Integrated safeguards datasheet

3. Project Description

Total project cost is estimated at US$27.9 million, of which US$20.9 million would come from the Bank loan. The Project's structure by component is:

Component 1: Community Subprojects (US$23.7 million or 85% of total project cost) to support community matching grants for about 1,000 small-scale socio-economic and productive activities, infrastructure, health/sanitation, and other investments aimed at helping the State raise HDI, in complement with other State and Federal programs. Community associations would identify and implement the investments.

Component 2: Institutional Development (US$2.8 million or 10% of total project cost) executed by the State Technical Unit (STU) would finance technical assistance and training to support: (a) mobilization and strengthening of CA in their role of identifying, preparing, executing, operating and maintaining subproject investments; (b) capacity building for MC in their decision-making, oversight and facilitation role, as defined in the Project Operational Manual; (c) the STU's Regional Management Units (RMU, boosting their capacity to facilitate the STU's project coordination activities; and (d) workshops and seminars for MC and CA to exchange experiences and explain/facilitate project integration with other State and Federal programs.

Component 3: Project Administration, Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation (US$1.4 million or 5% of total project cost) would finance operational costs (excluding salaries) of project administration, supervision, monitoring and evaluation.
4. Project Location and salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard analysis

The Project Area would comprise the same 222 municipalities included in the previous project, with more intense focus on 100 municipalities with lowest HDI-M. These 100 poorest municipalities would receive about 60% of total subproject resources.