Emergency Lifeline Connectivity Project

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The development objective of the Emergency Lifeline Connectivity Project for Yemen is to provide climate resilient road access and employment and entrepreneurship opportunities to food insecure rural population of Yemen. The project comprises of four components. The first component, rural and village access roads improvement and maintenance comprise of following sub-components: (i) rehabilitation of lifeline rural access roads; and (ii) road maintenance through private sector participation and supply chain enhancement. The second component, strengthening management capacity of transport sector public institutions will finance: (i) strengthen project management capacities of the road maintenance fund (RMF) and rural access program (RAP) through a program of capacity building provided by a consulting firm, and for RAP to provide implementation support to the project on certain tasks based on meeting triggers set in the capacity building program as will be agreed between United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the World Bank, with the aim to preparing them to efficiently manage the network in the medium to longer-term; (ii) support for the RAP to revive its management information system (MIS); and (iii) support RMF to reactivate its road asset management system and tools, strengthen RAP’s and RMF’s capacity to predict, respond, and design resilient roads infrastructure to extreme climate events such as floods, to assess vulnerability of infrastructure assets and prepare and implement resilient investment plans. The third component, project implementation and monitoring support will support project management as well as monitoring and evaluation (M and E) to ensure that the project is successfully and efficiently implemented. The fourth component, contingent emergency response objective is to provide immediate response to an eligible crisis or emergency following the procedures governed by paragraph 12, Section III of the Bank policy, investment project financing.