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Enhancing Rural Access - Rural roads rehabilitation and maintenance (RDP IV) - Midterm Evaluation

eval_number:

1742

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1742

lessons_learned:

themes:

theme:

Road construction

category:

Sector

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comments:

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challenges:

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success:

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context:

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description:

Enhanced Road Standards for Effective Maintenance and Sustainable Impact: Improved rural access is a national priority. A significant socio-economic impact is expected from improved access to services and markets. Gravel standard was perceived for a long time as sufficient for rural roads. However, experience has shown that the rural roads in TL in mountainous areas with high rainfalls deteriorate at a fast rate. This creates an unmanageable maintenance burden, negative environmental impacts, reduced socio-economic impacts and a rapid loss of initial investments. Enhanced engineering standards are thus the solution; carefully designed and constructed drainage structures, slope protection structures coupled with bio-engineering and carefully selected and well constructed alternative pavement options. This means higher initial investment cost, but allows constructing reliable access roads that can be maintained with the available resources and ensures a continued and possibly increasing socio-economic impact. This was realised by the ERA management and consequently requested for additional funds to build the ERA roads at least to a standard where upgrading to a paved surface standard would be possible.

administrative_issues:

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url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/188442

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location:

country:

East Timor

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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country:

Asia and the Pacific - regional

region:

Asia and the Pacific

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eval_title:

Enhancing Rural Access - Rural roads rehabilitation and maintenance (RDP IV) - Midterm Evaluation