Uruguay Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance Program - AF (WB-P162110)

Countries
  • Uruguay
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Active
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
C
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Mar 24, 2017
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Uruguay
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Infrastructure
  • Transport
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 70.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 70.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Aug 16, 2017

Disclosed by Bank Feb 12, 2017


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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.
According to bank documents, the objective of the project is to improve the condition of the National Road Network and enhance road sector management. This Additional Financing is for a Program for Results project. The parent project is P125803. The Program consists of the following activities within the Uruguay National Road Network, from January 1, 2013 until December 31, 2019: • Road rehabilitation and/or maintenance works, which consists of, inter alia: (i) pavement rehabilitation; (ii) pavement resurfacing; (iii) shoulders’ rehabilitation and/or surfacing; (iv) repairing and/or upgrading drainage systems; and (v) rehabilitation and maintenance of road vertical and horizontal signaling. • Bridge rehabilitation and maintenance works, which consists of, inter alia: (i) structure repairing of deck, abutments, piers and foundations; and (ii) the enhancement of bridge functional characteristics, such as increasing bridge extension, deck widening and increasing of bridge bearing capacity. • Bridge reconstruction works, which consists of the construction of a new structure and its contiguous road accesses, to replace an existing bridge on the same location or in its vicinity. • Road safety investments, which consists of, inter alia: (i) investments to improve visibility; (ii) investments to reduce road crashes severity; and (iii) road equipment investments. • Provision of technical assistance to DNV, DNTop and DINAPLO, including, inter alia: (i) the carrying out of road condition surveys; (ii) the carrying out of training and capacity building activities; and (iii) the carrying out of studies required to implement the Program.
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