Budgeting of New Kabul City

Budgeting Infrastructure in Dehsabz-Barikab City Development Agency (DCDA)

Dehsabz-Barikab City Development Agency (DCDA) is a semi-governmental agency that is responsible for developing the new Kabul (Capital City for Afghanistan). The development of the new city is financially supported by the Government of Afghanistan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The World Bank as the administrator of Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) is directly involved in financing and overseeing the implementation of the billion dollar project.

After preliminary activities, the development of the new city started in 2014 and will continue until 2022 over a ten years period. In addition to infrastructure, housing units and commercial areas have been planned in a 5000ha area. The city has been divided into 7 parcels plus an industrial zone parcel. In addition to financing through the government budget and donor funds, 9 city developer contractors have been contracted to develop Parcel 2, which is mainly residential and commercial area.

A budget for the business plan of the project has been prepared for 10 years operations of the project that encompasses the infrastructure development of the project. The preparation of the budget involved comprehensive urban development and infrastructure surveys. The urban development division of DCDA has been responsible for designing the master plan of the city, which included designing of the roads, residential areas, sewage systems, electrical and telecommunication networks, water supply networks and other infrastructure units. After the urban master plan was developed, the Infrastructure division conducted a survey to identify the cost of each unit for each infrastructure units of the city. The data was provided to Economic development division to prepare the business plan which included the budget for the master plan.

Although the new city development budget consists of many components and analysis, the idea behind the...