Fes-Meknes Region Rural Roads

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This advisory project is to provide support to the Region of Fes-Meknes and specifically to their Rural Roads Project, which aims at converting existing dirt roads into paved roads to improve rural population's access to critical social infrastructure services. IFC will accompany the proposed investment by a comprehensive advisory support program, supported through the MENA Cities Initiative. The advisory support will help the region of Fes-Meknes to address identified investment bottlenecks, facilitating the project's delivery according to international best practice and to build the Region's capacity. IFC's advisory support focuses on the following areas: (1) provide upstream project development support to help the Region address identified bankability constraints and to build environmental and social (E&S) management capacity and implement the rural roads component in compliance with E&S standards; (2) develop a road maintenance strategy to ensure that existing and newly constructed rural road assets are sustainably managed, while long-term road maintenance and rehabilitation cost are reduced and capacity among the Region and rural municipalities is developed to coordinate and finance maintenance activities, including through relevant procurement approaches; (3) provide additional advisory support, as needed.