Principle
For most RAP districts, there is little interest or concern about road maintenance. Rather, the pressure is on to have more roads. But the unavoidable truth is that without maintenance at around 1.5% of the investment, the initial investment will certainly be lost. Getting this idea over to governments and politicians is hard, and so in RAP2, a maintenance component was introduced on the basis that for the three year period of RAP2 at least, roads would be kept open and used to the full extent, and that the politicians and the people would see regular traffic on the RAP roads, when other roads were in the constant crises of emergency fixes. Over a three year period, RAP would give technical assistance to the road managers (District Technical Officers and their staff) and RAP would fund 70% in year 1, 30% in year 2 and just the TA in year 3.