{"id":4231,"date":"2017-03-22T17:52:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecgsa.com\/?project=kakamega-webuye-road-a1"},"modified":"2020-02-12T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T14:40:43","slug":"kakamega-webuye-road-a1","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.ecgsa.com\/project\/kakamega-webuye-road-a1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakamega-Webuye Road (A1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Being a part of Kisumu-Kitale Road network, the 40 km Kakamega-Webuye Road is classified by the Kenyan Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure as “Class A1: International Trunk Road”. The road plays an important role in import\/export traffic, linking Tanzania-Kenya-Sudan with Uganda and Ethiopia, serving about 19.8 million people in Western Kenya as well as facilitating trade and regional integration.<\/p>\n
The road connects areas with greater weights of business activities including eco-tourism, industrialization, market diversification, financial institutions among other sectors; which leads to improving the living standards of the people in the area and creates potential economic opportunities including agriculture, livestock, forestry and minerals, fisheries, wildlife and tourism.<\/p>\n
The project works include the following:<\/p>\n