Morocco - Second Rural Roads Project

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The development objective of the Second Rural Roads Project is to increase rural populations' access to all-weather roads by supporting the first Phase of the Government's Second National Program of Rural Roads (NPRR-2). The project will contribute, namely, to increase the national rural road accessibility indicator - NRRAI (defined as the percentage of population living within one kilometer from an all-weather road) from 54 percent in 2005, to 67 percent in 2010. The project consists of two components involving the rehabilitation/upgrading of about 7,800 km o f rural roads during the period 2005-2010. The first component - Rural roads financed by the CFR (Caisse de FinancementRoutier) - will support the rehabilitation or upgrading of some 4,600 km of rural roads (including small, complementary road-related infrastructure), with an estimated cost of about US$385 million. The second component, - Rural roads financed by the DRCR (General Budget and Road Fund) - will support the rehabilitation or upgrading of some 3,200 km of rural roads (including small, complementary road-related infrastructure), through DRCR budget and the Road Fund, with an estimated cost of about US$269 million.