📋 Tender Overview
Scope:
Reference: P-UG-DB0-023
Appraisal Date: 14/05/2017
Board Presentation: 23/10/2018
Status: Lending
Amount: 1,140,000,000
Location:Uganda
Context:The tentative components of the project are: (a) Civil works for; the construction of the express highway from Kampala - Jinja (77 km) and ; (b) Consultancy services for the above civil works as per the PPP scheme: (i)Mitigation of HIV/AIDS, STI and TB; (ii)Monitoring of ESMP implementation and baseline data collection; (iii)Capacity enhancement; (iv)Consulting Services for Technical and Financial Audit (c) Compensation and resettlement
Objectives:The sector goal is to contribute to socio-economic development, poverty reduction and regional integration through improved and sustainable transport system that links centers of economic activity. The project objective is to improve sustainable road access and quality of transport service levels in central Uganda in order to reduce road maintenance costs, vehicle operating costs and travel time and by so doing, provide access to the majority of the people to socio-economic facilities and integration to the rest of the country thereby contributing to poverty reduction; support regional integration and cross border trade with neighboring land-locked countries.
