Guinea-Bissau - Transport and Urban Infrastructure Project
Baer, Herbert L. | Gray, Cheryl W.
The objectives of the Transport and Urban Infrastructure Project are: 1) to improve the management of public sector resources devoted to economic and urban social infrastructure; 2) to rehabilitate transport and urban infrastructure; and 3) to efficiently execute works by private small- and medium-sized enterprises by delegating contract management to an AGETIP-type agency (public works executing agency). To achieve these objectives, the project will support development and implementation of a sector-specific policy framework and three investment components. The policy agenda is designed: a) to increase sector resource mobilization and efficiency of resource use; b) to futher strengthen the institutional environemnt and disengage the Government from public enterprises in the transport sector; c) to improve the management of road rehabilitation and maintenance; d) to promote the use of private sector; and e) to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of the contracting of works. The three investment components include: transport infrastructure rehabilitation, urban infrastructure rehabilitation, and capacity building programs.
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