The World Bank says its Board of Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tors has ap­proved a new project in Haiti aimed at im­prov­ing re­silient rur­al ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty and road con­nec­tiv­i­ty in the South and North de­part­ments.

The Wash­ing­ton-based fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion said key road seg­ments tar­get­ed in­clud­ed Na­tion­al Road 2 (be­tween Les Cayes, Saint-Louis du Sud and Port de Saint-Louis du Sud), De­part­men­tal Road 41 (in the Sud-est) in the sec­tion from Oua­naminthe to­wards the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic bor­der.

“The Haiti Re­silient Cor­ri­dors Project aims to sup­port the de­cen­tral­i­sa­tion of the coun­try’s lo­gis­tics and sup­ply chain through the de­vel­op­ment of key road cor­ri­dors for the na­tion­al econ­o­my,” said Raphael Hosty, Haiti’s Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Works, Trans­porta­tion, and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.