Tunisia - Urban Development and Local Governance

The development objectives of the Urban Development and Local Government Program for Tunisia, comprises of two components. The first component, to strengthen local governments’ performance to deliver municipal infrastructure, will deliver municipal infrastructure services in an accountableand responsive manner through a combination of grants, own source revenues of municipalities, loans, as well as institutional strengthening of municipalities. The second component, to improve access to services in targeted disadvantaged neighborhoods, will build on existing local government strengths, while phasing in the changes that are designed to introduce fundamental shifts in critical and selected areas. The government program consists of the following three sub-programs: (i) municipal infrastructure delivery; (ii) improving access to municipal infrastructure in disadvantaged neighborhoods; and (iii) capacity support for improved local governance institutional development and accountability.