Nepal - Rural Access Improvement Project

Page 1 INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET CONCEPT STAGE Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: September 22, 2003 Report No.: AC383 I. BASIC INFORMATION A. Basic Project Data Country: Nepal Project ID: P083923 Project Name: Rural Access Improvement Project Task Team Leader: Binyam Reja Estimated Appraisal Date: November 1, 2004 Loan/Credit amount ($m.): US$30 million IDA Estimated Board Date: March 31, 2005 Managing Unit: SASEI Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan Sector: Roads and highways (100%) Theme: Rural services and infrastructure (P); Decentralization (S) Safeguard Policies Specialists in the task team: Asif Faiz (environment) and Afshan Khawaja (social safeguard) Other financing amounts by source: HMG: US$6 million B. Project Objective The development objective of the proposed project is to provide beneficiary rural communities with improved and sustainable transport access . A central part of the strategy to reach this objective is to improve the institutional capacity of the decentralized governance system for rural infrastructure provision in line with HMG