RCE Greater Yenagoa - 2023

SUSTAINABLE ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN GBARAIN/EKPETIAMA, OKORDIA/ZARAMA AND KOLO CREEK CLUSTERS AS COMPONENT OF DIVERSIFIED DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION MIX
Basic Information
Title of project : 
SUSTAINABLE ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN GBARAIN/EKPETIAMA, OKORDIA/ZARAMA AND KOLO CREEK CLUSTERS AS COMPONENT OF DIVERSIFIED DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION MIX
Submitting RCE: 
RCE Greater Yenagoa
Contributing organization(s) : 
Gbarain/Ekpetiama Cluster Development Board, Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board, Okordia/Zarama Cluster Development Board
& Community Inter-Relations and Conciliation Initiative (CIRCI)
Focal point(s) and affiliation(s)
Name: 
Hon. Profit Bibobra
Organizational Affiliation: 
Gbarain/Ekpetiama Cluster Development Board
E-mail: 
bibobarap@gmail.com
Name: 
Hon. Barr. Ebelema Danadana
Organizational Affiliation: 
Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board
E-mail: 
ebelema14@gmail.com
Name: 
Hon. Jerusalem Adikagbue
Organizational Affiliation: 
Okordia/Zarama Cluster Development Board
E-mail: 
jerusglobal@gmail.com
Name: 
Sir Anthony Wakwe Lawrence
Organizational Affiliation: 
Community Inter-Relations and Conciliation Initiative
E-mail: 
tonylawrence942@gmail.com
Format of project: 
manuscript
Language of project: 
English
Date of submission:
Update
Does this project link to any education and/or sustainable development policy or policies?: 
Yes
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/QgrcJHrnqzNNLHNdnTTqlHTxznDLnsRqqnq?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1
At what level is the policy operating?: 
National
Geographical & Education Information
Region: 
Africa and Middle East
Country: 
Nigeria
Location(s): 
Bayelsa state, Yenagoa
Address of focal point institution for project: 
G/E Cluster Development Board, 32 Customs Street.Biogbolo, Yenagoa. Bayelsa state. Nigeria
Ecosystem(s):
Urban/Peri-urban
Target Audience:
Community
Socioeconomic and environmental characteristics of the area : 
RCE Greater Yenagoa covers four local government areas in the Bayelsa state of Nigeria. Yenagoa and its environs are, mainly, lowlands and wetlands that, are seasonally flooded with many rivers and rivulets crisscrossing the whole area. The coastal areas have mangrove vegetation, which provides several ecosystem services for the sustenance of the livelihood of the people fishing and farming such crops as cassava, plantain, banana, and other short-season crops such as maize and vegetables.
Description of sustainable development challenge(s) in the area the project addresses: 
Flooding is a global challenge now due to climate change effects and the remedy is beyond the capacity of the community and regional government. However, early warning will continue to save lives.
Contents
Status: 
Ongoing
Period: 
August, 2018
Rationale: 
The process of participatory planning and implementation of the intervention is educative and builds the capacities of the beneficiaries.
Objectives: 
This is mainly an infrastructure improvement project to enable community members to move around easily.
Provide a basis for community team building and capacity building.
Activities and/or practices employed: 
The first block representing the pre-contracting phase is critical for a successful implementation of an intervention. It shows the steps of participatory planning, community education/enlightenment talks, needs assessment, problem priority ranking, and intervention selection.
The second block explains the following: identifying the budget available, scoping the intervention in line with budget availability, advertising for pre-qualified contractors to tender for the jobs, and awarding the contract.
The last block is equally very important, as the beneficiaries are part of the monitoring and approval of payments for completed milestones. At the end of the project implementation, the beneficiaries are equally part of the project commissioning, so that some feedback and possible learning points are gathered for posterity.  
Size of academic audience: 
350
Results: 
Out of eighty (80) road projects completed by these three development clusters between 2018 and 2023, nineteen (19) of the roads were completed within the reporting period of September 2022 to August 2023. The total cost of the nineteen road projects from start to completion was approximately Seven Hundred and Two Thousand One Hundred and forty US Dollars and Twenty-One cents ($702,140.21). This figure was derived by dividing the actual Naira cost equivalent of the project by 440. Though the exchange rates were not static during the project implementation period, as Naira got devalued from about 325 Naira to 1 US Dollar in 2018 to about 460 just before the end of 2022. For this report, we used the estimated exchange rate of 440 Naira to 1 USD for convenience only.
Lessons learned: 
Every intervention emerged through beneficiary participation.
The facilitating community-developed expert (in this case NGO) is critical to ensure the success of the implementation.
The engagement of a sustainable development, consultant affiliated to RCE Greater Yenagoa by the sponsor to facilitate the process helped.
Infrastructure projects should be implemented by competent consultants or contractor
Key messages: 
In developing nations, there is high deficit of necessary infrastructure projects; they therefore apply some funds to implementing some critical infrastructure like this road project etc. These communities use a portion of their funds to implement human capital and other human development interventions like improving access to education etc.
Relationship to other RCE activities: 
This is an intra-RCE network activity. It did not involve other RCEs.
Funding: 
100% of the cost of the projects was sponsored and funded by Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited

Pictures:

File Name Caption for picture Photo Credit
Image icon KOLO CREEK ROAD PICTURES.png (349.73 KB) THREE COMMUNITY ROADS COMPLETED IN THE KOLO CREEK CLUSTER KOLO CREEK CDB
Image icon OKORDIA ROAD PICTURES.png (533.13 KB) 5 COMMUNITY ROADS COMPLETED IN OKORDIA/ZARAMA CLUSTER OKORDIA/ZARAMA CDB
Image icon GBARAIN ROADS PICTURE.png (878.98 KB) TEN COMMUNITY ROADS COMPLETED IN GBARAIN/EKPETIAMA CLUSTER GBARAIN/EKPETIAMA CDB
References and reference materials: 
PDF icon NEW FINAL ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY 3 BAYELSA CLUSTERS.pdf
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
(https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs) and other themes of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
SDG 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages 
Direct
SDG 4 - Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all 
Indirect
SDG 9 - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation 
Direct
SDG 11 - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable 
Direct
SDG 13 - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts 
Direct
Theme
Disaster Risk Reduction 
Direct
Traditional Knowledge  
Indirect
Ecotourism 
Indirect
ESD for 2030-Priority Action Areas
Priority Action Area 2 - Transforming learning and training environments 
state: 
Indirect
Priority Action Area 4 - Mobilizing youth 
state: 
Indirect
Priority Action Area 5 - Accelerating sustainable solutions at local level 
state: 
Indirect
Update: 
Yes
I acknowledge the above: 
Yes