MINISTROY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT KAMBIA DISTRICT COUNCIL PORT LOKO DISTIRICT COUNCIL THE PROJECT FOR CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR COMPREHENSIVE DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHERN REGION OF SIERRA LEONE (CDCD PROJECT) (FEEDER ROAD PLANNING AND DESIGN/ SUPERVISION AND MAINTENANCE) FINAL REPORT PART I APRIL 2016 JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY NTC INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD. EI JR 16-079 CDCD Project Final Report (Feeder Road Planning, Design/ Supervision and Maintenance) Part I Location Map KAMIBIA DISTRICT PORT LOKO DISTRICT Source: MLGRD, Gov. Sierra Leone Original picture: the Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/cia-maps-publications) for free-copy and use (date last verified on 28/Aug/2015). i CDCD Project Final Report (Feeder Road Planning, Design/ Supervision and Maintenance) Part I Location of the Feeder Road Rehabilitation Project Kambia District Port Loko District Original picture: District Assistance Coordination Office (DACO), Ministry of Finance and Economic Development/ Sierra Leone Information System (SLIS) (July, 2008), SLIS Map Code 0121 for Kambia District, 0126 for Kambia District *Objects are inserted for showing route, name of section ii CDCD Project Final Report (Feeder Road Planning, Design/ Supervision and Maintenance) Part I Port Loko district Kambi District Lungi Freetown Original picture: Same as previous picture of Kamibia district *Remained construction of PLDC (Ward 199) is shown as dotted line. iii CDCD Project Final Report (Feeder Road Planning, Design/ Supervision and Maintenance) Part I Photograph The situation of construction in Kambia district: Direction by Sensitization in routine maintenance activities of feeder KDC officer and DE to local constructor (June 2014) road (Explanation by KDC officer to community people) EVD Sensitization Meeting which was held by KDC Paramount chiefs in EVD Sensitization Meeting Meeting with leading facilitator who was posted by Ebola Sanitation items for schools and PHUs that were handed to Recovery Program (left side), RDO and ESO (PLDC KDC October) iv CDCD Project Final Report (Feeder Road Planning, Design/ Supervision and Maintenance) Part I The Project for Capacity Development for Comprehensive District Development in the Northern Region of Sierra Leone (CDCD Project) (Feeder Road Planning and Design/ Supervision and Maintenance) Final Report Part I Table of Contents Location Map Location of the Feeder Road Rehabilitation Project Photograph Page LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ...................................................................................................................... viii Chapter 1 Outline of the Feeder Road Rehabilitation Project ................................................................... 1-1 1.1 Situation of the Project and Structure of the Report ........................................................................... 1-1 1.2 Purpose of the Project ........................................................................................................................ 1-1 1.3 Concept in the End of the Activities of the Project ............................................................................ 1-1 1.4 Task Allocation of Activities of the Project ....................................................................................... 1-2 Chapter 2 Implementation of Monitoring for the Maintenance in the Feeder Road Model Project (before EVD Pandemic) ............................................................................................................................... 2-1 2.1 Major activities and work scopes ....................................................................................................... 2-1 2.2 Supervision of the Works ................................................................................................................... 2-2 2.2.1 The points in the Supervision of the Work .................................................................................. 2-2 2.2.2 The Progress of Work.................................................................................................................. 2-5 2.3 Monitoring of Planning and Implementation of Feeder Road Maintenance ...................................... 2-7 2.3.1 Overall Progress over Routine and Periodic Maintenance of Feeder Road ................................ 2-7 2.3.2 Routine Maintenance of Feeder Road ......................................................................................... 2-8 2.3.3 Periodic Maintenance of Feeder Road ...................................................................................... 2-15 2.3.4 Toward tangible access to fund source for feeder road maintenance activities ......................... 2-16 2.4 Revision of the District Development Handbook ............................................................................ 2-18 2.4.1 Procedure and Structure of the Handbook Revision ................................................................. 2-18 2.4.2 Technical Dissemination Workshop for the Models ................................................................. 2-21 2.4.3 Planning after Phase-out of the CDCD Project ......................................................................... 2-24 2.4.4 Necessary approach to model dissemination by and at district level ........................................ 2-26 Chapter 3 Impact Survey .......................................................................................................................... 3-1 3.1 Survey objectives ............................................................................................................................... 3-1 3.2 Survey duration .................................................................................................................................. 3-1 3.3 Methodology and schedule ................................................................................................................. 3-2 3.3.1 Methodology ............................................................................................................................... 3-2 3.3.2 Field data collection .................................................................................................................... 3-2 3.3.3 Survey items used to verify the impact ....................................................................................... 3-3 3.3.4 Data analysis ............................................................................................................................... 3-4 3.4 Schedule and sampling ....................................................................................................................... 3-4 3.4.1 Implementation schedule ............................................................................................................. 3-4 3.4.2 Sampling...................................................................................................................................... 3-5 3.5 Survey results ..................................................................................................................................... 3-5 3.5.1 Economic impact ......................................................................................................................... 3-5 3.5.2 Social impact ............................................................................................................................. 3-13 3.5.3 External impact ......................................................................................................................... 3-16 3.5.4 General impression concerning the road ................................................................................... 3-18 3.5.5 Routine maintenance ................................................................................................................. 3-19 Chapter 4 Interruption of the activity due to Ebola virus disease and measures ....................................... 4-1 4.1 The occurrence state of Ebola ............................................................................................................ 4-1 CDCD Project Final Report (Feeder Road Planning, Design/ Supervision and Maintenance) Part I 4.2 The Ebola outbreak and process of the influence on project .............................................................. 4-1 4.3 Transition of the Ebola situation ........................................................................................................ 4-1 4.4 The measure policy of activity planed after August, 2014 ................................................................. 4-4 4.5 The influence that expansion of the Ebola epidemic gave for the implementation activity of the DC and field person concerned ....................................................................................................................... 4-6 4.5.1 Port Loko ..................................................................................................................................... 4-6 4.5.2 Kambia ........................................................................................................................................ 4-6 4.6 The Ebola measure by other donor projects ....................................................................................... 4-7 Chapter 5 Lessons Learned and Challenges on Feeder Road Rehabilitation Project................................ 5-1 5.1 Activities carried out by local councils after the Ebola