Project Data Sheet
Project 50218-001
Project Data Sheet
Project 50218-001
| Project Name | Rural Roads and Access Project | ||||
| Project Number | 50218-001 | ||||
| Country / Economy | Myanmar |
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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 |
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| Drivers of Change | Gender Equity and Mainstreaming Governance and capacity development Knowledge solutions |
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| Sector / Subsector | Transport / Road transport (non-urban) |
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| Gender | Some gender elements | ||||
| Description | The Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has approached the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for support to develop and contribute to the financing of a national rural roads and access program. The project will improve about 350 km of rural roads in two pilot regions, Ayeyarwaddy and Sagaing, and develop the technical bases and capacity for the program. The project outcome is improved accessibility of rural people, by way of launching a nationwide rural roads and access program, a part of which ADB will finance. | ||||
| Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | It was estimated that 20 million people in Myanmar live in villages without access to an all-season road, which is over half of Myanmar's rural population. In 2015, ADB carried out a first-ever study of rural access in Myanmar. The study found that nine million people live in one of the 25,000 villages that are not connected by any road. Without a road, people have to walk, bike along narrow paths; they carry goods themselves or on the back of animals. Another 20,000 villages with an estimated 11 million people are connected by a road that is not all-season. These people may be able to use vehicles to reach the nearest township, but the link is likely to become impassable during the rainy season. Myanmar's rural access problem appears very severe by international standards. Myanmar's Rural Access Index (RAI) is estimated at 36%, which is the lowest in Asia. While Myanmar has about 75,000 km of all-season roads, it would need a 250,000 km road network to connect all villages. Investments have long been below needs, while efficiency of spending has remained limited by an absence of clear goals and prioritization criteria, and a fragmented institutional setting. Rural road construction and maintenance have also been of low quality, being insufficiently professionalized. The government proposes to establish a national rural roads and access strategy and program to mobilize effectively larger resources to the task, improve governance and raise quality, inspired from good international examples. The project is aligned with the government's vision of providing rural road access to all villages by 2030. | ||||
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| Geographical Location | Ayeyawady Region, Magway Region |
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| Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation | |
| During Project Design | The project stakeholders are (i) the direct beneficiaries, which include women and men of isolated rural communities who will be involved in the planning of, and benefit from the infrastructure, employment and other accompanying measures; (ii) the village tract, township and district authorities including elect bodies that will be involved in the project planning, execution and monitoring; (iii) private contractors that may benefit from some of the road works contracts; and (iv) the Department of Rural Development of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation that will be in charge of the project's overall supervision. |
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| Consulting Services | The PPTA will be implemented over a period of 19 months (9 months project preparation followed by up to 10 months of procurement support) using a combination of a consulting firm and individual consultants. All consultants will be engaged in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants by the Asian Development Bank and its Borrowers (2013, as amended from time to time). To enable a quick start of works and continuity with the ongoing TA8788, an individual consultant in rural road management will be engaged to help DRD finalize the selection of roads and scope of other subcomponents. ADB will hire a consulting firm using quality- and cost-based selection (simplified technical proposal) with a quality to cost ratio of 90:10. The firm will provide 16 months of international consultant input and 35 person-months of national consultant input. Finally, ADB will recruit individual environment, social management, and road safety specialists with expertise in the design of rural road programs in South or Southeast Asia region to implement a context-sensitive design approach. The consulting firm will be responsible for the administration of workshop training, seminars and conferences, and surveys under the project preparatory TA. |
| Procurement | TA Equipment and assets purchased will adhere to ADB's Procurement Guidelines (2015, as amended from time to time), and upon completion of the project, the assets will be turned over to the executing agency. |
| Responsible ADB Officer | Shim, Chaorin |
| Responsible ADB Department | Southeast Asia Department |
| Responsible ADB Division | Transport and Communications Division, SERD |
| Executing Agencies |
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation Office Bldg No. 15, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar |
| Timetable | |
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| Concept Clearance | 30 Sep 2016 |
| Fact Finding | - |
| MRM | - |
| Approval | 29 Sep 2016 |
| Last Review Mission | - |
| Last PDS Update | 09 Oct 2019 |
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| Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
| Original | Revised | Actual | |||
| 29 Sep 2016 | 17 Feb 2017 | 17 Feb 2017 | 30 Sep 2018 | 30 Jun 2019 | 30 Nov 2019 |
| 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 | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,030,000.00 | 17 Jun 2022 | 892,827.72 |