| Project Detail |
Mozambique is highly vulnerable to climate change due to its reliance on climate-sensitive agriculture and the frequent occurrence of extreme weather events. The country faces significant challenges such as rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, prolonged droughts, and more intense and frequent cyclones and floods. These climate impacts severely affect food security, water resources, and livelihoods, especially for the rural population.
To tackle these issues, this project integrates social protection with climate adaptation by using Mozambique’s Productive Social Action Programme to target and deliver support to communities. Key activities focus on strengthening institutional and community capacity for climate resilience, implementing locally-led adaptation actions, and mainstreaming climate change adaptation into district development planning and budgeting. The expected outputs resulting from this project include enhanced knowledge and awareness among local stakeholders, updated local adaptation plans, integrated climate-resilient responses into social protection programs, and improved dialogue, coordination, and monitoring of adaptation actions.
The project offers multiple benefits for rural populations, including improved food and nutrition security, local job creation, and empowerment for women and youth.
To enhance connectivity by improving the road condition, safety, and climate resilience of targeted critical sections of the National Road 13 (NR13).
DESCRIPTION
The project aims to improve, rehabilitate, and maintain a critical 50 km section of NR13, which serves as the sole access route from the South to the capital city of Vientiane. This section begins at KM21 in the suburban area of Vientiane Capital and extends southwards to KM71 in Xaysavang village, located in Thaprabath District, Bolihamxay province.
The first 20 km of this section will be expanded from two to four lanes and the following 30 km will undergo rehabilitation. The road improvement and maintenance will be carried out through a 10-year Output- and Performance-Based Road Contract (OPBRC) under the Design, Build, Maintain, Operate, and Transfer (DBMOT) method.
The project will also carry out capacity-building activities to strengthen the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) staff’s capacity in managing road assets. This includes designing and implementing OPBRC, addressing road safety and climate resilience issues, and preparing future projects for improving and maintaining other critical sections of NR13.
The components and their financing sources are as follows:
Component 1 (financed jointly by AIIB, Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) and Government of Lao PDR (GoL)). Road Improvement, Rehabilitation, Maintenance and Operation.
Component 2 (financed by AIIB). Provision of Monitoring, Technical assistance, and preparation of future investments. |
