General

(Philippines): The SURGE activity is a crucial component of USAID/Philippines' Cities Development Initiative, which promotes more balanced and resilient urban growth, reduced economic disparities, and improved socio-economic conditions for secondary cities and surrounding rural areas, helping develop economic growth hubs outside of Metro Manila and Cebu. SURGE will continue to promote local economic development and expand urban-rural connectivity and access. The activity reinforces USAID goals and policies by helping local governments advance on their paths to self-reliance.To boost partner cities' ability to generate their own resources, SURGE will improve asset and public financial management. It will promote greater transparency, accountability, and effectiveness in local financial planning, revenue generation, and budgeting. The activity will help streamline and automate business permitting processes to reduce red tape and costs to local enterprises, and strengthen the capacity of local economic and investment promotion offices. The activity will bolster land tenure security by improving land information systems and land adjudication processes. It will also improve land use and development planning by integrating vulnerability assessments and disaster preparedness measures. SURGE will support inter-municipal cooperation and metropolitan arrangements that improve coordination between the prime city and adjacent municipalities. It will support public and private participation in regional development planning and improve national-municipal coordination, with particular focus on infrastructure development. The activity will support local government initiatives on economic development and job generation in such sectors as agribusiness and tourism development. This enables partner cities to participate as hubs for greater trade and investment. The activity will also support measures to improve the delivery of public services, such as traffic management.. .. .

Objectives

Objectives for Philippines: Improve urban development and planning. Promote low-emission local economic development. Facilitate greater connectivity and access between urban and rural areas. Promote social inclusion

General

The proposed operation is a grant of three million units of account (UA 3 million) from the resources of the African Development Fund (ADF) to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to finance the Economic Governance and Investment Management Support Project (PA2GI). PA2GI is an institutional support project intended to assist Mauritania in its efforts to ensure robust, sustainable and job-creating economic growth. More specifically, it involves striving to ensure public investment optimisation, private investment promotion and the strengthening of tax and land governance, in support of the national policy objectives of the National Accelerated Growth and Shared Prosperity Strategy (SCAPP) and the Presidential Priority Project (ProPEP). PA2GI comprises three components, namely: (i) strengthening the public investment process and private investment promotion; (ii) improving tax and land governance; and (iii) project management. Project activities will be implemented over a period of 36 months, from the entry into force of the ADF grant, scheduled for June 2021.

Objectives

The overall objective of the project is to lay the foundation for efficient economic and financial governance. The specific objectives are to improve public and private investment management and promotion and enhance tax and land governance.

Target Groups

The main direct project beneficiaries are the State structures that will benefit from institutional capacity-building, in particular: (i) the General Directorates of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Promotion of Productive Sectors (DGFCE); (ii) investment promotion structures (CCIAM, APIM and CIMAM); (iii) the General Directorates of the MF (DGTCP, DGI and DGPDE); (iv) the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (ARMP); and (v) the Court of Auditors. The indirect beneficiaries are investors, who will benefit from CCIAM training, arbitration by CIMAM arbitrators, better performance of the DGI and greater land tenure security, as well as the Mauritanian population, especially young people and women, which will benefit from the jobs created by new investments and greater land tenure security.

General

Support to Land Governance in Malawi, in the scope of the Voluntary Guidelines - Promoting responsible land governance for sustainable agriculture in Malawi