Bamako Urban Resilience Project

The development objective of the Bamako Urban Resilience Project for Mali is to improve access to urban waste, sanitation, and water services, increase resilience to floods in selected vulnerable areas of the district of Bamako and targeted neighboring communes, and strengthen urban management capacity. The project comprises of six components. The first component, improved solid waste management (SWM) aim to: (a) rehabilitate and expand infrastructure needed to restore primary waste management functions that is, collection, transfer and treatment, performance by strengthening the institutional, and (b) improve the sector’s organizational framework as well as sector financing, which is a requirement to further enhance private sector participation (PSP) and support job creation initiatives along the value chain. It consists of following sub-components: (i) development of SWM infrastructure; and (ii) performance improvement of SWM services. The second component, improved water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) will address current and future climate vulnerability. It consists of following sub-components: (i) fecal sludge treatment plants; (ii) WASH in schools and health centers, domestic latrines, and behavior change; (iii) strengthening institutional framework of the sanitation sector and capacity building for National Directorate for Sanitation and Control of Pollution and Nuisances (DNACPN) and (National Agency for the Management of Wastewater Plants of Mali (ANGESEM); and (iv) urban water supply. The third component, investments in resilient infrastructure objective is to enhance flood resilience and urban living conditions in selected vulnerable neighborhoods, in turn increasing resilience to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) compound risks. It consists of following sub-components: (i) investments in drainage infrastructure; (ii) investments in neighborhood upgrading; and (iii) support to local initiatives focusing on urban services and economic inclusion....