Resilient Urban Sierra Leone Project

The development objective of the Resilient Urban Sierra Leone Project for Sierra Leone is to improve integrated urban management, service delivery, and disaster emergency management in Western Area and secondary cities of Sierra Leone. The project comprises of four components. The first component, institutional and capacity development in integrated urban management will support the government’s decentralization agenda through supporting city councils in institutionalizing and strengthening their urban management capabilities that are critical for efficient revenue generation, and planning, as well as delivery and sustainable management of infrastructure and services. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening integrated urban planning and spatial data infrastructure; and (ii) upgrading urban property tax administration and system. The second component, resilient municipal infrastructure investment and urban greening will finance priority resilient municipal infrastructure and services at neighborhood-and city-levels, including the preparation of technical designs. It consists of following sub-components: (i) neighborhood upgrading and greening in free town; (ii) solid waste management (SWM) upgrading in free town and secondary cities; and (iii) market upgrading in selected secondary cities. The third component, emergency management institutional and capacity development will build the capacity of the national and local governments in emergency preparedness and response, to better prepare them to respond to and recover from disasters. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening early warning, emergency preparedness and response systems; and (ii) contingent emergency response component. The fourth component, project management will finance project management costs of the project management unit (PMU) for staffing, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), audits and mid-term and end-project evaluations, safeguards, financial management,...