Roads for Development (R4D) Phase II

Roads for Development (R4D) is a Timor-Leste Government (GoTL) program which the Australian Government (GoA) supports with technical assistance. R4D works to improve the management and condition of the rural road network in Timor-Leste. Australia’s R4D Support Program (R4D-SP) works to strengthen the capacity of the National Directorate of Roads, Bridges and Flood Control (DRBFC) within the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MPWTC) to oversee rehabilitation and maintenance of rural roads using private sector contractors. The first phase of R4D ran from 2012 to 2016. GoA and GoTL have agreed to fund a second phase. This Design Update Annex (DUA) is not a new design for R4D, the scope of the program remains essentially unchanged. The changes encompassed in the DUA are adjustments in the approach to reflect lessons learned, progress made and the evolving context in Timor-Leste throughout Phase I. The original Program Design Document remains the primary design document. The DUA should be used as an annex to the original design. Together, the two documents will direct the program for a second, four-year period, Phase II, from 2017 to 2020. Australia’s Phase II support will be known as the Roads for Development Support Program (R4D-SP). The Phase II End-of-Program Outcome defines the basis for a functioning and sustainable rural roads sector: selected rural communities throughout Timor-Leste are connected by rehabilitated and systematically maintained, core rural roads in line with the GoTL Rural Roads Master Plan. These ‘core rural roads’ are the 1975 km of existing rural roads that connect rural sukus to urban areas, national roads or municipal roads.

Project symbol

TLS/16/03/AUS

Admin unit

CO-Jakarta

Start date

01/04/2017

End date

30/06/2021

Total allocation

15587538

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

15587538

Development Partners

Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Country/Countries

Timor-Leste

Outcomes

Outcome 3: Economic, social and environmental transitions for full, productive and freely chosen employment and decent work for all