Procurement Summary
Country : Philippines
Summary : Facilitator for Detailed Engineering Design Training-Workshop
Deadline : 19 Nov 2018
Other Information
Notice Type : Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 28264475
Document Ref. No. : 51331
Competition : ICB
Financier : United Nations Secretariat
Purchaser Ownership : -
Tender Value : Refer Document
Purchaser's Detail
Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
Philippines
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A. Project Description and Objectives Efficient, resilient, and well-planned road networks ensure that no one is left behind in the drive for inclusive growth. This is why roads are considered as an important foundation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and a prerequisite for bringing communities together.At present, only 24.6% of all provincial roads inthe Philippines are of acceptable quality. Of the 12, 726km of provincial core roads, 57.2% are unpaved and in need of upgrading, while 20.2% are in poor condition and in need of rehabilitation. The situation is similarly dire for the 19, 098 km of non-core roads, with 67% needing upgrading and 7% in need of rehabilitation.To address this situation, the Department for theInterior and Local Government (DILG) has launched the Conditional Matching Grant to Provinces (CMGP) initiative to improve the quality of the local road network across the country, by providing both financial investment for capital outlay, as well as strengthening the governance processes so that provincial governments are themselves able to effectively plan, design, implement and maintain their road networks. The Program addresses the underinvestment in local roads, and improvement of national-local roads connectivity to increase economic activity, and improve public access to facilities and services in the provinces. For FY 2017 General Appropriations Act (GAA), the Program has a total budget of P18.03 Billion under the LocalGovernment Support Fund (LGSF). Aside from this, the DILG budget also has an allocation of P564.256 Million for FY 2017 intended to support the governance reform, quality assurance, and monitoring of road projects of the PLGUs.The Program, however, is not only a road engineering intervention, it is also a governance reform program in local roads management (LRM) andpublic financial management (PFM). Thus, in partnership with DILG, UNDP has launched the project "Paving the Roads to SDGs through Good Governance (Roads2...
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