MCC Community Services Activity

Ghana - Rural Development Project - Community Services Activity: the Support for Community Services ("Community Services Activity") is designed to complement the Agriculture Project by providing educational, water and sanitation and rural electrification infrastructure in the Intervention Zones and by enhancing the capacity of local governments to deliver the related services.

MCC Funding will support the following: (i) Capacity building by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development for the local government units in the Intervention Zones to strengthen their ability to deliver community services, to manage assets and to ensure transparency and accountability in their operations. (ii) Rehabilitation and construction of educational facilities in the form of primary, junior secondary and senior secondary schools, as well as vocational and technical institutions. (iii) Construction of water and sanitation facilities to achieve improved health, to reduce the incidence of illness and loss of productivity due to unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation and hygiene, and to reduce the time required to procure potable water. (iv) Expansion of rural electrification to unserved and underserved areas which may include for domestic uses as well as for use in irrigation, agricultural processing and education.