Samoa Climate Resilient Transport Project

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The development objective of the Climate Resilient Transport Project for Samoa is to improve the climate resilience of Samoa’s road network and in the event of an eligible crisis or emergency, to provide an immediate response to the eligible crisis or emergency. The project comprises of four components. The first component, sectoral and spatial planning tools involves technical assistance (TA) that will improve the way that climate change is addressed in Samoa’s road sector and allows for the financing of updates to analytical and sector planning tools to enable policymakers to make informed decisions based on the most accurate and up‐to‐date information available. The second component, climate resilient infrastructure solutions involves feasibility studies, design, and construction of identified priority road assets to improve their resilience to climate‐related hazards and or events. It consists of following sub-components: (i) carrying out of activities to improve climate resilience of the western section of the west coast road between Malua and Faleolo, including supervision activities required for such work; (ii) supporting the assessment, design, construction, and supervision activities in relation to the slope protection and stabilization and drainage works on the East Coast road to reduce landslip and rockfall hazards and the related risks to the road assets and road users; (iii) supporting the assessment, design, construction, and supervision activities to improve and or replace bridges, culverts, and fords on Upolu and Savai’i, including but not limited to, the replacement of the Afega Bridge and the Lano Ford Crossing; and (iv) conducting feasibility studies for upgrading the Alafa’alava road. The third component, strengthening the enabling environment will provide funding to support institutional and regulatory reforms for road sector asset management and maintenance, including measures to strengthen local capacity and to increase the sustainability of climate resilient road sector investments. It consists of following sub-components: (i) providing technical assistance to the land transport authority (LTA) project management division (PMD) on project management and staff training program; (ii) conduct beneficiary surveys, including surveys focusing on gender and people with disabilities, to assess the impact of the major climate resilient works carried out under the project; and undertake a gender‐informed driver licensing pilot; (iii) carrying out activities to provide technical assistance and equipment to facilitate improved enforcement of axle‐load limits; (iv) strengthening the capacity of the Government of Samoa (GoS’s) transport and infrastructure sector coordination division (TISCD) in providing support to all projects in Samoa’s transport and infrastructure sector; (v) providing technical assistance to review and revise land transport sub‐sector legislation and explore revenue generation options available to the sub‐sector; (vi) providing technical assistance to improve road safety; (vii) providing trainings to sector agencies and contractors on occupational health and safety (OHS) measures; (viii) providing technical assistance; (ix) strengthening the capacity of the GoS’s centralized technical services support unit; and (x) providing technical assistance to conduct a control survey for Alafa’alava road in collaboration with LTA. The fourth component, contingency emergency response will provide swift response in the event of an eligible crisis or emergency, by enabling the government to request the Bank to re‐allocate project funds to support emergency response and reconstruction.