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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
On completion, the project will improve the accessibility of some 187 remote rural communities, create 2,000 jobs and provide training to approximately 3,700 rural dwellers.

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