GMS: Cambodia Northwest Provincial Road Improvement Project

Asian Development Fund US$33.00 million
Thematic Classification: Sustainable Economic Growth

Project Rationale:
Due to low access to markets and other social services, including along key natural and cultural tourism sites, there is an urgent need to improve connectivity within northwestern Cambodia. Through rehabilitation of the unpaved road sections of National Road (NR) 56 and upgrading of the cross border facilities with Thailand at O'Smach, the project will improve connectivity in northwestern Cambodia as well as its links with national road network as well as with regional transport corridors, thus increasing its producers and traders access to markets and its populations access to social services. It will also effectively support regional trade and cooperation between Thailand and Cambodia. Further, the project will assist the Government in its ongoing routine road maintenance and road safety programs.
The projects main benefits, therefore, are: (i) improved access to agricultural and tourist areas in the northwestern parts of Cambodia, with reduced travel time and transport costs, and (ii) improved regional cooperation between Cambodia and Thailand. Such regional cooperation will be actualized through: (i) improved cross-border facility at OSmach; (ii) more sustained routine road maintenance program of MPWT that will reduce road user costs and road agency costs; and (iii) improved road safety in Cambodia, thus, reducing losses due to traffic accidents.

Impact:
The impact of the project will be to initiate rehabilitation of the network of secondary national roads to reestablish dependable and economically efficient links between the rural roads networks and the primary national roads network.

Outcome:
The Project outcome will (i) provide reliable all-year road access from provincial towns and rural areas to markets, employment, and social services such as advanced health and education facilities; (ii) provide access to historical and natural sites that can form the basis for development of the tourism industry; and (iii) increase the efficiency of the transport sector by enabling more direct routes to international border crossings that facilitate bilateral trade. The roads will promote economic development in rural areas and provincial centers and facilitate social development by reducing remoteness. The project will achieve this by improving selected secondary national highways, specifically: (i) rehabilitating NR56 from Sisophon to Samraong (114 km); and (ii) upgrading the border post on the Cambodia-Thailand border at Osmach.

Outputs:
Rehabilitated road links that provide access to agricultural and tourist areas in the northwestern region of Cambodia, and an important secondary border crossings between Cambodia and Thailand that supports improved regional cooperation. Improved ongoing routine road maintenance program of MPWT. Continued improvements in implementing the road safety action plan.


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Regarding to this information i am very delight to hear and Cambodia will be expend the road that can help in transportation system that easy for traveling prom provinces to provinces and in the text it will connect to Thai ( Siem) country that is a neighbor country.

For this a part of my delight i also feel sad if the ministry of Public Work and Transport do not regard the traffic flow, traffic sign and some accessories but it very important to road user like sidewalk especially for disable person.

Another one without road safety education the number of road traffic accident will dramatically increase a long this new road (NR 56)