Roads and Bridges Activity Sample Clauses

Roads and Bridges Activity. (1) MCC Funding will be a parallel source of funding to the existing World Bank Road Sector Support Project. MCC and the World Bank have coordinated on issues such as policy reforms and institutional sustainability measures. The MCC–World Bank coordination will continue during the implementation of the Roads and Bridges Activity since the Implementing Entity for this Project Activity will be the World Bank Project Implementation Unit. Other road projects supported by donors include: (i) EU co-financing with Luxembourg and Cape Verde of the construction of the Janela-Porto Novo road and (ii) Portuguese funding in the amount of Euros 30 million for a number of road projects on several islands. Donor coordination in the road sector will be assured by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, through a Program Coordination Office (“PCO”), attached directly to the Minister’s Office. The responsibility of the PCO will be to ensure overall management of this Project Activity and coordination of other related donor support for the overall transport sector program. Operational costs for the PCO will be supported by the World Bank. (2) With respect to the bridge-related sub-activities in ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, an EU-funded project is constructing a road from Porto Novo along the west coast to ▇▇▇▇, and the construction of this bridge would guarantee continuity along the coast to Ribeira Grande.

Roads and Bridges Activity. The principal intended beneficiaries of the Roads and Bridges Activity are expected to be rural and urban populations in the two islands where the interventions will occur. These include Cape Verdean families, farmers, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and social-service providers and communities located along the roads or bridges proposed for improvement and construction. Improved access over continuous island road networks is viewed as a prerequisite and facilitator of all other development and poverty reduction programs on these islands. Other direct benefits of the Roads and Bridges Activity investments will include increased employment for men and women, particularly where cobblestone technologies will be applied. Stakeholders will include local contractors, design engineers, consultants, transport service providers and traders. all of whom will benefit directly from increased business opportunities resulting from the implementation and ongoing maintenance of the overall Roads and Bridges Activity. The intended beneficiaries of the Infrastructure Project will be identified more precisely, including where possible disaggregated by gender, age, location and income level, during the initial phases of the implementation of the Project.

Roads and Bridges Activity. (i) A road maintenance fund (“Road Maintenance Fund”) is created and functions in accordance with the Transport Sector Letter (e.g., promotion of commercial management approaches and sustainable maintenance based on user fees and progressive establishment of a maintainable network through investments on the core and local road network), and as necessary adoption of legislation to create the Road Maintenance Fund; (ii) The Road Maintenance Fund establishes and manages annual road maintenance budgets, in accordance with the Transport Sector Letter; (iii) Adoption of legislation to establish user fees (e.g. fuel levy or tax, levy on heavy vehicles); (iv) The Government fully funds the Road Maintenance Fund through the collection of user fees (as described above) with a first year minimum annual revenue stream of CVE300,000,000, adjusted thereafter to meet the maintenance needs of the nation’s road network; (v) The Road Agency completes the National Road Plan; (vi) The Road Agency implements annual road network maintenance plans within the planned execution period and within budget; and (vii) Pilot performance-based road maintenance and management contracts are implemented by the Government. This Schedule 3 generally describes and summarizes the key elements of a private sector development project (the “Private Sector Development Project”) that the Parties intend to implement in furtherance of the Private Sector Development Objective. Additional details regarding the implementation of the Private Sector Development Project will be included in the Implementation Plan and in the relevant Supplemental Agreements.

Roads and Bridges Activity. Number of days per year that bridges are not passable (days) Estimated number of days per year that bridges are not passable Kilometers of roads rehabilitated (kms) Total number of kilometers of road rehabilitated. Tons of general cargo handled per hour (tons/hour) Effective measure of tons of general cargo handled per working hour Containers handled per hour (containers/hour) Effective measure of containers handled per working hour Tons per year (tons) Total tons handled by the Port of Praia per year Containers per year (containers) Total number of containers handled by the Port of Praia per year Berth occupancy for container ships (days) Standard definition used by ENAPOR as of the Entry into Force for berth occupancy for container ships Volume of public investment in priority sectors above current trends (escudos) Volume of public investment in priority sectors (tourism, fisheries, financial services, transport and communication) above that predicted by extrapolating a linear 1999-2004 trendline.