Societe Eiffage de la Nouvelle Autoroute Concedee

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The proposed Project is the private sector complement of a larger World Bank Group project, the Dakar Diamniadio Toll Road, a greenfield motorway program connecting the heart of Dakar to Diamniadio, 31 km away. It is designed to address the extremely severe congestion on the one main highway coming into and out of Dakar. The program of highway construction is divided into four successive motorway sections: (1) the first section from downtown (Malik Sy) to Patte d’Oie (6 km), now open to traffic; (2) the second section from Patte d’Oie, the construction of which is still in progress, to Pikine (5 km); (3) the third section from Pikine to Keur Massar (5 km); and (4) the final section from Keur Massar to Diamniado (15 km). The proposed IFC Dakar-Diamniadio toll highway project (the ‘Project’) consists of (i) the construction by SENAC (the ‘Company’) on a design-build-finance-operate (DBFO) basis, by 2013, of sections 3 and 4 (i.e., from Pikine to Diamniado; (ii) the upgrade of section 2; and (iii) the maintenance and operation by SENAC of sections 2, 3, and 4 through an opened tolling system. SENAC has been granted a 30 year concession for this public-private partnership following an international and competitive bidding process organized by APIX, the government investment promotion agency. The concession agreement was signed in July 2, 2009. The highway will affect approximately 20,000 inhabitants, with about 3,000 families expected to be reinstalled to a resettlement community to be built at Tivaouane Peul, near Keur Massar. This land purchase and resettlement procedure is managed directly by APIX under the monitoring of the World Bank. The 165 ha site is one of the few remaining uninhabited pieces of land in the area. The Project will also require the restructuring of existing neighborhoods, the crossing of a protected forest, and the relocation of a land fill. The resettlement and urban upgrading component will be financed with public funds from the Government of Senegal, the World Bank, the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Africa Development Bank (AfDB).