Senegal - Fifth Highway Project

|~~ ~ ~ ~ M X ,qg 'I ii I -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~u U  CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS Currency Unit = CFA Franc (CFAF) USS = CFAF 373 CFAP i million US$ 2,681 ABMEVIA!ITIONS ADn ACRONYMS BADEL Banque Arabe Pour le Developpement Economique en Afrique BPP Bureau des Pistes de Production CCCE Caisse Centrale de Cooperation Economique CPSP Caisse de PMr6quation et de Stabilisation des Prir ]EBRN Direction de lVEntretien Routier et du Materiel (Directorate of Road Maintenance and Equipment) DGTP Direction Gen'erale des Travaux Publics (General Directorate of Public Works) FED Ponds Buropeen de Developpment vpd vehicles per day - Fiscal Year July I - June 30  FOR OFFICILL USE ONLY REPUBLIC OF SMEGAL FIFTH HIGHWAi PROJECT CREDIT AND PROJECT SUMMARY Borrower: Republic of Senegal Amount: SDR 20.4 million (US$21.5 million equivalent) Terms: Standard Project The primary project objective is to assist the Senegalese Description: Government to carry out badly needed maintenance operations on its road network so as to avoid a severe deterioration of the network. Related objectives are to keep balance between maintenance and new road construction, and to further improve the efficiency of the road mnintenance organization already strengthened under earlier Bank Group operations, including the decentralized finsncial and cost accounting systems, and planning and monitoring of maintenance activities. The project would support the Directorate of Road Maintenance and Equipment program over the four-year period 1983/84 - 1986/87 as follows: (a) routine maintenance of about 9,100 km of roads in the first year, increasing to about 10,500 km by ;he fourth yerr, including maintenance of feeder roads; (b) periodic maintenance (repaving and regravelling of road sur!aces and rehabilitation of structures) as warranted on roads maintained under (a) above; and (c) deferred periodic maintenance of other paved and gravel roads neglected in recent years because of the Government's inability to adequately f-and the necessary operations. The project would also increase the use of regional revolving funds to promote local adm-inistration. In the spirit of the Special Assist- ance Program (MAP), the d-:ebursements wo-ald be substantially front-loaded. Benefits and The project would yield high economic returns to Senegal Risks: by delaying the need for new investments in rehabilitation works and by allowing reduced vehicle operating costs, with a consexquential positive effect on the balance of payments. This latter result is particularly sigrifieant at a time when Senegal, after making good progress in recent years in building up the operating performance of its maintenance organization to the point where it has become one of the most efficient in West Africa, now finds itself unable to sustain this progress because of its very tight budgetary situation. There are no major risks arising from the institutional arrangements for project execution. There is, however, a risk that the Government's budgetary situation may not This documeet has a restricted disuibution and may be used by recipients only in the performance of their official duties. Its contents may not oiherwise be disclosed without World Bank authorization.  - ii - improve sufficiently over the project period to enable it to assume increasing responsibility for financing maintenance operations. If this were the case, external assistance would continue to be sought as a priority to ensure an adequate level of maintenance operations. The adequacy of financing will be carefully considered by' Government and ID.A during a detailed mid-term review of the status of project implementa- tion. Project Cost &uzuy -O CFAFP ilio - ------{FS thousadl Pnregn r of local local Foreig local Local Foreipi ridimpe Ebne Cost cost Cost Total Cost Cost cost Total % of Total Cost Rod equipent 125 - 2,3B6 2,511 35 - 6,397 6,732 95 17 Spre prts 5 - 95 100 13 - 255 26B 95 1 Wordsop e*AiPit 25 - -475 500 67 - 1,M 1,340 95 3 155 - 3,111 4.15 - 7,9Z5 8,340 Prodic munta_ :o-B itwen roads 657 860 1,011 2,528 1,761 2,306 2,711 6,77 40 17 Gravel roasib IJL 772 1,869 4,062 3.810 2,069 5,011 10&,