The presence of ADB in such a consortium gives added credence to the project’s viability. Project-level lessons. The validation views that community-based routine rural road maintenance by women proved successful resulting in lower costs and improved work. The approach, using performance-based contracting, addressed the funding shortage to maintain rural roads and assisted poor women in rural communities. This approach to routine rural road maintenance should prove to be a model for similar activities in other provinces not only in PRC but also in other countries. In addition, a better design of consulting services is needed to more adequately assess the quality of expertise available locally. Under the project, the services of bridge, tunnel, and pavement experts were canceled from the consulting services since Yunnan had their own experts. Better due diligence of local technical capacity is needed in future projects.
Yunnan Integrated Road Network Development Project