# Garowe's 9.1 Kilometres of Completed Roads in the 2024 Bank Review

> A November 2024 World Bank implementation review records 9.1 km of completed asphalt concrete roads in Garowe under SURP-II.

- By: Editorial Team, Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com/about)
- Published: 20 September 2026
- Format: Project story (reported from one named public source)
- Publication: Somali Construction Review (https://somaliconstructionreview.com)
- Subject: Infrastructure and Services
- Place: Garowe, Puntland
- Tags: puntland, garowe, civil-engineering
- Web version: https://somaliconstructionreview.com/blog/garowes-9-1-kilometres-of-completed-roads

## Key points

- The World Bank's November 2024 implementation review records 9.1 km of completed asphalt concrete roads in Garowe, part of 32.3 km completed across four cities.
- The same review says Garowe's package 2 works and a 145 m bridge were on schedule, at 95 percent physical progress against 97 percent elapsed contract time.
- The document is a progress snapshot as of November 2024 and does not describe the current state of the works or the citywide drainage designs.

The World Bank's implementation review for the Somalia Urban Resilience Project (SURP-II), dated November 2024, records that 9.1 km of asphalt concrete roads have been completed in Garowe. The figure appears in footnote 3 of the review, which totals 32.3 km of completed asphalt concrete roads across Garowe, Kismayo, Baidoa and Mogadishu.

## What the source records

The same footnote attributes 8.3 km and 750 m of outfall drainage to Kismayo, 14.7 km to Baidoa and 0.23 km to Mogadishu. Paragraph 13 states that civil works for roads package 1 in Garowe, Kismayo, Baidoa and Mogadishu have been completed, and that package 2 works in Garowe are on schedule. Footnote 5 puts Garowe works at 95 percent progress against 97 percent elapsed time for a 145 m bridge and 1.22 km of asphalt concrete road. This is set out in the [World Bank](https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099120624164034555/pdf/P17092218ebda40fa1b865172e4172bb0b8.pdf) review.

## What it means on site

The completed package 1 works include side drainage, pedestrian walkways and some streetlighting, according to the review. For anyone pricing or supervising similar work, the mechanism to watch is the drainage: where kerb inlets and outfalls sit relative to the finished asphalt level decides whether water leaves the carriageway or ponds against it. The review notes that progress gained momentum as a contractor increased resources and completed asphalt works, so plant and material supply rate, not only labour, drove output.

> **Tip:** Ask the municipal engineer's office which roads package 1 covered in Garowe before pricing any adjacent works, and confirm cover, compaction and drainage levels against the project specification rather than a rule of thumb.

## What the source does not establish

The review is a progress snapshot as of November 2024. It does not describe the present condition of these roads, and the completed figure is a record of works finished at that date, not a statement about maintenance since. It reports designs for Garowe citywide drainage as due by December 2024, which is a design deliverable, not a completed drainage network. Delays it attributes to Kismayo, including equipment breakdown and contractor cashflow, are recorded for that city and cannot be transferred to Garowe.

## What to do next

Request the completion certificates and as-built drawings for Garowe roads package 1 and package 2 from the project implementation unit, together with the supervision consultant's reports, and ask which drainage outfalls were built under those packages.

## Questions

### How many kilometres of roads has Garowe completed under SURP-II?

The World Bank's November 2024 implementation review records 9.1 km of asphalt concrete roads completed in Garowe, as stated in footnote 3 of that document.

### Does the review say Garowe's road works are still running?

Paragraph 13 states that package 2 works in Garowe are on schedule, and footnote 5 puts works at 95 percent physical progress against 97 percent elapsed time for a 145 m bridge and 1.22 km of asphalt concrete road.

## Sources

- [SURP-II roads and bridge](https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099120624164034555/pdf/P17092218ebda40fa1b865172e4172bb0b8.pdf) — World Bank, November 2024 mission (Implementation review; pDF pages 5–6; paragraph 13; footnotes 3 and 5.)