The development objective of the Tanzania-Zambia Transmission 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 include : (i) loss of land; (ii) loss of physical structures; (iii) loss on crops and trees; and (iv) impacts on physical cultural resources; Some of the mitigation measures are includes : (i) normal practice minimization is always practiced to reduce compensation cost; (ii) land owners, with or without formal legal rights, are entitled to full, fair and prompt compensation plus disturbance allowance, transport allowance, accommodation allowance and loss of profit if they were in actual occupation of the acquired property; (iii) cash compensation levels should be sufficient to replace the lost asset at full replacement cost in local markets; (iv) permanent and non-permanent buildings need to be compensated; (v) displaced persons are provided prompt and effective compensation at full replacement cost for losses of assets directly attributable to the project; (vi) provided with residential housing, or housing sites, or, as required, agricultural sites for which a combination of productive potential, locational advantages and other factors is at least equivalent to the advantages lost; (vii) offered support after displacement for a transitional period, based on a reasonable estimate of the time likely to be needed to restore their livelihood and standard of living; (viii) all Project Affected Persons (PAP’s) who were compensated were farmers who were using land for cultivating crops.
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The development objectives of the Da Nang-Quang Ngai Expressway Development Project for Vietnam are to construct an expressway that will enhance efficiency and safety for road users traveling between Da Nang city and Quang Ngai province and build institutional capacity for expressway development in the Ministry of Transport.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) affected person (AP) will be compensated by land for land with similar use purpose or compensated in cash at full replacement cost for the affected land area; (2) vocational training and job creation allowance for households (HHs) who lose more than 20 percent of total agricultural land area or lose less than 20 percent but the remaining land is unviable for continued production; (3) cash at full replacement cost for entire land plus additional allowance for self-relocation equivalent to unit cost of investment per HH at the resettlement site; (4) perennial trees (timber trees and fruit trees): to be compensated at replacement cost; (5) costs for repair of works shall be compensated in cash or follow the agreement between client and CARB; (6) compensation in cash, equivalent to 50 percent of compensation value for garden land, pond land; 40 percent of compensation value for agricultural land; and (7) workers in production and business units and state agencies affected by land acquirement will receive allowance equivalent to the minimum salary according to provincial regulations in the maximum conversion time of 6 months and will be assisted to find out the replacement jobs.
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Ratings for the First Phase of Modernization of Rani Jamara Kulariya Irrigation Scheme Project for Nepal were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was modest.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: The proper phasing of activities investments were designed based on the insight from the implementation of many irrigation projects that a focus solely on irrigation infrastructure (off- or onfarm) for improving water delivery and management may not achieve much in terms of higher-level outcomes; Focus on gender and social inclusion; addressing climate risks.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR4400 MAR 29, 2018
This joint report by the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is part of a wider set of economic and sector work being conducted by development agencies to assist Somalia in its further elaboration (through sector strategies and programs) and implementation of the current National Development Plan and its preparation of the next one.
... See More + The report covers the historical performance of all major agricultural subsectors (livestock, crops, forestry, and fishing) and the status of agro-processing. It also analyzes the subsectors' key medium- and long-term development constraints, challenges, potential for growth, and policy and investment options. Weak institutions, insecurity, a persistent insurgency, dilapidated infrastructure, environmental degradation, and climate change are major obstacles to Somalia's economic development,especially in the Southern regions. These challenges and the recent severe drought-related crises notwithstanding, agriculture is and will remain central to the country's economic development.
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In the past 10 years, Ethiopia experienced high and consistent growth, invested in public goods provision to poor households, and saw impressive gains in well-being for many households.
... See More + This paper exploits variation in sectoral growth and public goods provision across zones and time, to examine whether poverty reduction was driven by growth and provision of public goods and what type of growth -- growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or services -- was more effective at reducing poverty. The paper pays particular attention to controlling for other drivers of poverty reduction and instrumenting growth in a sector of particular policy focus -- agriculture -- to identify causal effects. The analysis finds that reductions in poverty were largest in places where agricultural output growth has been higher, safety nets have been introduced, and improvements in market access have been made. Agricultural output growth caused reductions in poverty of 2.2 percent per year on average post-2005, and 0.1 percent per year prior to 2005. The government's policy focus on stimulating productivity gains in smallholder cereal farmers contributed to this growth, but only when the weather was good, and prices were high. Access to markets was essential: agricultural growth reduced poverty in places close to urban centers, but not in remote parts of the country.
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Policy Research Working Paper WPS8380 MAR 27, 2018
This joint report by the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is part of a wider set of economic and sector work being conducted by development agencies to assist Somalia in its further elaboration (through sector strategies and programs) and implementation of the current National Development Plan and its preparation of the next one.
... See More + The report covers the historical performance of all major agricultural subsectors (livestock, crops, forestry, and fishing) and the status of agro-processing. It also analyzes the subsectors' key medium- and long-term development constraints, challenges, potential for growth, and policy and investment options. Weak institutions, insecurity, a persistent insurgency, dilapidated infrastructure, environmental degradation, and climate change are major obstacles to Somalia's economic development,especially in the Southern regions. These challenges and the recent severe drought-related crises notwithstanding, agriculture is and will remain central to the country's economic development.
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This joint report by the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is part of a wider set of economic and sector work being conducted by development agencies to assist Somalia in its further elaboration (through sector strategies and programs) and implementation of the current National Development Plan and its preparation of the next one.
... See More + The report covers the historical performance of all major agricultural subsectors (livestock, crops, forestry, and fishing) and the status of agro-processing. It also analyzes the subsectors' key medium- and long-term development constraints, challenges, potential for growth, and policy and investment options. Weak institutions, insecurity, a persistent insurgency, dilapidated infrastructure, environmental degradation, and climate change are major obstacles to Somalia's economic development,especially in the Southern regions. These challenges and the recent severe drought-related crises notwithstanding, agriculture is and will remain central to the country's economic development.
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Crop yields in smallholder systems are traditionally assessed using farmer-reported information in surveys, occasionally by crop cuts for a sub-section of a farmer's plot, and rarely using full-plot harvests.
... See More + Accuracy and cost vary dramatically across methods. In parallel, satellite data is improving in terms of spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution needed to discern performance on smallholder plots. This study uses data from a survey experiment in Uganda, and evaluates the accuracy of Sentinel-2 imagery-based, remotely-sensed plot-level maize yields with respect to ground-based measures relying on farmer self-reporting, sub-plot crop cutting (CC), and full-plot crop cutting (FP). Remotely-sensed yields include two versions calibrated to FP and CC yields (calibrated), and an alternative based on crop model simulations, using no ground data (uncalibrated). On the ground, self-reported yields explained less than 1 percent of FP (and CC) yield variability, and while the average difference between CC and FP yields was not significant, CC yields captured one-quarter of FP yield variability. With satellite data, both calibrated and uncalibrated yields captured FP yield variability on pure stand plots similarly well, and both captured half of FP yield variability on pure stand plots above 0.10 hectare. The uncalibrated yields were consistently 1 ton per hectare higher than FP or CC yields, and the satellite-based yields were less well correlated with the ground-based measures on intercropped plots compared with pure stand ones. Importantly, regressions using CC, FP and remotely-sensed yields as dependent variables all produced very similar coefficients for yield response to production factors.
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Policy Research Working Paper WPS8374 MAR 26, 2018
This executive summary is associated with the Environmental and social impact assessments (ESIA) carried out for the high voltage 400 kilovolt (KV): (i) Iringa – Mbeya overhead transmission line which is about 292 kilometers long; and (ii) Mbeya – Tunduma – Sumbawanga overhead transmission line which is about 320km long.
... See More + These two projects are being sponsored by Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) with funding to be sourced from multi-lateral finance institutions such as the World Bank. The two ESIA Study reports define and characterize the affected environment, identify potential environmental and social (E and S) impacts, and provide recommendations for impact mitigation. The two ESIA Studies also includes a detailed synopsis of the proposed Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) that will govern the construction and operation of the transmission line throughout its life cycle.
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The development objective of the Tanzania-Zambia Transmission 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 are includes : (i) prepare and implement erosion and sediment control plans,particularly in areas identified as having high erosion potential; (ii) hazardous materials must be stored in a manner that prevents interaction with each other or with the environment or from being tampered accidentally; (iii) Contractor will protect all soil stockpiles subject to winderosion using a barrier, windscreen or vegetation; (iv) all trucks that cart away excavated soils will be covered using a tarpaulin sheet; (v) minimize construction impacts on receiving water bodies by implementing an erosion and sediment control plan and following best management practices; (vi) The Project Contractor will minimize vegetation clearing of the ROW, access roads and substation areas to only what is required for the construction phase processes; (vii) identified bat roosts such as those identified in tree holes, banana trees and rock cliffs should be avoided; (viii) all PAPs should be compensated for agricultural crops and fruit treesat the most current and applicable market rates; (ix) Contractor will procure and erect road traffic furniture for communicating with motorists about the construction works. Such road furniture will be erected after acquiring the necessary permits from the appropriate authorities; (x) Contractor will develop and implement an organizational Gender Policy that will ensure employment and business opportunities are accorded to men and women equally, and where necessary, affirmative actions are applied to bridge gender gaps that may exist; (xi) Contractor shall ensurethat separate accommodation and ablution facilities are provided for women.
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