Guinea - Support Project for the National Rural Infrastructure Programme, Phase II (PNIR2)

The present project is relative to the second phase of the National Program of Rural Infrastructures (PNIR-2) whose first phase (PNIR-1) was to define a strategy for the realization of rural infrastructures. It aims to remove the following constraints: (i) the degraded state of rural roads preventing the supply of inputs and the marketing of surplus production; (ii) the difficulty of access to land and the lack of secure land transactions; (iii) the incompetence of the decentralized institutions as project owner in the implementation of local development plans (PDL) and land legislation; and (iv) demobilization of village runway maintenance committees (VECs) created in PNIR-1. The expected effects of the program are: i) facilitation of access to schools and health centers, ii) strengthening of commercial and production activities, iii) strengthening of food security, iv) opening up of 70 Rural Development Communities (CRDs) in 11 target prefectures of the project, v) reduction of 25% of transport time between CRD, vi) increase in road density from 2.9 km to 6 km / 100 km2, vii) reduction of poverty rate from 52.5% to 45%. The PNIR-2 comprises three (03) components, namely: (i) rehabilitation of 1,080 km of community roads for the opening up of 70 Rural Development Communities (RDCs) in 9 prefectures; (ii) improving tenure security in two pilot CRDs; and iii) project coordination.