Ecuador Guayas: Resilient Rural Roads

The development objectives of the Guayas: Resilient Rural Roads Project for Ecuador are to improve resilient, sustainable, and safe road connectivity in rural areas of the Province of Guayas and, in case of an eligible crisis or emergency, respond promptly and effectively to it. The project comprises of three components. The first component, rural road construction and rehabilitation comprises two mutually reinforcing sub-components aimed at enhancing resilient connectivity in selected lagging rural areas of the Provincial Decentralized Autonomous Government of Guayas (PoG) vulnerable to climate change effects. It consists of following sub-components: (i) rehabilitation of rural roads; and (ii) reconstruction and construction of bridges in rural areas. The second component, project management and capacity building will primarily focus on supporting PoG with managing the operation and increasing capacity for sustainable management of the transportation infrastructure. It consists of following sub-components: (i) project management; (ii) technical support; and (iii) community engagement, protection, gender, and inclusion. The third component, contingency emergency response (CERC) will have no funding allocation initially and will draw resources from the unallocated expenditure category in the case of activation.