Metropolitan Buenos Aires Urban Transformation Project

The development objectives of the Metropolitan Buenos Aires Urban Transformation Project for Argentina are to improve housing conditions and access to selected basic services and infrastructure in selected disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), and strengthen the institutional capacity for urban management at the metropolitan level. The project comprises of five components. The first component, urban and social integration of Barrio 31 in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) consists of two sub-components: (i) improvement of basic infrastructure; and (ii) improvement of housing conditions. The second component, habitat improvement of disadvantaged neighborhoods in Greater Buenos Aires objective is to improve the living conditions of selected disadvantaged neighborhoods located in municipalities of the Province of Buenos Aires (PBA) within AMBA. The third component is strengthening institutional capacities for metropolitan urban management. Project management activities are divided into components 4 and 5 to identify the work performed by each of the two project executing agencies in CABA and PBA. These components will support the management, coordination, and evaluation of the two project implementations units, which will be set up under Secretariat for Social and Urban Integration (SECISYU) for CABA interventions and the sub-secretariat of finance for PBA interventions.