Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program (Project 3)

Implementation delays. The project experienced substantial implementation delays, which led to extra project costs and postponed the project's anticipated socioeconomic benefits. The government should analyze the reasons for these and develop practical measures to prevent recurrence of the same issues, including careful scheduling of project implementation, better contract management, and on-site monitoring of contractor performance. Subprojects with land donation issues might require longer time to resolve; this could be identified during the subproject selection for inclusion in the subsequent tranches under the investment program, for example.