[{"bbox": [97, 152, 1072, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:"}, {"bbox": [97, 234, 469, 261], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA)"}, {"bbox": [97, 289, 1134, 398], "category": "Text", "text": "The Ministry of Infrastructure is responsible for policy development in the field of urban and housing issues. Through its Directorate, the Ministry assumes responsibility for the co-ordination of activities related to urbanisation, human settlement and housing development, It is also tasked with establishing guidelines for rental housing, property management, etc."}, {"bbox": [97, 426, 423, 453], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA)"}, {"bbox": [97, 480, 1134, 642], "category": "Text", "text": "The Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA), as the implementing arm of the Ministry of Infrastructure, has the primary mandate to plan and organise neighbourhood upgrading and housing project development. The Authority is responsible, among other things, for rolling out affordable housing programmes, managing districts in identifying high-risk zones, assessing development projects to determine eligibility for infrastructure subsidies, assisting developers in drafting resettlement action plans (RAPs) and relocating communities from strategic sites, and conducting feasibility studies for upgrading unplanned settlements in Kigali."}, {"bbox": [97, 670, 293, 697], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### City of Kigali (CoK)"}, {"bbox": [97, 725, 1134, 886], "category": "Text", "text": "As regards the urban sector, the city is entrusted with all matters related to infrastructure development and urbanisation, such as the preparation of the Kigali City Master Plan, specific master plans and ensuring their implementation. In terms of concrete projects, CoK currently has various partnerships with key actors such as: UN-Habitat for the completion of the EU-funded city upgrading strategy, a partnership with the World Bank for the four informal settlements upgrading projects in three districts and a partnership with GGGI to conduct a study on flood prone catchments, among others."}, {"bbox": [97, 913, 1134, 969], "category": "Text", "text": "These three key entities mentioned above will be closely involved in defining the project's scope, prioritising the neighbourhoods to be supported and ensuring oversight of the project's implementation."}, {"bbox": [97, 996, 353, 1023], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Civil Society Organisations"}, {"bbox": [97, 1051, 1134, 1134], "category": "Text", "text": "Civil society organisations such as the Rwandan Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD) and the Rwandan Women's Network, are very active in Kigali, in areas such as land tenure, shelter construction and rehabilitation, and might also be consulted during implementation."}, {"bbox": [97, 1161, 353, 1188], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Other international partners"}, {"bbox": [97, 1217, 1134, 1298], "category": "Text", "text": "Several partners are also active in the sustainable urban development area, such as Agence Française de Development (AFD), KfW and Enabel, World Bank, UN-Habitat, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), among others."}, {"bbox": [97, 1325, 1134, 1380], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition, residents living in the project area, as rights holders, will have better access to quality, accessible, appropriate and affordable infrastructure and urban services."}, {"bbox": [86, 1406, 606, 1441], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [86, 1472, 511, 1505], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [97, 1519, 1028, 1573], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective (Impact) of this action is to contribute to make Rwandan cities more inclusive, competitive and climate change resilient."}, {"bbox": [1037, 1680, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 7 of 21"}]