Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

TA 4322: Poverty Impact of Areawide Road Networks - People's Republic of China
Financed by Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

To improve the distribution of the benefits of road investments to the poor, the TA adopts an areawide approach to road network planning that links National Trunk Highway System to local roads in a strategic manner. The TA will also provide road agencies with the cross-disciplinary skills and tools to incorporate poverty concerns into road project planning, implementation, and operation.

More precisely, the TA will support the following:

• Develop an integrated and sustainable road network development strategy to better link poor communities.
• Recommend a central government mechanism to fund local road investments, and enhance local financing capacity, to tackle institutional obstacles.
• Improve the Government’s feasibility study methodology and guidelines to facilitate road network project planning and selection.
• Develop a computerized information system (IS) to provide uniform social, economic, engineering, transport, and area-specific data to fill the current gap; and an integrated areawide road network model (ARNM) to evaluate road network investments, using IS data.
• Conduct a pilot project to test the strategy, feasibility study methodology, IS, and ARNM.
• Create a transport planning unit (TPU) to improve road investment programs and strengthen interagency cooperation and coordination, improve human resources development, oversee implementation of the pilot project, and conduct monitoring.

• Case study
• TA Paper
• Press Release
• Workshop to Discuss Optimizing Poverty Reduction and Integrated Area Wide Road Networks Planning in the PRC
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