📋 Tender Overview
Approval Date 08 Dec 2023
Planned Completion Date 19 Jan 2028
Last Disbursement Planned Date 19 Jan 2028
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign Sovereign
Sector Transport
DAC Sector Code 21030
Environmental Category: 1 Climate Safeguards Categorization: 1
Gender Marker System Categorization: GEN II
Commitment U.A 75,000,000
Status Approved
Project General Description
This intervention concerns the Tanzania-Burundi Standard Gauge Ralways SGR Phase II. It is designed to enhance regional integration and reap the benefits of integrated markets and economies of scale resulting from joint development and operations, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are developing a phased Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) programme centred around the Port of Dares-Salaam and the Central Transport Corridor. The project comprizes six (06) main components : (i) Design and Build of Lot 6: Tabora – Kigoma SGR (Tanzania); (ii) Design and Build of Lot 7: Uvinza – Malagarasi SGR section (Tanzania) ; (iii) Design and Build of the Malagarasi – Musongati SGR(Burundi); (iv) Capacity Building and Technical Assistance; (v) Support for the joint Project Coordination Team (PCT); (vi) Consultancies for strategic studies and sensitization; and (vii) Rap Implementation. The project cost is estimated at USD 3,929.46 million, including 12.5% financial and 12.5% physical contingencies. Tanzania sections will cost USD 3,209.27 million, while the Burundi section will cost USD 720.19 million.
Project Objectives
The development objective of the project is to improve transport connectivity along Central Corridor to enhance regional integration and trade and incentivize large-scale mining and farming and through access to high-capacity railway transport service.
Beneficiaries
Since the railway is built to carry mining, agricultural and general cargo passengers. Then, the project immediate beneficiaries will be the mine operators, farmers, and the general population, who will benefit from access to efficient transport services, and the governments of Burundi and Tanzania, who will benefit from the commercial exploitation of mineral wealth.
Participating Organization
Funding Transition Support Facility
Funding African Development Fund
Implementing Tanzania Railways Corporation
