Senegal - Urban Development and Decentralization Program
The Senegal - Urban Development and Decentralization Program provided a credit of $75 million and was implemented over the years 1998-2004. It had 4 development objectives: (i) improve the financial and organizational management of municipalities;...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/12/6676890/senegal-urban-development-decentralization-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9647 |
| Summary: | The Senegal - Urban Development and
Decentralization Program provided a credit of $75 million
and was implemented over the years 1998-2004. It had 4
development objectives: (i) improve the financial and
organizational management of municipalities; (ii) improve
the programming of priority urban investments; (iii)
rationalize and simplify the financing of urban investments;
and (iv) upgrade basic infrastructure in urban and some
rural communities. The project addressed the gap between the
capacity of local governments and the expectations of the
new regulatory and institutional framework. It covered all
the country's municipalities and became the backbone of
Senegal's decentralization program. At the
project's outset, the financial and organizational
management of the Senegalese municipalities was known to be
weak, but little information existed about the situation in
each municipality. No investment programming had been
carried out to reflect their priority needs and capacity to
finance them. The project also recognized that funding
allocations were not being made fairly or transparently. All
four development objectives were fully achieved
cost-effectively and sustainably. |
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