Sophia to benefit from infrastructural community upgrades

Dec 14, 2018 News

The Ministry of Communities and the Central Housing and Planning Authority has opened bids for its Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme.
The project, created within the pretext of targeting vulnerable communities receives its funding through the Inter- American Development Bank. Some 2,500 families are expected to benefit from the programme, with residents of Sophia among those families.
The ministry project seeks to provide a better standard of living while also creating livable, accessible and more cohesive communities. The upgrades are slated for March- April 2019 beginning with Section ‘A’ Pattensen (‘A’ Field) to Cummings Park in Sophia.
Guyana, in receiving financing from the Inter- American Development Bank for the Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme, has decided to target vulnerable and under developed communities.
The concept of the project, initially explored in the latter quarter of 2017 is in its very early stages of commencing. In fact, the Ministry of Communities, Central Housing and Planning Authority through the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board opened bids for the construction aspect of the project on Wednesday.
This component of the first phase of the programme is expected to commence between March to April 2019. The contract period, as well as the delivery deadline, per lot, is 300 days. Sophia is one of the communities under housing development that the government has prioritized in the 2019 budget.
$750 million has been allocated to the initial aspects of the project in budget 2019. However, the project in its entirety is valued at $1.2 billion.
The scope of works includes upgrades to 11 kilometers of roadways, five kilometers of concrete drains and five kilometers of reinforced concrete walkways, interlinking bridges, street lighting and two community and recreational facilities one of which will be newly constructed.
The Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme caters to the construction of core houses for single-family households and families living in uninhabitable homes and also provides for home improvement subsidies and the consolidation of existing housing schemes. The project is expected to have significant impact on the lives of those living in the communities for the better.
Further, the level of development on the social sphere and on infrastructure has been pegged as major indicators of the level of development in a country’s economy. Appropriate infrastructure in communities such as Sophia therefore may translate into major successes.
The Ministry’s Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Programme is playing a pivotal role in the development of communities within the country and furthermore Guyana’s economy.

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