📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P173025
Region: Europe and central asia
Commitment Amount: Us$ 553.08 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 553.08 million
The project serves as a pilot to demonstrate how the government’s urban resilience policies can be put into practice in selected municipalities and scaled up over time. The project will support the development of a pilot program to support the roll out of the urban transformation strategy that also addresses key policy and sector bottlenecks through technical assistance and capacity building. The project will support policy issues such as building code enforcement, zoning, and development of a financing framework to support large scale urban resilience investments. While there have been various urban resilience projects undertaken at the municipal level in Turkey, most projects have been focused solely on housing reconstruction without factoring in broader resilience elements of infrastructure, public buildings and public space, and the current housing support do not factor in considerations for vulnerable groups. See Box 1 for good practices to be considered when reviewing and ensuring the design of effective housing subsidy programs, which will be a key focus of the project preparation phase. In addition, the methodology to delineate risk prone areas is based on seismic risk and does not factor into account climate or other hazard risks, such as flooding or landslides. Finally, MoEU has not yet rolled out an advanced participatory approach for integrating communities in the design of urban resilience investments. This project will provide support to MoEU and participating municipalities to tackle these policy and implementation challenges over time through pilot interventions and draw lessons that will allow the approach to be taken to scale in the future.
