Operation for Supporting Rural Bridges (SupRB)

The development objective of Operation for Supporting Rural Bridges Project for Bangladesh is to improve and preserve rural bridges to support connectivity and climate resiliency, and strengthen institutional management. The PforR portion of the operation will support capital investments in UZR and UNR bridges, including maintenance, rehabilitation, widening, replacement, and new construction. The IPF portion will support institutional strengthening and capacity building activities under the operation. The Program will support the LGED’s strategy for the sustainable development and maintenance of rural bridges. The main strategic elements include undertaking the creation of new bridge assets and the preservation of existing assets comprehensively to enhance and preserve rural connectivity, objective and competitive selection of rural bridge interventions under budget constraints that will ensure an optimum balance between creation and preservation of assets; replacing rural bridges that surpassed their economic lives and making unsafe bridges safer; and improving institutional capacity and core business processes to aid in the planning, design, construction, and management of bridges sustainably.The operation scope is defined in such a way that it contributes to the key results areas of the operation. There are four key results areas in the operation: (a) condition of rural bridges, (b) climate resiliency of rural bridges, (c) rural connectivity, and (d) institutional capacity strengthening for managing the creation and preservation of rural bridge assets.