HIGHWAY TECH ASSISTA

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The project consists, first, of the provision of consulting services. The consultants will be responsible for helping the Government to improve the highway administration and to carry out road maintenance and rehabilitation work for a period of about two and one-half years. The bank will be the Executing Agency of the UNDP/SF project, which will provide $1.5 million to finance the headquarters team of consultants to be established in Kinshasa. The proposed credit will include $1.5 million to finance the foreign exchange cost of regional teams of consultants, who will be stationed in four of the eight provinces of the Congo (Kongo Central, Kasai Occidental and Oriental, and Province Orientale) to provide direct managerial, operational and organizational support to the local highway administration services, and to help in carrying out emergency programs in these provinces.