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- Community-Managed Irrigation Sector Project
Community-Managed Irrigation Sector Project
Laos PDR
Borrower | Lao PDR |
Financing Type | Public Sector |
Instrument | Project Loan |
Focus Area | Agriculture |
Approved | 10.12.1996 |
Signed | 22.08.1997 |
Status | Completed |
Loan Administrator | ADB |
Executing Agency | Department of Irrigation |
Co-financiers | ADB, Government, Communities |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 4.00 |
Total Project Cost (US$m) | 23.60 |
The objective of this project is to improve food security in the deprived central mountains regions (the provinces of Vientiane, Boukhamxay, Houp-Phanh, Xiang Khoung and Xaysomboum).
- construction or upgrading of 70 community-managed irrigation (CMI) schemes, thus improving irrigation for around 3,800 hectares;
- construction of 90 km of rural access roads and 60 km of district feeder roads that will link to marketplaces.