📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P168608
Region: Africa
The Project Development Objectives are to: (i) improve urban management in select cities, (ii) increase access to services and resilient infrastructure in Greater Freetown, and (iii) enhance local and national capacity for emergency preparedness and response.
Key expected results in the Project include: • Improved capacity in urban management in secondary cities and Greater Freetown35 • Improved integration and mainstreaming of disaster and climate change considerations into territorial planning and infrastructure design
The proposed Project aims to directly support the national and local-level priorities laid out in the NDP and the Transform Freetown Strategy. It is designed to support an integrated urban resilience intervention that takes a spatial approach to address, in a comprehensive manner, the multi-sectoral urban development challenges of the country, including urban governance, disaster risk management and infrastructure/service provision. In addition, the Project will support local and national efforts to strengthen the DRM systems, focusing primarily on improved understanding of disaster risk for decision-making and enhancing disaster preparedness and response systems. Gender analysis will also inform the design of prioritized infrastructure investments. The Project will: • Address pressures to fiscal sustainability by improving public financial management and own source revenue mobilization of city councils; • Enhance the technical capacity of city councils to adequately plan and manage their cities; • Provide and improve flood resilient municipal services and infrastructure to improve the living conditions of citizens and enhance the business climate for private investment in Greater Freetown; • Strengthen the technical capacity to manage disaster risks and reduce climate change vulnerability at the local level; and • Enhance the DRM institutional framework, as well as preparedness and response capacities at the national and local levels. 20. The proposed Project funding is currently US$63 million, including US$50 million in IDA grant, US$10 million in co-financing from the Sustainable Cities Program of GEF-7 and US$3 million in counterpart financing. The proposed Project will support the greater needs of Greater Freetown as the economic engine of Sierra Leone, while catering to the unique opportunities and challenges in the secondary cities. The fund allocation to secondary cities will be calculated using the size of the urban population.
