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Project Description :
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The Urban Poverty Project (UPP) provides block grants directly to 271 communities to rehabilitate and develop community infrastructure in Acehnese municipalities.
UPP promotes a bottom-up participatory planning approach to identify core needs for the reconstruction and the resumption of economic activities in urban neighborhoods. It builds on democratically- elected neighborhood committees and the involvement of volunteers to conduct damage assessments, develop community development plans, and prioritize activities to be funded through the project. Community participation and empowerment are crucial to the success of the project. |
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Issue Related to Gender:
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UPP has started a female empowerment program, following the insight that the achievement of female participation targets in planning and management of community sub-projects does not necessarily result in activities that specifically benefit women. The project has set aside US$ 2.35 million, or 20% of its community grants, for this purpose and piloted this new approach in 2008. |
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| Project Name |
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Urban
Poverty Program (UPP ) |
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| Grant Amount |
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US$ 17.96 million |
| Start/ End |
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November 2005 - December 2009 |
| Geographic Area |
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Tsunami affected
urban villages, with an identified priority need. |
| Partner Agency |
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the World Bank |
| Executing Agency |
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Ministry of Public
Works |
| Funding Recipient |
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Ministry of Finance
(for on-budget funding to BPN) |
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Achievements to date:
In general, the project has completed its activities and met most of its objectives. Overall, 99% of the grants have been implemented. The project has spent approximately 94% of its allocated funds, reaching all disaster-affected households in the target areas with improved services. The project applies a planning and implementation mechanism to enxure that women's needs are represented.
Achievements in block grant implementation in many areas surpassed initial planned targets. The preliminary results of the woment's empowerment program (P4-NAD) have been encouraging. Women that have participated in this program have significantly improved capacity to direct activities, administer proposals and accountability reports and to manage relationships with other stakeholders.
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Results as of Sept 30, 2009
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Inital Targets
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Achievements
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Roads repaired/ Constructed |
61 km |
231 km |
Reconstruction of bridges |
6,150 m |
1,382 m |
Drainage |
37 km |
176 km |
Clean water projects |
79 units |
92 units |
Sanitation units |
22 units |
4,905 units |
School buildings |
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158 |
Students receiving scholarships
Value of scholarships
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3,430
74,043
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Health clinics/ posts |
29 |
29 |
Waste disposal facilities |
284 |
806 |
Building of town/ village hall |
528 |
120 |
Work days generated |
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1,124,126 |
Social Aid funds |
25,577 |
1,218,374 |
Challenges:
All assets will be handed over to local governments by the program end date of December 31, 2009. Ensuring that correct operations and maintenance (O&M) measures are in place remains a challenge for the project. To that end, the project has formulated O&M training modules, with standard operating procedures, to enchance facilitator and community awareness of O&M. |
