UK-Peru partnership shares infrastructure delivery expertise
An infrastructure delivery partnership with the Peruvian Government is showing how UK engineering expertise can be shared internationally.
Excessive rainfall battered the Peruvian coast in early 2017, triggering serious flooding and fatal landslides. The extreme weather event has been attributed to a coastal El Niño climate pattern, which involves the unusual warming of surface water in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
The monsoon-like downpours and subsequent landslides were the worst to hit Peru in almost a century, causing more than 100 fatalities, leaving thousands homeless and destroying critical infrastructure.
As part of the drive to rebuild and protect these affected communities, the Peruvian Government established the Authority for Reconstruction with Changes (ARCC) to deliver an ambitious reconstruction programme.
Contract packages under the Government-to-Government (G2G) agreement with the UK have been signed to implement projects worth S/600 million (about US$ 158 million) in Peru's health and education sectors.
Photo: ANDINA/Presidency of the Council of Ministers
08:00 | Lima, May. 26. Contract packages under the Government-to-Government (G2G) agreement with the UK have been signed to implement projects worth S/600 million (about US$ 158 million) in Peru s health and education sectors.
Presided over by Peru s Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez, the signing ceremony took place at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
According to the Cabinet chief, these signatures signify the completion of the Transition and Emergency Government s plans for both sectors, through the Government-to-Government agreement signed by the Authority for Reconstruction with Changes.
This moment is very important for us, in our capacity as Transition and Emergency Government, because this signature consolidates a stage that let s say is before the closure of initiatives related to the reconstruction of schools and hospitals, the government official remarked.
Peru reconstruction work picks up speed 4 years after devastating floods 2 minutes read
By Fernando Gimeno
Lima, May 13 (EFE).- An ambitious multi-billion-dollar reconstruction plan for flood-hit northern Peru is picking up speed after four years, a process given fresh impetus by the involvement of the United Kingdom.
The construction work encompasses 13 of the Andean nation’s 25 regions but is primarily focused on the northwestern regions of Tumbes, Piura, Lambayeque and La Libertad, which were hardest hit by a natural disaster that left 162 dead and 300,000 homeless and destroyed 400 schools, 70 medical centers, 4,400 kilometers (2,730 miles) of roads and nearly 500 bridges.
A total of 4,100 infrastructure projects have been concluded to date, more than half of them over the past year, according to the executive director of the Authority for Reconstruction with Changes (ARCC), Amalia Moreno, who took office in late 2019.