Secondary Road Asset Management Project

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The development objectives of the Secondary Road Asset Management Project for Georgia are: (i) to improve road users’ access to social services and markets through the project roads in a sustainable manner, and (ii) to enhance road asset management for the secondary roads network in Georgia. The project comprises of two components. The first component, secondary road assets improvement and preservation objective is two-fold: (i) to support the improvement and preservation of secondary roads assets, and (ii) improve access of Georgians to social services and economic activities in less connected and poor regions. It consists of following three sub-components: (i) improvement and maintenance of secondary roads in Guria through output- and performance-based road contract (OPRC); (ii) rehabilitation and improvement of secondary roads assets through design-build contracts; and (iii) supervision and monitoring services of civil works. The second component, enhanced secondary road assets planning and management objective is to support institutional reforms aimed at integrating innovative management practices in roads department (RD’s) overall road assets management and enhancing RD’s capacity in multi-year programming and annual planning for secondary road assets on a country level, not project level. It consists of following three sub-components: (i) enhancement of road asset management system (RAMS) and improved assets programming and planning; (ii) integrated road safety management; and (iii) climate resilience support.