Local Roads Improvement Programme (LRIP – I)
Past SDC interventions have focussed on making rural road construction work for the poor and disadvantaged through labour-intensive construction methods. This project now takes proven approaches further by ensuring even more all-weather accessibility to markets and services by emphasising the importance of maintenance and preservation of built roads through promotion of labour-based roads maintenance methods and by fostering an institutional process in the districts, which should pave the way for the highly successful concepts of road construction and maintenance to be adopted as national standards.
| Región/País | Tema | Período | Presupuesto |
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Nepal |
Agricultura y seguridad alimentaria
Infraestructura rural (till 2016)
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01.12.2012
- 31.12.2021 |
CHF 9'803'000
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- People use the improved roads for their economic and social benefits.
- National and local institutions adopt a planned maintenance system/approach for the local roads.
- People use the improved roads for their economic and social benefits.
- National and local institutions adopt a planned maintenance system/approach for the local roads.
- People have benefited from motorable access to resources and opportunities, and institutional structures and capacities at all levels have ensured good governance and acceptable levels of worker welfare.
- People living within 30 minutes of an all-weather road have doubled from 100,000 to 200,000 in programme districts, contributing to achieving the national policy goal of bringing motorable access to within 4 hours of walking distance in the hills of the project districts.
- More than 2 vehicles are operating every day in all the opened roads, which has helped increase the frequency of trips made by local people to local market centres by a factor of between 2 and 5 times.
- There has been a positive overall impact on the local economy through cash injection from road construction. A total of 2.2 million person days of employment were generated, out of which, 38 % of workforce was constituted by women and 70 % of employment days were received by Disadvantaged Groups (DAGs).
- There has been a three-fold increase in household income over the last 12 years in the corridors of the roads that DRSP built.
- Overall, the rate of food sufficiency in the areas served by the project roads was estimated to have doubled.
- Sector privado suizo
- To be selected though a two-stage Selective International Competitive Bidding, managed by the Embassy of Switzerland in Nepal, with participation of one staff member from the South Asia Division in Bern.
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Sector según clasificación del comité de ayuda al desarrollo de la OCDE TRANSPORTE Y ALMACENAMIENTO
Sub-Sector según clasificación del comité de ayuda al desarrollo de la OCDE Política transporte y gestión administrativa
Temas transversales El proyecto tiene en cuenta la igualdad de género como tema transversal.
El proyecto tiene en cuenta la democratización, la buena gobernanza y los derechos humanos como tema transversal.
El proyecto apoya también mejoras en la organización contraparte
Tipo de ayuda Ayuda pública al desarrollo (ODA)
Tipo de colaboración Cooperación bilateral
Modo de financiación Ayuda no reembolsable
Tipo de ayuda Contribución a proyectos y programas
Ayuda ligada/no ligada Ayuda no ligada
Número de proyecto 7F08536
| Contexto |
Lack of access is one of the principal reasons for high incidence of rural poverty in Nepal. There is a strong correlation between poverty and access to economic and social services. An estimated 30,000 kms of rural roads (over 50,000 Kms exist, of which more than 55 % are non-operable) are needed to provide the connectivity required. About 22% of the population still has to walk more than 4 hours in the hills and 2 hours in the plains to reach a strategic road network. Two district headquarters are yet to be connected by road. Therefore, a considerable gap exists in the provision of reliable access to services/opportunities for people in Nepal. |
| Objetivos |
The main goal of the “Local Roads Improvement Project” is to contribute to improved livelihoods of the people and to local economic development in the four programme districts of Ramechhap, Sindhuli, Okhaldhunga and Khotang. |
| Grupos destinarios |
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| Efectos a medio plazo |
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| Resultados |
Resultados de las fases anteriores: This is the first phase of the programme. However, this is built on the successes of 14 years of the District Roads Support Programme (DRSP). Key results and insights of DRSP are:
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| Dirección / Officina Federal responsable |
COSUDE |
| Crédito |
Cooperación al desarrollo |
| Contrapartes del proyecto |
Contraparte del contrato Sector privado |
| Presupuesto | Fase en curso Presupuesto suizo CHF 9'803'000 Presupuesto actual suizo ya emitido CHF 9'706'959 |
| Fases del proyecto | Fase 2 16.07.2016 - 31.12.2021 (Fase en curso) Fase 1 01.12.2012 - 31.12.2021 (Fase en curso) |