MZ 2nd Road and Coastal

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The primary objectives of the project are: (i) to support Mozambique's economic recovery program through rehabilitation and maintenance of priority roads; and (ii) to further strengthen the management capacity of road sector institutions. The project comprises the government's agreed rolling roads investment and maintenance program for the five years 1994-1998, coordinating all donors through discrete parallel sub-projects. The first two years of the program have been defined and appraised in detail, as has the scope of the five-year program. A major review after two years and annual reviews thereafter will define in more detail the specifics of the program in the outer years. The civil works program comprises: (a) emergency works to open access in all 10 provinces; (b) rehabilitation of priority trunk roads; (c) labor based reconstruction of priority feeder roads; and (d) current routine and periodic maintenance of that portion of the network that is in good or fair condition. The project will finance engineering services in support of the program and the continuation of the government's Road Sector Institution Building Program commenced under the first Roads and Costal Shipping Project.