PAD - LGED

• Citizen oversight. RTIP-I has not performed well on social aspects where efforts were needed
to involve community stakeholders in road selection and female beneficiaries in the
management of the Road Growth Center Market component. It has also been noted that there
were no grievances of complaints reported which raises an issue of a poorly functioning
Grievance Redressal Mechanism and/or issue of poorly disclosed project information. In
RTIP-II, therefore, a suggestion and complaints menchanisms has been devised to
comprehensively record, resolve and report citizens’ complaints and enhance oversight.
• Internal accountability. While the methodology for selection of roads for RTIP-II has been
finalized and agreed on, however, the LGED would need to ensure that all selections are
made based on this methodology. The M&E framework has been developed under RTIP-I
but still needs to become fully operational (by 2014) at the field level to serve its purpose of
improving effectiveness of LGED’s performance.
• Quality of works on project roads. As the project is geographically dispersed in 26 districts it
presents a substantial challenge to monitor quality of all civil works contracts. Thus, there is
a risk of poor quality works to be delivered on some project roads. The hiring of an external
engineering firm to conduct regular technical monitoring of rural roads under RTIP has
proved to be effective in ensuring the delivery of good quality works by contractors.
Implementation of GAAP
13. The overall responsibility for the GAAP implementation will rest with the Project
Director of RTIP-II. The Executive Engineers of each district will be responsible for producing
quarterly progress reports on the implementation of district-related GAAP activities, including
monitoring of alert indicators on identified governance issues and risks, including the data from
Suggestions and Complaints Committees, and submitting the quarterly reports to the Secretary of
LGED and the Project Director. This information should be compiled for all districts and
included as part of Quarterly Project Progress Reports that will be submitted by the LGED to the
World Bank as per the Financing Agreement for the project. If the same alert indicators are
observed during three continuous months, enhanced thematic or state supervision mission will be
carried out jointly by the World Bank, LGED management and concerned local governments
executing the project in the respective District/Upazila Parishad. Recommendations and/or
revisions of the actions in the GAAP will be made jointly by the three concerned parties. If the
same alert indicators still persist for another three months and/or there is ground for serious
concern, the World Bank and MLGRD&C will discuss options for undertaking a detailed
investigation and/or applying the WB or GoB sanctions regime.
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