90300 THE WORLD BANK MONTHLY OPERATIONAL SUMMARY CONTENTS User’s Guide 3 Global Environment Facility 4 Projects in the Pipeline New Projects 5 Projects Deleted 6 Africa Region 7 East Asia and Pacific Region 29 South Asia Region 41 Europe and Central Asia Region 49 Middle East and North Africa Region 61 Latin America and the Caribbean Region 66 Worldwide 76 Guarantee Operations 76 List of Acronyms 78 Entries for Projects in the Pipeline are organized by region, country and economic sector. Entries preceded by (N) denote new listings; (R) indicates a revision or update from the previous month’s listing. The portions of the entry that differ appear in italic type. A sample entry is included in the User’s Guide, which begins on the next page. SECTOR DEFINITIONS Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Education Energy and Mining Finance Health and Other Social Services Industry and Trade Information and Communications Public Administration, Law, and Justice Transportation Water, Sanitation, and Flood Protection Copyright © 2014 by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank, 1818 H St., NW, Washington, DC 20433. The material contained in The World Bank Monthly Operational Summary may not be reproduced, transmitted or photocopied in any form, or by any means, without the prior written consent of the copyright holder. JUNE 2014 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE  GUIDE TO THE WORLD BANK MONTHLY OPERATIONAL SUMMARY The World Bank Monthly Operational Summary reports on the hiring consultants and procuring goods and works. Contractors status of projects in the World Bank’s pipeline from the time the and suppliers, therefore, should contact appropriate officials operation is identified to the signing of the Loan, Credit, or Grant of the implementing agency to express their interest in specific Agreement. It is a detailed accounting of the projects included in projects and obtain information on what goods and services will the country lending programs that are actively being prepared be needed and when and how to submit bids and proposals. for implementation. The lending programs reflect the Bank’s During implementation, consultants are often used to provide strategy for each member country as set out in the Country As- technical assistance and other project implementation sup- sistance Strategy (CAS) papers and notes presented to the Board port. Unlike contracts for goods and works, those for consulting of Executive Directors of the World Bank. On average, it takes services are not usually advertised. Therefore, consultants in about 13 months for the Bank to process a project from concept particular should contact the responsible implementing agency document to approval. After a financing agreement is signed or a early in the project preparation period to express their interest. project removed from the program, the project entry is dropped Contracts for consulting services, as well as some for goods and from this Summary. works, may also be procured prior to loan/credit/grant approval. Each issue of the Summary contains a list of projects being re- This is known as advance contracting. ported for the first time and a list of projects for which financing agreements have been signed or that have been dropped from The information contained in The World Bank Monthly Opera- the current program. tional Summary is intended to enable companies to assess their interest in supplying Bank-financed projects. Further informa- By becoming familiar with the Bank’s project cycle, which is sum- tion should be requested from the country’s project implement- marized in the following paragraphs, consultants or suppliers of ing agency. The likelihood of a timely response is greater if the goods and works can gauge when the timing is right to pursue queries are brief and to the point. When possible, travel to the business opportunities with Bank borrowers. Each entry in the country and direct contact with relevant agency officials is recom­ Monthly Operational Summary shows what point in the cycle a mended. particular project has reached. Project Cycle Firms should contact the World Bank only if they are unable to obtain a response to their queries from the implementing During IDENTIFICATION, the client government and the agency. General information about business opportunities un- Bank identify a specific operation as being likely to support the der Bank loans, credits, and grants may be obtained from the country’s development strategy and the Bank’s CAS. World Bank’s Procurement Policy and Services Group’s website During PREPARATION, the client government identifies and at http://www.worldbank.org/procure (click on bidding and discusses the technical and institutional alternatives for achieving consulting opportunities). the objectives of a project. Preparation usually requires feasibility studies followed by more detailed studies of the alternatives that Business opportunities arising from World Bank projects af- promise to yield the most satisfactory results. An environmental ter they have been approved, including invitations to bid and assessment is usually carried out during this phase. (See below to submit proposals on Bank projects and notices of contract for more information on environmental assessment.) awards, appear twice a month in UN Development Business and are available via the internet at UN Development Business In the preparation stage of the project cycle, clients often supple- Online at . ment their own efforts by hiring consultants to carry out a major part of the work. Contractors and suppliers of equipment and Environmental Categories goods need to start making contacts with country officials dur- The type, timing, and scope of environmental analysis to be ing this stage. performed by Bank clients are confirmed when a given project During APPRAISAL, the Bank conducts a comprehensive re- is identified. Projects are assigned one of the following catego- view of all aspects of the project (technical, institutional, eco- ries, depending on the nature, magnitude, and sensitivity of nomic, and financial), laying the foundation for implementing environmental issues: the project and evaluating it when completed. Conducted by Bank staff, project appraisal may be supplemented by individual Category A: The project may have adverse and significant envi- experts. The preparation of the Project Appraisal Document ronmental impacts. Full environmental assessment is normally concludes this stage. required. During NEGOTIATIONS, discussions are held with the client Category B: The project may have specific environmental is- government, and the agreements reached are written into the sues. Partial environmental assessment is normally required. loan documents. Upon completion of negotiations, the project is Category C: Likely to have minimal or no adverse environment­al presented to the Executive Directors for approval. After approval, impacts. Beyond screening, no further EA action is required. the financing agreement is signed. Category FI: Involves investment of Bank funds through a finan­ Project IMPLEMENTATION normally starts within a few cial intermediary, in subprojects that have adverse environ­mental months after the project financing agreement is signed. Coun- impacts. An environmental framework may be required. tries, through their implementing agencies, have full responsi- bility for executing of World Bank-financed projects, including Category U: No category given. PAGE  Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 A typical summary entry looks like this: Viet Nam •Name of borrowing country (R) Payment Systems and Bank Modernization: •(R) = revised; (N) = new entry The project will establish a computerized payments system in order to improve efficiency and modernize the •Project description banking sector. Technical assistance to strengthen the institutional capacity of partici­pating commercial banks will also be provided. Preappraisal mission completed. •Italics indicate change from last month’s listing Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P123456. •PID = Project identification number. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for project •Amount of financing in US$ millions (source) management and commercial bank institutional studies. Project Management Unit, Payment System and Bank Modernization Project, State Bank of Viet Nam, 49 Ly •Name/address of implementing agency Thai To, Viet Nam, Fax: (84-4) 258-­385, Contact Mr. Nguyen Van Binh GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY In addition to projects financed by the World Bank, the World The GEF is striving for universal participation, and currently Bank Monthly Operational Summary reports on projects fi- 168 countries are participants. Countries may be eligible nanced by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The GEF for GEF funds if (a) they are eligible for financial assistance provides grants and concessional funding to recipient coun- through the financial mechanism of either the Climate Change tries for projects and programs that protect the global environ- Convention or the Convention on Biological Diversity; or (b) ment and promote sustainable economic growth. they are eligible to borrow from the World Bank (IBRD and/or The facility, set up as a pilot program in 1991, was restruc- IDA) or receive technical assistance grants from UNDP through tured and replenished with over US$ 2 billion in 1994, and a Country Programme. A country must be a party to the Climate replenished with another US$ 4 billion in 1998, to cover the Change Convention or the Convention of Biological Diversity agreed incremental costs of activities that benefit the global to receive funds from the GEF in the relevant focal area. environment in four focal areas: climate change, biological GEF projects must be country-driven, incorporate consulta- diversity, international waters, and stratospheric ozone. Ac- tion with local communities, and, where appropriate, involve tivities concerning land degradation, primarily desertification nongovernmental organizations in project implementation. and deforestation, as they relate to the four focal areas, are For additional information on the GEF, contact the GEF sec- also eligible for funding. Both the Framework Convention on retariat or visit its website: www.gefweb.org Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity have designated the GEF as their funding mechanism on an The GEF Secretariat interim basis. 1818 H St. NW GEF projects and programs are managed through three imple- Washington DC 20433, USA menting agencies: the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Tel: (1-202) 473-0508 the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ,and the World Fax: (1-202) 522-3240, 522-3245 Bank. The GEF Secretariat, which is functionally independent E-mail: Secretariat@TheGEF.org from the three implementing agencies, reports to and services the Council and Assembly of the GEF. JUNE 2014 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE  New Projects Added in This Issue Africa Region Europe and Central Asia Region Burundi Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 Transportation: Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project Industry and Trade: Business Environment PforR 51 Comoros Transportation: Floods Emergency Recovery 51 Health and Other Social Services: Comoros Social Safety Net Project 9 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Second Economic Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Macedonia Fiscal Governance Reform Grant 9 and Public Financial Management (PFM) Development Ethiopia Policy Loan (DPL) 54 Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Ethiopia PFM Project 11 Transportation: Second National and Regional Roads Guinea-Bissau Rehabilitation 54 Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Emergency Public Moldova Sector Reinforcement 13 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Forest and Sustainable Regional - Africa Land Management 54 Energy and Mining: 3A Ruzizi Hydropower Project 19 Transportation: Local Roads Improvement Project 54 Energy and Mining: Niger River Basin Management Project 19 Tajikistan Industry and Trade: Great Lakes Trade Facilitation 20 Energy and Mining: Winter Energy 58 Rwanda Energy and Mining: Electricity Sector Strengthening Project 22 Middle East and North Africa Region Sao Tome and Principe Arab Republic of Egypt Education: STP Quality Education for All Additional Financing 22 Finance: Affordable Housing Transformational Program 61 Seychelles Iraq Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Third Sustainability and Competitiveness DPL 22 Energy and Mining: Electricity Distribution Reform and Investment Project (EDRIP) 62 South Sudan Morocco Transportation: South Sudan Rural Road Project - First Additional Finance 24 Finance: Seed and Early Stage Equity Financing 63 Tanzania Transportation: Urban Transport Project (P4R) 63 Energy and Mining: Tanzania Third Power and Gas Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Non-Revenue Sector DPO 24 Water Improvement 63 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Tanzania: Sustaining Climate-Reslient Growth 25 Tunisia East Asia and Pacific Region Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Sylvo-Pastoral Ecosystems Co-Management 64 Cambodia Education: Tertiary Education for Employability 64 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project II 27 Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Third Governance, Health and Other Social Services: Second Health Sector Opportunities, and Jobs DPL 64 Support Program Additional Financing 28 West Bank and Gaza Transportation: Road Asset Management II 28 Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Integrated Housing South Asia Region and Urban Development Project 65 Bangladesh Latin America and Caribbean Region Health and Other Social Services: HSDP Additional Finance 41 Bolivia Nepal Health and Other Social Services: Health Sector Support: Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Disaster Risk Towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) 45 Management DPL 68 Pakistan Caribbean Health and Other Social Services: CASA:100 Community Industry and Trade: Skills Upgrading for Incubator Managers Support Program 46 and Resources for Policymakers 75 PAGE  Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Projects Deleted from This Issue Africa Region Indonesia: Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program Phase III (Ln. 83360-ID) Africa: Second Senegal River Basin Multi-Purpose Water Resources Development APL (Cr. 53220-ML, Cr. 53230-MR, Coral Reel Rehabilitation and Management Program III- GEF Cr. 53210-SN, Cr. 53660-GN) Myanmar: Telecommunications Sector Reform (Cr. 53530-MM) River Basin Climate Change Adaptation Papua New Guinea: Second Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Angola: Local Development Additional Financing Project (RMRP) Additional Financing Benin: Global Partnership for Education Program Philippines: National Community Driven Development Program Youth Employment (Cr. 53920-BJ) (Ln. 83350-PH) Cameroon: Quality for Improved Learning Project Solomon Islands: Community Resilience to Climate and Disaster Risk in Solomon Islands Social Safety Nets (Cr. 52240-CM) Sustainable Energy Additional Financing Central African Republic: Second Education Sector Development Project South Asia Region CAR Emergency Food Crisis Response and Agriculture Relaunch Afghanistan: CASA-1000 Community Support Program Project (Cr. 53950-CF) Kabul Municipal Development Program Economic Management and Governance Reform Grant Bangladesh: Agriculture Adaptation to Climate Change Additional Democratic Republic of Congo: Inga 3 Development Technical Financing Assistance (Cr. H9090-ZR) Modern Food Storage Facilities Phase-I (Cr. 52650-BD) Financial Infrastructure and Markets (Cr. H9260-ZR) India: Partial Risk Sharing Facility in Energy Efficiency Eastern Recovery Project (Cr. H9170-ZR) Ethiopia: Sustainable Land Management Project Nepal: Enhancing Resilience of Endangered Species to Climate Change Second Transport Sector Project to Support the Fourth Road Sector Development Program (Cr. 53710-ET) Irrigation and Water Resources Management Project Additional Financing Gabon: Support to Critical Wetlands Ecosystems National Identification Project Economic Diversification and Competitiveness (Ln. 83410-GA) Strengthening the National Rural Transport Program (SNRTP) The Gambia: Commercial Agriculture and Value Chain (Cr. 53360-NP, Cr. H8990-NP) Management (Cr. 53990-GM, Cr. H9200-GM) Pakistan: Growth, Investment and Competitivenes (Cr. 54400-PK) Results for Education Achievement and Development Project (Cr. H9160-GM) MDTF Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Emergency Roads Recovery Community-Based Nutrition and Primary Health Care Project Project Additional Financing (Cr. H9230-GM) Europe and Central Asia Region Guinea-Bissau: Development Policy Operation Croatia: Second Economic Recovery Development Policy Loan Kenya: Transport Sector Support Project Additional Financing (Ln. 83640-HR) Liberia: Public Sector Modernization Project (Cr. 53590-LR) Kazakhstan: Justice System Support Project (Ln. 83610-KZ) Urban Rural Infrastructure Rehabilitation Additional Financing Kosovo: Danish Support for Rural Development Grant Program Niger: Third Shared Growth Credit (Cr. H9380-NE) Moldova: First Development Policy Operation (Ln. 83660-MD, Disaster Risk Management and Urban Infrastructure Cr. 54390-MD) Development Project (Cr. 53400-NE) Rwanda: Land Husbandry, Water Harvesting and Hillside Middle East and North Africa Region Irrigation Additional Financing Arab Republic of Egypt: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Third Support to the Social Protection System (SSPS-3) Development for Inclusive Growth (Ln. 83450-EG) (Cr. 54270-RW, Cr. H9330-RW) Emergency Cash Transfer Project Sao Tome and Principe: Quality Education for All (Cr. H9030-ST) Governance and SSN Reform Program Development Policy Loan Senegal: Agribusiness Development and Finance (Cr. 53340-SN) Jordan: Second Programmatic Development Policy Loan Sierra Leone: Safety Nets Project (Cr. H9250-SL) (Ln. 83500-JO) South Sudan: Southern Sudan Emergency Food Crisis Response Morocco: Second Skills and Employment Development Policy Project Additional Financing IV (Cr. H9220-SS) Loan Tanzania: Tanzania Regional Fisheries Project New Governance Framework Uganda: Energy for Rural Transformation APL Phase 2 Additional Tunisia: Training for Employment Financing Latin America and Caribbean Region East Asia and Pacific Region Argentina: Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) Phase Out Cambodia: Public Financial Management and Accountability Additional Financing Mexico: Third Upper Secondary Education Development Policy Loan (Ln. 83140-MX) Cambodia: Public Financial Management and Accountability Additional Financing Nicaragua: Community Health Project Additional Financing China: Guangdong Agricultural Pollution Control-GEF Sustainable Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Anhui Yellow Mountain New Countryside Demonstration (Cr. 53770-NI, Cr. H9120-NI) (Ln. 83090-CN) Peru: National Agricultural Innovation (Ln. 83310-PE) JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE  Burkina Faso Africa Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) Agricultural Productivity and Food Security Project Benin Additional Financing:The objective is to improve the capacity of Industry and Trade poor producers to increase food production and to ensure improved availability of food products in rural markets. Appraisal completed (R) Benin and Nigeria Cross-Border Invest Opportunities: on 13 May 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 19 May 2014. Environ- The objective is to spur cross-border investments between Benin mental Assessment Category B. US$ 36.0/1.6/37.1 (IDA Credit/IDA and Nigeria in dedicated value chains or industries where Benin Grant/GAFS). Consultants will be required. retains a clear competitive advantage. Project Concept Review Meet- ing scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Energy and Mining C. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Electricity Sector Support Project Additional Financ- ing:The objectives are to: (a) increase access to electricity; (b) im- Public Administration, Law, and Justice prove the reliability of electricity supply; and (c) improve efficient Decentralized Community Driven Services Project Addi- use of energy in targeted areas. Negotiations completed on 28 April tional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) support the scale up 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 13 June 2014. Environmental to decentralized basic social services; and (b) mainstream the com- Assessment Category B. Project: P149115. US$ 8.0/27.0 (IDA Credit/ munity driven development approach for such services. Bank Ap- IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. SONABEL, 01 BP 54 Oua- proval completed on 27 February 2014. Environmental Assessment gadougou 01, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tel: (226-50) 306-100, Category B. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. E-mail: siengui.ki@sonabel.bf, Contact: Ki Siengui, Director General. Secretariat for Decentralized Community Driven Services, Benin, Tel: DGE, Burkina Faso, Tel: (226-70) 212-177, E-mail: kaborejb@yahoo. (229) 9003-3601, E-mail: sepsdcc@yahoo.fr, Contact: Mr. Germain fr, Contact: Jean Baptiste Kabore, Director General Ouin Ouro Ninth Poverty Reduction Support Credit:The objectives are to: Health and Other Social Services (a) promote good governance and high-quality public financial man- (R) Social Safety Net (Cr. 54290-BF):The objective is to assist agement; and (b) strengthen private sector competitiveness. Bank the Government to develop a productive safety net that addresses the Approval completed on 11 March 2014. Environmental Assessment needs of chronic poor. Bank Approval completed on 23 April 2014. Category U. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Signing scheduled for 17 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Ministry of Economy and Finance, BP 302, Cotonou, Benin, Tel: Category C. Project: P124015. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants (229) 2130-0217, Fax: (229) 2130-5096, E-mail: gadsoon@hotmail. will be required. Ministry of Social Action and National Solidarity, com, Contact: Mohamed Gado, Secretaire Technique Burkina Faso, Tel: (226-50) 386-331, E-mail: ganoucyrille@yahoo. Tenth Poverty Reduction Support Credit:The objectives are fr, Contact: Cyrille Ganou, Coordinator a continuation to: (a) promote good governance and high qual- ity public financial management; and (b) strengthen private sector Industry and Trade competitiveness. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 9 (R) Agricultural Diversification and Market Development October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 20.0 Project: (formerlyAgriculture, Fishing, and Forestry sector)The (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance and objective is to increase the competitiveness of selected agricultural Economy, Benin, Tel: (229) 2130-0217, E-mail: gadsoon@hotmail. subsectors that target national and regional markets by contribut- com, Contact: Mohamed Gado, Secretaire Technique ing to shared agricultural growth in Burkina Faso. Negotiations Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection completed on 17 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 13 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0/3.7 (IDA (R) Emergency Urban Environment Project Additional Credit/ZPCI). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture Financing:The objective is a continuation to improve infrastructure and Food Security, PO Box 6285, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tel: and mitigate the negative environmental impact of floods in Cotonou (226-50) 304-279, Fax: (226-50) 304-280, E-mail: pafasp@fasonet. Agglomeration and to increase Benin’s level of preparedness for bf, Contact: Atamana Bernard Dabire, Coordonnateur National PA- future flooding. Bank Approval completed on 8 May 2014. Signing FASP scheduled for 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148628. US$ 6.4 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. (R) Mining Growth Pole:The objective is to create a growth pole Ministry of Urban Planning, Housing and Sanitation, 01 BP 3502, in the North/Sahel region that improves the economic situation of Cotonou, Benin, Tel: (229-21) 317-771, Fax: (229-21) 315-109, E-mail: mining communities. Preparation is underway. Environmental As- jsehoue@yahoo.fr, Contact: J. Sehoue sessment Category A. US$ 113.2 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Botswana Public Administration, Law, and Justice Health and Other Social Services (R) Public Sector Modernization:The objective is to support (R) National HIV/AIDS Prevention Support (BNAPS) Proj- the Government to: (a) mobilize resources and deliver services to ect Additional Financing:The objective is to assist the Govern- the poor; and (b) strengthen civil services. Project Concept Review ment of Botswana to increase access to prioritized prevention services Meeting scheduled for 19 June 2014. Environmental Assessment that reduce the risk of HIV transmission. Project Concept Review Category B. US$ 25.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services to be deter- Meeting scheduled for 15 September 2014. Environmental Assess- mined. Ministry of Civil Service, Burkina Faso ment Category C. Consulting services to be determined. National AIDS Coordinating Agency, Private Bag 00463, Gaborone, Botswana, Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Tel: (267) 371-0314 (R) Urban Water Sector Project Additional Financing:The Industry and Trade objective is to increase access to sustainable water and sanitation (R) Economic Diversification Operation:The objective is to in- services in selected urban areas. Decision Meeting scheduled for 12 crease export diversification, measured by the share of non-diamond June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149556. merchandise exports in total exports, by providing comprehensive US$ 80.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services to be determined. Office support to SMEs in exporting sectors. This project is no longer in National de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement (ONEA), Avenue Bulmiou- the lending program. Further reporting will be discontinued. En- gou, Rue 17.555 Secteur 17 (Pissy), BP. 170 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Faso, Tel: (226) 5043-1900, Fax: (226) 5043-1911 PAGE  Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Burundi (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Energy and Mining (R) Jiji and Mulembwe Hydropower (Cr. H9350-BI):The Energy and Mining objectives are to: (a) develop two run-of-river hydropower sites at (R) Kribi Gas Power Project Additional Financing:The objec- Jiji and Mulembwe; and (b) construct a transmission line from Jiji to tive is a continuation to assist Cameroon’s first IPP with a produc- Bujumbura that will provide reliable electricity supply and displace tion capacity, which will be operated by Kribi Power Development expensive thermal generation. Bank Approval completed on 22 April Corporation (KPDC). Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P133610. for 9 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ US$ 99.9/22.0/36.6/95.0 (IDA Grant/AFDB/ECEU/EUIB). No 40.0 (GUID). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to consultants are required. REGIDESO (Régie de Production d’Eau et be determined. d’Electricité), BP 660, Bujumbura, Burundi, Tel: (257-2) 225-7445, Fax: (257-2) 222-6563, E-mail: nyctekfrance@yahoo.fr, Contact: Mr. Health and Other Social Services Libérat Mfumukeko, Director General (R) Health Sector Support Investment:The objective is to sup- port the increase utilization and improve the quality of health services Public Administration, Law, and Justice with a particular focus on child and maternal health and commu- (R) Strenghtening Institutional Capacity for Service Deliv- nicable diseases. Negotiations completed on 25 April 2014. Bank ery Project:The objective is to support the Government’s efforts to Approval scheduled for 24 June 2014. Environmental Assessment strenghten institutional capacity within the public sector to deliver Category B. Project: P146795. US$ 20.0/20.0 (IDA Credit/HRBF). services and promote growth-enchancing policies. Project Concept Consultants will be required. Ministry of Public Health, Cameroon, Review Meeting scheduled for 30 July 2014. Environmental Assess- Tel: (237) 222-5758, Fax: (237) 223-3439, E-mail: mauricefe@yahoo. ment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and fr, cnls@camnet.cm implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation Transportation La Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l’Afrique (N) Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project:The Centrale (CEMAC) Transport and Transit Facilitation- objective is to provide institutional support and to respond to emer- Phase II:The objective will complement the ongoing CEMAC Trans- gency repairs works on national roads and drainage due to damages port/Transit Facilitation Project to scale up the project’s impact and caused by floods. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 15 effectiveness along Cameroon’s section of the Douala, N’Djamena September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0 corridor. Bank Approval scheduled for 27 May 2014. Environmen- (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to tal Assessment Category B. Project: P143801. US$ 42.3/28.7 (IDA be determined. Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Public Cabo Verde Works, Yaounde, Cameroon, Tel: (237) 2222-2294, E-mail: mi- chelmbella2009@yahoo.fr, Contact: Jean-Michel Mbella, Project Industry and Trade Coordinator Innovation and Competitiveness Project:The objective will be to improve competitiveness and encourage innovation in Cabo Central African Republic Verde. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 9 September Energy and Mining 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0/5.0 (IBRD/ CAR Rehabilitation and Reinforcement of the Electricity IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Sector:The objectives are to: (a) increase efficiency and quality of be determined. electricity services in the power sector; and (b) suppport ENERCA’s Public Administration, Law, and Justice improvements in governance and operational performances. Project (R) Fourth Development Policy Loan Eighth Poverty Re- Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 25 July 2014. Environmental duction Support Credit (PRSC) (Cr. 54180-CV):The objective Assessment Category B. US$ 17.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services is to support the implementation of the Government’s Third Growth and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRSP III) for the period 2011-15. Health and Other Social Services The credit was signed on 14 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 15.5 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Min- (R) CAR Emergency Food Crisis Response and Agriculture istry of Finance, Praia, Cabo Verde, Tel: (238) 260-7611, Fax: (238) Relaunch Project:The objective is to: (a) protect and rebuild live- 261-5844, E-mail: sandrodebrito@gov1.gov.cv, Contact: Sandro de lihoods, human capital (particularly children); and (b) re-launch Brito, National Director of Planning the productivity of the agriculture sector. The credit was signed on 7 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 Cameroon (IDA Credit). This amount includes a recommitment of cancelled SDR 4,663,480 funds from P 124278 Central African Republic Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Agro-pastoral Recovery Project. Consultants will be required. Food Agriculture Investment and Market Development Project: and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Central African Republic, Tel: The objective is to increase productivity and competitiveness of cas- (39-065) 705-3803, E-mail: dominique.burgeon@fao.org, Contact: sava, maize and sorghum value chains led by target beneficiaries Dominique Burgeon, Director, Emergency and Rehabilitation Divi- Producer Organizations in order to meet the market demand (buy- sion. World Food Program (WFP), Central African Republic, Tel: ers), especially that of private Agribusinesses. Negotiations scheduled (39-066) 513-2885, E-mail: manoj.juneja@wfp.org, Contact: Manoj for 21 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Juneja, Assistant Executive Director P143417. US$ 100.0/3.0/40.6 (IDA Credit/JPN/MSC1). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Public Administration, Law, and Justice (MINADER), Cameroon, Tel: (237) 2223-1190, E-mail: mnemenye@ (R) Emergency Public Services Response Project (Cr. yahoo.com, Contact: Essimi Menye, Minister H9400-CF, Cr. 54370-CF):The objective is to facilitate the re- Community Development Program Support Project-Phase sumption of key government functions for the delivery of selected III:The objectives are to: (a) support the Community Development basic services in targeted ministries. The grant was signed on 5 May Program to enhance the opportunities and livelihoods of rural people 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P149884. US$ in Cameroon by improving the delivery of specified basic social 19.2 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance services (health, education, water and sanitation); and (b) enhance / CS REF, Central African Republic, Tel: (236) 746-105, E-mail: economic opportunities. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled gm_doungoupou@yahoo.fr, Contact: Gervais Doungoupou, Techni- for 12 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 40.0 cal Advisor / Head of CS REF JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE  National Social Cohesion Program:The objective is to support are required. Cellule chargee du suivi des Reformes Economiques community recovery and improve community resilience in rural et Financieres (CREF), BP 324, Moroni, Comoros, Tel: (269) 338- areas. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 10 Septem- 3082, E-mail: abououbeidi@gmail.com, Contact: Mze Chei Oubeidi, ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0 (IDA Conseiller Spécial du Président des Comores et Secretaire Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Economic Governance Technical Assistance Additional determined. Financing:The objectives are to: (a) stabilize the economy and es- tablish a strong and equitable growth; (b) strengthen key sectors; (c) Chad strengthen governance and social cohesion; (d) improve the general Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry public health status; (e) promote education and vocational training Climate Resilient Natural Resources and Ecosystems Man- while developing human capital; and (f) promote environmental agement Project:The objective is to strengthen the climate resil- sustainability and civilian security. Bank Approval completed on 12 ience of local communities and vulnerable ecosystems in targeted November 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 3.5 zones in Chad. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 9 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Economic and Gover- June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.0/1.8/5.0 nance Project (ABGE), Tel: (263) 773-9900, E-mail: moinacharani@ (IDA Credit/CIWA/LDC). Consulting services and implementing yahoo.fr, Contact: Moinafatima Charani, Coordinator, ABGE agency(ies) to be determined. Democratic Republic of Congo Health and Other Social Services Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) Health Services Result for Women and Children (Cr. (R) Forest Investment Program:The objectives are to: (a) reduce H9610-TD):The objective is to strengthen the delivery of health GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation; and (b) services to women and children, particularly in rural and underserved enhance forest carbon stocks in DRC. Bank Approval scheduled areas. Negotiations completed on 16 April 2014. Bank Approval for 24 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: scheduled for 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. P128887. US$ 36.9 (CSCF). Consulting services to be determined. Project: P148052. US$ 15.8/5.0 (IDA Grant/HRBF). Consultants will Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism, Demo- be required. Ministry of Health, Ministere de la Santé, N Djamena, cratic Republic of Congo, Tel: (243-9) 9100-0663, E-mail: vangulu- Chad, Tel: (235-2) 518-174, Fax: (235-2) 516-289, E-mail: sg@sante- tete@gmail.com, Contact: Clement Vangu Lutete tchad.org, Contact: MOH, Coordinator Forest Dependent Communities Support Project:The objec- Industry and Trade tives are to: (a) strengthen the capacity of the targeted indigenous Private Sector and Value Chain Support:The objectives are to: peoples and local communities to engage in the FIP and REDD+ (a) improve the business environment; and (b) support the private activities; and (b) promote local development in favor of sustainable sector, especially SMEs, in selected value chains. Bank Approval forest management. Decision Meeting scheduled for 29 July 2014. scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149049. US$ 6.0 B. Project: P133021. US$ 10.2 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be re- (CSCF). No consultants are required. Implementing agency(ies) to quired. Ministry of Commerce and Industry, BP 424, Ndjamena, be determined. Chad, Tel: (235) 2252-5364, Contact: Issa Ali Taher Kivu-Tanganyka Growth Poles Support Project:The objec- tive is to support the recovery and reintegration of communities and Public Administration, Law, and Justice reestablishment of sustainable livelihoods in the conflict affected (R) Public Financial Management (PFM) CB Additional areas. Decision Meeting scheduled for 9 July 2014. Environmental Financing:The objective is to scale-up some existing activities Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services (technical assistance to the computerisation of the public financial and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. management system), while supporting new ones (implementation of the organic finance law, debt management). Bank Approval com- Education pleted on 12 May 2014. This amount includes SDR 2.5 million from (R) Education and Skills for Jobs and Inclusion:The objec- cancelled project P108368. Environmental Assessment Category tives are to: (a) strengthen the relevance of the formal education C. US$ 10.2 (IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry of and training system to improve graduate employability; and (b) Economy and Finance, B.P. 144, N’Djamena, Chad, Tel: (235-22) support informal skills development to address the needs of out- 520-452, Fax: (235-22) 520-451, E-mail: pamfip@intnet.td, Contact: of-school youth Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 14 Asuman Lukwago, Permanent Secretary August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Comoros be determined. Health and Other Social Services Energy and Mining (N) Comoros Social Safety Net Project:The objective is to PROMINES Additional Financing:The objectives are a continu- provide a safety net and improved nutrition for poor families in se- ation to: (a) strengthen the capacity of key institutions to manage lected communities, including as disaster response. Project Concept the minerals sector; (b) improve the conditions for increased invest- Review Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental ments in and revenues from mining; and (c) help increase the socio- Assessment Category B. US$ 6.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services economic benefits from artisanal and industrial mining in Project and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. areas. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Public Administration, Law, and Justice agency(ies) to be determined. (N) Second Economic Governance Reform Grant:The ob- jective is to improve economic governance and transparency, and Health and Other Social Services competition and management of the electricity and ICT sectors. (R) Human Development Systems Strengthening (Cr. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 21 August 2014. Envi- H9360-ZR):The objective is to improve the efficiency and effec- ronmental Assessment Category U. US$ 2.5 (IDA Grant). Consulting tiveness of government programs in social protection, education services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. and health/nutrition/population sectors in the Democratic Republic (R) Economic Governance Reform Grant (Cr. H9370-KM): of Congo. Bank Approval completed on 23 April 2014. Signing The objective is to support the Government to: (i) improve economic scheduled for 19 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category management and transparency, and (ii) enhance competition and im- C. Project: P145965. US$ 15.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be re- prove performance in key infrastructure sectors (ICT and electricity). quired. Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Professional Educa- The grant was signed on 10 May 2014. Environmental Assessment tion, Croisement des Avenues, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tel: Category U. Project: P131688. US$ 3.8 (IDA Grant). No consultants (243-81) 990-8976, E-mail: info@eduquepsp.cd, Contact: Maker PAGE 10 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Mwangu Famba, Minister. Ministry of Social Affairs, Democratic (GEFU). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Republic of Congo, Tel: (243-81) 712-5551, E-mail: charlesnaweji@ determined. hotmail.com, Contact: Charles Naweji Mundele, Minister of Social Affairs. Ministry of Public Health, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo Tel: (243-81) 800-0006, E-mail: felixkabange@yahoo.fr, Contact: Public Administration, Law, and Justice Felix Kabange Numbi, Minister of Public Health. Ministry of Labour, (R) Statistics for Governance (Cr. 55000-CG):The objec- Employment and Social Insurrance, Democratic Republic of Congo, tive is to support the improvement of statistics in the Republic of Contact: Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, Minister, Labour, Employment Congo to produce reliable and timely data for policy formulation and and Social Insurance evaluation. Negotiations completed on 2 May 2014. Bank Approval Health System Strengthening Project:The objectives are to: scheduled for 9 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. (a) improve the utilization and quality of maternal and child health Project: P133731. US$ 4.8 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. services; and (b) strengthen the health sector. Project Concept Review National Institute of Statistics, Republic of Congo, Tel: (242+05) Meeting scheduled for 9 June 2014. Environmental Assessment 521-9264, E-mail: dkimpouni@hotmail.com, Contact: Dominique Category B. Project: P147555. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Kimpouni, Coordinator services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Urban Development and Poor Neighborhood Upgrad- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ing Project:The objective is to improve the lives of people in the (R) Catalytic Project to Strengthen the Institut National precarious neighborhoods of Brazzaville and Pointe Noire. Decision de la Statistique (INS):The objective is to strengthen the capac- Meeting scheduled for 22 January 2015. Environmental Assess- ity of INS to generate and disseminate statistical information. This ment Category B. US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. will support the planned National Statistical Development Strategy, Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. which will provide quality data for DRC’s PRSP, MDG, and sector (R) Water, Electricity and Urban Development SIL Addi- strategy monitoring. Bank Approval completed on 31 March 2014. tional Financing:The objective is to increase sustainable access to Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P125509. US$ 11.8 basic infrastructure and safe drinking water for the inhabitants of (SRTF). Consultants will be required. Institut National de la Statis- Brazzaville and Pointe Noire. Decision Meeting scheduled for 24 June tique (INS), Batiment de la Fonction publique, Aile droite, rez de 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 45.0/15.0 (IBRD/ chausse, Democratic Republic of Congo IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to (R) Public Service Rejuvenation (Cr. H8970-ZR):The objec- be determined. tive is to support the Government’s civil service rejuvenation by: (a) providing retirement indemnities to civil servants over the legal Cote d’Ivoire retirement age/length of service; and (b) supporting relevant reform Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry and rehabilitation plans. The grant was signed on 1 February 2014. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Pesticides Manage- Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P122229. US$ 77.0 ment:The objective is to reduce adverse health and environmental (IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry of Public Ser- impacts in Côte d’Ivoire of POPs pesticides by reducing or eliminating vice, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tel: (243-9) 956-4128, E-mail: their ongoing use and managing existing stockpiles. Decision Meet- ministrefp@fonctionpublique.gouv.cd, Contact: Jean-Claude Kibala, ing scheduled for 18 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Minister of Public Service Category B. Project: P131778. US$ 5.0 (GEFU). Consulting services (R) Strengthening Public Financial Management (PFM) and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. and Accountability (Cr. H9070-ZR):The objective is to enhance the credibility, transparency, and accountability in the management Health and Other Social Services and use of central government and selected sub-national govern- Productive Social Safety Net:The objective is to set the founda- ments’ finances. The grant was signed on 20 February 2014. Envi- tions of an effective and productive type of safety net system capable ronmental Assessment Category C. Project: P145747. US$ 5.0 (IDA of responding to the country’s needs both in normal times and during Grant). Consultants will be required. COREF, Kinshasa, Democratic times of crisis. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Republic of Congo, Tel: (243-8) 1319-2957, E-mail: godemisenga@ Category C. Project: P143332. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting yahoo.fr, Contact: Godefroid Misenga, Coordinator services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Second Governance:The objectives are to: (a) enhance transpar- Results Based Financing Project:The objective is to support ency and efficiency in central and sub-national public finance and the Government in developing and implementing a results-based human resource management; and (b) establish and consolidate an financing project with specific attention to reproductive and child equitable resource sharing mechanism between central and sub- health and other high priority interventions. Preparation is under- national government. Bank Approval completed on 9 May 2013. way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0/5.0 (IDA Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P126115. US$ 67.0 Credit/HRBF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) (IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry of Interior, Boule- to be determined. vard Colonel Tshatshi, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tel: Public Administration, Law, and Justice (243-99) 290-5743, E-mail: prcgrdc@gmail.com, Contact: Popaul Kizungu Chihiza, Project Coordinator (R) Governance and Institution Development Additional Statistics Development Project:The objectives are to: (a) im- Financing:The objective is to support the Government to improve: prove the quality and the timeliness of statistical information; (b) (a) public financial management in the areas of internal controls, im- make data accessible to users; and (c) promote the demand for plementation of the WAEMU guidelines, monitoring of state-owned statistics. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 3 Septem- enterprises, and improvement of revenue authorities performance; ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IDA and (b) capacity and performance of the Coffee-Cocoa Council. Nego- Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be tiations completed on 5 May 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 9 determined. June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P147016. US$ 5.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (R) Second PRSC:The objective is to support a balance reform Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological Services in DRC:The program strengthening public-sector governance and administration, objective is to support the Government in strengthening the hydro- and facilitating private sector led growth. Project Concept Review logical, meteorological and climate services which will help: (a) the Meeting scheduled for 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment economic development, (b) reduce the human and economic losses Category U. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. of extreme water and weather events, and (c) build resilience against Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. the negative impacts of climate change. Preparation is underway. (R) Territorial Governance and Local Development:The Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144712. US$ 6.0 objectives are to contribute to rural/urban development and poverty JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE 11 reduction through: (a) supporting provision of priority public goods struction, Director, Urban Governance and Capacity, Ethiopia, Tel: and services at the commune level; and (b) promoting good local (251-1011) 555-0635, E-mail: uggcbb@gmail.com, Contact: Yehya governance through decentralized and deconcentrated participatory Aman, Director, Urban Governance and Capacity Building Bureau local governance systems at the commune and provincial/district lev- (R) Statistics for Results Facility:The objectives are to: (a) els. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 10 October 2014. improve the national dialogue and partnership between data users Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IDA Grant). Con- and producers; and (b) deliver more efficient and effective aid and sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. technical assistance to strengthen statistical systems and results Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection measurement. Bank Approval scheduled for 30 May 2014. En- vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147356. US$ 10.0 Infrastructure Renewal Project:The objectives are to: (a) sup- (SRTF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be port the rehabilitation of basic infrastructure facilities; and (b) en- determined. hance the access to social services in targeted urban areas. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 6 August 2014. Environ- Transportation mental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Expressway Development Support Project:The objective is services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. to facilitate the movement of goods and people along selected high Ethiopia trafficked corridors servicing areas with high potential for agriculture based export production and tourism, whilst supporting initiatives Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry promoting safety, efficiency and sustainability of the core road net- Second Phase Agricultural Growth Program:The objective work. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 22 May 2014. is to support sustainable and inclusive growth in productivity of Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P148850. US$ 300.0 smallholder agriculture and enhance market access through linkages (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to with value chains of selected livestock and crop products. Prepara- be determined. tion is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 300.0 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Second Water Supply Sanitation Project (Cr. 53860- ET):The objective is to support the government’s program focusing Energy and Mining on rural and small towns and adapting the water supply, sanitation Geothermal Development Project:The objective is to diver- and hygiene (WASH). The credit was signed on 10 April 2014. Envi- sify Ethiopia’s electricity generation mix and increase electricity ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133591. US$ 205.0 (IDA generation capacity. Bank Approval scheduled for 29 May 2014. Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Water Irrigation Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P133613. US$ and Energy, Tel: (251-116) 625-526, Contact: Ato Nuredin Moham- 29.4/149.1/24.5/3.5 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/CSCF/ICEI). Consul- med, Nuredinmohammed@yahoo.com tants will be required. Ethiopian Electric Power, Ethiopia, Tel: (251- 1) 1554-6830, E-mail: azebasnake@gmail.com, Contact: Ato Azeb Gabon Asneke, Chief Executive Officer Education Health and Other Social Services Skills Development Project:The objective is to improve and (R) Productive Safety Nets Program IV:The objective is to expand technical and vocational training in key growth sectors and reduce household vulnerability, improved resilience to shocks increase youth employability. Preparation is underway. Environmen- and sustainable community development in food insecure areas tal Assessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services of rural Ethiopia. Decision Meeting scheduled for 26 June 2014. and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146883. US$ 5 Energy and Mining 00.0/550.0/25.0/412.0/130.0/115.0/68.0/68.0/23.0/25.0/100.0 Rural Electrification and Capacity Building Project:The (IDA Credit/AID/DANI/DFID/ECEU/GCAN/GIRR/NEDA/SIDA/ objectives are to: (a) increase access to modern energy services in UNCF/WOFP). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture rural areas; (b) improve end-use energy efficiency; and (c) enable Ethiopia future investments in hydropower. Decision Meeting scheduled for Industry and Trade 17 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (R) Competitiveness and Job Creation Project (Cr. 54510- (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be ET):The objective is to support job creation, enhance competitive- determined. ness and increase investments within selected industrial zones in Information and Communications Ethiopia. Bank Approval completed on 13 May 2014. Signing scheduled for 20 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category CAB4 E-Government Applications Project:The objectives are A. Project: P143302. US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be to: (a) scale-up the e-government strategy; and (b) create an action required. Ministry of Industry, PO Box 704, Addis Abba, Ethiopia, plan to leverage the new connectivity. This E-gov Applications project Tel: (251-11) 551-8025, Fax: (251-11) 551-4288, E-mail: miltgt@ will support selected eGovernment and flagship ICT applications. gmail.com, Contact: Ato Milkias Teklegiorgis Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 16 May 2014. Envi- ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting Public Administration, Law, and Justice services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (N) Ethiopia PFM Project:The objectives are to: (a) roll out the Public Administration, Law, and Justice Oracle IFMIS; (b) support ERCA and the regional revenue authorities; and (c) support the smaller activities relating to debt management, The Gambia procurement, auditing and accounting and improving expenditure management in Line Ministries. Project Concept Review Meeting Public Administration, Law, and Justice scheduled for 3 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Integrated Financial Management and Information Sys- C. US$ 120.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing tem (IFMIS) Project Additional Financing:The objective is agency(ies) to be determined. a continuation to support the Government of The Gambia to: (a) (R) Second Local Government Development Project (Cr. expand the existing IFMIS system and automate the National Re- 54350-ET):The objective is to support the planning, delivery, and cords Service; (b) to strengthen national statistical capacity; and (c) sustained povision of priority municipal services and infrastructure. to support an energy sector strategy. Bank Approval completed on The credit was signed on 6 May 2014. Environmental Assessment 20 September 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ Category B. Project: P133592. US$ 380.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants 5.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance will be required. Ministry of Urban Development, Housing, and Con- and Economic Affairs, Quadrangle, Banjul, POB. 3296, The Gambia, PAGE 12 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Tel: (220) 422-5713, Fax: (220) 422-7954, Contact: Juan Bosco Marti Negotiations completed on 8 April 2014. Bank Approval sched- Ascencio, Titular de la Unidad de Asuntos Internacionales uled for 20 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ Second Economic Governance Reform Grant:The objectives 68.0/5.0 (IDA Credit/HRBF). Consultants will be required. Ministry are to: (a) strengthen the government’s capacity in public financial of Health, PO Box M-44, Ghana, Tel: (233-020) 887-6172, E-mail: management; and (b) improve public sector management in the salasung2@yahoo.com, Contact: Ms Salimata Abdul-Salam, Chief agriculture, energy and telecommunications sectors. Decision Meet- Director ing scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Social Opportunities Project Additional Financing:The ob- U. US$ 5.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing jectives are to: (a) improve social protection spending; (b) increase agency(ies) to be determined. access to cash transfers nationwide; (c) increase access to employ- Ghana ment and cash-earning opportunities for the rural poor during the agricultural off-season; and (d) improve economic and social infra- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry structure in target districts. Bank Approval scheduled for 27 May (R) Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Local Communities: 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146923. The objective is to enhance the capacity and support specific initia- US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of tives of local communities in Ghana to strengthen their participation Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ministries, Ghana Min- in the Forest Investment Program and other REDD+ processes at the istry of Local Government and Rural Development, Ghana, Tel: local national, and global levels. Appraisal scheduled for mid-May (233-302) 818-1782 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.5 (CSCF). Con- Youth Employment:The objective is to enhance the employment sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. and entrepreneurship opportunities for youth, especially disadvan- (R) Sustainable Land and Water Management Additional taged youth, through intermediary services for job training and start Financing:The objectives are to: (a) improve sustainable land and up schemes provided by the private and public sector. Decision Meet- water management practices to reduce land degradation and enhance ing scheduled for 11 September 2015. Environmental Assessment maintenance of biodiversity in selected micro-watersheds; and (b) Category C. Project: P132248. US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting strengthen spatial planning for identification of linked watershed services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. investments in the Northern Savannah region of Ghana. Negotiations completed on 17 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 17 June Industry and Trade 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132100. US$ 8.8 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment (R) Ghana Competitiveness:The objective is to support improved Science and Technology, Ghana, Contact: Nicholas Iddi, Project competitiveness of high potential sub-sectors of Ghana’s economy, Coordinator particularly manufacturing. Project Concept Review Meeting sched- Forest Investment Program Reducing Pressure on Natural uled for 22 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Forests:The objective is to reduce forest loss and land degradation B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing and contribute to sustainable livelihoods through participatory plan- agency(ies) to be determined. ning, improved practices and incentives in Ghana’s high forest zone. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 29.5 (CSCF). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Lands (R) Macro Stability for Competitivess and Growth:The objec- and Natural Resources, Ministries, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-24) 436- tives are to support: (a) the need for macroeconomic stabilization 2510, E-mail: majuamuk@yahoo.co.uk and greater executive efficiency; and (b) transparency and account- ability to provide adequate funding for the reduction of poverty by Education improving resource allocation efficiency and setting an environment Secondary Education Project:The objective is to increase access more supportive of a competitive economy. Appraisal scheduled for to senior secondary education in underserved districts and improve 3 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: quality in low-performing senior high schools in Ghana. Bank Ap- P133664. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- proval scheduled for 20 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- menting agency(ies) to be determined. egory B. Project: P145741. US$ 149.6/6.4 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Education, Ministries Area, (R) Oil and Gas Capacity Building Project Additional Fi- Accra, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-21) 231-664, Fax: (233-21) 231-663, nancing:The objectives are to: (a) improve public management and E-mail: yawkriss@yahoo.com, Contact: Chris Koromoah, Financial regulatory capacity while enhancing transparency; and (b) strengthen Controller local technical skills in Ghana’s emerging oil and gas sector. Ap- praisal completed on 1 May 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 3 Finance June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P148224. (R) Financial Sector Support Project:The objective is to sup- US$ 19.8 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. port the development of Ghana’s financial sector and the implemen- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for tation of Ghana’s ‘Financial Sector Strategic Plan II’ by addressing key Social Transformation:The objective is to support ICT applica- issues in priority areas such as banking and pensions. This project tions to transform strategic government agencies and improve citi- is no longer in the lending program. Further reporting will be dis- zens’ access to information. Bank Approval completed on 24 October continued. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P144140. US$ Credit). 97.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Com- Health and Other Social Services munication, Ghana, E-mail: ofosuadarkwa@yahoo.co.uk, Contact: (R) Health Insurance and Nutrition:The objectives are to: (a) Kwaku Ofosu-Adarkwa, Chief Director strengthen the financial and operational management of the National Health Insurance Scheme; and (b) finance activities related to com- Transportation munity-based health and nutrition services for children under the (R) Transport Sector Project Additional Financing:The ob- age of two and pregnant women in the entire Ghana population. jective is to improve mobility of goods and passengers on selected This project is no longer in the lending program. Further reporting roads through reductions in travel time, vehicle operating cost, and will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ enhanced road safety awareness. Negotiations completed on 12 May 90.0/15.0 (IDA Credit/HRBF). 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 10 October 2014. Environmental (R) Maternal and Child Health Improvement Project (Cr. Assessment Category A. Project: P149444. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). 54630-GH):The objective is to improve utilization of community- Consultants will be required. Ministry of Roads and Highways and based health and nutrition services by women of reproductive age, Ministry of Transport, Ghana, Tel: (233-302) 661-575, Fax: NA, E- especially pregnant women, and children under the age of 2 years. mail: duaquaye@yahoo.com, Contact: Dr. D. D. Darku JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE 13 Guinea mental Assessment Category B. US$ 8.2 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Economy, Planning, and Regional In- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry tegration, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Tel: (245) 320-7286, Fax: (245) (R) Agricultural Support Project:The objective is to support 320-4846, E-mail: pmri@orange-bissau.com the diversification of activities beyond traditional rice farming, and contribute to the rebuilding of Guinea’s agricultural research and Public Administration, Law, and Justice technology transfer capabilities. Appraisal completed on 17 April (N) Emergency Public Sector Reinforcement:The objective 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 2 June 2014. Environmental As- is to establish basic systems for more transparent and accountable sessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be collection, management and use of public resources. Project Concept required. Guinea Review Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Education Assessment Category C. US$ 10.0/5.0 (IDA Grant/SPBF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Global Partnership for Education (GPE):The objective is to improve equity in access to quality basic education and learning Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection outcomes in the project areas. Project Concept Review Meeting com- Electricity and Water Reform:The objective is to meet the elec- pleted on 16 April 2014. Preparation is underway. Environmental tricity and water supply needs of the country in an economically Assessment Category B. US$ 37.8/15.2 (EFAS/GFRC). Consulting and environmentally sustainable manner in order to contribute to services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. economic growth and well-being of the population of Guinea-Bissau. (R) Tertiary Education and Skills Reform:The objective is to This project is on holder until further notice. Environmental Assess- improve the employability of education graduates and strengthen ment Category C. Project: P120917. US$ 7.0/9.0 (IDA Credit/ZMUL). governance systems. Appraisal scheduled for 16 June 2014. En- Consultants will be required. Ministry of Economy, Planning, and vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146474. US$ 20.0 Regional Integration, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Tel: (245) 320-7286, (IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Fax: (245) 320-4846, E-mail: pmri@orange-bissau.com, Contact: be determined. Luis Cruz Gomes, Coordinator Energy and Mining Emergency Water Supply Project:The objective is to address (R) Power Sector Recovery Project (Cr. 54990-GN, Cr. the severe electricity and water supply shortage in Bissau (Guinea H9690-GN):The objective is to help improve the technical, com- Bissau). Negotiations completed on 3 April 2014. Bank Approval mercial and financial performance of Guinea’s power utility, with scheduled for 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. a special focus on the funding of a management contract, end-user Project: P148797. US$ 17.2/5.3 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants meters and other support to commercial operations, and power will be required. transmission investments. Negotiations completed on 5 May 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmental Assess- Kenya ment Category B. Project: P146696. US$ 22.6/27.4 (IDA Credit/IDA Education Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Energy and Hydrau- lics, Guinea, Tel: (224-62) 262-2091, E-mail: katoulara2002@yahoo. Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Education Sec- fr, Contact: Kadiatou Baldé Bah, Senior Advisor to the Minister tor Support Project:The objective is to improve the quality of early childhood and basic education service delivery in Kenya for Health and Other Social Services increased learning achievement for all. Decision Meeting scheduled Health System Strengthening:The objective is to initiate a re- for 30 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: sults based financing approach in the Guinea Health system that P146797. US$ 88.4 (EFAS). Consulting services and implementing will strengthen the health system. Project Concept Review Meeting agency(ies) to be determined. scheduled for 10 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Energy and Mining agency(ies) to be determined. Electricity Modernization Project:The objective is to improve Guinea-Bissau the risk profile of Kenya Power and Lighting Company Ltd. (KPLC) for commercial lenders and support KPLC obtain commercial loans Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry for longer tenors at competitive interest rates. Preparation is under- (R) Second Emergency Food Security Support Project:The way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (GUID). Con- objective is to improve food security by supporting the most vulner- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. able population including children, and increasing rice production in Menengai Geothermal:The objectives are to: (a) develop geo- project areas. Appraisal scheduled for 24 June 2014. Environmental thermal resources in the Menengai field and make them available Assessment Category B. US$ 7.0 (GFCR). Consulting services and for electricity generation; and (b) establish transmission lines to implementing agency(ies) to be determined. connect Menengai to the national grid. Decision Meeting scheduled for 18 November 2015. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ Education 115.0/170.0/120.0/40.0/36.0 (IDA Credit/AFD/AFDB/CIF/EUIB). Rural Community-Driven Development Project Additional Consulting services to be determined. Geothermal Development Financing:The objective is to increase access to priority basic social Company (GDC), Taj Tower, Upper Hill PO Box 100746-00101, and economic infrastructures and services in participating com- Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-20) 242-7516, E-mail: md@gdc.co.ke, munities in at least two regions of Guinea-Bissau. Bank Approval Contact: Dr. Silas M. Simiyu completed on 7 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Power System Development:The objective is to ensure that B. Project: P146746. US$ 15.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be re- access to reliable, cost effective, and high quality supply of electric- quired. Project Coordination Unit, C.P. N.955, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, ity is sustained to business enterprises and households. Decision Tel: (245) 320-7407, E-mail: handem_jr@hotmail.com, Contact: Meeting scheduled for 22 January 2015. Environmental Assessment João S. Handem Jr. Project Coordinator Category B. Project: P120014. US$ 200.0/50.0 (IDA Credit/FRDE). Energy and Mining Consultants will be required. Kenya Power and Lighting Co. Ltd. Stima Plaza, Kolobot Road, PO Box 30099, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: Industry and Trade (254-20) 243-366, Fax: (254-20) 310-336, Contact: John Njoroge, Agribusiness Development and Private Sector Rehabili- Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Ministry of Energy tation:The objectives are to: (a) improve investment climate and and Petroleum, Nyayo House, PO Box 30582, Nairobi, Tel: (254-20) entrepreneurship development; and (b) support cashew agribusiness 255-0680, Fax: (254-20) 222-8314, E-mail: ps@energymin.go.ke, development. Bank Approval scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environ- Contact: Patrick Nyoike, Permanent Secretary PAGE 14 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Health and Other Social Services Financing: (formerly Energy and Mining sector) The objective Cash Transfers for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) is to support the Government to: (a) develop and sustain an envi- Additional Financing:The objective is to increase social safety net ronmentally sound, socially responsible and financially viable MD- access for extremely poor OVC households, through an effective WSP framework; (b) increase a quantity of safe bulk water supply to and efficient expansion of the CT-OVC program and building the Teyateyaneng; (c) strengthen institutions and related instruments capacity of the National Safety Net Program (NSNP) Bank Approval in the water sector; and (d) advance Kobong Pump Storage Scheme completed on 31 October 2013. Environmental Assessment Category preparation. Negotiations completed on 5 May 2014. Bank Ap- C. Project: P146161. US$ 10.0/56.4 (IDA Credit/DFID). Consultants proval scheduled for 20 June 2014. Environmental Assessment will be required. Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services, Category B. US$ 9.1/6.4 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will E-mail: mwasiajiwf@yahoo.com, Contact: Winnie Mwasiaji, Social be required. Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, Maseru Protection Secretariat Coordinator 100, Lesotho, Tel: (266-22) 311-281, Fax: (266-22) 310-060, E-mail: Health Sector Support Project Additional Financing:The ob- lhwp@lhda.org.ls jective is to support scaling-up of the Results Based Financing (RBF) Liberia initiative. Bank Approval completed on 30 December 2013. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. Project: P144197. US$ 41.0/20.0 Energy and Mining (IDA Credit/HRBF). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, Renewable Energy Project:The objective is to meet the electric- Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-2) 224-8591, Contact: Fred H. K. Segor, ity needs of a part of the population outside Montserrado County Principal Secretary Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 30 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (CSCF). Consulting Information and Communications services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Transparency and Infrastructure Project Additional Financing 2:The objective is to further reforms in the ICT sector Health and Other Social Services by deploying elements of Nairobi City County Plan for improve- (R) Youth Employment Social Safety Net:The objective is to ments in infrastructure and basic services. Bank Approval com- support the development of social protection programming focused pleted on 26 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. on increasing resilience among poor and vulnerable households, Project: P149019. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to particularly through improved employment opportunities. Project be determined. ICT Authority, Tel: (254-20) 208-9061, Fax: (254- Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 26 June 2014. Environ- 20) 221-1962, E-mail: vkyalo@ict.go.ke, Contact: Mr. Victor Kyalo, mental Assessment Category B. Project: P146827. US$ 10.0 (IDA vkyalo@ict.go.ke Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Petroleum Technical Assistance Project (KEPTAP):The Public Administration, Law, and Justice objective is to strengthen the capacity of the government to manage (R) Second Poverty Reduction Support Credit:The objectives its petroleum sector for sustainable development impacts. Appraisal are to: (a) sustain and deepen government-owned efforts to reform completed on 9 May 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 3 June 2014. governance and civil service; and (b) support the broadening of Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145234. US$ 50.0 reforms to include economic transformation and human develop- (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Energy and ment. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 17 April 2014. Petroleum, Kenya, Tel: (254-20) 225-0680, E-mail: ps@energymin. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category U. go.ke, Contact: J Njoroge, Principal Secretary US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Minister of Finance, Liberia, Tel: (231-886) 578-921 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Liberia Land Administration Project:The objective is to im- (R) Second Kenya Water Security and Climate Resilience prove the efficiency in the provision of land administration and Project (KWSCRP-2):The objective is to improve water security management services. Preparation is underway. Environmental As- and build climate resilience in the Coastal Region. Decision Meeting sessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and scheduled for 27 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Project: P145559. US$ 200.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Urban Water and Sanitation OBA Fund for Low Income Emegency Monrovia Urban Sanitation 2 Additional Financ- Areas:The objective is to increase the number of people in low ing:The objective, a continuation, is to increase access to solid waste income areas with access to improved water supply and sanitation collection service in Monrovia, Liberia. Decision Meeting scheduled services in Kenyan towns and cities. First Grant Funding Request for 27 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Approval scheduled for 30 June 2014. Environmental Assessment P146966. US$ 7.0 (LRTF). Consulting services to be determined. Category B. Project: P132979. US$ 11.8 (GPBA). Consulting ser- MCC PIU, Liberia, Tel: (231-886) 144-849, E-mail: poasumadu@ vices to be determined. Water Services Trust Fund, CIC Plaza, Mara yahoo.com, Contact: Peter Ofori-Asumadu, Project Director Road, Upperhill, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-02) 0272-0696, E-mail: musyoki@wstfkenya.org, Contact: Jacqueline Musyoki Madagascar Lesotho Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) Emergency Food Security and Nutrition Project (Cr. Public Administration, Law, and Justice 53740-MG):The objective is to enhance agricultural production Second Growth and Competitiveness Development Policy capacity and protect vulnerable populations from food insecurity in Credit (DPC):The objective is to support Government’s reforms project areas. The credit was signed on 27 March 2014. Environ- to improve: (a) private sector competitiveness; (b) sustainability mental Assessment Category B. US$ 65.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants and efficiency of public spending; and (c) social protection and will be required. MINAGRI, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar, Tel: monitoring systems. Decision Meeting scheduled for 12 November (261-20) 247-4385, E-mail: cpnbvpi@blueline.mg, Contact: Philibert 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 15.2 (IDA Grant). Rakotoson, Directeur Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance and De- velopment Planning, Maseru, Lesotho, Tel: (266-22) 310-826, Fax: Energy and Mining (266-22) 310-157 Second Power/Water Sectors Recovery and Restructur- ing APL:The objective is to lay the foundation for the sustainable Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection expansion of a commercially-oriented utility in a most cost-efficient (R) Water Sector Improvement Project, Phase 2: High- way by investing in strategically important areas: (a) HV intercon- lands Water Project 2 Kobong Pump Storage Additional nections of the main load-centres; (b) preparation of the next large JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE 15 scale hydro facility; and (c) investments and TA necessary. Project Health and Other Social Services Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 4 September 2014. Envi- MASAF IV Strengthening of Safety Nets Systems Additional ronmental Assessment Category A. US$ 50.0/50.0/64.0/70.0 (IDA Finance:The objective is a continuation to strengthen Malawi’s Credit/AFDB/ZBIL/ZPCO). Consulting services and implementing social safety net delivery systems and coordination across programs. agency(ies) to be determined. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 25 September 2014. Health and Other Social Services Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Con- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Emergency Support for Critical Education Health and Nu- Malawi Fourth Social Action Fund APL III (MASAF IV): trition Services Additional Financing:The objective is a con- The objective is to improve and reform MASAF into the National tinuation to preserve critical education, health and nutrition service productive safety net program for direct cash and other safety nets delivery in targeted vulnerable areas in the recipient’s territory. Bank benefits in the country. Bank Approval completed on 18 December Approval completed on 27 February 2014. Environmental Assess- 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133620. US$ ment Category B. Project: P148749. US$ 9.8/0.2 (IDA Credit/IDA 32.8 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. MASAF Local Devel- Grant). Consultants will be required. Contact: Asuman Lukwago, opment Fund, Area 14, Red Cross Building, Lilongwe, Malawi, Tel: Permanent Secretary (265-1) 775-666, Contact: Mr. Sam Kakhobwe, Executive Director Social Safety Net Project:The objective is to scale up conditional cash transfer (CCT) pilot that is presently designed under the Mada- Industry and Trade gascar Food Security and Social Protection project which provides (R) Business Enabling Environment Project:The objective some funding for emergency response to natural disasters. Project is to improve the business enabling environment in Malawi. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 30 May 2014. Environmental Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 23 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Assessment Category C. US$ 5.2 (AFRF). Consulting services and and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Growth and Infrastructure:The objectives are to: (a) con- Second Economic Recovery Development Policy Opera- solidate and deepen the impacts in the three existing sub-regions tion:The objectives are to strengthen macroeconomic and public (growth poles); and (b) extend the interventions to adjacent sub- finance management and lay the foundation for stronger growth regions with high growth potential to establish growth corridors. and protection of the poor. Negotiations scheduled for 11 August Decision Meeting scheduled for 18 September 2014. Environmental 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 50.0 (IDA Grant). Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Capital and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Hill, PO Box 30049, Capital City, Lilongwe 3, Malawi, Tel: (265-1) 789-355, Fax: (265-1) 789-173, E-mail: finance@finance.gov.mw, Malawi min-finance@finance.gov.mw Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Transportation Agricultural Commercialization and Rural Growth Proj- Agricultural Sector Wide Approach Second Additional Fi- ect:The objective is to support the modernization of the Malawi nancing:The objective is to improve the effectiveness of investments smallholder agriculture by promoting agricultural diversification and aimed at food security and sustainable agricultural growth. Bank commercialization and by supporting rural growth. Project Concept Approval completed on 19 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Review Meeting scheduled for 28 July 2014. Environmental As- Category B. Project: P148964. US$ 100.0 (ASWP). Consultants will sessment Category B. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be be required. Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MoAFS), PO required to help design this new operation by undertaking some of Box 30134, Capital City, Lilongwe, Malawi, Tel: (265-1) 789-033, Fax: the key preparatory studies (institutional set up and implementation (265-1) 789-218, E-mail: xtluhanga@yahoo.com, Contact: Jeffrey arrangements, environment and social impact assessment, economic Luhanga, Principal Secretary and financial analysis, etc.). Ministry of Agriculture and Food Secu- rity, PO Box 30134, Lilongwe 3, Malawi, Tel: (265-1) 788-817, Fax: Mali (265-1) 789-218, E-mail: xtluhanga@yahoo.com, Contact: Jeffrey Luhanga, Principal Secretary Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Shire Valley Irrigation Support:The objectives are to: (a) raise Obsolete Pesticides Disposal and Prevention Project:The ob- agricultural productivity and profitability for agricultural producers, jective is to assist the Government to: (a) eliminate and/or safeguard including small-holders, in the Lower Shire Valley; and (b) broaden inventoried Publicly-Held Obsolete Pesticide stocks and Associated Malawi’s export base by establishing market-driven productive ven- Waste; and (b) implement measures to reduce future accumulations tures and providing efficient and sustainable irrigation services. of pesticides. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category A. Category A. US$ 3.2 (GEFU). Consulting services and implementing Project: P125473. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be agency(ies) to be determined. determined. Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MOAFS), PO Energy and Mining Box 30134, Capital City, Malawi, Tel: (265-1) 789-033, Fax: (265-1) 789-218, E-mail: xtluhanga@yahoo.com, Contact: Mr. Sandram (R) Banda Gas to Power Guarantee (Cr. G2280-ML):The Maweru, Principal Secretary objective is to enable production of natural gas to increase reliable, competitive and environmentally sustainable electricity supply for Education Mauritanian, Senegalese and Malian households and industry. Bank (R) Higher Education and Skills Development (Cr. H9590- Approval scheduled for 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment MW, Cr. 54720-MW):The objectives are to: (a) develop a skilled Category A. Project: P145664. US$ 32.0 (GUID). Consulting services and flexible labor force including engineers, technicians, basic arti- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. sans and business leaders; (b) create and disseminate new ideas and Kenie Hydropower Project:The objective is to expand renewable technologies; and (c) enhance capacity to access existing stores of generation to better serve domestic power demand. Project Concept global knowledge and adapt this knowledge to local use. Negotiations Review Meeting scheduled for 10 July 2014. Environmental Assess- completed on 24 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 19 June ment Category U. US$ 30.0/70.0 (GUID/ZPCO). Consulting services 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131660. US$ and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 46.0/4.9 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Rural Electrification Hybrid System Project GPOBA:The Ministry of Finance, Capitol Hill, Lilongwe, Malawi, Tel: (263-01) objective is to increase access to modern energy for 13,800 low in- 789-529, E-mail: stfinance@finance.gov.mw, Contact: Mr. Newby come rural households (150,000 individuals) in rural areas in Mali. Kumwembe, Secretary to the Treasury Bank Approval completed on 11 December 2013. Environmental PAGE 16 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Assessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (GPBA). Consulting services and Louis, Mauritius, Tel: (230) 201-1146, E-mail: gbussier@mail.gov. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. mu, Contact: Gerard Bussier, Deputy Director Finance Transportation Skills for Employability and Growth:The objective is to support Road Asset Management and Safety:The objectives are to: (a) higher youth productivity and employability and stronger skills for reduce the user’s cost on the priority sections of the primary and key sectors of the economy by improving the effectiveness of skill secondary road network; (b) improve the institutional framework development in the formal and informal sector. Appraisal completed for road safety; and (c) strengthen asset management in the road on 21 March 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 20 May 2014. Envi- sector. Decision Meeting scheduled for 4 September 2014. Environ- ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145861. US$ 35.3/27.7 mental Assessment Category B. Project: P129015. US$ 75.0 (IBRD). (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance and Economic Vocational Training and Employment, Bamako, Mali, Tel: (233- Development, Government House, Port Louis, Mauritius, Tel: (230) 207) 94-285, E-mail: herycoulibaly55@yahoo.fr, Contact: Mr. Hery 201-1146 Coulibaly Mozambique Public Administration, Law, and Justice Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) Seventh Mali DPO:The objective is to support the Govern- ment’s efforts to: (a) expand the executive accountability; and (b) (R) Conservation Areas for Biodiversity and Development- consolidate the economy. Negotiations completed on 16 April 2014. GEF:The objective is to support the development and management Bank Approval scheduled for 13 November 2014. Environmental of Mozambique conservation areas’ system in order to improve bio- Assessment Category U. Project: P145275. US$ 63.0 (IDA Credit). diversity conservation, economic growth and sustainable livelihoods. Consultants will be required. Ministry of Economy and Finance, Decision Meeting scheduled for 21 July 2014. Environmental As- PO Box 234, Bamako, Mali, Tel: (223) 222-5858/7798, Fax: (223) sessment Category B. US$ 6.3 (GEFU). Consulting services and 223-9934, E-mail: sg@finances.gov.ml implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Conservation Areas for Biodiversity and Development:The Mauritania objective is to support the development and management of Mozam- bique’s Conservation Areas system in order to improve biodiversity Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry conservation, economic growth and sustainable livelihoods. Decision Sustainable Land Management under SAWAP:The objective Meeting scheduled for 4 September 2014. Environmental Assess- is to support the Government’s effort in operationalizing its biodi- ment Category B. Project: P131965. US$ 70.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- versity strategy and the Great Green Wall Initiative in Mauritania. ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. Second Agriculture Development Policy Operation (DPO): US$ 4.8 (GEFU). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) The objective, the second in a series of three DPO, is to support the to be determined. Mozambique agriculture sector investment plan (PNISA). Decision Education Meeting scheduled for 28 August 2014. Environmental Assessment (R) Skills Development Project Additional Financing:The Category U. Project: P146930. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting objectives are to: (a) improve the quality and efficiency of training services to be determined. Ministry of Planning and Development, institutions; and (b) create an enabling environment for a more Av. Ahmed S. Toure, 21, 4th floor, Mozambique, Fax: (258-21) 492- market-driven Technical and Vocational Education Training System. 625 Bank Approval completed on 30 April 2014. Environmental Assess- Education ment Category B. Project: P144575. Consultants will be required. (R) Higher Education Science and Technology Project Ad- Energy and Mining ditional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) increase the number (R) Gas to Power (Cr. G2270-MR):The objective is to use and raise the quality of graduates at the undergraduate and graduate natural gas discovered offshore for a power station to be built near levels; and (b) strengthen the national research capacities to produce Nouackchott. Bank Approval scheduled for 29 May 2014. Envi- research outputs of relevance to the Country’s strategic economic ronmental Assessment Category A. Project: P107940. US$ 130.0 sectors. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 27 June 2014. (GUID). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Energy, BP 199, Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Con- Rond-Point Sebkha, Nouakchott, Mauritania, Tel: (222-46) 431-537, sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Fax: (222-44) 297-456, E-mail: kane@acces.mr, kane@hydraulique. Early Child Development and Nutrition:The objective is to gov.mr, Contact: Mamadou Amadou Kane, Directeur General de assist the Government to: (a) pilot various types of community-based l’Electricite ECD interventions; (b) include provision of nutrition services for pregnant mothers and young children; and (c) create an ECD unit Health and Other Social Services within the Ministry of Education. Bank Approval completed on 1 Mauritania Social Safety Net System:The objectives are to May 2012. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P124729. support the establishment of building blocks for the social safety US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Government net system and to provide targeted cash transfers to poor and vul- of Mozambique, Mozambique, Tel: (258-21) 480-700, Fax: (258-21) nerable households. Identification scheduled for 18 August 2014. 490-979, Contact: HE Said Baragoita, Minister Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0/5.0 (IDA Credit/ Energy and Mining AFRH). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Second Climate Change DPO:The objective is to support the Government to cross-cutting reforms and sector reforms in ag- Mauritius riculture, social protection, health, water, roads and energy. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmental Finance Assessment Category U. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services (R) Finance and Private Sector Competitiveness Develop- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ment Policy Lending:The objective is to support the development of financial sector competitiveness that will help Mauritius in foster- Finance ing the resilience and competitiveness of its economy as enablers (R) Financial Sector Development Policy Operation:The for the implementation of its Africa strategy. Appraisal scheduled objective is to support the Government’s policy measures emanat- for 10 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. ing from the Financial Sector Development Strategy 2012-2020, US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry especially those that promote access to finance while maintaining of Finance and Economic Development, Government House, Port financial sector stability and resilience. Negotiations scheduled for JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE 17 mid-May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 25.0 Niger (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Education Basic Education Support:The objective is to support the Gov- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ernment’s Education Sector Program for the period of 2013-2016 by improving equitable access to and learning outcomes in basic (R) Tenth Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC X): education. Negotiations scheduled for 2 June 2014. Environmental The objective is to assist the Government to: (a) improve the busi- Assessment Category B. Project: P132405. US$ 15.8/84.2 (FRDE/ ness climate and to increase transparency in extractive industries; FTIE). No consultants are required. Implementing agency(ies) to (b) strengthen social protection; and (c) strengthen public financial be determined. management by enhancing effectiveness of internal audits, develop- ing a public investment management process, and improving public Health and Other Social Services debt management. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for (R) Population and Health Support Project:The objective is to 10 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 110.0 strengthen the health services delivery and the improvement of the (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, reproductive health in Niger. Project Concept Review Meeting sched- Praca da Marinha, 929 Popular, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258- uled for 15 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 21) 315-000 116.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, Economic Governance:The objectives are to: (a) promote the Niamey, Niger, Tel: (227-20) 722-782, Fax: (227-20) 733-570 efficiency, transparency and accountability in the use of public re- Industry and Trade sources through improving public financial management and na- tional statistics systems; and (b) enhance the effectiveness of the (R) Agro-sylvo-pastoral Exports and Markets Development justice system to improve the investment climate. Bank Approval Project Additional Financing:The objective is to support the scheduled for 24 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category consolidation of project activities and kick start the implementa- C. Project: P124615. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be re- tion of the country’s Agricultural Risk Management Plan (ARMP). quired. Ministry of Finance, Mozambique, Tel: (258-8) 2403-6630, Decision Meeting scheduled for 23 May 2014. Environmental As- E-mail: isaltina.lucas@mf.gov.mz, Contact: Isaltina Lucas, National sessment Category B. US$ 13.8 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be Director, Treasury required.. Niger Public Administration, Law, and Justice Transportation (R) Public Sector Capacity and Performance for Service Roads and Bridges Management and Maintenance Pro- Delivery (Cr. H9310-NE):The objective is to contribute to more gram Phase III:The objective is to improve access of the population effective service delivery and public policy implementation in Niger. to all-season roads through maintenance, rehabilitation and upgrad- The grant was signed on 29 April 2014. Environmental Assessment ing of the classified road network. Preparation scheduled for 8 July Category C. Project: P145261. US$ 40.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0/16.0/5.0 will be required. Ministry of Planning, Niger, Tel: (227-20) 725-670, (IDA Credit/CIF/NDF). Consultants will be required. Implementing Contact: Amadou Boubacar Cisse, Senior Minister of Planning agency(ies) to be determined. Nigeria Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) Cities and Climate Change Pilot Project for Climate Re- (R) Staple Crop Processing Zones Support Project:The ob- silience (PPCR) Additional Financing:The objective is to reduce jective is to support the operational launch of selected staple crop current and future weather induced impacts on poor population and processing zones, aimed at mobilizing private sector investments, on Mozambique’s fragile economy. Specifically, supporting the green generating employment, and creating value-addition in Nigerian infrastructure investments in the City of Beira, aiming at protecting agriculture Decision Meeting scheduled for 16 September 2014. existing natural drainages courses to increase the city resilience to Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P148616. US$ 100.0 floods. Bank Approval scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental As- (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Ag- sessment Category B. Project: P146059. US$ 6.5/9.3 (CSCC/CSCF). riculture and Rural Development, Nigeria Consulting services to be determined. Administration for Water (R) Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria Proj- Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure (AIAS), Mozambique ect (Cr. 55060-NG):The objective is to improve the performance and financial sustainability of irrigation service delivery and water (R) Water Service and Institutional Support II:The objec- resource management in pilot States. Bank Approval scheduled tives are: (a) increase water service coverage for residents in the for 19 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: project Cities of Nacala, Tete, Moatize, Beira, Dondo, Pemba; and P123112. US$ 486.4/9.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will (b) strengthen the institutional and regulatory framework for the Re- be required. Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Nigeria, Tel: (234- gional Water Utilities Supply in the country. Project Concept Review 80) 5969-2427, E-mail: ympeter@gmail.com, Contact: Eng. Peter Meeting scheduled for 12 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Yakubu Manjuk, Project Coordinator Category B. Project: P149377. US$ 186.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Water Supply Investment Fund (FIPAG), Second Agriculture Sector Development Policy Opera- Rua Pereira d’Eca, Nr. 241, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-21) tion:The objectives are to: (a) strengthen the policy environment 491-529, Fax: (258-21) 498-881; Water Regulatory Council (CRA), and institutional capacity to enhance agricultural productivity and Mozambique, Tel: (258-21) 312-825, Fax: (258-21) 312-826 market access among farmers; and (b) improve agriculture sec- tor management. Pre-appraisal scheduled for 12 September 2014. Water Resources Development Flood Response Additional Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Financing:The objective, same as the parent project, is to strengthen Consulting services to be determined. Federal Ministry of Agriculture the management of national water resources and increase the yield and Rural Development, Nigeria from Corumana dam to augment water supply for the Greater Ma- puto Metropolitan Area. Bank Approval completed on 27 September Education 2013. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 32.0 (IDA Grant). (R) Global Partnership for Education Fund Grant:The ob- Consultants will be required. Direccao Nacional de Aguas/Ministerio jective is to improve access to and quality of basic education in das Obras Publicas e Habitacao, Av. 25 de Setembro, 942, 3o Andar, selected States with particular attention to girls’ participation. Ap- Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-21) 312-568/570, Fax: (258-21) praisal scheduled for 11 December 2014. Environmental Assessment 312-571, E-mail: jalferes@dnaguas.gov.mz, Contact: Juliao Alferes, Category B. US$ 100.0 (EFAS). Consultants will be required. Federal National Director Ministry of Education, c/o STEP-B Project, Plot 245, Samuel Adesujo PAGE 18 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Adeulegun St. Nigeria, Tel: (234-803) 385-4351, E-mail: stepbfme@ eral Ministry of Finance, Nigeria, E-mail: chudimarshi@yahoo.com, yahoo.com; Universal Basic Education Commission, Wuse Zone 4, Contact: Mr. Chudi Onuoha, National Coordinator, FPSU, CSDP Abuja, Nigeria, Tel: (234-806) 565-9090, E-mail: kagarabello@ yahoo.com (R) Program to Support Saving One Million Lives:The ob- jective is to support the Government’s “Saving One Million Lives” (R) Lagos Eko Secondary Education Project Additional (SOML) initiative, which focuses on saving the lives of mothers and Financing:The objectives are to: (a) improve the quality of public children. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 3 June 2014. junior and senior secondary education in Lagos State; and (b) support Project Appraisal Document scheduled for 7 August 2014. Environ- over half a million public school students in 637 secondary schools, mental Assessment Category B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting over 7,000 teachers and school administrators and will strengthen services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. the capacity of district, state and education institutions. Signing scheduled for 13 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Public Administration, Law, and Justice B. Project: P148593. US$ 42.3 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Lagos State Ministry of Education, Office of the Commis- (R) Second Lagos State Development Policy Credit (Cr. sioner of Education, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Alausa, Ikeja, 54000-NG):The objective is to support the Lagos State Govern- Nigeria, E-mail: ronkeazeez@aol.co.uk, Contact: Ms. Ronke Azeez, ment in sustaining its momentum in rapid growth, improved ser- Project Coordinator vices, and poverty reduction through budget support that is linked to key reforms for increasing value for money in budgetary spending, Energy and Mining improving the business climate, and achieving fiscal sustainability. (R) Power Sector Guarantees (Ln. G2310-NG Ln. G2300- Signing scheduled for 13 June 2014. Environmental Assessment NG Ln. G2320-NG):The objective is to increase the supply of Category U. Project: P123352. US$ 200.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants electricity to the Nigerian consumers. Bank Approval completed will be required. Lagos State Finance Commissioner, Nigeria, Tel: on 1 May 2014. Signing scheduled for 6 August 2014. Environ- (234-70) 9881-0566, E-mail: agbeleyi@lagosstateppp.gov.ng, Con- mental Assessment Category A. Project: P120207. US$ 150.0/395.0 tact: Gbeleyi Ayo (GUAM/GUAR). Consultants will be required. Nigeria Bulk Electric- (R) State Employment and Expenditure for Results Project: ity Trading Company Ltd, Nigeria, Tel: (234-803) 685-6383, E-mail: The objectives are to support: (a) youth employment and access to rumundaka.wonodi@nbet.com.ng, Contact: Rumundaka Wonodi, socio-economic services; and (b) reforms of the public financial Managing Director / CEO management systems, processes and institutions in the participating Electricity Transmission and Access Project:The objective is states. Negotiations scheduled for 10 July 2014. Environmental As- to support the Government to increase the capacity of the Nigerian sessment Category B. Project: P133071. US$ 100.0 (ECD). Consulting Grid and reduce the system losses. Project Concept Review Meet- services to be determined. Federal Ministry of Finance, Central Area, ing scheduled for 30 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Garki, Abuja, Nigeria, Tel: (234-9) 8336-6661, E-mail: turakibatta@ egory A. US$ 700.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing hotmail.com; National Planning Commission, Plot 421 Constitution agency(ies) to be determined. Avenue, Central Business District, Abuja, Nigeria Electricity and Gas Improvement Additional Financing: The objective is to continue to support the Government to enable (R) State and Local Governance Reform Project:The objec- unconstrained transmission of power generated from power plants tive is to improve transparency, accountability and quality in pub- where PRGs are guaranteeing gas supply. Signing scheduled for 30 lic financial management in the participating states Negotiations June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P126182. scheduled for 10 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Power Holding Project: P133045. US$ 73.1 (ECD). Consulting services to be deter- Company of Nigeria, Plot 441 Zambezi Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, mined. Federal Ministry of Finance, Nigeria, E-mail: chudimarshi@ Nigeria, Tel: (234-9) 413-6684, Fax: (234-9) 413-6685, E-mail: yahoo.com maganiyu@nepapmu.org, Contact: Mansuru A. Ganiyu, Project Manager Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Electricity and Gas Improvement Additional Financing- (R) Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project (Cr. 55100- GUID:The objective is a continuation to support the Nigeria Electric- NG):The objective is to improve the city of Ibadan’s flood resilience ity and Gas Improvement project to power three of the NIPP plants by: (a) strengthening preparedness and response; and (b) under- in Sapele, Olorunsogo and Alaoji. Signing scheduled for 10 July 2014. taking flood risk mitigation and urban drainage improvements in Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P126190. US$ 200.0 priority and targeted project sites Bank Approval scheduled for (GUID). Consulting services to be determined. Power Holding Com- 17 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 200.0 pany of Nigeria, Plot 441 Zambezi Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria, (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Oyo State Government, Tel: (234-9) 413-6684, Fax: (234-9) 413-6685, E-mail: maganiyu@ Office Of the Governor, Secretariat, Ibadan, Nigeria, Tel: (234-70) nepapmu.org, Contact: Mansuru A. Ganiyu, Project Manager 5973-9604, E-mail: dayo1ayorinde@yahoo.com, Contact: Mr. Dayo Ayorinde, Project Coordinator Finance (R) Third National Urban Water Sector Reform Project (Cr. (R) Public Sector Governance Reform and Development 54160-NG):The ojectives are: (a) to increase access to improved Project:The objective is to adopt a restructuring strategy for the water supply service in selected cities and urban centres in Bauchi, development finance sector in Nigeria, which would encompass Ekiti, and Rivers States of Nigeria; and (b) to improve the financial rethinking and redesigning the Nigeria. Decision Meeting scheduled viability of existing water utilities in Bauchi, Ekiti, and Rivers States. for 30 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ 500.0 Bank Approval completed on 18 April 2014. Signing scheduled for (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Office of the Accoun- 6 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: tant General of Nigeria, Garki, Abuja, Nigeria, Tel: (234-9) 234-0949, P123513. US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Fax: (234-9) 234-443, E-mail: ksarjius@yahoo.com Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Nigeria, Tel: (234-0803) 373- Health and Other Social Services 8149, E-mail: bajisegiri@yahoo.com (R) Community and Social Development Additional Fi- Enhancing Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change: nancing: (formerly Public Administration, Law, and Justice The objective is to strengthen the ability of federal and state govern- sector) The objective of Project is to increase access by the poor ments to respond to current climate related disasters, and to build to improved social and natural resource infrastructure services in resilience to future climate change. Project Concept Review Meeting a sustainable manner throughout Nigeria. Signing scheduled for scheduled for 30 April 2015. Environmental Assessment Category 15 January 2015. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: A. US$ 400.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing P148215. US$ 140.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Fed- agency(ies) to be determined. JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE 19 Regional (GEFU). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) West Africa Mauritania Fish APL:The objective is to sus- (R) Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa MDTF Ad- tainably increase the overall wealth generated by the exploitation ditional Financing:The objective is to align African agricultural of the marine fisheries resources of West Africa and the proportion institutions at the national, regional and continental levels with of that wealth captured by West African countries. Project Concept CAADP Pillar IV FAAP Principles for effective research, extension, Review Meeting scheduled for 19 June 2014. Environmental As- and training and education. Bank Approval to be scheduled. Envi- sessment Category B. Project: P131327. US$ 7.0 (GEFU). Consulting ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (CDP4). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. services to be determined. Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (R) West Africa Regional Fisheries Program APL C1:The (FARA), No 12, Off Anmeda Street, Roman Ridge, Accra, Ghana, Tel: objective is to sustainably increase the overall wealth generated by (233-302) 772-823, Fax: (233-302) 773-676, E-mail: yakinbamijo@ the exploitation of the marine fisheries resources of West Africa, and fara-africa.org, Contact: Dr. Yemi Akinbamijo, Executive Director the proportion of that wealth captured by West African countries to (R) Fourth Comprehensive Agricultural Development: include the coastal nations from Mauritania through Ghana. Project The objective is to support the creation of a regional institution Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 19 June 2014. Environmen- for Southern Africa with the mandate to support and coordinate tal Assessment Category B. Project: P126773. US$ 30.0/12.0/7.0 regional programs in agricultural research, agricultural extension, (IBRD/IDA Credit/GFIA). Consulting services and implementing and agricultural training and education. Bank Approval scheduled agency(ies) to be determined. for 28 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in P113629. US$ 26.0 (CDP4). Consulting services to be determined. East and Central Africa (ECA) Multi Donor Trust Fund:The FARA Secretariat, PMB CT 173, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana, Tel: objective is to enhance access and utilization of agricultural research (233) 2177-2823/9421, Fax: (233) 2177-3676, E-mail: mjones@ technologies and innovations in the regional agricultural systems fara-africa.org, Contact: Dr. Monty P. Jones, Executive Secretariat. of ECA. This project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Southern Africa Development Community, Private Bag 0095, SADC Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (CDP4). Consulting services and House, Khama Crescent, Gaborone, Botswana, Tel: (267) 395-1863, implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Fax: (267) 397-2848, E-mail: ptawonezvi@sadc.int, Contact: Dr. Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience:The objective is to Patrick Tawonezvi, Coordinator enhance livelihood resilience of pastoral and agro-pastoral com- (R) Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience Project (Cr. munities in cross-border drought prone areas of selected countries 53850-UG, Cr. H9190-3A, Cr. 53880-KE):The objective is to and to improve the capacity of the selected countries’ governments to enhance livelihood resilience of pastoral and agro-pastoral com- respond promptly and effectively to an eligible crisis or emergency. munities in cross-border drought prone areas of selected countries Bank Approval scheduled for 24 October 2014. Environmental As- and improve the capacity of the selected countries’ governments to sessment Category B. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services respond promptly and effectively to an eligible crisis or emergency. and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Bank Approval completed on 18 March 2014. Signing scheduled Volta Basin Strategic Action Plan Implementation Proj- for 19 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: ect:The objective is to strengthen transboundary water resources P129408. US$ 117.0/5.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will management in the Volta River Basin through institutional develop- be required. Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MALF) ment and implementation of priority actions of the Strategic Action Kenya, Kenya, Tel: (254-20) 271-8870, E-mail: pslivestock@kenya. Programme. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment go.ke, pslivestock@yahoo.com, Contact: Dr. Khadijah Kassachoon, Category B. US$ 3.0 (CIWA). Consulting services and implementing Principal Secretary. Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and agency(ies) to be determined. Fisheries, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 453-1411, E-mail: ps@agriculture. go.ug, Contact: Vincent Rubarema, Permanent Secretary. Inter- Education Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariat, Tel: African Centers of Excellence:The objective is to support efforts (253-21) 312-740, E-mail: Mohamed.moussa@igad.int, Contact: Mo- to build centers of excellence and knowledge networks in tertiary hamed Moussa Mohamed, Director, Agriculture and Environment education (science, technology, engineering, mathematics or STEM, (R) Sahel Regional Pastoralism Support:The objective is to de- health, and agriculture) in Africa, leveraging regional collaboration. velop and implement regional approaches to enhancing pastoral com- Signing scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- munities’ resilience to weather shocks and long term climate change egory B. Project: P126974. US$ 41.5/103.5 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). in drought prone areas in selected countries in the Sahel. Decision Consultants will be required. Association of African Universities Meeting scheduled for 6 January 2015. Environmental Assessment (AAU), PO Box 5744, Accra-North, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-302) Category B. Project: P147674. US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting 774-495/761-588, Fax: (233-302) 774-821, E-mail: aapedoe@aau. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. org, Contact: Prof. Etienne Ehouan Ehile, Secretary General (R) South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and Energy and Mining Shared Growth:The objective is to increase the shared benefits (N) 3A Ruzizi Hydropower Project:The objective is to con- from economic growth based on sustainable fisheries and coastal struct a dam, tunnel, power station and a transmission line to a marine resources. Decision Meeting scheduled for 7 July 2014. En- switchyard. The project will be developed in the form of a public- vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.5 (GEFU). Consulting private partnership supported by donors including the World Bank, services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. AfDB, and DBSA. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 7 (R) South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 Shared Growth:The objective is to increase the shared benefits (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to from economic growth based on sustainable fisheries and coastal be determined. marine resources. Decision Meeting scheduled for 7 July 2014. En- (N) Niger River Basin Management Project:The objective vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132123. US$ 70.5/5.0 is to enhance the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) capacity, systems (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing and tools for facilitating improved water resources management agency(ies) to be determined. and development in the Niger River Basin. Project Concept Review (R) Volta River Basin Strategic Action Programme Imple- Meeting scheduled for 30 June 2014. Environmental Assessment mentation--GEF:The objective is to strengthen transboundary Category C. US$ 7.5 (CIWA). Consulting services and implementing water resources management in the Volta River Basin through in- agency(ies) to be determined. stitutional development and implementation of priority actions of (R) 3A-Ruzizi Hydropower Partial Risk Guarantee:The ob- the Strategic Action Programme. Decision Meeting scheduled for jective is to provide a Partial Risk Guarantee to support private sector 19 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 7.2 investors to develop the Ruzizi hydropower project. Project Concept PAGE 20 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Review Meeting scheduled for 7 August 2014. Environmental As- mined. Electricidade de Mozambique (Electricity of Mozambique), sessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (GUID). Consulting services and Av. Zedequias Manganhela, N-267, Predio Zat, 4th Floor, PO Box implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 938, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-21) 304-407, Fax: (258-21) (R) Adjarala Hydroelectric West Africa Power Pool APL 328-233, E-mail: cyum@edmdipla.co.mz, Contact: Mr. Carlos Yum, Phase 3:The objectives are to: (a) establish a well-functioning, Director and Project Coordinator cooperative, power pooling mechanism for West Africa; and (b) (R) Southern Africa Power Pool and Regional Electricity increase access for the citizens of ECOWAS to reliable and stable Regulators Association of Southern Africa Regional En- electricity at affordable costs. Decision Meeting completed on 21 ergy:The objectives are to: (a) promote regional trading through March 2014. Appraisal scheduled for 6 April 2015. Environmental lending operations for several major transmission and generation Assessment Category A. Project: P115063. US$ 120.0/100.0/78.0/ projects; and (b) provide assistance to create and enforce the tech- 40.0/52.0 (IDA Credit/AFDB/FRDE/WADB/WAEM). Consultants nical, economic and regulatory “rules of the road” for the regional will be required. Communaute Electrique du Benin (CEB), Rue de interconnected grid. Decision Meeting completed on 13 May 2014. la Kozah, BP 1368, Lome, United States, Tel: (228) 221-6132, Fax: Appraisal scheduled for 7 July 2014. Environmental Assessment (228) 221-3764, E-mail: dg@cebnet.org, Contact: Djibril Salifou, Category A. Project: P126661. US$ 20.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting Managing Director services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Kandadji Niger Basin Water Resources Program Tanzania-Kenya Interconnector:The objectives are to con- APL2A Additional Financing: (formerly Agriculture, Fishing, nect Tanzania’s electrical grid with Kenya’s and later Zambia, create and Forestry sector) The objective is to increase access to water power- sharing between the two countries, reduce energy costs, for agriculture development and capacity of energy generation in promote sustainable and renewable power generation, protect the the Niger part of the Niger Basin. Bank Approval scheduled for 22 region’s environment and pave the way for dynamic regional coop- May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P148972. eration between the countries of East Africa. Project Concept Review US$ 32.9/22.3 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be re- Meeting scheduled for 25 September 2014. Environmental Assess- quired. The High Commission for the Development of the Niger ment Category A. Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Valley (HCDNV) to be determined. (R) Kariba Dam Rehabilitation Project: (formerly sector Health and Other Social Services Zambia) The objective is to assist the Zambezi River Authority (R) Controlling Diseases of Poverty in the Sahel: NTDs and in securing the long-term safety and reliability of the Kariba Dam SMC:The objective is to assist countries in the African Sahel control Hydro-Electric Scheme. Decision Meeting scheduled for 4 Septem- and begin to eliminate the diseases of extreme poverty and seasonal ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P146515. malaria transmission. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled US$ 115.9 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing for 4 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ agency(ies) to be determined. 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. African Pro- (R) Mozambique-Malawi Transmission Interconnection: gramme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), Director, APOC, Oua- The objective is to interconnect the Malawi power system with the gadougou 01, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tel: (226-50) 342-959, Southern African Power Pool via Mozambique. Project Concept Fax: (226-50) 343-647; WHO/AFRO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Review Meeting completed on 30 April 2014. Preparation is under- (R) Great Lakes Emergency Women’s Health (Cr. H9800- way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 120.0/4.5 (IDA ZR, Cr. 55250-RW, Cr. H9790-BI, Cr. H9780-BI):The ob- Credit/AFRS). Consultants will be required during preparation for jective is to expand utilization of a package of high impact health feasibility study and procurement. Electricidade de Mozambique and nutrition interventions and the provision of specialized health (EdM), Ave Agostinho Neto 70 - 8 Andar, Maputo, Mozambique, services targeted to vulnerable women and children under five in the Tel: (258-21) 353-632; ESCOM, PO Box 2047, Blantyre, Malawi, Great Lakes region. Negotiations scheduled for 6 June 2014. Envi- Tel: (265-1) 822-000, 824-274, Fax: (265-1) 823-560 ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147489. US$ 15.0/92.0 (R) OMVS Hydropower and Energy Infrastructure Devel- (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of opment Project:The objective is to contribute to sustaining and National Solidarity, Human Right and Gender, Burundi, Tel: (257-2) expanding the exploitation of OMVS regional hydropower potential 221-9395, E-mail: giradona1@yahoo.fr, Contact: Donatienne Giruk- and furthering regional integration through the rehabilitation and wishaka, General Director of Women Promotion and Gender Equal- renewal of Manantali hydropower plant and transmission facili- ity. Miinistere de Sante, Burundi, Tel: (257-2) 224-2542, E-mail: ties for the evacuation of the power generated by the plant. Project ngirigi@yahoo.fr, Contact: Dr. Liboire Ngirigi, General Director of Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 24 July 2014. Environmental Health Services and Fight against AIDS. Ministère du Genre, Famille Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services et Enfants, Tel: (243-99) 995-6864, E-mail: geneinagosi@yahoo. and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. fr, Contact: S.E.M. me Genéviève Inagosi Bulo Ibambi, Ministre du (R) Organisation de Mise en Valeur du fleuve Gambie Genre, Famille et Enfants (OMVG) Energy Project: West African Power Pool (WAPP) (R) Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographics: APL 4 - Phase 2:The objective is to increase access to electric- The objective is to mprove the regional response to maternal and ity supply to Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal through reproductive health and adolescent girl’s issues. Project Concept expanding regional transmission infrastructure that will enable to Review Meeting scheduled for 11 July 2014. Environmental Assess- exchange renewable generation resources in the region. Decision ment Category C. US$ 200.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assess- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ment Category B. Project: P146830. US$ 173.0/20.0/100.0/27.0/11 2.0/50.0/168.0/35.0/30.0 (IDA Credit/ADFA/AFDB/EBID/EUIB/ Industry and Trade GFRC/ISDB/KFW/WADB). Consultants will be required for techni- (N) Great Lakes Trade Facilitation:The objective is to facilitate cal studies of new hydropower developments, promoting regional trade of goods and services across borders. Project Concept Review approach projects, and provide project management support to the Meeting scheduled for 18 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Implementing Agency. OMVG - Gambia River Basin Development Category B. US$ 95.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- Organisation, Tel: (221-33) 822-3159, Fax: (221-33) 822-5926, E- menting agency(ies) to be determined. mail: omvg@omvg.sn (R) Accelerated Program for Economic Integration (APEI) (R) Regional Transmission Development Adaptable Pro- Regional Development Policy Operation:The objective is to gram Loan:The objective is to support the development of the support the governments of the five countries to implement reforms transmission backbone linking Tete Province with the south of that will: (a) remove barriers to trade in goods, (b) promote trade Mozambique. Decision Meeting scheduled for 15 January 2015. in services, (c) further facilitate trade, and (d) improve the busi- Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P108934. US$ ness environment. Appraisal scheduled for 23 September 2014. 150.0/50.0 (IDA Credit/GUID). Consulting services to be deter- Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 20.0/30.0 (IBRD/IDA JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE 21 Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Assessment Category B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services determined. and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) West Africa Road Transport:The objective is to provide Regional Dakar-Bamako Railway Improvement Project: a regional budget support to those West African countries that The objective is to assist the Governments of Mali and Senegal in jointly agree to common road transport reforms. Decision Meeting the restructuring of the existing concession and rehabilitation of scheduled for 15 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category the Dakar-Bamako railway line. Identification scheduled for 15 Sep- U. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing tember 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 agency(ies) to be determined. (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required to conduct pre-feasibil- ity, feasibility and engineering, studies. Goods and equipment may Information and Communications be needed to support preparation. Implementing agency(ies) to be (R) Central Africa Backbone APL5:The objective is to ensure determined. seamless regional connectivity or national links to deliver broad- Roads Development Support:The objectives are to: (a) upgrade band Internet to all provincial capitals, leveraging infrastructure interstate and regional roads; (b) enhance good governance in the established by other utilities such as power companies. Negotiations transport sector; (c) legislate the establishment of a road mainte- scheduled for 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category nance fund; and (d) create a body that will be responsible for the B. Project: P132821. US$ 92.1 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be administration of the funds. Bank Approval scheduled for 20 May required. COPIREP, Immeuble SOFIDE, 4eme Etage, Kinshasa, 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131426. US$ Democratic Republic of Congo, Tel: (243-81) 516-9824, E-mail: 80.0/150.0 (IDA Credit/EXCN). Consultants will be required. Minis- copirep@copirep.org, Contact: M. Alex N’KUSU DONGALA SIYA, try of Transport, Roads and Bridges, Tel: (249-957) 102-093, E-mail: Coordinator alamjj2@yahoo.co.uk, Contact: James Alam, Chief Engineer (R) Fifth Regional Communications Infrastructure Pro- Southern Africa Trade and Transport Facilitation Program gram APL:The objectives are to: (a) lower prices for international APL 2:The objectives are to: (a) improve the road infrastructure; capacity and extend the geographic reach of broadband networks; (b) mitigate the social costs of increased transport; and (c) improve and (b) improve the Government’s efficiency and transparency trade facilitation together with necessary implementation assistance through eGovernment applications. Decision Meeting scheduled and institutional support. Decision Meeting scheduled for 20 Janu- for 17 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. ary 2015. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145566. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing US$ 60.0/2.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consulting services and agency(ies) to be determined. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. West Africa Regional Communications Infrastructure APL Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection 3:The objectives are to: (a) increase the geographical reach of broad- (R) Zambezi River Basin Development Project:The objective band networks; and (b) reduce costs of communications services is to strengthen cooperative management and development within in the territories of Guinea Bissau and Niger. Decision Meeting the Zambezi River Basin to facilitate sustainable and climate resilient scheduled for 9 March 2015. Environmental Assessment Category growth. Bank Approval scheduled for 30 May 2014. Environmental B. US$ 33.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Assessment Category A. Project: P133380. US$ 6.0 (CIWA). Con- agency(ies) to be determined. sulting services to be determined. The Zambezi River Authority, Tel: Public Administration, Law, and Justice (260-211) 220-241, E-mail: munodawafa@zaraho.org.zm, Contact: Eng. Munyaradzi Munodawafa, Title: Chief Executive (R) AUC Institutional Transformation and Capacity Build- ing Program Support (Cr. H9390-3A):The objective is to sup- Nel Transboundary River Basin Management and De- port the senior management to lead the internal transformation velopment Project:The objective is to strengthen participatory process of establishing a strategic and program results-based per- transboundary river basin planning, management and development formance standards. Bank Approval completed on 6 May 2014. for improved water and food security in the NEL region. Prepara- Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P126848. US$ 25.0 tion is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 13.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. African Union Commis- (CIWA). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be sion, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tel: (251-11) 551-7700 determined. Sahel Disaster Risk Management and Hydro-Meteorologi- (R) Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research cal Services:The objectives are to: (a) increase resilience to extreme in East and Central Africa Multi-Donor Trust Fund:The weather and climate events in the Sahel region through fostered objective is to enhance access and utilization of agricultural research regional and national collaboration for disaster risk management; technologies and innovations in the regional agricultural systems of and (b) improve delivery of national hydrological and meteoro- Eastern and Central Africa. Bank Approval completed on 24 Decem- logical information and services. Decision Meeting scheduled for ber 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.6 (CDP4). 18 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 Consulting services to be determined. Association for Strengthening (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), be determined. Plot 15 John Babijha Road, PO Box 765, Entebbe, Uganda, Contact: Seyfu Ketema, Executive Director Rwanda (R) Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC Mem- ber Countries: (formerly Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry The objective is to support the sustainable management of groundwa- (R) Landscape Approach to Forest Restoration and Con- ter resources within the SADC Member States and enhance resilience servation (LAFREC):The objective is aligned with the Multi-Fo- to climatic variability and change. Signing scheduled for 20 May cal Area/Sustainable Forest Management’s core objective around 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P127086. US$ a landscape approach which will bring the forest ecosystems into 2.0/8.2 (CIWA/GEFU). Consultants will be required. University of better management, including rehabilitation of degraded areas and the Free State, South Africa, E-mail: vermeulend@ufs.ac.za, Contact: generate multiple benefits. Decision Meeting scheduled for 3 June Dr Danie Vermeulen, Director: Institute for Groundwater Studies 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131464. US$ 5.5/4.1 (GEFU/LDC). Consultants will be required. Rwanda Transportation Environmental Management Authority, Kacyiru District, BP 7436 (R) South Sudan-Eastern Africa Regional Transport, Trade Kacyiru, Kigali City, Rwanda, Tel: (250-2) 5258-0101, Fax: (250-2) and Development Facilitation Program-Phase Two:The ob- 5258-0017 jective is to enhance regional connectivity of South Sudan with its Agriculture Growth Corridors Program:The objective is to Eastern Africa neighboring countries and access to sea ports. Project increase the productivity and commercialization of marshland and Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 24 July 2014. Environmental hillside agriculture in Rwanda. Preparation is underway. Environ- PAGE 22 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 mental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0/150.0/50.0 (IDA Credit/ Senegal GAFS/ZBIL). Consulting services to be determined. MINAGRI, PO Box 621, Rwanda, Tel: (250-788) 301-751, E-mail: j.dusabe@rssp. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry gov.rw Community-based Sustainable Land Management:The ob- jectives are to: (a) support rural communities in areas vulnerable Energy and Mining to desertification and land degradation through community based (N) Electricity Sector Strengthening Project:The objective is activities targeting women and through sustainable land manage- to increase access to quality and reliable electricity services. Project ment; and (b) pilot a climate smart agriculture and its potential to Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 17 September 2014. Environ- implement nationwide. Bank Approval completed on 19 December mental Assessment Category B. Consulting services and implement- 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P130271. US$ ing agency(ies) to be determined. 6.0 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Health and Other Social Services Education (R) Second Demobilization and Reintegration Project Ad- (R) Skills for Jobs and Comptetiveness:The objective is to ditional Financing:The objective is to scale-up the development revamp the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) effectiveness of the original project through extending demobiliza- system and better align it to the needs of youth to effectively enter tion and reintegration services for additional ex-combatants from the labor market, and also to respond to the needs of enterprises. AG repatriating from Eastern DRC. Bank Approval completed on Decision Meeting scheduled for 26 June 2014. Environmental As- 30 April 2014. Signing scheduled for 13 June 2014. Environmental sessment Category B. US$ 35.0/16.5 (IDA Credit/GFRC). Consulting Assessment Category B. Project: P148706. US$ 9.0 (IDA Credit). services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Consultants will be required. Energy and Mining Industry and Trade Taiba Ndiaye Independent Power Producer Project:The (R) Third Rural Sector Support Project Additional Financ- objective is to increase electricity generation at a lower marginal cost ing:The objectives are a continuation to: (a) increase the agricultural through Independent Power Producer investments in Senegal. Bank productivity of organized farmers in marshlands and hillsides of Approval completed on 19 December 2013. Environmental Assess- sub-watersheds targeted for development in an environmentally ment Category A. Project: P143605. US$ 40.0/92.0/28.0 (GUID/ sustainable manner; and (b) strengthen the participation of women ZMUL/ZPCI). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) and men beneficiaries in market-based value chains. The credit was to be determined. signed on 3 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.9 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. MINAGRI WB SPIU, Health and Other Social Services E-mail: rssp_pscu@rssp.gov.rw Safety Net Operation:The objective is to assist the Government develop building blocks of an efficient safety net system. Bank Ap- Public Administration, Law, and Justice proval scheduled for 29 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Public Sector Governance Program:The objective is to support egory C. Project: P133597. US$ 37.4/3.1 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). government’s effort to improve public sector governance in the areas Consultants will be required. Minister of Finance, Senegal of public financial management (PFM), decentraliztion and statistics. Decision Meeting scheduled for 27 May 2014. Environmental Assess- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and Public Resource Management Strengthening:The objective is implementing agency(ies) to be determined. to further strengthen the Government of Senegal’s capacity in public Sao Tome and Principe resource management to enhance the credibility, transparency, and accountability in the management and use of central government fi- Education nances. Decision Meeting scheduled for 19 May 2014. Environmental (N) STP Quality Education for All Additional Financing:The Assessment Category C. Project: P146859. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). objective is to improve the system of in-service teacher training and Consultants will be required. PFM Reform Secretary, Senegal, Tel: to strengthen the management of human resources in the educa- (221) 821-4587, E-mail: ctdiopmef@yahoo.fr, Contact: Cheikh Tidi- tion sector in São Tomé and Príncipe. Decision Meeting scheduled ane Diop, Coordinator for 22 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection P150828. US$ 3.5 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Min- Urban Water and Sanitation Project:The objective is to in- istry of Education, Culture and Training, Sao Tome and Principe, crease access to sustainable water and sanitation services in selected Tel: (239) 222-5205, E-mail: bjesus.jorge@gmail.com, Contact: H.E. urban areas. Identification scheduled for 30 November 2014. Envi- Jorge Bom Jesus, Minister ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 70.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- Competitiveness and Growth Project:The objective is to in- ing services to be determined. PEPAM, Dakar, Senegal, Tel: (221-33) crease productivity and improve competitiveness of the private sec- 859-0499, Fax: (221-33) 832 1434, E-mail: projeau@orange.sn tor through improved access to finance and business development services. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 15 Octo- Seychelles ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 1.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Public Administration, Law, and Justice determined. (N) Third Sustainability and Competitiveness DPL:The objectives are to enhance competitiveness and improve fiscal sus- Public Administration, Law, and Justice tainability. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Third Governance and Competitiveness Development Category U. US$ 7.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Ministry of Policy Operation:The objective is to support the Government to: Finance and Trade, PO Box 313, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles, Tel: (248) (a) strengthen economic governance with transparent and monitor 382-0004, Fax: (248) 225-893, E-mail: ps-finance@finance.gov.sc, public and natural resources, manage and report public finances, Contact: Hon. Pierre Laporte, Minister of Finance and Trade promote fiscal stability, and strengthen public debt management; and (b) support broad-based growth by improving the business Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection climate. Bank Approval scheduled for 29 May 2014. Environmental Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan with Assessment Category U. Project: P146953. US$ 3.5 (IDA Grant). CAT DDO:The objective is to to strengthen the Government of Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance and International Seychelles’ Disaster Risk Management policy and reform agenda Cooperation, Largo das Alfandegas, Caixa Postal 168, Sao Tome, Sao and enhance its capacity to efficiently respond to disasters. Decision Tome and Principe, Tel: (239) 226-748, Fax: (239) 222-182, E-mail: Meeting scheduled for 23 June 2014. Environmental Assessment MFCISTP@hotmail.com Category U. Project: P148861. US$ 7.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE 23 required. Ministry of Finance,Trade and Investment, Liberty House, tral Somalia, Puntland and Somaliland. Project Concept Review PO Box 113, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles, Tel: (248) 438-2000, Fax: Meeting completed on 16 April 2014. Preparation is underway. (248) 432-5161, E-mail: minister@finance.gov.sc Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149306. US$ 71.5 (AFRS). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Sierra Leone determined. Education South Africa Revitalizing Education Development:The objective is to im- prove the quality of basic education service delivery in Sierra Leone. Energy and Mining First Grant Funding Request Approval scheduled for 7 July 2014. En- Technical Assistance Project for Development Carbon Cap- vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133070. US$ 17.9/5.5 ture and Storage in SA:The objective is to facilitate technology (EFAF/SLED). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Education, transfer for transitioning the power sector of the Republic of South Science, and Technology (MEST), New England, Freetown, Sierra Africa to low-carbon development. Project Concept Review Meeting Leone, Tel: (232-76) 618-398, E-mail: manikoroma@hotmail.com, scheduled for 19 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Contact: Mani Koroma, Permanent Secretary US$ 27.0 (CARB). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Industry and Trade Growth Poles Support Project:The objective is to structure a Finance program that will enable Sierra Leone to better manage its extractive (R) Land Bank Financial Intermediation Loan:The objec- boom and consequently derive broader economic benefits from the tive is to increase access to financing for agriculture in South Africa development of its growth poles. Project Concept Review Meeting through Land Bank and to strengthen Land Bank’s institutional scheduled for 21 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category capacity in agricultural financing. Project Concept Review Meeting A. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing scheduled for 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category agency(ies) to be determined. F. Project: P150008. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Af- Information and Communications rica, EcoPark, Centurion, South Africa, Tel: (27-86) 211-4745, E-mail: (R) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) lserithi@landbank.co.za, Contact: Mr. Lebogang Serithi for Transformation Project:The objectives are to: (a) capital- ize on improving communications infrastructure, focusing on ICT South Sudan to improve basic service delivery and accountability, in particular Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry beyond the urban centers; and (b) support selected e-government Agriculture and Rural Development:The objective is to en- applications that improve government’s efficiency, transparency hance the production of major staple crops and increase farmer’s and accountability. Negotiations scheduled for 4 December 2014. income. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Con- Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Con- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation Energy and Mining Transport Sector Project:The objective is to support the Govern- Energy Sector Technical Assistance Project:The objective is to ment to: (a) address urban mobility issues in Freetown (institutional support the Government to facilitate the development of: (a) energy and infrastructure); (b) rehabilitate priority areas of regional road sector planning capabilities, (b) electrical distribution efficiency, and network which provides connectivity within ECOWAS; and (c) sup- (c) off-grid electrification programs. Decision Meeting scheduled for port investments in the growth poles regions. Project Concept Review 20 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Meeting scheduled for 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment P145581. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implement- Category B. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- ing agency(ies) to be determined. menting agency(ies) to be determined. Health and Other Social Services Somalia Health Rapid Results Additional Financing:The objectives are Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry to: (a) improve the delivery of high impact primary health care ser- Strengthening Pastoral and Agropastoral Resilience:The vices in the states of Jonglei and Upper Nile; and (b) strengthen co- objective is to enhance the resilience of pastoral and agro-pastoral ordination and monitoring and evaluation capacities of the Ministry communities in drought prone areas of Somalia. Project Concept of Health. Bank Approval completed on 13 March 2014. Environmen- Review Meeting scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmental Assess- tal Assessment Category B. Project: P146413. US$ 10.0/25.0 (IDA ment Category B. US$ 30.0 (MSC1). Consultants will be required. Credit/IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Contact: Asuman Ministry of Water, Somaliland and Puntland, Somalia; Ministry Lukwago, Permanent Secretary of Livestock Somaliland and Puntland, Colombo 3, Somalia, Tel: Social Safety Net and Skills Development:The objectives are to (94-11) 244-1849 support: (a) productive social safety net; and (b) skills development activities to address the needs of at-risk populations by scaling-up Public Administration, Law, and Justice existing programming, while simultaneously setting in place the Recurrent Cost and Reform Program:The objective is to building blocks for an integrated approach to social protection. Bank improve the government’s capacity to regularly pay civil service Approval completed on 21 June 2013. Environmental Assessment salaries. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 30 May Category B. Project: P143915. US$ 21.0 (IDA Credit). No consul- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (AFS2). tants are required. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ministries Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance of Somaliland Complex, Kololo Road, Juba, South Sudan, Tel: (211-9) 7710-3357, Hargeisa, Somaliland, Hargeisa, Somalia, Tel: (252-2) 424-0209, Contact: Yuba Raj Pandey, Vice Chairman E-mail: osahardeed@suradinterpreting.com, Contact: Osman Sa- hardeed Ministry of Finance and Planning, Villa Somalia, Mogadishu, Public Administration, Law, and Justice Mogadishu, Somalia, Tel: (252-6) 1804-4389, E-mail: hhalane@ (R) Review Development Policy Operations (DPO):The mof.gov.so, Contact: M. Suleiman Ministry of Finance, Puntland objectives are to: (a) improve macroeconomic management, and Garowe, Somalia increase the efficiency of PFM and procurement systems; and (b) enhance the transparency and accountability of public finances. Transportation Decision Meeting scheduled for 30 July 2014. Environmental As- (R) Urban Development Project:The objective is to improve sessment Category U. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services urban infrastructure and urban financing systems in South-Cen- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. PAGE 24 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 (R) STATCAP:The objective is to improve the quality and timeli- banks. Decision Meeting scheduled for 8 September 2014. Environ- ness of statistical information as well as making data accessible to mental Assessment Category A. Project: P125728. US$ 60.0 (IDA users. Negotiations completed on 14 May 2014. Bank Approval Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, scheduled for 15 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 211-1174, Fax: (255-22) 211- Project: P144139. US$ 9.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. 0326, Contact: Ramadhani M. Khijjah, Permanent Secretary National Bureau of Statistics, South Sudan, E-mail: isaiah_chol@ yahoo.com, Contact: Isaiah Chol, Chairman Education Institutional Development and Capacity Building Project: (R) Big Results Now in Education Program:The objective is The objectives are to: (a) support targeted institutional development; to improve learning outcomes of students at the primary and lower and (b) enhance capacity for economic governance and human re- secondary levels by supporting the delivery of the Government’s source management and development. Decision Meeting scheduled comprehensive package of interventions entitled the Big Results Now for 10 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: in Education (BRNEd) initiative. Negotiations completed on 8 May P143975. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implement- 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 10 July 2014. Environmental ing agency(ies) to be determined. Assessment Category B. US$ 122.0/100.0/30.0 (IDA Credit/DFID/ SIDA). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Education and Vo- Transportation cational Training, Tanzania, Tel: (255-75) 458-3896, Contact: Prof. (N) South Sudan Rural Road Project - First Additional Sifuni Mchome, Permanent Secretary Finance:The objective is to enhance all season road connectivity (R) Tanzania Science and Technology Higher Education to agricultural services for rural communities in high agricultural Phase 1 Additional Financing:The objective is to increase potential areas. Identification scheduled for 14 July 2014. An Iden- quantity and quality of higher education graduates, with special tification Mission is planned from July 14-25, 2014. Environmental emphasis on science, technology and education and strengthen the Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services responsiveness of tertiary education to the labor market. Appraisal to be determined. Ministry of Transport, Roads and Bridges, South completed on 2 May 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 6 June 2014. Sudan, Tel: (249-957) 102-093, E-mail: alamjj2@yahoo.co.uk, Con- Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149464. US$ 15.0 tact: James Alam, Chief Engineer (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) Sudan 211-3139, Fax: (255-22) 211-3271, E-mail: sifunimchome@gmail. Health and Other Social Services com, Contact: Prof. Sifuni Mchome, Permanent Secretary Social Safety Net Project:The objective is to improve the living Energy and Mining conditions of selected extreme poor and vulnerable families through (N) Third Power and Gas Sector DPO:The objective is to: income support and work opportunities with a special focus on (a) strengthen the country’s ability to bridge the financial gap in children and women. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled its power sector; (b) reduce the cost of power supply and promote for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ private sector participation in the power sector; and (c) strengthen 5.0 (MDNS). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to the policy and institutional framework for the management of the be determined. country’s natural gas resources. Project Concept Review Meeting Tanzania scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- egory U. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry menting agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Expanding Rice Production:The objective is to strengthen (R) Second Power and Gas Sector DPO (Cr. 53970-TZ):The farmers’ access and adoption of improved rice production technolo- objective is a continuation to support the Government to: (a) bridge gies in Tanzania and Zanzibar. Decision Meeting scheduled for 24 the financial gap in the power sector with fiscal management; (b) July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 22.9 (GAFS). develop additional gas supplies and new power generation capac- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture Food ity; and (c) establish solid policy and institutional foundations for Security and Cooperatives (Lead Agency), PO Box 9192, Tanzania, the management of the natural gas. The credit was signed on 10 Tel: (255-22) 286-2064, Fax: (255-22) 286-2077 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 100.0 (IDA Agricultural Sector Development:The objectives are to: (a) Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Dar Es enable farmers to have better access to and use of agricultural knowl- Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 211-9190, Fax: (255-22) 212-4016, edge, technologies, marketing systems and infrastructure; and (b) E-mail: sblikwelile@yahoo.com, Contact: Dr. Servacius B. Likwelile, promote agricultural private investment based on an improved regu- Executive Director latory and policy environment. Decision Meeting scheduled for 20 (R) Singida Wind Power:The objective is to improve the environ- June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 220.0 (IDA ment for private sector investment in this project, thereby increasing Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture Food investment in Tanzanian climate-friendly wind generation capacity. Security and Cooperatives, Kilimo I, PO Box 9192, Dar es Salaam, Appraisal scheduled for 15 December 2014. Environmental Assess- Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 286-2595, E-mail: psk@kilimo.go.tz; Prime ment Category B. Project: P126432. US$ 100.0/200.0 (GUID/ZPCI). Minister Office - Regional Administration and Local Government, Consultants will be required. Wind EA, Contact: Mark Gammons Tanzania, Tel: (255-75) 477-0592, E-mail: emmandya@yahoo.com, Partial Risk Guarantees in Energy Sector:The objective is to Contact: Mr. Davis Shemangale enable the development and expansion of natural gas fields by private Private Sector Competitiveness Project Additional Financ- developers in several locations, and independent power generation ing:The objective is to create sustainable conditions for enterprise activities. Appraisal scheduled for 9 June 2014. Environmental As- creation and growth. Bank Approval completed on 27 December sessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (GUID). Consulting services to be 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 60.2 (IDA Credit). determined. Ministry of Finance, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255- Consultants will be required. Regional Administration and Local 22) 211-9190, Fax: (255-22) 212-4016, E-mail: sblikwelile@yahoo. Government (PMO-RALG), Office of the Prime Minister, Govern- com, Contact: Dr. Servacius B. Likwelile, Executive Director ment of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 724-951, Renewable Energy for Rural Electrification (RERE):The Fax: (255-22) 121-981, E-mail: ps@pmo.go.tz, Contact: Asuman objective is to expand rural access to modern energy services and to Lukwago, Permanent Secretary increase renewable generation in rural electricity supply. Project Con- Southern Agriculture Growth Corridor Investment Project: cept Review Meeting scheduled for 31 October 2014. Environmental The objective is to support increased access to finance for SMEs in Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0/20.3 (IDA Credit/CSCF). Consult- the SACGOT area and explore innovative financing instruments to ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. finance SMEs in agribusiness, which could include venture capital Ruhudji HPP Guarantee and SIL:The objective is to support the support, collateralization through warehouse receipts, and charter Government to develop the Ruhudji hydro power project. Prepara- JUNE 2014 Africa Region PAGE 25 tion is underway. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: Credit). Consulting services to be determined. DAR City Council, PO P125375. US$ 200.0 (GUID). Consultants will be required. Ministry Box 9084, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 212-3346, Fax: of Energy and Minerals, 754/33 Samora Avenue PO Box 2000, Dar (255-22) 212-5589, Contact: Mr. Bakari Kingobi, Director es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 213-9455, Fax: (255-22) 211-1749, (R) Intermodal and Rail Development Project (Cr. 54140- E-mail: ecmaswi@yahoo.co.uk, Contact: Eng. Bashir J. Mrindoko, TZ):The objective is to create an efficient intermodal transport Commissioner Energy and Petroleum system and strengthen logistics organization by developing an inter- Ruhudji Hydropower Project SIL:The objective is to support the modal land-bridge between the Dar-es-salaam port and Isaka. Bank construction and operation of the hydropower station and the imple- Approval completed on 24 April 2014. Environmental Assessment mentation of transmission line, linking the power station with the Category B. Project: P127241. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants main national grid in Southern Tanzania. Preparation is underway. will be required. Reli Assets Holding Company (RAHCO), Rail- Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0/200.0/1000.0 ways Street Corner, Sokoine Drive, PO Box 76959, Dar es Salaam, (IDA Credit/GUID/ZPCI). Consulting services and implementing Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 212-7403, Fax: (255-22) 211-6525, E-mail: agency(ies) to be determined. benhadard@yahoo.com, md_tito@trctz.com, Contact: Benhadard Tito, Managing Director Health and Other Social Services (R) Strategic Cities Project Additional Financing: (formerly Basic Health Services Project (BHSP) RBF Additional Fi- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection The objective is to improve nancing:The objective is to assist the Government to improve the the quality of and access to basic urban services in participating Local equity of geographic access and use of basic health services across Government Authorities. Bank Approval scheduled for 29 May 2014. districts and enhance the quality of health services being delivered. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148974. US$ 50.0 Decision Meeting scheduled for 19 September 2014. Environmental (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Prime Minister’s Office Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0/15.0 (IDA Credit/HRBF). Consult- - Regional Administration and Local Government, PO Box 1923, ing services to be determined. Ministry of Health and PMO-RALG, Dodoma, Tanzania, Tel: (255-26) 232-1908/2848, Fax: (255-26) Tanzania 232-4966, Contact: Asuman Lukwago, Permanent Secretary Industry and Trade Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (R) Private Sector DPO:The objective is to support policy in- (N) Sustaining Climate-Resilient Growth:The objective is to terventions to remove obstacles to the development of the private provide a comprehensive assessment of the links between climate sector in Tanzania. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for change, anthropogenic impacts and hydropower generation poten- 22 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 50.0 tial in Tanzania and quantify the economic tradeoffs of different (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to scenarios. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 18 June be determined. 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 90.0/60.0 (IDA Private Sector Competitiveness Project:The objective is to Credit/DFID). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) support the development of private sector enterprises in Tanzania, to be determined. to build on the results of the current Private Sector Development (R) Water Sector Support Project Additional Financing:The project. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 27 May 2014. objective is to support the Government’s poverty alleviation strategy Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). through improvements in the governance of water resources man- Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to be de- agement and the sustainable delivery of water supply and sanitation termined. services. Negotiations completed on 6 May 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Public Administration, Law, and Justice A. Project: P146700. US$ 44.9/13.0/15.0 (IDA Credit/DFID/KFW). Eleventh Poverty Reduction Support Credit:The objective is Consultants will be required. Ministry of Water, Maji Ubungo PO to support the country’s policy reform agenda by improving: (a) re- Box 9153, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 245-1530, Fax: gional and global competitiveness of the economy; and (b) the poor’s (255-22) 245-1542, E-mail: b.psmw@mowi.go.tz, Contact: EgR. income opportunities. Bank Approval completed on 27 March 2014. Bashir J. Mrindoko, Permanent Secretary Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 85.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Togo PO Box 9111, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 211-2856/1025, Education Fax: (255-22) 211-7790, E-mail: ps@mof.go.tz, Contact: Ngosha S. Magonya, Commissioner External Finance Global Partnership For Education Program:The objectives are to: (a) increase access and equity in basic education; (b) improve Open Government Partnership Transparency and Pub- teaching and learning conditions; and (c) strengthen institutional lic Financial Management Credit:The objective is to support and community capacity to deliver quality basic education Appraisal the Open Government Partnership strategy implementation of the scheduled for 24 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. government of Tanzania. Preparation scheduled for 1 July 2014. US$ 27.8 (EFAF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P133798. US$ 50.0 to be determined. (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Energy and Mining Transportation Mining Governance and Development Project Prepara- tion-Phase I:The objectives are to: (a) strengthen the capacity (R) Dar es Salaam Maritime Gateway Project:The objective of key institutions to manage the minerals sector; (b) improve the is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Port of Dar es conditions for increased investments in and revenues from mining; Salaam and the access and egress of port traffic, for the benefit of and (c) facilitate an effective and efficient spending of mining reve- all public and private stakeholders. Project Concept Review Meeting nues. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category scheduled for 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. B. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Project: P150496. US$ 350.0/100.0 (IBRD/DFID). Consultants will agency(ies) to be determined. be required. Tanzania Ports Authority, One Bandari Road, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 211-0401, Fax: (255-22) 213-0390, Health and Other Social Services E-mail: mkipande@tanzaniaports.com (R) Selected Maternal and Child Health Services Support (R) Dar es Salaam Metropolitan Development:The objectives Project (Cr. H9110-TG):The objective is to improve health out- are to: (a) improve municipal and metropolitan management; and comes and health sector performance in Togo by focusing on solu- (b) deliver urban services in the three Municipal Councils that make tions to some key factors impeding progress in the sector, notably on up Dar es Salaam. Preparation scheduled for 1 July 2014. Environ- improving governnance, health care quality, equity of access and the mental Assessment Category B. Project: P123134. US$ 130.0 (IDA availability of human resources for health. The grant was signed on 6 PAGE 26 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P143843. Energy and Mining US$ 14.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of (R) Third Energy for Rural Transformation APL:The objec- Health, Lome, Togo, Tel: (228-2) 221-3227, E-mail: awokouf@yahoo. tive, of the third and final phase of the APL program, is to build on fr, Contact: Dr. Fantchè Awokou, Coordonnateur du Programme the implementation experience of the ERT-II and will be based on National de Lutte contre le Palud the reform measures that are being developed under the Uganda Community Development and Safety Nets Project Addi- Accelerated Rural Electrification project (UAREP). Decision Meeting tional Financing:The objective is to provide poor communities scheduled for 18 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category with greater access to basic socio-economic infrastructures and social B. Project: P133312. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services safety nets. Bank Approval completed on 7 March 2014. Environmen- to be determined. Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, tal Assessment Category B. Project: P146598. US$ 12.1 (IDA Credit). Kampala Road, PO Box 7270, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 434- Consultants will be required. Technical Secretariat of the Community 9342, E-mail: info@energy.go.ug Development and Safety Nets Project, Projet de Developpement (R) Third Energy for Rural Transformation-GEF:The ob- Communautaire, Rez-de-chaussee de l’lmmeuble CENETI, Togo, jective is to build on the implementation experience of the ERT-2 Tel: (228) 220-7597, E-mail: pdctogo@yahoo.fr, Contact: Yawavi and on the reform measures that are being developed under the Agboka-Abalo, Coordonatrice du Secretariat Technique Uganda Accelerated Rural Electrification Project (UAREP). Pre- Public Administration, Law, and Justice appraisal scheduled for 10 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Seventh Economic Growth and Governance Credit:The ob- be determined. jectives are to support the: (a) policy reforms to strengthen gover- Northern Power Transmission Project:The objective is to nance and transparency in public financial management; and (b) key support the construction of a transmission line between Lira-Gulu- sectors of the economy (cotton, energy, infrastructure, telecommuni- Nebi-Arua in the Northern part of the country. Project Concept cations and phosphates). Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled Review Meeting scheduled for 4 September 2014. Environmental for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will 14.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) be required. Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Amber to be determined. House, Room B202, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 423-3331, Fax: Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (256-41) 423-0220, E-mail: baanabe@energy.go.ug Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Energy Ad- Partial Risk Guarantee for Renewable Energy Develop- ditional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) increase access to ment Program:The objective will provide support for counterpart infrastructure and urban services in Lome; and (b) support the risk guarantee to cover the payment risk from Uganda Electricity Government’s efforts to demonstrate concrete improvements in Transmission Company. Bank Approval completed on 18 March the lives of its citizens, a critical step for sustaining social and po- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133318. litical stability in the country. Bank Approval completed on 4 June US$ 160.0 (GUID). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Energy 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 14.0 (IDA Grant). and Mineral Development, Kampala Road, PO Box 7270, Kampala, Consultants will be required. Agence deExecution des Travaux Ur- Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 434-9342, E-mail: info@energy.go.ug bains (AGETUR), 01 BP 2780, Recette Principale, Cotonou, Togo, Health and Other Social Services Tel: (229) 313-645, Fax: (229) 612-166, E-mail: agetur@intnet.bj, Contact: Yuba Raj Pandey, Vice Chairman (R) Reproductive Health Voucher Project:The objectives are to: (a) provide subsidized vouchers to vulnerable and poor pregnant Uganda women to access a package of safe delivery services; and (b) support project management functions and build national capacity to main- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry stream; and (c) scale-up implementation of the safe delivery voucher (R) Agriculture Cluster Development Project:The objective scheme in the health sector. First Grant Funding Request Approval is to increase agricultural exports to the East Africa Community scheduled for mid-May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category and COMESA markets over the next five years. Decision Meeting B. Project: P144102. US$ 13.3 (GPBA). Consultants will be required. scheduled for 4 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Ministry of Health, PO Box 7272, Lourdel Road, Kampala, Uganda, B. Project: P145037. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Tel: (256-414) 340-872, Fax: (256-414) 231-584, E-mail: ps@health. and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. go.ug, Contact: Dr. Asuman Lukwago, Permanent Secretary Education Health Systems Strengthening Additional Financing:The objective is to increase utilization of the Uganda National Minimum Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Teacher and Health Care Package (UNMHCP) with a focus on maternal health and School Effectiveness Project:The objective is to enhance the family planning. Bank Approval scheduled for 30 May 2014. Envi- learning environment in primary schools in order to facilitate im- ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145280. US$ 58.7/31.3 provements in learning outcomes and increase completion rates (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of towards the MDG’s goal of universal completion of primary educa- Health, PO Box 7272, Lourdel Road, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256- tion. Signing scheduled for 23 May 2014. Environmental Assessment 414) 340-872, Fax: (256-414) 231-584, E-mail: ps@health.go.ug, Category B. US$ 100.0 (EFAF). Consulting services to be determined. Contact: Asuman Lukwago, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education and Sports, Embassy House, PO Box 7063, Multi sectoral Food Security and Nutrition Project:The Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 425-7038, Fax: (256-41) 423-4920, objective is to increase production and consumption of diversified E-mail: flubanga@education.go.ug and nutrient-dense foods and improve child and maternal care be- Post Primary Education and Training Program 2:The ob- haviors to contribute to improving the nutritional status of vulnerable jectives are to: (a) improve access to post-primary education; (b) groups. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 19 May 2014. improve the quality of post-primary education and training; and (c) Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 27.6 (GAFS). Consulting improve efficiency in the delivery of post- primary education. Project services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 14 August 2014. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Public Administration, Law, and Justice services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Second Financial Sector Development Policy Loan: Skilling Uganda:The objective is to improve the capacity of institu- The objective is to support the development of the market for term tions to deliver quality and relevant skills training programs in the finance, with a focus on the reform of the public pension system and agriculture and small and medium scale manufacturing/construction deepen the access to financial services. Preparation scheduled for 2 sectors. Decision Meeting scheduled for 25 June 2014. Environ- September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: mental Assessment Category B. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting P143635. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Bank services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. of Uganda, Plot 37/43 Kampala Road, PO Box 7120, Kampala, Kam- JUNE 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 27 pala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 230-051, Fax: (256-41) 258-515, E-mail: Category B. Project: P149091. US$ 50.0/40.0/137.0/55.0 (IDA jbagyenda@bou.or.ug, Contact: Justine Bagyenda Credit/AFDB/EUIB/KFW). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation Albertine Region Sustainable Development Project:The Zimbabwe objective is to facilitate the development and competitiveness of the Lake Albert region of Uganda. Signing scheduled for 30 June Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145101. Hwange-Sanyati Biological Corridor Environmental Re- US$ 145.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of source Management and Conservation:The objective is to Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, Finance Building, support sustainable environment and natural resources manage- Nile Ave. PO Box 8147, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 232-095, ment in selected ecologically sensitive areas of Zimbabwe focusing Fax: (256-41) 343-023, E-mail: NA, Contact: Asuman Lukwago, on the Hwange Sanyati Biodiversity Corridor (HSBC), by improving Permanent Secretary protected area management, land and forest management practices, North-Eastern Corridor Road Asset Management Project: and communities on sustainable land management. Bank Approval The objective is to support the Government with urban transport scheduled for 16 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category and rehabilitation of national roads on critical road corridors. Bank B. Project: P124625. US$ 4.0/5.7/0.3/1.5/0.6/3.5 (CIWA/GEFU/ Approval completed on 30 April 2014. Environmental Assessment TERF/WOWL/ZMUL/ZPCO). Consultants will be required for: Category B. Project: P125590. US$ 243.8 (IDA Credit). Consultants (a) establishing biodiversity, land degradation and socio-economic will be required. Uganda National Road Authority (UNRA), Plot 11, baseline data for HSBC; and (b) identification and development of Yusuf Lule Road, PO Box 28487, Uganda, Tel: (256-31) 223-3100, criteria for selection of livelihood activities and feasibility studies, Fax: (256-41) 423-2807, E-mail: executive@unra.go.ug, Contact: B. among others. World Wildlife Fund Zimbabwe, PO Box CY 1409, Ssebbugga-Kimeze, Ag. Executive Director, UNRA Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe, Tel: (236-4) 703-902, Fax: (236-4) 252-533, E-mail: eshumba@wwf.org.zw, Contact: Enos Shumba, Second Kampala Institutional and Infrastructure Devel- Interim Director opment Project:The objectives are to: (a) extend coverage and quality of service delivery; and (b) deepen institutional reform. Bank Health and Other Social Services Approval completed on 20 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Expansion of Public Work Program/Productive Safety Net Category B. Project: P133590. US$ 175.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants Project:The objective is to provide temporary income support to will be required. Kampala Capital City Authority, Sir Apollo Road, poor non-labor constrained rural households through their participa- Plot 1-3, PO Box 7010, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-71) 744-0348, tion in labor-intensive community works, while putting in place the E-mail: Jmusisi@kcca.go.ug, Contact: J. Semakula Musisi, Execu- building blocks of a National Productive Safety Net system. Appraisal tive Director scheduled for 14 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Zambia B. Project: P145518. US$ 25.0 (AFRH). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Health and Other Social Services Health Systems Strengthening for Results:The objective is to strengthen the health systems by: (a) supply chain management, human resources for health and health care financing; (b) MCH outcomes which includes malaria and nutrition; and (c) the current RBF program could possibly expand before the IE results come in East Asia and Pacific mid-2014. Bank Approval completed on 21 March 2014. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. Project: P145335. US$ 52.0/15.0 Cambodia (IDA Credit/HRBF). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Ndeke House, Haille Selassie Ave. Lusaka, Zambia, Tel: (260-211) 252-989, Fax: (260-211) 253-344, E-mail: ps@moh.gov.zm, Contact: (N) Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Dr. Peter Mwaba Project II:The objective is to establish sustainable, agriculture- based livelihoods for land recipients. Project Concept Review Meet- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ing scheduled for 2 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category (R) Budget Support:The objective is to strengthen economic man- B. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agement and public sector governance in Zambia which strength- agency(ies) to be determined. ens the national budget process and statutory functions including Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development economic management. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled Additional Financing:The objective is to improve the process for 13 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 30.0 for identification and use of state lands transferred to eligible, poor (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance and and formerly landless or land-poor land recipients selected through National Planning (MoFNP), Government of Zambia, Zambia a transparent and well-targeted process. Decision Meeting scheduled (R) Public Financial Management Reform Program-Phase for 15 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0 I:The objective is to improve fiscal discipline and public account- (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Interior, 275 ability of the Recipient’s finances, which will be assessed through Norodom Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-92) 351-666, impact on public financial management processes in relevant PEFA E-mail: pcheam@ncdd.gov.kh, Contact: Mr. Cheam Pe A, Project performance indicators. Bank Approval completed on 6 May 2014. Coordinator. Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P147343. US$ 30.0 Construction, 771-733 Monivong Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (ZPFM). Consultants will be required for budgeting, revenue admin- (855-12) 854-261, E-mail: lased@ezecom.com.kh, Contact: Excel- istration and monitoring, internal audit, procurement reforms and lency Dr. Sareth Boramy, Director of LASED Project integrated financial management information systeam (IFMIS). Ministry of Finance, Zambia, Contact: Mumba Chanda, Project Coor- Education dinator. Zambia Institute of Purchasing and Supply; Zambia Revenue (R) Global Partnership for Education Second Education Authority; Zambia Procurement Authority Support:The objective is to support the Government to: (a) expand access to early childhood education for 3-5 year olds; and (b) improve Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection access to and quality of basic education for students, particularly (R) Lusaka Sanitation Project:The objective is to improve sani- those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Bank Approval completed tation services and the performance of Lusaka Water and Sanitation on 5 May 2014. Signing scheduled for 30 June 2014. Environmental Corporation. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 Assessment Category B. Project: P144715. US$ 38.5 (EFAF). Consul- April 2014. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment tants will be required. Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, 80 PAGE 28 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Preah Norodom Blvd. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, E-mail: crsmeys@ Transport, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 427-845, Fax: camnet.com.kh, Contact: H. E. Nath Bunroeun, Secretary of State (855-23) 214-907, E-mail: mpwt@online.com.kh, Contact: Soviche- ano Pheng, Under Secretary of State Health and Other Social Services (N) Second Health Sector Support Program Additional Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Financing:The objective is to support the implementation of the (R) Mekong Integrated Water Resources Management_ government’s Health Strategic Plan 2008-2015 to improve health Phase III: (formerly Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry sector) outcomes through strengthening institutional capacity and mech- The objective is to support the improvement of fisheries management anisms by which the government and development partners can and establish river basin management in areas of regional importance achieve more effective and efficient sector performance. Decision Decision Meeting scheduled for 10 July 2014. Environmental As- Meeting scheduled for 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- sessment Category B. US$ 13.5 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be re- egory B. US$ 12.7 (KHFS). No consultants are required. Ministry of quired. Cambodia National Mekong Committee (CNMC), Cambodia, Health, 151-153, Kampuchea Krom Street, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 216-514, Fax: (855-23) 218-506, E-mail: wattbotkosal@ Tel: (855-23) 722-873/ 880 260/880, Fax: (855-23) 880-262, E- gmail.com, Contact: Botkosal Watt, Deputy Secretary General mail: admin.hssp@online.com.kh, enghuot@online.com.kh, Con- tact: H.E. Professor Eng Huot, Secretary of State China Livelihood Enhancement and Association of the Poor in Siem Reap:The objectives are to increase incomes and improve Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry livelihoods of the rural poor in select communes in Siem Reap prov- (R) Guizhou Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation: ince by: (a) creating and strengthening self-sustaining institutions of The objective is to support an integrated participatory approach to the poor; (b) providing them access to finance; and (c) linking them rural development and improve rural incomes through agriculture to markets and key value chains. Decision Meeting scheduled for development in selected poverty stricken areas of Guizhou Province. 13 February 2015. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Appraisal scheduled for 30 June 2014. Environmental Assessment P097082. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Min- Category B. Project: P133261. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will istry of Interior, 275 Norodom Blvd. Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Chamkar be required. Guizhou Poverty Alleviation Office, Room 222, 2nd Mon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tel/Fax: (855-23) 721-791, E-mail: Floor, No. 5 Building, 242, Zhonghua North Road, Guizhou, Guiyang mrdngycp@forum.org.kh, cngy@interior.gov.kh, Contact: H.E. Ngy Province, China, Tel: (86-851) 683-2615, E-mail: nsl6687@163.com, Chanphal, Secretary of State Contact: Mr. Zhou Shibin, Deputy Division Director Second Health Sector Support Program Additional Fi- (R) Mainstreaming Integrated Water and Environment nancing:The objective is to support the implementation of the Management-GEF:The objective is to mainstream the integrated Government’s Health Strategic Plan 2008-2015 in order to improve water and environment management approach to achieve sustain- health outcomes through strengthening institutional capacity and able social and economic development and ecological environment mechanisms by which the Government and Program Partners can protection, and the large-scale beneficial outcomes in the interna- achieve more effective and efficient sector performance. Negotia- tional Bohai Sea. Decision Meeting scheduled for 12 January 2015. tions scheduled for 16 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145897. US$ 17.0 Category B. US$ 30.0/20.0 (IDA Credit/KHFS). Consultants will (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environmental be required. Ministry of Health, 151-153 Kampuchea Krom Street, Protection, Houyingfang Hutong No.5, Xicheng District, Beijing, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 722-873, Fax: (855-23) 880- China, Tel: (86-10) 8857-5203, E-mail: li.pei@mepfeco.org.cn, Con- 260, E-mail: admin.hssp@online.com.kh, enghuot@online.com.kh, tact: Pei Li, Deputy Director of PMO Contact: H.E.Prof. Eng Huot, Prgram Director (R) Poverty Alleviation and Agriculture Development Dem- Public Administration, Law, and Justice onstration in Poor Areas:The objective is to improve rural in- comes and living standards in poor mountain areas through piloting Local Governance and Development Program:The objective the development of agricultural enterprises and farmers cooperatives is to assist the Royal Government of Cambodia in its implementation that are based on modern technology, operate in environmentally of the National Program for Sub National Democratic Development friendly and economically sustainable ways, and can be scaled up in both local governance and local development objectives. Decision for effective rural poverty reduction. Appraisal scheduled for 18 July Meeting scheduled for 18 February 2015. Environmental Assessment 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133326. US$ Category B. Project: P096505. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. State Council’s will be required. NCDD Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, 275 Noro- Leading Group for Poverty Reduction, 25/F,Tower A, Disan Zhiye dom Boulevard, Sangkat Tonle Bassa, Khan Chamcar Mon, Phnom Building, Jia 1, Shuguang Xili, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, Tel: Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 362-175, 720-038, Fax: (855-23) (86-10) 8261-7152, E-mail: fcpmc@cpad.org.cn, Contact: Qingping 726-092, E-mail: info@ncdd.gov.kh; Ngan.chamroeun@ncdd.gov. Ou, Director General kh, Contact: HE Ngan Chamroeun, Project Manager and Deputy Director General (R) Tiger Habitat Conservation:The objective is to restore tiger habitat in selected areas of northeastern China for the benefit of the Transportation tiger population, the local inhabitants and the environment. Project (N) Road Asset Management II:The objective is to support road Concept Review Meeting completed on 18 April 2014. Decision preservation works on priority national roads selected to maximize Meeting scheduled for 14 August 2014. Environmental Assessment economic benefits, and to strengthen MPWT road maintenance plan- Category B. Project: P122383. US$ 3.0 (GEFU). Consulting services ning, contracting and management. Project Concept Review Meeting to be determined. State Forestry Administration, 18 East Street, scheduled for 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Hepingli, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 8423-9030, Fax: (86-10) 6421- US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required for project 7796, E-mail: pmcsfa@forestry.gov.cn, Contact: Weisheng Wang, preparation related consultants. Ministry of Public Works and Trans- Director port, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 427-845, Fax: (855-23) Climate Smart Agriculture Project-GEF:The objective is to 214-907, E-mail: mpwt@online.com.kh, Contact: Sovicheano Pheng, promote innovative low-emission technologies and practices and soil Under Secretary of State carbon sequestration in China’s foodgrain production. Negotiations (R) Road Asset Management Additional Financing:The scheduled for 18 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category objective is to ensure continued effective use of the rehabilitated B. Project: P144531. US$ 5.1 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. national and provincial road networks in support of the economic Ministry of Agriculture Rural Energy and Environment Agency, development in Cambodia. This project is on hold until further no- Room 218, No.1 building, Yong’an Hotel, Jia 5, Nongzhanguan North tice. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). Road, Chaoyang District, China, Tel: (86-10) 5919 6365, E-mail: Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Public Works and huangbo1114@126.com, Contact: Mr. Huang Bo, Project Officer JUNE 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 29 Jiangxi Farm Produce Distribution System Development: nation of natural resources and public health risks of exposure to The objective is to promote upgrading and standardizing of farm this contamination associated with sites contaminated with POPs produce wholesale markets in Jiangxi Province to tackle the “diffi- and/or other hazardous chemicals. Decision Meeting scheduled for cult to sell” problem. The proposed project intends to uplift market 29 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: service, expand the distribution channel, regulate the distribution P145533. US$ 15.0 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Foreign and lower the logistic cost of farm produce. Project Concept Review Economic Cooperation Office of Ministry of Environment Protection, Meeting scheduled for 16 May 2014. Environmental Assessment 5 Houyingfang Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) Category B. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. 8226-8801, Fax: (86-10) 8220-0510, E-mail: ding.qiong@mepfeco. Finance Department of Jiangxi Province, Xinyuan Building, No. org.cn, Contact: Ms. Qiong Ding, Director 47, Ruzi Road, Nanchang, China, Tel: (86-791) 8728-7699, E-mail: (R) Zhuzhou Brownfield Development:The objective is the cxm8286@sina.com remediation of around 7.5 square km of land; the cleanup and re- Education habilitation of river banks; and environmental monitoring stations for soil, water and ambient air quality at the industrial Qingshuitang (R) Xinjiang Technical Vocational Education and Train- area in Zhuzhou’s district of Shifeng adjacent to the Xiangjiang River ing:The objective is to improve the quality and relevance of project in China. Appraisal scheduled for 20 April 2015. Environmental schools to produce skills that respond to the labor market demand, Assessment Category A. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and contributing to Xinjiang’s economic and social development. Prepa- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ration is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147367. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing Public Administration, Law, and Justice agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Partnership for Market Readiness: (formerly Energy and Energy and Mining Mining sector) The objective is to enable China to design a national (R) Hebei Clean Heating:The objective is to improve energy ef- carbon emissions trading system that supports the Government’s ficiency and environmental performance of heating supply in selected efforts to reduce carbon emissions by using market mechanisms. cities of Hebei Province. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled Bank Approval scheduled for 30 May 2014. Environmental Assess- for 22 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ ment Category C. Project: P145586. US$ 8.0 (PMR). Consultants 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) will be required. Department of Climate Change, NDRC, Yuetan Nan to be determined. Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 6850-1553, Fax: (86-10) 6850-2360, E-mail: wangshu@ndrc.gov.cn, Contact: Shu (R) Shanxi Gas Utilization (Ln. 83480-CN):The objective is Wang, Deputy Director to increase gas utilization to reduce GHG emission in selected coun- ties in Shanxi Province, that will be achieved by the investment in Promoting China’s Reform and Transformation:The ob- distributed gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plants and jective is to support studies on key reform priorities listed in the the expansion of the gas distribution network in selected counties. reform agenda and in the 12th Five-Year National Development The loan was signed on 4 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Program, facilitate the implementation of national talent develop- Category A. Project: P133531. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will ment strategy, and accelerate talent cultivation and human resources be required. Shanxi Guoxin Energy Development Group Co. LTD. development. Bank Approval scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environ- No. 108 Changfeng Street, Room 1405, Taiyuan Shanxi 030006, mental Assessment Category B. Project: P144270. US$ 35.0 (IBRD). China Tel/Fax: (86-351) 721-6054, E-mail: kunkun1994@hotmail. Consultants will be required. Minstry of Finance, No.3, Sanlihe Nan com, Contact: Libin Sun, Director Road, Xicheng District, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 6855-3166, Fax: (86-10) 6855-2585, E-mail: xl.mo@mof.gov.cn, Contact: Xiaolong Concentrated Solar Power (CSP):The objective is to construct Mo, Director a 50 MW CSP power plant in Inner Mongolia that will include a solar field, thermal energy storage, and a power plant. Negotia- Second Gansu Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection tions scheduled for 27 January 2015. Environmental Assessment and Development:The objective is to support the investment for Category B. Project: P129657. US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Consultants will the protection and development of prioritized sites with cultural be required. China Datang Corporation Renewable Power Co. Ltd. and natural heritage significance in Gansu province. Project Con- A-1002, Building No. 6, Fenghua Haojing, Guanganmennei Street, cept Review Meeting scheduled for 28 August 2014. Environmental Xicheng District, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 8351-1372 Ext. 810, Fax: Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be (86-10) 8351-1372 Ext. 888, E-mail: dtxnywyd@163.com, Contact: required. Project Management Office, Room 806, 8 floor, 3 Build- Yan Changhui, Deputy Director General ing, No. 13, ChengGuanQu Guangchang Nan Lu, Lanzhou, Gansu, Establish M&V System for Energy Efficiency in China:The China, Tel: (86-931) 883-9676, Fax: (86-931) 888-3664, E-mail: objective is to establish Measurement and Verification (M&V) system gansupmo@126.com, Contact: Mr. Ning Xiaoki, Deputy Director and pilot market-based mechanism, to support the government to of the PMO achieve 12th Five-Year Plan energy saving targets in a cost-effective Transportation way. Decision Meeting scheduled for 23 June 2014. Environmen- tal Assessment Category C. Project: P132748. US$ 18.0 (GEFU). (R) Gansu Rural-Urban Integration Infrastructure:The ob- Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, No. 3, San Li He jective is to provide targeted residents of Wuwei Municipality and Lu, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 6855-1129, Fax: (86-10) 6855-1125, Linxia County with improved and safe transport access to economic E-mail: mv_pmo@163.com, Contact: Zhongjing Wang, Deputy Di- opportunities and social services. Decision Meeting scheduled for 10 rector General September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: Hebei New Energy Development in Rural Areas:The objective P132775. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Gansu is to generate rural energy for local farmer households/communities Finance Department, West Dongguang Road, Lanzhou, China, Tel: by: (a) developing large-scale bio-gas facilities and (b) efficiently (86-931) 889-1038, E-mail: gsshxx@163.com, Contact: Lei Xin, using local straw and other wastes in rural areas. Decision Meeting Deputy Director scheduled for 20 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. (R) Guiyang Rural Roads (Ln. 83370-CN): The objective Project: P132873. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. is to provide improved transport accessibility in selected Hebei Provincial Rural New Energy Office, No. 88, Yuhua East Street, areas of Guiyang, in a sustainable manner. Signing scheduled Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang, China, Tel: (86) 1533-331-0209, E- for 4 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: mail: wb_hebei2012@163.com, Contact: Xiangxue Wang, Director P129401. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Guiyang Project Management Office, No. 42, Erqiao Road, Shi Ji Xin Yuan Industry and Trade Building 1, 4th Floor, Guiyang City, China, Tel: (86-851) 477-0713, (R) Contaminated Site Cleanup:The objective is to support the Fax: (86-851) 477-0714, E-mail: gpmo@vip.163.com, Contact: Xiang Chinese government’s capacity of identifying and reducing contami- Zhang, Director PAGE 30 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 (R) Hainan Fishing Ports:The objective is to promote small town No. 8, Xincheng Compound, Xi’an, Shaanxi 71000, China, Tel: (86- development by supporting the structural transformation of the 29) 8729-4627, Fax: (86-29) 8729-1248, E-mail: waidaiban@163. fishery sector in Hainan. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled com, Contact: Zhengzhi Yu, Division Chief for 30 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 140.0 (R) Tianjin Transport Improvement: The objective is to (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Hainan Provincial improve safe and affordable access to areas located in the Finance Bureau, China, E-mail: wanggg9168@163.com, Contact: Tianjin Outer ring road, in all weather conditions, through Guangqun Wang a combination of mass transit, regular buses and non-mo- (R) Harbin-Jiamusi Railway (Ln. 83470-CN):The objective torized transport. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for is to respond to existing and anticipated transport demand along 19 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 the Harbin-Jiamusi corridor by providing: (a) increased capacity (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Tianjin Project Management for freight and passengers; and (b) faster travel time and increased Office, No. 209, Xinhualu, Heping District, Tianjin, China, Tel: (86- frequency of services for passengers. Signing scheduled for 18 May 22) 2319 1560, Fax: (86-22) 2312 0978, E-mail: tjpmo@public.tpt. 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P117341. US$ tj.cn, Contact: Qi Wenjie, Director 300.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Zhengzhou Finance (R) Tongren Rural Transport: The objective is to provide Bureau, No. 39, Xinghua South St. Erqi District, Zhengzhou Mu- all-season road access in Dejiang and Sinan counties in a nicipality, China, Fax: (86) 0370-67181314, E-mail: hnzzszwb@126. sustainable manner. Appraisal scheduled for 16 February 2015. com, Contact: Lei Ailing, Director Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148071. US$ 150.0 (R) Heilongjiang Cold Weather Smart Public Transporta- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Tongren Municipal tion System (Ln. 83460-CN):The objective is to improve the Transport Bureau, No. 459, Dongtaidadao, Tongren 554300, Gui- management and service level of the bus system in the two extremely zhou Province, China, Tel: (86-856) 520-2505, E-mail: trpmo@ cold cities in Northern China, Harbin Municipality and Mudanjiang vip.163.com, Contact: Yan Xunguang, Director Municipality. Signing scheduled for 21 May 2014. Environmental (R) Urumqi Urban Transport Project II:The objectives are to: Assessment Category B. Project: P133114. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Con- (a) improve traffic congestion; (b) reduce energy consumption; and sultants will be required. Heilongjiang Development and Reform (c) emissions from transport sector through improvement in public Commission, 202 Zhongshan Road, Harbin, China, Tel: (86-451) transport services, providing better public transport-supporting in- 8262-7776, Fax: (86-451) 8262-8547, E-mail: xqwang3@163.com, frastructure, and introducing intelligent transportation system and Contact: Wang Xiquan, Director traffic management. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for (R) Henan Xinxiang New Urbanized Community Devel- 27 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 140.0 opment:The objective is to upgrade the living quality of farmers (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be through demonstration and urbanized community development and determined. to provide an applicable urbanization model for the middle part of (R) Wuhan Integrated Transport Development:The objec- China. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 19 June 2014. tive is to improve mobility and accessibility in Wuhan Metropolitan Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consult- Area. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 16 April 2014. ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Appraisal scheduled for 15 January 2015. Environmental Assess- (R) Hubei Jingzhou Ancient City Restoration and Protec- ment Category A. Project: P148294. US$ 120.0 (IBRD). Consulting tion:The objective is to promote the cultural carry-on and sustain- services to be determined. Wuhan Urban Construction Utilization able development of Jingzhou Ancient Town through protecting of Foreign Investment Project Management, No. 40, Changqinglu, and rehabilitating the ancient town and its structures and improv- Hanhou, Wuhan 430030, China, Tel: (86-27) 858-4312, Fax: 86- ing/cleaning up the town’s environment. Identification completed 27-6565-5354, E-mail: Whcjwzxmb@163.com, Contact: Dai Ke Jun, on 21 April 2014. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for Director 29 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0 (R) Xiangshan County Sustainable Development:The objec- (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be tive is to pilot innovative finance mechanisms to promote sustainable determined. development in Xiangshan County, Ningbo Municipality. Project (R) Hubei Xiaogan Logistic Infrastructure:The objective is to Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 15 July 2014. Environmental support the development of logistic infrastructure in Hubei Province, Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to advance the development of a modern logistic industry and facilitate be determined. Ningbo Project Management Office, 1506/R F15 the formation of a new logistic terminal for central China, potentially Tianning Tower, 138 West Zhongshan Road, Ningbo, China, Tel: of national significance. Project Concept Review Meeting completed (86-574) 8728-0430, E-mail: yuhaifeng78@sina.com, Contact: Mr. on 29 April 2014. Decision Meeting scheduled for 30 June 2015. Yu Haifeng, Executive Deputy Director Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P132562. US$ 100.0 (R) YinXi Railway:The objective is to improve direct rail con- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Xiaogan Urban Con- nectivity for passengers and businesses located along the corridor struction Investment Corporation, Jiaotong Da Dao 391, Xiaogan, between Yinchuan in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xi’an China, Tel: (86-712) 232-8319, E-mail: 290849858@qq.com, Con- in Shaanxi Province, through Gansu Province. Decision Meeting tact: Xiong Jianping, Director scheduled for 15 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category (R) Jiaozuo Safe and Green Transport Development in A. Project: P127869. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Transforming Economy (Ln. 83700-CN):The objectives are to Zhengzhou Finance Bureau, No. 39, Xinghua South St. Erqi District, improve transport safety and efficiency along the selected transport Zhengzhou Municipality, China, Fax: (86) 0370-67181314, E-mail: corridors and to promote non-motorized trips within the pilot green hnzzszwb@126.com, Contact: Eryong Ding, Deputy Director corridor in Jiaozuo City. Bank Approval completed on 15 May 2014. (R) Yunnan Highway Asset Management:The objectives are Signing scheduled for 30 July 2014. Environmental Assessment to: (a) enhance Yunnan Government’s highway asset management; Category B. Project: P132277. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will and (b) introduce good asset management practices in highway be required. Jiaozou Finance Bureau, Jianshe East Road, Jiaozuo, maintenance planning and budgeting process. Appraisal scheduled China, Tel: (86-391) 312-1166, Fax: (86-391) 393-3243, E-mail: for 18 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: jzzwk@126.com, Contact: Zhang Lin, Department Chief P132621. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. (R) Shaanxi Small Town Infrastructure:The objective is to as- Transport Department, No. 1, Huancheng Xi Lu, Kunming, China, sist Shaanxi province to improve access for sustainable infrastructure Tel: (86-871) 312-6954, E-mail: ynxcj@163.com, Contact: Xu Caijian, in selected cities and towns in the Guanzhong-Tianshui economic Deputy Director development corridor. Negotiations scheduled for 29 July 2014. (R) Yunnan Honghe Prefecture Urban Transport (Ln. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133069. US$ 150.0 83690-CN):The objective is to improve the transport infrastruc- (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Investment Promotion Office of tures and traffic management system in Mengzi city and Jianshui Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Building County of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous prefecture of Yunnan JUNE 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 31 Province, China. Bank Approval completed on 15 May 2014. Signing (R) Qinghai Xining Environment Management:The objec- scheduled for 30 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. tive is to improve the environment of Xining Municipality by: (a) Project: P101525. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. constructing wastewater treatment plants; (b) improving watershed Housing and Construction Bureau, No. 1 Huguo Road, Room 401, management; and (c) improving capacity building. Negotiations Honghe, China, Tel: (86-1398) 733-8689, Fax: (86-873) 373-6573, scheduled for 28 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. E-mail: 6418737@qq.com, Contact: Mr. Guocai Li, Director Project: P133116. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. (R) Zhengzhou Urban Rail:The objective is to improve urban Qinghai Xining Project Management Office, No. 215 of Xiadu Av- mobility for the population of Zhengzhou located along the catch- enue, Huangshui River Integrated Mgmt Committe, Xining, China, ment area of Line 3 from Xin Liu Lu Station to Hang Hai Dong Lu Tel: (86-971) 628-9266, Fax: (86-971) 627-0168, E-mail: xnhj- Station. Negotiations scheduled for 10 November 2014. Environmen- zlshxmb@163.com, Contact: Jin Xu, PMO Director tal Assessment Category A. Project: P128919. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). (R) Shanxi Internet of Things for Environmental Protec- Consultants will be required. Zhengzhou Finance Bureau, No. 39, tion:The objective is to implement “Total Life Cycle Environment Xinghua South St. Erqi District, Zhengzhou Municipality, China, Management” of major pollution sources, build a new and integrated Fax: (86) 0370-67181314, E-mail: hnzzszwb@126.com, Contact: environment protection management system, and enable more sci- Eryong Ding, Deputy Director entific, timely, and accurate decision making regarding environ- Sichuan Chonqqing Cooperation: Guangan Demonstration ment management for China’s central and western regions. Project Area Infrastructure Development:The objective is to support Concept Review Meeting completed on 13 May 2014. Appraisal Linshui Town and Qianfeng District to provide adequate infrastruc- scheduled for 8 May 2015. Environmental Assessment Category B. ture services to support current needs and projected growth. Decision US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Depart- Meeting scheduled for 15 August 2014. Environmental Assessment ment of Environmental Protection of Shanxi Province, No. 21 Binhe Category A. Project: P133456. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will West Road, Taiyuan City, China, Tel: (86-351) 637-1083, E-mail: be required. Sichuan Province Guang’an Municipal DRC, No. 227 of duanzw8341@163.com Chengnan Xing’an Street, Guang’an City, Guang’an, China, Tel: (86- (R) Zhejiang Rural Water Supply and Sanitation:The objec- 0286) 234-5653, E-mail: fuchunlin999@163.com, Contact: Jinling tive is to improve the quality of the environment in Anji County, Luo, PMO Deputy Director Fuyang City, Tiantai County and Longquan City of Zhejiang Prov- ince through construction of rural domestic wastewater treatment Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection systems. Negotiations scheduled for 23 July 2014. Environmental (R) Chongqing Small Towns Water Environment Manage- Assessment Category B. Project: P133018. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Con- ment:The objective is to is to reduce flood risks and improve waste- sultants will be required. Project Management Office, No. 5, Huan water services in selected counties of the Chongqing Municipality. cheng Xi Lu, West Lake Distr, Hangzhou, China, Tel: (86-571) 8705- Appraisal completed on 17 April 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 5538, Fax: (86-571) 8705-4151, E-mail: ch@zei.gov.cn, Contact: He 25 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: Cai, Director of PMO P133117. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Project Management Office, No. 248, Reminlu, Yuzhong District, Chongqing Fiji City, China, Tel: (86-23) 6389-7423, E-mail: cqpmo1993@163.com, Transportation Contact: Mr. Zhou Linjun, PMO Director (R) Road Sector Development:The objective is to rehabilitate (R) Fujian Fishing Ports (Ln. 83780-CN):The objective is to existing road sector assets, including roads, bridges and/or jetties. reduce the vulnerability of fishing communities to extreme weather Identification scheduled for 7 July 2014. Environmental Assessment events in selected counties in Fujian Province. Bank Approval sched- Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing uled for 3 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: agency(ies) to be determined. P129791. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Fujian Provincial Ocean and Fishing Bureau, No. 26 of Ye San Road, Gu- Indonesia lou District, Fuzhou, Fujian Province 350001, China, Tel: (86-591) Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry 1380-950-4610, E-mail: songqun@tom.com, Contact: Qun Song, (R) Forest Carbon:The objective is to develop good practice in Principal Staff finance incentive payments to reduce deforestation and forest deg- (R) Guilin Integrated Environment Management:The ob- radation. This project is no longer in the lending program. Further jective is to improve the water and sanitation services in Guilin. reporting will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category Appraisal scheduled for 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment A. US$ 6.8 (TF). Category A. Project: P133017. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will Coral Reel Rehabilitation and Management Program III: be required. Project Management Unit, No 8, Diecai Lu, Diecai Dis- The objective is to provide communities with the capacity and in- trict, Guilin, China, Tel: (86-773) 282-5859, Contact: Liang Gao, centives to co-manage their coral reefs sustainably, by supporting: PMO Director (a) more effective local governance; (b) livelihoods development (R) Huainan Coal Mining Subsidence Area Rehabilitation: and business innovation based on coral reef ecosystem goods and The objective is to support environmental remediation and utilization services; and (c) knowledge creation, dissemination, and regional of JiuDa Coal-Minig subsidence area in Huainan City. Pre-appraisal networking. The loan was signed on 13 March 2014. Environmental completed on 10 April 2014. Appraisal scheduled for 11 August 2014. Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (GEFU). Consultants will be re- Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P133000. US$ 100.0 quired. Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF), Jl. Medan (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Huainan PMO, 8th Floor of Merdeka Timur No. 16, Jakarta Pusat, Tel: (62-21) 351-9070, Fax: Jinhai Building, Chen Dong Zhong Lu Rd, Huainan FB, Huainan, (62-21) 352-2560/2045, E-mail: truchimat@yahoo.com, Contact: China, Tel: (86-554) 666-7335, Fax: (86-554) 666-7849, E-mail: Dr. Tony Ruchimat, Director, Coasts and Small Islands jiawencjw@163.com, Contact: Jiawen Chen, Contact Person Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM) for Indigenous People: (R) Municipal Solid Waste Management-GEF:The objec- The objective is to support the building of technical, institutional and tive is to strengthen the legislative and institutional framework and communication capacities of indigenous peoples and local communi- demonstrate in three municipalities the application of best available ties in order for them to participate in REDD+ policy dialogue, im- techniques to reduce the release of unintended persistent organic pol- prove their livelihoods and improve management of their traditional lutants from municipal solid waste disposal areas and incinerators. lands. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 16 May 2014. Appraisal scheduled for 30 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 6.5 (CSCF). Consulting Category A. Project: P126832. US$ 12.0 (GEFU). Consulting services services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. to be determined. Ministry of Environmental Protection, Beijing, Forest Investment Program: Forest Management Unit De- China, Tel: (86-10) 8226-8807, Fax: (86-10) 8220-0506, E-mail: velopment:The objectives are to: (a) pilot the strengthening of de- fang.li@mepfeco.org.cn, Contact: Ding Qiong, Department Head centralized forest management units; and (b) increase local capacity PAGE 32 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 for sustainable forest management. Decision Meeting scheduled for US$ 150.0/150.0 (IBRD/KFW). Consultants will be required. PT 15 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Jl, Trunojoyo Blok M 1/135, Kebayoran P144269. US$ 17.0 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 725-1234, E-mail: murtaqi@ agency(ies) to be determined. pln.co.id, Contact: Mr. Murtaqi Syamsuddin, Director, Planning Sumatra Wildlife Biodiversity:The objective is to improve the Finance management of the remaining critical habitat for key wildlife in Su- matra to conserve key species at risk of extinction and prevent the (R) Financial Sector Reform and Modernization Develop- loss of essential habitat biodiversity. Decision Meeting scheduled for ment Policy Loan (Ln. 83960-ID):The objectives are to promote 30 January 2015. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 9.0 the development of a sound, efficient and inclusive financial sector, (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Forestry, Mang- and support improvements in the investment climate in Indonesia. gala Wanabhakti, Jl Gatot Subroto, Jakarta, Indonesia Tel/Fax: This project would help the Government of Indonesia (GOI) achieve (62-21) 572-0227, Contact: Mr. Agus Budi Sutito, Head of Species its medium-term economic development and poverty reduction and Genetic Conservation Division goals. Negotiations completed on 24 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Energy and Mining Project: P145550. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. (R) Geothermal Energy Upstream Development:The objec- Ministry of Finance, Jl Lapangan Banteng, Timur No. 2-4, Jakarta tive is to increase the utilization of clean geothermal-based electricity 10710, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 350-0841, Fax: (62-21) 384-6635, E- in order to reduce pollution and improve the environment. Project mail: rpakpah@yahoo.com, Contact: Mr. Robert Pakpahan, Director Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 28 July 2014. Environmental General of Debt Management Assessment Category A. US$ 200.0/75.0 (IBRD/ZBIL). Consulting Lampung Water Supply Guarantee:The objectives are to: (a) services to be determined. Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE), expand coverage of piped water connections to residents of Lam- Menara Cakrawala Lantai, 15th Floor, Jl. MH Thamrin No. 9, In- pung not currently served by the water utility; and (b) mobilize donesia, Tel: (62-21) 3983-3222, Fax: (62-21) 3983-3230, E-mail: private financing for bulk water treatment and construction of the info@pgeindonesia.com, Contact: Narendra Widjajanto, Finance transmission and distribution network for expanded capacity of the Director CFO water supply system. Appraisal scheduled for 15 August 2014. Envi- ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 40.0 (GUAR). Consultants (R) Matenggeng Pumped Storage Hydro-Electrical:The will be required. Perusahaan Daerah Air Minum Way Rilau, Jl. P objectives are to: (a) increase the peaking capacity of the power Emir M. Noer No. 11A, Bandar Lampung, Tel: (62-21) 487-823, Fax: generation system in Java- Bali in an environmentally and socially (62-21) 484-611, E-mail: penigustimigo@yahoo.com, Contact: Dr. sustainable way; and (b) strengthen the institutional capacity of Hi. AZP Gustimigo, Director the project implementing entity (PLN) in hydropower planning, development, and operation. Project Concept Review Meeting sched- Health and Other Social Services uled for 15 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. (R) PNPM Generasi Program Additional Financing:The US$ 500.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. PLN (Persero), Jl. objective is to empower local communities in poor, rural sub-districts Trunojoyo Block M1/135, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: in project provinces to increase utilization of health and education (62-21) 722-1332, Fax: (62-21) 726-3119, E-mail: murtaqi@pln.co.id, services and foster accountability in local service delivery. Bank Contact: Murtaqi Syamsuddin, Director Approval scheduled for 28 May 2014. Environmental Assessment (R) Partnership for Market Readiness:The objective is to Category B. Project: P147658. US$ 151.7 (IDPN). Consultants will be create and/or improve the conditions in Indonesia for use of carbon required. Directorate General of Village Community Empowerment market instruments in the regulation and mitigation of GHG emis- (PMD) Ministry of Home Affairs, Jl. Medan Merdeka Utara No. 7, sion. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 29 August 2014. Jakarta 10110, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 794-2373, E-mail: ppkpmd@ Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.7 (PMR). Consultants yahoo.com, Contact: Tarmizi Karim, Director General Village and will be required. National Climate Change Council, Jalan Medan Community Empowerment Merdeka Selatan No. 13, Lantai 18, Jakarta, Indonesia, E-mail: info@ dnpi.go.id, Contact: Dicky Edwin Hindarto, Head Industry and Trade Energy Efficiency Financing:The objective is to finance energy Lombok Regional Economic Development:The objective is to efficiency projects in Indonesia’s manufacturing sub-sectors to re- promote private sector development in the tourism industry in In- duce energy intensity and related GHG emissions. This project is donesia and at the same time contribute to sustainable preservation, on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category development, and management of Indonesia’s prime tourism assets. B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Decision Meeting scheduled for 20 November 2014. Environmental Industry, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 525-5509 Ext. 4063, Fax: Assessment Category A. Project: P131001. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Con- (62-21) 525-3582, E-mail: harjantom@kemenperin.go.id, Contact: sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Mr. Harjanto, Director Public Administration, Law, and Justice Large Enterprises Energy Efficiency:The objective is to re- (R) Local Government and Decentralization Additional move barriers to and stimulate energy efficiency investments in Financing:The objective is to support the Government to promote large industrial enterprises in Indonesia. Appraisal scheduled for greater transparency and quality in the delivery of outputs in the 1 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: infrastructure sectors by: disbursing results and policy actions speci- P148620. US$ 5.5 (GEFU). Consulting services and implementing fied in the DLIs that will be structured around the Government’s agency(ies) to be determined. regulations on DAK transfers. Appraisal scheduled for 30 July 2014. Poko Hydropower:The objective is to supply electricity from Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P123940. US$ 500.0 renewable energy resources for economic development and rural (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Jl. Dr. electrification expansion in South and West Sulawesi in a least-cost Wahidin No. 1, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 384-1067, Fax: (62- and environmentally and socially sustainable way. Project Concept 21) 386-6120, E-mail: herusubiyantoro@depkeu.go.id; herusubi- Review Meeting scheduled for 20 March 2015. Environmental As- yantoro@gmai, Contact: T. Lumban Tobing, Deputy Director for sessment Category A. US$ 360.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and Funds implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Metropolitan and Urban Development:The objective is Renewable Energy for Electrification:The objective is to sup- to improve planning and investment in participating cities in proj- port the Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to prepare, finance, and ects that will be economically and ecologically sustainable. Decision implement the 1,000 islands electrification program. Specifically, Meeting scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmental Assessment this would focus on grid connected renewable energy development Category A. Project: P129406. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting ser- and electricity access scale-up. Appraisal scheduled for 20 October vices to be determined. Bappenas, Jl. Taman Surapati No. 2, Jakarta, 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P128568. Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 392-3462, Fax: (62-21) 3193-4731, E-mail: JUNE 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 33 pohan@bappenas.go.id, Contact: Dr. Max Pohan, Deputy Minister. required for technical assistance studies in the areas of road safety, City Government of Makassar, Jl. Jend. Ahmad Yani No. 9, Makassar, and micro-enterprises for road management. Ministry of Finance and Indonesia, Tel: (62-411) 317-007, Fax: (62-411) 317-720, E-mail: wa- Economic Development, PO Box 487, Tarawa, Kiribati, Tel: (686) likota@makassar.go.id, Contact: Mr. Ilham Arief Sirajuddin, Mayor 21-806, E-mail: eali@mfep.gov.ki, Contact: Mr. Eliot Ali, Permanent of Makassar. City Government of Balikpapan, Jl. Jend. Sudirman Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Economic Dev No. 1, Balikpapan, Indonesia, Tel: (62-542) 421-420, Fax: (62-542) 422-941, E-mail: walikota@balikpapan.go.id, Contact: Mr. Rizal Lao People’s Democratic Republic Effendi, Mayor of Balikpapan. City Government of Surabaya, Jl. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Taman Surya No. 1, Surabaya, Indonesia, Tel: (62-31) 534-5689, Fax: (62-31) 531-2144, E-mail: walikota@surabaya.go.id, Contact: (R) Natural Resources and Environment Management:The Ms. Tri Rismaharini, Mayor of Surabaya objective is to support the Government of Lao PDR’s development goals in sustainable natural resource and environmental management Transportation including climate change. Decision Meeting scheduled for 20 August (R) Road Asset Preservation:The objective is to improve the 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 7.5/7.5/8.5 (IDA usage (execution, effectiveness, and delivery of outputs) of the sub- Credit/IDA Grant/AUSL). Consultants will be required. Ministry national roads. This project is no longer in the lending program. of Natural Resources and Environment, Lao People’s Democratic Further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Republic, Tel: (856-20) 5569-9461, E-mail: phanthavong2020@ Category B. Project: P113936. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). hotmail.com, Contact: Virana Sonnasinh, Deputy Director Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Education (R) PAMSIMAS Support Trust Fund Additional Financing: (R) Early Childhood Development (Cr. 53700-LA, Cr. The objective is to increase the number of under-served and low H9100-LA):The objective is to increase coverage and improve the income rural and peri-urban populations accessing improved and quality of pre-primary education and early childhood care services sustained water and sanitation services and practicing improved for 3-5 year old children in disadvantaged districts. The credit and hygiene behaviors. The loan was signed on 23 April 2014. Environ- grant were signed on 14 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- mental Assessment Category B. Project: P147365. US$ 44.0 (IDFS). egory B. Project: P145544. US$ 14.0/14.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Public Works, DG Cipta Consultants will be required. Minister of Education and Sports, Lane Karya, Pattimura No. 20, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia Tel/ Xang Avenue, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Tel: Fax: (62-21) 7279-6904, E-mail: dsutjiono@yahoo.co.id, Contact: (856-20) 5551-5647, Fax: (856-21) 216-004, E-mail: lbouapao@ Danny Sutjiono, Director of Water Supply Development gmail.com, Contact: H.E. Lytou Bouapao, Vice Minister (R) Urban Solid Waste Management Program:The objective (R) Second Global Partnership for Education: (formerly is to improve solid waste collection and disposal in selected partici- Education Quality Improvement) The objective is to im- pating municipalities through improvements in the operations, main- prove school effectiveness at the pre-primary and primary tenance and cost recovery of the solid waste management systems in levels through strengthening school-level management these municipalities. This project is currently on hold until further capacity and improving early grade reading. Decision Meet- notice. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P127134. US$ ing scheduled for 24 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category 100.0/35.0 (IBRD/ZBIL). Consultants will be required. Ministry of B. Project: P149130. US$ 16.8 (EFAF). Consultants will be required. Public Works, Jl. Pattimura 20, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan, Ministry of Education and Sports, Vientiane, Lao People’s Demo- Indonesia Tel/Fax: (62-21) 724-7564, E-mail: dkirmanto@pu.go.id, cratic Republic, Tel: (856-21) 243-572, E-mail: edpiimoe@laopdr. Contact: Ir. Djoko Kirmanto, Minister com, Contact: Madame Khampseuth Kitignavon, Project Director Water and Sanitation Investment Facility:The objectives are Energy and Mining to: (a) increase access to water supply and sanitation services by supporting the central government programs of capital, output- (R) TA for Capacity Buidling in the Hydropower and Mining based grants and loans through program partner facilities; and (b) Sectors Additional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) increase supporting central and local government capacity strengthening. human capacity; and (b) improve the performance of government Decision Meeting scheduled for 9 September 2014. Environmental oversight institutions for the hydropower and mining sectors. Ne- Assessment Category B. Project: P129002. US$ 100.0/30.0 (IBRD/ gotiations completed on 29 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled ZBIL). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Public Works, Jl. for 3 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Pattimura No. 20, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 7279- P148755. US$ 17.8 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Min- 6158, Fax: (62-21) 7279-6155, E-mail: di_bpck@yahoo.com, Contact: istry of Energy and Mines, PO Box 4708, Lao People’s Democratic Iman Emawi, Director General of Human Settlements. Indonesia Republic Tel/Fax: (856-21) 263-451, E-mail: ichareune@yahoo.com, Investment Agency, Graha Mandiri, 5th Floor, Jl Imam Bonjol, No. Contact: Chareune Inthavy, Deputy Director General 61, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 3983-2091/94, Fax: (62-21) Finance 3983-2095, E-mail: pip@pip-indonesia.com, Contact: Soritaon (R) Small and Medium Enterprise Access to Finance (Cr. Siregar, CEO H9580-LA, Cr. 54710-LA):The objective is to provide access to Kiribati finance in Laos though technical assistance to financial intermediar- ies and the Government’s implementing agency. Negotiations com- Public Administration, Law, and Justice pleted on 24 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 9 June 2014. (R) Second Economic Reform Development Policy Opera- Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P131201. US$ 20.0 tion:The objective is to support the Government of Kiribati in a (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Industry and range of key economic and fiscal reforms. Project Concept Review Commerce, Nong Bone Road, PO Box 474, Vientiane, Lao People’s Meeting completed on 14 May 2014. Decision Meeting scheduled Democratic Republic, Tel: (856-21) 414-065, Fax: (856-21) 263- for 29 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 590, E-mail: sinmyxai@smepdo.org, Contact: Mr. Somdy Inmyxai, 3.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Director General to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Transportation (R) Strengthening Protection and Management Effective- Road Rehabilitation Additional Financing:The objective is ness for Wildlife and Protected Areas--GEF:The objective is to improve the condition of South Tarawa’s main road network and to increase capacity for effective protected area management, wildlife help strengthen road financing and maintenance capacity. Bank Ap- conservation and control of illegal wildlife trade. The loan was signed proval scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assessment on 14 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Category B. Project: P144099. US$ 14.4 (PRIF). Consultants will be P128392. US$ 6.8 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Environ- PAGE 34 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 ment Protection Fund (EPF), STEA Building, 3rd Floor, Sidamduan mental Assessment Category F. Project: P147438. US$ 20.0 (IDA Road, PO Box 7647, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Economic Tel: (856-21) 252-739, Fax: (856-21) 252-741, E-mail: soukatav@ Development, Government Building-2, Unitd Nations Street 5/1, laoepf.org.la, Contact: Soukata Vichit, Executive Director UlaanBaatar, Mongolia, Tel: (976-51) 264-181/82, Fax: (976-11) (R) Tenth Poverty Reduction Support Operation:The ob- 327-914, E-mail: zoltuya@med.gov.mn, Contact: Ms. B. Zoltuya, jective is to support policies and institutional reforms enabling the Senior Officer, Economic Cooperation sustainable management of increasing revenues going to and gen- Health and Other Social Services erated from natural resource sectors to deliver improved public services. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 24 Septem- (R) E-Health (Cr. 54890-MN):The objective is to improve inte- ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 10.0/10.0 gration and utilization of health information and e-health solutions (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry for better health service delivery in selected sites. Bank Approval of Finance, 23 Singha Road, PO Box 46, Vientiane, Lao People’s scheduled for 6 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Democratic Republic, Tel: (856-21) 911-611, Fax: (856-21) 412-142, C. Project: P131290. US$ 19.5 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be re- E-mail: chanthavongsa.t@gmail.com, Contact: Mrs. Thipphakone quired. Ministry of Health, Government Building 8, Olympic Street Chanthavongsa, Director General 2 Sukhbaatar District 142, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tel: (976-11) Strengthening Protection and Management Effectiveness 5126-0474, Fax: (976-11) 320-916, E-mail: tsolmongerel@moh.mon, for Wildlife and Protected Areas:The objective is to increase ca- Contact: Tsolmongerel Tsilajaav, Director pacity for effective protected area management, wildlife conservation Public Administration, Law, and Justice and control of illegal wildlife trade. Bank Approval completed on 2 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P128393. (R) Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent Govern- US$ 12.5/4.5 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. ment (SMART) (Cr. 54830-MN):The objective is to focus on Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), Tel: leveraging Mongolia’s well developed ICT infrastructure for account- (856-20) 5569-9461, E-mail: b_phan.thavong@yahoo.com, Contact: able, responsive, and transparent government through the imple- Bouaphanh Phanthavong, Director mentation of e-Government and m-Government applications and open government data initiatives. Bank Approval scheduled for 6 Marshall Islands June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P130891. US$ 19.4 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Information, Information and Communications Communications Technology and Post Authority, Sq. Sukhbaatar-1, (R) Second ICT Sector Development Policy Operation:The Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tel: (976-11) 330-790, Fax: (976-11) 330- objective is to increase access to telecommunications in the Marshall 780, E-mail: info@ictpa.gov.mn, Contact: Ch. Davaajamts, Chief Islands, which will increase the availability of telecommunications Technology Officer infrastructure and enable the more widespread application of ICT (R) Third Sustainable Livelihoods (Cr. 54870-MN):The services supporting improvements in economic and social develop- objective is to institutionalize appropriate mechanisms utilized in ment. Decision Meeting scheduled for 15 September 2014. Envi- phase I and II of the Sustainable Livelihoods Program to reduce the ronmental Assessment Category U. Project: P146201. US$ 3.0 (IDA vulnerability of rural communities throughout Mongolia. Negotia- Grant). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, tions completed on 30 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 6 Marshall Islands, Tel: (692) 625-3445 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P125232. Micronesia, Federated States of US$ 24.8/11.4 (IDA Credit/SWTZ). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Khuvisgalchdiin Avenue 38, State Building Energy and Mining No 7, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tel: (976-11) 322-465, Fax: (976-11) (R) Energy Sector Development (Cr. H9570-FM):The ob- 328-107, E-mail: support@mof.gov.mn, Contact: A. Khashtsetseg, jective is to provide technical assistance to the Energy Division at Project Director the Department of Resources and Development, and to the Four State Utilities to strengthen their energy planning and technical Myanmar capacity. Negotiations completed on 16 April 2014. Bank Approval Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry scheduled for 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Smallholder Agriculture Development:The objective is to in- B. Project: P148560. US$ 14.4 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be crease crop yields and farm incomes from crop production in selected required. Department of Resources and Development, PS12, Palikir, sites served by the project. Decision Meeting scheduled for 26 August Micronesia, Federated States of, Tel: (691) 320-2646, Fax: (691) 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147629. US$ 320-5854, E-mail: fsmrd@dea.fm, Contact: Mr. Hubert Yamada, 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance Assistant Secretary and Revenue, Building No. 26, Naypyi Taw, Myanmar, Tel: (95-67) Mongolia 410-322, E-mail: nwenwewin1957@gmail.com, Contact: Nwe New Win, Budget Director Education (R) Education Quality Reform (Cr. 54880-MN):The objec- Education tive is to improve the quality of education for primary school chil- (R) Decentralizing Funding to Schools (Cr. 54550-MM):The dren in Mongolia by improving learning outcomes and increasing objectives are to: (a) improve and expand Myanmar’s existing decen- instructional time. Negotiations completed on 2 May 2014. Bank tralized funding mechanisms (schools grants and student stipends), Approval scheduled for 6 June 2014. Environmental Assessment and (b) establish a baseline of reading acquisition skills in lower Category B. Project: P148110. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants primary education (grades 1-3). Bank Approval completed on 20 will be required. Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Gov- May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146332. ernment Building 111, Baga Toiruu 44, Mongolia, Tel: (976-11) 260- US$ 80.0/20.0 (IDA Credit/GAUL). No consultants are required. 816, Fax: (976-11) 323-158, E-mail: info@mecs.gov.mn, Contact: Ts Ministry of Education, Building No. 13, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Bayarkhuu, Head of Finance and Investment, MES Tel: (95-67) 407-534, Fax: (95-67) 407-394, E-mail: myo.theingyi@ gmail.com, Contact: Dr. Myo Thein Gyi, Deputy Director General Finance Export Development:The objective is to support diversification Health and Other Social Services and expansion of Mongolian exports by: (a) improving access of (R) Strengthening Myanmar’s Health System for Universal Mongolian exporters to export finance products and services; and Health Coverage:The objective is to increase access to essential (b) strengthening competitiveness of Mongolian exports through health services, with a focus on accelerating progress towards achiev- capacity building of exporters and quality improvements in export ing the millennium development goals (MDGs) related to maternal, products. Appraisal scheduled for 15 September 2014. Environ- newborn and child health. Decision Meeting scheduled for 1 July JUNE 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 35 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149960. Road, Quezon City, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 920-4369, Fax: (63-2) US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of 929-8183, E-mail: spja_osec@da.gov.ph, Contact: Hon. Proceso J. Health, Office Building #4, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Tel: (95-67) Alcala, Secretary 411-353, Fax: (95-67) 411-355, E-mail: kyawkhaing68@gmail.com, Rural Development Program:The objective is to increase rural Contact: Dr. Kyaw Khaing, Director incomes and enhance farm and fishery productivity in targeted areas. Negotiations scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Public Administration, Law, and Justice Category B. Project: P132424. US$ 7.0 (GEFU). Consultants will be (R) Public Finance Management Modernization (Cr. required. Department of Agriculture, 2/F Department of Agriculture, 54020-MM):The objective is to support the Union of the Republic Elliptical Road, Quezon City, Philippines, Tel: (632) 920-4369, Fax: of Myanmar’s sequenced implementation of its PFM reform program (632) 929-8183, E-mail: spja_osec@yahoo.com, prdpnpco@gmail. to support more responsive and inclusive delivery of public services com, Contact: Hon. Proceso J. Alcala, Secretary of Agriculture across the country. Signing scheduled for 30 May 2014. Environmen- tal Assessment Category C. Project: P144952. US$ 30.0/25.0 (IDA Education Credit/MMSP). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance and (R) Learning, Equity and Accountability Program Support Revenue, Building No. 26, Naypyi Taw, Myanmar, Tel: (95-67) 410- (Ln. 83440-PH):The objective is to improve the quality of grade 1 322, E-mail: nwenwewin1957@gmail.com, Contact: Maung Maung to 3 reading and math skills of children in Target Regions and Target Win, Director General shools, with a special focus on those belonging to Target Disadvan- taged Groups. Signing scheduled for 10 July 2014. Environmental Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Assessment Category B. Project: P118904. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Con- (R) Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management:The sultants will be required. Department of Education, Meralco Avenue objective is to support the Government of Myanmar in developing Extension, Pasig City, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 631-2527, Fax: (63-2) and managing the Ayeyarwady Basin and national water resources 633-7302, E-mail: fmvarela68@gmail.com, Contact: Francisco Va- in a sustainable and integrated manner. Decision Meeting scheduled rela, Undersecretary for 22 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P146482. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Energy and Mining Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems, (R) Renewable Energy Development:The objective is to in- Ministy of Transport, Office No. 5, Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tel: (95-6) crease renewable energy generation in all parts of the Philippines, 741-1030, Fax: (95-6) 741-1165, E-mail: dgdwir@mptmail.com.mm, including in off-grid areas, and to bolster private sector lending to Contact: Htun Lwin Oo, Director General electric cooperatives that are focused on operational and financial efficiency. Appraisal scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environ- Papua New Guinea mental Assessment Category F. Project: P147646. US$ 44.0 (CCTF). Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Consultants will be required. LGU Guarantee Corporation, 121 Valero Street, Antel Corporate Center, Makati City, Philippines, Tel: (63- Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Additional Financ- 2) 751-8764, E-mail: dengorial@lgugc.com, Contact: Lydia Orial, ing:The objective is to improve the livelihoods of smallholder cocoa President and CEO and coffee producers supported by the project. Bank Approval com- pleted on 28 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Health and Other Social Services B. Project: P146003. US$ 30.0/6.4/22.0/10.1 (IDA Credit/ECEU/ (R) Multi Donor Facility-Mindanao Reconstruction and IFAD/ZPCO). Consultants will be required for project implementa- Development:The objective is to improve social and economic tion (evaluation studies, media production and broadcasting, train- recovery in conflict-affected communities of Mindanao through ings, etc.). National Department of Agriculture and Livestock, PO activities which promote confidence-building, peace and demand- Box 2033, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea, Tel: (675) driven governance. Decision Meeting completed on 15 May 2014. 321-4096, Fax: (675) 321-1387, E-mail: vvision888@gmail.com, Appraisal scheduled for 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment vele_success@yahoo.com.au, Contact: Dr Vele Ila’ava, Secretary. Category B. Project: P147008. US$ 6.6 (PHMF). Consultants will Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd (CIC), PO Box 137, Goroka, Papua be required. Mindanao Land Foundation, Inc. Reyes Bldg, Jade St. New Guinea, Tel: (675) 732-1266, Fax: (675) 732-1431, E-mail: aben- Saniel Subd, Kidapawan City, Cotabato, Philippines, Tel: (63-64) jamin@cic.org.pg, Contact: Mr. Anton Benjamin, CEO. Cocoa Board 278-3077, E-mail: minland-cmo@minland.ph, Contact: Damaso of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 532, Kokopo, Papua New Guinea, Tel: Vertido, Executive Director. International Labour Organization, 19th (675) 982-9083, Fax: (675) 982-8712, E-mail: ceo@cocoaboard.gov. Floor, Yuchengco Tower, RCBC Plaza, 6819 Ayala Avenue, Metro pg, Contact: Mr. Boto Gaupu, CEO Manila, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 580-9900, Fax: (63-2) 856-7597, E-mail: johnsonl@ilo.org, Contact: Mr. Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Di- Philippines rector. Community and Family Services International, 2/F Torres Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Building, 2442 Park Avenue, Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, Tel: (63-91) 7812-8523, E-mail: vhernandez@cfsi.ph, Contact: Vladi- Gearing Rural Organizations for Wealth Creation Towards mir Hernandez, Director, Philippine Programs Household Income Improvement (GROWTH):The objective is to raise farm productivity and household income of agrarian reform Industry and Trade beneficiaries and smallholders by: (a) empowering the beneficiaries Hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) Phase-out:The objective is and their organizations; (b) facilitating and scaling-up the develop- to assist the Philippines in meeting its HCFC phase-out obligations ment of livelihood and agribusiness opportunities; and (c) improving to the Montreal Protocol. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled access to critical infrastructure and key support services. Decision for 23 December 2016. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Meeting scheduled for 27 June 2014. Environmental Assessment 40.0 (MPIN). Consultants will be required. Department of Environ- Category B. Project: P131622. US$ 95.0 (IBRD). Consultants will ment and Natural Resources, 4/F DENR Main Building, Visayas be required. Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Government Avenue, Quezon City, Tel: (63-2) 926-2672, Fax: (63-2) 924-2540, of the Philippines, Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City, Philip- E-mail: osec@denr.gov.ph, Contact: Jose Atienza, Jr. Secretary pines, Tel: (63-2) 453-1826, 928-7031, Contact: Jerry Pacturan, Undersecretary Public Administration, Law, and Justice Rural Development Program:The objective is to increase rural (R) Third Development Policy Loan:The objective is to support incomes and enhance farm and fishery productivity in targeted areas. specific efforts by the government to help shift the Philippines into a Negotiations scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment new inclusive growth trajectory. The operation’s five pillars all serve Category B. Project: P132317. US$ 501.3 (IBRD). Consultants will to tackle binding constraints to promoting the sustained reduction be required for pre-implementation and implementation activities. in extreme poverty reduction and improved livelihoods for notably Department of Agriculture, 2/F Department of Agriculture, Elliptical the poorest 40% of Filipinos. Decision Meeting scheduled for 9 June PAGE 36 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P147803. US$ ecosystem services it provides, is a shared natural capital asset for 300.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Department of Finance, the entire region. Decision Meeting scheduled for 7 July 2014. Envi- 5/F DOF Building, BSP Complex Roxas Boulevard, Manila, Philip- ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131655. US$ 25.0 (IDA pines, Tel: (632) 525-4194, 496-6571, Fax: (632) 523-9216, E-mail: Credit). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to Ideleon@dof.gov.ph, Contact: Rosalia V. de Leon, Under Secretary be determined. Manila Bay Integrated Water Quality Management:The Pacific Regional Program-Identifying and Implementing objective is to improve the quality of water in the Manila Bay, Pasig practical CCA and Related DRR Knowledge and Experi- River and Laguna Lake system, through institutional mechanisms ence:The objective is to support and facilitate the dissemination enabling integrated and comprehensive support for public and pri- and better utilization of local, national and regional knowledge and vate initiatives, to address sources of pollution, sedimentation and information on climate change adaptation (CCA) and related disaster flooding in key pollution hotspots. Appraisal scheduled for 29 August risk reduction (DRR) to build and strengthen the capacity of Pacific 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Island countries to manage climate change risks to food security and Consulting services to be determined. Department of Environment critical infrastructure. Decision Meeting scheduled for 18 July 2014. and Natural Resources, Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 6.1 (CSCF). Consultants Philippines, Tel: (632) 929-6626, Fax: (632) 926-8074, E-mail: will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. tehanna08@gmail.com, Contact: Analiza R. Teh, Undersecretary Industry and Trade Transportation (R) South Pacific Region-Sustainable Tourism Develop- (R) Metro Manila Corridor Improvement:(formerly Manila ment:The objective is to enhance critical infrastructure investments Urban Transport) The objective is to improve the overall performance in targeted destinations, and build capacity for new tourism source of the urban passenger transport system along a few corridors in markets, so as to increase economic productive tourist flows and job Metro Manila in terms of quality and level of service, affordability, creation in Samoa, Vanuatu and Tonga of the South Pacific Region. safety, and environmental efficiency. Project Concept Review Meet- This project is no longer in the lending program. Further reporting ing scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ B. US$ 53.0/23.0/25.0 (IBRD/AFD/CIF). Consulting services to be 5.0 (IDA Credit). determined. Department of Transportation and Communications, Ortigas Ave, Brgy. Wack-Wack, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Information and Communications Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 723-1507, 727-7960, Fax: (63-2) 726-7128, (R) Federated States of Micronesia/Palau Connectivity: E-mail: reneklimcaoco@yahoo.com, Contact: Rene Limcaoco, Under The objective is to reduce the cost and increase the availability of Secretary international bandwidth for participating countries by: (a) facilitat- Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT):The objectives are to improve ing a wide range of ICT applications to support social and economic the over-all performance of the urban passenger transport system development in the Pacific region; and (b) enhancing the partici- in the project corridor in Cebu City in terms of the quality and level pation of these countries in the global economy. Project Concept of service, safety, and environmental efficiency. Appraisal scheduled Review Meeting completed on 30 April 2014. Decision Meeting for 16 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: scheduled for 25 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. P119343. US$ 116.0/57.5/25.0 (IBRD/AFD/CCTF). Consultants will US$ 12.5/40.5/12.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit/ASDB). Consulting services be required. Department of Transportation and Communications, to be determined. Department of Transportation, Communication Ortigas Ave, Brgy. Wack-Wack, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, and Infrastructure, PO Box PS-2, Palikir, Pohnpei, Micronesia, Fed- Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 723-1507, 727-7960, Fax: (63-2) 726-7128, erated States of, Tel: (691) 320-2865, Fax: (691) 320-5853, E-mail: E-mail: reneklimcaoco@yahoo.com, Contact: Rene Limcaoco, Under itimaif@mail.fm, Contact: Francis Itimai, Department Secretary. Secretary Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Industries and Commerce, PO Box 1471, Ngerulmud, Palau, Tel: (680) 767-2111, Fax: (680) 767-3207, Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection E-mail: tchin@palaunet.gov, Contact: Mr. Takkon Chin, Chief Divi- (R) Studies for Sustainable Flood Management:The objective sion of Communications is to prepare priority projects that aim to improve flood manage- (R) Pacific Regional ICT Regulatory Development:The ob- ment and resilience in the Greater Metro Manila Area. Appraisal jective is to strengthen the capacity of the Pacific ICT Regulatory scheduled for 25 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Resource Centre (PIRRC) to deliver timely and relevant knowledge A. Project: P145391. US$ 7.0 (PHFS). Consultants will be required and technical expertise to pacific regulatory institutions and en- for technical studies (dam and land raising), social and environ- hance regional collaboration on regulatory issues. Decision Meeting mental assessments, including detailed social surveys. Department scheduled for 27 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. of Public Works and Highways, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila, Project: P148238. US$ 4.5 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 304-3000, Fax: (63-2) 304-3487, E-mail: Pacific ICT Regulatory Resource Centre, Level 4, Japan Pacific ICT Webmaster@dpwh.gov.ph, Contact: Mr. Patrick Gatang, Director Centre, USP, Laucala Campu, Suva, Fiji, Tel: (679) 323-1444, Fax: PMO - Flood Control (679) 323-1516, Contact: Wangay Dorji, Centre Director Manila Bay Integrated Water Quality Management-GEFU: The objective is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection water in Manila Bay, Pasig River and Laguna Lake system through (R) Managing Disaster Risks in the Pacific:The objective is the establishment of institutional mechanisms and implementa- to strengthen disaster and climate resilience and improve post di- tion of investments in priority pollution hotspots through public saster financial response capacity of participating countries. Project and private actions. Appraisal is underway. Environmental Assess- Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 May 2014. Decision Meet- ment Category B. US$ 7.4 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. ing scheduled for 18 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Quezon City, Category B. US$ 32.0/15.0 (IDA Credit/ZBIL). Consulting services Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 929-6626/27/28/29, Fax: (63-2) 926-8074, and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. E-mail: tehanna08@gmail.com, tehanna17@yahoo.com, Contact: Analiza Teh, Undersecretary Samoa Information and Communications Regional (R) Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase II Samoa Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Connectivity:The objective is to reduce the cost and increase the (R) Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program:The ob- availability of international bandwidth for participating countries, jective is to sustainably increase the economic benefits captured and thereby facilitate the development of a wide range of ICT ap- by Pacific Island Countries from the ecosystem services provided plications to support social and economic development in the Pa- by the Western Pacific Ocean. This abundant oceanscape, and the cific region, and to enhance the participation of these countries in JUNE 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 37 the global economy. Decision Meeting scheduled for 17 November Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 3.0 (IDA Credit). Con- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.5/18.5 (IDA sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Credit/ASDB). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of (R) Solomon Islands Third Development Policy Opera- Communications and Information Technology, 1st Floor Chan Mow tion:The objective is to support Solomon Islands transition from Plaza, Savalalo, Apia, Samoa, Tel: (685) 777-1133, E-mail: a.ahsam@ post-conflict recovery to sustainable development in the context of mcit.gov.ws, Contact: Tua’imáló Asamu Ah Sam, Chief Executive Of- its National Development Strategy (NDS). Project Concept Review ficer. Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Samoa, Matafele, Samoa, Meeting scheduled for 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Tel: (685) 34-331, Fax: (685) 21-312, Contact: Tupa’imatuna Iulai Category U. US$ 2.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- Lavea, Chief Executive Officer menting agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Transportation (R) Samoa First Economic and Fiscal Reform Operation: The objective is to support the Government of Samoa’s efforts to (R) Solomon Islands Aviation Investment:The objective is to strengthen public financial management and facilitate the growth of improve operational safety and oversight of international air trans- key sectors of the economy over the medium term. Project Concept port and associated infrastructure. Preparation scheduled for 30 July Review Meeting scheduled for 9 June 2014. Environmental Assess- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 4.1/4.6/0.3 ment Category U. Project: P149770. US$ 7.5 (IDA Credit). Consulting (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/PRIF). Consulting services and implement- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ing agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation Thailand (R) Pacific Aviation Investment (Cr. H9140-WS):The objec- tive is to improve operational safety and oversight of international Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry air transport infrastructure. The grant was signed on 8 May 2014. Supporting Capacity Building, Law Enforcement, and Mar- Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P143408. US$ ket Incentives for Wildlife Conservation:The objective is to 25.0/8.3/0.3 (IDA Grant/EUIB/PRIF). Consultants will be required support direct conservation activities, enforce wildlife conservation for the design and supervision of investments, institutional strength- laws, and reduce pressures on forest resources that fits well with the ening activities, and the assignment to develop an aviation strategy goals of the GEF objectives in the biodiversity focal area. Decision and master plan. Samoa Airport Authority, Private Bag, Faleolo Meeting scheduled for 14 July 2014. Environmental Assessment International Airpo, Apia, Samoa, Tel: (685) 23-201, Fax: (685) 24- Category B. Project: P126225. US$ 7.3 (GEFU). Consulting services 281, E-mail: hoe.jerome@airportssamoa.ws, Contact: Magele Hoe to be determined. Ministry of National Resources and Environment, Viali, Chief Executive Officer 61 Paholyothin Road, Lad Yao, Jatujak, Bangkok, Thailand, Tel: (66-02) 2561-4835, E-mail: chatw@dnp.go.th, Contact: Chatchawan Solomon Islands Pisdamkham, Director of Wildlife Conservation Office Energy and Mining Industry and Trade Sustainable Energy Additional Financing:The objective is to improve operational efficiency, system reliability and financial (R) Hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) Phase-out Phase I: sustainability of SIEA. The credit was signed on 1 April 2014. En- The objective is to assist the Government to meet its obligations to vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 13.0 (IDA Credit). Con- HCFC consumption phase-out: (a) a freeze of HCFC consumption at sultants will be required. Solomon Islands Electricity Authority, the baseline level by 2013; and (b) 10% reductions from the baseline PO Box 6, Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tel: (677) 38-596, Fax: (677) level by 2015 as per the Montreal Protocol through adoption of low- 39-472, E-mail: n_nicholls@siea.com.sb, Contact: Norman Nicholls, carbon alternative technologies, where possible, as replacement to General Manager HCFCs. Bank Approval completed on 7 April 2014. Signing scheduled for 30 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Tina River Hydropower Development:The objectives are to: (a) P115761. US$ 23.8 (MPIN). Consultants will be required. Ministry improve the affordability of electricity on Guadalcanal by switching of Industry, Department of Industrial Works, 75/6 Rama VI Road, energy production from very expensive, imported, diesel power to Ratchthewi, Bangkok, Thailand, Tel: (66-2) 202-4101, Fax: (66- hydropower, a sustainable, lower cost, and renewable alternative; and 2) 354-3390, E-mail: arthit.w@diw.mail.go.th, Contact: Mr. Arthit (b) mobilize private financing for power generation to supplement Wuthikaro, Director General limited public resources. Decision Meeting scheduled for 22 January 2015. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P114317. US$ 12.0/8.0 (EUIB/GUID). Consultants will be required for various Tonga preparatory studies (environmental and social impact assessment, Industry and Trade market and pricing, geological, feasibility) and for dam safety ad- visory and environmental and social panel of experts. Ministry of (R) Tonga Cyclone Reconstruction and Climate Resilience Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification, PO Box G37, Lengakiki (Cr. 54770-TO, Cr. H9620-TO):The objectives are to: (a) Restore Ridge, Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tel: (677) 28-609/25-937, Fax: housing, community facilities, and basic services to the affected (677) 25-811, E-mail: ps@mines.gov.sb, Contact: Rene Sore, Per- population of Ha’apai; and, (b) Strengthen the country’s resilience manent Secretary to natural disasters. Negotiations completed on 22 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 28 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Health and Other Social Services Category B. Project: P150113. US$ 6.0/1.8 (IDA Grant/GFDR). Rural Development Program II:The objective is to reduce rural Consultants will be required. Ministry of Infrastructure, 2nd Floor, poverty by increasing incomes from agriculture and access to basic O.G. Sanft Building, Corner Taufa’ahau Rd. and Wellington Rd, social and economic infrastructure and services. Decision Meeting Nuku’alofa, Tonga, Tel: (67-6) 23-100, Fax: (67-6) 25-440, E-mail: scheduled for 8 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category rfaoliu@infrastructure.gov.to, Contact: Ringo K Fa’oliu, CEO B. Project: P149282. US$ 2.5/2.5/12.0/9.0/4.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/AUSL/ECDF/IFAD). Consulting services and implementing Public Administration, Law, and Justice agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Second Economic Reform Support Operation:The objec- tive is to improve the mobilization and use of public resources, while Public Administration, Law, and Justice addressing constraints in the private sector. Project Concept Review (R) E-Government Support:The objective is to establish the basic Meeting scheduled for 24 June 2014. Environmental Assessment foundations of e-Government to support public sector moderniza- Category U. Project: P149963. US$ 5.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting tion. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 28 July 2014. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. PAGE 38 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Tuvalu May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131825. US$ 106.0/10.0 (IDA Credit/ECEU). Consultants will be required Energy and Mining for MOH in accredited areas of medical programs, family health (R) Energy Sector Development:The objective is to support and management of human resources. Ministry of Health, 138A Tuvalu enhance its energy security by diversifyiny the electricity Giang Vo Street, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 6273-2244, E-mail: generation mix and improving the efficieny of the system. Appraisal dr_nguyen_cong_khan@yahoo.com, Contact: Prof. Nguyen Cong scheduled for 15 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Khan, Director egory B. Project: P144573. US$ 7.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Tuvalu Electricity Corporaton, Funafuti, Tuvalu, Tel: Energy and Mining (688) 20-350, E-mail: mafaluloto2@gmail.com, Contact: Mafalu (R) Third Climate Change Development Policy (Cr. 55190- Lotolua, General Manager VN):The objective is to support the Government in its efforts to address climate change by: (a) adopting policies; and (b) strength- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ening institutional capacity to promote climate resilient and lower (R) Second Development Policy Operation:The objective is carbon intensity development. Appraisal completed on 18 April to support reforms that strengthen public financial management 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 28 May 2014. Environmental and improve the delivery of social services, while providing critical Assessment Category U. US$ 70.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will financing to enable the rebuilding of fiscal buffers. Project Concept be required. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, 83 Review Meeting scheduled for 25 June 2014. Environmental As- Nguyen Chi Thanh Street, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3259-5505, sessment Category U. Project: P150194. US$ 1.5 (IDA Grant). No E-mail: lcthanh@monre.gov.vn, Contact: Dr. L. C. Thanh, Deputy consultants are required. Ministry of Finance and Economic Devel- Director General opment, Vaiaku, Tuvalu, Tel: (688) 20-202 Ext. 3068, Fax: (688) (R) Third Power Sector Reform DPO (Ln. 83720-VN):The 20-210, E-mail: lteatu@gov.tv objective is to support the implementation of a market for electricity Vietnam generation, restructuring of the power sector and reform of electric- ity tariffs that will facilitate effective competition, transparency and Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry predictability to encourage generation investment, and implement (R) Irrigation Efficiency (Cr. 53520-VN):The objective is to programs and incentives for efficient use of electricity. Negotiations increase water productivity by improving the efficiency in irrigation scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. water use through technical, management reform, and moderniza- US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Electricity Regu- tion processes. The credit was signed on 24 April 2014. Environ- latory Authority of Vietnam (ERAV), D11 Khuat Duy Tien, Thanh mental Assessment Category B. Project: P130014. US$ 180.0 (IDA Xuan, Dong Da, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3554-3049, Fax: (84-4) Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture and 3554-3223, E-mail: cuongdh@moit.gov.vn, Contact: Mr. Dang Huy Rural Development, 2, Ngoc Ha Street, Ha Noi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) Cuong, General Director 3843-3400, E-mail: longtk.htqt@mard.gov.vn, Contact: Tran Kim (R) Transmission Efficiency Project (TEP):The objective is to Long Tran, Deputy Director General, ICD improve the technical and operational performance of NPT in pro- (R) Second Northern Mountain Poverty Reduction Proj- viding reliable and energy efficient electricity transmission services ect (NMPRP) Additional Financing:The objectives are a con- in Vietnam. Appraisal completed on 22 April 2014. Negotiations tinuation to: (a) consolidate the achievements; and (b) prepare the scheduled for 23 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. institutionalization of the key features of the project into the over- Project: P131558. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. all poverty efforts in the target Provinces. Project Concept Review National Power Transmission Corporation, No. 4, Nguyen Khac Nhu Meeting completed on 16 April 2014. Appraisal scheduled for 25 Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3554-3049, August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 E-mail: phucdt@moit.gov.vn, Contact: Mr. Manh Hung Nguyen, (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to President and CEO be determined. Health and Other Social Services Market Led Agricultural Modernization:The objective is to (R) Social Assistance System Strengthening (Cr. 53540- accelerate the pace of agricultural restructuring and the realization of VN):The objective is to strengthen Vietnam’s social safety net to sectoral goals related to the triple bottom line of sustainable develop- alleviate chronic poverty, help vulnerable households deal with ment. Decision Meeting scheduled for 16 September 2014. Environ- shocks, and help poor households invest in human capital for long- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 275.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting term poverty reduction. The credit was signed on 24 April 2014. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P123960. US$ 60.0 Education (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Government of Vietnam, (R) Coherent Curriculum and Assessment for Improved 710B Lac Long Quan, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3710-0596, Fax: (84-4) Teaching Outcomes (CAITO):The objective is to improve the 3710-0597, E-mail: nvhoi11@yahoo.com, Contact: Mr. Nguyen Van Vietnamese K-12 School Curriculum in order to improve learning Hoi, Deputy Director outcomes. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 29 April Industry and Trade 2014. Decision Meeting scheduled for 14 November 2014. Environ- (R) Vietnam Regional Industry Competitiveness:The ob- mental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants jective is to improve competitiveness of the Thanh Hoa Province will be required. Ministry of Education and Training, 49 Dai Co Viet which is one of the poorest provinces in Vietnam. Decision Meeting Street, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3623-0748, Fax: (84-4) 3869- scheduled for 24 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. 4085, E-mail: tdhai@moet.edu.vn US$ 96.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Government of (R) Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness:The objective is to im- Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 2221-8345, Fax: (84-4) 2221- prove the pre-service and in-service training of teachers and ancillary 8383, E-mail: LuyenNV@moit.gov.vn, Contact: Nguyen Van Luyen, activities that contribute to more effective classroom practices by Division Head, Local Industry and Trade Department teachers. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 15 Sep- tember 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 Public Administration, Law, and Justice (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to (R) Poverty Reduction in Central Highlands (Cr. 53300- be determined. VN):The objective is to improve the well-being (as measured by (R) Health Professions Education and Training (HPET) income/consumption, access to key services and satisfaction with (Cr. 54410-VN): (formerly Health and Other Social Services support) of beneficiaries in targeted districts of the Central Highlands sector) The objective is to improve the quality of medical and nurs- region. The credit was signed on 24 April 2014. Environmental ing education and the competencies of Primary Health Care Teams, Assessment Category B. Project: P128072. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). especially in disadvantages areas. Bank Approval completed on 6 Consultants will be required. Ministry of Planning and Investment, JUNE 2014 South Asia Region PAGE 39 No. 2 Hoang Van Thu Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: Assessment Category A. Project: P127978. US$ 250.0/200.0 (IBRD/ (84-4) 3845-5298, Fax: (84-4) 3823-4453, E-mail: tranhungmpi@ IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Steering Center of Urban yahoo.com.vn, Contact: Mr. Tran Ngoc Hung, Director, Project Man- Flood Control Program, 10 Tran Nhat Duat Street, Tan Dinh Ward, agement Unit Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Tel: (84-8) 3526-7498, E-mail: hcmces@ (R) Second Economic Management Competitiveness Credit gmail.com, Contact: Pham Van Chin, Director (Cr. 54810-VN, Cr. 54820-VN): (formerly Finance sector) The objective is to enhance competitiveness to boost growth and poverty reduction that will strive for a new economic growth model, which targets competitiveness and the quality of growth. Negotiations completed on 28 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P146095. South Asia US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. State Bank of Vietnam, 49, Ly Thai To, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: Afghanistan (84-43) 826-5974, Fax: (84-43) 934-9569, E-mail: doanhoaianh@ Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry yahoo.com, Contact: Mme Doan Hoai Anh, Director General Physical and Institutional Infrastructure for Strategic Service Delivery Reform:The objectives are to strengthen the Grain Reserves:The objective is to improve food security for the Ministry of Health and other health sector governance institutions’ poor and other food-insecure people in Afghanistan by creating the capacity and management systems in areas of policy making, imple- physical and institutional infrastructure required for the establish- mentation of key policies, monitoring and evaluation, supervision, ment and efficient functioning of a Strategic Grain Reserves (SGR) for and policy inspection. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled emergency relief and limited price stabilization. First Grant Funding for 15 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ Request Approval scheduled for 28 October 2014. Environmental 80.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, Assessment Category B. Project: P126288. US$ 12.0/12.0 (ARTF/ 138 Giang Vo Street, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3846-4914, Fax: JSDF). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, (84-4) 3846-4051, E-mail: phamtuandr2003@yahoo.com, Contact: Irrigation and Livestock, Jamal Mena, Karte Sakhi, Afghanistan Dr. Pham Le Tuan, Director Education Transportation Higher Education Expansion and Systems Improvement Dau Giay-Phan Thiet Expressway Pilot PPP:The objective is Project:The objective is to expand and orient the higher educa- to support the Government to attract private sector expertise and tion system to the economic needs of the country. Project Concept capital for the construction and operation of the Dau Giay-Phan Review Meeting scheduled for 29 May 2014. Environmental As- Thiet Expressway. Pre-appraisal scheduled for 24 November 2014. sessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (ARTF). Consulting services to be Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 348.0/277.0/152.0 determined. Ministry of Higher Education, Main Road, Kar-e-char, (IBRD/IDA Credit/ZPCO). Consultants will be required. Ministry Afghanistan of Transport, Vietnam, 308 Minh Khai, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) Non-formal Approach to Training Education and Jobs 3862-8983, Fax: (84-4) 3862-8984, E-mail: ppp@pmu1.vn, Contact: Project:The objective is to increase the potential for employment Mr. Hoang Dinh Phuc, Director General and higher earnings of targeted young Afghan women and men in Ho Chi Minh City Green Transport:The objectives are to: (a) rural and semi-urban areas through non-formal skills training. Bank address urgent urban mobility demands (BRT and Bus Moderniza- Approval completed on 24 March 2014. Environmental Assessment tion); (b) maximize the impacts of major metro and road invest- Category B. Project: P146015. US$ 15.0 (ARTF). Consulting services ments; and (c) strengthen institutions for HCMC’s future modern to be determined. Ministry of Labor Social Affairs, Martyr and Dis- transport system. Decision Meeting scheduled for 17 November abled, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-794) 455-309, E-mail: e.mayel@nsdp. 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P126507. gov.af, Contact: Dr. Enayatullah Mayel, Executive Director National US$ 142.3 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. UCCI - Urban-Civil Skills Development Program Works Construction Investment Management Authority of HCMC, 3 Nguyen Thi Dieu, Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, Tel: Energy and Mining (84-8) 3930-2462, Fax: (84-8) 3930-6638, E-mail: anhphucpl@ (R) DABS Planning and Capacity Support:The objective is yahoo.com, haquoclinh@yahoo.com, Contact: Luong Minh Phuc, to plan the operations and improve the safety standards. Decision General Director Meeting scheduled for 7 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- egory B. Project: P131228. US$ 7.5 (ARTF). Consulting services to Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection be determined. DABS, Afghanistan (R) Ho Chi Minh CityFlood Risk Management:The objective Naghlu Hydropower Rehabilitation Project:The objective is is to reduce the risk of flooding in selected areas of Ho Chi Minh City to increase the supply of least cost electricity to the Afghan power through a combination of structural and non-structural measures. system in a safe and environmentally and socially sustainable way. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 15 December 2014. Appraisal scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consult- Category A. Project: P132944. US$ 85.0 (ARTF). Consulting services ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. to be determined. Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, Afghanistan, Tel: (R) Programmatic Urban Development in Northern Moun- (93-7) 0029-4722, E-mail: shekeeb.nessar@dabs.af, Contact: Eng. tains (Cr. 54760-VN):The objective is to enable participating Shekeeb Nessar, Chief Operations Officer. Ministry of Energy and Northern Mountains cities to effectively plan, deliver and sustain Water, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-7) 5200-4998, E-mail: gfaruq11@ya- priority infrastructure services through strengthened systems and hoo.com, Contact: Eng. Ghulam Faruq Qazizada, Deputy Minister capacity, with the support of the Ministry of Construction. Bank Approval scheduled for 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Finance Category B. US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Financial Sector Rapid Response Project Additional Fi- Ministry of Constructions, 37 Le Dai Hanh Str. Hai Ba Trung Dist. nancing:The objective is to assist DAB to develop action plans for Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-98) 302-5527, E-mail: tranquocthai.moc@ improved banking supervision and to establish key building blocks gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Tran Quoc Thai, Deputy General Director of financial sector infrastructure. Bank Approval completed on 26 (R) Second Ho Chi Minh City Environmental Sanitation:The November 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 6.7 objectives are to collect and treat waste water from Nhieu Loc-Thi (IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance, Pa- Nghe Basin and District 2 in Ho Chi Minh City in an environmentally shtoonistan Square, Kabul, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-070) 232-9101, and financially sustainable manner by constructing wastewater inter- E-mail: adris.walli@budgetmof.gov.af, Contact: Adris Walli, Aide ceptor with its corresponding sewer system and wastewater treatment Coordination Specialist. Da Afghanistan Bank, Ibni Sena Watt Kabul plant. Decision Meeting scheduled for 16 July 2014. Environmental Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-79) 722-3340, E-mail: zalmei. PAGE 40 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 sherzad@centralbank.gov.af, Contact: Zalmie Sherzad, Project Di- ment to improve food security and promote agricultural growth. rector The NAFTEC will design a two-pronged objective to achieve an increase in rural income and raise farm productitvity and promote Industry and Trade agricultural diversification. Project Concept Review Meeting sched- Rural Enterprise Development Project II:The objective is to uled for 21 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ improve employment opportunities and incomes of rural men and 150.0/22.8 (IDA Credit/BDCC). Consulting services and implement- women in Afghanistan. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled ing agency(ies) to be determined. for 12 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ (R) Nuton Jibon Livelihood Improvement and Empower- 100.3 (ARTF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to ment Project II:The objective is to improve the livelihoods of the be determined. extreme poor in rural areas of Bangladesh. The proposed target group Public Administration, Law, and Justice would be the extreme poor and poor in the 26 poorest districts (16 under SIPP-II + 10 under SIPP-III). Project Concept Review Meeting Municipal Development Project (MDP):The objectives are scheduled for 10 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. to: (a) strengthen MUDA’s capacity for granting legitimacy through Project: P149605. US$ 200.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and inclusive planning to existing development; and (b) test the viability implementing agency(ies) to be determined. of a municipal development support model in Afghanistan through IDLG. Decision Meeting scheduled for 21 October 2014. Environ- National Agricultural Technology Project Additional Fi- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting nancing:The objective is to improve agricultural productivity and services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. farm incomes in the country. Bank Approval completed on 4 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133251. US$ Second Public Financial Management Reform:The objec- 23.7 (FSCO). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture, tive is to strengthen public financial management through effective Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 717-1602 procurement, treasury and audit structures and systems in line with sound financial management standards of monitoring, reporting Education and control. Appraisal scheduled for 30 May 2014. Environmental Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project Additional Assessment Category C. US$ 129.0 (ARTF). Consulting services and Financing:The objective is to improve the quality and relevance of implementing agency(ies) to be determined. teaching and the research environment in higher educational institu- Transportation tion through encouraging both innovation and accountability within the universities and by enhancing the technical and institutional (R) Baghlan (Dushi) Bamyan:The objectives are to improve: (a) capacity of the higher education sector. Bank Approval completed connectivity between central and north and north east Afghanistan on 3 December 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Proj- via rehabiliation of baghlan to Bamyan road; and (b) accessibility ect: P145749. US$ 125.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. along the corridor. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, 29/1. Agargaon. Sher- 22 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (88-02) 818-1631, E-mail: 100.0/180.0 (IDA Grant/ARTF). Consulting services and implement- chairmanugc@yahoo.com, Contact: University Grants Commission, ing agency(ies) to be determined. Chairman (R) Rural Access Project Additional Financing:The objective Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement is to enable rural communities to benefit from road access to basic Project Additional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) improve services and facilities. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled the quality of secondary education, systematically monitor learning for 22 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ outcomes; and (b) increase access and equity in project upazilas. 10.0/130.0 (IDA Grant/ARTF). Consulting services and implement- Bank Approval completed on 3 December 2013. Environmental ing agency(ies) to be determined. Assessment Category B. US$ 265.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection be required. Ministry of Education, Bangladesh, E-mail: seqaep@ (R) Kabul Urban Road Improvement Stage 2: (formerly bdcom.net, Contact: Ministry of Education, Project Director, SE- Transportation sector) The objective is to improve transport service QAEP Project efficiency on selected corridors. The loan was signed on 9 May 2014. Skills and Training Enhancement Project Additional Fi- Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 90.5 (ARTF). Consult- nancing:The objective is to strengthen selected public and private ing services to be determined. Kabul Municipality, Kabul Municipal- training institutions to improve training quality and employability of ity Building, Kabul, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-20) 7002-85259, E-mail: trainees, including those from disadvantaged socioeconomic back- arcwahid@hotmail.com, Contact: M.Y Nawandish, Engineer grounds. First Grant Funding Request Approval completed on 26 Kabul Municipal Development Program:The objectives are September 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 16.7 to: (a) increase access to basic municipal services in selected resi- (FSSA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education, dential areas of Kabul city; (b) redesign KM’s financial management Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (88-02) 911-0664, E-mail: techedu09@ systems to support better service delivery; and (c) enable enable gmail.com, Contact: Directorate of Technical Education, Director early emergency response in the event of an eligible emergency. General The loan was signed on 11 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Energy and Mining Category B. Project: P125597. US$ 110.0 (ARTF). Consulting services (R) Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Develop- to be determined. Kabul Municipality (KM), Kabul, Afghanistan, ment II (RERED II) Additional Financing:The objective is Tel: (93-20) 210-1350, E-mail: nawandish@km.gov.af, Contact: M.Y to increase access to clean energy in rural areas through renewable Nawandish, Engineer energy. Appraisal completed on 24 April 2014. Negotiations sched- Urban Policy Development Project:The objective is to support uled for 22 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Proj- the Ministry of Urban Development strengthen it’s analytic and ect: P150001. US$ 48.4/30.0/15.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/GPBA). advocacy skills to be the premier strategic thinker on urban issues Consultants will be required. Power Cell, Level 10, Biddut Bhaban, on Afghanistan. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 11 1 Abdul Ghani Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 955-6040, September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 Fax: (880-2) 957-2097, 955-4664, E-mail: dg@powercell.gov.bd, (IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Contact: Mr. Mohammad Hossain, Director General. Infrastructure be determined. Development Company Limited, UTC Building, 16th Floor, 8 Pan- Bangladesh thapath, Kawran Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 910-2171, Fax: (880-2) 811-6663, E-mail: mmalik@idcol.org, Contact: Mr. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Mahmood Malik, Executive Director and CEO (R) Bangladesh National Agricultural and Food Technol- Rural Electricity Transmission and Distribution:The objec- ogy Program (NAFTEC):The objective is to support the Govern- tive is to improve the reliability and quality of supply of electricity JUNE 2014 South Asia Region PAGE 41 to rural consumers in Bangladesh through improvements in techni- cially in terms of quality of service, affordability, safety, and envi- cal efficiency of the rural distribution system. Bank Approval com- ronmental impact. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for pleted on 27 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 250.0 B. Project: P129920. US$ 600.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to required. Rural Electrification Board, Joarshahara, Khilkhet, Dhaka, be determined. Bangladesh, Tel: (88-02) 891-6414, Fax: (88-02) 891-6400, E-mail: rebdirpp@gmail.com, Contact: Moin Uddin, Chairman. Power Grid Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Company of Bangladesh (PGCB), IEB Bhaban 4th Floor Ramna, Community Climate Change:The objective is to enhance the Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 955-0514, 956-0883, Fax: (880-2) capacity of selected communities to increase their resilience to the 717-1833, E-mail: md@pgcb.org.bd, dir-pnd@pgcb.org.bd, Contact: impacts of climate change. First Grant Funding Request Approval Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain, Managing Director and Director Plan- completed on 31 December 2012. Environmental Assessment Cat- ning and Design egory B. Project: P125447. US$ 12.5 (BDCC). Consulting services to be determined. Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), E-4/B, Health and Other Social Services Agargaon Administrative Area, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangla- (N) HSDP Additional Finance:The objective is to enable the Gov- desh, Tel: (880-2) 914-0056, Fax: (880-2) 912-6244, E-mail: pksf@ ernment of Bangladesh to strengthen the health systems and improve pksf-bd.org, Contact: Dr. Quazi Mesbahuddin Ahmed, Managing health services, particularly for the poor. Project Concept Review Director Meeting scheduled for 20 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Multipurpose Disaster Shelter Phase II:The objective is to Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be deter- provide greater protection for the vulnerable population and live- mined. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh stock in the cyclone prone areas. Preparation is underway. Envi- (R) Conditional Cash Transfer Project:The objective is to im- ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146464. US$ 370.0 prove nutritional outcomes of poorest children and pregnant mothers (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to via conditional cash transfers. Decision Meeting scheduled for 25 be determined. August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 300.0 River Bank Improvement Program:The objective is to reduce (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to the erosion of riparian land at selected locations on the bank of the be determined. Brahmaputra River by the construction and maintenance of im- Emergency 2007 Cyclone Recovery and Restoration Proj- proved river-bank protection works. Project Concept Review Meeting ect Additional Financing II:The objectives are to: (a) meet the scheduled for 29 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category financing gap that existed since the inception of project and also a A. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing gap created due to exchange rate fluctuation; and (b) scale up con- agency(ies) to be determined. struction and rehabilitation of disaster shelters in the coastal areas and carry out necessary repairs/improvement to about ten polders. Bhutan Bank Approval completed on 30 December 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146500. US$ 140.0 (IDA Credit). Transportation Consultants will be required. Ministry of Disaster and Relief, 92-93 (R) Second Urban Development Project Additional Financ- Mohakhali C/A, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-18) 1911-7754, ing: (formerly Public Administration, Law, and Justice sector) E-mail: cms@dmb.gov.bd, Contact: Syed Ashraful Islam, Commu- The objective are to: (a) strengthen the municipal finance and man- nication Media Specialist agement systems in selected Thromdes; (b) improve infrastructure services in Thimphu; and (c) support implementation of the exist- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ing urbanization policies under the Recipient’s Eleventh Five Year (R) Community Empowerment and Development Fund:The Plan. Bank Approval scheduled for 16 May 2014. Environmental objective is to pilot a housing fund for slums to develop and empower Assessment Category B. Project: P145392. US$ 17.4 (IDA Credit). the community to counter the problem of squatting, insecure tenure Consultants will be required. Ministry of Works and Human Settle- arrangements and uncontrolled growth of slums in Dhaka. Decision ments, Bhutan, Tel: (975-2) 323-653, E-mail: ppdmowhs@gmail. Meeting scheduled for 15 July 2014. Environmental Assessment com, Contact: Ms. Lhaden Pema, Chief Planning Officer. Thimphu, Category B. Project: P130710. US$ 80.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants Bhutan, E-mail: Mahpan2008@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Mahesh will be required. National Housing Authority, Bangladesh, Tel: (880- Pradhan, Chief Engineer 02) 951-1029, E-mail: jsm@mohpw.gov.bd, Contact: Kamal Uddin Talukder, Project Director India (R) Enabling Open Government (Cr. 54260-BD):The objec- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry tives are to: (a) support improved transparency and responsiveness in public sector management; and (b) enhanced financial resource (R) Integrated Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem mobilization to help ensure the delivery of quality services to people. Services Improvement:The objectives are to: (a) strengthen in- Bank Approval completed on 9 May 2014. Environmental Assess- stitutional capacities for conservation of globally significant biodiver- ment Category U. Project: P129770. US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). Con- sity; and (b) enhanced carbon sequestration and sustainable flow of sultants will be required. Cabinet Division, Paribahan Pool Bhaban, ecosystem services in production forests of central Indian highlands Room 802, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (88-02) 836-0635, Fax: (88-02) and Western Ghats hotspot. Decision Meeting scheduled for 18 July 831-6143, E-mail: nazrulmislam@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Nazrul 2014. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category Islam, Secretariat B. US$ 20.5 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of En- Urban Resilience Project:The objective is to increase the effec- vironment and Forests, Government of India, Paryavaran Bhawan, tiveness of disaster management and response in Dhaka and Sylhet, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2436-1727, to address existing and emergent risks in the built environment in Contact: B.M.S. Rathore, Dr Dhaka and Sylhet, and to improve the cities’ capacity to respond (R) Integrated Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Manage- promptly and effectively to an eligible crisis or emergency. Project ment Approaches:The objective is to invest in preventing land Concept Review Meeting completed on 8 April 2014. Preparation is degradation and desertification by addressing the key sector chal- underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149493. lenges of low capacity in monitoring land degradation, difficulty in US$ 125.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing scaling up Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Management (SLEM). agency(ies) to be determined. Decision Meeting scheduled for 18 July 2014. Environmental As- sessment Category B. US$ 4.6 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Transportation Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, Parya- (R) Dhaka Transport Development Project:The objective is varan Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India, Tel: to improve the urban passenger transport system in Dhaka, espe- (91-11) 2436-1727; ICFRE, Ministry of Environment and Forests, P PAGE 42 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 O New Forest, Dehradun, India Tel/Fax: (91-135) 275-0693, E-mail: Elementary Education III:The objectives are to: (a) provide saibaldasgupta@icfre.org, Contact: Saibal Dasgupta, Mr training for newly enrolled out of school children and enable them (R) Second Development Policy Loan to Support Inclusive to attend age-appropriate classes; (b) appoint qualified teachers; Green Growth and Sustainable Development in Himachal and (c) ensure adequate physical infrastructure for schools. Bank Pradesh: (formerly Energy and Mining sector) The objectives are Approval scheduled for 16 May 2014. Environmental Assessment to: (a) support Himachal Pradesh in the improved management of Category B. Project: P144447. US$ 156.3/849.9 (IDA Credit/IDA its natural resources across growth engines of the economy; and (b) Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Human Resource promote inclusive green growth and sustainable development. Bank Development, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2338- Approval scheduled for 16 May 2014. Environmental Assessment 2604, E-mail: mkaurdwivedi@yahoo.com, Contact: Maninder Kaur Category U. Project: P143032. US$ 100.0 (CCTF). Consultants will Dwive Dwivedi, Director be required. Government of Himachal Pradesh, Room No. E-201B, Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness through ICT in Bihar:The Armsdale HP Secretariat, Shimla, India, Tel: (91-177) 262-1022, objective is to increase access to quality teacher education and con- 288-0714, Fax: (91-177) 262-1813, E-mail: cs-hp@nic.in, envsecy- tinuous professional development for improved teacher performance hp@nic.in, tourismsecy-hp@nic.in and accountability. Decision Meeting scheduled for 27 June 2014. (R) Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to Climate Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132665. US$ 217.0 Change:The objective is to focus on adaptation and transfer of (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to environmentally sustainable and climate resilient technologies and be determined. socially resilient approaches in sustainable land management and Energy and Mining agriculture. Negotiations scheduled for 21 July 2014. Environmental (R) Jharkhand Power Sector:The objective is to support DVC to Assessment Category B. Project: P132623. US$ 8.0 (GEFU). Con- strengthen its institutional capacity and organizational effectiveness sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Rural Development, as the company prepares to expand into new areas along the electric- New Delhi, India, Tel: (62-11) 4100-0472, Fax: (62-11) 4100-0475, ity value chain, which include rural electrification, smart grid initia- E-mail: pkkatare@nic.in tives and investment in solar powered generation capacity. Project (R) UP Sodic Lands Reclamation III Project Additional Concept Review Meeting completed on 15 May 2014. Preparation is Financing:The objective is to sustainably reclaim additional ravine underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147818. lands within the umbrella on the on-going UPSLRPIII project. This US$ 243.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Damodar will enable the sustainable reclamation of ravine lands leading to Valley Corporation (DVC), DVC Towers, VIP Road, Kolkata, India, an increase in agricultural productivity for a majority of who are Tel: (91-33) 2355-7935, Fax: (91-33) 2355-1252, E-mail: debabrata. likely to be small and marginal farmers. Appraisal scheduled for pattanayak@dvc.gov.in, Contact: Debabrata Pattanayak 30 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 84.0 (R) NMEEE-Super Energy-Efficient Equipment Program: (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to The objective is to provide an incentive to commercialize higher ef- be determined. ficiency electric fans as a pilot. This project is no longer in the lending Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth:The objective is program. Further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental to enable the existing institutional platforms to achieve inclusive Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (CIF). growth by: (a) expanding and diversifying livelihood opportunities; (R) National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency:The (b) improving livelihood development; and (c) promoting human objective is to scale-up actions to implement energy efficiency im- development with focus on health and nutrition services and entitle- provements in some of the most energy-intensive large industries. ments for the poorest households. Decision Meeting scheduled for 15 This project is no longer in the lending program. Further reporting July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P143608. will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. SERP, Hyder- 50.0/50.0 (IBRD/CIF). abad, India, Tel: (91-40) 2329-8469, Fax: (91-40) 2321-1848, E-mail: (R) North Eastern Region Power System Improvement:The brajsekhar@gmail.com, Contact: B. Rajsekhar, CEO objective is to improve the availability and reliability of electricity Neeranchal National Watershed:The objective is to improve supply through expansion and reinforcement of power systems in the incremental conservation outcomes and agricultural yields for the participating states in the North Eastern Region. Appraisal sched- communities in selected project areas, and adoption of improved uled for 15 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category processes and technologies into the broader IWMP in participating A. Project: P127974. US$ 425.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be project states. Negotiations scheduled for 31 May 2014. Government determined. Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited (MeECL), Lum- clearance from Department of Expenditure is awaited. Environmen- jingshai, Short Round Road, Shillong, India, Tel: (91-364) 259-0289, tal Assessment Category B. Project: P132739. US$ 178.5 (IDA Credit). Fax: (91-364) 259-1174, E-mail: cdsaio@rediffmail.com, Contact: C Consultants will be required. Ministry of Rural Development, New D Saio, Director (Distribution). Electricity Department, Manipur, Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2306-2454, Fax: (91-11) 2306-3568, Con- Keisampat, Imphal, India, Tel: (91-385) 245-0050, Fax: (91-385) tact: Dr. Sandeep Dave, Joint Secretary IWMP and Project Director 245-1172, E-mail: n.dwijen@gmail.com, Contact: N Dwijen Singh, (Neeranchal) Superintending Engineer. Assam State Electricity Board, Bijulee Bha- Uttarakhand Decentralized Watershed Development Phase wan, Paltan Bazar, Guwahati, India, Tel: (91-361) 273-9520, Fax: (91- II:The objective of the Project is to increase the efficiency of natural 361) 223-7062, E-mail: pmu_aseb@rediffmail.com, Contact: Bikash resource use and productivity of rainfed agriculture by participat- Paul Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL), Bidyut ing communities in selected microwatersheds of the State of Ut- Bhavan, Banamalipur, Agartala, India, Tel: (91-381) 231-8001, Fax: tarakhand. Signing scheduled for 25 June 2014. Environmental (91-381) 231-9427, E-mail: cmd.tsecl@rediffmail.com, Contact: K. Assessment Category B. Project: P131235. US$ 121.2 (IDA Grant). Chakrabarti, Director (Technical). Power and Electricity Department, Consultants will be required. Watershed Management Directorate Mizoram, Ngur-Eng House, Tuikhuahtlang, Aizawl, India, Tel: (91- (WMD), Indira Nagar, Forest Colony, Dehradun, 248006, Utta- 389) 231-1025, Fax: (91-389) 231-1070, E-mail: el_pachuau@yahoo. rakhand, India, Tel: (91-135) 276-0170, E-mail: wmd-ua@nic.in, co.uk, Contact: L. Pachuau, Chief Engineer (Distribution) Contact: Mr. M.H. Khan, FRDC and Chief Project Director (R) Partial Risk Sharing Facility in Energy Efficiency:The objective is to achieve energy savings by mobilizing the private Education sector in energy efficiency industries of India. Decision Meeting (R) Madhya Pradesh Higher Education Reforms Project: completed on 7 May 2014. Appraisal scheduled for 21 July 2014. The objective is to improve the effectiveness of higher education in Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P132620. US$ 25.0 order to improve quality, access and equity. Project Concept Review (CIF). Consulting services to be determined. Bureau of Energy Ef- Meeting scheduled for 15 May 2014. Environmental Assessment ficiency, Government of India, Ministry of Power, 4th Floor, Sewa Category B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- Bhawan, R.K, Puram 110-066, India, Tel: (91-11) 2617-8316, Fax: menting agency(ies) to be determined. (91-11) 2617-9699 JUNE 2014 South Asia Region PAGE 43 (R) Partial Risk Sharing Facility in Energy Efficiency and in the machine tool sector as well as help MSMEs access/adopt new Renewables:The objective is to develop a performance contracting technologies. Bank Approval completed on 25 April 2014. Envi- industry in energy efficiency and renewable industry in India, using ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145502. US$ 200.0 innovative financial product. Decision Meeting scheduled for 7 July (IBRD). Consultants will be required. MSME Ministry, Office of the 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P128921. US$ Development Commissioner, Room No. 723-A, India, Tel: (91-11)- 19.8 (GEFU). Consulting services to be determined. Bureau of En- 2306-2561, Fax: (91-11)-2306-1068, E-mail: rk.rai@nic.in, Contact: ergy Efficiency, Government of India, Ministry of Power, 4th Floor, R.K. Rai, Director Sewa Bhawan, R.K. Puram 110-066, India, Tel: (91-11) 2617-8316, Odisha Disaster Recovery Project:The objectives are to: (a) Fax: (91-11) 2617-9699 restore and improve housing and public services in communities Establish Pilots for Access through Renewable Energy:The of Odisha; and (b) increase the capacity of the State entities to re- objective is to demonstrate renewable energy based decentralised spond promptly and effectively to an eligible crisis or emergency. models of improving energy access in target states of UP and Bihar Bank Approval completed on 20 February 2014. Environmental area. Decision Meeting scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148868. US$ 153.0 (IDA Grant). Assessment Category B. Project: P144678. US$ 14.0/14.0 (GEFU/ Consultants will be required. Government of Odisha, Rajiv Bha- ZPCO). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be wan, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751001, India, Tel: (91-0674) 239-5398, determined. E-mail: mdosdma@osdma.org, Contact: Dr. Taradatt, Managing Network for Climate Technology Innovations:The objective Director, OSDMA is to convene different players to bring innovations that could help bring new technologies to the market. Decision Meeting scheduled Public Administration, Law, and Justice for 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 10.0 (R) Bihar Social Protection (Cr. 53490-IN):The objective is (GEFU). Consulting services to be determined. Bureau of Energy to increase the poverty reduction impact of social protection (SP) Efficiency, Government of India, Ministry of Power, 4th Floor, Sewa programs for the poorest and most vulnerable households in Bihar Bhawan, R.K. Puram 110-066, India, Tel: (91-11) 2617-8316, Fax: through systemic improvements and demonstrated innovations in (91-11) 2617-9699 SP program delivery. Signing scheduled for 28 May 2014. Environ- Super Efficient Equipment Program:The objective is to scale- mental Assessment Category B. Project: P118826. US$ 84.0 (IDA up and speed up the rate of energy efficiency market transformation Credit). Consultants will be required. Department of Social Wel- in the area of end-use appliances and equipment. Bank Approval fare, Government of Bihar, Patna, India, Tel: (91-612) 223-4830, scheduled for 29 January 2015. Environmental Assessment Cat- Fax: (91-612) 221-7672, E-mail: secysw-bih@nic.in, Contact: Rajit egory B. Project: P129794. US$ 50.0 (CCTF). Consulting services to Punahani, Secretary. Rural Development Department, Government be determined. Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Government of India, of Bihar, Patna, India, Tel: (91-612) 221-7496, Fax: (91-612) 221- Ministry of Power, 4th Floor, Sewa Bhawan, R.K. Puram 110-066, 7857, E-mail: amritlalmeena@lib.in, Contact: Amrit Lal Meena Lal India, Tel: (91-11) 2617-8316, Fax: (91-11) 2617-9699 Meena, Secretary Health and Other Social Services (R) IN:Citizen-centric Service Delivery Reform in the (R) Accelerating Universal Access to Early and Effective Northeast:The objective is to create of a citizen-centric service Tuberculosis Care (Cr. 53760-IN):The objective is to expand delivery system in the states of Assam and Mizoram to improve effi- access to and improve diagnosis and treatment of drug-sensitive ciency, accountability, and access for targeted services in underserved and drug-resistant tuberculosis for patients who seek care from the areas. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 8 May 2014. public and private sectors. Bank Approval completed on 8 April 2014. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category C. Signing scheduled for 30 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Project: P150308. US$ 48.8 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and Category B. Project: P148604. US$ 100.0/97.0 (IDA Grant/GFND). implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, (R) Karnataka Panchayat Strengthening II:The objective New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-112) 301-8126, E-mail: ddgtb@rntcp.org, is to improve the effectiveness, responsiveness and accountability Contact: Central TB Division, Deputy Director General of the rural local governments, in particular, Gram Panchayats, in (R) Nagaland Multisectoral Health Initiative:The objective is delivering public services prioritized by rural people. Project Concept to improve the supply, utilization and quality of health and nutrition Review Meeting completed on 13 May 2014. Preparation is under- services in Nagaland through investments in several sectors. Project way. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P150288. US$ Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 28 August 2014. Environ- 220.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to mental Assessment Category B. US$ 48.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting be determined. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Strengthening Lok Seva Kendras in Madhya Pradesh:The Enhancing Socioeconomic Empowerment of Adolescent objective is to improve quality and access to basic services by vulner- Girls:The objective is to improve education, empowerment and able groups in Madhya Pradesh. Identification scheduled for 9 June employment of targeted adolescent girls and young women (age 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 34.0 (IBRD). 11-24 years) in Jharkhand, and to test models for promoting their Consultants will be required. MP Public Service Management De- socio - economic empowerment. Project Concept Review Meeting partment scheduled for 28 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 62.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Uttar Pradesh Pro-poor Tourism Development Project:The agency(ies) to be determined. objective is to support the development of tourism in the Buddhist Circuit and the Braj-Agra Corridor. Preparation is underway. Envi- Uttarakhand Health Systems Development Project Phase ronmental Assessment Category A. US$ 210.0 (IBRD). Consulting II:The objectives are to assist the state of Uttarakhand operationalize services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. the State Health and Population Policy and attain health-related goals laid down by the central and state government. Decision Meeting West Bengal Secondary Cities Development and Manage- scheduled for 21 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. ment:The objective is to support urban renewal in Kolkata and Project: P148531. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and expand the delivery of appropriately planned and effectively man- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. aged local and regional urban infrastructure in secondary cities by strengthened urban bodies through an improved urban institutional Industry and Trade and financing framework. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled (R) Enhancing the Global Competitiveness of Micro, Small for 24 July 2015. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 300.0 and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) (Ln. 83300-IN):The (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Department of Urban objective is to help improve the competitiveness of MSMEs in the Development, Nagarayan, Sector 1, Block DF-8, Salt Lake, Kolkata, machine tool sector which is a crucial sector to the competitiveness India, Tel: (91-33) 2334-9394, Fax: (91-33) 2334-7880, E-mail: of manufacturing, which will help increase the skills of the workers psecy-ud-wb@nic.in, Contact: Debashis Sen, Principal Secretary PAGE 44 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Transportation Salai, Adyar, Chennai, India, Tel: (91-44) 2446-5360, Fax: (91-44) (R) National Highways Interconnectivity Improvement 2446-4414, E-mail: tnrsp1@gmail.com, Contact: Dr. P. Umanath, (Ln. 83010-IN):The objectives are to: (a) improve connectivity in Project Director less-developed areas in project states by upgrading selected sections Uttar Pradesh Core Road Network Development Program: of the National Highway (NH) network, and (b) strengthen the sector The objectives are to: (a) improve quality, safety and sustainability capacity for development and management of NH network assets and of targeted state highway corridors; and (b) introduce better asset road safety. Bank Approval completed on 29 October 2013. Signing management practices. Decision Meeting scheduled for 15 April scheduled for 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. 2015. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P147864. US$ Project: P121185. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Transport Bhavan 1, to be determined. Parliament Street, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2335-4356, Fax: (91-11) 2331-4352, E-mail: Sarangi_dkc@yahoo.co.in, Contact: Mr. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection A. K. Nagpal (R) Karnataka Urban Water Supply Modernization:The (R) Second Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (Ln. 83180- objective is to improve service quality to 24/7 across the project cities IN):The objectives are to: (a) provide additional rail transport capac- of Belgaum, Gulbarga and Hubli-Dharwad through the establishment ity, improved service quality and higher freight throughput on the of sustainable service delivery arrangements at ULB level. Decision 393 km Kanpur to Mughal Sarai section of the Eastern rail corridor; Meeting scheduled for 5 September 2014. Environmental Assess- and (b) develop the institutional capacity of DFCCIL to build and ment Category B. Project: P130544. US$ 190.0 (IBRD). Consulting maintain the DFC infrastructure network. Bank Approval completed services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. on 22 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 22 April 2014. En- (R) National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project Second:The vironmental Assessment Category A. Project: P131765. US$ 1100.0 objective is to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities in (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Dedicated Freight Corridor project states to cyclone and other hydro meteorological hazards. Corporation of India Limited, 5th Floor, Pragati Maidan, Metro Decision Meeting scheduled for 27 August 2014. Environmental Station Building Complex, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2337-9820, Assessment Category A. Project: P144726. US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Fax: (91-11) 2345-4701, E-mail: rkgupta@dfcc.co.in, Contact: R.K. Consulting services to be determined. Department of Relief and Gupta, Managing Director, DFCCIL Rehabilitation, Government of Maharashtra, Maharashtra, India, Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor-3:The objectives are to: (a) Tel: (91-22) 2202-5274; Kerala Department of Revenue, Tel: (91-471) provide additional rail transport capacity, improved service quality 232-2330; Gujarat State Disaster Management Agency, Ahmedabad, and higher freight throughout on sections of the Eastern Rail Cor- Tel: (92-79) 2325-9220; Department of Disaster Management, Gov- ridor; and (b) develop further institutional capacity of DFCCIL to ernment of West Bengal, Tel: (92-33) 221-43678 build and maintain the DFC infrastructure network. Project Concept (R) Punjab Rural Water and Sanitation Sector Improve- Review Meeting scheduled for 2 September 2014. Environmental ment Program:The objective is to improve access to quality and Assessment Category A. US$ 650.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to sustainable services and improve the capacity of GoP’s sector in- be determined. DFCCIL, India, Tel: 23370602, E-mail: ajaykumar@ stitutions in planning, implementation and monitoring of its rural dfcc.co.in, Contact: RK Gupta, Managing Director water supply and sanitation program in partnership with commu- Efficient and Sustainable City Bus Services:The objective nities. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 May 2014. is to promote a shift to sustainable modes of transport through a Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. more comprehensive focus on city bus transport. Decision Meeting Project: P150520. US$ 248.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and scheduled for 4 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Project: P132418. US$ 9.2 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Urban Development, Ground Floor, NBO Building, G- (R) Tamil Nadu Sustainable Urban Development Program: Wing, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2306-2615, The objectives to: (a) pilot urban management reforms in Tamil E-mail: iutindia.sutp@gmail.com, Contact: I C Sharma, National Nadu; and (b) improve urban services in participating Urban Local Project Manager Bodies (ULBs) in a financially sustainable manner. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 21 May 2014. Environmental Assess- Mizoram State Roads II_Regional Transport Connectivity ment Category A. Project: P150395. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting Project:The objective is to finance the state roads in the State of services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Mizoram in Northeastern India, a landlocked, lagging region, and trade-related infrastructure, systems and processes in India and (R) Uttrakhand RWSS Additional Financing:The objective is Myanmar to facilitate trade between the two countries and other to restore services of damaged Rural Water Supply and Sanitation regional neighbors. Bank Approval scheduled for 12 June 2014. Envi- Schemes in the target disaster affected areas of Uttarakhand. Signing ronmental Assessment Category A. Project: P145778. US$ 71.0/36.0 scheduled for 30 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Public Works, B. Project: P148009. US$ 24.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be Government of Mizoram, Tuikhuah Tlang, Aizwal, India, Tel: (91- required. Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, New Delhi, 0389) 232-4001, E-mail: piupwd@yahoo.com, Contact: Lalrinkima E-mail: sujoy.m@nic.in, Contact: Mr. S. Raju, Principal Secretary Hnamte, Project Director Kosi Flood Rehabilitation Program Phase II:The objectives National Waterways Development Project:The objective is are to: (a) increase the State’s agricultural productivity; and (b) en- to facilitate all weather navigability in selected section of National hance access to markets and agriculture services in targeted areas Waterway 1 and to undertake market development and technical by increasing resilience to floods and droughts and supporting the feasibility studies to explore the transport development potential development of rural infrastructure. Decision Meeting scheduled for for National Waterway 5. Project Concept Note scheduled for 30 4 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: September 2014. Awaiting request from the Government of India. P127725. US$ 150.0/100.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consulting services Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consult- to be determined. Government of Bihar, Patna, India, Tel: (91-612) ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 221-7016, Fax: (91-612) 222-3983, E-mail: amarjeetsinha@hotmail. Second Tamil Nadu Road Sector Project:The objective is to com, Contact: Dr. Amarjeet Sinha assist the Highways Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project Additional Fi- in improving the road services over its core road network (CRN) nancing:The objective is to reduce the vulnerability of coastal com- in terms of capacity enhancement, better maintenance and lower munities to cyclone and other hydro meteorological hazards. Bank accident fatalities. Decision Meeting scheduled for 18 November Approval completed on 8 April 2014. Environmental Assessment 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P143751. US$ Category A. Project: P148870. US$ 104.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Government will be required. Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OS- of Tamil Nadu, TNHB Complex, 2nd Floor, 48, Dr. Muthulakshmi DMA), Rajiv Bhawan, Unit -5, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751001, India, JUNE 2014 South Asia Region PAGE 45 Tel: (91-0674) 239-5398, Fax: (91-0674) 239-1871, E-mail: mdos- Nepal dma@osdma.org, Contact: Rajiv Bhawan Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Northeast India Water Resources and Institutions Build- ing:The objective is to support the eight Northeastern States of India Education to manage their water resources in an integrated and optimized (R) Higher Education Reforms Project:The objective is to sup- manner for multi-purpose benefits. Preparation scheduled for 17 port reforms for improving quality, relevance, equity and efficiency of June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P128421. the higher education system. Decision Meeting scheduled for 21 July US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147010. US$ Development of North Eastern Region, Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, 80.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2302-2400/2401, to be determined. Fax: (91-11) 2306-2754, E-mail: secydoner@nic.in; Ministry of Water Resources, Shram Shakti Bhawan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi, India, Tel: Energy and Mining (91-11) 2371-5919, Fax: (91-11) 2373-1553, E-mail: secy-mowr@nic. (R) Grid-Connected Solar and Energy Efficiency:The objec- in, Contact: Shri Alok Rawat, Secretary tives are to: (a) increase electricity supply to users connected to NEA’s Rajasthan Water Supply and Sanitation:The objective is to grid; and (b) reduce NEA’s distribution system losses in pilot project increase access to improved, affordable and sustained water and areas. Decision Meeting scheduled for 19 June 2014. Environmental sanitation services of urban and rural communities in Rajasthan. Assessment Category B. Project: P146344. US$ 80.0 (IDA Credit). Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 9 January 2015. Consultants will be required. Nepal Electricity Authority, Durbar Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 180.0 (IDA Credit). Marg, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 415 3007, Fax: (977-1) 415- Consulting services to be determined. Public Health and Engineering 3067, E-mail: neamd@nea.org.np, Contact: Arjun Karki, Managing Department (PHED) and GWD (Ground Water Deparment), GoR, Director Secretariat Jaipur, Jaipur, India, Tel: (91-141) 222-7654, Contact: (R) Hydropower Development Project (HDP):The objective Dr. Purshottam Aggarwal, Principal Secretary is to support capacity development and analytical work in order to Third Maharashtra Rural Water Supply and Sanitation ensure the Nepal energy sector is adequately prepared to deliver (Jalswarajya-II):The objective is to improve the performance of the upcoming large-scale private and public hydropower invest- GoM’s sector institutions in planning, implementation and monitor- ments in an environmentally, socially, economically and financially ing of its RWSS program and to improve access to quality and sus- sustainable manner. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for tainable water services in peri-urban villages, and in water-stressed 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 30.0 and water quality-affected areas. Signing scheduled for 2 June 2014. (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P126325. US$ 165.0 be determined. (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required for developing Sector (R) Kabeli “A” Hydroelectric:The objective is to add hydropower wide M&E and preparing an institutional strengthening strategy for generation capacity to supply the NEA grid through public private developing state level training institute Nasik Research and Training investments. Bank Approval scheduled for 1 July 2014. Environ- Centre. Government of Maharashtra, Water Supply and Sanita- mental Assessment Category A. Project: P122406. US$ 40.0/6.0 tion Department, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tel: (91-22) (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Kabeli Energy 2756-5087, E-mail: jalswarajya_pm@hotmail.com, Contact: Sweta Limited, Ganga Devi Marga No. 313, Buddha Nagar, New Baneshwor, Singhal, Project Manager Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 478-5735, Fax: (977-1) 478-5393, Uttar Pradesh Urban Solid Waste Management Project:The E-mail: kel@kel.com.np www.kel.com.np, Contact: Ranjan Lohar, objective is to improve solid waste management in Uttar Pradesh Project Coordinator by: (a) investments in efficient and effective waste collection; and (R) Scaling-up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income (b) cost recovery systems and sustainable outsourcing for waste Countries (SREP) Supported Extended Biogas Project:The transfer, processing, and disposal facilities. Identification scheduled objective is to promote market-led approaches to commercially vi- for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 280.0 able off-grid biogas energy generation from organic waste, through (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to better management of waste, and public-private partnership. Bank be determined. Approval scheduled for 24 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131592. US$ 7.9 (CSCF). Consulting services Maldives to be determined. Alternative Energy Promotion Center, Khumaltar Heights, Lalitpur Sub Metropol, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) Energy and Mining 425-9820, Fax: (977-1) 553-9392, E-mail: goving.pokharel@aepc. (R) Accelerating Sustainable Private Investment in Renew- gov.np, Contact: Mr. Samir Thapa, Assistant Director able Energy (ASPIRE) Project (Cr. G2250-MV):The objective Business Models for Private Sector-Led Off-Grid Energy is to scale-up renewable energy investments by encouraging and Access Project:The objective is to support the development of a facilitating private investments in the sector through the introduction local market for private-sector led off-grid energy provision using the of risk mitigation facilities and other incentive programs. Negotia- innovative and renewable energy based ‘Anchor-Business-Commu- tions completed on 12 May 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 26 nity (A-B-C)’ business model. Project Concept Review Meeting sched- June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145482. uled for 18 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 11.7/16.0 (CSCF/GUID). Consulting services to be determined. US$ 8.0 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Ministry of Environment Energy and Water (Environment Research to be determined. Center), Maldives Health and Other Social Services Public Administration, Law, and Justice (N) Health Sector Support: Towards Universal Health Cov- Public Financial Management (PFM) Systems Strengthen- erage (UHC):The objective is to enhance the availability of quality ing Project:The objective is to support the government to build an health services and financial protection to the poorest 40 percent of efficient system for the existing Public Accounting System as a tool the population by supporting the Government of Nepal in moving for better budget execution, internal control, cash management, towards Universal Health Coverage and improving efficiency of key accounting and fiscal reporting. Bank Approval scheduled for 26 health functions at the Ministry of Health and Population. Project June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P145317. Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 6 August 2014. Environ- US$ 6.5 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Fi- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 120.0/30.0/30.0/80.0/800.0 nance and Treasury, Maldives, Tel: (960) 790-9196, E-mail: ismail. (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/AUSL/DFID/ZBIL). Consulting services to alimanik@finance.gov.mv, Contact: Ismail Alimanik, Permanent be determined. Ministry of Health and Population, Ramshah Path, Secretary, MoFT Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 426-2862, Fax: (977-1) 426-2896 PAGE 46 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Karachi, Pakistan, Tel: (92-21) 9921-1227, Fax: (92-21) 9921-1240, (R) Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement Proj- E-mail: sec.edusindh@gmail.com ect (Cr. 54460-NP, Cr. H9450-NP):The objective is to improve Punjab Skills Development:The objective is to support the Gov- and expand access to water supply and sanitation services in the rural ernment of Punjab in improving their training programs. Project areas. Bank Approval scheduled for 29 May 2014. Environmental Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 18 September 2014. Environ- Assessment Category B. Project: P143036. US$ 72.0 (IDA Grant). mental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Consultants will be required. Ministry of Urban Development, Nepal, services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. E-mail: binodchandrajha@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Binod C. Jha, Energy and Mining Joint Secretary (R) Dasu Hydropower Stage I (Cr. 54980-PK, Cr. 54970-PK, Pakistan Cr. G2240-PK):The objectives are to: (a) add hydropower genera- tion to the total energy mix; (b) reduce electricity shortages; and (c) Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry contribute to the institutional development of WAPDA Hydel which (R) Sindh Agricultural Growth Project:The objective is to owns and operates the existing hydropower plants. Bank Approval improve the productivity and market access of small and medium scheduled for 10 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category producers in selected commodity value chains. Bank Approval sched- A. Project: P121507. US$ 110.8/477.6/546.0/1439.9 (IDA Credit/ uled for 7 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: IDA Grant/ZEXP/ZPCO). Consultants will be required. Water and P128307. US$ 76.4 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Sindh Power Development Authority (WAPDA) - DASU PMU, Pakistan, Department of Agriculture, Karachi, Pakistan, Tel: (92-21) 9921- Tel: (92-429) 920-2676, E-mail: farooqhaji@yahoo.com, Contact: 1462, E-mail: secretary@sindhagri.gov.pk, Contact: Iqbal Durrani, Haji Muhammad Farooq, Project Director Dasu Secretary. Sindh Department of Livestock and Fisheries, Karachi, (R) IDA Partial Credit Guarantee for Dasu Hydropower Pakistan, Tel: (92-21) 9920-3291, Fax: (92-21) 9920-3290, Contact: Phase-I Project:The objectives are to (a) facilitate the expansion Zafar Shaikh, Secretary of electricity supply of hydro-power in Pakistan; (b) improve access (R) Sindh On-Farm Water and Agriculture Productivity to socio-economic services for local communities in the project area; Enhancement Program:The objective is to improve water pro- and (c) build Water and Power Development Authority’s (WAPDA) ductivity in irrigated agriculture resulting in increased agricultural capacity to develop Pakistan’s vast hydropower potential. Bank Ap- output per unit of water used. Decision Meeting scheduled for 19 proval scheduled for 2 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 199.3 (IDA egory A. US$ 460.0 (GUID). Consulting services and implementing Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Sindh Agriculture agency(ies) to be determined. Department, Ground Floor, Tughlaq House, Karachi, Pakistan, Tel: (R) Power Sector Reform Development Policy Credit (Cr. (92-219) 921-1462 54360-PK): (formerly Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Sindh Water Sector Improvement Additional Financ- sector) The objectives are to: (a) increase output and availability of ing:The objective is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of existing assets; (b) accelerate steps to import energy; (c) increase do- irrigation water distribution in three AWBs (Ghotki, Nara and Left mestic gas supply; (d) develop least cost renewable energy to increase Bank canals), particularly the measures of reliability, equity and access or replace oil generation; and (e) prioritize investments for user satisfaction. Bank Approval scheduled for 2 September 2014. public financing and encouraging private investment through PPP. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P131325. US$ 150.0 The credit was signed on 2 May 2014. Environmental Assessment (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Sindh Irriga- Category U. Project: P128258. US$ 600.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants tion and Drainage Authority (SIDA), 28-A, Civil Lines, Hyderabad, will be required. Ministry of Finance, Q Block, Pak Secretariat, Islam- Pakistan, Tel: (92-221) 920-0646, Fax: (92-221) 920-0164, E-mail: abad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 921-1168, E-mail: nazrat.bashir@gmail. MDSIDA@sida.org.pk com, Contact: Nazrat Bashir, Senior Joint Secretary Sindh Barrages Improvement Phase I Project:The objective Health and Other Social Services is to help secure Gudu barrage, one of the major water diversion (N) CASA:100 Community Support Program:The objective structures in Sindh. Decision Meeting scheduled for 26 August 2014. is to support the energy, livelihood and infrastructure needs of local Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P131324. US$ 160.0 communities in the Corridor of Impact (COI) of CASA-1000 Trans- (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Government mission Line in order to promote security for the Project. Project of Punjab, Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, Tel: (92-42) 910-003, Fax: Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 2 July 2014. Environmen- (92-42) 921-2116 tal Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (CASA). Consultants will be required. Economic Analysis, ESMP preparation Implementing Education agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Gilgit-Baltistan Education:The objective is to improve ac- (R) Enhanced Nutrition for Mothers and Children:The cess to and the quality of education in Gilgit-Baltistan. This project objective is to assist Pakistan in improving coverage of effective is no longer in the lending program. Further reporting will be nutrition interventions delivered through the health sector, with a discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 focus on the poor and on marginalized groups, in order to improve (IDA Credit). the nutritional status of children under two years old and that of (R) Global Partnership for Education Balochistan Educa- pregnant and lactating women. Negotiations scheduled for 24 July tion Project:The objective is to support the Government to reach 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P131850. US$ the education MDGs, which will follow a review and approval process 36.2/11.7 (IDA Credit/PPIN). Consulting services to be determined. stipulated by the GPE quality assurance arrangements. Bank Ap- Department of Health, Government of Sindh, I and I MS Depot, Rafiq proval scheduled for 2 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Shaheed Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, Tel: (92-21) 3522-3888, E- Category B. Project: P144454. US$ 34.0 (EFAS). Consulting services mail: d-dsk@hotmail.com, Contact: Dur-e-Shewar Khan, Nutrition to be determined. Secondary Education Department of Balochistan, Focal Person. Department of Health, Balochistan, Civil Secretariat, Civil Secretariat, Pakistan, Tel: (92-81) 920-1622, E-mail: balochga@ Quetta, Pakistan, Tel: (92-81) 921-1592, E-mail: provincialnutri- yahoo.com, Contact: Ghulam Ali Baloch, Secretary Education tioncellqta@yahoo.com, dralibugti@yahoo.com, Contact: Ali Nasir (R) Sindh Global Partnership for Education Project:The Bugti, Program Manager objective is to improve access to quality education through strength- (R) Immunization Support:The objective is to improve the cov- ening the capacity for evidence-based planning and accountability. erage, efficiency and quality of immunization services in Pakistan. Bank Approval scheduled for 2 September 2014. Environmental Decision Meeting scheduled for 8 July 2014. Environmental As- Assessment Category C. Project: P146451. US$ 66.0 (EFAS). Consult- sessment Category B. Project: P132308. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). ing services to be determined. Education and Literacy Department, Consulting services to be determined. Expanded Program on Im- Government of Sindh, 1st Floor, Tughlaq House, Civil Secretariat, munization, Ministry of Interprovincial Coordination, Cabinet Divi- JUNE 2014 South Asia Region PAGE 47 sion, PM Secretariat, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 920-3248, Fax: (92-51) Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection 920-7760, E-mail: secretaryipc@yahoo.com, Contact: Mr. Anisul (R) South Asia Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Hasnain Musavi, Secretary Project:The objective is to strengthen disaster related early warn- KP and FATA Emergency Recovery Credit:The objective is to ing systems and climate services. Project Concept Review Meeting assist the Government of Pakistan/KP/FATA restore social protec- scheduled for 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category tion through income transfers and cash for work opportunities to B. US$ 55.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing the most affected households and vulnerable groups in the areas agency(ies) to be determined. affected by military operation against militants and floods. This project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment Sri Lanka Category C. Project: P121394. US$ 250.0/35.0 (IDA Credit/PKNF). Consultants will be required. Provincial Relief Rehabilitation and Education Settlement Authority (PaRRSA), Pakistan, Tel: (92-91) 921-3855, Skills Development Project:The objective is to support the Gov- Fax: (92-91) 921-4025, E-mail: shakeelqadir@pdma.gov.pk, Contact: ernment of Sri Lanka to improve the quality and relevance of the Shakee Qadir Khan, Director General skills development sector. Bank Approval scheduled for 20 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132698. US$ Industry and Trade 101.5/100.0/26.0/17.0 (IDA Credit/ASDB/GKOR/GTZ). Consultants Punjab Agricultural Competitiveness:The objective is to im- will be required. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development, prove agriculture productivity, value addition and marketing. This Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tel: (941-12) 597-803, E-mail: sec@youthskills- project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment min.gov.lk, Contact: Mr. B. Wijayaratne, Secretary Category C. US$ 155.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- menting agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (DDO) (Ln. Public Administration, Law, and Justice 83570-LK):The objective is to enhance the Government’s capacity (R) Revenue Mobilization Disbursement-Linked Indicator: to quickly mobilize resources in the event of a natural disaster on The objectives are to build a modern tax system and a transparent, the condition of an adequate ex-ante macroeconomic environment effective and results-oriented tax administration to facilitate and and the maintenance of a satisfactory disaster risk management improve tax compliance with tax laws. This project is no longer in framework. Bank Approval completed on 22 April 2014. Environ- the lending program. Further reporting will be discontinued. En- mental Assessment Category U. US$ 102.0 (IBRD). No consultants vironmental Assessment Category C. Project: P128182. US$ 300.0 are required. Ministry of Finance and Planning, The Secretariat, Sri (IDA Credit). Lanka, Contact: Asuman Lukwago, Permanent Secretary (R) Sindh Governance Project:The objective is to support the (R) North East Local Services Improvement Project Ad- Government to improve efficiency and expansion of public resources ditional Fianancing: (formerly Transportation sector) The through the enhancement of tax administration and compliance, objective is to support local authorities in the Northern and Eastern budget credibility, transparency, and budget execution. Decision Provinces and adjoining Provinces to deliver services and local in- Meeting scheduled for 4 June 2014. Environmental Assessment frastructure in a responsive and accountable manner. GEF Council Category C. Project: P145617. US$ 50.0/12.0 (IDA Credit/ECEU). Approval completed on 29 April 2014. Signing scheduled for 23 Consulting services to be determined. Finance Department, Gov- July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.3 (PFSA). ernment of Sindh, Sindh Secretariat No. 1, Karachi, Pakistan, Tel: Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Economic Develop- (92-21) 9922-2102, Fax: (92-21) 9922-2105, E-mail: rajputsohail@ ment, 464/A, T.B. Jaya Mawatha, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94- yahoo.com, Contact: Sohail Rajput 77) 937-1267, Fax: (94-11) 238-2066, E-mail: balasooriyamonty@ Transportation yahoo.com, Contact: Mr. Monty Balasooriya, Project Coordinator MDTF KP Emergency Roads Recovery Project:The objective Transportation is to enable the population along the MDTF KP corridor to benefit (R) Strategic Cities Development Project (Cr. 54280-LK): from year round improved access and mobility through reconstruc- The objective is to improve selected urban services and public urban tion of priority damaged roads and bridges in the conflict hit areas. spaces in the Participating City Regions of Sri Lanka. Bank Ap- Bank Approval completed on 18 April 2014. Environmental As- proval completed on 5 May 2014. Signing scheduled for 26 August sessment Category B. Project: P149311. US$ 9.0 (PKNF). Consult- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P130548. ing services to be determined. Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority US$ 147.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of (PkHA), Peshawar, Pakistan, Tel: (92-91) 921-3927, Fax: (92-91) Defense and Urban Development, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-77) 767-8907, 921-1657, E-mail: pdmdtf@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Aslam Khan, E-mail: janakauda@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Janaka Kurukulasuriya, Project Director janakauda@gmail.com Regional (R) Transport Connectivity:The objective is to provide lower costs of transport by: (a) reducing congestion and improving road Energy and Mining condition; and (b) providing better connectivity of inter-urban trans- Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade port. The project supports the overall strategy of developing pub- Project (CASA-1000):The objective is to develop an electricity lic transport and managing motorization. Project Concept Review trade among Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Afghanistan, and Paki- Meeting scheduled for 19 August 2014. Environmental Assessment stan. Bank Approval completed on 27 March 2014. Environmental Category B. US$ 275.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Assessment Category A. Project: P145054. US$ 158.3/368.3/40.0/1 Road Development Authority, 9th Floor, Sethsiripaya, Battaramulla 5.0/250.0/31.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/ARTF/GUSA/ISDB/ZBIL). 10120, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-11) 286-2795, Fax: (94-11) 287-2272 Consultants will be required. National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC), WAPDA House, Room 414, Lahore, Pakistan, Tel: Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (92-42) 9920-2229, Fax: (92-42) 9920-2053, Contact: Mr. Muham- (R) Dam Safety WRP Additional Financing:The objectives mad Zia-ur-Rehman, Managing Director. Barki Tajik, 64, I.Somoni are to: (a) establish long-term sustainable arrangements for opera- Street, 734026, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tel: (992-372) 358-766, Fax: tion and maintenance (O&M) of large dams; and (b) improve water (992-372) 358-694, E-mail: elrpbt@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Ali resources planning. Bank Approval completed on 5 May 2014. En- Nazarov, Chairman. National Electric Grid of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Re- vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148595. US$ 83.0 public, Tel: (996-31) 266-1001, E-mail: nesk@elcat.kg, Contact: Mr. (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Ministry of Irrigation and Medetbek Aitkulov, nesk@elcat.kg. Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, Water Resources Management, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-11) 267-5315, Fax: Afghanistan, Tel: (93-700) 294-722, E-mail: shekeeb.nessar@dabs. (94-11) 269-1163, E-mail: pddswrpp@sltnet.lk, Contact: Asuman af, Contact: Eng. Shekeeb Nessar, Chief Operations Officer Lukwago, Permanent Secretary PAGE 48 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 (R) Improving Climate Resilience (Cr. 54170-LK):The objec- Industry, Bulevardi Deshmoret e Kombit, 1001 Tirana, Albania, Tel: tive is to reduce exposure of people in vulnerable areas to hydrome- (355-42) 222-2245, Fax: (355-42) 222-2245, E-mail: Sekretaria@ teorological risk, through evidence-based investment planning and energjia.gov.al, Contact: Mr. Damian Gjiknuri, Minister urgent mitigation measures, and to improve Government’s capacity to respond effectively to an eligible crisis or emergency. Bank Ap- Finance proval completed on 22 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- (R) Financial Sector Development Policy Loan (Ln. 83730- egory B. Project: P146314. US$ 110.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will AL):The objective is to strengthen legal and institutional capacities be required. Road Development Authority, 9th Floor, Sethsiripaya, of the financial sector regulators to mitigate emerging risks. Bank Battaramulla 10120, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-11) 286-2795, Fax: (94-11) Approval completed on 15 May 2014. Signing scheduled for 30 May 287-2272, Contact: Asuman Lukwago, Permanent Secretary 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P146280. US$ (R) Integrated Urban Rural Water Supply Project:The 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance- objective is to increase the water and sanitation service coverage Albania, Albania, Contact: Asuman Lukwago, Permanent Secretary. and achieve effective and sustainable use of water services in water Bank of Albania, Sheshi “Avni Rustemi” 24, Tirana, Albania, Contact: scarce and low coverage Provinces. Project Concept Review Meeting Asuman Lukwago, Permanent Secretary scheduled for 21 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 130.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Health and Other Social Services agency(ies) to be determined. Health System Improvement:The objectives are to: (a) strengthen the reform in the health financing system; (b) improve the quality in primary care services, and rationalize hospital care services; and (c) support the capacity building for health policy, regulation and management. Decision Meeting scheduled for 7 July Europe and Central Asia 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144688. US$ 45.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry Albania of Health, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355-42) 364-622, Contact: Milva Ekonomi, Deputy Minister Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) Environmental Services:The objective is a continuation to Public Administration, Law, and Justice extend environmentally, socially and financially sustainable com- (R) Second Public Finance DPL: The objective is to improve munity based natural resources management planning and imple- Albania’s fiscal sustainability through: (a) strengthening mentation in erosion prone upland areas, reversing land degradation public financial management to address arrears; and (b) and sediment runoff, while increasing carbon sequestration and tax, pension and energy sector reforms to support macro- biodiversity benefits. Bank Approval scheduled for 8 July 2014. fiscal stability. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 26 Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P130492. US$ November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 100.0 10.0/10.0 (IBRD/F7SD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Environment, Forestry and Water Administration, Tirana, Albania, Boulevard Deshmoret e Kombit, No 3, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355) Tel: (355-4) 222-4537, Fax: (355-4) 227-0627, E-mail: kabineti@ 69 207-4196, E-mail: eluci@minfin.gov.al moe.gov.al, Contact: Mr Lefter Koka, Minister First Public Finance Development Policy Loan:The objective (R) Environmental Services:The objective is a continuation to is to improve Albania’s fiscal sustainability through strengthening extend of environmentally, socially, economically and financially public financial management to improve transparency and cred- sustainable community based natural resource management plan- ibility of fiscal policy and through tax, pension and energy sector ning and implementation, in erosion prone upland areas, reversing reform to support macro-fiscal stability. Bank Approval scheduled land degradation and sediment runoff, while increasing carbon se- for 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: questration and biodiversity benefits. Bank Approval scheduled for 8 P147226. US$ 120.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Ministry July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 2.9 (GEFU). of Finance, Boulevard Deshmoret e Kombit, No. 3, Tirana, Albania, Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment, Forestry Tel: (355-69) 207-4196, E-mail: eluci@minfin.gov.al, Contact: Erjon and Water Administration, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355-4) 222-4537, Luci, Deputy Minister Fax: (355-4) 227-0627, E-mail: kabineti@moe.gov.al, Contact: Mr Lefter Koka, Minister Transportation (R) Environmental Services:The objective is to to support sus- Results-based Road Maintenance and Safety:The objective tainable land management practices and increase communities’ is to support the Government of Albania to improve safety of the monetary and non-monetary benefits, in targeted Project areas which national road network through implementing the Albania National are mainly in erosion prone rural upland areas. First Grant Funding Transport Plan and Road Safety Action Plan by introducing and Request Approval completed on 6 May 2014. Environmental Assess- efficiently using a road asset management system and road safety ment Category B. Project: P150450. US$ 10.6 (FSCO). Consulting principles and audits. Decision Meeting scheduled for 25 November services to be determined. Ministry of Environment, Rr. Durresit, No. 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132982. US$ 27, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355-4) 225-9900, Fax: (355-4) 270-624, 75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Public E-mail: ardiana.sokoli@moe.gov.al, Contact: Ms. Adriana Sokoli, Works and Transport, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355-4) 225-6091 Director Education Armenia (R) Education Sector Project:The objective is to improve ac- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry cess to quality education, especially for poor or vulnerable children. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 30 June 2014. En- (R) Second Community Agriculture Resource Management vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Consulting and Competitiveness (Cr. 55040-AM, Cr. 55050-AM Ln. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 83740-AM):The objective is to improve Armenia’s agri-food sec- tor competitiveness and market access by enhancing selected value Energy and Mining chains in targeted communities. Bank Approval scheduled for 20 (R) Power Emergency:The objectives are: i) to put the sector on June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133705. a self-sustaining trajectory; and ii) to enhance security of supply in US$ 23.0/9.7 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Min- the power system. Bank Approval scheduled for 29 July 2014. En- istry of Agriculture, Government House 3, Republic Square, Yerevan, vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144029. US$ 150.0 Armenia Tel/Fax: (374-10) 524-641, E-mail: gkhachatryan@arspiu. (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Energy and com, Contact: Mr. Gagik Khachatryan, PIU Director JUNE 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 49 Energy and Mining 690, Fax: (374-10) 559-750, E-mail: cfep@arminco.com, Contact: (R) Electricity Supply Reliability Additional Financing:The Hasmik Ghazaryan, Director objective is to finance urgent investments in power transmission Transportation assets, including substations and power transmission lines. Bank Lifeline Road Network Improvement Additional Financing: Approval scheduled for 2 July 2014. Environmental Assessment The objective is to improve access of rural communities to markets Category B. Project: P148102. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants will and services through upgrading of selected lifeline roads, and to be required. High Voltage Electric Networks, 1 Zoravar Andranik strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Transport and Communi- Street, Yerevan, Armenia, Tel: (374-10) 720-010, Fax: (374-10) 720- cation to manage the lifeline road network. Project Concept Review 121, E-mail: hvenbec@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Sahak Abrahamyan, Meeting scheduled for 4 December 2014. Environmental Assessment General director Category B. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Electricity Transmission Network Improvement:The objec- Ministry of Transportation and Communication, 28 Nalbandyan tive is to rehabilitate critical substations and construct new trans- Street, Yerevan 375010, Armenia, Tel: (374-10) 563-391, Fax: (374- mission line sections to improve electricity supply reliability. Project 10) 560-528, E-mail: minister@mts.am Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 20 September 2014. En- Local Economy and Tourism Infrastructure Development: vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146199. US$ 50.0 The objective is to improve infrastructure services and institutional (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. High Voltage Electric capacity to support increased contribution of tourism in the local Networks; Yerevan TPP economy of the South Tourism Corridor Regions. Project Concept Health and Other Social Services Review Meeting scheduled for 15 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- (R) Social Investment and Local Development Project:The quired cultural heritage; architectural design of tourism facilities objective is to support the implementation of the Armenia Social and urban regeneration; detailed design, feasibility studies; and Investment Fund’s (ASIF) Evolution Strategy 2015-2019. Project environmental and social assessments. Foreign Financing Projects Concept Review Meeting completed on 8 May 2014. Decision Meet- Management Center (FFPMC) at the Ministry of Finance, 1, Me- ing scheduled for 5 November 2014. Environmental Assessment lik-Adamyan Street, Armenia, Tel:, Fax: (374-10) 523-471, E-mail: Category B. Project: P148836. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services info@ffpmc.am and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Second Social Protection Administration Project:The ob- Azerbaijan jectives are to: (a) improve social protection benefit and service Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry provision by integrating social assistance, disability, labor market, (R) Water Users Association Development Support Ad- and pension administration into ISPCs for social protection benefi- ditional Financing:The objective is to improve the effectiveness ciaries; and (b) increase capacity of the MLSI to create effective and and financial viability of on-farm irrigation water distribution and efficient social protection policy options. Bank Approval completed management in the project area. Decision Meeting scheduled for 25 on 24 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). P146318. US$ 21.2 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Min- Consulting services to be determined. Amelioration and Irrigation istry of Labor and Social Issues, Government Building 3, Republic Open Joint Stock Company, Azerbaijan Square, Yerevan, Tel: (374-10) 526-831, E-mail: mss@mss.am, Con- tact: Artem Asatryan, Minster of Labor and Social Issues Education (R) Tertiary Education Project:The objectives are to: (a) im- Industry and Trade prove the tertiary education system; (b) improve tertiary education (R) Trade Promotion and Quality Infrastructure:The objec- institutions; and (c) project management and monitoring and evalu- tive is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Government’s ation. Decision Meeting scheduled for 15 December 2014. Environ- interventions to support the competitiveness of Armenian enter- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 33.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be prises. Negotiations completed on 22 April 2014. Bank Approval required. Ministry of Education, 49 Khatai Prospekt, Baku AZ1008, scheduled for 2 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Azerbaijan, Tel: (994-12) 496-2242, Fax: (994-12) 496-9368, E-mail: Project: P146994. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. rustamov@edu.gov.az, Contact: Elvin Rustamov, Director Ministry of Economy, 5 Mher Mkrtchyan Street, Yerevan, Armenia, Tel: (374-10) 526-134, Fax: (374-10) 526-577, E-mail: kchshmar- Health and Other Social Services ityan@mineconomy.am, Contact: Karen Chshmarityan, kchshmar- (R) Second Health Sector Reform Project:The objective ityan@mineconomy.am is to improve quality and availability of health-care services and strengthen the capacity of the health authorities to manage the sys- Public Administration, Law, and Justice tem (stewardship). Project Concept Note scheduled for 15 October (R) Second Development Policy Operation:The objective is 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). to support more resilient growth and job creation through a re- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health, 4 Kicik orientation of the economy toward industry and exports. Project Deniz St. Azerbaijan, Tel: (994-12) 493-2977, E-mail: sabdul- Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 4 June 2014. Environmental layev65@yahoo.com Assessment Category U. Project: P143040. US$ 21.0/30.0 (IBRD/ Industry and Trade IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Agricultural Competitiveness Improvement (Ln. 82860-AZ):The objectives are to: (a) enhance competitiveness of (R) Third Public Sector Modernization Project (PSMP): agricultural products; (b) increase rural productivity and incomes; The objective is a continuation to reinforce and expand the Govern- and (c) enhance agricultural support services including advisory ment of Armenia’s public sector reform agenda. Project Concept and veterinary services. Signing scheduled for 12 June 2014. En- Review Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental vironmental Assessment Category F. Project: P122812. US$ 34.5 Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture, 40, U. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Hajibayov Street, Government House, Baku AZ1016, Azerbaijan, Tel: Education:The objective is to support the Government to: (a) en- (994-12) 497-1301, Fax: (994-12) 498-1395, E-mail: adcp@agroag- hance the quality of General Secondary Education; and (b) support ency.gov.az, Contact: Mr. Huseyn Huseynov, Director the Tertiary Education reforms in the context of the Bologna Declara- tion. Bank Approval completed on 13 March 2014. Environmental Public Administration, Law, and Justice Assessment Category B. Project: P130182. US$ 15.0/15.0 (IBRD/IDA (R) Judicial Services and Smart Infrastructure Project: Credit). Consultants will be required. Project Implementation Unit The objective is to scale-up the provision of selected user-friendly (PIU), 73 Vratsyan Street, 0070 Yerevan, Armenia, Tel: (374-10) 575- judicial services, with smart infrastructure and strengthened insti- PAGE 50 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 tutional capacity. Bank Approval scheduled for 9 July 2014. Envi- in selected towns of Belarus. The loan was signed on 8 April 2014. ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144700. US$ 100.0 Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146194. US$ 90.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Justice, Trg Bosne (IBRD). Consultants will be required. The Energy Efficient Depart- i herzegovine br. 1, Baku, Azerbaijan, Tel: (387-33) 223-503, E-mail: ment, Svobody Squre 17, 220030 Minsk, Belarus, Tel: (375-17) 327- ramingurbanov@yahoo.com, Contact: Ramin Gurbanov, Chief, Re- 5051, Fax: (375-17) 327-5563, E-mail: energoeffect@bc.by, Contact: form Implementation Division Mr. Sergei Semashko, Director (R) State Agency on Service to Citizens and Social Innova- Transportation tion:The objective is to assist the Government to explore cooperation and pilot innovative approaches to delivery and finance of public ser- (R) Transit Corridor Improvement:The objective is to finance vices. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 17 August 2015. the improvement of the M-6 International Transit corridor between Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting Minsk and Grodno to facilitate improved transport connectivity do- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. mestically and on international routes. Decision Meeting scheduled for 20 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Transportation P149697. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. (R) Second Rural Investment Additional Financing:The Ministry of Transport, Belarus objective is to improve access to and use of community-driven rural infrastructure, expand economic activities for rural households, and Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection improve the economic and social well-being of rural communities Water Supply and Sanitation Additional Financing:The in selected areas through upgrading of local road networks. Bank objectives are to: (a) increase access to the water supply services; and Approval scheduled for 9 July 2014. Environmental Assessment (b) improve the quality of water supply and wastewater services in Category B. Project: P147861. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will selected urban areas. Bank Approval completed on 31 March 2014. be required. AZRIP PMU in State Agency on Agricultural Credit, 40 Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 90.0 (IBRD). Consul- U. Hadjibekov Street, Government House, 8th Floor Room 801, AZ tants will be required. Ministry of Housing and Utilities, Bersona 1016 Baku, Azerbaijan Tel/Fax: (994-12) 493-4813, E-mail: subhan@ Street, 16, Minsk, Belarus, Tel: (375-17) 200-1545, Fax: (375-17) azrip.org, Contact: Soubhan Asgerov, Project Director 200-8708, E-mail: info@mjkx.gov.by, Contact: Mr. Anatolyi Shagun, Fourth Highway:The objectives are to: (a) support the improve- Deputy Minister ment of the main road network to improve Azerbaijan competitive- ness by strengthening the inter-country linkages; and (b) provide Bosnia and Herzegovina greater export market access, and build Azerbaijan’s role as a regional Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry transit corridor. Decision Meeting scheduled for 15 July 2014. En- (R) Sustainable Forest and Abandoned Land Management: vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P122200. US$ 200.0 The objectives are to: (a) improve the biodiversity conservation in (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Azer Road Service, forests, scrub and abandoned pasture; (b) reduce erosion through 72/4, Uzeyir Hajibeyov Street, AZ1010, Baku, Azerbaijan, Tel: (994- poor forest road infrastructure and harvesting; and (c) increase the 12) 493-0045, Fax: (994-12) 493-4665, E-mail: silkway@online.az, sustainability of forest management. The loan was signed on 1 April Contact: Mr. Javid Gurbanov, Chief of AzerRoadService OJC 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P129961. US$ Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection 5.6 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture Water Management and Forestry, Marka Marulica br 2, Sarajevo, Second National Water Supply and Sanitation Additional Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-33) 726-638, Fax: (387-33) 726- Financing:The objective is to provide quality and reliable water 664, E-mail: danic.cigelj@fmpvs.gov.ba, Contact: Mr. Danica Cigelj, supply and sanitation services in selected regional (rayon) centers Assistant Minister for Forestry in Azerbaijan. Bank Approval scheduled for 3 July 2014. Environ- mental Assessment Category A. Project: P147378. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Energy and Mining Consultants will be required. Amelioration and Water Management Energy Efficiency:The objectives are to reduce: (a) energy inten- Open Joint Stock Company, 40 U. Hadjibekov Street, House of sity; (b) consumption of imported oil and gas to the extent it is used Government, AZ1016 Baku, Azerbaijan, Tel: (994-12) 596-7184, Fax: for space heating; and (c) carbon intensity of Bosnia-Herzegovina. (994-12) 473-1176, E-mail: safsu@mail.ru, Contact: Mr. Mammad Bank Approval completed on 13 March 2014. Environmental As- Asadov, Head of Department sessment Category B. Project: P143580. US$ 32.0 (IDA Credit). Belarus Consultants will be required. Republika Serpska Ministry of Spatial Planning, Civil Engineering and Ecology, Trg Republike Srpske 1, Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-51) 339-592, Fax: Forestry Development:The objective is to increase the contribu- (387-51) 339-653, E-mail: M.Jokic@mgr.vladars.net, Contact: Mr. tion from the forest sector to GDP, whilst maintaining and enhanc- Milos Jokic, Assistant Minister. Federation of Bosnia and Herzegov- ing environmental and social services provided by the forest sector. ina Ministry of Physical Planning, Marka Marulica 2/3, Sarajevo, Tel: Pre-appraisal scheduled for 23 July 2014. Environmental Assess- (387-33) 226-420, Fax: (387-33) 227-188, E-mail: katicajasmina@ ment Category B. Project: P147760. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting gmail.com, Contact: Ms. Jasmina Katica, Head services to be determined. Ministry of Forestry, 39 Myasnikov Str. Finance Minsk, Belarus SEEC Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility APL4:The objec- Education tive is to help increase access to financial protection from losses (R) Education Modernization Project:The objective is to en- caused by climate change and geological hazards to homeowners, hance the efficiency of the general secondary education system and farmers, and the enterprise sector and government agencies. Nego- contribute to an improvement in quality of education at system level tiations scheduled for 1 December 2014. Environmental Assessment and at targeted schools. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled Category C. Project: P127788. US$ 5.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will for 16 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: be required. Europa RE, Weinbergstrasse 56/58, Zurich, Switzer- P148181. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. land, Tel: (41-44) 380-5090, Fax: (41-44) 380-5091, E-mail: heinz. Miinistry of Education, Belarus vollenweider@europa-re.com, Contact: Mr. Heinz Vollenweider, Chairman of the Board Energy and Mining (R) Biomass District Heating (Ln. 83510-BY):The objectives Health and Other Social Services are to: (a) improve the energy efficiency of district heating systems; Bosnia and Herzegovina Health Project:The objective is to (b) increase the use of biomass in heat generation; and (c) reduce improve the quality and efficiency of secondary and tertiary care. the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of heat generation and supply Identification scheduled for 25 August 2014. Environmental As- JUNE 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 51 sessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and Croatia implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Finance Industry and Trade (R) Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (N) Business Environment PforR (Program for Results): Partial Credit Guarantee:The objectives are to support: (a) The objective is to support the implementation of key reforms (e.g. HBOR’s move towards market-based funding through a Partial in the construction sector and inspections) as well as supporting a Credit Guarantee (PCG); and (b) investment projects in Croatia by number of critical next steps to help Bosnia’s lagging export sectors providing medium and long-term funding. Appraisal completed (especially agriculture). Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled on 18 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 27 June 2014. En- for 10 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ vironmental Assessment Category F. Project: P133471. US$ 256.4 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to (GUAR). Consulting services to be determined. Croatian Bank for be determined. Reconstruction and Development, Strossmayerov trg 9, 10000 Za- greb, Croatia, Tel: (385-1) 459-1586, Fax: (385-1) 459-1705, E-mail: Development Policy Loan I:The objective is to support the gov- bberkovic@hbor.hr, Contact: B. Berkovic ernment in implementing the business climate reforms agenda. Bank Approval scheduled for 29 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Health and Other Social Services Category U. Project: P146740. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services (R) Health Sector Reform (Ln. 83650-HR):The objective is to be determined. RS Ministry of Finance, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to improve the quality and efficiency of health services in Croatia. Tel: 387-51-339768, E-mail: mf@mf.vladars.net; Federation BiH Bank Approval completed on 8 May 2014. Environmental Assess- Ministry of Finance, Bosnia and Herzegovina ment Category B. Project: P144871. US$ 103.5 (IBRD). Consultants Public Administration, Law, and Justice will be required. Ministry of Health of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: (385-1) 459-1258, E-mail: Silvija.belaiec@mfim.hr, Contact: Silvija Bosnia and Herzegovina Management of Fiscal Resources Belajec, Head of the Sector for Growth:The objective is to strengthen the efficiency and trans- (R) Social System Modernization Project:The objective is to parency of the management of fiscal resources for boosting growth in support the Government: (a) rationalize and harmonize the current Bosnia and Herzegovina. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled system of cash benefits; (b) improve the administration of social for 8 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 assistance; and (c) support the de-institutionalization of children (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be without parental care and of the disabled. Decision Meeting sched- determined. uled for 2 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Transportation P145171. US$ 95.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (N) Floods Emergency Recovery (Cr. 55290-BA):The objec- tive is to meet critical needs and restore functionality of infrastructure Industry and Trade essential for public services and economic recovery in floods affected (R) Enterprise Finance:The objective is to establish a program- areas. Decision Meeting scheduled for 5 June 2014. Environmental matic vehicle for providing Croatian enterprises with finance and Assessment Category B. Project: P151157. US$ 100.0 (IDA Grant). technical assistance for their operations at appropriate stages of Consultants will be required. No consultants required for prepara- their development. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for tion. For implementation, consultants will be required for project 20 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ 40.0 management and for design and supervision of project activities. (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be FBiH Ministry of Finance, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: 387-33- determined. 203147, E-mail: infor@fmf.gov.ba, Contact: Ante Krajina, Minister. RS Ministry of Finance, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: 387-51-339768, Transportation E-mail: mf@mf.vladars.net, Contact: Zoran Tegeltija, Minister Railways Sector Improvement:The objective is to support the railway sector improvement through: (a) Sector restructuring; (b) Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection capacity building of the administration to oversee the sector; and (c) (R) Drina Flood Protection (Cr. 54440-BA): (formerly Ag- Select investment in infrastructure Decision Meeting scheduled for riculture, Fishing, and Forestry sector) The objective is to pro- 15 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: vide protection against 1-in-100 year flood events to agricultural, P147499. US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. residential and industrial interests in the municipalities of Bijeljina, Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure, Prisavlje Janja, Gorazde, Foca-Ustikolina and Pale-Praca. Bank Approval 14, Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: (385-) 616-9080, Fax: (385-1) 619-6477, scheduled for 16 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category E-mail: danijel.krakic@mmpi.hr, Contact: Danijel Krakic B. Project: P143844. US$ 24.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection required. Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Project Implementa- tion Unit in Forestry (FBiH PIU), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina EU Coastal Waters Compliance:The objectives are to: (a) im- Tel/Fax: (387-33) 726-550, E-mail: hazima.hadzovic@fmps.gov.ba, prove the quality of water on Croatia’s Adriatic coasts; and (b) fulfill Contact: Mr. Hazima Hadzovic, Assistant Minister. Republica Srpska the EU environmental requirements in a financially and operation- Agriculture PCU, Trg Republike, Srpske 1, Banja Luka Tel/Fax: (387- ally sustainable manner. Project Concept Review Meeting sched- 51) 338-368, E-mail: m.stevanovic@mps.vladars.net, Contact: Mr. uled for 17 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Mihajlo Stevanovic, Assistant Minister US$ 205.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Croatian Waters, Croatia Second Solid Waste Management Additional Financing: The objective is to improve the availability, quality, environmental Georgia soundness, and financial viability of solid waste management services in participating utilities/regions. First Grant Funding Request Ap- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry proval scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Irrigation and Land Market Development:The objective is to Category B. US$ 6.0 (F7U4). Consulting services to be determined. stimulate private sector investment in agriculture by investing in: (a) FBiH Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Marka Marulica 2, irrigation and drainage improvement; and (b) land market develop- 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-33) 726-374, Fax: ment. Bank Approval scheduled for 23 May 2014. Environmental (387-33) 726-747, E-mail: sswmp@fmoit.gov.ba, Contact: Mr. Anto Assessment Category B. Project: P133828. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Covic, Team Leader. RS Ministry of Spatial Planning, Trg Republike Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture, 6 Marshal Srpske 1, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-51) Gelovani Street, Tbilisi, 0159, Georgia, Tel: (995 32) 237-6689, Fax: 339-504, Fax: (387 51) 339-592, E-mail: s.cvijic@mgr.vladars.net, (995 32) 237-8013, E-mail: infomoa@moa.gov.ge, Contact: Mr. Ilia swmp2@mgr.vladars.net, Contact: Mr. Sveto Cvijic, Team Leader Kvitiashvili, Deputy Minister PAGE 52 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Education (995-32) 243-7001, Fax: (995-32) 243-7077, E-mail: ekhokrishvili@ (R) Competitiveness and Growth DPO3 (Ln. 83940-GE, mdf.org.ge, Contact: Mr. Elguja Khokrishvili, Executive Director Cr. 55110-GE, Cr. 55120-GE):The objective is to support the Third Regional Development:The objective is to improve infra- Government of Georgia’s medium-term reform program aimed at structure services and institutional capacity to support increased con- strengthening competitiveness and inclusive growth. Bank Approval tribution of tourism in the local economy of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti scheduled for 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. and Samtskhe-Javakheti Regions. Project Concept Review Meeting Project: P146890. US$ 70.0/22.8 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consultants scheduled for 4 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category will be required. Ministry of Finance, 16 Gorgasali Street, Tbilisi, B. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Georgia Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 226-1455, Fax: (995-32) 457-455, E-mail: Municipal Development Fund, 7b Yetim Gurjy St. Georgia, Tel: (995- d.lezhava@mof.ge, Contact: David Lezhava, Deputy Minister 32) 943240, Fax: (995-32) 940439, E-mail: mdf@mdf.org.ge Energy and Mining Kazakhstan (R) Transmission Grid Strengthening (Ln. 83770-GE):The Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry objective is to strengthen the national transmission system to enable (R) Second Irrigation and Drainage Improvement (Ln. evacuation of electricity from new hydropower generation stations 82770-KZ):The objectives are to: (a) improve irrigation, drainage and to enable regional and national electricity trade. Bank Approval systems, water management and environmental services; and (b) completed on 13 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. strengthen agricultural practices and farmers’ information services. Project: P147348. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. The loan was signed on 29 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Georgian State Electrosystem, 2, Baratashvili Street, Tbilisi 0105, Category B. Project: P086592. US$ 102.9 (IBRD). Consultants will Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 251-0202, Fax: (995-32) 298-3704, E-mail: be required. Ministry of Environmental Protection, 31 Pobedy Ave. sulkhan.zumburidze@gse.com.ge, Contact: Mr. Sulkhan Zumbu- Astana, Kazakhstan, Tel: (7-3172) 591-972, Fax: (7-3172) 591-973, E- ridze, Rehabilitation Manager mail: a_braliev@nature.kz, Contact: Alzhan Braliev, Vice-Minister Industry and Trade Education Private Sector Development and Diversification DPL1:The Youth Corps Program:The objective is to promote positive youth objective is to accelerate private sector development and economic development through service learning opportunities that serve the diversification in Georgia by: (a) strengthening competition in key community and foster constructive engagement between youth and product markets; (b) improving the protection of property rights; (c) society at large. Signing scheduled for 15 September 2014. Environ- expanding access to finance; and (d) strengthening firms’ capacity mental Assessment Category C. Project: P127966. US$ 21.8 (TF). to innovate and export. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education and for 16 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ Science of RK, Tel: (7-7172) 742-335, E-mail: m_kozhakhmet@ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to edu.gov.kz, Contact: Madiyar Kozhakhmet, Director of the Youth be determined. Policy Department Transportation Energy and Mining (R) Third Secondary and Local Roads:The objective is to im- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy:The objectives are prove local connectivity and travel time for selected secondary and to: (a) raise awareness about the energy efficiency potential in Ka- local roads, and to strengthen the local road network management zakhstan by designing and implementing some sustainable projects capacity in Georgia. Bank Approval scheduled for 3 July 2014. En- for demonstration and awareness of the EE/RE potential; and (b) vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148048. US$ 75.0 support capacity building of Kazakh counterparts in developing a (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Road Department of the Minis- sustainable EE/RE framework, design and implementation capac- try of Regional Development and Infrastructure, 12 Kazbegi Avenue, ity. First Grant Funding Request Approval scheduled for 22 May Georgia, Tel:, Fax: (995-32) 276-286, E-mail: info@georoad.ge, 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P130013. Contact: Mr. Irakli Litanishvili, Deputy Chairman US$ 21.8 (F7VP). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, 47 Kabanbai Batyr Avenue, Astana, East-West Highway Corridor Improvement:The objective is to Kazakhstan, Tel: (7-3272) 299-010, Fax: (7-3272) 290-853, E-mail: reduce transport costs along the East West highway corridor. Project ta.mukanov@mint.gov.kz. Contact: Mr. Talgat Mukanov, Head of Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 17 June 2014. Environmen- Energy Efficiency Department tal Assessment Category A. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Roads Department, 29a Gagarin Street, Tbilisi, Georgia, Industry and Trade Tel: (995-32) 381-633, Fax: (995-32) 313-052, E-mail: roaddepdal- (R) Fostering Productive Innovation Project:The objective akishvili@yahoo.com is to promote high-quality, nationally relevant research and com- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection mercialization of technologies. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 22 April 2014. Preparation is underway. Environ- (R) Second Regional and Municipal Infrastructure De- mental Assessment Category B. Project: P150402. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). velopment (Ln. 83800-GE):The objective is to improve the ef- Consultants will be required. STC services will be required to help ficiency, quality and reliability of municipal services, and build the the client in finalising the assessment of the innovation system and capacity of local governments to provide sustainable services. Bank presentation of findings at the workshop, as well as desgning the Approval scheduled for 3 July 2014. Environmental Assessment M&E framework. Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic Category B. Project: P147521. US$ 30.0/5.0 (IBRD/SWTZ). Con- of Kazakhstan, Dom Ministerstvo, Entrance 11, Astana, Kazakhstan, sultants will be required. Georgia Municipal Development Fund, Tel: (7-7172) 741-580, Fax: (7-7172) 742-175, E-mail: takir.balyk- Tbilisi, Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 243-7001, Fax: (995-32) 243-7077, bayev@edu.gov.kz, Contact: Takir Balykbayev E-mail: gsomkhishvili@mdf.org.ge, Contact: Mr. Elguja Khokrishvili, Competitiveness and Access to Finance:The objective is to help Executive Director increase economic competitiveness and diversification of the SME (R) Supporting Sustainable Wastewater Management:The sector in Kazakhstan. Decision Meeting scheduled for 8 September objectives are to: (a) promote sustainable wastewater management 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P147705. US$ in Georgia; and (b) pilot implementation of wastewater treatment 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to plants, aligned with World Bank safeguards policies and in harmoni- be determined. zation with the EU legislation. Appraisal scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145040. US$ 10.5 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (SGWM). Consulting services to be determined. Municipal Develop- (R) Hazardous and POPs Waste Management-GEF:The ob- ment Fund of Georgia, 150 David Agmashenebeli Ave. Georgia, Tel: jective is to create hazardous waste treatment capacity in compliance JUNE 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 53 with international environmental standards and to reduce contami- Kyrgyz Republic nation of Kazakhstan’s natural resources and public health risks of exposure to this contamination from selected PCB contaminated Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry sites. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 9 July 2014. (R) Agriculture Productivity and Nutrition Improvements: Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 10.4 (GEFU). Consult- The objective is to increase agricultural productivity and food se- ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. curity of rural households in selected areas nationwide. Decision (R) Second Elimination of POP Wastes:The objective is to Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assess- support the development of environmentally sound management of ment Category B. Project: P132754. US$ 38.0 (GAFS). Consulting persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with the country’s obligations services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources under the Stockholm Convention. Project Concept Review Meeting and Processing Industry (MAWRPI), 96A Kievskaya St. Bishkek, scheduled for 9 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996-312) 665-625, Fax: (996-312) 661-572, US$ 34.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry E-mail: morbekova@apiu.elcat.kg, Contact: Mr. Mirlan Baigoncho- of Environmental Protection, 31 Pobedy Ave. Astana, Kazakhstan, kov, Deputy Minister Tel: (7-3172) 591-972, Fax: (7-3172) 591-973, E-mail: a_braliev@ (R) Pasture and Livestock Management Improvement:The nature.kz objectives are to: (a) ensure fair access to pastures; (b) raise live- stock owners’ incomes; and (c) arrest long term pasture degradation, Kosovo which will contribute to improved food security, agricultural com- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry petitiveness, environmental sustainability and social stability. Bank Approval scheduled for 22 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Water Supply and Canal Protection:The objective is to im- Category B. Project: P145162. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants prove the reliability and quality of water supply to Central Kosovo, will be required. Ministry of Agriculture and Melioration of Kyrgyz home to the commercial and administrative center of the country, Republic, 96 Kievskaya Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic Tel/Fax: by undertaking the investment measures needed to secure uninter- (996-312) 664-648, E-mail: mtairov@apiu.elcat.kg, Contact: Mr rupted and good-quality water supply from the Iber-Lepenc Canal. Mairambek Tairov, Director Decision Meeting scheduled for 17 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133829. US$ 17.0 (IDA Credit). National Water Resources Management:The objectives are to Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Environment and improve: (a) the river basin water management capacity in Kyrgyz- Spatial Planning, Pristina, Kosovo, Tel: (381-38) 2003-2307, E-mail: stan; (b) irrigation system and on-farm level to increase water and arben.citaku@ks-gov.net, Contact: Mr. Arben Citaku food security; and (c) livelihoods and raise socio-economic indicators particularly in rural areas. First Grant Funding Request Approval Education scheduled for 14 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. (R) Education Improvement Project:The objectives are to: (a) Project: P144336. US$ 7.8 (F7U8). Consulting services to be deter- support improvements in the quality and efficiency of the education mined. Department of Water Resources, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, sector of pre-university education; (b) build on the achievements of Tel: (996-312) 541-174, E-mail: onfarmir@elcat.kg, Contact: Mr. a predecessor project, and based on Kosovo’s education strategy; Nurbek Sharshekeev, Project Director (c) improve allocation and efficiency of resources; and (d) provide Education quality assurance mechanisms. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 20 March 2014. Decision Meeting scheduled for 24 (R) Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 3:The objective November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: is to increase equitable access to pre-school education and establish P149005. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implement- conditions for improving its quality. Bank Approval completed on 2 ing agency(ies) to be determined. April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132490. US$ 12.7 (EFAS). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Energy and Mining Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, Tunustanova Street, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy:The objective is 257, Ap. 410, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996-312) 662-442, E- to assist the Government of Kosovo with the implementation of a mail: minedukg@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Sadykov Kanat, Minister low carbon growth strategy by contributing to increase: (a) energy of Education efficiency in public and residential buildings; and (b) investment in renewable energy projects. Bank Approval scheduled for 18 June Energy and Mining 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P143055. US$ Electricity Supply Accountability and Reliability Improve- 31.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Economic ment:The objective is to establish a transparent accountability Development, Nena Tereza Square, 10000 Pristina, Kosovo, Tel: framework for the power and financial flows in OJSC Severelectro, (381-38) 2002-1505, Fax: (381-38) 2002-1302, E-mail: agron.dida@ the distribution company serving capital city of Bishkek and a few ks-gov.net, Contact: Mr. Bedri Dragusha, Chief Executive Officer surrounding towns. Bank Approval scheduled for 15 July 2014. Envi- Lignite Power:The objective is to support a private sector indepen- ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133446. US$ 25.0/0.5 dent power producer and lignite mining company. Appraisal sched- (IDA Credit/F7VP). Consultants will be required. JSC Severelectro, uled for 15 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. 3 Chkalova Street, Lebedinovka Village, Alamudunski District, Kyr- Project: P118287. US$ 50.0/725.0/725.0 (GUID/ZBIL/ZEXP). No gyz Republic, Tel: (996-312) 631-685, E-mail: azamatm@mail.ru, consultants are required. Ministry of Economic Development, Nena Contact: Mr. Kubanychbek Turdubaev, General Director Tereza Square, 10000 Pristina, Kosovo, Tel: (381-38) 2002-1505, Public Administration, Law, and Justice Fax: (381-38) 2002-1302, E-mail: agron.dida@ks-gov.net, Contact: Mr. Besim Beqaj, Minister (R) Second Development Policy Operation (Cr. H9630-KG, Cr. 54780-KG): (formerly Industry and Trade sector) The objec- Health and Other Social Services tive is to support the Government to achieve a more transparent and (R) Health Project (Cr. 54420-XK):The objective is to support accountable use of public resources, and an improved environment the on-going health sector reforms in order to: (a) improve financial for doing business. Signing scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmen- protection from the burden of health expenses, particularly among tal Assessment Category U. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants the poor; (b) improve the quality of Maternal and Child Health are required. Ministry of Finance, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (MCH) services; and (c) improve access to MCH services among (312) 664036, E-mail: m.baigonchokov@minfin.kg, Contact: Mirlan disadvantaged groups. Bank Approval completed on 13 May 2014. Baigonchokov, Deputy Minister Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P147402. US$ 25.5 Third Village Investment:The objective is to finance small-scale (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Health Care Commission- physical community infrastructure and services investments jointly ing Agency, Kosovo, Tel: (381-38) 212-223, E-mail: Arsim.Qavdar- identified and subsequently implemented by local authorities and basha@rks-gov.net, Contact: Arsim Qavdarbasha, Director communities. Pre-appraisal scheduled for 17 October 2014. Envi- PAGE 54 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146970. US$ 12.0 (IDA Transportation Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Community Develop- (N) Second National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation: ment and Investment Agency (ARIS), Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: The objective is to improve transport efficiency and traffic safety on (996-312) 301-805, Fax: (996-312) 624-748, E-mail: office@aris.kg, a sections of Corridor VIII, and improve road management and road Contact: Mr Ismailov Kubanychbek Iskakovich, Executive Director safety in the country. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 18 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 80.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Energy and Mining (R) National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation:The objec- (R) Energy Efficiency Fund for Public Buildings:The objec- tive is to enhance the connectivity of selected national and regional tive is to develop and capitalize a revolving fund to finance energy roads, primarily to Corridors X and VIII, and to improve PESR’s ca- efficiency improvements in public buildlings. Project Concept Review pacity for road safety and climate resilience. Negotiations scheduled Meeting scheduled for 15 October 2014. Environmental Assess- for 14 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: ment Category B. US$ 13.7/6.9/13.7 (IBRD/ECSE/KFW). Consult- P148023. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. ing services to be determined. Ministry of Economy, Jurij Gagarin Public Enterprise for State Roads, ul. Dame Gruev 14, Skopje, Former 15, Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tel: (389-2) Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tel: (389-2) 3118-044, Fax: (389-2) 309-3489, Fax: (389-2) 309-3440, E-mail: neriman.dzeladini@ 3220-535, E-mail: a.stojanov@roads.org.mk, Contact: Aleksandar economy.gov.mk Stojanov, Deputy Director (R) Lukovo Pole Water Regulation and Renewable En- Moldova ergy:The objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the national and regional power systems. Decision Meeting scheduled Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry for 28 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: (N) Forest and Sustainable Land Management:The objective P112730. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. is to contribute to the improvement of forest management in state ELEM Macedonian Power Plants, 11 Oktomvri 9, 1000 Skopje, For- and local public authority owned forests, and establish and manage mer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tel: (389-23) 149-166, Fax: shelterbelts to reduce land degradation and improve agricultural (389-23) 149-176, E-mail: nevenka.jakimova.filipovska@elem.com. productivity. Identification scheduled for 29 August 2014. Environ- mk, Contact: Nevenka Jakimova Filipovska, Head of Development mental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Division services to be determined. Ministry of Environment, Moldova Industry and Trade Energy and Mining (R) District Heating Efficiency Improvement:The objective (R) Second Macedonia Competitiveness Development Pol- is to assist the newly merged district heating/CHP company to im- icy Loan (Ln. 83430-MK):The objectives are to: (a) strengthen prove the sustainability of its operations and financial viability by: the institutional and implementation capacity for FDI attraction (a) improving the efficiency of its operations; and (b) supporting the and export promotion; (b) introduce reforms that bring about bet- resolution of the historical debt stock. Pre-appraisal scheduled for 7 ter functional factor markets, especially markets for agricultural July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132443. land, labor and skills; and (c) introduce reforms that remove sector- US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Economy, specific constraints in key export-oriented sectors. Bank Approval Moldova, Tel: (373-22) 250-554, E-mail: vadim.ceban@mec.gov.md, completed on 13 March 2014. Signing scheduled for 30 June 2014. Contact: Mr Vadim Ceban, Director Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P130847. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Contact: Asuman Lukwago, (R) District Heating Efficiency Improvement Partial Credit Permanent Secretary Guarantee:The objective is to assist the newly merged district heat- ing/CHP company to improve the sustainability of its operations and (R) Third Programmatic Competitiveness DPL:The objective financial viability. Appraisal scheduled for 7 July 2014. Environmen- is to support the Government to strengthen the competitiveness of tal Assessment Category C. US$ 80.0/138.0 (GUAR/ZPCO). Consult- FYR Macedonia’s economy by incentivizing productive investment ing services to be determined. Ministry of Economy, Moldova, Tel: and technological upgrading in the manufacturing, agribusiness and (373-22) 250-554, E-mail: vadim.ceban@mec.gov.md trade logistics sectors, and establishing enabling conditions to pro- gressively increase labor market flexibility and innovation capacity. Health and Other Social Services Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 29 September 2014. Health Transformation Operation:The objectives are to: (a) Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 67.5 (IBRD). Consulting strengthen the health insurance program to reduce the financial services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. burden on the poor; (b) improve services, especially in the hospital sub-sector; (c) improve quality of care; (d) fight NCDs, especially the Public Administration, Law, and Justice primary and secondary prevention; and (e) improve human resources (N) Fiscal and Public Financial Management (PFM) De- for health. Bank Approval scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environmental velopment Policy Loan (DPL):The objective is to improve fiscal Assessment Category C. Project: P144892. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). sustainability and the efficiency of public spending by strengthen- Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, Moldova, Tel: (373- ing public financial management. Project Concept Review Meeting 2) 226-8885, E-mail: ausatiimd@gmail.com, Contact: Andrei Usatii, scheduled for 12 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Minister. National Health Insurance Company (CNAM), Moldova, egory U. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Tel: (373-2) 222-3166, E-mail: mbuga@cnam.md, Contact: Mircea Ministry of Finance, Dame Gruev 7, Skopje, Former Yugoslav Repub- Buga, Director General lic of Macedonia, Tel: (389-2) 310-6454, E-mail: suzana.stoimceva@ Industry and Trade finance.gov.mk (R) Second Competitiveness Enhancement Project (CEP) (R) Municipal Services IP (EU-IPA) Additional Financing: II (Ln. 84000-MD, Cr. 55090-MD):The objective is to sup- The objective is to improve transparency, financial sustainability port the Government to increase the competitiveness of enterprises and delivery of targeted municipal services in the participating mu- by: (a) improving the Regulatory Reform Strategy and competition nicipalities. First Grant Funding Request Approval scheduled for policy reforms; and (b) expanding access to financing. Negotiations 31 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.5 completed on 7 May 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 11 July (F7U4). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P144103. US$ Mito Hadzivasilev, 50, Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Mace- 30.0/15.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. PIU, donia, Tel: (389-75) 232-791, Fax: (389-2) 310-6779, E-mail: suzana. Ministry of Economy, Moldova, Tel: (373-22) 296-723, E-mail: piu@ stoimceva@finance.gov.mk mec.gov.md, Contact: Aureliu Casian, Executive Director. Credit JUNE 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 55 Line Directorate under Ministry of Finance, Moldova, Tel: (373-22) Health and Other Social Services 232-963, E-mail: raisa.cantemir@arax.md, Contact: Raisa Cantemir, (R) Second Montenegro Health Project:The objective is to Head of the Credit Line Directorate support the Government of Montenegro in enhancing the efficiency Public Administration, Law, and Justice of the health system through advanced management and planning, reform of financing in primary and secondary health care and im- (R) Disaster and Climate Risk Management Additional Fi- provement of quality of care. Project Concept Review Meeting sched- nancing:The objective is to strengthen the State Hydrometeorologi- uled for 30 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. cal Service’s ability to forecast severe weather and improve Moldova’s US$ 12.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters. Project to be determined. Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 2.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Public Administration, Law, and Justice and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Revenue Administration Reform:The objective is to sup- (R) Strengthening Public Financial Management (PFM) port the Government of Montenegro in reforming and modernizing and Tax Administration:The objective is to strengthen institu- their revenue administration institutions and processes. Project Con- tions and systems for public finance management and tax admin- cept Review Meeting scheduled for 21 July 2014. Environmental istration in Moldova. Project Concept Review Meeting completed Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and on 15 May 2014. Preparation scheduled for 15 September 2014. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P127734. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Fiscal and Debt Managament:The objective is to strengthen be determined. the institutional capacity of the government of Montenegro in order to enhance the efficiency of using fiscal resources and to improve Second Development Policy Operation:The objectives to: (a) the management of public debt. Project Concept Review Meeting improve the business climate; (b) promote financial sector stabil- scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. ity and development; and (c) improve the equity and efficiency of US$ 34.5 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) public expenditure. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for to be determined. 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection be determined. (R) Industrial Waste Management and Cleanup:The objec- Strengthening Public Sector Management:The objective tives are to: (a) reduce the risks to Montenegro’s natural resources is to support the implementation of the Government Strategy for and public health from selected industrial waste disposal sites; (b) Strengthening Public Sector Management with the focus on strength- develop infrastructure for the management of hazardous waste; ening capacity for policy coordination and enhancing public sec- and (c) strengthen institutional capacity to regulate both hazardous tor performance. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 15 and non-hazardous industrial waste management. Bank Approval December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Consulting scheduled for 29 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Project: P122139. US$ 68.9 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Transportation Government of Montenegro, IV Proleterske 19, Podgorica, 81000, Montenegro, Tel: (382-20) 618-250, Fax: (382-20) 618-246, E-mail: (N) Local Roads Improvement Project:The objectives are to: (a) danilo.kujovic@epa.org.me, epamontenegro@gmail.com, Contact: improve access to basic social services (education, health and access Mr. Danilo Kujovic, Spec. of Environmental Protection Advisor to markets); (b) increase road safety; (c) improve the management of routine maintenance on the selected local roads; and (d) enhance Poland the capacity of national and local authorities to manage the local road network. Identification scheduled for 20 June 2014. Environmental Health and Other Social Services Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Health Service Delivery Project:The objective is to support the and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Government of Poland in initiating the transformation of service Montenegro delivery to respond more effectively to the new demographic and epidemiological profile of the population. Identification scheduled Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry for 26 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Agriculture and Rural Development Institution Building: 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to The objective is to support the Government to: (a) gain experience be determined. in implementing rural development; and (b) strengthen the competi- Public Administration, Law, and Justice tiveness of agricultural production and processing (farms/processing companies) while building-up the capacity of operating structure (R) Resiliance and Growth Development Policy Loan (Ln. until its accreditation for conferral of management. First Grant Fund- 83840-PL):The objective, the first of two series, is to support the ing Request Approval scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Goverment to strengthen institutional resilience to promote economic Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (TF). Consulting services to be growth, which is key to fostering shared prosperity and particularly determined. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Rimski income growth for the bottom forty percent of the population. Nego- trg 46, Podgorica, Montenegro, Tel: (382-20) 482-109, Fax: (382- tiations completed on 11 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 1 20) 234-306, E-mail: velizar.vojinovic@mpr.gov.me, Contact: Mr. July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P146243. Velizar Vojinovic, Minister US$ 966.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance, ul. Swietokrzyska 12, Warszawa, Poland, Tel: (48-22) 694-5555, Finance Fax: (48-22) 694-4177, E-mail: tomasz.skurzewski@mofnet.gov.pl, Montenegro SEEC Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Contact: Michal Baj, Director APL3:The objective is to help increase access to financial protec- (R) Second Growth and Resilience DPL:The objective is to tion from losses caused by climate change and geological hazards to support the government of Poland’s goal of accelerating economic homeowners, farmers enterprise sector and government agencies. growth, while strengthening public finances. Project Concept Re- Negotiations scheduled for 1 December 2014. Environmental As- view Meeting scheduled for 14 November 2014. Environmental sessment Category C. Project: P127044. US$ 2.5 (IBRD). Consult- Assessment Category U. US$ 800.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be ing services to be determined. Europa RE, Weinbergstrasse 56/58, required. Ministry of Finance, ul. Swietokrzyska 12, Warszawa, Po- Zurich, Switzerland, Tel: (41-44) 380-5090, Fax: (41-44) 380-5091, land, Tel: (48-22) 694-5555, Fax: (48-22) 694-4177, E-mail: tomasz. E-mail: heinz.vollenweider@europa-re.com, Contact: Mr. Heinz skurzewski@mofnet.gov.pl, Contact: Tomasz Skurzewski, Director, Vollenweider, Chairman of the Board International Finance PAGE 56 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Health and Other Social Services (R) Vistula Basin Flood Protection:The objective is to finance Health Sector Reform:The objective is to improve the access, technical assistance and works to develop and build flood protection quality and efficiency of public health services. Bank Approval com- measures for selected urban areas and sub-catchments in the Vistula pleted on 28 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. river basin. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 16 July Project: P145174. US$ 338.8 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0/100.0/ Ministry of Health, 1-3 Cristian Popisteanu, Bucharest, Romania, Tel: 300.0/300.0/50.0 (IBRD/ECEU/ECSD/EUIB/POLF). Consulting (4-021) 307-2641, Fax: (4-021) 307-2587, E-mail: francisc.czobor@ services to be determined. Ministry of Environment, Wawelska Str. ms.ro, Contact: Nicolae Banicioiu, Minister of Health 52/54, Warsaw, Poland, Tel: (48-22) 579-2205, Fax: (48-22) 579- Public Administration, Law, and Justice 2347, Contact: Beata Jaczewska (R) First Public Sector Effectiveness and Growth Develop- Regional ment Policy Loan (Ln. 83820-RO):The objective is to enhance the country’s growth potential by increasing the effectiveness of Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry public sector interventions and enhancing the efficiency of property, (R) Regional Animal Disease Control:The objective is to help capital and energy markets. Bank Approval scheduled for 22 May three Central Asian countries (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbeki- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P148957. stan) access to regional livestock and dairy markets which are fre- US$ 1034.8 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Public quently closed to central Asian countries because of their failure to Finance, 17 Apolodor Street, Sector 5, Bucharest, Romania, Tel: (40- meet sanitary standards. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled 21) 319-9854, Fax: (40-21) 319-6792, E-mail: boni.cucu@mfinante. for 10 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 gov.ro, Contact: Boni Florinela Cucu, General Director (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to (R) Second Fiscal Effectiveness and Growth DPL:The objec- be determined. tive is to support the Government to improve its fiscal effectiveness and enhance the functioning of property, energy and capital markets. Transportation Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Central Asia Road Links:The objectives are to: (a) rehabilitate Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 700.0 (IBRD). Consult- priority road sections in Sugd Oblast (along the Osh-Khujand road ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. corridor); and (b) improve road operations and maintenance prac- tices along the core road network. Decision Meeting scheduled for Russian Federation 15 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 45.0 (IDA Education Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Transport, (R) Innovative Development of Preschool Education of Tel: (992-37) 221-1713 Sakha (Yakutia):The objective is to improve the access and quality Second National Road Rehabilitation (Osh-Batken-Isfana): of the early childhood care and education services in the Republic The objective is to scale-up the on-going National Road Rehabilita- of Sakha (Yakutia). Negotiations scheduled for 30 July 2014. En- tion Project implemented activities of the road rehabilitation works vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P127405. US$ 117.7 along the corridor and provide for sector planning and programming (IBRD). Consultants will be required for an architect’s assistant, for road maintenance activities. Bank Approval completed on 22 permafrost engineer, ECD specialists’ assistant with background in April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132270. Russia and CIS. Ministry of Education of Sakha (Yakutia), 30 Lenina US$ 45.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Avenue, Yakutsk city, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-4112) 422-921, Transport and Communication, 6/F 42 Isanova Street, Kyrgyz Re- Fax: (7-4112) 424-929, E-mail: nsitni@yandex.ru, Contact: Natalia public, Tel: (996-312) 900-970/893, Fax: (996-312) 314-378, E-mail: Sitnikova, Head of General Education Department bishkekoshroad@infotel.kg, Contact: K. Mamaev, State Secretary (R) Vocational Education System Development:The objective Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection is to support the modernization of Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems in selected Russian regions to foster their links with (R) Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina Nutrient Reduction: national and regional socio-economic development strategies and The objective is to reduce transboundary pollution in selected hot- to pilot innovative ways of engaging the private sector to enhance spots of the Eastern Adriatic Sea and improve regional capacity for the labor market relevance of VET systems. Appraisal scheduled project preparation and environmental monitoring of sensitive areas. for 16 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Bank Approval scheduled for 11 June 2014. Environmental Assess- P144167. US$ 330.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing ment Category B. Project: P143921. US$ 6.8 (GEFU). Consultants agency(ies) to be determined. will be required. MOE and Natural Resources, Ksaver 208, Zagreb, Tel: (385-01) 539-1923, Fax: (385-01) 539-1950, E-mail: predrag. Energy and Mining culjak@fzoeu.hr, Contact: Mr. Predrag Culjak, Senior Expert Adviser. Energy Efficiency:The objective is to support the Government in MFTER MUN. MOSTAR, Musala 9, 71000, Sarajevo, Tel: (387-33) reducing the energy intensity of the economy by 40%, by the year 953-536, Fax: (387-33) 206-141, E-mail: senad.oprasic@mvteo.gov. 2020. Negotiations scheduled for 15 September 2014. Environmen- ba, Contact: Mr. Senad Oprasic, Head of Department tal Assessment Category F. Project: P122492. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). West Balkans Drina River Basin Management:The objective Consulting services to be determined. Gazprombank and Ministry of is to enhance more sustainable management of the Drina River ba- Energy, Russian Energy Agency, Nikitskiy per. 5, Moscow, Russian sin, balancing interests in hydropower, environmental development Federation, Tel: (7-495) 789-9292, E-mail: Ivanov@rosenergo.gov. and conservation, agriculture, and flood protection. Pre-appraisal ru, Contact: Ms. Tatiana Yurlova, First Vice President scheduled for 9 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Energy Efficiency-GEF:The objective is to support the institu- egory B. Project: P145048. US$ 5.0 (GEFU). Consulting services and tional, regulatory and market barriers facing commercial financing of implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Energy Efficiency projects across Russia. Negotiations scheduled for 15 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Romania P123692. US$ 22.7 (GEFU). Consulting services to be determined. Gazprombank and Ministry of Energy, Russian Energy Agency, Ni- Education kitskiy per. 5, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) 789-9292, (R) Education Quality and Inclusion Project:The objective E-mail: Ivanov@rosenergo.gov.ru, Contact: Ms. Tatiana Yurlova, is to increase the quality and ensure inclusion within the education First Vice President sector in Romania. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 3 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 275.3 Finance (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Microfinance:The objective is to assist the Government to develop determined. a sustainable, safe and sound national financial cooperative, and mi- JUNE 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 57 crofinance system that will enhance access to financial services by the 626-1088, E-mail: asaulna@mintrans.ru, Contact: Mr. Nikolay A. poorer and underserved segments of the population, especially in the Asaul, Deputy Minister rural areas. This project is on hold until further notice. Environmen- (R) National Urban Transport Improvement:The objectives tal Assessment Category C. Project: P095554. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). No are to: (a) improve the quality and condition of urban transport; and consultants are required. Ministry of Finance, Iljinka street, 9, Mos- (b) reduce adverse environmental impacts of transport in selected cow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) 648-3541, E-mail: p0530_ka@ Russian cities. Negotiations scheduled for 21 July 2014. Environ- minfin.ru, Contact: Alexey Savatyugin, Deputy Minister mental Assessment Category B. Project: P145582. US$ 9.1 (GEFU). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Transport, 1/1, Health and Other Social Services Rozhdestvenka Street, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) (R) Social Inclusion through Sports:The objectives are to: 626-1088, E-mail: asaulna@mintrans.ru, Contact: Mr. Nikolay A. (a) develop an integrated system to provide conditions for regular Asaul, Deputy Minister physical training and sports activities for socially disadvantaged (R) Russian Development Bank (VEB) Infrastructure:The groups; and (b) create pilot test for the municipalities of the Rus- objective is to enable VEB to provide long-term infrastructure financ- sian Federation with a view to further replication throughout the ing while also increasing its capacity to identify, appraise, and super- Russian Federation. Bank Approval scheduled for 24 November vise investment projects. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P126283. for 15 January 2015. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Sports, 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Vnesheconom- Tourism and Youth Policy, Kazakova Street, 18, 105064, Moscow, bank (Russian Development Bank), 9 Akademik Sakharov Avenue, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) 601-9440, Fax: (7-495) 604-6209, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-903)798-0107, Fax: (7-495) E-mail: varaksin@minstm.gov.ru, Contact: Mr. Pavel Varaksin, Lead 975-2069, E-mail: Pavlov_AV@veb.ru, Contact: Mr. Alexander Pav- Expert lov, Deputy Director Industry and Trade Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (R) St. Petersburg Economic Development Additional Fi- (R) Arctic Environment:The objective is to strengthen Russia’s nancing:The objective is to support the reconstruction of the State environmental management systems to deal with growing envi- Mariinsky Theater and two inner courtyards of the Mikhailovsky ronmental concerns in the Arctic Zone caused by climate change Palace of the State Russian Museum. Negotiations scheduled for 15 and increasing human activities. Decision Meeting scheduled for July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146463. 17 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Min- 5.5 (GEFU). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to istry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Maly Gnezdnikovsky be determined. Pereulok, 7/6, Street 1-2, Moscow, Russian Federation Tel/Fax: (7-495) 623-8444, E-mail: novikov@mkrf.ru, Contact: Mr. Artem (R) Arctic Program:The objective is to improve Russia’s envi- Novikov, Deputy Director ronmental management systems to deal with growing pollution and environmental risks in the Arctic Zone caused by climate change Special Economic Zones Enhancement Project:The objective and increasing human activities. Preparation scheduled for 1 July is to promote economic diversification away from the Oil and Gas 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). sector through increased non-oil investment, technology transfer and Consultants will be required. Ministry of Economic Development, innovation, productivity and employment. Decision Meeting sched- Tel: (7-495) 694-0353, E-mail: mineconom@economy.gov.ru uled for 22 August 2014. Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147011. US$ 132.0 (IBRD). Con- Serbia sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Second Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation:The ob- (R) Integrated Environmental Monitoring:The objective is to jective is to rehabilitate and modernize the irrigation and drainage improve institutional efficiency of state environmental monitoring infrastructure in priority areas and improve the overall institutional authorities and support investments to fill in main gaps of the existing capacity for water resources management. Preparation scheduled environmental monitoring infrastructure. Bank Approval scheduled for 14 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 for 25 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Project: P143159. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. determined. Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-499) 254-1560, Fax: (7-499) 943-0018, E-mail: Vatletsov@mnr. Education gov.ru, Contact: Semyon Romanovich Levi, Deputy Minister Technology Transfer Project:The objective is to enhance elements Russian Federation Historic Towns:The objective is to support of the national innovation system to facilitate commercialization of cultural heritage restoration and tourism development in selected public sector R&D and facilitate Serbia’s competitive positioning small historic towns. It is expected that these efforts will, in the in the European research community. Preparation is underway. medium-term, contribute to increased tourism and, therefore, to the Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 3.5 (F7PF). Consulting economic development of the selected historic towns and settlements. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Pre-appraisal scheduled for 26 September 2014. Environmental As- sessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Energy and Mining determined. Ministry of Culture, Maliy Gnezdnikovsky proezd, bld. Energy Efficiency:The objective is to scale-up energy efficiency 7/6, Stroenie 1,2, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) 629- improvements in public buildings in order to make heating more af- 2008, Fax: (7-495) 629-7269, E-mail: tsvetnov@mkrf.ru fordable as well as to improve the functional and health environment of the users. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 15 July Transportation 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Consulting services (R) National Urban Transport Improvement:The objectives and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. are to: (a) improve the quality and condition of urban transport; and (b) reduce adverse environmental impacts of transport in selected Finance Russian cities through: (i) physical investments, (ii) operational and (R) Non-Private Enterprise Restructuring Development technological improvements, (iii) legal reforms, and (iv) institutional Policy Loan:The objective is to enhance the contribution of the pub- development. Negotiations scheduled for 21 July 2014. Environ- lic enterprise sector to the competitiveness of the Serbian economy. mental Assessment Category B. Project: P133201. US$ 117.5 (IBRD). Appraisal scheduled for 8 September 2014. Environmental Assess- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Transport, 1/1, ment Category U. Project: P127408. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consulting Rozhdestvenka Street, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. PAGE 58 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Deposit Insurance:The objective is to support the recapitalizing 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) and reforming the Deposit Insurance Agency of Serbia (DIA), which to be determined. is critical to mobilizing savings for higher productive investements and increasing productivity. Bank Approval completed on 25 Febru- Energy and Mining ary 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P146248. (N) Winter Energy:The objective is to mitigate the impact of US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Deposit Insurance winter energy shortages on inhabitants of select urban and rural Agency (DIA), Belgrade, Serbia, Tel: (381-11) 207-5100, E-mail: settlements of Tajikistan by supporting development and imple- zoran.obradovic@aod.rs, Contact: Zoran Obradovic, Director mentation of heat supply options for and energy efficiency demand Finance and Private Results Based Investment Project side measures in housing stock and public buildings. Project Concept Financing (IPF):The objective is to strengthen the banking sec- Review Meeting scheduled for 20 November 2014. Environmental tor, improve access to finance and improve export competitiveness. Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 15 July 2014. Envi- to be determined. Project Implementation Unit, Tajikistan ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 125.0 (IBRD). Consulting Industry and Trade services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Agricultural Competitiveness (Cr. H9640-TJ): (for- Health and Other Social Services merly Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry sector) The objective is Second Health:The objective is to support the government in to increase the productivity, profitability and market access of the enhancing the efficiency of the Serbian health system through im- Oklaton Oblast farmers. Bank Approval scheduled for 10 June 2014. proved planning and management, enhanced financial incentives Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132652. US$ 22.0 and greater transparency and accountability. Bank Approval com- (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Project implementation pleted on 25 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Unit, Tajikistan, Tel: (992-37) 221-1417, E-mail: Min_fin@tqjikiston. B. Project: P129539. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. com, Contact: Ms. Nailya Menlasheva, PIU Director Ministry of Health, Nemanjina 22-26, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, Tel: Public Administration, Law, and Justice (381-11) 361-4890, Fax: (381-11) 265-6548, E-mail: ep@zdravlje. (R) Second Public Finance Management Modernization gov.rs, Contact: Elizabet Paunovic, State Secretary Project APL: (formerly under Regional) The objectives are a con- Industry and Trade tinuation to: (a) address the capacity weaknesses; (b) support stream- lining procedures on budget preparation and execution; (c) improve Second Public Enterprise Restructuring Development transparency and communications; and (d) support incremental Policy Loan:The objective is a continuation to provide the institu- automation of financial operations in the Ministry of Finance. Project tional framework and first actions to complete Serbia’s transition to Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmental fully functioning market economy. Project Concept Review Meeting Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services scheduled for 2 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. egory U. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Communal Services Development Fund:The objective is to help establish a sustainable financing mechanism to improve com- Public Administration, Law, and Justice munal services in Tajikistan such as water supply and sanitation. (R) Real Estate Management:The objective is to support the Pre-appraisal scheduled for 10 November 2014. Environmental As- government in improving the efficiency, transparency and reliability sessment Category F. US$ 30.0/15.0 (IDA Credit/EBRD). Consult- of the real estate management system. Decision Meeting scheduled ing services to be determined. Khochagii Manziliu Komunali, 56 for 14 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: N Karabaev Street, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tel: (992-372) 217-798, P147050. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. E-mail: khmk@tojikiston.com Republic Geodetic Authority, Bulevar Vojvode Misica 39, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia, Tel: (381-11) 265-2408, Fax: (381-11) 265-2222, Turkey E-mail: dpavlovic@rgz.gov.rs, Contact: Mr Dragan Pavlovic, Project Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Manager (R) Basin Management:The objective is to support the implemen- Public Expenditure Development Policy Loan:The objective is tation of the NBMS and the new water sector reforms. Decision Meet- to support the Government’s reforms to improve public expenditures ing scheduled for 2 September 2014. Environmental Assessment management and policy at the central and local government levels. Category B. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 31 July 2014. Envi- Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) ronmental Assessment Category U. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting 207-5696, E-mail: havci@cob.gov.tr, Contact: Mr. Hanifi Avci services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Energy and Mining Tajikistan (R) EU/IPA Energy Sector Technical Assistance:The objec- tive is to support and accelerate the implementation of the Govern- Education ment of Turkey’s strategy to reform Turkey’s energy sector in line (R) Higher Education Project:The objective is to support the with the EU energy strategies and priorities. First Grant Funding government in enhancing the efficiency, equity, quality and relevance Request Approval scheduled for 30 May 2014. Environmental As- of higher education in Tajikistan. Project Concept Note completed sessment Category B. Project: P131921. US$ 14.3 (F7SD). Consulting on 6 March 2014. Decision Meeting scheduled for 15 December services to be determined. Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 7.5/7.5 (IDA (MENR), Inonu Bulvari 27, Bahcelievler, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90- Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Implementing 312) 213-1124, E-mail: mbecerikli@enerji.gov.tr, Contact: Mr. Ali agency(ies) to be determined. Murat Becerikli, Department Head (R) Second Development Policy Operation:The objective is (R) Gas Sector Development Additional Financing:The to assist the Government to maintain high growth within a sustain- objective is to increase the reliability and stability of gas supply able macroeconomic framework. Project Concept Review Meeting in Turkey by: (a) implementing critically needed gas storage and scheduled for 17 March 2016. Environmental Assessment Category network infrastructure; and (b) support BOTA_ in developing a U. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing gas trading platform and strengthening its operations as a finan- agency(ies) to be determined. cially stable and commercially managed corporation. Bank Approval First Development Policy Operation:The objective is to assist scheduled for 2 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. the Government to maintain high growth within a sustainable mac- Project: P133565. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. roeconomic framework. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled BOTAS Turkish Pipeline Company, Bilkent Plaza A, II Blok, Bilkent, for 13 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 06800 ANKARA, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 297-2018, Fax: (90-312) JUNE 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 59 266-0733, E-mail: mgazi.dulger@botas.gov.tr, Contact: Mr. Mehmet participation in the PMR platform that enables policy makers to Gazi Dulger, Project Director share experiences and information regarding elements of market (R) Renewable Energy Integration (Ln. 83710-TR):The ob- readiness; and (d) share lessons learned. Preparation is underway. jective is to strengthen and expand the transmission system to meet Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.4 (PMR). Consulting the increasing demand of electricity and to facilitate the integra- services to be determined. State Environmental Investment Agency, tion of large-scale renewable energy generation. Bank Approval 35 Urytskogo St. Kyiv, Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 594-9111, Fax: (380- completed on 9 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. 44) 594-9115, E-mail: info.neia@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. Koval Project: P144534. US$ 300.0/50.0 (IBRD/CCTF). Consultants will Mikhail Ivanovich, Head of International Relations Department be required. Turkish Electicity Transmission Corporation (TEIAS), Inonu Bulvarı No.27 Bahcelievler, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) Finance 222-9283, Fax: (90-312) 222-8160, E-mail: kemal.yildir@teias.gov. Programmatic Financial Sector DPL 1:The objective is to sup- tr, Contact: Mr. Kemal Yildir, General Manager port the Ukrainian authorities in restoring stability in the banking sector, making the system more resilient to future shocks, and creat- Finance ing conditions for resumed financial intermediation on a sustainable (R) Financial Intermediation:The objective is to support of and affordable basis. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled support export-driven growth and strengthen the analytical basis for 19 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: related to trade finance instruments. Appraisal completed on 28 P150677. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required.. April 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 11 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P147183. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Con- Health and Other Social Services sultants will be required.. (R) Oblast Health Sector Reform Project:The objectives are Long Term Finance Guarantee:The objective is to enhance improve health services’ quality and efficiency by: (a) scaling-up pre- access to medium and long term finance for exporters and small vention and control of Non Communicable Diseases; (b) right-sizing and medium enterprises. Preparation is underway. Environmental and restructuring hospitals and secondary ambulatory services; and Assessment Category F. US$ 300.0 (GUAR). Consulting services and (c) improve the governance structure, towards greater autonomy and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. accountability for results. Appraisal scheduled for 15 July 2014. En- Health and Other Social Services vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting (R) Sustaining Shared Growth Development Policy Loan: services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (formerly Shared Prosperity Development Policy Loan) (R) Second Social Assistance Modernization:The objective The objectives are to: (a) improve the business climate and is to improve the efficiency and equity of Ukraine’s social safety net enhancing transparency; (b) boost labor force participa- through a fiscally sustainable expansion and strengthening of the well tion and widening access to finance; and (c) deepen the targeted programs and down scaling those that have the low targeting Turkey’s infrastructure reforms. Negotiations scheduled accuracy. Negotiations scheduled for 23 May 2014. Environmental for 18 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ Assessment Category B. Project: P128344. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Con- 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Undersecretariat of sultants will be required. Ministry of Social Policy, 8/10 Esplanade Treasury, Inonu Bulvari, Eskisehir Yolu, Emek, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) Blvd. Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 289-5448, Fax: (380-44) 289-0098, 204-6000, Fax: (90-312) 212-8550, E-mail: hazine@hazine.gov.tr, Contact: Vyacheslav Kolomiets, Deputy Minister Contact: Gokben Yener, Undersecretary Public Administration, Law, and Justice Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (R) Development Policy Loan 1 (Ln. 83920-UA):The objective Sustainable Cities:The objective is to shift municipal planning is to support the Unkrainian authorities in implementing a reform visions several years into the future for cities that are striving to program to: (a) promote good governance, transparency and ac- be sustainable. It encourages cities to avoid the “lock-in” effect of countability in the public sector; (b) strengthen the regulatory frame- unplanned development and investments that will have high energy work and reduce costs of doing business; and (c) reform inefficient and green house gas emission costs over time. Preparation is under- and inequitable utility subsidies while protecting the poor. Signing way. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). scheduled for 26 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Consulting services to be determined. Iller Bank, Yeni Ziraat Mahali, U. US$ 750.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of 14 Sokak, Diskapi, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 384-6126, Fax: Economic Development and Trade, 12/2 Grushevskogo Str. Kyiv, (90-312) 341-2071, E-mail: h.atasoy@ilbank.gov.tr Ukraine, Tel: (380-442) 262-315, Fax: (380-445) 289-014, E-mail: Ukraine tren@me.gov.ua, Contact: Anatoliy Maksuita, Deputy Minister Energy and Mining Transportation (R) District Heating Energy Efficiency (Ln. 83870-UA):The (R) Road Sector Development:The objective is to extend the objective is to improve energy efficiency of selected Ukrainian district upgrade of the M-03 road from Poltava to Kharkiv with four standard heating utilities and increase their quality of service. Bank Approval lanes to include bypasses and bridges. Pre-appraisal scheduled for 1 scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 800.0 Project: P132741. US$ 332.0/50.0 (IBRD/CCTF). Consultants will be (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. UKRAVTODOR, Kiev, required. Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 287-2449, Fax: (380-44) 278-2449, E-mail: and Utilities, 73, Artema Str. Floors 11-12, Kyiv, Ukraine Tel/Fax: forec@ukravtodor.goc.ua (380-50) 310-5212, E-mail: minregion@minregion.gov.ua, Contact: Mr. Oleksandr Alipov, Firat Deputy Minister Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (R) Second Power Transmission:The objective is to support the (R) Second Urban Infrastructure (Ln. 83910-UA):The objec- implementation policy to assure security and reliability of power sup- tives are to support: (a) municipal investments in water and sewerage ply in Ukraine. Negotiations scheduled for 18 August 2014. Environ- in selected municipalities in Ukraine; (b) pilot solid waste investment mental Assessment Category B. Project: P146788. US$ 306.5/48.5 project; and (c) increase energy efficiency of utilities’ operations. (IBRD/CCTF). Consulting services to be determined. Ukrenergo, Bank Approval scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environmental Assess- Kominternu str, 25, Kyiv, 0103, Ukraine, Tel: (380-44)238-301, ment Category B. Project: P132386. US$ 300.0/50.0 (IBRD/CCTF). Fax: 380-44)249-1928, E-mail: kanc@nec.energy.gov.ua, Contact: Consultants will be required. Ministry of Construction, Architecture Mr Konstantin Ushchapovskiy, Director and Housing and Communal Services, Grushevskovo 12/2, Kiev, Partnership for Market Readiness:The objectives are to: (a) Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 293-6307, Fax: (380-44) 234-9718, E-mail: support building the market readiness components; (b) pilot, test and minregion@minregion.gov.ua, Contact: Mr. Oleksandr Alipov, Firat sequence new concepts for market instruments; (c) support Ukraine’s Deputy Minister PAGE 60 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Uzbekistan Assessment Category B. Project: P133187. US$ 93.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Ministry of Health, 12 Navoi Street, Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) 239-4808, E-mail: office@jpib. (R) Karshi Pumping Cascade Rehabilitation:The objective uz, Contact: Djamshed Djabriyev, Executive Director is is to increase the reliability, efficiency and sustainability of the pumped water supply from the Amu Darya to the Karshi irrigation Industry and Trade command area in the Kashkadarya Oblast. Project Concept Review (R) Horticulture Development Pilot (Ln. 83930-UZ):The Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assess- objective is to realize the potential for greater economic returns ment Category B. Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) from the fruit and vegetable value chain through improving: (a) to be determined. policy enabling environment; (b) access to credit; (c) post harvest (R) South Karakalpakstan Water Resources Improvement handling and processing; (d) research and outreach; and (e) qual- (Ln. 83890-UZ, Cr. 54900-UZ):The objective is to improve water ity and food safety to penetrate new, higher value markets. Bank management by: (a) rehabilitating and developing irrigation infra- Approval scheduled for 12 June 2014. Environmental Assessment structure; (b) introducing more rational water management; and (c) Category B. Project: P133703. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will enhancing the capacity of irrigation and drainage institutions. Bank be required. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, 4 Navoy Approval scheduled for 12 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Street, Tashkent 700004, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) 141-2692, Fax: Category B. Project: P127764. US$ 18.3/242.5 (IBRD/IDA Credit). (998-71) 141-2574, E-mail: info@agro.uz, Contact: Mr Shukhrat Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Teshaev, Minister Resources, 4, Navoiy Street, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) Transportation 241-0042, Fax: (998-71) 244-2397, E-mail: piu-diwip@buzton.com, Contact: B. A. Yusupov, PIU Director (R) Pap-Angren Railway:The objective is to support the construc- Fergana Valley Water Resources Management (WRM)_ tion of a new single track railway line between Pap and Angreen to Phase II:The objective is to improve water management and enhance the economic importance of the Ferghana valley and its agricultural production in the Fergana Valley. Project Concept Re- connectivity with other main economic development areas within view Meeting scheduled for 1 July 2014. Environmental Assess- Uzbekistan and other potential regions of economic importance ment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to outside Uzbekistan. Decision Meeting scheduled for 24 July 2014. be determined. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, 4 Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P146328. US$ 195.0 Navoy Street, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-711) 412-92, Fax: (998-711) (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Uzbekistan Temir 412-574/413-292 Yo’allari, 7, Shevchenko Street, Tashkent, 700060, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) 237-9028, E-mail: ferd@uzrailway.uz, Contact: Achilbay Education Ramatov, Chair (R) Early Childhood Education:The objectives are to: (a) to Regional Roads and Development:The objective is to support increase access to higher education services; (b) enhance the quality the Government to enhance the efficiency of the administration and and relevance of higher education; and (c) strengthen the institu- service to road users and the local communities. Decision Meeting tional capacity of Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Educa- scheduled for 9 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- tion Counterparts. Decision Meeting scheduled for 23 July 2015. egory B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). Republican Road Fund, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) 239-1112, E-mail: Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Public Education, Graf.shavkat@gmail.com 5 Mustaqillik Maydoni Street, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) 239-1310, Fax: (998-71) 239-1934, E-mail: info@uzedu.uz Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Education Support Project:The objectives are to: (a) improve (R) Water Supply and Sanitation Adjustable Program access to quality preschool education; and (b) enhance conditions Loan:The objective is to support the Government’s urban and rural for better learning outcomes in general secondary education. Bank WSS infrastructure projects and sector strategy infrastructure, while Approval scheduled for 2 September 2014. Environmental Assess- supporting sector policy-making and planning, capacity building and ment Category C. Project: P144856. US$ 49.9 (EFAS). Consulting institutional reform. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 15 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Uzkommunhiz- Energy and Mining mat, 45a Uzbekistanskaya Av. Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-7165) District Heating Rehabilitation and Energy Efficiency:The 224-3833, E-mail: ukh@uzkommunhizmat.uz, Contact: Mr. Uktur objectives are to support: (a) the reconstruction of heat production Khalmuhamedov, General Director facilities; (b) networks; and (c) in-house heating systemsin Andijan and Chirchik. Decision Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0/137.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Economy, Uzbekistan Electricity Distribution Rehabilitation:The objective is to Middle East rehabilitate electricity distribution substation systems in selected areas of Uzbekistan to improve their efficiency and reduce losses. and North Africa Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 18 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Con- Algeria sulting services to be determined. UzbekEnergo, 6, Khorezm Street, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) 233-9821/9889, Fax: (998-71) Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry 236-2700, E-mail: sjsc@uzpak.uz, Contact: Mr. Batirjan Teshabaev, Improving Desert Ecosystems for Livelihoods (ALG-DELP): Chairman The objective is to improve livelihoods of oasis communities through: (a) piloting a combined approach of desert ecosystem conservation; Health and Other Social Services (b) agricultural development; and (c) adaptation to climate change Health System Improvement Project Additional Financing: impacts at a network of intervention sites. Bank Approval scheduled The objectives are to: (a) help finance the costs associated with the for 27 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: scaling-up of activities initiated under the original credit; and (b) fully P128082. US$ 7.4 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministere cover the seven remaining regions in the country which could not be de l Amenagement du Territoire et de l Environment, Avenue des 4 included in the original project due to insufficient IDA allocation in Canons, Algiers, Algeria Tel/Fax: (213) 432-804, E-mail: cadastre- 2010. Bank Approval completed on 7 March 2013. Environmental 2002@hotmail.com, Contact: Nadia Chenouf, Deputy Director JUNE 2014 Middle East and North Africa Region PAGE 61 Energy and Mining Health and Other Social Services Energy Efficiency Program:The objective is to support targeted (R) Emergency Employment Investment Project:The ob- transformation of the household appliances market in Algeria. The jectives are to: (a) create short-term employment opportunities for increase of the use of efficient household appliances such as air the unemployed in selected locations in Egypt; (b) contribute to the conditioners would result in peak load reduction, energy savings and creation and maintenance of infrastructure and community assets GHG emission reductions. Preparation is underway. Environmental and services; and (c) improve access of the target population in poor Assessment Category C. Project: P145298. US$ 3.6 (GEFU). Consult- areas to basic infrastructure and community services. Bank Approval ing services to be determined. National Agency for the Promotion of scheduled for 6 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Energy Efficiency (APRUE), Algeria, Tel: (213-21) 603-137, E-mail: Project: P146143. US$ 93.3 (MNAF). Consultants will be required. msbouzeriba@aprue.org.dz, Contact: Mohamed Salah Bouzeriba, The Social Fund for Development, Giza, Arab Republic of Egypt, Tel: Director General (20-02) 3762-2255, E-mail: hanaa_elhilaly@sfdegypt.org, Contact: Ms. Hanaa El Hilaly, Acting Managing Director Djibouti (R) Hospital Reform Project:The objective is to assist the bor- Health and Other Social Services rower in expanding access of the poor and those working in the informal sector to a benefit package of essential and emergency (R) Social Safety Net Project Additional Financing:The ob- health services. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 30 jectives are to: (a) support the provision of short-term employment September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 200.0 opportunities in community-based labor-intensive works for the poor (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be and vulnerable; and (b) support the improvement of nutrition prac- determined. tices among participating households focusing on pre-school children Emergency Cash Transfer Project:The objective is to provide and pregnant/lactating women. Decision Meeting completed on 14 targeted cash transfers to the poor to alleviate current economic diffi- May 2014. Appraisal scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environmental culties and mitigate the adverse impacts of ongoing and planned eco- Assessment Category B. Project: P149621. US$ 5.0 (IDA Credit). nomic reform programs. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled Consultants will be required.. for 15 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ Industry and Trade 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Governance for Private Sector Development Project (Cr. 55180-DJ): The objective is to help improve selected aspects Industry and Trade of Djibouti’s business environment and support enterprises in se- (R) Sustainable Persistent Organic Pollutants Manage- lected sector/industries. Negotiations scheduled for 17 May 2014. ment: : (formerly Public Administration, Law, and Justice sec- Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P146250. US$ 2.0 tor) :The objective is to assist Egypt to strengthen its technical and (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Ministère de l’Economie, management capacity for minimizing exposure to persistent organic Djibouti, Tel: (253) 356-212, Fax: (253) 355-085, E-mail: amalmis1@ pollutants. Bank Approval scheduled for 13 June 2014. Environ- yahoo.fr mental Assessment Category A. Project: P116230. US$ 8.1 (GEFU). Information and Communications Consultants will be required. Egypt Environmental Affairs Agency, 30 Misr, Helwan Agri. Road, Maadi, Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, Telecom Sector Opening:The objective is to increase the geo- Tel: (20-2) 526-1419/1421, E-mail: gefunitegypt@gmail.com, Con- graphical reach and usage of regional broadband network services tact: Yasmin Fouad, Director, GEF Unit and reduce their prices. Decision Meeting scheduled for 8 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P146219. US$ Transportation 2.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) (R) Urban Transport Infrastructure Development:The ob- to be determined. jective is to improve the efficiency and environmental sustainability of the bus urban transport system in the Greater Cairo Region by: (i) Transportation improving service provision to citizens; (ii) supporting modal shift, (R) Second Urban Poverty Reduction Project (Cr. 54580- thus reducing traffic congestion, greenhouse gas emission, and air DJ): (formerly Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection The objec- pollution; and (iii) reducing the high accident rate. Project Concept tive is to improve living conditions in Quartier 7, by providing and Review Meeting completed on 2 April 2014. Decision Meeting upgrading basic urban services and engaging the community. Bank scheduled for 9 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Approval completed on 14 May 2014. Environmental Assessment egory B. US$ 150.0/50.0 (IBRD/CCTF). Consulting services and Category B. Project: P145848. US$ 5.6 (IDA Credit). Consultants implementing agency(ies) to be determined. will be required. Agence Djiboutienne de Developpement Social Urban Transport Infrastructure Development:The objec- (ADDS), Djibouti, Tel: (253) 2135-8655, Fax: (253) 2135-7184, E- tive is to improve the reliability and efficiency of urban transport in mail: direction@adds.dj Cairo through implementation of cost-effective and clean technology investments that support major modal shift from private vehicles Arab Republic of Egypt and microbuses to large size. This project is on hold until further Energy and Mining notice. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P115837. US$ 304.0/100.0/0.3/5.7/190.0 (IBRD/CCTF/IDF/MNIS/ZPCO). (R) Second Natural Gas Connection Project:The objective is Consultants will be required. Ministry of Housing, GOPP, 12 Ismail to support the Government’s goal of reducing Liquefied Petroleum Abaza Street, Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, Tel: (20-20) 2792-1514, Gas (LPG) subsidies through scaling up natural gas connections to Fax: (20-20) 2792-1512, E-mail: madbouly@yahoo.com, Contact: households. Appraisal scheduled for 21 May 2014. Environmental Prof. M. Madbouly, Chairman of GOPP Assessment Category A. Project: P146007. US$ 500.0/78.9/96.0 (IBRD/ENI/FRDE). Consultants will be required.. Iraq Finance Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (N) Affordable Housing Transformational Program:The (R) Irrigation and Drainage Improvement Project:The ob- objectives are to: (a) prepare a national housing policy, strategies jectives are to enable farmers in targeted irrigated areas to increase and plans; and (b) develop new programs, comprehensive target- their agricultural productivity and to improve management of water ing criteria and implementation guidelines. Project Concept Review resources in selected areas. Project Concept Review Meeting sched- Meeting scheduled for 17 July 2014. Environmental Assessment uled for 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Category C. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- US$ 140.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry ing agency(ies) to be determined. of Water Resources, Iraq PAGE 62 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Energy and Mining Lazarieh Center, Black A4 New, 8th Floor, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (N) Electricity Distribution Reform and Investment Project (961-1) 976-517, Fax: (961-1) 976-534, E-mail: manal.moussallem@ (EDRIP):The objectives are to: (a) improve the reliability of electric- undp-lebprojects.org ity distribution infrastructure and thereby improve electricity service delivery; (b) reduce system losses; and (c) improve the management Health and Other Social Services of the electricity distribution sector operations and capital investment (R) Emergency National Poverty Targeting Project:The ob- programs. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 26 June jective is to expand the coverage of the National Poverty Targeting 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Program (NPTP) and enhance the social assistance (benefit) to ex- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Electricity, Bagh- tremely poor Lebanese households and those affected by the Syrian dad, Iraq, Tel: (964-790) 192-1982, E-mail: nafaaabdelsada@yahoo. crisis. First Grant Funding Request Approval completed on 24 April com, Contact: Eng. Nafaa Abdelsada Ali 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P149242. US$ 8.2/3.0 (LSCT/UNHC). Consulting services and implementing Transportation agency(ies) to be determined. Railway Safety Improvement Project:The objectives are to improve the safety, capacity and reliability for passengers and freight Social Promotion and Protection:The objectives are to support: on the railway line between Um Qasr seaport and Baghdad. Project (a) community-led social development projects based on a demand- Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 10 June 2014. Environmental driven process; (b) National Poverty Targeting Program (NPTP); Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and and (c) other social reforms of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Bank implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Approval completed on 17 May 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P124761. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). No consultants are Jordan required. Ministry of Social Affairs, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 611-242, E-mail: minister@socialaffairs.gov.lb, Contact: Roberto Health and Other Social Services Albino Mito, Director National Unified Registry and Outreach Worker Program: The objective is to improve the targeting of social safety net programs Industry and Trade and developing an efficient outreach mechanism. First Grant Fund- Environmental Pollution Abatement Project:The objective ing Request Approval completed on 22 October 2013. Environmental is to reduce pollution generated by point-source/industrial entities, Assessment Category C. US$ 9.5 (MNIS). Consulting services to to limit the impact on public health as well as on ecological systems be determined. Ministry of Planning and International Coopera- by increasing environmental performance in point sources/indus- tion, Amman 11118, Jordan, Tel: (962-6) 464-4466, Fax: (962-6) trial plants and the introduction of cleaner production and green 464-2247, E-mail: mop@mop.gov.jo, Contact: H.E Ibrahim Saif, investments. Negotiations scheduled for 20 May 2014. Environ- Minister mental Assessment Category F. Project: P143594. US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Lebanon Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment, Downtown Beirut, Lazarieh Center, Black A4 New, 8th Floor, Beirut, Lebanon, Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Tel: (961-1) 981-854, Fax: (961-1) 976-534, E-mail: manal.moussal- (R) Sustainable Agricultural Livelihoods in Marginal Areas lem@undp-lebprojects.org, Contact: Manal Moussallem, Advisor to (SALMA):The objective is to increase the growth and stability of the Minister. Central Bank, Lebanon, Tel: (961) 1743-469, E-mail: incomes of small farmers in ecologically vulnerable remote hilly areas waelhamdan@bdl.gov.lb, Contact: Wael Hamdan, Senior Director. through increased access to reliable sources for supplementary irriga- Head of Financing Unit tion using sustainable land and water development approaches, and reforestation. Decision Meeting scheduled for 6 October 2014. En- Information and Communications vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 7.2 (GEFU). Consultants Mobile Internet Ecosystem Project (MIEP):The objectives will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. are to: (a) increase the number of start-up projects in the ICT sec- Sustainable Agriculture Livelihoods in Marginal Areas: tor; (b) raise employment in the ICT sector; and (c) enhance the The objective is to assist small farmers in remote hilly areas with a enabling environment for ICT in Lebanon. Bank Approval completed high level of poverty, which will provide supplementary irrigation on 31 July 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: to grow higher value crops, increase incomes and create employ- P131202. US$ 6.4 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Ministry ment opportunities. Decision Meeting scheduled for 16 June 2014. of Telecommunications, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-71) 611-611, E- Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131431. US$ 24.0 mail: rami.majzoub@gmail.com, Contact: Rami Majzoub, Advisor (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture, Leba- to the Minister non, Tel: (961-1) 821-900, Fax: (961-1) 823-900, E-mail: mkhansa@ agriculture.gov.lb, Contact: Mohammad Khansa, Advisor to H.E. the Public Administration, Law, and Justice Minister of Agriculture Second Fiscal Management Reform:The objective is to support Energy and Mining the Ministry of Finance’s efforts in tightening the control environ- Partial Riskl Guarantee (PRG) for Floating Regasification ment, improve the allocation of public financial resources, and en- and Storage Unit (FRSU):The objective is to provide a credit hance the efficiency and transparency of the government financial enhancement mechanism to address the low credit worthiness of management system. Bank Approval completed on 14 April 2014. the power sector, to support the development of a FRSU to enable Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P133226. US$ 5.2 the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Lebanon. Prepara- (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Riad El tion is underway. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 60.0 Solh Square, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 642-722, E-mail: alainb@ (GUAR). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be finance.gov.lb, Contact: Alain Bifani, Director General determined. Transportation Polychlorinated Biphenyle Management:The objective is to facilitate the implementation of the duties, rights, and responsibili- Greater Beirut Urban Transport:The objective is to improve ties of the Republic of Lebanon towards the Stockholm Convention transport connectivity and mobility between Tabarja and Beirut by: (a) enhancing management of Persistent Organic Pollutants; and through: (a) the construction of a new BRT or LRT; and (b) estab- (b) drawing partnership to develop/implement a national strategy lishing appropriate institutional arrangements for the management, to eliminate the release of Polychlorinated Biphenyles. Appraisal operation and maintenance of the new mass transit system. Project scheduled for 11 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 11 June 2014. Environmental egory A. Project: P122540. US$ 2.5 (GEFU). Consulting services Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and to be determined. Ministry of Environment, Downtown Beirut, implementing agency(ies) to be determined. JUNE 2014 Middle East and North Africa Region PAGE 63 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Signing scheduled for 27 May 2014. Environmental Assessment (R) Municipal Services Emergency Project:The objective is to Category U. Project: P147257. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consultants will support relevant Lebanese central and local authorities in improv- be required. Ministry of Economy and Finance, Quartier Adminis- ing basic municipal services in cities and towns and the communi- tratif, Rabat Chellah, Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-37) 677-266/267, ties most affected by the influx of Syrian refugees. Bank Approval Fax: (212-37) 677-530, E-mail: n.alaissami@tresor.finances.gov.ma, scheduled for 20 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Contact: Nouaman Al Aissami, Deputy Director of Treasury Project: P149724. US$ 10.0 (LSCT). Consulting services and imple- Health and Other Social Services menting agency(ies) to be determined. Health Sector Support:The objective is to support the implemen- (R) Water Augmentation Project:The objective is to augment the tation of the 2012-2016 Health Action Plan in: (a) health Manage- water supply of the Greater Beirut Region in a sustainable manner. ment Information System); (b) human resource for health; (c) access Appraisal scheduled for 16 June 2014. Environmental Assessment to pharmaceuticals; and (d) non communicable diseases prevention. Category A. Project: P125184. US$ 474.0/91.5 (IBRD/ISDB). Con- Project preparation underway. Environmental Assessment Cate- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. gory C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing Lake Qaraoun Pollution Prevention Project-Phase I:The agency(ies) to be determined. objective is to reduce the pollution flowing into Lake Qaraoun. Prepa- ration is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Industry and Trade P147854. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Second Competitiveness Development Policy Loan:The Council for Development and Reconstruction, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: objective is to support the economic governance reform agenda of (961-1) 981-432, Fax: (961-1) 981-252, E-mail: wafac@cdr.gov.lb the Government, in view of fostering greater competition and more effective policies to spur competitiveness. Project Concept Review Morocco Meeting scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Energy and Mining Category U. US$ 120.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. (R) Noor II and III Concentrated Solar Power:The objectives Ministry of General Affairs and Governance (MAGG), Morocco, Tel: are to: (a) develop the 500 Megawatt Ouarzazate solar power plant (212-53) 768-7316, Fax: (212-53) 777-4776, E-mail: benchekroun@ by financing the second phase through a public private partnership affaires-generales.gov.ma (PPP); and (b) increase power generation from solar power and Public Administration, Law, and Justice mitigate greenhousegas emissions and local environmental impact. Local Government Support Program:The objective is to Decision Meeting scheduled for 11 June 2014. Environmental Assess- strengthen the delivery of decentralized public services in Morocco ment Category A. Project: P131256. US$ 400.0/123.0/238.0/123.0/ by improving local governments’ access to support services and 477.0/68.0/892.0 (IBRD/AFDB/CCTF/ECEU/EUIB/FRDE/KFW). incentives designed to improve their capacity to fulfill their service Consulting services to be determined. Moroccan Agency for Solar delivery mandate. The loan was signed on 2 December 2013. Envi- Energy (MASEN), Station Traitement Av. Mohamed Bel Hassan, ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 4.6 (MNAF). Consultants Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-53) 7574-657, Fax: (212-53) 7571-475, E- will be required. General Directorate for Local Governments, Min- mail: masen@masen.ma, Contact: Mustapha Bakkoury, CEO istry of Interior, Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-537) 286-427, E-mail: (R) Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable aourzik@interieur.gov.ma, Contact: Mr. Abdelouahad Ourzik (ONEE) Support Additional Financing:The objective, a con- Municipal Support Program:The objective is to support the tinuation, is to increase the efficiency and reliability of electricity strengthening of Morocco’s municipalities in terms of managerial supply. The loan was signed on 6 December 2013. Environmental and financial capacities. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled Assessment Category B. Project: P145649. US$ 40.5 (IBRD). Con- for 30 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 sultants will be required. Office National de l’Electricite et de l’Eau (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Potable (ONEE), 65, rue Othman Ben Affane, Casablanca, Morocco, determined. Tel: (212-52) 266-8005, E-mail: fait@onee.ma, Contact: Mr. Mo- Partnership for Market Readiness:The objectives are to develop hamed Fait, Chef de la Division Financement capacities and systems to: (a) access international carbon finance Clean and Efficient Energy:The objective is to develop a power opportunities; (b) start preparing for carbon market mechanism; system that is efficient and capable of integrating a high level of and (c) develop mitigation structures. Preparation is underway. renewable energy, which will reduce peak load demand on the grid Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P128654. US$ 5.4 through demand-oriented initiatives. Preparation is underway. (PMR). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Energy, Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P143689. US$ Water, Mining and Environment, Rue Abou Marouane Essaadi, 125.0/24.0 (IBRD/CCTF). Consultants will be required. Office Na- Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-5) 3756-4018, Fax: (212-37) 688-863, tional de l’Electricite, 65, Rue Othman Ben Affan, Morocco, Tel: E-mail: benyahia@environnement.gov.ma (212-52) 266-8005, Fax: (212-52) 243-3152, E-mail: fait@one.org. ma, Contact: Mr. Mohamed Fait, Chef de la Division Financement Transportation Second Inclusive Green Growth DPL:The objective is to sup- (N) Urban Transport Project (P4R):The objective is to im- port reform actions in the areas of better management of natural prove coordination, performance and accessibility of urban trans- assets; low carbon growth; and diversification of rural revenues port in select cities. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for through investments in new green sectors. Project Concept Review 24 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 Meeting scheduled for 30 October 2014. Environmental Assessment (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Category U. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- determined. ing agency(ies) to be determined. Second Rural Roads Additional Financing II:The objective Finance is a continuation to increase rural populations’ access to all-weather roads in support of the Guarantor’s Program. Bank Approval sched- (N) Seed and Early Stage Equity Financing:The objective is uled for 9 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: to support the Government of Morocco address a market failure in P148003. US$ 95.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Caisse pour financing for new and growth oriented SMEs which contribute sub- le Financement Routier, Morocco, Tel: (212-53) 771-3241, E-mail: stantially to job creation. Identification scheduled for 4 August 2014. imzel@mtpnet.gov.ma, Contact: Ahmed Imzel, Director Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (R) First Capital Market Development and Small and Me- (N) Non-Revenue Water Improvement:The objective is to pro- dium-Sized Enterprise Finance DPL (Ln. 83630-MA): The vide technical and financial support to ONEE in its efforts to reduce objective is to support the policies of the Government as it aims to its Non-Revenue Water. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled adapt the financial system to the evolving needs of the real economy. for 30 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ PAGE 64 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Energy and Mining to be determined. Societe Tunisienne de l’Electricite et du Gaz Concentrated (R) Rural Water Supply (Ln. 83670-MA Ln. 83970-MA Ln. Solar Power Plant:The objective is to develop a 50-100 MW Con- 83680-MA):The objective is to increase access to water supply to centrating Solar Power (CSP) plant to meet the country’s energy rural areas by extending conveyance and standpipe distribution and climate change objectives and contribute to global CSP cost networks in the areas surrounding the cities of Safi and El-Jadida reduction. An integral component of the CSP and Clean Technol- in western Morocco. Bank Approval completed on 29 April 2014. ogy Fund (CTF) scale-up investment plan. Preparation is under- Signing scheduled for 27 May 2014. Environmental Assessment way. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P122029. Category B. Project: P145529. US$ 158.6 (IBRD). Consultants will be US$ 35.0/35.0/36.0/54.0 (IBRD/AFDB/CCTF/ZBIL). Consultants required. Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau Potable (ONEE), will be required. Preparation is underway. Societe Tunisienne de Avenue Belhassan El ouazzani, Rabat-Chellah, Morocco, Tel: (212- l’Electricite du Gaz (STEG), 38 Rue Kamel Attaturk, Tunis, Tunisia, 5) 3775-9600, Fax: (212-5) 3765-0649, E-mail: sbadri@onee.ma, Tel: (216-71) 334-366, Fax: (216-71) 335-031, E-mail: dga@steg.com. Contact: Ms. Samira Badri, Direction Financière tn, Contact: Moncef Harrabi, Project Manager Integrated Risk Management Project:The objective is to sup- port the development of integrated risk management in Morocco Finance through a variety of interventions including in Disaster Risk Man- (R) Banking Sector Restructuring Loan:The objective is to agement (DRM), agricultural and commodity risk management. address the main banking sector issues. This project is no longer Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. in the lending program. Further reporting will be discontinued. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministère Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). des Affaires Générale et de la Gouvernance, Quartier Administratif, (R) Export Development III (Ln. 83980-TN): (formerly Pub- Rabat- Agdal, Morocco, Tel: (212-53) 768-7316, Fax: (212-53) 768- lic Administration, Law, and Justice sector) The objectives are to: 774287, E-mail: benchekroun@affaires-generales.gov.ma, Contact: (a) improve access to export markets and finance; and (b) enhance Mlle Sabah Benchekroun, Chargée de Mission auprès du Chef du the efficiency and performance of trade clearance processes includ- Gouvernement ing customs operations and technical controls, thereby making trade Solid Waste Sector DPL4:The objective is to support the Gov- logistics more efficient. Bank Approval scheduled for 16 June 2014. ernment efforts to improve the economic, environmental and so- Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P132381. US$ 50.0 cial performance of the solid waste sector. Project Concept Review (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Commerce and Meeting scheduled for 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Handicraft, Rue Kheiredin Pacha, Tunis, Tunisia, Tel: (216-71) 9832- Category U. US$ 130.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- 5381, E-mail: khaled.salhi@commerce.gov.tn, Contact: Mr. Khaled ing agency(ies) to be determined. Salhi, Director/Project Coordinator Regional (R) MSME Development Additional Financing:The objective is to improve access to finance for micro, small and medium enter- Public Administration, Law, and Justice prises in the Republic of Tunisia. Signing scheduled for 22 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P146799. US$ 100.0 Private Sector Development (PSD) Governance for Jobs (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Development and Project:The objective is to augment the quality and accessibility of International Cooperation, Place Ali Zouaoui, 1000 Tunis, Tunisia, key government services to the enterprise sector in order to foster Tel: (216-71) 892-653, Fax: (216-71) 351-666, E-mail: s.bennasr@ greater job creation. Decision Meeting scheduled for 24 July 2014. mdci.gov.tn, Contact: Kalthoum Hamzaoui, General Director Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (MNIS). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Investment, Arab Republic Information and Communications of Egypt, Tel: (20-100) 158-5883, E-mail: mzobaa@investment. gov.eg, Contact: Mona Zobaa, First Undersecretary and Head of (R) Second Governance, Opportunities and Jobs Develop- Department ment Policy Loan (Ln. 83580-TN): (formerly Public Admin- istration, Law, and Justice sector) The objective is to support the Tunisia Tunisian Government to consolidate its transition and accelerate eco- nomic recovery. Signing scheduled for 16 May 2014. Environmen- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry tal Assessment Category U. Project: P132709. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). (N) Sylvo-Pastoral Ecosystems Co-Management:The objec- Consultants will be required. Ministere du Developpement et de tive is to promote an inclusive and integrated participative approach la Cooperation Internationale, Tunis, Tunisia, Contact: Kalthoum to co-manage sylvo-pastoral resources in Tunisia. Project Concept Hamzaoui, General Director Review Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 120.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and Public Administration, Law, and Justice implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (N) Third Governance, Opportunities, and Jobs DPL:The (R) Oases Ecosystems and Livelihoods:The objective is to objective is to support Tunisia establish the policy foundations for improve natural resources management and promote innovative a more competitive business environment, a strengthened financial economic activities. Bank Approval scheduled for 11 June 2014. sector, more inclusive and accountable social services, and more Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132157. US$ 5.8 transparent public governance. Project Concept Review Meeting (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment / scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Ministry of Agriculture, Tunisia, Tel: (216-72) 870-679, Fax: (216- U. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing 70) 728-595, E-mail: dgeqv@mineat.gov.tn, Contact: Mr. Habib Ben agency(ies) to be determined. Moussa, General Manager. General Directorate for the Environment (R) Urban Development and Local Governance:The objec- and Quality of Life, Tunisia, Tel: (216-72) 870-679, E-mail: dgeqv@ tives are to: (a) restore/improve the delivery of basic services and mineat.gov.tn, Contact: Salah Hassini, General Director infrastructure to the urban population with focus on lagging regions; and (b) support sectoral reforms and strengthening municipal ca- Education pacity to ensure better governance and performance of the urban (N) Tertiary Education for Employability:The objective is to development sector. Negotiations scheduled for 30 May 2014. En- further modernize tertiary education in Tunisia, increase employ- vironmental Assessment Category C. Project: P130637. US$ 300.0 ability of graduates and support tertiary education to work transition. (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Caisse de Pret et de Soutien aux Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 31 October 2014. En- collectivites locales, 9 rue 8451, 1003 cite Khadra, Tunis, Tunisia, Tel: vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting (216-71) 354-500, E-mail: se.dgcpscl@topnet.tn, Contact: Kalthoum services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Hamzaoui, General Director JUNE 2014 Middle East and North Africa Region PAGE 65 Transportation Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Road Transport Corridor:The objective is to support rural roads (R) Gaza Solid Waste Management:The objective is to improve improvement and technical assistance to the Road Administration solid waste management services in the Middle and Southern Gaza within the Ministry of Equipment. Preparation is underway. Envi- Strip through the provision of efficient and environmentally- and ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146502. US$ 100.0 socially-sound waste management systems. Signing scheduled for (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be mid-May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: determined. P121648. US$ 6.5/13.6/0.6/0.8/10.0/1.6 (ECEU/FRDE/GSWE/ ISDB/SPF/UNDP). Consultants will be required. Municipal Develop- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection ment and Lending Fund, Al Bireh, Al Rashmawi Building, 3rd Floor, West Bank and Gaza, Tel: (970-2) 296-6610, Fax: (970-2) 295-0685, (R) Urban Water Supply Additional Financing:The objec- E-mail: abednofal@mdlf.org.ps, Contact: Mr. Abdel Moughni Nofal, tive is to ensure the continuity of water service to the population in General Director Greater Tunis and other targeted cities, and improve the financial performance of SONEDE. Bank Approval scheduled for 9 June (R) Hebron Wastewater Management:The objective is to install 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 26.2 (IBRD). wastewater collection, treatment, and re-use facilities in the Hebron Consultants will be required. Societe Nationale d’Exploitation et de governorate. This is the implementation of Phase 1 of the Hebron Distribution des Eaux (SONEDE), Av. Slimane Ben Slimane, Manar Governorate Wastewater Management Master Plan. Negotiations II, Tunisia, Tel: (216) 71-887-000, Fax: (216) 71-871-000, E-mail: scheduled for 8 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- sonede@sonede.com.tn, Contact: Hedi Belhaj, President Directeur egory A. Project: P117449. US$ 5.0/18.1/13.0/10.0 (AID/ECEU/ General GFRC/SPF). Consultants will be required. Palestinian Water Author- ity, Al-Beireh, Nablus, Jerusalem St. Ramallah, West Bank and Gaza, West Bank and Gaza Tel: (972-2) 240-9022, Fax: (972-2) 240-9341, E-mail: adel_pwa@ yahoo.com Energy and Mining (R) Water Sector Capacity-building Project Additional Financing Grant:The objective is to strengthen the capacity of (R) Electricity Sector Performance Improvement Project: the Palestinian Water Authority and other stakeholders, to more The objective of the project is to improve payment for electricity, effectively plan, monitor, regulate, and implement water sector de- support the efficient use of electricity, and improve energy security velopment in the West Bank and Gaza. Decision Meeting scheduled and control of electricity supply by supporting renewable energy for 15 January 2015. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ implementation. Project Concept Note scheduled for 1 August 2014. 4.5 (SPF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 10.0 (SPF). Consulting determined. services to be determined. Palestine Energy and Natural Resources Authority, West Bank and Gaza North Gaza Emergency Sewage Treatment Project-Third Additional Financing:The objective is to complete construction of Health and Other Social Services the North Gaza wastewater treatment plant, complete the first phase of the effluent recovery and reuse scheme, and ensure the sustain- (R) Health System Qualilty and Efficiency Improvement: ability of the waste water services by financing capacity building and The objective is to increase efficiency of public health expenditures operation and maintenance costs on a declining basis over three with a view to ensuring fiscal and financial sustainability of universal years. Bank Approval completed on 14 April 2014. Environmental health coverage. More specifically, support the Ministry of Health in Assessment Category A. US$ 2.6/5.0/3.0 (BELG/PWUD/SPF). Con- improving the equity and efficiency of outside treatment referrals and sultants will be required for wastewater treatment plant management providing institutional capacity-building. Project Concept Review and wastewater reuse implementation. Palestine Water Authority, Al- Meeting scheduled for 8 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Wedha Street, Shaath Building, Gaza City, West Bank and Gaza, Tel: Category C. US$ 6.5 (SPF). Consultants will be required. Ministry (970-8) 283-3609, E-mail: sali@pwa-gpmu.org, Contact: Asuman of Health, West Bank and Gaza Lukwago, Permanent Secretary (R) Local Governance and Services Improvement Program: The objectives are to: (a) support locally planned small scale infra- Republic of Yemen structure projects to improve service delivery; and (b) strengthen the Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry governance and financing structure for accountable and financially (R) Climate Resilient ICZM (PPCR/LDC):The objective is sustainable local services. Preparation scheduled for 16 June 2014. to assist the country in adapting to the impact of climate change Preparation is underway. Environmental Assessment Category B. in the coastal zone of the Gulf of Aden, Hodeida and the Arabian Project: P148896. US$ 5.0 (SPF). Consulting services to be deter- Gulf. Decision Meeting scheduled for 20 October 2014. Environ- mined. Ministry of Local Government, Ramallah, West Bank and mental Assessment Category B. Project: P144813. US$ 20.0/4.5 Gaza, Tel: (972-2) 240-1455, E-mail: saed_alkoni@yahoo.com, Con- (CIF/GEFU). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to tact: Dr. Saed Al Koni be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Resilience of Rural Communities to Climate Change Pilot:The objective is to support the Government of Yemen’s efforts (N) Integrated Housing and Urban Development Project: to improve the resilience of the rural population to the impact of The objective is to support the PA and selected local authorities in climate change and thereby promote sustainable long-term growth designing, financing and implementing integrated housing and urban and protect vulnerable populations. Decision Meeting scheduled for development pilot projects in partnership with the private sector. 10 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 23 October 2014. P144764. US$ 18.6 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (SPF). Consulting agency(ies) to be determined. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Smallholder Agricultural Productivity Enhancement (R) Palestinian National Development Plan Sixth Devel- Project (SAPEP):The objectives are to: (a) increase production, opment Policy Loan:The objective, a continuation, is to support food security and climatic resilience by raising productivity in crop the reform efforts by the Palestinian Authority (PA) aim to fiscal and livestock production; and (b) fight rural poverty and malnu- strengthening, enhancement of the public finance management sys- trition by promoting employment-intensive, commercial agricul- tems and the delivery of public services. Signing scheduled for 18 ture, encourage community participation, and the role of women June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 40.0 (SPF). and household dietary diversity. Decision Meeting scheduled for Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Ramallah, West 9 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 36.0 Bank and Gaza, Tel: (972-2) 297-8830, E-mail: lsbaih@yahoo.com, (GAFS). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be mofirdg@palnet.com, Contact: Laila Sbaih, Acting Director determined. PAGE 66 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Education Transportation (R) Higher Education Quality Improvement Project Addi- North-South Integration Corridor Highway Project:The tional Financing:The objective is to create enabling conditions for objective is improved transport connectivity between Aden and Taiz. the enhancement of the quality of university programs and graduate Bank Approval scheduled for 2 June 2014. Environmental Assess- employability. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 May ment Category A. Project: P145361. US$ 133.5 (IDA Grant). Con- 2014. Decision Meeting scheduled for 7 July 2014. Environmental sultants will be required. Ministry of Public Works and Highways, Assessment Category C. US$ 3.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services Amran, Republic of Yemen, Tel: (967-7) 3555-6577, Contact: H.E. and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Eng. Omar Al-Korshomi, Minister Labor Intensive Public Works Additional Financing:The objectives are a continuation to: (a) provide needed infrastructure to improve access to basic public services; and (b) create short term employment. Bank Approval scheduled for 3 July 2014. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. Project: P148366. US$ 50.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Latin America Energy and Mining and Caribbean (R) Mocha Wind Park Project (Cr. H9180-RY):The objective is to demonstrate the technical feasibility and economic viability of Antigua and Barbuda wind power development in Yemen. The grant was signed on 11 April Information and Communications 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146055. US$ 20.0/65.0/20.0/20.0 (IDA Grant/ARFU/OPEC/SAUD). Consultants Caribbean Communications Infrastructure Program (Car- will be required. Ministry of Electricity and Energy, Sana, Republic CIP):The objectives are to: (a) increase access and affordability of of Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 326-191, Fax: (967-1) 326-214, Contact: Dr. broadband communications networks; (b) contribute to the develop- Saleh Hassan Sumai, Minister ment of regional IT industry; and (c) contribute to improved govern- ment efficiency and transparency through regionally harmonized Health and Other Social Services e-government applications. Project Concept Review Meeting sched- uled for 8 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. (R) Maternal and Newborn Voucher Project (Cr. H9240- US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) RY):The objective is to provide output-based Maternal and Newborn to be determined. Health Care to scale up existing OBA pilots that support public health services targeting maternity and newborn health care. The credit Argentina was signed on 11 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P144522. US$ 10.0/10.0 (IDA Credit/HRBF). Consul- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry tants will be required. The Social Fund for Development, Republic Forests and Communities:The objective is to improve Forest of Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 449-671, E-mail: aaldilami@sfd-yemen.org, Livelihoods through: (a) adoption of sustainable multiple-use for- Contact: Mr. Abdullah Al Dailami, Managing Director estry; (b) sustain/increase political commitment, and public re- (R) Social Fund for Development (SFD) IV Additional Fi- sources for native forests conservation; (c) improve Regional/Local nancing II:The objective is a continuation to improve basic services, Capacities and undertake Applied Research; and (d) strengthen the enhance economic opportunities, and reduce the vulnerability of the National Native Forest Information and Monitoring System. This poor. Negotiations completed on 17 April 2014. Bank Approval project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Imple- B. Project: P148474. US$ 50.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be re- menting agency(ies) to be determined. quired. Social Welfare Fund, Nogum, Sana’a, Republic of Yemen, Tel: Rural Corridors and Biodiversity:The objectives are to: (a) (967-1) 544-012, Fax: (967-1) 544-011, E-mail: info@swf.gov.ye increase the protection of vulnerable natural areas and the conserva- tion of biological diversity in both the Argentine Patagonian Steppe Information and Communications and the Argentine Chaco; and (b) bolster the technical capacity (R) Broadband Governance and Competitiveness Project: and outreach of federal and provincial organizations working in The objective is to foster a competitive and vibrant ICT sector in natural resource issues. This project is on hold until further no- Yemen by strengthening the legal, policy, and regulatory environ- tice. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P114294. US$ ment. Bank Approval scheduled for 31 March 2015. Environmental 6.3/2.3 (GEFU/MSC1). Consultants will be required. Administacion Assessment Category C. US$ 3.0 (MNAF). Consulting services and de Parques Nacionales, Av. Santa Fe 690, C1059ABN, Buenos Aires, implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4774-5357, Fax: NA, E-mail: NA, Contact: Dra. Patricia Gandini, President Public Administration, Law, and Justice Socio-Economic Inclusion in Rural Areas:The objective is to (R) Civil Society Organization Support Project (Cr. H9290- support the Government’s strategy to raise incomes and improve RY): (formerly Health and Other Social Services sector) The objec- livelihoods among the rural poor of Argentina. This project is on tive is to support the developmental role of CSOs as service providers hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category B. and partners in the state building process. The grant was signed Project: P106685. US$ 52.5 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. on 11 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganaderia y Pesca (MAGyP formerly SAG- P146312. US$ 8.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Social PyA), Avda. Belgrano 450, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) Fund for Development, Republic of Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 449669, 4349-1300, E-mail: prosap-comunica@prosap.gov.ar, Contact: Lic. Contact: Nabeel Alsohybe, Deputy Minister of Labor Jorge Neme, Coordinador Ejecutivo, Ing Sandro Sassatelli, Coordi- Accountability Enhancement Project:The objective is to en- nador Tecnico hance capacity of targeted accountability institutions to provide Third Provincial Agricultural Development (PROSAP):The access to information and to improve enforcement of the anti-cor- objective is to increase the productivity, competitiveness and market ruption law. First Grant Funding Request Approval scheduled for access of small and medium agricultural producers by providing 30 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 6.0 technical assistance, capacity building, and direct investments. This (MNIS). Consultants will be required. Supreme National Author- project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment ity for Combating Corruption (SNACC), AlTahreer Square, PO Box Category B. Project: P132416. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will 3454, Sana’a, Republic of Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 490-400, Fax: (967-1) be required. Ministry of Economy and Production, Hipolito Yrigoyen 299-422, E-mail: alialsunaidar@gmail.com, Contact: Afrah Badu- 250, Piso 8, Of. 828, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (5411-4) 349- wailan, Chairman 6200, Fax: (5411-4) 349-5516 JUNE 2014 Latin America and the Caribbean Region PAGE 67 Education Buenos Aires, Calle 8, entre 45 y 46, Codigo Postal 1900, La Plata, Second Rural Education Improvement Project (PROMER): Argentina, Tel: (54-221) 429-4576, E-mail: agustinapereira@yahoo. The objective is to support Government of Argentina in extending com, Contact: Maria Agustina Pereira, Directora Provincial de Or- and improving rural education. This project is on hold until further ganismos Multilaterales notice. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133195. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection US$ 250.5 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry (R) Vega Flood Prevention and Drainage Project:The ob- of Education, Argentina, Tel: (54-4) 959-2320, E-mail: apenillas@ jective is to increase the City of Buenos Aires resilience to flooding me.gov.ar, Contact: Lic. Alejandro Penillas, Director General Unidad through structured and non structured measures. Decision Meeting de Financiamiento Internacional scheduled for 28 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Energy and Mining A. Project: P145686. US$ 138.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance of the Ba City, Argentina (R) Renewable Energy Project for Rural Areas:The objective is a continuation of the PERMER project and its additional financing, Belize to emphasize access to modern energy services in rural schools and rural health centers, and to provide electricity, solar water heaters, Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry and cooking and heating solutions when needed. Decision Meet- (R) Management and Protection of Key Biodiversity Areas: ing scheduled for 29 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- The objective is to strengthen natural resource management and egory B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing biodiversity conservation through the mitigation of threats to Key agency(ies) to be determined. Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in Belize. Negotiations scheduled for 8 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P130474. Health and Other Social Services US$ 6.1 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Forestry, (R) Non Communicable Diseases (NCD):The objective is to Fisheries, and Sustainable Development, Sir Edney Cain Building, support the Government to reduce premature mortality and mor- Belmopan, Belize, Tel: (501) 822-2526, Fax: (501) 822-3673, E-mail: bidity due to chronic NCDs by: (a) strengthening MOH’s capacity to foreigntrade@btl.net, Contact: Natalie Rosado, Associate Director monitor, and prevent, control NCDs; (b) improving quality of NCD - Grants preventive, diagnosis and control health services; (c) promoting Marine Conservation and Climate Adaptation:The objective healthy lifestyles; and (d) strengthening surveillance. Decision Meet- is to implement the priority ecosystem-based marine conservation ing scheduled for 17 September 2014. Environmental Assessment and climate adaptation measures to strengthen the climate resilience Category B. Project: P133193. US$ 450.0 (IBRD). Consultants will of the Belize Barrier Reef System. Decision Meeting scheduled for be required. Ministry of Health, Argentina, Tel: (5411) 4379-9002, E- 8 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: mail: jlazovski@msal.gov.ar, Contact: Dr. Jaime Lazovski, Secretario P131408. US$ 5.5 (ADPT). Consultants will be required. Ministry de Promocion de Programas Sanitarios of Forestry, Fisheries, and Sustainable Development, Sir Edney Cain Industry and Trade Building, Belmopan, Belize, Tel: (501) 822-2526, Fax: (501) 822- 3673, E-mail: foreigntrade@btl.net, Contact: Wendel Parham, Chief Sustainable Industrial Development:The objective is to support Executive Officer small and medium enterprises in Argentina with inadequate access to credit to improve their compliance with environmental regulations, Energy and Mining while simultaneously boosting their industrial competitiveness. This Energy Resilience for Climate Adaptation:The objectives are project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment to: (a) undertake a climate change adaptation assessment for the Category B. Project: P110612. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be energy sector; (b) develop and implement a comprehensive set of required. Ministerio de Economia y Produccion, Secretaria de Indu- measures to increase the resilience of the energy sector; (c) revise stria y Pyme, Av. Julio A. Roca 651, Piso 2o, Buenos Aires, Argentina, energy policy to support mainstreaming energy resiliency; and, (d) Tel: (54-11) 4349-3726/3728, Fax: NA, E-mail: NA, Contact: Alfredo build institutional capacity building. Preparation is underway. En- Junco, Coordinador Ejecutivo UEPRO-PRESAO vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149522. US$ 8.0 (SCCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Public Administration, Law, and Justice determined. (R) Subnational Strengthening of Public Management through Information and Communication Technologies: Transportation The objective is to improve service delivery, transparency and ac- (R) Climate Resilient Infrastructure: (formerly Water, Sani- countability of subnational governments in Argentina through the tation and Flood Protection The objectives are to: (a) enhance re- use of Information and Communication Technologies. This project is silience of critical road infrastructure against flood risk and impacts on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category C. of climate change; and (b) improve Borrower’s capacity to respond US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Interior, promptly and effectively in an Eligible Crisis or Emergency, as re- 25 de Mayo 145, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4339-0800, quired. Negotiations scheduled for 19 June 2014. Environmental E-mail: cdiaz@mininterior.gov.ar, Contact: Carlos Diaz, Coordinador Assessment Category B. Project: P127338. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Con- Ejecutivo sultants will be required. Belize Social Investment Fund, Constitution (R) Youth Employment Support:The objective is to support Drive, Belize, Tel: (501-8) 220-239/0508, Fax: (501-8) 220-279, improvement of the employability of poor low-skilled unemployed E-mail: Daniel.Cano@sifbelize.org, Contact: Daniel Cano, Execu- youth at risk between the ages of 18 and 24 by providing training, tive Director building their experience and improving employment services. Deci- sion Meeting scheduled for 28 August 2014. Environmental Assess- Bolivia ment Category C. Project: P133129. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consultants Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry will be required. Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security, Sustainable Development of Ancestral Andean Products:The L.N.Alem No.638-Piso 8, Buejnos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, objective is to promote the sustainable production, among small scale Tel: (54-11) 4310-5618, E-mail: mlaria@trabajo.gob.ar producers, of selected ancestral Andean products and enhance their Delivering Progressive Tax Policies:The objective is to provide commercialization and domestic consumption. Decision Meeting is the Provincial Government with a more stable source of revenue on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category B. to fund equitable social spending and reduce poverty, through the US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of support of Tax Administration (ARBA)’s efforts to establish a more Rural Development and Land (MDRT), entre calles Bueno y Loayza, progressive tax system. This project is on hold until further notice. La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 211-1103, Fax: (591-2) 211-4332, E-mail: Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 53.0 (IBRD). Consul- anaguzman007@gmail.com, Contact: Ana Guzman, Director of Rural tants will be required. Ministerio de Economia de la Provincia de Development. EMPODERAR, Plaza Adela Zamudio, La Paz, Bolivia, PAGE 68 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Tel: (591-2) 211-2794, Fax: (591-2) 214-533, E-mail: alianzarural@ adoption of a river basin management approach that will be piloted gmail.com, Contact: Jhonny Delgadillo, Coordinator in the Rio Grande River Basin. Negotiations scheduled for 28 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P129640. Energy and Mining US$ 36.0/9.5 (CSCC/CSCF). Consulting services to be determined. (R) Access and Renewable Energy (Cr. 54540-BO):The ob- Ministry of Environment and Water, Calle Mercado, Edif. Mariscal jective is to support Bolivia’s access strategy through: (a) energy Ballivian, Mezzanine, Bolivia Tel/Fax: (591-2) 211-5582, E-mail: services for isolated and dispersed individual households and pub- carlos.ortuno@miriego.com, Contact: Carlos Ortuno, Vice Minister lic buildings; (b) renewable mini-grids for isolated rural areas; (c) Water Resources and Irrigation grid densification; and (d) project management and supervision and capacity building. Bank Approval scheduled for 27 May 2014. Brazil Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P127837. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Hydrocarbon Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry and Energy, Palacio de Comunicaciones, Piso 12, La Paz, Bolivia, (R) Bahia Sustainable Rural Development (Ln. 84150-BR): Tel: (591-2) 211-4690, Fax: (591-2) 211-0887, E-mail: mlorberg@ The objective is to support the State Government’s strategy for pov- pevd.gob.bo, Contact: Marcelo Lorberg, Head of the Project Imple- erty reduction in rural areas through economic inclusion, produc- mentation Unit tive sustainable family farming and producer organizations, and Health and Other Social Services implementation of water services in the areas targeted by the project. (R) Improving Employability and Job Quality Among Vul- Negotiations scheduled for 3 June 2014. Environmental Assess- nerable Groups (Cr. 54610-BO): (formerly Public Administra- ment Category B. Project: P147157. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants tion, Law, and Justice sector) The objectives are to: (a) enhance job will be required. Companhia de Desenvolvimento e Ação Regional quality among vulnerable groups; and (b) strengthen the capacity (CAR), Av. Luiz Vianna Filho, nº 250, Anexo SEPLAN - CAB, Salva- to monitor the labor market. Bank Approval completed on 15 May dor, Brazil, Tel: (55-71) 3115-6703, Fax: (55-71) 3371-0015, E-mail: 2014. Signing scheduled for 14 August 2014. Environmental Assess- vivaldomendonca@car.ba.gov.br, Contact: José Vivaldo Souza de ment Category C. Project: P143995. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consul- Mendonça Filho tants will be required. Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social (R) Environmental Regularization of Rural Lands in the Provision, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 240-8606, Contact: Daniel Santalla Cerrado:The objectives are to: (a) support the Ministry of Envi- Torrez, Minister of Labor, Employment and Social Provision ronment to help reduce deforestation and forest degradation on rural landholdings; and (b) reduce emissions and to increase carbon Public Administration, Law, and Justice sequestration by ensuring the environmental compliance by owner (R) Public Sector Investment:The objective is to support the or occupiers of private landholdings in the 11 states in Brazil, within Ministry of Planning to strengthen Public Investment Management the Cerrado biome. GEF Council Approval scheduled for 13 June processes and systems both at the national and local levels. Project 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P143334. US$ Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 12 September 2014. Envi- 32.5 (CSCC). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment, ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 31.0 (IBRD). Consultants Esplanada dos Ministerios, Bloco B 7o Andar, Brasilia, Brazil, Tel: will be required. Ministry Development Planning, Av. Mcal. Santa (55-61) 2028-1413, E-mail: allan.milhomens@mma.gov.br, Contact: Cruz Nº1092, Casilla Nº1, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 231-1849, Fax: (591- Allan Milhomens, Coordinator 2) 218-9000, E-mail: marcelo.torres@planificacion.gob.bo, Contact: Marcelo Torres, Director General of Planning (R) Marine Protected Areas:The objective is to support the cre- ation and implementation of a representative and effective marine (R) Statistical Capacity Building Additional Financing:The and coastal protected areas system in Brazil to reduce the loss of objective is to strengthen the statistical capacity and improve the coastal and marine biodiversity. Negotiations scheduled for 20 May database to provide quality information that is reliable, timely and 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P128968. US$ accurate. Bank Approval scheduled for 18 June 2014. Environmental 18.2 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment, Assessment Category C. Project: P147051. US$ 23.3 (IDA Credit). MMA, Brazil, Tel: NA, Fax: NA, E-mail: paulo.goncalves@mma. No consultants are required. Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas, Calle gov.br, Contact: Paulo Rogerio Goncalves, Director. Instituto Chico Carrasco No. 1391, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 222-2333, Fax: (591- Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Brazil, E-mail: 2) 222-2885, E-mail: lpereira@ine.gob.do, Contact: Luis Jose Per- sergio.brant@icmbio.gov.br, Contact: Ugo Vercillo, Coordinator erira Stambuk, Director General Ejecutivo (R) Paraiba Sustainable Rural Development:The objective Transportation is to support the economic inclusion of family farmers and acces National Road Sector Management Program:The objective to water for rural inhabitants to move from a traditional commu- is to support the maintenance and rehabilitation of the county’s nity-driven development strategy to more selective support of eco- primary road network. Decision Meeting scheduled for 7 July 2014. nomic opportunities of the rural poor. This project is on hold until Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 225.0/85.0/40.0/45.0 further notice. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD/ANDC/FONP/IADB). Consulting services to be determined. (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Administradora Boliviana de Carreteras (ABC), Av. Mariscal Santa determined. Cruz, Edif. Centro de Comunicaciones, Piso 8, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (R) Promotion of Low Carbon Agriculture in the Brazilian (591-2) 235-7220, Fax: (591-2) 239-1764, E-mail: amullisaca@abc. Cerrado:The objective is to increase the adoption of Low Carbon gob.bo, Contact: Antonio Mullisaca, Presidente Ejecutivo Agriculture Plan in key areas of the Cerrado region. Bank Approval Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection scheduled for 18 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. (N) Disaster Risk Management DPL:The objective is to sup- Project: P143184. US$ 10.6 (CSCF). Consulting services to be deter- port implementation of strategic reforms in three policy areas of the mined. SENAR - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural, SGAN Government DRM’s Program: (a) strengthening disaster risk reduc- 601 Módulo K, 1º andar, Brazilia, Brazil, Tel: 612109-13002109-1301, tion and adaptation to climate change; (b) consolidating the Recov- E-mail: daniel.carrara@senar.org.br ery and Emergency Response System; and (c) promoting proactive Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM) for Indigenous People: disaster risk financing and insurance measures. Decision Meeting The objective is to enhance the capacity and support specific initia- scheduled for 14 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. tives of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Brazil in order Project: P150751. US$ 125.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and to strengthen their participation in FIP and other REDD+ processes implementing agency(ies) to be determined. at the local, national and global levels. Decision Meeting scheduled Climate Resilience Integrated Basin Management:The ob- for 27 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: jective is to strengthen the national capacity to integrate climate P143492. US$ 6.5 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing resilience in planning, management, and investment through the agency(ies) to be determined. JUNE 2014 Latin America and the Caribbean Region PAGE 69 Education (R) Bahia Development Policy Loan:The objective is to im- (R) Alagoas Extreme Poverty Eradication:The objective is prove service delivery and support social inclusion in priority sectors, to support the efforts of the State of Alagoas to eradicate extreme including gender, education, crime prevention, planning and tax poverty, as part of the Brazilian Federal Government’s program administration. Negotiations scheduled for 17 June 2014. Envi- to achieve the same goal nationwide. This project is on hold un- ronmental Assessment Category U. Project: P147984. US$ 400.0 til further notice. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: (IBRD). Consultants will be required. State Secretariat of Planning, P126620. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. State Av. Luis Viana Filho, 2a avenida, no.250, Centro Administrativo da Secretariat of Planning and Economic Development (SEPLANDE), Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, Tel: (55-71) 3115-3944, Fax: (55-71) 3115- Rua Dr. Cincinato Pinto, 503, Centro, Maceio, Brazil, Tel: (55-82) 3945, E-mail: luiza.mello@seplan.ba.gov.br, Contact: Luiza Amelia 3315-1511, Fax: (55-82) 3315-1711, E-mail: secretario@seplande. Guedes Machado, Superintendant al.gov.br, Contact: Luis Otavio Gomes, State Secretary of Planning (R) Gender and Social Inclusion:The objective is to design an and Economic Development innovative model for addressing a comprehensive approach to gender (R) Pernambuco Education Results and Accounting SWAP: and social inclusion that builds on recent research that focuses on The objective is to support critical programs of the state of Per- the WDR 2012 framework for gender equality by exploring issues of nambuco in education and public sector management. Decision endowments, economic opportunities and agency. Project Concept Meeting scheduled for 10 September 2014. This project is on hold Review Meeting scheduled for 20 October 2014. Environmental As- until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ sessment Category C. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be 170.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) determined. Secretaria de Estado de Planejamento - BA, 2 Avenida, to be determined. 250, Centro Administrativo, da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, Tel: (55-71) (R) Piaui Integrated Green Growth Sustainability and In- 3115-3550, Fax: (55-71) 3115-3945, E-mail: Sergio.gabrielli@seplan. clusion:The objective is to support the Government of Piauí in the ba.gov.br, Contact: Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, Secretario de implementation of its policies and programs to achieve higher rates Estado of inclusive green growth. This project is on hold due to the election (R) Public Management Additional Financing (Ln. 83270- of a new Government of Brazil. Environmental Assessment Category BR):The objectives are to scale-up: (a) the integrated territorial de- B. US$ 120.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. State of Piaui velopment approach to Rio de Janeiro by expanding sectoral activities Secretariat of Planning, Av. Miguel Rosa, 3190, Centro Sul, Teresina, in the metropolitan governance and urban transport, environment Brazil, Tel: (55-86) 3221-3145/4575, Fax: (55-86) 3221-1660, E-mail: and disaster risk management, housing, and social development; secretario@seplan.pi.gov.br and (b) the services and activities offered in health and education. Salvador Social Sector:The objectives are (a) economic inclusion The loan was signed on 30 April 2014. Environmental Assessment and improvement in health and education services; and (b) improve Category B. Project: P126735. US$ 48.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be living conditions in informal areas of the Salvador City which would required. Secretaria de Estados de Obras (SEOBRAS), Rua Mexico, include: (i) education, health and social assistance; (ii) housing and 125/9o Andar, Centro, RJ, Brasil, CEP: 20031-145, Brazil, Tel: (55- basic infrastructure; and (iii) economic inclusion and employability. 21) 2333-0165, Fax: NA, E-mail: vloureiro@obras.rj.gov.br, Contact: Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 25 September 2014. Vicente Loureiro, Secretario Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consult- (R) Strengthening Fiscal and Water Resources Manage- ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ment Development Policy Loan (Ln. 83790-BR):The objective is to promote economic development of the State of Rio Gande do Sul Health and Other Social Services by means of strengthening of water resources management and sup- (R) Rio Municipality Technical Assistance Loan (Ln. 82710- port for the consolidation of fiscal balance. Negotiations completed BR):The objectives are to: (a) support activities to further consoli- on 14 April 2014. Bank Approval scheduled for 27 June 2014. Envi- date the reforms undertaken as part of the DPL to the Municipality ronmental Assessment Category U. US$ 280.0 (IBRD). Consultants of Rio de Janeiro; and (b) promote improvements in the areas of will be required. Secretariat of Finance, Av. Maua, 1155-5o Andar, public investment management, delivery of social services and public Brazil, Tel: (55-51) 3214-5104, Fax: NA, E-mail: odir.tonollier@sefaz. sector management, including monitoring and evaluation of social rs.gov.br, Contact: Odir Tonollier, Secretary of Finance programs. Signing scheduled for 21 July 2014. Environmental As- Development of Systems to Prevent Forest Fires and Moni- sessment Category C. Project: P127245. US$ 16.2 (IBRD). No con- tor Vegetation in Brazilian Cerrado:The objectives are to: (a) sultants are required. Secretaria Municipal de Fazenda, Rua Afonso generate and disseminate geospatial and on-time information about Cavalcanti, 455, Anexo, Sala 604, Ciudad Nova, 20211-110, Rio de deforestation, forest degradation and land use in the Cerrado, Caat- Janeiro, Brazil, Tel: (55-21) 2976-3280, Fax: (55-21) 2976-2661, E- inga and Pantanal biomes; and (b) develop an early-warning system mail: macardoso.smf@pcrj.rj.gov.br, Contact: Marco Aurélio Santos to prevent forest fires at national scale. Decision Meeting tentatively Cardozo, Head of the Municipal Treasury scheduled for mid-August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category (R) Sergipe Development Policy Loan II:The objective is a con- C. Project: P143185. US$ 9.2 (CSCF). No consultants are required. tinuation to support the Government of Sergipe in improving public Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. sector management and expanding access to quality public services and economic opportunities for the extremely poor. Negotiations Recife Municipal Development Policy Loan:The objective is to scheduled for 15 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category strengthen conditions for inclusive growth through support to policy U. Project: P148145. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be reforms aimed at strengthening public sector management. Project determined. Sergipe State Secretary of Planning, Budget and Man- Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 21 July 2014. Environmental agement, Brazil, Tel: (55-79) 3226-2202, Fax: (55-79) 3226-2246, Assessment Category U. US$ 220.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be E-mail: gab.secretario@seplag.se.gov.br, Contact: Jeferson Passos, determined. Secretary of Planning and Management, Municipality of State Secretary of Planning, Budget and Management Recife, Rua da Aurora, 1377, Recife, Brazil, Tel: (55-81) 3355-8839, E-mail: virginia.lacerda@recife.pe.gov.br, Contact: Virginia Lacerda, Public Administration, Law, and Justice Project Manager (R) Amazonas Development Policy Loan (Ln. 83760-BR): Second Piaui Green Growth and Inclusion Development The objective is to support the creation of fiscal space for invest- Policy Loan:The objective is to support the Government of Piauí ments in citizen security through results-based management. Bank in the implementation of its efforts to achieve higher rates of inclu- Approval scheduled for 23 May 2014. Environmental Assessment sive green growth by: (a) improving land tenure administration, Category U. Project: P147979. US$ 216.0 (IBRD). Consultants will (b) promoting sustainable agricultural practices, (c) improve water be required. Secretaria da Fazenda do Amazonas (SEFAZ), Av. An- resource management and (d) ensuring environmental sustainability. dré Araújo, 150, Aleixo Manaus, AM, Brazil, Tel: (55 92) 2121-1868, Decision Meeting tentatively scheduled for mid-July 2014. Envi- Fax: (55 92) 2121-1914, E-mail: ucp.am@sefaz.am.gov.br, Contact: ronmental Assessment Category U. Project: P146981. US$ 200.0 Francisco Junior, Director (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. State of Piaui Sec- PAGE 70 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 retariat of Planning, Av. Miguel Rosa, 3190, Centro Sul, Teresina, 10.4 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministerio del Ambiente Brazil, Tel: (55-86) 3221-3145/4575, Fax: (55-86) 3221-1660, E-mail: y Desarrollo Sostenible, Calle 37 No 8-40, Bogota, Colombia, Tel: secretario@seplan.pi.gov.br (57-1) 332-3415, E-mail: olbautista@minambiente.gov.co, Contact: Olga Lucia Bautista Transportation Mainstreaming Sustainable Cattle Ranching Additional (R) Bahia State Logistics for Regional Development:The Financing:The objectives are to: (a) promote adoption of envi- objective is to contribute to enhancing the condition and the safety ronment-friendly Silvopastoral Production Systems (SPS) for cattle of state highways and feeder roads in selected regions. This objective ranching in Colombia´s project areas; (b) improve natural resource seeks to underpin the broader goal of spurring sustainable develop- management and enhance the provision of environmental services ment in those regions. Project Concept Review Meeting completed (biodiversity, land, carbon, and water); and (c) raise the productivity on 13 May 2014. Decision Meeting scheduled for 15 October 2014. in participating farms. Preparation is underway. Environmental As- Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147272. US$ 200.0 sessment Category B. Project: P145732. US$ 20.7 (SPTF). Consulting (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be services to be determined. Colombian Cattle Ranching Organiza- determined. tion-FEDEGAN, Calle 37 No. 14-31, Bogota, Colombia, Tel: (571) Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection 578-2020, E-mail: cosorio@fedegan.org.co, Contact: Carlos Osorio, Subgerente Tecnico (R) Acre Social and Economic Inclusion and Sustainable Development Additional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) Programmatic Development Policy Loan for Sustainable develop and implement water supply and sanitation urban service Development:The objectives are to: (a) improve the effectiveness delivery in five municipalities; and (b) expand and deepen the range and efficiency of the National Environmental System (SINA); and of activities in education, health and sustainable development to scale (b) integrate principles of sustainable development into key sectors, up the project’s impact and development effectiveness. Negotiations with a particular emphasis on protecting the most vulnerable groups. scheduled for 23 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 8 August 2014. Envi- A. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. State ronmental Assessment Category U. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting Secretary of Planning, Government of the State of Acre, Palácio das services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Secretarias, 232, Quuarto, Andar, Centro, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, Education Tel: (55-68) 3224-0481, E-mail: marcio.verissimo@ac.gov.br, Con- (R) Improving Access and Quality of Upper Secondary Edu- tact: Marcio Verissimo, Secretary of Planning cation:The objectives are to: (a) increase access; and (b) improve (R) Espirito Santo Integrated Sustainable Development the quality of upper secondary education to achieve the transition (Ln. 83530-BR):The objective is to improve efficiency of the State to tertiary education and labor market in equitable conditions. De- of Espírito Santo in managing water resources and infrastructure in cision Meeting scheduled for 5 June 2014. Environmental Assess- a sustainable, resilient and integrated manner. Bank Approval com- ment Category C. Project: P145353. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting pleted on 28 March 2014. Signing tentatively scheduled for August services to be determined. Ministerio de Educacion, Colombia, Tel: 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P130682. (57-1) 222-2800, E-mail: jlleras@contratista.mineducacion.gov.co, US$ 225.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for implementa- Contact: Juanita Lleras, Coordinadora de Programa tion of various water resources management and water supply and sanitation activities planned. CESAN, Av. Governador Bley, 186, (R) Third Student Loan Support Project-Series of Projects Brazil, Tel: (55-27) 3132-8200, Fax: (55-27) 3222-4369, E-mail: (SOP)-Phase II (Ln. 83540-CO):The objective is to increase www.cesan.com.br, Contact: Paulo Ruy, Diretor-Presidente. Insti- coverage, graduation and equity in the higher education system, tuto Estadual do Meio Ambiente (IEMA), Rod. BR 262 Km 0, Patio prioritizing quality higher education institutions. Signing scheduled Porto Velho, Brazil, Tel: (55-27) 3136-3437, Fax: (55-27) 3136-3441, for 30 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: E-mail: presidente@iema.es.gov.br, Contact:. Secretaria de Estado P145782. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Instituto de Projetos Especiais e Articulação Metropolitana, Palácio da Fonte Colombiano de Crédito Educativo y Estudios Técnicos en El Exterior Grande, Rua Sete de, Setembro, No. 362 8o Andar, Centro Vitória, (ICETEX), Colombia, Tel: (571) 382-1670, E-mail: frodriguezc@ Brazil, Tel: (55-27) 3636-1190, Fax: (55-27) 3321-3889, E-mail: www. icetex.gov.co, Contact: Fernando Rodriguez Carrizosa es.gov.br, Contact: Regina Curitiba, Subsecretaria Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Teresina Enhancing Municipal Governance and Quality (R) Facilitating Access to Justice in the Peace Consolidation of Life Additional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) modern- Process:The objective is to support the expansion of selected mech- ize and improve the management capacity of the Teresina Municipal anisms to provide access to justice for victims of Colombia’s armed Government in the financial, urban, environmental, service-delivery conflict. Project Identification is underway. Environmental Assess- and economic development fields; and (b) improve the quality of life ment Category C. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. of the low-income population of the Lagoas do Norte Region of the Ministerio de Jusiticia, Carrera 9 No 12C-10, Bogota, Colombia, Tel: city. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 18 June 2014. (57-1) 444-3100, E-mail: piedad.zuniga@minjusticia.gov.co Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Consult- (R) Government-wide Administrative and Financial Man- ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. agement Systems:The objective is to extend functionalities and Alto Solimões Basic Services and Sustainable Develop- coverage of existing public financial magement systems in the coun- ment Project Additional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) try and government-wide administrative and financial management support the Zona Franca Verde Program (PRODERAM, P083977) systems. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 10 Sep- to address the financing gap of the original project (APL1); and (b) tember 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 continue to support the assessment of existing urban development (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministerio de Hacienda y policies. This project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Credito Publico, Carrera 7 No 6-45, Bogotá, DC, Colombia, Tel: (57- Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and 1) 381-1700, E-mail: csoto@minhacienda.gov.co, Contact: Carolina implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Soto, Viceminister Colombia (R) Growth and Productivity Multi-sector DPL:The objec- tives are to increase economic growth and productivity by support- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry ing structural reforms that will foster physical and human capital (R) Conservation for Peace in the Heart of the Colombian investment, innovation, and facilitate access to external markets. Amazon:The objective is to consolidate a protected area’s system Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 13 May 2014. Deci- in the heart of the Colombian Amazon through an integrated land- sion Meeting scheduled for 28 August 2014. Environmental Assess- scape approach, improved forest governance and sustainable land ment Category U. Project: P149609. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting management practices. Decision Meeting scheduled for 20 August services to be determined. Ministerio de Hacienda y Cred Publico, 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144271. US$ Carrera 7 No. 6-40, Bogota, Colombia, Tel: (57-1) 381-1700, E-mail: JUNE 2014 Latin America and the Caribbean Region PAGE 71 malmonac@minhacienda.gov.co, Contact: Monica Almonacid, Sub- dm, Contact: Kenneth Darroux, Minister. Environmental Coordina- directora de Financiamiento Organismos Multilaterales tion Unit (ECU), Roseau Fisheries Complex Building, Dame Mary (R) Strengthening Online Justice Services:The objective is to Eugenia Charles Boulevard, Roseau, Dominica, Tel: (767) 266-5256, scale up the Strengthening Justice Services Project by focusing on Fax: (767) 448-4577, E-mail: ecu@dominica.gov.dm, Contact: Lloyd the expansion of online justice services in Colombia. Project Concept Pascal, Director Review Meeting scheduled for 18 August 2014. Environmental As- sessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Dominican Republic determined. Consejo Superior de la Judicatura, Colombia, Tel: 571 565 8500, E-mail: pomcadena@hotmail.com Education Transportation Education Quality Project:The objectives are to develop and implement new key policies and programs in fundamental areas of (R) Urban Transport Clean Technology Fund:The objective the Dominican Republic education sector strategy, including teacher is to support the Government in developing the urban transport quality and student learning. Decision Meeting scheduled for 2 July project for Bogota identified under the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P146831. US$ Investment Plan, to improve public transit service provision. The CTF 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to for Bogota envisions a comprehensive mobility and climate change be determined. agenda for Bogota’s Carrera 7 corridor. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 2 December 2014. Environmental Assess- Energy and Mining ment Category B. US$ 40.0 (CCTF). Consultants will be required. Ministerio de Transporte, Av. El Dorado CAN, Bogota, Colombia, (R) Distribution Networks Rehabilitation:The objectives are Tel: (57-1) 324-0800, E-mail: mgranados@mintransporte.gov.co, to: (a) increase the Cash Recovery Index of the three electricity dis- Contact: Felipe Targa, Viceministro de Transporte tribution companies in selected areas; and, (b) improve the quality of electricity service. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 21 Second Programmatic Productive and Sustainable Cities May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 120.0/100.0 Development Policy Loan:The objectives are to support the (IBRD/EUIB). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to implementation of: (a) sustainable and inclusive cities; (b) access to be determined. affordable housing; (c) institutional strengthening and regional coor- dination; and (d) connectivity across the urban system and regional Health and Other Social Services infrastructure financing. Decision Meeting scheduled for 7 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P145766. US$ (R) Flexible Active Labor Market Programs:The objective 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministerio de is to support the Ministry of Labor in improving the employability Hacienda y Credito Publico, Carrera 8, No. 6-64, Bogota, Colombia of: (a) poor, low-skilled, long-term unemployed people between the Tel/Fax: (57-1) 381-5000, E-mail: malmonac@minhacienda.gov. ages of 18 and 65; and (b) poor at-risk youth by building their work co, Contact: Monica Almonacid, Subdirectora de Financiamiento experience and life skills. Appraisal completed on 15 May 2014. Organismos Multilaterales Negotiations scheduled for 3 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131109. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants will Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection be required. Ministry of Labor, Av. Jimenez Moya, Centro de Los National Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Phase 2:The ob- Heroes, Dominican Republic, Tel: (809) 535-4404, Ext. 2306, Fax: jective is to further strengthen Colombia’s disaster risk management (809) 533-1548, E-mail: jose.polanco@mt.gob.do, Contact: Jose Luis framework through: (a) the application of disaster risk analysis and Polanco de Leon, Coordinator management in policy making at the sectoral and territorial levels, (R) Integrated Social Protection and Promotion project: and (b) strengthening of risk reduction at subnational levels. Deci- The objective is to expand the access to services and opportuni- sion Meeting scheduled for 14 July 2015. Environmental Assessment ties for households in extreme-poverty by strengthening the social Category B. Project: P130456. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will protection system in an innovative, integrated approach in selected be required. Ministry of Housing, Cities, and Territory, Bogota, Co- regions of the country. Decision Meeting scheduled for 3 July 2014. lombia, Tel: (571) 288-6020, Fax: NA, E-mail: NA Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P147213. US$ 70.0 Costa Rica (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Social Cabinet, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Tel: (809) 534-2105, E-mail: en- Health and Other Social Services rique.fernandez@gabsocial.gob.do (R) National Health Insurance System:The objective is to sup- port the Government of Costa Rica to strengthen the National Health Information and Communications Insurance System Efficiency and Performance. Project Concept Note (R) Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Program:The objectives are to: (a) increase access and affordabil- egory B. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing ity of broadband communications networks; (b) contribute to the agency(ies) to be determined. development of the regional IT industry; and (c) contribute to im- Dominica proved Government efficiency and transparency through regionally harmonized e-government applications. Decision Meeting scheduled Transportation for 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: (R) Third Phase Disaster Vulnerability Reduction (Cr. P147483. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing 54950-DM): (formerly Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection agency(ies) to be determined. The objective is to finance physical disaster mitigation investments Public Administration, Law, and Justice and technical assistance activities to measurably reduce Dominica’s vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change impacts. Signing (R) Public Sector Modernization:The objective is to strengthen scheduled for 10 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category central and subnational management capacities to improve the qual- B. Project: P129992. US$ 17.0/9.0/12.0 (IDA Credit/CSCC/CSCF). ity of public spending and to provide better and more efficient public Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, 5th Floor, Finan- services. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 18 August cial Centre, Kennedy Ave. Roseau, Dominica, Tel: (767) 266-3340, 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Fax: (767) 448-0054, E-mail: finance@dominica.gov.dm, Contact: Consultants will be required. Ministerio de Hacienda, Av. Mexico Rosamund Edwards, Financial Secretary. Ministry of Environment, Nio. 45, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Tel: (809) 687-5131, Natural Resources, Physical Planning and Fisheries, 2nd Floor, Gov- Fax: (809) 682-0498, E-mail: rsarante@hacienda.gov.do, Contact: ernment Headquarters, Kennedy Ave. Roseau, Dominica, Tel: (767) Ramon Sarante, Director del Programa de Administración Finan- 266-3544, Fax: (767) 440-7761, E-mail: environment@dominica.gov. ciera (PAFI) PAGE 72 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Ecuador increases the number of students that complete secondary education in Guyana’s Regions 3 and 4 (including Georgetown), by constructing Transportation and equipping schools, training teachers, and distributing learning Ibarra Road Infrastructure Improvement Project:The materials. Bank Approval scheduled for 4 June 2014. Environmental objective is to improve acess and inclusion of communities in the Assessment Category B. Project: P147924. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). municipality of Ibarra through the provision of road infrastructure Consultants will be required. Ministry of Education, 26 Brickdam, and institutional strengthening activities. Preparation is underway. Georgetown, Guyana, Tel: (592) 226-3094, Contact: Priya Manick- Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147280. US$ 21.0 chand, Minister (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Municipality of Ibarra, y Calle Simon Bolivar, Ibarra, Ecuador, Tel: (593-06) 264-1677, Fax: Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (593-06) 295-4997, E-mail: guillosuarez.c@hotmail.com, Contact: (R) Disaster Risk Management (Cr. 54740-GY):The objec- Jorge Martinez, Mayor of Ibarra tive is to reduce the vulnerability of Guyana’s low-lying coastal area to flooding by implementing key strategic infrastructure invest- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection ments. Bank Approval scheduled for 4 June 2014. Environmental Prosaneamiento Water and Sanitation:The objective is to Assessment Category B. Project: P147250. US$ 11.9 (IDA Credit). support the Government’s Prosaneamiento Program to increase Consultants will be required. Agriculture Sector Development Unit water and sanitation coverage to about 95% by 2017 to all Ecuador- (ASDU), Ministry of Agriculture, Guyana, Tel: (592) 227-2978, E- ian municipalities (and their rural areas). This project is on hold mail: psmoagy@gmail.com, Contact: Mr. George Jervis, Permanent until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Secretary P147951. US$ 244.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Banco del Estado (BEDE), Ecuador, Tel: (593-2) 299-9600, E-mail: Haiti saavedral@bancoestado.com, Contact: Lorena Saavedra, Projects and Products Manager Education (R) Education for All Phase II Additional Financing:The ob- Grenada jectives are to support: (a) enrollment of students in select non-public Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry primary schools in disadvantaged areas; (b) student attendance in Regional Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project Addi- select primary schools in disadvantaged areas; and (c) strengthened tional Finance:The objective is to reduce vulnerability to natural management of the Recipient’s primary education sector. Bank Ap- hazards and climate change impacts in the Eastern Caribbean. This proval scheduled for 25 June 2014. Environmental Assessment project will aim to scale up project activities in Grenada. Project Category B. Project: P147608. US$ 14.8 (HRTF). Consultants will Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 15 September 2014. Environ- be required. Ministry of National Education and Professional Train- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 8.8 (CIF). Consulting services ing (MENFP), Avenue Jean-Paul 2, Pacot, Port au Prince, Haiti, and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Tel: (509) 3754-5106, E-mail: creutzerm@hotmail.com, Contact: Creutzer Mathurin, Directeur de la Cellule de Pilotage Industry and Trade (R) HRF Grant for Strengthening Governance in Educa- (R) Comprehensive Debt Framework Development Policy tion and Water Sectors:The objective is to enhance transpar- Loan (Cr. 55230-GD):The objective is to support the Government ency and efficiency of public resources management in support of to create fiscal space, improve resilience to natural disasters, and reconstruction and institutional consolidation for long term growth strengthen competitiveness in order to achieve debt sustainability. through improving governance, oversight and public resource use Negotiations scheduled for 21 May 2014. Environmental Assessment in (i) the Education sector, and (ii) the Water and Sanitation sector. Category U. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Negotiations completed on 5 June 2014. Decision Meeting scheduled Ministry of Finance, Planning, Economy, Energy and Cooperatives, for 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: Financial Complex, the Carenage, St. George’s, Grenada, Tel: (473) P147166. US$ 17.6 (HRTF). Consulting services and implementing 440-2928, Fax: (473) 440-4115, E-mail: timothy.Antoine@gov.gd agency(ies) to be determined. Guatemala Second Global Partnership Education for Education for All Program Grant:The objective is to support the Ministry of Educa- Public Administration, Law, and Justice tion in the development of a three-year sector Transitional Action (R) Second Programmatic Fiscal Space for Expanding Op- Plan which will prioritize areas for engagement in the education portunities Development Policy Loan (Ln. 83850-GT):The sector from 2013-2015. Negotiations scheduled for 28 July 2014. objective is to support the Guatemalan Government in creating fiscal Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 24.1 (EFAS). Consul- space and expanding opportunities for the most vulnerable segments tants will be required. Ministry of National Education and Profesional of society. Bank Approval scheduled for 17 June 2014. Environmen- Training (MENFP), 5 rue D’Audain, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tel: (509) tal Assessment Category U. Project: P133738. US$ 340.0 (IBRD). 3754-5106, Fax: (509) 527-1135, E-mail: creutzerm@hotmail.com, Consultants will be required. Directorate of Public Credit, Ministry of Contact: Creutzer Mathurin, Directeur de la Cellule de Pilotage Public Finance, 8a. Avenida 20-65 Zona 1, Centro Civico, Guatemala Health and Other Social Services City, Guatemala, Tel: (502) 2322-8888 Ext. 11538, Fax: NA, E-mail: NA, Contact: Mynor Argueta, Head of Department, Management (R) Heritage and Sustainable Tourism in the Northern and Negotiation Region (Cr. H9440-HT): (formerly Public Administration, Law, (R) Urban Infrastructure:The objectives are to: (a) support in- and Justice sector) The objective is to promote tourism in Haiti’s creased access to infrastructure; and (b) reduce crime and violence Northern Region through valorization of cultural heritage, selected in low-income and precarious urban settlements in the country. investments and local initiatives. Bank Approval scheduled for 19 Appraisal completed on 12 May 2014. Negotiations scheduled for 1 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144614. July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P143495. US$ 45.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Unite Technique US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Instituto d’ Execution (UTE), Rue 3, no 26 PACOT, Port au Prince, Haiti, de Fomento Municipal (INFOM), 8a Calle 1-66 Zona 9, Ciudad de Tel: (509) 3701-3646, E-mail: mdelandsheer@ute.gouv.ht, Contact: Guatemala, Guatemala, Tel: (502) 336-8100, Contact: Edin Roberto Michael de Landsheer, Executive Director Casasola, Coordinator de Cooperacion Internacional Transportation Guyana (R) Disaster Risk Management and Reconstruction--Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) Additional Financ- Education ing:The objective is to increase resilience in disaster planning and (R) Universal Secondary Education (Cr. 54730-GY):The response in vulnerable cities in coastal areas of the Gulf de la Gonâve objective is to improve secondary education learning conditions and by: (i) adopting an integrated coastal management approach land JUNE 2014 Latin America and the Caribbean Region PAGE 73 use planning; (ii) infrastructure protection; and (iii) encouraging Jamaica involvement and accountability of stakeholders. Bank Approval scheduled for 26 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Health and Other Social Services egory B. US$ 7.0 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Integrated Community Development (Ln. 83560-JM): The objective is to improve quality of life in inner-city areas and Center and Artibonite Regional Development and Growth poor urban informal settlements through improved access to basic Pole:The objective is to support the economic development in the urban infrastructure, financial services, land tenure regularization, Center and Artibonite Loop (CAL) through a multi-sector spatial enhanced community capacity and improvements in public safety. development initiative including better transport connectivity, net- The loan was signed on 6 May 2014. Environmental Assessment worked cities and selective promotion of investments with community Category B. Project: P146460. US$ 42.0 (IBRD). Consultants will participation to support productive areas and inclusive growth. Bank be required. Jamaica Social Investment Fund, 1C-1F Pawsey Road, Approval scheduled for 19 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Kingston 5, Jamaica, Jamaica, Tel: (876) 929-1620, E-mail: scarlette. Category B. Project: P133352. US$ 50.0/8.0 (IDA Grant/CSCF). gillings@jsif.org, Contact: Scarlette Gillings, Managing Director Consultants will be required. Unite Technique d’ Execution (UTE), (R) Youth Employment in Digital and Creative Industries: Rue 3, no 26 PACOT, Port au Prince, Haiti, Tel: (509) 3701-3646, The objective is to create an enabling environment in the digital E-mail: mdelandsheer@ute.gouv.ht, Contact: Michael de Landsheer, and animation industries for: (a) youth employment in the virtual Executive Director Global Economy; and (b) youth employment and entrepreneurship Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection through new startups or expansion of existing companies. Nego- tiations scheduled for 21 May 2014. Environmental Assessment (R) Strengthening Hydro-Met Services:The objective is to Category C. Project: P148013. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants will strengthen capacity of select institutions in delivering reliable and be required. Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, timely hydrological and meteorological information services to in- Jamaica, Tel: (876) 929-8990, E-mail: ksmith@mstem.gov.jm, Con- form policy dialogue and decision making. Project Concept Review tact: Kaydian Smith, Principal Director Meeting completed on 22 April 2014. Decision Meeting scheduled Jobs and Skills:The objective is to support the skills and job acqui- for 27 January 2015. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ sition through demand-driven training and a strengthened workforce 5.5 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to development system. This project is on hold until further notice. En- be determined. vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting (R) Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation:The objective is services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. to increase access to water and sanitation services as well as consoli- date and scale up the professional management model in rural areas Industry and Trade and small towns in Haiti. Project Concept Review Meeting completed (R) Growth and Competitiveness:The objectives are to support: on 5 May 2014. Appraisal scheduled for 11 August 2014. Environ- (a) investment climate issues identified in the First Programmatic mental Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting DPL; (b) include innovation/entrepreneurship work in the areas services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. of policy on MSMEs and entrepreneurship; and (c) support the (R) Urban Community Driven Development Additional competitive industries logistics hub initiative and value chains such Finance:The objective is to improve access to, and satisfaction with: as agri-business and tourism. Negotiations scheduled for 6 June (i) basic and social infrastructure and services, including housing 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147665. repair, reconstruction and community infrastructure improvements US$ 50.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Planning Institute needed as a result of the emergency; and (ii) income-generating op- of Jamaica, 16 Oxford Road, Kingston 5, Jamaica, Tel: (876) 960- portunities for residents of targeted disadvantaged urban areas. Bank 9339, E-mail: info@pioj.gov.jm, Contact: Barbara Scott, Deputy Approval scheduled for 20 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Director General Category B. Project: P149116. US$ 7.5 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Bureau de Monetisation des Programmes d’Aide Public Administration, Law, and Justice au Developpement, Boulevard Harry Truman, Ancien Immeuble, (R) Improving Climate Data and Information Manage- International, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tel: (509) 2223-8625, Fax: ment:The objective is to improve the quality of climate informa- (509) 2221-2149, Contact: Jean-Alix Nicolas, Deputy Director tion for effective planning and action at local and national levels in Jamaica. Decision Meeting scheduled for 15 July 2014. Environ- Honduras mental Assessment Category B. US$ 6.8 (CSCF). Consultants will be required. Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), PIOJ Building 16 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Oxford Road Kingston 5, PO Box 634, Jamaica, Tel: (876) 935-5059, (R) Corredor Seco Food Security Project:The PDO is to en- Fax: (876) 906-2214, E-mail: Barbara_Scott@pioj.gov.jm, Contact: hance food and nutritional security of vulnerable households in se- Hopeton Peterson, Manager lected geographical locations of the Corredor Seco. Decision Meeting (R) Public Sector Modernization:The objective is to improve scheduled for 12 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category public sector management for efficient use of resources and increas- B. Project: P148737. US$ 30.0 (GAFS). Consulting services to be ing productivity. Negotiations completed on 14 May 2014. Bank determined. Ministry of the Presidential Office, Honduras, Tel: (504) Approval scheduled for 7 July 2014. Environmental Assessment 9495-2299, E-mail: jimenezmariano@yahoo.com, Contact: Mariano Category C. Project: P146688. US$ 35.0/2.6 (IBRD/DFID). Con- Jimenez, Executive Director, UTSAN sultants will be required. Planning Institute of Jamaica, 16 Oxford Road, Kingston 5, Jamaica, Tel: (876) 960-9339, E-mail: info@pioj. Energy and Mining gov.jm, Contact: Barbara Scott, Deputy Director (R) Sustainable Rural Energy Services:The objective is to Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection scale-up the provision of sustainable energy services (off-grid) and advanced biomass cookstoves for rural and periurban areas in Hon- (R) Disaster Vulnerability Reduction:The objective is to mea- duras. Preparation scheduled for 15 October 2014. In Standby Mode surably reduce vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131602. US$ 10.0 impacts. Decision Meeting scheduled for 17 December 2014. Environ- (CSCF). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Bo. El mental Assessment Category B. Project: P146965. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Jazmin 5ta. Ave. 3ra Ave, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tel: (504) 2220- Consulting services to be determined. Jamaica Social Investment 1538, Fax: (504) 2222-6120, E-mail: rayala@sefin.gob.hn, Contact: fund, 1c-1f Pawsey Road, Jamaica, Tel: (876) 968-4545, Contact: Leonardo Matute, Coordinador Loy Malcolm, General Manager, Project Management PAGE 74 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Mexico modernization of the water supply and sanitation sector of Oaxaca, through (a) reforming institutional framework, and (b) improv- Education ing the quality and sustainability of the water services in Oaxaca (R) Compensatory Education Additional Financing:The city, provincial cities and rural areas. Signing scheduled for 13 June objective is to improve the coverage and education performance of 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145578. US$ high marginalization students in 162 of the poorest municipalities 55.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Secretariat of Finance of of Mexico, through innovative interventions and the participation the State of Oaxaca, Centro Administrativo del Poder Ejec y J, Av. of parents and other members of the school community. Appraisal Gerardo Pandalf No. 1, Reyes Mantecon, Mexico, Tel: (52-951) 501- scheduled for 23 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category 6900, E-mail: francisco.madrazo@finanzasoaxaca.gob.mx, Contact: C. Project: P149858. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and Francisco Jose Madrazo Marenco, Advisor. Comision Estatal del implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Agua/Oaxaca, Mexico, Contact: Julian Ruben Rios Angeles, Director (R) School Based Management:The objective is to improve the General de la CEA quality of education as measured by coverage, social participation, and educational outcomes. Appraisal scheduled for 23 June 2014. Nicaragua Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P147185. US$ 300.0 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Caribbean Coast Food Security Project:The objective is to im- determined. prove food and nutritional security in selected food insecure commu- Energy and Mining nities of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. Pre-appraisal scheduled (R) Municipal Energy Efficiency:The objective is to support the for 9 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 33.9 development of an urban energy efficiency program by: (a) stren- (GAFS). Consultants will be required. Ministerio de Economía Famil- thening the capacity of the municipalities and the Ministry of En- iar Comunitaria, Km. 8 1/2 Carretera a Masaya, Frente al MAGFOR, ergy (SENER) to design and implement energy efficiency measures; Managua, Nicaragua, Tel: (505-2) 255-8777, E-mail: mmachado@ and (b) implementing energy efficiency measures in municipalities. economiafamiliar.gob.ni, Contact: Maria Antonieta Machado Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 4 June 2014. Envi- Transportation ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting Rural Roads Infrastructure Improvement Additional Fi- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. nancing:The objectives are to: (a) improve access of rural popula- (R) Sustainable Energy Technologies Development for tion to markets, social, and administrative services through: (i) the Climate Change:The objective is to improve the functioning of carrying out of improvements in road infrastructure, and (ii) the Mexico’s Sustainable Energy Fund which generates around US$100 strengthening of MTI’s institutional capacity for asset and DRM; million per year for developing clean energy technologies. Appraisal and (b) support the generation of short-term employment opportu- scheduled for 20 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category nities for the rural population. Negotiations scheduled for 21 May B. Project: P145618. US$ 16.9 (GEFU). Consulting services to be 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146845. determined. SENER, Insurgentes Sur No.890, Col. del Valle, Mexico, US$ 2.9/54.1 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Mexico, Tel: (52-5) 5000-6047, E-mail: crortiz@energia.gob.mx, Ministry of Transport (MTI), Frente al Estadio Nacional, Managua, Contact: Carlos Ortiz, Director General Nicaragua, Tel: (505) 2222-5913, E-mail: cristel.guzman@mti.gob. Efficient Lighting and Appliances II:The objective is to build on ni, Contact: Cristhel Guzman the success of the Mexico Efficient Lighting and Appliances Project to expand adoption of Incandescent bulbs (IBs) in small-size cit- Panama ies (less than 100,000 inhabitants, mainly in rural areas), replace Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry inefficient refrigerators with state-of-the-art technologies and help develop world class energy efficiency standards. Project Concept (R) Biodiversity-Friendly Sustainable Productive Systems Review Meeting scheduled for 30 September 2014. Environmental and Conservation of Protected Areas:The objective is to main- Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and stream biodiversity-friendly sustainable systems in productive land- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. scapes and improve selected protected areas management within the Panamanian Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Negotiations Health and Other Social Services scheduled for 28 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. (R) Social Protection System:The objective is to provide techni- Project: P145621. US$ 9.6/8.5 (GEFU/ZPCI). Consulting services to cal and financial support to the redesign and implementation of the be determined. Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente, Avenida Ascanio National Conditional Cash Transfer Program- Oportunidades- and Villalaz, Edificio 500, Panama, Panama, Tel: (507) 232-9600, E- also support the coordination of this program with social protec- mail: iavaldespino@cbmap.org, Contact: Ivan Valdespino, Manager, tion programs/services. Decision Meeting scheduled for 22 July CBMAP II 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P147212. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Sedesol/Opor- Peru tunidades, Mexico, Mexico, Tel: (52-55) 5482-0700, E-mail: luis. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry barajas@oportunidades.gob.mx, Contact: Barajas Gonzalez Luis, (R) Dedicated Grant Mechanism:The objective is to enhance the Director, International Affairs capacity of, and support on-the ground activities to be carried out by Public Administration, Law, and Justice indigenous peoples and local communities in the Forest Investment Fiscal Risk Management Development Policy Loan:The Program (FIP) pilot countries. Project Concept Review Meeting com- objective is to support policies for enhanced fiscal sustainability, pleted on 28 April 2014. Preparation is underway. Environmental predictability and transparency of public expenditure to support Assessment Category B. Project: P148499. US$ 5.5 (CSCF). Consult- stable economic growth and development. This project is on hold ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: (R) Sustainable Forest Management in Atalaya:The objec- P123505. US$ 300.8 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Sec- tive is to strengthen and implement forest landscape management retaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico SHCP, Av. Constituyentes in order to reduce GHG emissions produced by deforestation and 1001, Edificio B, 6to Piso, Col. Belen de las Flores, CP, Mexico DF, forest degradation and increase carbon reserves. Project Concept Mexico, Tel: (52-55) 3688-1486, Fax: (52-55) 3688-4962, E-mail: Review Meeting scheduled for 25 September 2014. Environmental guillermo_bernal@hacienda.gob.mx, Contact: Guillermo Bernal, Assessment Category B. US$ 12.6 (CSCF). Consulting services and Coordinator implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Health and Other Social Services (R) Oaxaca Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Mod- (R) Second Social Inclusion Development Policy Lending ernization (Ln. 83860-MX):The objectives are to support the (DPL):The objectives are to: (a) support the institutionalized leader- JUNE 2014 Latin America and the Caribbean Region PAGE 75 ship and stewardship of the social inclusion agenda; (b) lay out the Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection foundations to improve the inclusiveness and effectiveness of key (R) Lima Norte II Additional Finance:The objective is to im- social programs executed by MIDIS; (c) develop adequate systems prove efficiency, continuity and reliability of water supply and sanita- for targeting; (d) provide monitoring and evaluation; and (e) execute tion services in the Northern Service Area of Lima. Decision Meeting the overall coordination. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled scheduled for 28 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category for 23 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: B. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. SEDAPAL, Auto- P147216. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. pista R. Priale 210, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 317-3000, Fax: (51-1) 362-5148, Ministerio de Economia y Finanzas, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 311-5958, E-mail: mvargasm@sedapal.com.pe, Contact: Marco Vargas Medina, Contact: Rosario Cáceres Ruiz, Director General Manager (a.i.) Industry and Trade (R) Second Catastrophe Deferred Draw Down Option (CAT DDO):The objective is to increase the Government’s capacity to (R) Cusco Regional Development (Ln. 83060-PE):The ob- mobilize resources in the event of a disaster and to promote risk jective is to enhance the capacity of the Regional Government of reduction. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 14 August Cuzco to provide basic services and infrastructure in key sectors in 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). the Cuzco Region. Signing scheduled for 20 July 2014. Environ- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Economy and mental Assessment Category A. Project: P117318. US$ 35.0 (IBRD). Finance, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 311-5938, Fax: (51-1) 311-9900, E-mail: rca- Consultants will be required. COPESCO, Plaza Tupac Amaru s/n, ceres@mef.gob.pe, Contact: Rosario Caceres Ruiz, Head of Unit Distrito Wanchaq, Cuzco, Peru, Tel: (51-84) 581-540, Fax: (51-84) 236-712, E-mail: jpena@copesco.gob.pe, Contact: Rogers Castillo, Regional Executive Director Finance Transportation (R) Catastrophe Risk Insurance Project (Cr. 55310-NI, Cr. 55300-HN):The objective is to increase the fiscal resilience of (R) Cusco Transport Improvement (Ln. 83390-PE):The Honduras and Nicaragua to risks associated with tropical cyclones, objectives are to: (a) alleviate congestion in the urban road network, earthquakes, and/or excess rainfall. Bank Approval scheduled for 18 and (b) contribute to the protection of the Historical Center of Cusco June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P149895. by improving; (i) the Municipal Government’s capacity to plan and US$ 16.0/8.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. manage the network; (ii) transport services and road safety; and Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Nicaragua, Nicaragua, Tel: (iii) perform routine maintenance. Bank Approval completed on (505-2) 266-9744, Fax: NA, E-mail: NA, Contact: Ivan Acosta, Min- 28 February 2014. Signing tentatively scheduled late-July 2014. ister. Ministry of Finance, Honduras, Honduras, Tel: (504-2) 222- Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132505. US$ 120.0 1278, Fax: NA, E-mail: wcerrato@selfin.gob.hn, Contact: Wilfredo (IBRD). Consultants will be required. COPESCO, Plaza Tupac Amaru Cerrato Rodriguez, Minister Secretaria de Estado en los Despachos s/n, Distrito Wanchaq, Cuzco, Peru, Tel: (51-84) 581-540, Fax: (51- de SEFIN 84) 236-712, E-mail: jpena@copesco.gob.pe, Contact: Julio Pena, Coordinator Central America and Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insur- ance:The objective is to increase the fiscal resilience of the Central (R) Lima Metro Line 2:The objective is to enhance the mobility American countries, the Dominican Republic, and CARICOM mem- of travelers and accessibility of socioeconomic opportunities in a ber countries to catastrophic events resulting from tropical cyclones, key corridor of Metropolitan Lima. Project Concept Review Meet- earthquakes, and excess rainfall. Preparation underway. Environ- ing scheduled for 19 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- mental Assessment Category C. Project: P149670. US$ 53.0 (FSSP). egory A. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing Consulting services to be determined. Caribbean Catastrophe Risk agency(ies) to be determined. Insurance Facility, Saint Lucia, Tel: (758) 285-6397, E-mail: ccrif. (R) Rural and Regional Decentralization:The objective is to ceo@gmail.com, Contact: Isaac Anthony, Chief Executive Officer contribute to sustainable economic development and rural poverty reduction in Peru through the improvement of accessibility of de- Industry and Trade partmental and rural roads that are managed by the regional and (N) Skills Upgrading for Incubator Managers and Re- local governments. Project Concept Review Meeting scheduled for sources for Policymakers: Environmental Assessment Category 28 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 C. US$ 2.0 (INFO). No consultants are required (IBRD). Consultants will be required. PROVIAS Descentralizado, Jr Camana 678, Piso 10, Cercado de Lima, Lima, Peru Tel/Fax: (51- Transportation 1) 614-5300, E-mail: jrodriguez@proviasdes.gob.pe, Contact: Jose (R) Second Phase Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Adapt- Rodriguez, Executive Director able Lending Program (Cr. 54930-LC): (formerly Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection The objectives are to support: (a) (R) Sustainable Development Investments SENACE:The structural investments in selected critical public buildings and infra- objective is to establish the foundations for long term sustainability structure; and (b) technical assistance activities to measurably reduce in the investments of key economic sectors and achieve progres- Saint Lucia’s vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change sive reductions in the costs of environmental degradation. Project impacts. Bank Approval scheduled for 4 June 2014. Environmen- Concept Review Meeting completed on 8 May 2014. Appraisal tal Assessment Category B. Project: P127226. US$ 41.0/15.0/12.0 scheduled for 17 June 2015. Environmental Assessment Category B. (IDA Credit/CSCC/CSCF). Consultants will be required. Ministry US$ 35.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministerio of Finance, Economic Affairs and National Development, Financial del Ambiente, Av. Javier Prado Oeste 1440, San Isidro, Lima, Peru, Center, Bridge St. 3rd Floor, Castries, Saint Lucia, Tel: (1-758) 468- Tel: (51-1) 611-6000, E-mail: acuba@minam.gob.pe, Contact: Cuba 5500, Fax: (1-758) 452-6700, E-mail: ianthony@gosl.gov.lc, Contact: Amalia, Directora de Políticas, Normas e Instrumentos Isaac Anthony, Permanent Secretary National Roads Bridge Improvement:The objective is to im- prove the country’s all-weather access on bridges located in the Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection national road network by: (a) upgrading the national roads bridge Andes Adaptation to the Impact of Climate Change in Wa- network and road sections in critical conditions; and (b) improving ter Resources:The objective is to support countries in developing the capacity of the Ministry of Transport to plan and manage these strategies, policies and on-the-ground interventions to manage their bridges. Preparation is on hold until further notice. Environmental scarce water resources in an integrated fashion, prioritizing critically Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be threatened ecosystems and economies. Preparation is underway. determined. PROVIAS Nacional, Jr. Zorritos 1203, Lima, Peru, Tel: Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145345. US$ 9.7 (51-1) 615-7800, Ext. 4004, Fax: (51-1) 615-7453, E-mail: rtorres@ (GEFU). Consulting services to be determined. Secretaria General de proviasnac.gob.pe, Contact: Raul Torres, Executive Director la Comunidad Andina, Paseo de la República 3895, San Isidro, Lima, PAGE 76 Monthly Operational Summary JUNE 2014 Peru, Tel: (51-1) 710-6400, Fax: (51-1) 221-3329, E-mail: tursula@ The risk-sharing may be for specific risks (the partial risk guarantee) comunidadandina.org, Contact: Tomas Ursula, Coordinator or for part of the financing (the partial credit guarantee). St. Vincent and the Grenadines A partial risk guarantee covers risks arising from nonperformance of sovereign contractual obligations or from force majeure aspects in a Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection project. A partial credit guarantee and a policy-based guarantee typi- (R) Regional Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project Ad- cally extend maturities beyond what private creditors could otherwise ditional Finance:The objective is to reduce vulnerability to natu- provide, for example, by guaranteeing late-dated repayments. ral hazards and climate change impacts in the Eastern Caribbean For more information on the Bank’s guarantee program and to obtain Sub-region. Bank Approval completed on 9 May 2014. Signing a copy of the pamphlet “The World Bank Guarantees: Leveraging scheduled for 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Private Finance for Emerging Markets” (available in English, French, B. Project: P146768. US$ 35.6/5.0 (IDA Credit/CSCF). Consultants Portuguese and Spanish), please contact the Finance Economics and will be required. Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Kings- Urban Department (FEU) Tel: (202) 458-8111; Fax: (202) 522-0761, town, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tel: (784) 457-1746, E-mail: or visit www.worldbank.org/guarantees. cenplan@svgcpd.com, Contact:, Public Sector Investment Program Management Unit Uruguay Public Administration, Law, and Justice Africa (R) Public Sector Management and Social Inclusion Devel- opment Policy Loan:The objectives are to: (a) strengthen public Cote d’Ivoire sector administration; (b) improve competitiveness; and (c) improve Energy and Mining social inclusion through measures seeking to enhance the equity and Foxtrot Gas Field Expansion (Private Sector): The objective efficiency of health, education and social protection systems. Project is to improve the availability of natural gas for power generation in Concept Review Meeting scheduled for 9 July 2014. Environmental an environmentally sound manner. IDA PRG US$ 60 million. Board Assessment Category C. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and Approval completed on 18 June 2013. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Mauritania Energy and Mining Global Gas to Power PRG (Private Sector): The objective is to increase the electricity supply through development of gas infrastructure. IDA PRG US$ 80 million. The Board Approval to be reschedlued. Regional Nigeria Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Energy and Mining Forest Investment Program (FIP) Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities:The objective is Nigeria Power Sector IPP Guarantees Project (Private Sec- to enhance the capacity and support specific initiatives of Indigenous tor): The objective is to support power sector development and Peoples and Local Communities in FIP Pilot countries in order to privatization of distribution and power generation companies. A se- strengthen their participation in FIP and other REDD+ processes ries of IDA PRGs US$ 1 billion. Board Approval to be reschedlued. at the local, national and global levels. Decision Meeting scheduled for 2 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: Tanzania P128748. US$ 5.0 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing Energy and Mining agency(ies) to be determined. Singida Wind power (Private Sector): The objective is to im- Oceans Financing Facility:The objective is to finance sustainable prove the environment for private sector investments in climate- fisheries management activities in up to five priority ocean areas friendly wind generation capacity. IDA PRG of US$ 100 million. around the world, together with increased funding from the Oceans Board Approval to be reschedlued. Financing Facility to implement all of the objectives of the GPO, e.g. Ruhudji Hydropower Project (Private Sector): The objective more sustainable aquaculture, reduced marine pollution, and habi- is to improve the environment for private sector investment in power tat conservation or protection. Negotiations scheduled for 21 May sector, thereby increasing electricity supply. IDA PRG of US$ 200 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P128437. US$ million. Board Approval scheduled for FY15. 10.0/10.0 (GEFU/ZBIL). Consultants will be required. Guarantee Operations Europe and Central Asia By covering some of the risks that the market is not able to bear or Croatia adequately evaluate, the Bank’s guarantee can attract new sources of Financial Sector finance, reduce financing costs, and extend maturities. The guarantee can be especially valuable for countries with limited market access Croatia PCG (Private Sector): The objective is to support the and where activities traditionally undertaken and financed by the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) to government are being shifted to the private sector but where the improve long-term financing terms. PCG EU€ 200 million. Board government remains as a regulator or provider of inputs and a buyer Approval completed on 27 June 2013. of outputs. The Bank’s participation as guarantor can also facilitate Kosovo the transparency of these transactions. Since the guarantee is intended to be a catalytic instrument, the Bank Energy and Mining offers only partial guarantees, and risks are clearly shared between New Kosovo Power Plant (NKPP) IPP (Private Sector): The the Bank and private lenders. The Bank’s objective is to cover risks objective is to support a private sector independent power producer that it is well-positioned to bear given its credit, its experience with and lignite mine development company. IDA PRG of US$ 54 million. developing countries, and its special relationships with governments. Board Approval scheduled for FY15. JUNE 2014 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE 77 LIST OF ACRONYMS AUSAID Australian Agency for International IDB Inter-American Development Bank Development IFAD International Fund for Agricultural ADB Asian Development Bank Development ADF African Development Fund IsDB Islamic Development Bank AfDB African Development Bank JBIC Japan Bank for International Cooperation APL Adaptable Program Loan ITF Interim Trust Fund BADEA Banque Arabe de Développement KfW Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau Économique en Afrique (Germany) BOAD Banque Ouest Africaine LIL Learning and Innovation Loan de Développement NCB National Competitive Bidding CDB Caribbean Development Bank NGO Nongovernmental Organization CFD Caisse Française de Développement NORAD Norwegian Agency for Development CIDA Canadian International Development Cooperation Agency OECF Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund DANIDA Danish International Development Agency (Japan) DFID Department for International OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Development (UK) Countries EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction PAD Project Appraisal Document and Development PCD Project Concept Document EDF European Development Fund PCF Prototype Carbon Fund EIB European Investment Bank PCN Project Concept Note EU European Union PHRD Policy and Human Resources FAC Fonds d’Aide et de Coopération (France) Development (Japan) FAO Food and Agricultural Organization PID Project Identification (Number) of the United Nations PPF Project Preparation Facility FAO/CP FAO Cooperative Program (with the World Bank) QCBS Quality and Cost-Based Selection FINNIDA Finland International Development SDC Swiss Agency for Development Agency Cooperation GEF Global Environment Facility SIDA Swedish International Development Authority GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit UNDP United Nations Development Programme IAPSO Inter-Agency Procurement Service Office UNFPA United Nations Population Fund IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund and Development USAID United States Agency for International ICB International Competitive Bidding Development IDA International Development Association WHO World Health Organization