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Golden Stream-Big Falls-Guatemala Border Road Rehabilitation Project

Belize

Borrower Belize
Financing Type Public Sector
Instrument Project Loan
Focus Area Transportation
Approved 10.12.2002
Signed 21.08.2003
Status Completed
Loan Administrator KFAED
Executing Agency Ministry of Works (MW)
Co-financiers KFAED, Government
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) 6.00
Total Project Cost (US$m) 23.00

Government is in the process of implementing a national strategy to rehabilitate the primary road network and has succeeded in paving most of the key stretches. The project will carry out the following:

  • paving of two remaining unpaved portions, totalling 50 km, of the Southern Highway between Golden Stream and the Guatemalan border;
  • construction of drainage systems and culverts;
  • repair of bridges; and installation of signalling and safety devices.
Some 30,000 local inhabitants will benefit from greater mobility and easier access to social services and employment opportunities.

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