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Planning Rural Roads - Knowledge and Funds

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Summary of Key Questions. What kind of road? What will it cost? Who will maintain it? Roads and poverty reduction. Intermediate means of transport (IMT). Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning. 2000, 2004 by Henri Baeyens. 2007 by Karin Michel. Ensuring that those who manage and maintain them are trained and funded. The organisation of road maintenance. Road management in Africa has also seen many reversals but on a shorter time scale. In fact this more or less organic if hesitant growth from local ...

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Planning Rural Roads - Road Selection

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Summary of Key Questions. What kind of road? What will it cost? Who will maintain it? Roads and poverty reduction. Intermediate means of transport (IMT). Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning. 2000, 2004 by Henri Baeyens. 2007 by Karin Michel. Selecting those roads which best meet local needs. Rural roads, sometimes called low-volume roads because of the lack of motor traffic, are part of a linked hierarchy of networks. These networks. Selection methods range from a single-criterion index of benefit, p...

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Planning Rural Roads - Combatting corruption

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Summary of Key Questions. What kind of road? What will it cost? Who will maintain it? Roads and poverty reduction. Intermediate means of transport (IMT). Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning. 2000, 2004 by Henri Baeyens. 2007 by Karin Michel. Corruption still remains a major problem in road construction and maintenance, with globalisation having perhaps exacerbated the problem. Though bribery, intimidation and fraud remain rife within the sector, they hide themselves beneath a veneer of apparent c...

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Planning Rural Roads - Labour-Based Works

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Summary of Key Questions. What kind of road? What will it cost? Who will maintain it? Roads and poverty reduction. Intermediate means of transport (IMT). Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning. 2000, 2004 by Henri Baeyens. 2007 by Karin Michel. From an ILO newsletter of 1991 (artist? Became necessary at the turn of the century to replace labour which was becoming ever more expensive and scarce. However, in many third world countries labour is now abundant. The International Labor Organisation. Labour-ba...

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Planning Rural Roads - Choice of Construction Technology

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Summary of Key Questions. What kind of road? What will it cost? Who will maintain it? Roads and poverty reduction. Intermediate means of transport (IMT). Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning. 2000, 2004 by Henri Baeyens. 2007 by Karin Michel. Why use labour-based technology? It should be added that road improvement projects in rural areas are small and remote. Heavy equipment is expensive to mobilise, difficult to deploy on site without causing excessive environmental damage. For this reason construct...

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Planning Rural Roads - Roads and Poverty Reduction

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Summary of Key Questions. What kind of road? What will it cost? Who will maintain it? Roads and poverty reduction. Intermediate means of transport (IMT). Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning. 2000, 2004 by Henri Baeyens. 2007 by Karin Michel. Roads and Poverty Reduction. Poverty is easy to recognize but difficult to define. Vollmann. To where they and their produce need to go is definitely a contributing factor to their deprivation. The basic access. However, providing road access to poor and isolated...

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Planning Rural Roads -

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Summary of Key Questions. What kind of road? What will it cost? Who will maintain it? Roads and poverty reduction. Intermediate means of transport (IMT). Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning. 2000, 2004 by Henri Baeyens. 2007 by Karin Michel. Planning rural roads in developing countries. Ignoring the links between roads, mobility and accessibility leads to yet more unused roads and wasted funds. Again, for a road to be sustainable, its maintenance. Must be undertaken by those who have the knowledge, f...

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Planning Rural Roads - Low-Cost Road Surfaces

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Summary of Key Questions. What kind of road? What will it cost? Who will maintain it? Roads and poverty reduction. Intermediate means of transport (IMT). Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning. 2000, 2004 by Henri Baeyens. 2007 by Karin Michel. Is expensive, especially for periodic re-gravelling, which is typically required at three to five year intervals, Therefore gravel roads are rarely maintained systematically. Fortunately, there are alternative surfacing and paving options. Suitability will depend...

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Planning Rural Roads -

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Summary of Key Questions. What kind of road? What will it cost? Who will maintain it? Roads and poverty reduction. Intermediate means of transport (IMT). Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning. 2000, 2004 by Henri Baeyens. 2007 by Karin Michel. Gender equality in roadworks. Drawing from the increasing numbers of examples of good practice available, there are a number of proven measures to promote gender equality in labour-based roadworks. These include:. 3) Require contractors to recruit a new workforce...