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The Project has five
main components:
Component A: municipal
institutional strengthening and revenue mobilization
Component B: provision
of urban and environmental infrastructure
Component C: provision
of Supplementary Urban Facilities
Component D: community
development, and
Component E: project
implementation assistance
Component A : municipal institutional
strengthening and revenue mobilization
Component A will cover the 9 towns with more or
less uniform sets of interventions, which will be
implemented 1-3 years for each town. Under this
component, the project will finance mostly for technical
trainings to municipal staff for institutional strengthening
and capacity building on Revenue mobilization of
municipalities.
Component A is further subdivided into three subcomponents
namely:
- Support for general municipal institutional
strengthening and revenue mobilization
to introduce new and improved urban management
and revenue generation procedures
and practices. This will include training in
| a |
Urban management Orientation |
| b |
Organizational management |
| c |
Investment planning |
| d |
Improved Budget preparation |
| e |
Local Area Planning |
| f |
Improved Accounting |
| g |
Revenue Mobilization |
| h |
Contract management and Supervision |
| i |
Urban Planning |
| j |
Operations and maintenance |
| k |
Customer Client Relationship |
| l |
Monitoring and Evaluation |
| m |
Community Mobilization and |
| n |
Community Awareness |
- Support for implementation of urban
and environmental infrastructure including specific
training and support for
| a |
Water supply |
| b |
Sewerage |
| c |
Sanitation |
| d |
Road |
| e |
Drainage |
| f |
Land development and River Training |
- Support for supplementary urban
facilities including training for the execution
and operation of supplementary urban
facilities
Component B: provision of urban
and environmental infrastructure
Under component B, the Project will finance major
infrastructure improvements in five sub sectors:
| a |
sanitation and wastewater management |
| b |
water supply |
| c |
neighborhood read , drainage and
water supply development |
| d |
river training, and |
| e |
road upgrading |
| f |
Land development and River Training |
This component will constitute approximately 60%
of project cost and will provide the multitude of
physical facilities whose exact composition will
vary widely from town to town. The river training
subcomponent will be carried out only in three urban
areas namely Bharatpur, Hetauda and Kamalamai.
The detailed engineering work and construction
supervision of these subcomponents will be carried
out by domestic consultants in close consultation
with the municipalities.
Component C: provision of Supplementary
Urban Facilities
The major infrastructure improvements mentioned
in component B, are complemented by improvements
to supplementary urban facilities in component C,
which has two subcomponents:
| i.) |
small urban community facilities,
and |
| ii.) |
revenue-generating urban facilities |
Small urban community facilities will include
| a. |
Public Toilets |
| b. |
Public waste Collection Points |
| c. |
Improvement to public place and
places of worship |
| d. |
Improvement to neighborhood lanes |
| e. |
Sport grounds |
| f. |
Small public recreational parks |
Revenue-generating urban facilities will be established
mostly with private sector participation and will
include
| a. |
Bus Terminals |
| b. |
Bus/Truck Parks |
| c. |
Market Places |
| d. |
Small slaughter Houses |
| e. |
Cold Storage facilities |
| f. |
Recreational facilities and |
| g. |
Vocational training Centres |
Component D: community Development
Component D will consist mainly of public health
awareness campaigns and education programmes, in
particular targeting women. This component consists
of
| i.) |
Mass communication and demonstration
on public health awareness campaign involving
the production of materials such as posters,
folders leaflets, storybooks, and the spots
on the local radio an TV |
| ii.) |
Public health education programme
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| iii.) |
School Public health education
programme. |
Component E: Project Implementation
Assistance
Component E comprises various consulting service
assignment and incremental administration costs.
The required consulting services include
| i.) |
Support for the project
implementation management at Project Coordination
Office (PCO), including the development and
implementation of the project performance management
system (PPMS), international and local |
| ii.) |
Advice and support
for institutional reforms, technical arrangements
and tendering for the water supply system improvements
at the 5 municipalities that will have water
supply subcomponent, international and local |
| iii.) |
Assistant to project
advisors/Project implementation Units in supporting
the municipalities, local and |
| iv.) |
A pool of short term experts at
the disposal of PCO, local
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