Second Rwanda Urban Development Project

The objective of the Second Urban Development Project for Rwanda is to improve access to basic services, enhance resilience and strengthen integrated urban planning and management in the City of Kigali (CoK) and the six secondary cities of Rwanda. The project has four components. (1) Support to the City of Kigali component will support the comprehensive upgrading and flood risk management of four unplanned settlements, reduce flood risks at selected locations identified as flood hotspots in the city, pilot an integrated approach to sustainable wetland management and carry out a series of technical assistance (TA) to develop tools for evidence based, integrated urban planning and provide institutional capacity development and support to the CoK. (2) Support to Secondary Cities component will support the provision of basic infrastructure in six secondary cities in two phases, finance feasibility studies, detailed design and construction supervision activities and support the functioning of the newly established CMOs through institutional and capacity development. (3) Institutional Capacity Development and Project Management component will support institutional and capacity development at the national level, overall project coordination by Ministry of Infrastructure and project management costs across implementation agencies at the national level, CoK and secondary cities. (4) Contingency Emergency Response will allow for the rapid reallocation of project funds in the event of a natural or man-made crisis during implementation of the project to address eligible emergency needs under the conditions established in the Project Implementation Manual. This component will have no initial funding allocation but will draw resources from other expenditure categories at the time of its activation.