The report presents following strategic objective to strengthen the credit reporting system in Eswatini: (i) strengthen the legal and regulatory framework; (ii) improve data quality; (iii) enhance supervisory oversight of the credit reporting system; (iv) increase usage of credit bureau services; (v) improve public understanding of and support for the credit reporting system; and (vi) promoting cross border sharing of data.
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At the request of Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL), the World Bank with funding support of public-private infrastructure advisory facility (PPIAF), is supporting the government to carry out the needed analysis, develop the framework and standard documents, and enhance the capacity of the stakeholders that will help unlock the potential for grid-connected solar power through private sector investment and provide a sound basis for scaling-up on a fast track deployment of solar power technologies in Sierra Leone.
... See More + In this report, the Consultant carries out an assessment of the public private partnership (PPP) enabling environment with particular focus on the legal, institutional, and regulatory elements, and their application on the ground to identify binding constrains for PPP in the solar power generation segment. This report will focus on taking this work a step further by analyzing in more detail key specific regulatory aspects identified by millennium challenge corporation (MCC) (like the choice of law or arbitration regulation). Also, this report will map-out and analyze the existing practices of IPP contracting, which was not extensively covered by MCC, and will provide more practical steps that can be required for materializing projects and accelerate market delivery of solar power plants in the specific regulatory and institutional context of Sierra Leone. The structure of this report is as follows: section one gives introduction; section two provides an overview of policies, strategies, laws, and regulations currently in place to provide a comprehensive context to the independent power producer (IPP) framework and building on the previous assessments, identifies some additional weaknesses and gaps inhibiting private sector investment in the IPP field; section three presents mapping of institutions involved in carrying out PPP transactions and analysis of their functions and roles; section four provides analysis of how the framework introduced in section two applies to solar IPPs in practice; section five explores the specific issues and gaps raised in section two and makes recommendations for tackling them, with reference to international best practice.
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This report presents the findings of a number of separate strands of work, which collectively seek to answer the following questions: (i) are the proposed capacity enhancements justified by current and projected demand; (ii) what is the current performance of the ports, in spatial and operating efficiency, relative to regional and matched peers globally,; (iii) which ports are likely to become regional hubs, and which are destined to become subregional or feeder ports; (iv) is the current balance between maritime capacity enhancement and the other impediments to port efficiency appropriate in the ESA subregion; and (v) what are the other necessary actions for the main ports4 from an institutional, policy, and operational perspective, to ensure that the ports deliver what is needed to enable local and regional economic development and trade.
... See More + Chapter two provides an overview of the evolution of economic growth and trade in countries in the hinterlands of the ports of interest, and a summary of the overall and transport-specific costs of trade in the ESA region. The chapter then outlines the role of maritime ports in driving growth and trade. Chapter three provides an overview of the 15 ports, summarizing the current operational status, trends, capacity, and recently implemented and ongoing or planned capacity expansion projects. It also provides an overview of the recent growth in volumes handled by the ports, together with regional trends. Chapter four evaluates the recent performance and status of the ESA ports from several perspectives, to the extent possible benchmarking ports against one another and against matched global comparators. The report uses three broad sets of indicators to provide an indication of the relative performance of ESA ports: spatial and operating efficiency; maritime access and connectivity; and technical efficiency. Chapter five reviews the various challenges facing the ports sector in ESA in more detail. Among these are: the changes taking place in global shipping markets, such as the cascading effect; consolidation among shipping lines; gaps in the policy, legal, and institutional frameworks relative to best-practice benchmarks; and poor access and limited inter-modality. Chapter six discusses the prospects of the ESA ports sector going forward. This includes an analysis of the competitive landscape of the ports, and the drivers of port choice from the shippers’ point of view; an aggregate and disaggregate estimate of the increase in volume and hinterland shares for the different ports; and the implications of these trends for investment needs. Finally, chapter seven provides the key conclusions, followed by more specific recommendations for each of the fifteen ports.
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This report focuses on recommendations for the improvement of civil procedure rules and selected trial processes with the aim to increase procedural efficiency and reduce bottlenecks in commercial case processing in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
... See More + The following aspects of case processing are analyzed: (i) service of process; (ii) hearings and adjournments; (iii) expert witnesses; (iv) bankruptcy trustees; (v) court fees; (vi) internal court rules; and (vii) use of Case Management System (CMS). The accompanying recommendations are developed in response to the existing legal framework that governs these selected aspects of commercial case processing and rely on existing good examples from Bosnia and Herzegovina courts, the regulatory framework of countries that share the same legal heritage as Bosnia and Herzegovina with a particular focus on European Union and Council of Europe member states, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case law, as well as recommendations and opinions of international institutions on judicial efficiency.
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The development objective of the West Africa Regional Fisheries Program in Mauritania, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone Project for Africa is to strengthen governance and management of targeted fisheries and improve handling of landed catch at selected sites.
... See More + The level of restructuring of the project for a (1) Change in Components and Cost, which will result in (2) Change in Results Framework, (3) Reallocation between Disbursement Categories and (4) Change in Disbursement Estimates.
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