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JFPR 9025: Infrastructure Maintenance to Reduce Rural Poverty
Sri Lanka (SRI)
SRI - Rural Infrastructure Maintenance


Project Summary


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Counterpart loan/project(s)

  • North Western Province Water Resources Development Project

Budget

Total Budget : 1,600,000 US$
JFPR grant : 900,000 US$

Executing Agency

Ministry of North West Region Development

Implementing Agency

NGOs will implement the various project components.

Coordinating Agency

Provincial Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, and Irrigation

Scope

Under the project an innovative maintenance system will be developed and institutionalized to provide start-up support for rural infrastructure maintenance. It is expected to cover by project completion irrigation with a total command area of 30,000 ha and 2,000 km of rural roads.

Objectives

Overall Objective

To reduce poverty through job creation and better maintenance of rural infrastructure.

Project Purpose

To pilot innovative management arrangements for maintenance of rural infrastructure that are supervised and monitored by users including the poor.

Expected Output

The proposed maintenance system will impact on poverty through (i) job creation for the poor; (ii) sustained usage of infrastructure in the poorest areas, and (iii) economic savings as on-time rural infrastructure maintenance is cheaper.

Main Project Components and Activities

The Project will support four major components:

  • Establishing a sustainable maintenance fund (SMF)
  • Capacity building of poor caretakers and stakeholders
  • Sector policies development
  • Project management support

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Contact Information

ADB Contact

Michael Dembinski
South Asia Department
Agriculture, Environment, & Natural Resources Division
Tel: +632 632 5571
E-mail: mdembinski@adb.org