Road Sector Project

closed

The objectives of the Road Sector Project in Lao People's Democratic Republic are: (a) to improve road services on two main national corridors and the provincial road network; (b) to rehabilitate roads damaged by Typhoon Ketsana; and (c) to establish and operationalize a contingency fund for quick disaster response in the road sector. There are three components to the project. The first component of the project is road network improvement and preservation. This component will finance physical works for the upgrading of two critical national road links, the periodic maintenance of the provincial road network, and road safety improvements. The second component of the project is institutional strengthening. The component will provide technical assistance to both the ministry of public works and transport and the provincial departments of public works and transport in the areas of sector strategic management, local road management, country system for environmental safeguard, fiduciary management, and internal controls. The third component of the project is disaster recovery and contingency. The component will fund spot rehabilitation and periodic maintenance of roads damaged by Typhoon Ketsana in the five affected southern provinces (Attapeu, Sekong, Saravanh, Champasack, and Savannakhet), and support an emergency contingency fund that will disburse quickly for emergency civil works and construction materials needed to ensure the passability and safety of the affected national and provincial road links.