S ,, // W _ - -- ~ A Newsletter of the World Bank Resident Mission in the Philippines WB-GOP Agree on US$1.3 Billion in New Loans or the next three years, from -I. , - _ July 1996 to June 1999, the World !! Bank will make available new loans, -- ranging between USS 1.1 billion to USS1.3 billion. The loan assistance will support the Government's efforts to -- - sustain growth and distribute the gains of growth more widely. This was the w agreement of the World Bank and the / Philippine Government during this year's programming dialogue. _i The World Bank, led by newly-ap- AM pointed Mr. Javad K. Shirazi, met with the Philippines' top economic and finance managers to agree on the Bank's lending >; _-w : and technical assistance to the " - _ _ I Government's development projects. Shirazi, who was on his first visit to the Philippines, was impressed with the _41 strong economic performance of the Government and World Bank officials at the Programming Mission. From left: Finance Secretary Roberto economy in the last few years. de Ocampo, NEDA Director-General and Socio-Economic Planning Secretary Cielito Habito, World Bank "The World Bank will continue to Director Javod Khalilzadeh-Shirazi, and World Bank Resident Representative Vinay Bhorgavo. support the Government's efforts to World Bank Approves US$281M in 4 distribute the gains of economic New to growth more widely,' Mr. Shirazi an- Loans Philippines nounced. (,D WB-GOP, p.2 he World Bank recently These projects will continue to sup- approved 4 new loans to assist Port the Government's efforts to sus- approjects in qualitY elementary tain the momentum of the economic I N s I ]D E education, agrarian reform, infrastruc- progress achieved and to distribute the ture and water resources. Total assis- gains of growth more widely. The new DialoguewithNGOs ............. 2 tance from the World Bank was USS281.4 loans reflect the Bank's program of as- AccesstoworldBank million. These projects were: Agrarian sistance in three priority areas: poverty information ........... 4 Reform Communities (ARC) Project, alleviation, environmentally sustainable -TheTaiDanPlace: Second Subic Bay Freeport Project,Third growth, and infrastructure develop- NewWorld6BankOffice ........... 6 Elementary Education Project (TEEP), ment. and the Water Resources Development Project (WRDP). c World Bank, p.3 WB-GOP, from p. 1 The Philippine delegation, led by * j - - ' i , Socio-Economic Planning secretary * , Cielito F. Habito, stated that the program- , TX _ A ming mission was timely in the sense that * , , the last two years of the Ramos adminis- tration should be able to consolidate the - priorities for development assistance. -_ I'm quite happy that the Philippine , . Government and the World Bank i, .4 a share the same priorities in poverty * . alleviation, environmentally sustain- -t Ii i able growth, and infrastructure de- ) EP velopment, in partnership with the 4; private sector," he stated. The Third Elementory Education Project is ,imed at improving elementary education in poor provinces in the Philippines. The new loan assistance will support some 15 to 19 projects over a three-year period. An agreement was also reached The World Bank's non-lending services in- earlier consultation during the project on a technical assistance program which clude technical assistance, economic and design phase to ensure that the projects will cover policy advice and local capac- sector work, and institutional develop- would be responsive to the needs of the ity building. Grant funds will be used to ment support. The Bank and the GOP target beneficiaries.* support this program. also agreed to move towards a closer and These were some of the topi.s dis- facilitatecommunicationswithinterested Dialogue with cussed in a dialogue with the World Bank NGOs with the Task Manager. The NGOS NGOs and some 28 NGO representatives. Mr. also proposed specific topics for discus- Vinay Bhargava, Resident Representative sion for the succeeding meetings. These of the World Bank in the Philippines, led includedtheBank'sstrategyofassistance W * ghat are the new directions the discussion. for the Philippines, the Bank's Policy on of the World Bank, globally It was agreed that the Project ln, orma- Disclosure of Information and other and in the Philippines? tion Documents be made available project-specific and sector-specific inter- How does the World Bank work with through the Resident Mission, early in the ests. Major NGO coalitions, such as the NGOs? How can NGOs have access to identification stage. Many of the NGOs Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform World Bank documents? have expressed their interest at a very and Rural Development(ANGOC),the Free- early stage. The Resident Mission would dom from Debt Coalition (FDC), the Convergence for Community- c e n t e r e d A r e a _- . - - Development(Convergence), the Alliance for Philippine Partners on Enterprise De- ;K. >) r. ,velopment (APPEND), NGOs for Integrated r ^ \ dIr*;\Xl*'} t. _ _ Protected Areas (NIPA), and WAND. The Caucus of Development NGO Networks l._ i -t* 6 ;,j ffi &l 1 0_ 6 (CODE-NGO), an umbrella organization K. 7 * tively to a representative from the Freedom from a 4 - 1 . Debt Coalition, during the second World Bank- NGO Dialogue meeting. World Bank, from p.1 - With these new projects, the World improvements to the Subic Bay Freeport their most disadvantaged schools and Bank's portfolio, to date, is US$2.8 bil- infrastructure, administration, and envi- communities. lion, for 28 projects. The assistance for ronmental management. It will also pro- The project will directly benefit about these four projects forms part of the vide sufficient capacity for continued 2.3 million children, 70 percent of whom World Bank commitment of about US1.3 sustainable growth of the Subic Bay come from poor families. Based on pre- Billion in the next three years. Freeport (SBF) through the continued at- vious studies, the provision of textbooks traction of private investors to the SBF. and furniture alone could improve learn- Agrarian Reform Community Development Project (ARC) This project will increase the SBFZ's at- ing achievements bY 20 percent. tractiveness to overseas investors which completion rate will also improve, Up to WB assistance: US$50 million would speed up job creation and raise 250,000 schools will provide access to Total project cost: US$106 million SBMA revenues. It is estimated that as a better quality education. Implementing agency: direct result of project interventions, Department of Agrarian Reform SBF will create 40,000 to 50,000 new jobs Project brief: over the next five years. The residents Water Resources Development The Project will support the ofOlongapocityand Subictownwillalso Project(WRDP) Government's program of alleviation of benefit from the services to be pro- vided by the project. WB assistance: $58 million rural poverty by assisting agrarian re- Total project cost: $85.2 million form communities in the target prov- Project components: inces. It will seek to widen the access of implementing agencies: the people to productive resources Institutional Support, Water SuppIY, * National Irrigation Administration through the development of rural infra- Power Distribution, Roads, Bridges and * National Water Resources Board structure and the provision of commu- Related Infrastructure * Department of Environment and nity development services and techni- Natural Resources cal support. Third Elementary Education * Department of Health A hundred Agrarian Reform Commu- Project (TEEP) nities, composed of 80,000 households WB assistance: US$ 113.4 million Project brief: and 500 thousand individu als will ben- Total project cost: USS 569.4 million The project will assist the Government efit from the project. This project will Implementing agency: in developing an appropriate policy and support the Government's Comprehen- Department of Education, Culture institutional framework to improve wa- sive Agrarian R,.eform Program (CARP) and Sports (DECS) ter resources planning, development which has focused on land acquisition and management in the country. It will and distribution to the farmers. It will Project brief: initiate an integrated and comprehen- address the much needed support ser- This Project seeks to pursue one of the sive approach to 'watershed manage- vices for community building, agricul- three recommendations of the Bank'sment to sustin water sources raise wa- turalextesion phyical nfratrucure, Strategy to Fight Poverty (1996), i.e. , to tural extension, physical infrastructure, StrateGy to FiGht Po Y # . . ter use efficiencY in irrigation, thereby credit, and marketing. provide quality basic social services toinranggiclulpodto.Itwl credit, and marketing. the poor. The Bank( recognizes that edu- inraigarclua9rdcin twl Project components: cation remains a central izernment therefore contribute to the alleviation calgovernment of rural poverty by directly increasing Community Development and Tech- function and should be one of the main the productivity and incomes of small nical Assistance, Rural Infrastructure, Ag- interventions to help the next genera- f he pro ject iloals ov the riculture and Enterprise Development. tion pull themselves out of poverty. The P environment in irrigated areas, mainly Project will assist DECS to improve el- cntrollin schistosomras ainly Second Subic Bay Freeport ementary education in poor provinces by Controlling schistosomiasis, a water- Project in the Philippines through 1) building WB assistance: USS60 million the institutional capacity of DECS and Total project cost: US$108 million other stakeholders to deliver public edu- Project components: Implementing agency: cation more effectively and 2 ) improv- Water Resources and Watershed Man- Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority ing learning achievements, comple- agement; Improvement and Repair of tion rates and access to quality el- National Irrigation System; Institutional Project brief: ementary completion rates and ac- Strengthening of NIA and the Irrigation The main objective of the project will cess to quality elementary education Administration System; Environmental be to provide medium to long-term in 26 poor provintes, especially Improvement. U L - Access to World Bank IniFormation Project Information Documents on the nformation-sharing stimulates discus- The Public Information Center is located Philippines available on the Internet: sions, broadens understanding of de- at Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. * Agrarian Reform Communities velopment issues, and facilitates co- There are also offices in Paris, London, * Early Childhood Development Project ordination among the many parties in- and Tokyo. The addresses to contact for *Manila Second Sewerage Project volved in development. In 1993, the information and to order docurnents *Maritime Improvement Project Bank undertook a major review of its are: * Second Subic Bay Freeport Project disclosure policy to incease further the * Third Elementary Education Project information made publicly available. London E-Mail: plondon@worldbankon3 *Water Resources Development Project Under the revised policy, the range Of Office: Telephone:(44-171)9308511 Abstracts of Environmental Assessments documents released is expanded signifi- Faxno.: (44-171)9308515 and National Environmental Acion Plans cantly and public access is made easier. Address: NewZealandHouse, 151:hFloor, and Environmental Data Sheets on the The Bank has established a Public Infor- Haymarket Philippines available on the Internet. mation Center which much of the ma- LondonSW1Y4TE * Agarrian Reform Communities terial covered by the revised policy is UnitedKingdom available. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Environment & Natural Resource Management II available. * Second Subic Bay Freeport Project * Water Resources Development Tokyo E-Mail ptokyo@worldbankorg * Manila Second Seweroge Project environmental Public Office: (in English) impact assessment :1 C % ,: \ 74 E-Mail ptokVo@ppp.bekkoame.orJp * Philippine strategy for sustainable development: Information (inJapanese) a conceptual framework Ce nte r . \ tTelephone: (81-3) 3201 4929 Center Telephone: (81-3) 3201 4929 Abstracts of Economic and Secor reports, Staff Appraisal Reports, and GEF Final Address: Kokusai Building Address: Kokusai Building Project and Trust Fund Projeds on the n January 1, 1994, the World Room916 Philippines which are available on the Bank's new policy on the disclo 1-1Marunouchi3-Chome Internet: sure of operational informa- ChiVoda-Ku,TokYo10 -A strategy to fight poverty tion became effective. The Bank's Japan *An agenda for the reform of the social Public Information Center was estab- security institutions lished to distribute documents on Bank * Devolution and health services: operations that are now available to Washigton E-Mail pic@worldbank.org managing risks and opportunities the public. 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