| Project Detail |
The project development objective for the overall Roads and Bridges Management and Maintenance Program for Mozambique is to stimulate growth and contribute to poverty reduction through improved road infrastructure, better sector policies, and enhanced roads sector management. The objective of this second phase of the program is to improve access of the population to all season roads through maintenance, rehabilitation and upgrading of the classified road network. There are no new activities planned other than what are already introduced under the second additional financing. Those components from the second additional financing include: (1) Overhead costs to support the project implementing entity and the National Road Administration at national and provincial levels. (2) Maintenance of the road network to carry out civil works for the maintenance of the paved and unpaved road network. (3) Investments component for engineering services. (4) Emergency related works in Limpopo River Basin component for carrying out emergency rehabilitation work in that area. (5) Development of climate resilient rural road infrastructure component to support (a) Preparation of national design and construction standards for classified paved and unpaved road network, and (b) piloting of improved road designs for unclassified roads and development of improved local arrangements for their maintenance. This additional financing (the third) will support the implementation of medium and long-term technical solutions for restoration and rehabilitation of the regionally and nationally important disrupted sections of the roads affected by Limpopo floods in January 2013. Flood damaged roads and associated cross-drainage structures will be reconstructed and/or rehabilitated to restore all weather access to markets and essential services in Gaza province. |
