Liberia Urban Resilience Project

The development objective of the Urban Resilience Project for Liberia is to improve the capacity of Participating Eastern Caribbean countries to increase flood resilience and access to urban infrastructure in selected neighborhoods and to improve urban management in Liberia. The project comprises of four components. The first component, climate resilience infrastructure and urban upgrading will support flood risk management and community upgrading infrastructure in prioritized areas of Greater Monrovia. It consists of following sub-components: (i) climate and flood risk management infrastructure; and (ii) climate resilient community and market upgrading. The second component, strengthening integrated resilient urban development capacity will support resilient integrated spatial planning, capacity needs assessment and investment plans in Greater Monrovia, including Paynesville, as well as the next three largest cities in Liberia, Buchanan, Ganta, and Gbarnga. It consists of following sub-components: (i) resilient urban planning and development control; and (ii) solid waste management operations and financing. The third component, project management will finance all expenses required for Project management and coordination, compliance monitoring of social, environmental and safety standards, fiduciary management, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E). The fourth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will draw from the uncommitted resources under the Project from other Project components to cover emergency response.