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- Eastern Jamaica Rural Roads Rehabilitation Project
Eastern Jamaica Rural Roads Rehabilitation Project
Jamaica
Borrower | Jamaica |
Financing Type | Public Sector |
Instrument | Project Loan |
Focus Area | Transportation |
Approved | 17.12.2009 |
Status | Cancelled |
Loan Administrator | OPEC Fund |
Executing Agency | National Works Agency (NWA) |
Co-financiers | Government |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 10.00 |
Total Project Cost (US$m) | 30.00 |
This project aims to insure the durability and reliability of the rural road network in Jamaica’s Eastern parishes of St. Mary, Portland, St. Andrew and St. Thomas in order to help develop important revenue-generating sectors, especially agriculture and tourism. The parishes, which are situated in mountainous areas that receive heavy rainfall throughout the year, experience frequent landslides that render many areas impassable.
This situation will be addressed through the rehabilitation of 15 rural road sections and 150 retaining walls, covering a total of some 406 km. The improved roads and stabilized slopes will benefit over 100 farming communities comprising some 845,000 people, making travel safer and more efficient.