Haïti

The development objective of the Infrastructure and Institutions Emergency Recovery Project (IIERP) for Haiti is to support the recipient in its early sustainable r... Afficher plus + ecovery efforts from the effects of the emergency, through selected interventions aiming at contributing to rebuilding key institutions and infrastructure. This project paper seeks the approval of the Executive Directors to provide an Additional Financing (AF) Grant in the amount of SDR 23.3 million to the project. The AF will scale up a well-performing project (US$65 million equivalent ongoing) and finance modified project activities for all three components focused on recovery and reconstruction following the January 12, 2010 earthquake. It will support additional activities which are expected to enhance the original project's impact and development and address pending challenges to overall sustainability of the reform process. The AF will not entail any substantial change to the IIERP development objective. Institutional arrangements for project implementation of the AF will also remain unchanged. The project will continue to be implemented by Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MTPTEC). Specifically, the AF will help finance the following modified and additional activities: a) improve efficiency and transparency in public resource use and strengthen Haiti's public sector management systems to improve overall governance and anticorruption and enhance the institutional foundation for continued reconstruction and post reconstruction recovery; b) ensure continuity of existing critical activities related to the continued reconstruction phase, including the restoration of key economic and financial functions of the Government of Haiti (GoH), and the rehabilitation of selected public infrastructure; rehabilitate the aviation safety equipment, and foster further economic recovery through continued activities at the Trutier Debris Processing Facility, as well as rehabilitate existing roads between Cap Haitien and Labadie, and between Milot and Cap Haitien, both catalytic investments for tourism development; c) continue the provision of support to the MTPTEC to manage the ongoing recovery and reconstruction process, and incremental costs of project administration, supervision, monitoring and evaluation. Afficher moins -

The objective of the Port-au-Prince Neighborhood Housing Reconstruction Project is to help residents of selected Port-au-Prince Neighborhoods severely affected by t... Afficher plus + he earthquake return to their communities by supporting them to repair and/or reconstruct their houses and improving basic community service infrastructure. The project will be financed through a grant from the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF), thanks to a contribution to the HRF aimed at housing reconstruction from the United States. Reconstruction grants of a fixed amount of US$ 3,500 equivalent will be made available to owners of houses that either were destroyed by the earthquake or damaged beyond possible and/or economically justifiable repair and need to be demolished. All reconstruction will be reviewed by the Community Reconstruction Centers (CRCs) as a precondition for the consideration of a grant application. Actual implementation of construction works will be at the beneficiary's initiative and can include self-construction, use of individual workers, or construction enterprises. Afficher moins -

The objectives of the Additional Financing (AF) for the Urban Community Driven Development Project for Haiti are to improve access to, and satisfaction with: (i) ba... Afficher plus + sic and social infrastructure and services; and (ii) income-generating opportunities for residents of targeted disadvantaged urban areas. The AF will help finance the costs associated with additional project activities in response to the January 12, 2010 earthquake. The AF will not entail any significant changes in the institutional arrangements for project implementation and will not require an extension of the current closing date of March 31, 2014. While the same environmental category B is retained, the AF will trigger two new safeguards, namely, physical cultural resources; and involuntary resettlement. Afficher moins -