BAHIA ROAD REHABILITATION AND MAINTENANCE PROJECT - 2ND PHASE

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The development objective of the Second Phase of the Bahia Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project for Brazil is to enhance, in a sustainable fashion, road accessibility and safety in selected regions of the state of Bahia’s territory. The project comprises of five components. The first component, institutional strengthening supports the sustainability strand of the project development objective (PDO). It includes five sub-components: (i) new options for road financing; (ii) road asset management; (iii) road administration efficiency; (iv) logistics planning; and (v) transport investment impact assessment. The second component, performance-based state highway rehabilitation and maintenance supports the sustainability and road safety dimensions of the PDO. It includes two sub-components: (i) rehabilitation and maintenance work through performance-based contracts for rehabilitation and road maintenance (CREMA) on about 1,685 kilometers (km) of identified sections of Bahia’s paved highways, including road rehabilitation and maintenance; and (ii) rehabilitation and maintenance works through CREMA- public-private partnership (PPP) or CREMA contracts on about 685 km of identified sections of the Borrower’s paved highways, including, road rehabilitation and maintenance. The third component, feeder road improvement supports the accessibility dimension of the PDO. It will provide support to improve road accessibility in Bahia through the carrying out of works to eliminate about 900 critical spots on selected municipal rural roads in 62 selected municipalities (the municipal road subprojects), including, among other things: (i) improving the drainage of the platform, including the replacement of existing unsafe wood bridges with concrete standardized bridges; (ii) constructing and or reconstructing culverts and longitudinal drainage; and (iii) constructing fords and eliminating quagmires. The fourth component, road safety supports the road safety dimension of the PDO, through institutional strengthening and road safety corridors. It includes two sub-components: (i) institutional strengthening; and (ii) road safety corridors. The fifth component, project management will finance the project coordination unit consulting and operating costs for project monitoring, supervision, and evaluation, including audits.