Dedougou-Nouna-Mali border road

Country

Burkina Faso

Name of Client

MCA - Millennium Challenge Account on behalf of the Government of Burkina Faso

Financing sources

MCC – Millennium Challenge Corporation (USA)

Duration

12/2009 - 10/2014

Project Description

The Project is located in the North-West of Burkina Faso and crosses the Mouhoun, Nayala and Kossi provinces. The Project origins in Dedougou (at the junction of RN 10) and, via Nouna and Djibasso, ends at the Mali border.

The project aim is to upgrade the existing gravel to road to a bituminous surfaced road 7-m wide, plus 2 shoulders of 1-m width each in current cross-section. In town crossing sections the road is to be widened to 8 m plus 2 shoulders of 2-m each.

The Project includes the construction of two bridges: one over Mouhoun River and the other one over Soneko River.

The Project is part of the Government of Burkina Faso general policy for transport development. Main objectives of such strategy are:

- ensuring a rational structure to the domestic road network so as to fully make possible and easier the trading exchanges among the domestic provinces of Burkina Faso and between Burkina Faso and the exterior;

- maintaining the road network in good repair to keep low the exploitation costs of vehicles, enhancing the security of road users and reinforcing production and trading activities;

- catching up with the backlog in road periodical maintenance which is making the current maintenance both expensive and useless;

- opening up the crossed domestic areas having great potentialities in terms of agricultural and animal raising productions;

- ensuring an easy access to district head towns so as to serve and reinforce administrative decentralization;

- facilitating the access to health centers to rural dwellers.

The new road will also allow the opening up of North-Western Burkina Faso, a rich agricultural production area, through intensified trading exchanges with the Northern and Western areas of the country (provinces of Houet, Mouhoun, Sourou, Yatenga). On turn, such areas will benefit from the Project through increased trading exchanges with the rest of the country and the bordering countries (Mali and Ivory Coast). In this way, it will be possible to develop the agricultural (mostly cereals, but also cotton) and pastoral potentialities of the Project area, through an upgraded land use.

Services Description

Consultancy will consider two periods:

Base Period

1.   Updating and complement of existing Feasibility Study, including the traffic, engineering, financial, economic and institutional aspects;

2.   Updating and complement of existing Environmental assessment, including the mitigation and management of adverse environmental and social impacts during Project implementation;

3.   Drawing up of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) in accordance with the World Bank Operational Policy 4.12 (WB OP 4.12) on Involuntary Resettlement;

4.   Review and complement of the Detailed Engineering Design, including drawings, technical specifications, bid documents, design report, bill of quantities and cost estimate.

5.   RAP implementation (amendment).

Option Period

6.   Road construction supervision;