The main achievement of the project

• About 250,000 people (of whom at least 30 percent will be poor and women) will benefit through access to safe water, sanitation facilities, and other essential social, transport and trade infrastructure services through the implementation of about 1,800 community sub-projects. An additional 300,000 poor and socially excluded (female headed household, disabled, tribal people, street children, etc.) will benefit from the social assistance program. Impacts will include improved welfare, enhanced productivity, increased family income, and reduced vulnerability of the poorest in the subprogram areas.

• Better social inclusion through addressing specific priorities of vulnerable groups, including women, children, disabled, and tribal people.

• Strengthened local governance by empowering community organizations to hold local governments accountable for services; promoting and demonstrating participatory local planning process that involve the community at large; and creating functional spaces for participatory local governance.

• Increase availability of resources for, and local level supply of, basic services by testing innovative delivery arrangements, improving efficiency of public investment, promoting cost recovery in service delivery, and building capacity of organizations at the local level.