| Grant Profile: |
| Project Title: |
Lomé Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project |
| PCF/LICUS/SPF: |
LICUS |
Status: |
Closed |
| File Number: |
73
| Region: |
AFR |
| Sector: |
Urban Development |
Country: |
Togo |
| FY approved: |
2008 |
Grant Theme : |
Urban development |
| Keyword(s): |
Roads |
Approved Amount: |
$1,575,000.00 |
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Grant Recipient:
Ministère des travaux publics, des transports, de l’urbanisme et de l’habitat (MPWTUHD) / Agence d'Exécution des Travaux Urbains à Haute Intensité de main-d'œuvre (AGETUR-TOGO) |
Grant Purpose:
The objective of the project is to support the Government of Togo to increase access to infrastructure and urban services in Lomé, through rapidly rehabilitating, improving and expanding sustainable access to urban mobility services for the population of the city’s most deprived neighborhoods. The achievement of this objective would support the Government's efforts to demonstrate visible, concrete, tangible results and improvements in the lives of its citizens that are critical for sustaining social and political stability in the country.
The project will mostly benefit the poor, disadvantaged communities in Lomé and its peri-urban neighborhoods. The project will improve access of beneficiaries to basic urban infrastructure services (roads for accessibility to economic opportunities in employment zones in Lomé and better access to community social and cultural services).
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Grant Activities:
Component 1: Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Maintenance
(1) Urban roads rehabilitation and maintenance
This sub-component aims to rehabilitate the boulevard de l’Oti in the neighborhood of Bé Akodesewa in Lomé, through support for:
(i) Reshaping of identified portion of the road (2.4 km);
(ii) Reinforcing the base structures;
(iii) Re-gravelling the road;
(iv) Rehabilitating drainage and crossing structures;
(v) Using labor intensive methodology to provide concrete paving of the road thereby increasing access to neighborhoods of Lomé that are currently isolated.
The project is expected to restore or significantly improve accessibility by vehicles to parts of the city where an estimated 200,000 people currently live. The labor-intensive methodology envisaged for the implementation of the works is estimated to provide temporary job opportunities for about five thousand people in a twelve month period.
(2) Rehabilitation of Bé Community drainage and socio-cultural facilities
This sub-component aims to reduce the number of people affected by periodic flooding in the city of Lomé in neighborhoods of Bé-Lagune, Apéyémé-Atitingomé, and Agodogan through support to:
(i) Rehabilitation and extension of substandard and unsound structures and construction of new culverts; resurfacing the inner walls of culverts with concrete using mostly labor-intensive works methodology to generate more employment;
(ii) Rehabilitation of shoulders and side ditches of the secondary drainage network that drains into the Lagoons of Lomé;
(iii) Effecting repairs to damaged roof, walls, windows, doors and floors of the central socio-cultural facility damaged by the recent storms and floods.
Component 2: Community participation and project management
This component will finance project management fees of the supervising engineers and project implementing entity (AGETUR-TOGO).
The Government will delegate all project-related works, services and goods contract management responsibilities to a Project Implementing Entity, AGETUR-TOGO. The Project Implementing Entity shall be responsible for the technical and fiduciary aspects (financial management and procurement) of the implementation of both Components 1 & 2 of the project. The implementing entity will act as consultants that will oversee the fiduciary, safeguards, results monitoring and evaluation as well as community participation and communications strategy development and implementation for the project.
For both the roads and drainage rehabilitation components, AGETUR-TOGO will prepare the bidding documents, manage the procurement process, sign contracts, supervise and pay contractors and other service providers for all project-related goods, services and works in the project, on behalf of the Government. The Ministry of Public Works, Transport, Urban and Housing Development and the Municipality of Lomé will support AGETUR-TOGO in the supervision of the works on facilities which will be handed over to the Ministry and the Municipality for operation and maintenance upon completion.
The expected outcome of this sub-proposal would include a contribution to improved urban roads and drainage services that would better enhance the mobility and productivity of the citizens of Lomé, particularly those living in the aforementioned deprived neighborhoods.
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News:
Lomé, the capital city of Togo, is home to about 58 percent of Togo’s urbanized population. The city dominates the socio-economic production of the country contributing about 60 percent of the country’s GDP. Urban poverty in Togo, however, is high and rising. High unemployment rate and worsening living conditions define life for many people in Lomé, especially among an active, young and restless growing migrant population, with no hope for a better future and limited access to effective infrastructure and social services, and employment.
Responding to Togo’s urgent need for addressing scarcity of resources, opportunities and services, the World Bank has initiated the Lomé Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project in 2008. The project is contributing to improved access to roads, to increase accessibility of the city’s most deprived neighborhoods to economic opportunities and community social and cultural services.
The rehabilitation and expansion of boulevard de l’Oti in the neighborhood of Bé Akodessewa is now underway. About one kilometer of a seven foot-high wall that was in the path of the extension of the road was demolished and rebuilt, leaving the required space for the road expansion to be completed. Works on the road will be completed by October this year.
Rehabilitation of the Bé Community drainage has also commenced in March and is to be completed by the end of May.
The effects of the project go beyond simple rehabilitation of roads and services. The implementation of infrastructure works is accompanied by an increase of short-term employment opportunities associated with these works.
In addition to offering opportunities for employment, the project has allowed residents to feel actively engaged in the reconstruction of their city, making community participation another major achievement in the course of the project.
The initiative in Lomé will be complemented by a larger emergency intervention supported by the World Bank in the entire country.
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