Strengthening Governance and Institutional Capacity for Quality Infrastructure Investment in Ulaanbaatar
Context
Ulaanbaatar’s population was about 0.6 million in 1989 and grew to about 1.6 million in 2021 and will reach about 1.9 million by 2035.
This growth of population goes hand in hand with a demand for the Municipality of Ulaanbaatar (MUB) to further invest in quality infrastructure and other assets to strengthen the city’s competitiveness and resilience and to achieve the development goal of a comfortable, environmentally friendly, people-centered, and smart city, as planned in Vision 2050.
Such investments require capital that often far exceeds available resources. Sound infrastructure governance over the life cycle of projects is a key factor to ensure long-term cost-effectiveness, accountability, transparency, and integrity of infrastructure investment.
Objective
This knowledge and support technical assistance (KSTA) aims to strengthen the governance and institutional capacity of the MUB to enable effective investment in quality infrastructure and other assets that are green, sustainable, resilient, and inclusive.
The TA will:
- Improve the policy and regulatory framework;
- Build institutional capacity in capital investment planning (CIP), project implementation, and municipal asset management
Our contribution
Espelia’s contribution in this mission is to support MUB to:
- Improve Capital investment planning systems
- Develop an investment plan and a strategy for mobilizing local resources;
- Provide policy and reform recommendations to improve current Capital Investment Planning process;
- Integrate gender dimensions into the project screening processes of social infrastructure and support capacity building on gender analysis;
- Support capacity building for city leaders and officials to improve their managerial, financial, and technical capacity for CIP.
- Design a modern asset management system to make informed decisions on future land use and public service priorities, enable land value capture, ensure efficient use of public resources, and maximize the useful life and quality of assets;
- Improve the legal and regulatory frameworks for land acquisition and relocation conforming to the Asian Development Bank’s and other international development institutions’ safeguard policy;
- Provide capacity building to the implementing agencies to improve their technical and management capacity for project implementation and execution.
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