The development objective of the Zambia-Tanzania Power Interconnector Project for Africa is to establish cross-border transmission capacity between the Southern African power pool and the Eastern Africa power pool to enable regional power trade.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) coordinate land planning by local authorities to prevent implementation of infrastructure or land uses that may constitute an attraction for birds, such as landfills; (2) undertake a pre-construction inspection on the final route alignment and access roads to identify any major bat roosts within or close to the areas to be cleared; (3) avoid construction of temporary access roads along river banks, dambos, or in areas where soils are saturated; (4) undertake selective cutting of the vegetation in dambo areas and riparian habitats in order to keep low growing species that do not represent a risk for the powerline; (5) carefully select the landing area of falling trees to minimize damage to crops; (6) restrict transportation to the identified access by clearly marking out the limit of the right-of-way (ROW) and access roads; and (7) make chopped woody resources and residues available to local populations to reduce additional pressure on natural resources.
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The development objective of the Zambia-Tanzania Power Interconnector Project for Africa is to establish cross-border transmission capacity between the Southern African power pool and the Eastern Africa power pool to enable regional power trade.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) maintain equipment and machinery in good running condition, including brakes, mufflers, silencers, catalyzers, and clean (power washed), free of leaks, and excess oil and grease; (2) develop and implement an emergency measures plan. This plan must include an emergency response in case of fire (including at substations), major soil erosion, and seismic events; (3) consistently apply a formal and documented risk assessment process conducted by a competent and experienced team of professionals at the planning stage of the operation activities to embed occupational health and safety considerations in the decision process; (4) all accidents, incidents, injuries, or near misses reported and investigated while formally monitoring the implementation and communication of control and or preventive measures; (5) regularly inspect all equipment at substations that may contain contaminants, such as transformers; and (6) restrict noise and vibration generating activities near residential or institutional sensitive receptors to the period considered as daytime (between 7 am and 7 pm).
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Ratings of Zambezi River Basin Management Project for Southern Africa were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was modest.
... See More + Some of the lessons learned include: (i) in projects in which the outputs of each component feed into one another, as was the case in this project, it would be better to hire one consultancy for all components; (ii) to address perceived risks in a way that addresses the subject country’s particular concerns; (iii) for the set of activities related to the strategic plan, this resulted in the original vision of the project being modified by the consultant, as client technical capacity was just being developed; (iv) improved client and Bank relations, at the top executive levels, toward the end of this project, was an important element for addressing a normally challenging political context; and (v) the terms of reference (TORs) upon which the activities are based, need to be referred to, continually.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR00004871 DEC 27, 2019
This report examines progress and challenges in reducing poverty in Lesotho. Lesotho's poverty rate is lower today than it was 15 years ago.
... See More + However, with a poverty rate of 49.7 percent in 2017, poverty remains widespread. Economic vulnerability is high, with more than 75 percent of the population either poor or vulnerable to poverty. This suggests that most of the population lack economic opportunities and are deprived on multiple fronts. Urban areas experienced greater poverty reduction due to improvements in education and increases in incomes from well-paying jobs, largely in the services sector. In rural areas, poverty stagnated due to slow growth in agricultural incomes, a fall in remittances and vulnerability of the rural population to weather shocks. Despite the growing urban-rural poverty divide, inequality fell as a result of expansion of social protection and an increase in wage incomes among the poor. In spite of this, Lesotho remains one of the 20 percent most unequal countries in the world. A combination of policies that improve human capital, promote job creation and address high unemployment, increase agricultural productivity, together with those that build resilience against economic and environmental shocks, would boost shared prosperity and accelerate poverty reduction in Lesotho.
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The objective of the Strengthening DRR Coordination, Planning and Policy Advisory Capacity of SADC Project is to strengthen the disaster resilience of Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states through regional collaboration and improved coordination, planning, policy advisory and knowledge dissemination capacity of SADC.
... See More + Overall the project objectives, proposed components, activities and budget will remain the same, but the project closing date will be extended until May 31, 2020. The project will continue to have a strong focus on disaster preparedness and response coordination, which is particularly important following the impacts of cyclones Idai and Kenneth, which affected the region in early 2019.
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