The objectives of the NRIP is to stabilise the condition of the national road network, through a series of interventions such as (i) improving the efficiency of transport services in the northern region of Vietnam by selective improvement of the national road network, (ii) preserving existing road assets through a three year rolling program of strategic periodic maintenance on the core national road network, (iii) enhancing the processes and institutional and financial framework for sustained maintenance of the national road network through capacity building and institutional strengthening of the VRA.
The improvement works will mainly cover the Northern and North Central Regions, while the network preservation component will cover national roads in the entire country.