The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Vietnam Scaling up Urban Upgrading Project (P159397) Vietnam Scaling up Urban Upgrading Project (P159397) EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC | Vietnam | Urban, Resilience and Land Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2017 | Seq No: 10 | ARCHIVED on 29-Jun-2022 | ISR51821 | Implementing Agencies: Construction-investment Project Management Unit of Bac Lieu city, Construction-investment Project Management Unit of Tan An city, Construction-investment Project Management Unit of Vi Thanh city, Investment Projects Management Unit of Ben Tre city, ODA Project Management Unit of Vinh Long province, Soc Trang Department of Construction, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Urban Upgrading Project Management Unit of Long Xuyen city Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 30-May-2017 Effectiveness Date: 24-Dec-2018 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 12-Jul-2021 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 24-Sep-2021 Original Closing Date: 31-Dec-2023 Revised Closing Date: 31-Dec-2023 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) To improve access to infrastructure in priority city areas and improve urban planning in the participating cities Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No Components Table Name Tertiary Infrastructure Upgrading in Low Income Areas:(Cost $62.80 M) Priority Primary and Secondary Infrastructure:(Cost $228.90 M) Resettlement Sites:(Cost $10.20 M) Project Management Support:(Cost $28.00 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Unsatisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Unsatisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Moderate Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions The Project Development Objective is to improve access to infrastructure in priority areas and improve urban planning in the participating cities. Implementation has made good progress in the past months, and presently, 242,179 people are provided with improved living conditions and 34,086 people have access to improved basic urban infrastructure facilities and services thanks to investments in tertiary infrastructure upgrading in low income areas and priority and secondary infrastructure in the targeted cities of Bac Lieu, Ben Tre, Long Xuyen, Soc Trang, Tan An, Vi Thanh, and Vinh Long. This includes 22.46 km of new and improved lanes and 4.42 km of rehabilitated drainage canals in low income areas; 5,962 households with new or improved connection to sewer lines; 21.35 km of constructed/improved secondary road; and there are 19 km of 6/29/2022 Page 1 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Vietnam Scaling up Urban Upgrading Project (P159397) rehabilitated or newly constructed drainage, among other results. In addition, 2 cities, Vinh Long and Long Xuyen, have approved updated city construction master plans approved by the provincial authorities. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance Moderate Low Low Macroeconomic Moderate Moderate Moderate Sector Strategies and Policies Low Low Low Technical Design of Project or Program Moderate Moderate Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Substantial Moderate Moderate Sustainability Fiduciary Substantial Moderate Moderate Environment and Social Substantial Substantial Substantial Stakeholders Low Low Low Other -- Moderate Moderate Overall Substantial Moderate Moderate Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Improve access to infrastructure in priority city areas IN01152505 ►People Provided with Improved Living Conditions (of which female, of which bottom 40 percent) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 125,000.00 242,179.00 500,000.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. The result reflects the cumulative number of people living in urban areas that have been provided with access to improved services, neighborhoods, public spaces, parks, resilience, and/or urban environmental conditions, through the direct interventions of operations supported by the Comments: World Bank. (Of which, 122,542 female, 10,050 poor). Information source: PMUs. IN01152507 6/29/2022 Page 2 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Vietnam Scaling up Urban Upgrading Project (P159397) ►Number of people with access to improved basic urban infrastructure facilities and services in targeted low income areas (of which female, of which bottom 40 percent) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 15,000.00 34,086.00 90,000.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. The result reflects the number of direct beneficiaries of Component 1 investments. Comments: Of 34,086 beneficiaries, 17,254 are females and 1,415 are poor(mornitoring system source) IN01152509 ►Increased user satisfaction with the quality of basic infrastructure constructed under the project (of which female, of which bottom 40 percent) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 70.00 70.00 80.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 This result is as per the YR5 target. A beneficiary satisfaction survey will be administered 2021 to people receiving infrastructure and services under this project. Data will be disaggregated by poverty rate and Comments: gende by end of the project. The satisfaction rate is estimated by participating PMUs. Improve urban planning in the participating cities IN01152506 ►Number of Low Income Areas with Community Upgrading Plans prepared and implemented in accordance with the participatory process (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 12.00 30.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. Community Upgrading Plans (CUPs) of 12 communities have been designed with active community participationand implemented with participatory approaches. These CUPs take into Comments: account lessons learnt from past projects. Information source:: Progress reports from PMUs. IN01152508 ►Number of cities with revised master plans (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 2.00 3.00 3.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. The cities with the revised master plans are Vinh Long, Vi Thanh and Long Xuyen. The revisions were in line with the project’s key principles of integrated urban planning and citizen Comments: participation. Plans were approved by the relevant Provincial People's Committees in 2020 (Information souce: PMUs). Intermediate Results Indicators by Components 6/29/2022 Page 3 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Vietnam Scaling up Urban Upgrading Project (P159397) Tertiary Infrastructure Upgrading in Low Income Areas IN01152510 ►Length of new or improved lanes in LIAs (Kilometers, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 9.80 22.46 60.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved.The result reflects improved lanes in add locations and breakdown results to make a total Comments: source: PMUs. IN01152514 ►Length of new or rehabilitated drainage canals in LIAs (Kilometers, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 7.00 4.42 19.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. Drainage canals were rehabilitated in all planned investment. The result presented is lower than the previous value reported because overestimated in previous mission. During Comments: this mission, the project monitoring consultants verified the figures source: PMUs. IN01152518 ►Households with new or improved household connections to sewer lines (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 3,200.00 5,962.00 15,000.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. Information source: PMUs. Comments: IN01152521 ►Number of direct beneficiaries in LIAs with enhanced protection from rainfall flooding (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 9,000.00 34,086.00 90,000.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. This indicator measures the number of people that directly benefit from Comments: investments in embankments and drainage systems that reduce rainfall flood risk. Priority Primary and Secondary Infrastructure IN01152511 ►Length of new or improved primary or secondary roads (Kilometers, Custom) 6/29/2022 Page 4 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Vietnam Scaling up Urban Upgrading Project (P159397) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 6.00 21.35 48.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. The 21.35 km result reflects works achived significantly in Vi Thanh, Vinh Comments: Long, and other cities. Information source: PMUs. IN01152515 ►Length of rehabilitated or newly constructed drainage (Kilometers, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 18.00 19.00 32.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. Information souce: PMUs. Comments: IN01152519 ►Length of new or rehabilitated canal embankment (of which designed and installed with ‘green infrastructure principles”) (Kilometers, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 2.50 3.37 29.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. Canal embankments were built/rehabilitated in all participated cities. Green Comments: infrastructure principles included soft-embankments . Information souce: PMUs. Resettlement Sites IN01152512 ►New serviced plots constructed (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 338.00 338.00 310.00 Date 10-May-2019 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 and end targets exceeded. The services plots were constructed in Long Xuyen city and allocation to Comments: affected households. Information source: PMUs. IN01152516 ►Serviced plots provided to relocated households (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 338.00 338.00 380.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target exceeded. Serviced plots were provided to relocated households in Long Xuyen Source: Comments: Progress report from PMU 6/29/2022 Page 5 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Vietnam Scaling up Urban Upgrading Project (P159397) Project Management Support IN01152513 ►Number of O&M strategy and action plan developed and submitted (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 3.00 3.00 7.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 09-Mar-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 YR5 target underachieved. 3 cities had established final draft O&M strategy and action plan developed and under consideration to submit for approval before the project closing. Information source: Progress Comments: report from PMUs. IN01152517 ►Number of workshops/trainings provided for participating cities to utilize hydraulic models (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 The trainings took place in all seven project cities in October 2018, and in Vinh Long in April 2020. Comments: Information souce: PMUs. IN01152520 ►Number of workshops/trainings provided for participating cities to enhance integrated planning (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 This result meets the YR4 and end targets. The first workshop took place in Vi Thanh on October 11, 2018 and the second workshop took place in Vinh Long on May 10, 2019. Information souce: PMUs and Comments: WB. IN01152522 ►Number of national workshops organized to disseminate lessons learned (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 1.00 2.00 2.00 Date 30-Dec-2016 24-Sep-2021 03-Jun-2022 29-Dec-2023 A workshop took place on March 9, 2021 to disseminate the design guidelines on universal accessibility and green infrastructure and the final workshop was conducted by end of 2021 when the final guideline Comments: was completed. Information source: PMUs. Performance-Based Conditions 6/29/2022 Page 6 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Vietnam Scaling up Urban Upgrading Project (P159397) Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P159397 IDA-60550 Effective USD 140.00 140.00 0.00 47.90 93.17 34% P159397 IDA-60560 Effective USD 100.00 100.00 0.00 13.10 86.90 13% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P159397 IDA-60550 Effective 30-May-2017 29-Jun-2018 24-Dec-2018 31-Dec-2023 31-Dec-2023 P159397 IDA-60560 Effective 30-May-2017 29-Jun-2018 24-Dec-2018 31-Dec-2023 31-Dec-2023 Cumulative Disbursements 6/29/2022 Page 7 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Vietnam Scaling up Urban Upgrading Project (P159397) Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 6/29/2022 Page 8 of 8