Somalia - Horn of Africa Infrastructure Integration Project

The development objective of the Horn of Africa Infrastructure Integration Project for Somalia is to prepare a spatially coordinated investment pipeline of economic corridor projects, and to strengthen the national government’s management of selected sectors. The project comprises of five components. The first component, development of regional economic corridors will carry out the identification of a regional economic corridor, prioritizing corridor road sections, including technical design of road works, preparation of environmental and social management instruments, conducting diagnostics of area wide trade facilitations and development measures and actions, economic analysis, and other preparatory analysis and design studies. The second component, connectivity to economic corridors will prepare a national level program of activities to leverage the development of economic corridors through local connectivity and accessibility. The third component, institutional and capacity development will support select institutional and capacity development within the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), especially within the transport and trade sectors. The fourth component, project management will finance overall project implementation, coordination, and management costs of the project, including costs associated with a project coordination unit (PCU) in the Ministry of Public Works, Reconstruction, and Housing (MPWRH). The fifth component, contingent emergency response component will draw from the uncommitted resources under the project from other project components to cover emergency response.