Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project - Scale Up

active

Prospective

The Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP) Scale Up (SU) continues and expands support provided under the series of rural road access projects in Nigeria, leveraging the previously supported rural road asset management and its institutional framework. The project will scale-up support provided to the rural connectivity agenda in the country through the Rural Access and Mobility Project Phase 1 RAMP-1 (P072644), the Second Rural Access and Mobility programs or RAMP-2 (P095003), and the ongoing Nigeria Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (P163353) financed by the World Bank and the Agence Française de Developpement (AFD), as well as the Nigeria Access to Agri Markets project, recently approved by European investment Bank (EIB).The RAAMP SU Project consists of three mutually reinforcing components to support improvements in Nigeria’s rural road network. The first will support direct rehabilitation and upgrades of 3000 km of resilient rural roads, integrating road safety consideration, and building climate resilience. The second will support climate resilient asset management, including supporting operations and maintenance of an additional 3500 km of rural roads and a climate-risk informed road asset management system. Finally, the third component will support institutional transformation and project management. Project activities also include mechanisms to support road safety management, digitalized outcome monitoring, and skills development for management of rural roads as well as gender-targeted opportunities.All states will be eligible to participate in the RAAMP-SU operation subject to meeting specific criteria to demonstrate the state’s commitment to institutional reforms and sustainable financing. Candidate roads from participating states will be assessed according to economic, social, and climate vulnerability criteria as part of the selection and prioritization process. As with the preceding RAAMP project, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security will continue to be the project federal counterpart, ensuring project implementation at the federal level through an entity to be created within the newly established National Agriculture Development Fund. State rural access road agencies will be responsible for project implementation at the state level.

Transportation

World Bank Group

Project

Road, Raw Materials, Commercial, Government