Road Maintenance and Improvement Project

Implementing policy reforms entails a complex and long-term process of change. The legislation and policy measures that were enacted required fundamental changes to the roles of several concerned institutions. These types of reforms can take longer than anticipated, adding uncertainty to the realization of actual outputs and outcomes. The full extent of reforms, especially to institutional arrangements, may extend well beyond the usual administrative life of a project loan. Also, performance targets during the operating period can entail time lags that require a longer time frame than the development period of the loan to be fully measured.