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Student Housing Infrastructure Programme (SHIP)
The Student Housing Infrastructure Programme (SHIP) addresses the challenge of affordable student housing for tertiary students across South Africa. It aims to improve educational performance by ensuring access to safe, affordable, and adequate housing through infrastructure development and collaboration between stakeholders.
Places
Mpumalanga, City of Mbombela Local Municipality
Reference
ZA-K00-009
The Student Housing Infrastructure Programme (SHIP) is a result of a collaboration between the
Municipal Utility Reform Programme (MURP) Implementation Agent Participation
The Development Bank of Southern Africa is seeking to implement and monitor the Municipal Utility Reform Programme in selected Mpumalanga municipalities. This includes improving energy and water utility efficiency through performance-based contracts, infrastructure upgrades, and institutional capacity building. The programme involves physical works such as pipeline refurbishment, water treatment plant upgrades, street lighting retrofits, substations, and mini-grid installations.
The DBSA Board recently approved DBSA’s participation as implementation agent for the establishment of a ring-fenced project management office to implement and monitor MURP.
