Sint Maarten - Sustaining Program Effectiveness and Advancing Resilience Project

Overview & Synopsis

The development objective of Sustaining Program Effectiveness and Advancing Resilience Project is to (i) Enhance the operational capacity and effectiveness of the National Recovery Program Bureau, and (ii) Strengthen the institutional and technical capacity of the Government of Sint Maarten to ensure sustainability of investments. This project has two components. The first component, Enhance the operational capacity and effectiveness of the National Recovery Program Bureau, will finance the NRPB’s personnel and other operational expenses that are cross-cutting in nature and that are not financed by other projects. The second component, Strengthen the institutional and technical capacity of the Government of Sint Maarten to ensure sustainability of investments, has the following sub-components: Strengthening public financial management and procurement systems; Strengthening Human Resources Management; Strengthening the MSME sector through policy and program development; Strengthening resilience through a disaster reserve fund; Strengthening institutional capacity for policy development and program implementation at The Ministry of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment, and Infrastructure (VROMI) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth, and Sport (MECYS); and Project management, monitoring, and evaluation.