PAD - LGED

financing comes down to no more than 25 percent. The Bank will monitor GoB rural road
maintenance budget allocations as illustrated in Annex 1.
50. Institutional sustainability will be achieved by (i) adopting a more devolved and dynamic
‘action learning’ approach in LGED capacity building measures; (ii) where possible,
‘embedding’ required external expertise directly among the staff (and where applicable, ongoing
Working Groups) for more effective knowledge/skills transfer and ‘mainstreaming’ of enhanced
competencies and processes; (iii) preparation of specialist training modules / courses from all TA
providers for ongoing delivery to LGED staff; (iv) minimizing off-site production of external
assistance outputs; and (v) keeping capacity building services to short-to-medium-term intervals,
to avoid organizational dependency on long-running ‘in-house’ TA / consultancies; and (vi)
revising / upgrading the main LGED technical and operational policies and standards directly in
parallel with the TA-supported capacity-building and training measures. Unlike the PMUcentered
approach followed under RTIP-I, these arrangements will emphasize LGED’s
responsibility for the effectiveness of project results and outcomes.
51. Environmental and social sustainability: All subprojects will require environmental
screening, sub-projects with significant impacts will require further impact assessment and
mitigation plans. The Environmental Management Plan (EMP) will be part of the bidding
document and LGED will put a fixed budget for implementation of the EMP to ensure
contractors are equally aware of the EMP. Implementation of the EMP will be monitored by
LGED and the consultants and progress will be reflected in quarterly and annual reports on
environmental management. In continuation of RTIP-I, RTIP-II will further build the capacity of
LGED officials on environmental management. In addition, the Environmental Management
Unit (EMU) will be strengthened to integrate environmental management in LGED projects and
programs. Social sustainability will be assured by building stakeholder ownership through
enhanced participation of project affected persons (PAPs) and road users in project design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The Suggestion and Complaint Mechanism will
allow stakeholders to address grievances, a key contributor to project sustainability.
V. KEY RISKS AND MITIGATION MEASURES
A. Table 2: Risk Ratings Summary Table
Risk 13 Rating Risk Rating
Project Risk Stakeholder Risk S
- Design M Implementing Agency Risk
- Social and Environmental S - Capacity S
- Program and Donor M - Governance S
- Delivery Monitoring and
Sustainability
H
Overall Implementation Risk
S
B. Overall Risk Rating Explanation
52. The overall risk rating of the proposed project is substantial. The key risks to achieving
the project development objective fall under two main categories: project specific risks, and risks
in overall weak governance in the country and in the sector. The former category includes such
13 Risk scale uses the following ratings: Low (L) - Moderate (M) - Substantial (S) – High (H).
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