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- Community Roads Project
Community Roads Project
Senegal
Borrower | Senegal |
Financing Type | Public Sector |
Instrument | Project Loan |
Focus Area | Transportation |
Approved | 11.12.2013 |
Signed | 10.04.2014 |
Status | Completed |
Loan Administrator | AFDB |
Executing Agency | Ministry of Regional Development and Local Authorities |
Co-financiers | AFDB, FERA, Rural Communities, Government |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 10.00 |
Total Project Cost (US$m) | 68.24 |
The project will help unlock the economic potential of remote rural communities by facilitating the transport of people and goods and by constructing socio-economic infrastructures. It will improve the rural dwellers’ quality of life by facilitating access to basic social services, creating jobs and fostering income growth. Works to be carried out include
- improvement of 875 km of roads
- maintenance of 5,000km or roads countrywide
- local capacity building
- construction of multi-purpose platforms, rural markets, health clinics, storage facilities and market gardening schemes