Second Rural Transport Improvement Project

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Closed

The development objective of the Second Rural Transport Improvement Project is to improve rural accessibility in project areas (covering 26 districts) and strengthen institutional capacity for sustainable rural road maintenance. There are four components to the project. The first component of the project is accessibility improvement. The second component of the project is institutional strengthening, capacity building and governance enhancement. The institutional strengthening aspect builds on and further improves the functioning of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) through: 1) capacity building to enhance LGED performance, governance and accountability; and 2) performance monitoring and training. The third component of the project is rural transport safety. This component include technical assistance support for integrating road safety engineering measures and awareness building to ensure improved safety along project roads. The fourth component of the project is contingent emergency response component. This component will draw resources from the unallocated expenditure category and/or allow the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) to request the bank to re-categorize and reallocate financing from other project components to partially cover emergency response and recovery costs. This component could also be used to channel additional funds should they become available as a result of the emergency.

FY17 - Industry, Trade and Services,FY17 - Transportation

World Bank

Project

Road, Raw Materials, Forest Products and Packaging, Commercial, Government, Seaport