Component A : State Level Policy and Institutional Development Support
Consultancy and TA to
- Improve the State’s policy and institutional framework
- Improve service delivery and capacity building by ULBs
- Evaluate options to improve GoAP’s systems of urban finance
- Draft and implement streamlined town planning procedures
- Establishing Geographic Information System (GIS) at sate and at ULB level
- Urban Academy
- Preparation of a detailed program for MEPMA
Component B : Municipal Capacity Enhancement
- Professionalization of ULB management: through training of ULB staff in finance, management, Poverty alleviation, planning, procurement, and engineering
- Preparation of GIS maps and General Towns Plans for about 30 ULBs
Component C : Urban Infrastructure Investment
- Provide investment support (loans, project support grants and guarantees) accessible to ULBs for upgrading urban services, such as water supply (improvements), solid waste management, urban roads, street lighting, slum up gradation, and other select obligatory and discretionary municipal services
- Establishment of Multipurpose Community Resource Centers targeted for the urban poor
Component D : Project Management Technical Assistance
- Subproject preparation, implementation, and monitoring
- Assistance to prepare and manage public-private partnership schemes
- A Sub-project Technical Assistance Facility for implementing investment sub-projects, reforms and GAAP
- Technical Assistance to the implementing agencies like DTCP, MEPMA, APUIF, PHED, and ULBs
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