Settlement Upgrading And Reintegration Of Returnees And Idps Through Community Empowerment, Infrastructure And Services And Local Government Support

Living conditions in Kabul, Jalalabad and Sheikh Mesri Township especially in settlements with a large number of returnees and internally displaced improved, leading to greater trust, confidence and increased interaction between local population and municipal governments.Specific objectives(i)  Upgrading of settlements in Kabul and Jalalabad with a large numbers of returnees, IDPs, rural-urban migrants, other extreme vulnerable households and reintegrating them into the cities through recognition oftheir  rights  and  provision  of  basic  community  infrastructure  and  services  in  selected  districts  and neighbourhoods in Kabul and Jalalabad;(ii) Returnees  and  IDPs  in  Sheikh  Mesri  Township  (Land  Allocation  Scheme)  benefit  from  improved governance and sustainable access to infrastructure and services;(iii) Kabul and Jalalabad Municipalities are committed and have developed the capacity to provide improved governance, improved tenure security and self-sustainable infrastructure and services to areas with a high- percentage of returnees, IDPs and vulnerable households; and,(iv) The Kabul Solidarity Program has initiated its implementation and is expanding to other neighbourhoods and Gozars of Kabul through the mobilization of additional funding, and cost-recovery mechanisms.
Country:
Afghanistan
Region: Asia
Donors: European Union
Theme: Housing policy and administrative management
Project Timeline
End Date: 30th March 2019
Start Date: 1st March 2012
Budget Utilisation
Budget: $11,640,422
Expenditure: $11,606,964

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