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. . Mohi Uz Zaman Quazi Aminur Rahman Chowdhuri Consultant, Infrastructure Development Specialist Consultant, Financial Management Specialist Dhaka Dhaka Teen Kari Barua Consultant, Sociologist Dhaka Ernst Huning Institutional Specialist / Consultant Sidney Asif Faiz Operations Advisor / Consultant Washington Serge P. Cartier van Dissel Procurement/Consultant Kathmandu Locations Country First Administrative Division Location Planned Actual Comments viii
I. STRATEGIC CONTEXT A. Country Context 1. Bangladesh, with a population of about 150 million and a land area of 147,570 square kilometers is amongst the most densely-populated countries in the world. The country is vulnerable to natural disasters and extremely sensitive to climate change impacts. However, the economy of Bangladesh has grown steadily during recent years due to macroeconomic stability, trade liberalization, improved private sector investment climate and financial sector reform. Further, poverty has also decreased in the recent years, keeping Bangladesh on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015. Improved infrastructure, particularly roads, during the last decade, has deeply supported economic growth and poverty reduction. This strong performance is expected to continue if exports continue to grow, remittances continue to recover and infrastructure services and connectivity is improved. 2. Bangladesh, however, still needs to overcome large issues of weak governance, urban congestion and under-investment in basic rural infrastructure. Poverty reduction remains a major challenge as 35 percent of Bangladesh’s population still lives in poverty. Despite growing urbanization, the agricultural based rural economy remains critical for growth and employment. Improved rural transport infrastructure therefore, is key to meeting challenges for rural connectivity and poverty reduction, where most of the poorest population (73 percent) live. B. Sectoral and Institutional Context Rural Transport Sector 3. Rural transport infrastructure in Bangladesh consists of rural roads, and rural waterways. The rural road network consists of 37,819 km of Upazila Roads (UZR), 44,752 km of Union Roads (UR) and 215,774 km of Village Roads 1 . About 24,000 km of rural waterways offer a very high degree of penetration in rural areas where 25.1 percent of the country’s total population has access to water transport 2 . There are over 8,000 markets of different sizes throughout Bangladesh, 2,100 of which have been selected by the Planning Commission as priority Growth Center Markets (GCM). The responsibility of the management of the rural roads network is with the Local Government Engineering Department (<strong>LGED</strong>) under the Ministry of the Local Governments. 4. About 63 percent of Bangladesh’s rural population remains without access to all-season roads 3 compared to 39 percent in Pakistan. Populations without all season access suffer from poor accessibility and road connectivity, higher vehicle operating costs and transport costs and 1 Upazila Roads: Roads connecting District Headquarters with Growth Centres, one Growth Centre with another by a single main connection, or connecting a Growth Centre directly to the upper level national road system. Union Roads: Roads connecting Union Headquarters Upazila Headquarters, Growth Centers or local markets. 2 Bangladesh- Revival of Inland Water Transport: Options and strategies, World Bank, 2007. 3 “All-season road” is a road that is motorable all year round by the prevailing means of rural transport (typically a pick-up or a truck which does not have four-wheel-drive). 1
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(LGED) Project Management Organogra
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LGED does not have adequate capacit
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Social and Environmental Rating Sub
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Overall Risk Provide adequate train
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• The Integrated Performance Audi
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capacity of FM staff, review of aud
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Time Focus Skills Needed Resource E
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strengthen governance in the rural
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• Monitoring and Evaluation Syste
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Table 6: GAAP Matrix Issues / Risk
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Issues / Risk Mitigating Actions to
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(iii)Ghats improvement component 18
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District Upazila Table 7.1: Final L
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District Upazila Road Code Road Nam
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Table 7.3: List of Candidate UNR Ro
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Table 7.5: List of Candidate UNR Ro
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District Upazila Road Code Road Nam
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Table 7.8: List of Candidate UZR Ro
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District Upazila Selected GCM Distr
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Table 8.1: Calculation of economic
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increase was reduced by half, since
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Table 8.4: Economic returns of upaz
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makes adequate allowance for the im
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cargo boats and an additional 20 pa
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ii) Measurement of Economic Costs:
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passenger transport cost is expecte
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Table 9.2: Geometric Dimension of U
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GROWTH CENTRE MARKETS (GCM) 14. Mar
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fixed monthly payments against comp
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10. Performance indicators and insp
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US$1.1 million), with a total estim
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Item Performance Standard Measureme
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Item Performance Standard Measureme
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Annex 11: Rural Transport Improveme
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accounting firm with IT experience
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Annex 12: Rural Water Transport Imp
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Project Implementation Schedule (co
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