ROADS II

closed

The project would (a) pursue the strengthening and expansion of maintenance capacity undertaken under a first project; (b) initiate a high priority reconstruction program for primary and secondary roads with 150 km of road reconstruction and the completion of final design studies of an additional 300 km of road reconstruction; (c) demonstrate the application of labor based techniques with the construction and improvement of 200 km of rural access roads; (d) upgrade SEOPC maintenance personnel through training; and (e) strengthen SEOPC's planning and programming capacity through the establishment of a special unit entrusted with that task. The project's major risk is the limited maintenance and reconstruction capability of SEOPC, which could be strained by the urgent reconstruction requirements resulting from the recent hurricanes. The rural roads program has a somewhat higher level of risk than other project components because of its experimental nature.