The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA | Georgia | Water Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2014 | Seq No: 14 | ARCHIVED on 29-Jun-2021 | ISR45222 | Implementing Agencies: Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture, Ministry of Justice, Public Debt Management Department, Ministry of Finance of Georgia, National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 23-May-2014 Effectiveness Date: 13-Mar-2015 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 03-Jul-2017 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 03-Aug-2017 Original Closing Date: 31-Jul-2019 Revised Closing Date: 30-Sep-2022 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The Project Development Objective is to (i) improve delivery of irrigation and drainage services in selected areas and (ii) developimproved policies and procedures as a basis for a national program of land registration. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? Yes Board Approved Revised Project Development Objective (If project is formally restructured) The Project Development Objectives are to: (a) improve delivery of the irrigation and drainage services in selected areas; and (b) develop improved policies, procedures, and systems as a basis for a national land management program. Components Table Name Component 1 Irrigation and Drainage Improvement:(Cost $54.85 M) Component 2 Land Market Development:(Cost $12.56 M) Component 3 Project Management:(Cost $3.02 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Moderate Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions As far as component 1 is concerned, the rehabilitation and modernization works on the other two schemes (Kvemo Samgori and Zeda Ru) are progressing well. The government’s efforts, spearheaded by the national irrigation agency Georgian Amelioration (G.A.) to facilitate the establishment of Water Users Organizations (WUOs) in the target schemes have resumed after nearly a year without real interactions with the farmers due to COVID 19. Progress towards achievement of PDO for section (b) “develop improved policies, procedures, and systems as a basis 6/29/2021 Page 1 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) for a national land management program” is satisfactory as the choice to use an in-house approach for systematic land registration in priority areas and IT System upgrade agreed during the mission will offer control and flexibility to cope with COVID 19. 6/29/2021 Page 2 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- Moderate Moderate Macroeconomic -- Moderate Moderate Sector Strategies and Policies -- Low Low Technical Design of Project or Program -- Moderate Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and -- Moderate Moderate Sustainability Fiduciary -- Moderate Moderate Environment and Social -- Substantial Substantial Stakeholders -- Moderate Moderate Other -- Moderate Moderate 6/29/2021 Page 3 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) Overall -- Moderate Moderate Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes To improve delivery of irrigation and drainage services in selected areas IN00945215 ►Absolute volume of irrigation water supplied to Project-rehabilitated schemes (million m3 to Project schemes) (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 67 million m3 69.7 million m3 69.7 million m3 95 million m3 Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 30-Dec-2020 30-Sep-2022 This indicator is expected to be revised as part of the planned project restructuring as currently the values are not only attributable to the project activities but also to external factors such as water scarcity and water allocation decisions (which can logically result in lower values).The supplemental indicator below Comments: is also expected to be revised through the planned project restructuring to measure changes in capacity of the secondary and tertiary canals to deliver water to farmers. IN00945362 Volume of irrigation water effectively supplied to the WUOs in bulk within the Project rehabilitated schemes (million m3) (Text, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 0 million m3 (WUOs not 0 million m3 (WUOs not Value 0 million m3 66 million m3 yet established) yet established) IN00945363 ►Area provided with irrigation and drainage services (ha) (Hectare(Ha), Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 6,273.00 6,273.00 12,000.00 Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 30-Dec-2020 30-Sep-2022 IN00945364 Area provided with irrigation and drainage services - Improved (ha) (Hectare(Ha), Corporate Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 4,713.00 4,713.00 15,700.00 Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 30-Dec-2020 30-Sep-2022 To develop improved policies, procedures and systems as a basis for national land management program IN00945361 ►Preparation and implementation of policies, procedures for systematic land registration and NAPR IT system upgrade (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 6/29/2021 Page 4 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) Recommended Recommended policies policies and and procedures procedures (legislative (legislative package) package) approved approved and entered in and entered in force force since January 1 since January 1 2020. 2020. National Agency National Agency for for Sustainable Land Sustainable Land Prepared and Management and Land Management and implemented policies The corpus of Use Land Use and procedures for Value registration regulations Monitoring is established Monitoring is establish systematic registration and procedures in place under MEPA and started ed under MEPA and and upgraded NAPR operations since January started operations IT system. 1, 2020. NAPR received since January 1, 2020. authorization to proceed NAPR received with systematic authorization to registration in the proceed with irrigated areas in July systematic registration 2020. in the irrigated areas in July 2020. Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 22-Jun-2021 30-Sep-2022 Based on the land reform results, the analysis of the systematic land registration (SLR) process and data from 12 pilot areas, NAPR together with the Ministry of Justice, prepared a package of recommendations for legislative amendments, which became law from January 01, 2020. The amendments to the law strengthen and streamline SLR procedures. One of the major novelties of the law, which intends to significantly boost the speed of the systematic registration process is the transfer of property rights recognition authority from the Local Property Rights Recognition Commissions to the NAPR during the SLR process. The Parliament also authorized NAPR to proceed with implementation of amended SLR procedures in the irrigated areas within the project with an aim to complete the process by December 31 2021. Comments: In 2019 the Parliament of Georgia has adopted a revised land legislation- Law of Georgia on “target land designation and sustainable management of agricultural land”, initiating the resumption of the land inventory process ceased in 2004. According to the new law, the LEPL National Agency for Sustainable Land Management and Land Use Monitoring (LM Agency) is established under MEPA and started operations since January 1, 2020. The agency is responsible, inter alia: for inventory of agricultural land resources, production of land balance report, and creation of land information system. Currently LM Agency started preparation of the by-law entitled “Rules and Procedures for the Development of an Agricultural Land Resources Inventory and Annual Land Balance Report.” This by-law is expected to further improve land management and accounting practices in Georgia. Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Component 1 Irrigation and Drainage Improvement IN00945365 ►Water users provided with new/improved irrigation and drainage services (number) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 2,307.00 2,307.00 6,400.00 Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 30-Dec-2020 30-Sep-2022 The reported number of water user represents only those with a formal delivery contract with GA. This number constitutes an estimated 28 percent of all water user provided with access to irrigation and Comments: drainage services in the project schemes. This indicator is expected to be revised to measure the number of landowners in command area as they all will have access to improve services as rehabilitation works progress in command area. This will be reflected in a future ISR. 6/29/2021 Page 5 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) IN00945368 Water users provided with irrigation and drainage services - female (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 86.00 86.00 2,400.00 Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 30-Dec-2020 30-Sep-2022 IN00945369 ►National irrigation and drainage strategy prepared and endorsed (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target The National Irrigation Strategy finalized and Strategy finalized and Strategy to 2025 was Value No strategy endorsed by endorsed by approved by the Minister government government of Agriculture Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 30-Dec-2020 29-Sep-2017 IN00945371 ►Service area locally managed by water user organizations (Hectare(Ha), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 12,560.00 Date 31-Oct-2019 30-Sep-2020 30-Dec-2020 30-Sep-2022 Water User Organizations have not yet been established. Comments: IN00945373 ►Complaints received during the implementation of Component 1 activities and resolved (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 80.00 Date 31-Oct-2019 30-Sep-2020 30-Dec-2020 30-Sep-2022 Complaints were neither recorded nor reported. Comments: IN00945375 ►Readiness of Reservoir Rehabilitation & Construction program (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Reservoir Sample of 44 small and Total of 24 small and Rehabilitation & medium-sized reservoirs medium-sized reservoirs Study under Construction Program Value selected for pre- and selected for pre- and procurement. assessed and feasibility assessment. feasibility assessment. prioritized against multiple criteria. Date 31-Oct-2019 30-Sep-2020 31-May-2021 30-Sep-2022 Comments: The number of reservoirs was reduced from 44 to 25 based on client priorities. Reservoir Rehabilitation & Construction Program assessed and prioritized against multiple criteria. Currently under procurement. 6/29/2021 Page 6 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) IN00945377 ►Total number of beneficiaries, that benefit from new/improved irrigation services (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 7,705.00 7,705.00 7,705.00 21,400.00 Date 18-Nov-2019 30-Sep-2020 30-Dec-2020 30-Sep-2022 Component 2 Land Market Development IN00945366 ►Number of land titles registered (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 50,600.00 94,666.00 96,618.00 178,000.00 Date 30-Sep-2020 30-Sep-2020 22-Jun-2021 30-Sep-2022 The indicator is currently partially achieved by 63.8% taking into account adjusted baseline and non- modified target value. The additional parcels come mostly from the recently added irrigation areas, though many newly surveyed parcels in the irrigation areas are still going through the registration process. Baseline information (Number of land titles registered) has been previously modified from 41 600 to 50 600, because project team observed that in the period from the inception of the Additional Financing preparation (September 2019) until the launch of the SLR in the Irrigated areas, approximately 15 000 Comments: new land plots were registered sporadically, independent from the project activities. Based on the Pilot Project findings, approximately 40% of the sporadically registered land plots will undergo some form of change during the SLR process, accordingly Project Staff decided to include only 60% of the original registered land plots in the Baseline, and increased the number by 9 000 land plots, which amounts to 50 600 land plots. IN00945367 ►Population with ownership rights recorded (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 19,000.00 29,346.00 68,000.00 Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 22-Jun-2021 30-Sep-2022 IN00945370 Female population with rights recorded (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 8,000.00 13,674.00 28,000.00 Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 22-Jun-2021 30-Sep-2022 IN00945372 ►Complaints received as a result of the systematic registration process and resolved (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 6/29/2021 Page 7 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) Value 99.94 99.94 99.94 99.95 Date 31-Oct-2019 30-Sep-2020 22-Jun-2021 30-Sep-2022 IN00945374 ►IT System Design Completion (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 18-Nov-2019 30-Sep-2020 22-Jun-2021 30-Sep-2022 The NAPR adopted agile approach using mostly in-house capacities. The Scrum master, Product owner Comments: designations are pending. The Business Analyst is about to be recruited to complement the team. IN00945376 ►Target land area with use or ownership rights recorded as a result of the Project (Hectare(Ha), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 55,360.00 80,045.00 180,000.00 Date 23-May-2014 30-Sep-2020 22-Jun-2021 30-Sep-2022 NAPR adjusted their tools for calculation of the project areas covered by SLR activities. The PIU reported Comments: results using this new tool starting from April 2021. Performance-Based Conditions Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P133828 IBRD-90430 Effective USD 20.40 20.40 0.00 2.91 17.68 14% P133828 IDA-54560 Effective USD 50.00 50.00 0.00 35.53 10.13 78% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P133828 IBRD-90430 Effective 20-Feb-2020 30-Mar-2020 21-May-2020 30-Sep-2022 30-Sep-2022 P133828 IDA-54560 Effective 23-May-2014 21-Nov-2014 13-Mar-2015 31-Jul-2019 30-Sep-2022 Cumulative Disbursements 6/29/2021 Page 8 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Irrigation and Land Market Development Project (P133828) PBC Disbursement Achievement Disbursed amount in Disbursement % PBC ID PBC Type Description Coc PBC Amount Status Coc for PBC Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 07-Jun-2018 Related Project(s) P171796-Additional Financing for Irrigation and Land Market Development Project 6/29/2021 Page 9 of 9