Regional Roads Development Project

Summary

The objectives of the Regional Roads Development Project for Uzbekistan are to reduce road user costs on the project roads and develop a sustainable investment program for regional road asset management. There are three components to the project, the first component being Rehabilitation of Regional Roads. This component will improve about 300 km of priority regional roads in Tashkent, Ferghana, Andijan and Namangan. Specifically, the component will finance the rehabilitation works of existing regional roads, including structure renewal as well as the rehabilitation of ancillary road connections (i.e. crossroads, access roads, drainage systems). This component will also support integration of road safety considerations into the design of the project’s road sections. US$28.5 million contingency is added to this component and embedded in the financing of the project to cover for contingencies and volume of works. The second component is the road sector institutional strengthening. This component will finance priority road sector institutional strengthening activities, including: Road asset management capacity review; Support to develop regional roads rehabilitation programs; Support to road construction industry; capacity strengthening of Republican Road Fund (RRF); and Road sector governance and capacity review. Finally, the third component is the project management. This component will finance relevant activities to support project management and implementation, including: (a) core team consultants (CTC) to provide support to PIU in project contract management, procurement, M&E and environmental and social safeguards; (b) supervision consultants (SC) to support the supervision of all civil works of the entire roads financed under this project; and (c) operating and incremental costs of PIU, including financial audits.

Expected Outcome

The proposed Project Development Objectives (PDOs) are to reduce road user costs on the project roads and develop a sustainable investment program for regional road asset management.

Expected Outputs