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Infrastructure Development. Goals of Infrastructure Development. Ensuring sustainable urban/rural development Increasing social and regional integration Promoting countries’ international competitiveness through transit facilitation - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Infrastructure Development
Goals of Infrastructure Development • Ensuring sustainable urban/rural development
• Increasing social and regional integration
• Promoting countries’ international competitiveness through transit facilitation
• Reducing poverty and increasing socio-economic opportunities for regions and individuals;
• Promoting private sector development, increased investments and tourism;
• Ensuring sustainability of investments in regions;
Policy Directions • Adopt legal-regulatory framework for sustainable
urban development;
• Implement institutional reforms to ensure:– Effective management and administration;– Transparency; – Internal and external accountability, – Responsiveness to community needs;– Cost-effectiveness.
• Adopt new policies (urban and regional development, housing, road administration, transit facilitation, water-sever services, etc)
Policy Directions
• Promote public sector role and participation schemes;
• Provide emphasis on regional development;
• Support decentralization and local self-government development and determine roles and responsibilities for state and local governments.
Main policy and Institutional Reform
• Eliminate procedural obstacles to transit: – reduce costs of actual transportation though improved
infrastructure and transparent /fairly enforced regulations.
• Restructure water/sewage enterprises:– develop a new institutional framework for regulations and
financing arrangements at local government level, – attract private interest.
• Strengthen roads administration and financing through:– introduction of greater transparency in tender procedures and
decision-making by introducing public-private board;– Improved accounting and financial reporting system;– Improved revenue collection.
Main policy and Institutional Reform (continued)• Restructure railways and ports to achieve greater
efficiency;
• Create conditions for public/private partnerships for housing development and mortgage financing schemes;
• Universal communications package (telephone, post, internet access)
• Develop an urban development strategy, introduce a new building code, modernize system of building permits, reform public oversight in building and construction, and adopt administrative procedures and penalties.
How Are Key Priorities Selected?
• Investing in infrastructure where it will play a key role and have immediate impact on:
– promoting investments and economic activity,– facilitating social and regional (re)integration;– Increasing international competitiveness.
Urgent priorities to support strategic objectives
– Local and secondary roads – Mskheta-Kazbegi-Larsi – Tbilisi-Tsalka-Ninotsminda-Akhaltikhe-
Kartsakhi
Why Do We Look for Donor Support? ROADS:• Georgia has about 20,500
international, secondary and local roads and over 3500 bridges.
• According to WB estimate 500-600 million USD is needed for road rehabilitation in Georgia and 90-100 million USD for maintenance annually
• For 2004 Georgia has secured JUST 7% of the overall need……
Urgent Priorities to Support Strategic Objectives
Improve provision and economic efficiency of
water and sever services for households
and enterprises in key urban areas
– Tbilisi urban area – Kutaisi – Rustavi– Poti
Why Do We Look for Donor Support?
Water/Sever infrastructure• No major rehabilitation works were carried out since
1987 in water and wastewater system;• 69% of pipes operate without decontamination
installations;• Water treatment 23% without raw water treatment
facilities;• Quality control labs are not operational;• Breakdowns lead to 25-30% of drinking water supply;• Need for improved payment collection;• Institutional reform and legal framework to engage
private operators.
Ajara Reintegration Through Infrastructure
• Sarpi-Batumi-Poti (main road) to support transit, investments, and tourism;
• Rehabilitate water/sewer systems of Batumi and Kobuleti in order to improve– life of population (poverty and health aspects); – tourism capacity; and – sustainable development of costal area.