This sub-project was approved by the Ministry of Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives (MoLGRD&C) on 01 January 2018 and will continue till December 2022.

Output of LGED Part:

• Improved capacity of selected public institutions to achieve resilience outcomes through designing and constructing risk-informed, disability inclusive and gender-responsive infrastructure

Result Areas

• Strengthen Local Government Engineering Department capacity to capture baseline information on rural infrastructure systems through establishing an Asset Management System (AMS).
• Improve the design standards of LGED for new assets and develop tools for build-back-better in reconstruction of assets to ensure infrastructure systems are resilient and gender responsive. (Joint Initiatives)
• Collaboration with other institutions on risk-informed and resilient infrastructure system and disseminate knowledge and share best practices and lessons learned.
• Strengthened Local Government Engineering Department leadership, policy and compliance capacity around risk-informed and gender responsive infrastructure approach with focus on asset management system.

Key Achievement

• Established Asset Management System in LGED and incorporated resilient elements in LGED Road Design Standard.
• Developed Professional Development Strategy, Capacity Building Plan, and Training Programme for LGED engineers and trainer pool for capacity building of other public institutions on asset management.