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The Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Program (AHUAP) GY/L1031 will be executed in the La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme, Region No. 3. This is the second project site. The project will be carried out in an area of 1500 acres, affecting Schoonard, La Parfaite Harmonie, Onderneeming, West Minister, Recht Door-Zee phases 1 and 2 and Lust-en- Rust. The AHUAP itself comprises the rehabilitation of infrastructure such as climate-ready drainage, street lighting, community facilities, roads (upgrade), sidewalks, and construction and rehabilitation of community facilities. The Environmental Social Assessment (ESA) for the AHUAP was conducted by CHPA and approved by IDB in 2021. Similarly, the required Environmental Social Management Plans (ESMPs) under the ESA’s Environmental Social Management System (Section 7.1 of theESA) were also developed by CH&PA and approved by IDB in 2021.

Access Full Report: LRP La Parfaite Harmonie Updated

Infrastructure works are ongoing in several schemes on the East Bank of Demerara, for more than 5,000 low, moderate and middle-income residential house lots and industrial/commercial lots, spanning some 1,700 acres of land. Read More

Over the coming weeks, the Village Council of Warapoka Village, in the Moruca sub-region of Region One, will commence the beneficiary selection process for the Hinterland Housing Project. Read More

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Informal settlers who have been occupying lands at Blueberry Hill (North) in Linden, Region Ten for more than 30 years, will finally receive their Land Transport, with the regularisation of the area through President Dr. Irfaan Ali’s Operation Clear-up. Read More

This afternoon, the Ministry of Housing and Water-Central Housing and Planning Authority processed Agreements of Sale for the remaining low-income homes allocated to Berbicians at Hampshire, East Berbice-Corentyne. Read More

The quality of life for four families within the communities of Good Hope and Lusignan, East Coast Demerara has been vastly improved, as they have now received keys to newly constructed, two-bedroom core homes, under the Ministry of Housing and Water and the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IBD) Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme (AHUAP). Read More

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-Residents now benefitting from $15M ungraded water supply system

Minister Susan Rodrigues has initiated the process for the first phase of the Hinterland Housing Program to commence in Sand Creek, Region 9. Read More

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