Uganda: Roads and Bridges in the Refugee Hosting Districts/Koboko-Yumbe-Moyo Road Corridor Project

The development objectives of the Roads and Bridges in the Refugee Hosting Districts and Koboko-Yumbe-Moyo Road Corridor Project for Uganda are to enhance: (a) road transport connectivity in select refugee hosting districts of Uganda; and (b) the capacity of Uganda national roads authority (UNRA) to manage environmental, social, and road safety risks. The project comprises of four components. The first component, road upgrading works will support civil works for widening and upgrading of the approximately 105 km-long Koboko-Yumbe-Moyo road corridor to bituminous paved road standards adopting the World Bank’s guidelines and requirements with respect to the procurement, social and environmental safeguards. The second component, institutional strengthening will support UNRA. The third component, road safety will support the UNRA in: (a) completion of development and operationalization of a road accident database management system disaggregated by gender, refugee, and host community, and (b) training and awareness campaigns to the school children, motorbike drivers, truck drivers, and refugee and host population in the project area differentiated for refugee and host community audiences. The fourth component, contingent emergency response will support UNRA in accessing resources for eligible expenditures to provide immediate and effective response in case of an eligible emergency for the benefit of refugees and host communities upon a formal request from the Government of Uganda and will use International Development Association (IDA) immediate response mechanism.