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The project objectives are: (a) to improve public expenditure planning in the highway sector by assisting the Government to develop appropriate road maintenance and construction programs; (b) to strengthen donor coordination in the sector with a view to channeling external aid towards higher priority needs; (c) to improve road maintenance and construction planning by the Ministry of Public Works Road Branch (RB); (d) to strengthen RB for increased operational effectiveness; and (e) through effective road maintenance, to reduce road transport system costs to the economy. The project, which is a part of the Government's 4-year (1986-89) road maintenance and reconstruction program, would include selected maintenance and reconstruction works and institution-building during the program period. It would provide for: (a) road maintenance works by force account over a 4,060 km network; (b) reconstruction of the Kigali-Gatuna road; (c) improvement of the Government's soils laboratory; (d) staff training; and (e) consulting services for development of better techniques for maintenance of communal roads, and for transport planning.