Vanuatu Climate Resilient Transport Project (WB-P167382)

Countries
  • Vanuatu
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
Proposed
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
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."
Borrower
Government of Vanuatu
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Transport
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Grant, Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 62.00 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.
Grant Amount (USD)
$ 31.00 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)
$ 62.00 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 Feb 21, 2019


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Project Description
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According to bank documents, the project will : (i) provide a sustainable climate resilient road infrastructure along the 60 km South Santo Road corridor; and (ii) develop a sectoral policy in mainstreaming climate resilience into the road asset management, including road network maintenance. The potential infrastructure investments under the project will include: (i) construction of wet crossings/bridges to improve connectivity; (ii) coastal protection near Luganville to protect the road; and, (iii) upgrading of gravel to paved road along the corridor including upgrading of the existing vented fords to larger culverts or bridges with adequate capacity to pass storm flows. The latter would essentially be as many kilometers of road as the World Bank can finance having done (i) and (ii) which are the critical priorities. It is noted that all these works will include strong climate resilience elements to provide resilient infrastructure solutions that are fit-for-purpose and potentially adopting relatively new technologies.

Investment Description
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Contact Information
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World Bank
Dung Anh Hoang, Christopher R. Bennett
Senior Transport. Specialist

Borrower/Client/Recipient
Republic of Vanuatu
Letlet August
Director General
laugust@vanuatu.gov.vu

Implementing Agencies
Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Utilities
Samuel Namuri, Acting Director General
snamuri@vanuatu.gov.vu


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