URBAN ENVIRON REHAB

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The immediate objectives of the Urban Environmental Rehabilitation Project are to: 1) finance priority investments in Bangui which will contribute to alleviate chronic flooding in the city - to which the poor are particularly vulnerable - and improve the living conditions of the lower income neighborhoods; and 2) promote the development of the private sector, especially small and medium enterprises, in the construction industry by executing most of the works through an efficient executing agency. This agency will be able to process payments rapidly, and create employment for unskilled workers, thus generating income for the disadvantaged residents by using labor-intensive construction techniques. The long term objective of the project is to promote an integrated and participatory development of Bangui - replicable in other cities - by developing appropriate mechanisms of dialogue and participation between the population and the government at its different levels. The project has the following components: 1) rehabilitation and extension of the main drainage system of the city of Bangui; 2) integrated and participatory neighborhood development; 3) resettlement of an estimated 150 households; 4) studies, including the update of the urban development plan of the western extension area of the city; and 5) institutional support.