| Project Name | Transport Sector Master Plan Update | ||||
| Project Number | 47210-001 | ||||
| Country / Economy | Afghanistan |
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| Project Status | Closed | ||||
| Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Technical Assistance |
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| Strategic Agendas | Environmentally sustainable growth Inclusive economic growth Regional integration |
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| Drivers of Change | Governance and capacity development Knowledge solutions |
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| Sector / Subsector | Transport / Transport policies and institutional development |
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| Gender | No gender elements | ||||
| Description | |||||
| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | |||||
| Impact | |||||
| Project Outcome | |
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| Description of Outcome | |
| Progress Toward Outcome | The updated transport master plan containing medium- and long-term investment priorities has been approved by the Minister for Public Works. |
| Implementation Progress | |
| Description of Project Outputs | |
| Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) | The TA has been completed. The updated transport master plan has been drafted, consulted with government stakeholders, and endorsed by the Minister for Public Works. In addition, an assessment of the national construction industry has also been completed. |
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| Summary of Environmental and Social Aspects | |
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| Environmental Aspects | |
| Involuntary Resettlement | |
| Indigenous Peoples | |
| Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation | |
| During Project Design | Consultations were held with the government agencies during project design. |
| During Project Implementation | TA outputs were formulated through an extensive stakeholder consultation process. Staff members of the Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, and the Afghanistan Railway Authority provided information and suggestions during preparation of the report. Numerous development partners contributed to the work. |
| Business Opportunities | |
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| Consulting Services | The TA's consulting services consist of an estimated 20 international person-months and 12 national person-months of specialist inputs. Individuals will provide the following international and national experts: international transport engineer (10 person-months), international transport economist (10 person-months), and national transport expert (12 person-months). ADB will select and recruit all the experts by using individual consultant selection method and following ADB's Guidelines on The Use of Consultants by Asian Development Bank and Its Borrower's (2013 as amended from time to time). The outline terms of reference are presented in Appendix 3. Proceeds of the TA will be disbursed in accordance with ADB's Technical Assistance Disbursement Handbook (2015, as amended from time to time). |
| Responsible ADB Officer | ADB Disclosure |
| Responsible ADB Department | Central and West Asia Department |
| Responsible ADB Division | Transport and Communications Division, CWRD |
| Timetable | |
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| Concept Clearance | 29 Apr 2014 |
| Fact Finding | - |
| MRM | - |
| Approval | 22 Jul 2014 |
| Last Review Mission | - |
| Last PDS Update | 29 Sep 2017 |
| Milestones | |||||
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| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 22 Jul 2014 | 06 Aug 2014 | 06 Aug 2014 | 31 Aug 2016 | 31 Aug 2017 | 29 Sep 2017 |
| Financing Plan/TA Utilization | Cumulative Disbursements | |||||||
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| ADB | Cofinancing | Counterpart | Total | Date | Amount | |||
| Gov | Beneficiaries | Project Sponsor | Others | |||||
| 1,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,100,000.00 | 29 Sep 2017 | 772,621.05 |