Housing for flood and landslide victims: Additional 650,000 BAM for prefabricated houses

Director of the Federal Fund for Assistance to Victims of Natural Disasters on the Territory of the Federation of BiH Jasmin Jaganjac and, on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Edis Arifagić today signed an Annex to the Co-financing Agreement concluded on February 11 this year at the seat of the Federal Government in Sarajevo, reports the Patria news agency.

The Annex includes additional funds of 650,000 BAM, which the Government of the Federation of BiH approved for the Federal Fund for the project of permanent housing for victims of floods and landslides in BiH. In this way, together with earlier funds, a total of 2,650,000 BAM is now available.

Of this amount, 1,650,000 BAM is intended for the procurement of prefabricated houses, the number of which has now been increased from the agreed 40 to 75, and the number of municipalities where the projects will be implemented has been increased from three to eleven.

The remaining 1,000,000 BAM is planned for landslide remediation, it was announced by the Government of FBiH.