MA-SECONDARY ROADS

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The Secondary, Tertiary and Rural Roads Project will: (a) address core needs of the rural poor by improving access to social services and to market; (b) accelerate private sector development by reducing regulatory constraints in roads transport and by increased resort to road works and supervision by contract; (c) develop road management expertise in the new regional directories; and (d) improve road safety. Project components include: 1) improvement of about 1,133km of priority unpaved rural roads to all weather gravel standard; constructing 96km of paved rural roads; 2) improving about 2,219km of paved branch roads (formerly classified in the secondary and tertiary networks) by carrying out maintenance backlog resealings, structural overlays and/or widening works; 3) improving network management and renewal of essential road maintenance equipment; and 4) streamlining the road safety organization and supporting priority actions.