Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rural Accessibility Project (KPRAP) (WB-P177069)

Regions
  • South Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Pakistan
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
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
A
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
May 26, 2022
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
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Climate and Environment
  • Education and Health
  • Transport
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 300.00 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.
Loan Amount (USD)
$ 300.00 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)
$ 310.00 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.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS May 11, 2022

Disclosed by Bank Oct 29, 2021

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Project Description
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According to World Bank, the objective of the project is to improve rural accessibility to schools, health facilities and markets in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The project aims to improve access to education, health and markets in 18 districts of KP province. The districts will be selected based on the current access conditions, poverty, vulnerability to climate change, potential impact of roads upgrade and maintenance, and will cover mainly the Northern, Southern and NMDs areas of KP. According to initial analysis, these districts are the more vulnerable to climate risks, poor performing and remained neglected in the past. This analysis has been expanded and is currently in progress. The project will also provide livelihood opportunities post COVID scenario during construction and maintenance phases.

The project is divided into 3 components:

-Component 1 would finance, inter alia, the improvement of resilience, rehabilitation and maintenance of selected rural roads across the province, including network in NMDs.

-Component 2 will support, a school bus program to improve operational efficiency and fuel savings; and logistic program to improve the efficiency, reduce losses, green practices and the access to markets for small farmers.

-Component 3 will support project implementation, including road planning, climate-resilient design, construction and Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) responsibilities.

The project has identified substantial environment risks.

Investment Description
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The total cost of the project is US$310 million, out of which US$300 million will be financed by IDA and US$10 million by the GoKP as counterpart financing.


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World Bank Team Leaders:

1. Lincoln Flor,

Senior Transport Specialist,

Telephone: 5722+33566 / 1-202-473-3566

Email ID:lflor@worldbank.org

2. Hasan Afzal Zaidi,

Senior Transport Specialist

Telephone:5722+224 / 92-51-909-0224

Email ID: hzaidi@worldbank.org

Implementing Agencies

Communication and Works Department, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Kazim Kazim
Secretary
secretary@cwd.gkp.pk

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ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF THE WORLD BANK

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