Laos – Greater Mekong Subregion East-West Economic Corridor Agriculture Infrastructure Sector Project
PROJECT DETAILS
| Region: | Asia - Southeast Asia |
| Country: | Laos |
| Location within Country: | Two southern provinces of Savannakhet and Saravane |
| Client: | Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic |
| Funding Source: | Asian Development Bank (ADB) |
| Date: | November 2015 - December 2016 |
| Category: | Agriculture Development |
| Service: | Project Management |
| Brief Narrative Description of Project:
The project aimed to regenerate and upgrade existing but underdeveloped or outdated agriculture infrastructures in the two target provinces over a period of eight years. The proposed project is consistent with the government’s sector development objectives as presented in its Seventh National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2011-2015), Strategy for Agricultural Development to 2020, Agricultural Master Plan 2011-2015, which promotes the expansion of market-oriented agricultural production in an environmentally-sensitive manner. It will be a key component in the government’s new Southern Rural Development Program (SRDP), which is currently under formulation with the support of IFAD. |
| Description of Actual Services Provided in this Assignment:
The consultant’s scope of work involved the following tasks: a) Irrigation Engineer 2 – Establish the Quality Assurance Regime for the irrigation sub-projects; – Prepare construction supervision quality control guidelines to be followed by the national consultants appointed to carry out this task; – Carry out field inspections of the project sites including interviews with intended farmers beneficiaries and officials/member of WUAs/WUGs; – Undertake the necessary technical surveys to allow the preparation of the layout and technical design of proposed subproject works; – Ensure that canal design is appropriate given the characteristics of the command area and cropping alternatives; – Prepare technical designs of the sub-projects to feasibility study level and prepare costs to a level to allow economic and financial due diligence to be undertaken; – During the design phase pay special attention to minimizing any disturbance to the natural environmental and mitigating corrective measures and appropriate; – Audit the design for safety and provide guidance according to mitigate any potential hazards; – Review the first years’ operations of each sub-project in order to identify and correct and design or construction deficiency and ensure that operation and maintenance (O&M) activities are being undertaken as planned and required. |
