Southern Africa Trade and Transport Facilitation Project

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The objective of the Southern Africa Trade and Transport Facilitation Program Project for Tanzania is to facilitate the movement of goods and people along the north-south corridor (NSC), whilst supporting improvement in the services for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and road safety. The project has 4 components. (1) Improvement of physical infrastructure component will rehabilitate and upgrading of the 137.9 km Mafinga-Igawa road section of the Dar es Salaam corridor in Tanzania; improve of infrastructure and operations at the Songwe/Kasamulu border crossing on the Tanzania/Malawi border; and construction of a one-stop inspection station (OSIS) at Vigwaza and at two other locations in Tanzania. (2) Mitigation of social costs component will undertake road safety and HIV/AIDS initiatives on the corridor. (3) Implementation assistance and additional institutional support component will provide necessary project management and implementation assistance to the implementation unit(s), together with capacity building and requested training. (4) Improved corridor management and monitoring component will be used to support the strengthening of the Dar es Salaam Corridor Committee (DCC) and the funding of its operating costs for a finite period, until a sustainable financing proposal has been introduced. It will also include the establishment of a Corridor Performance Monitoring System (CPMS), to enable the management and monitoring of performance on the corridor.