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Updated on July 14th, 2017:
(R) URBAN DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT PROJECT
The Project Development Objectives are to (i) create an enabling policy framework and enhance urban policy making capacity in relevant agencies at the national level; and (ii) strengthen city planning, management and service delivery capacity in five Provincial Capital Cities (PCCs). Approval completed on 13 June 2017. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147147. US$ 20.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Urban Development and Housing; Ministry of Finance.
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Updated on June 19th, 2017:
The Project Development Objectives are to (i) create an enabling policy framework and enhance urban policy making capacity in relevant agencies at the national level; and (ii) strengthen city planning, management and service delivery capacity in five Provincial Capital Cities (PCCs). Negotiations authorized on 17 April 2017. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147147. US$ 20.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Urban Development and Housing; Ministry of Finance.
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Updated on May 31st, 2017:
(R) Urban Development Support Project
The Project Development Objectives are to (i) create an enabling policy framework and enhance urban policy making capacity in relevant agencies at the national level; and (ii) strengthen city planning, management and service delivery capacity in five Provincial Capital Cities (PCCs). Negotiations authorized on 17 April 2017. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147147. US$ 20.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Urban Development and Housing; Ministry of Finance.
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The project will support the Ministry of Urban Development strengthen its analytic and advocacy skills to be the premier strategic thinker on urban issues on Afghanistan. It will support the Ministry develop an urban observatory, housing policy, advocacy notes on property taxation and reports on the state of urban areas on Afghanistan (Urbanization trends and future prospects; places and economic clusters that deserve priority; and recommended interventions). Identification completed on 26 August 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency (ies) to be determined.

The World Bank (USA) is part of an international financial agency that makes loans and grants to governments in low- and middle-income countries to fund capital projects. The United States was a driving force behind the founding of the World Bank in 1944 and it is still the World Bank's largest shareholder today.
The United States contributes to tackling critical international development concerns through the World Bank Group and has a long history of generously supporting the objectives of the World Bank Group and has been a champion of the International Development Association (IDA) which provides low-interest loans and grants to the world's poorest countries. The key U.S. priorities at the World Bank include a multilateral health and economic response to COVID-19, debt sustainability and transparency, promoting governance and fighting corruption, ending energy poverty and supporting a strong emphasis on accountability, transparency and development impact.
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