Rwanda Emergency Connectivity Restoration Project — Rwanda

Overview

The Rwanda Emergency Connectivity Restoration Project aims to restore road connections damaged by the May 2023 floods and landslides in a climate-resilient manner. These events severely affected the road network, particularly in the western and northern parts of the country, disrupting access to markets, schools, health centres and other socioeconomic infrastructure.

The programme mainly finances the targeted rehabilitation or reconstruction of damaged national roads, district roads and bridges. It also includes climate-resilience measures such as slope stabilisation, reforestation, improved drainage and reinforcement of vulnerable structures. The operational target covers approximately 380 km of roads, in addition to the affected structures.

The World Bank approved the project in April 2024 and it became effective on 25 July 2024. In the latest identified public progress report, dated 3 October 2025, works had begun on several national roads while district-road and bridge contracts were at different stages of award. The World Bank rated both progress toward the development objective and overall implementation progress Satisfactory.