to be implemented over a 6-year period, will consist of the following main components: (i) development of Douala-Nylon, the city's least developed squatter area, by: (a) providing basic infrastructure for 90,000 residents, as well as community facilities, pilot health education program, a retail market and technical assistance to artisans; and (b) carrying out a complete slum upgrading program for 13,000 inhabitants; (ii) community facilities in Yaounde-Northwest, one of the city's least developed areas, such as schools, health centers, markets and artisan center; and (iii) technical assistance, training and studies for project execution.

World Bank Group

Project

Commercial, Government, Education