Enhanced Road Access Project

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The development objective of the Enhanced Road Access Project (ERAP) for Samoa is to restore key road sector assets damaged by extreme weather events and enhance the climate resilience of critical roads and bridges in Samoa. The project has three components. The first component is road and bridge reconstruction. This component will help to repair roads and bridges damaged by tropical cyclone Evan (TCE), and upgrade, rehabilitate and or reconstruct existing road sector assets to higher standards to strengthen resilience to climate change and extreme weather events. The second component is technical assistance. Funding will be provided to support institutional and regulatory reforms for road sector assets management and maintenance, including measures to strengthen local capacity, and to increase the sustainability of sector investments. Attention will be given to: (i) revising standards for maintaining and constructing roads and bridges to be more climate resilient; (ii) updating legal, regulatory, and enforcement arrangements for enforcing axle load limits, which will support the Bank's Development Program Operation (DPO); (iii) strengthening land transport authority's (LTA's) technical capacity to effectively plan and manage the sector, including developing a bridge maintenance program; and (iv) addressing emerging priority issues that can have an impact on the Government's ability to create more climate resilient road sector assets. The third component is project management. The services of a firm to support implementation will be financed through the project. The same firm will support implementation of both Enhancing the Climate Resilience of the West Coast Road Project (CRWCR) and ERAP, both of which will be implemented by LTA.