Actively engaging key government agencies can provide the much-needed oversight and intervention to facilitate the timely and effective resolution of design and implementation issues emerging from project implementation, especially those that ADB will have extremely limited control over. The borrower and executing agencies coordinated with security forces to grant consultants’ permission to enter army-controlled areas, ensure their security and safety, and arrange basic facilities for them. Such facilitation minimized delay in preparatory work. They also worked with security forces to expedite ground-clearing work, particularly the removal of landmines, to immediately mobilize contractors following the award of contracts.
Northern Road Connectivity Project