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    RWANDA

    Estimating the Impact of


    Rural Feeder Roads in Rwanda
    What is the impact of rural road upgrading program on market
    integration and household welfare in Rwanda?

    Rwanda Feeder Roads


    Development Program
    TARGET AREA:
    21 districts across all 4 provinces.

    OBJECTIVE:
    To bring a motorable road within 2km
    of all farms in Rwanda by 2027.

    UPGRADING COMPONENTS:
    Widening to the new 6-meter
    standard (2 lanes); Adding a
    base layer and resurfacing with Upgraded rural road
    lateritic soil; Constructing drainage
    structures.
    Context
    More information about the Rwanda Feeder Rwanda’s rural road network is estimated at 15,000 km, which consists
    Roads Development Program can be found predominantly of very poor condition dirt roads with no current
    online at http://projects.worldbank.org/
    maintenance program. In 2016, only 55% of the population were within
    P126498/rwanda-feeder-roads-development-
    2km of an all-season road in good condition. The poor quality of the road
    project?lang=en&tab=overview
    network hinders trade and rural development. As most roads are not
    passable by motor vehicle, farmers rely on human and intermediate
    means of transport to bring their products to market, produce tends to
    be self-consumed instead of marketed. Poor connectivity also results in
    high inputs prices, further constraining smallholder productivity.
    PRELIMINARY RESULTS
    In this context, the Government of Rwanda (GoR) is engaged in an
    Households in the most remote ambitious rural road improvement program (Rwanda Feeder Roads
    (poorest on average) areas Development program, RFRDP), financed by four donor agencies
    experienced the largest benefits (USAID, EU, the Netherlands and the World Bank). The development
    from road rehabilitation, some saw objectives of this program are to enhance market access and reduce
    a nearly 20% increase in transport costs for people as well as goods. Over the next four years,
    income. the program will upgrade a share of Rwanda’s current feeder road
    network into an all-season, maintained dirt road system.
    Impact Evaluation Research

    Input
    Feeder road upgrades
    The key research questions of this research are: i) How are market

    Output
    prices of village imports and exports affected by improvements in Reduced transportation costs
    rural roads? ii) How do households adapt to these price changes in
    terms of goods produced and purchased? iii) What is the market Access Access to # traders on
    to market post-harvest local market
    valuation of improved road access as measured by aggregate facilities

    Outcomes
    land value changes? and iv) To what extent do roads help a region Farmers’ Consumption Price of
    develop as measured by total population? sale price choice consumption
    goods
    Private sector Sales revenues
    This Impact Evaluation (IE) uses an event study design, taking growth
    advantage of the quasi-random timing of the rollout of rural road

    Impact
    upgrading across Rwandan districts. The key outcome variables are Jobs In migration Land values Higher household welfare

    market prices, land prices, household consumption and production,


    Theory of Change
    and the key explanatory variable is road roughness before and after
    the road upgrading. Identification requires that the exact timing of
    the intervention is as good as random. In this context, idiosyncratic
    to substantial construction costs, which limits statistical power.
    factors such as donor disbursement calendars, construction
    This IE presents a unique opportunity for research and policy-
    delays, permits and weather all suggest that is indeed the case
    making, as the total number of kilometers of roads in RFRDP is
    for construction completion date for each road segment. This
    far greater than has been afforded by previous, single-donor road
    provides plausibly exogenous temporal variations in road quality.
    improvement efforts in Africa.
    The research team will have data on the exact timing of both the
    road improvement initiation and completion dates. Causal changes This IE partners with multiple international donors and the
    in outcomes of interest (i.e. prices, quantities traded) can therefore Government of Rwanda to analyze the impact of the RFRDP
    be estimated around the timing of the event (rehabilitation). program. It is anticipated that the proposed study will influence
    both policy and institutional capacity at the national level and
    Preliminary results from the subset of districts with completed
    international levels. As roads are set to be constructed all across
    segments are promising. Households in the most remote areas
    Rwanda during the next four years, this study can affect the amount
    are significantly poorer on average. However, they experience
    of funds committed in the future.
    the largest benefits from road rehabilitation. Incomes in the most
    remote villages increase nearly 20%, allowing them to fully catch The spirit of this IE is to leverage the current government’s
    up on the initial income gap. Future surveys will show if these investment in administrative data collection, complemented
    income gains persist over time. with dedicated household survey data, to document the national
    impact of a large infrastructure program. This methodology can be
    transferrable to other road infrastructure development in the rest
    Policy Relevance of Africa.
    Evaluating the impact of large-scale road upgrading on market
    conditions in remote rural areas presents a complex methodological For more information email [email protected] or visit
    challenge. Typically, a small number of roads are rehabilitated due www.worldbank.org/en/research/dime/brief/transport

    The ieConnect for Impact program links project teams with researchers to develop rigorous and
    innovative impact evaluations that both substantially improve the evidence-base for policy making and
    induce global shifts in transport policy. The ieConnect program is a collaboration between the World
    Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) unit in the Development Research Group and the
    Transport & Digital Development Global Practice (TDD). This program is part of the Impact Evaluation
    to Development Impact (i2i) multi-donor trust fund, and is supported by the UKAID’s Department of
    International Development (DFID) and the European Union (EU).

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