| Project Detail |
The development objective of Rural Mobility and Connectivity Project for Guinea is to improve and sustain the rural populations road access to markets and basic services. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Rural Roads and Small Community Facilities Rehabilitation, aims to include civil works for rehabilitation of about eight hundred kilometers of rural roads and four bridges in selected six prefectures. It has the following three subcomponents: (i) Rural Roads Rehabilitation Preparatory and Technical Studies; (ii) Selected Rural Roads Rehabilitation Works; and (iii) Small Community facilities. 2) The second component, Capacity Building for Road Maintenance and Road Safety, aims at providing capacity building for public and local authorities to tackle different issues, including business process improvement, human resources capacity building, road asset management, planning and financing capacity, road maintenance and road safety. It is divided into three subcomponents: (i) Road Asset Management; (ii) Rural Roads Maintenance; and (iii) Road Safety. 3) The third component, Project management, aims at ensuring that the project is efficiently managed and monitored, and that performance and outcomes are carefully tracked by the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) and the implementing agencies. The activities will consist of four subcomponents: (i) Operational Costs of the PIU for Coordination and Management, including staff cost; (ii) Monitoring and Evaluation; (iii) Resettlement Assistance; and (iv) Citizen Engagement, Consultations and Communication. 4) The fourth component, Contingent Emergency Response, can be activated should the need arise to redirect some of the project resources to respond to an emergency. |
