Mongolia to receive grants to promote tourism, school dormitories, affordable housing
Mongolia to receive grants to promote tourism, school dormitories, affordable housing.
Mongolia is to receive grants to promote tourism, school dormitories, affordable housing. The ADB and the government of Mongolia signed three grant agreements totaling $7 million for projects to benefit the environment and livelihoods at Khovsgul Lake National Park in northern Mongolia, upgrade school dormitories in Mongolia’s western region, and improve affordable housing in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. The Khovsgol Lake project is ADB’s first-ever tourism project in Mongolia – an undertaking that will help create jobs, develop sustainable community-based tourism, and protect the environment. The dormitory project will promote equal access to quality education, particularly for children from herder families, while the affordable housing project will provide green development for the fast-growing districts of the capital city. Mongolia’s school dormitory system, meanwhile, was developed to ensure wider access to education, particularly for students from herder families. Many school dormitories were built in the 1970s and 1980s and require urgent rehabilitation. The western region supports the largest number of students staying in dormitories, of which 86% are from herder families. The dormitory project will establish nationally replicable models to improve dormitory buildings, facilities and childcare in three provinces. Improving the quality of life in Ulaanbaatar, especially in the ger peri-urban areas, where 60% of the 1.5 million people in Ulaanbaatar live is one of the Government of Mongolia’s main priorities. The affordable housing project will join many other initiatives of the government and the Municipality of Ulaanbaatar to provide better infrastructure and living environments for residents and to reduce air and soil pollution in the capital city.
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