PAD - LGED

Annex 5: Implementation Support Plan
Bangladesh: Second Rural Transport Improvement Project (P123828)
A. Strategy and Approach for Implementation Support
1. The Implementation Support Plan (ISP) provides the support required for implementation
of all mitigation measures identified in the ORAF in the three following areas: (i) institutional;
(ii) performance and quality; and (iii) governance, in order to insure all major risks are
addressed. The design of the project contains safeguards against each of these risks. The ISP is
designed to review and ensure that those safeguards are effective and to reinforce them where
necessary. The ISP is also designed to enhance LGED’s capacity in a range of technical and
specialized areas. The ISP will be undertaken by World Bank staff and is based on four major
principles: (i) continual high level policy dialogue with LGED on institutional development and
maintenance policy; (ii) frequent local level and field based supervision of project activities
including consultation with RTIP-II beneficiaries, (iii) consistent review of fiduciary procedures
and controls within LGED.
2. LGED has a long history of successful implementation of institutional development plans
with the support of development partners including the World Bank through three projects in the
rural road sector. The Operational Risk Assessment (ORA) carried out in 2008-2009 identified
constraints and opportunities in implementing LGED programs in the sector and provided the
analytical underpinning for the Institutional Strengthening and Governance component of the
proposed RTIP-II. The ORA represents an agreed and shared approach to institutional
development issues. LGED has subsequently established an ORA-based Management
Improvement Plan (MIP) to guide a wide range of medium-term policy and institutional reforms
and interventions which are being supported by RTIP-II and other donor-assisted operations. The
project team will meet regularly with and advise the MIP working groups responsible in the
LGED for designing and overseeing action plans to implement the MIP. This includes building
an effective partnership based on the discussion on challenges, solutions, and sharing best
practices as well as international experience.
3. Implementation of the project in a wide area and scattered project activities will be
challenging. It is estimated that about 500 contracts will be implemented over 26 districts 14 .
Based on the experience of RTIP-I, several actions have been agreed which will facilitate
implementation support:
• Monitoring capacity at PMU level will be strengthened with the support of a
Management Support Consultant (MSC). While LGED has demonstrated its capacity to
collect data under RTIP-I, the MSC will strengthen the capacity to analyze the data and
prepare recommendations as well as manage and monitor the implementation of these
recommendations.
• Team leaders of Supervision Consultants will be decentralized making them closer to the
civil works programs and the supervision teams on the ground for better monitoring and
coordination.
14 About 800 contracts were executed under the RTIP-I.
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