The development objectives of the Cyclone Reconstruction and Climate Resilience Project for Tonga are to: (i) facilitate the provision of housing and basic services and restore and improve key community facilities to the affected population of Ha'apai; and (ii) strengthen institutional and executing capacity for disaster risk management in the Kingdom of Tonga.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) providing full replacement cost for land and fixed assets affected by land resumption; (2) calculating compensation based on full replacement cost and paying prior to the impact or resumption; and (3) considering the needs of affected persons in determining the form of compensation.
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The objective of the Armenia Trade Promotion and Quality Infrastructure Project is to strengthen the enabling environment and firm capacity to increase private investments and exports.
... See More + The project's direct beneficiaries include both existing and potential exporters, who will benefit from an improved quality of programs and services provided under a more efficient trade promotion and quality system. Negative impacts include: loss of asset, loss of land acquisition, loss of household property, loss of structure, loss of trees and crops, loss of income, and loss of livelihood. Mitigation measures include: compensation in cash for all residential, commercial or other structures will be paid at replacement cost of these structures, without any depreciation of the structure and without deduction for salvageable materials; project affected persons, or PAPs will be provided full assistance for transportation of personal belongings, household inventory and salvaged material, and will be given a relocation allowance in addition to the compensation at replacement cost of their houses, lands and other properties; in cases where community infrastructure such as schools, factories, water sources, roads, sewage systems, electrical supply, or other community resources such as a woodlot or pasture is lost, this will be replaced at no cost to the community; and fees and taxes on land and/or house transfers will be waived or otherwise fees and taxes will be included in a compensation package for land and/or house. The competent government authorities will give preferential treatment to PAPs reconstructing their houses on their own, and support them in obtaining the necessary property titles and official certificates.
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This is a statement by Luis Videgaray, Secretary Finance and Public Credit, Mexico, on behalf of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Kingdom of Spain, and República Bolivariana de Venezuela, at the eighty-ninth meeting of the Development Committee held on April 12, 2014.
... See More + He stresses that multilateral coordination is the best asset to face global economic difficulties and to achieve the goals of fostering shared and sustainable prosperity, in order to eliminate extreme poverty by the year 2030.
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This is a statement by Mr. Pravin J. Gordhan, Minister of Finance at the eighty-ninth meeting of the Development Committee held on April 12, 2014.
... See More + The report states the improvement of economic prospects and growth in high-income countries; the progress made to date in aligning the institution to achieve the goals endorsed by governors at the last spring meetings; International Development Association's (IDA's) strong and more targeted investments in regional transformational projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as an important component to shaping the future of sustainable growth on the continent; and the progress report on the implementation of the recommendations of the Sendai report and commend the increased integration of disaster risks management (DRM) into policy and investment operations, as well as in country partnership strategies across the Bank Group.
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This is a statement by Mr. Mitsuhiro Furusawa, Vice Minister of Finance, International Affairs at the eighty-ninth meeting of the Development Committee held on April 12, 2014.
... See More + He emphasises on: the International Development Association's( IDA's) role of providing valuable development expertise, as well as on the effect that loan programs from IDA to its client countries urge to pursue sound and responsible macro-economic policy that enables to pay back debts in a timely manner; and Japan's emphasis on support for infrastructure development, the formulation of development policies, and technical assistance for human resource development. He also traces Japan's emphasis on assistance in disaster risk management, global environmental issues, and healthcare, as it pays attention to factors that can impede inclusive and sustainable growth.
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This is a statement by Mr. Hon Steven Ciobo, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia at the eighty-ninth meeting of the Development Committee held on April 12, 2014.
... See More + He states that the growth in high income countries is slowly showing signs of improvement, but the external environment for many countries remains uncertain. The tightening of fiscal and monetary policy in the developed world remains necessary in order to restore balance following the period of post-crisis stimulus. However, this may lead to short-term volatility and, over time, tighten access to capital for many countries, including those represented in constituency. In this context, it is important for all countries to renew commitment to the reforms required to reduce vulnerabilities and spur growth.
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This is a statement by Mr. Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of the Treasury at the eighty-ninth meeting of the Development Committee held on April 12, 2014.
... See More + Since the Development Committee met last October, the shared priority has been delivering on the bold vision for achieving the World Bank's twin goals - reducing extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. The United States strongly supports the World Bank's efforts to strengthen its own capacity so that it can provide more strategic, evidence-based solutions, grounded in the best global knowledge, to its clients. Progress is being achieved on a number of fronts, from financial measures that will improve the World Bank's long-term financial sustainability to better tools that will diagnose a country's constraints to achieving durable growth.
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This is a statement by The Right Honourable Justine Greening, MP, Secretary of State for International Development, and The Right Honourable George Osborne, MP Chancellor of the Exchequer, United Kingdom, at the eighty-ninth meeting of the Development Committee held on April 12, 2014.
... See More + They discuss the World Bank President Jim Kim's reform efforts, the engagement with resilience, fragile states, conflict and crises, and gender and anti-discrimination. It is essential that UN member states agree on a clear, compelling and inspiring framework that builds on and goes beyond the Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals.
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This is a statement by Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director at the eighty-ninth meeting of the Development Committee held on April 12, 2014. Five years after the global financial crisis, the economic outlook is brightening: growth is picking up in both developing countries and high-income economies.
... See More + But inequalities and poverty persist in all countries. Over a billion people continue to live on less than $1.25 a day. Inequalities within and between countries are growing, thereby threatening economic development and poverty reduction efforts. Children are among the most vulnerable to the effects of poverty and inequalities. Investing in them in particular in the most vulnerable is a strategic way to build a brighter future for all, and for generations to come.
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The development objective of the Additional Financing for the Electricity Supply Reliability Project for Armenia is to increase the reliability and capacity of the transmission network.
... See More + Negative impacts include: loss of house, loss of asset, loss of land acquisition, loss of trees and crops, loss of income, and loss of livelihood. Mitigation measures include: cash compensation at current market rates for the gross value of 1 year's harvest by default. Crop compensation will be paid both to landowners and tenants based on their specific sharecropping agreements; cash compensation at market rate based on type, age and productivity of trees. Re-plantation of twice the amount of saplings in suitable location in case of state owned and community trees; and non-residential buildings will be compensated in the same fashion as residential buildings only to those project affected persons, or PAPs who have registered legally their property. However PAPs without registration will be compensated, only after legalization and compensation. To legalize their buildings the PAPs without registration shall pay necessary sums for registration, if they can afford. Relocated renters will be given all relocation and severe impacts allowances.
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The paper estimates the effects on presidential election returns in Mexico of a government climatic contingency transfer that is allocated through rainfall-indexed insurance.
... See More + The analysis uses the discontinuity in payments that slightly deviate from a pre-established threshold, based on rainfall accumulation measured at local weather stations. It turns out that voters reward the incumbent presidential party for delivering drought relief compensation. The paper finds that receiving indemnity payments leads to significantly greater average electoral support for the incumbent party of approximately 7.6 percentage points. The analysis suggests that the incumbent party is rewarded by disaster aid recipients and punished by non-recipients. The paper contributes to the literature on retrospective voting by providing evidence that voters evaluate government actions and respond to disaster spending.
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Policy Research Working Paper WPS6836 APR 01, 2014
The development objective of the Chongqing Small Towns Water Environment Management Project for China is to reduce flood risks and improve wastewater services in selected counties of the Chongqing municipality.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) the resettlement subsidy to under 16 years will be fully paid to the individual; and a certain portion of that for one aged 16 years or above will be used to pay basic endowment insurance premiums for urban enterprise employees voluntarily, and the remainder will be paid to the individual for production and livelihood restoration; (2) the owner will also pay a reclamation bond of 8,000-10,000 yuan per mu, and undertake the reclamation of the temporarily occupied land. The bond will be returned to the owner if the reclaimed land has passed inspection; (3) young crops on the land temporarily occupied for the subproject will be compensated for based on twice the actual period of occupation at 3,630 yuan per mu for irrigated land, 4,530 yuan per mu for non-irrigated land and 4,530 yuan per mu for woodland; and (4) affected houses will be compensated for at the compensation rates for rural residential houses, namely 634 yuan per
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The objective of the Power Development Project (PDP) for Nepal is to increase access to electricity in rural areas; and improve the quantum and efficiency of electricity supply.
... See More + Negative impacts include: loss of land occupied by residential houses, loss of houses, and loss of school block, and toilet. Mitigation measures include: (1) providing compensation for houses and land area to be affected by the project; (2) providing compensation at replacement cost, land replacement values, and dislocation allowance; and (3) establishing compensation fixation and grievances redress committees to address the issues of compensation and grievances of relocates.
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The Emergency Recovery and Disaster Management Project for Bolivia had a satisfactory outcome with moderate risk to development outcome, and moderately satisfactory performances by both the Bank and borrower.
... See More + The lessons learned were: (1) Bundling of infrastructure subprojects can produce catalytic effects. (2) A national DRM strategy should respond to the particular needs and conditions prevailing in the country in question. (3) DRM awareness at community level contributes to ownership and sustainability of results. (4) Development of monitoring and evaluation systems is critical to accurate assessment of results and balanced inference of lessons. (5) The importance of the Bank's GFDRR grants in providing highly qualified and intensive technical assistance to enhance and help build national capacities and hazard-monitoring systems. (6) The frequent supervision and presence of an on-site team composed of specialists in DRM was indispensable to successful implementation and wide variety of beneficial outcomes. (7) Institutionalization of DRM priorities. Collaboration with the ERDMP contributed to FPS' developing a set of guidelines and standards for subproject maintenance and repair. This signals ownership of DRM concepts and is a positive indicator of sustainability of the new or rehabilitated infrastructure. (8) Multiple restructurings may create high transaction costs. Multiple restructurings may create high transaction costs for small operations like the ERDMP and can divert both Government and Bank resources away from implementation, especially in a context in which inter-agency coordination is already difficult. (9) Undertaking a large amount of small-scale reconstruction works may not be a viable model in this type of context.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR1384 MAR 30, 2014
The development objective of the Secondary Education Improvement Project for Ghana is to increase access to upper secondary education in underserved school districts and improve quality in low-performing senior high schools in Ghana.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) providing compensation to project-affected people (PAPs) according to World Bank environmental and social safeguard policies; (2) recruiting local labor as much as is available; (3) including sanitary facilities in the project design, and providing running water; and (4) improving transport infrastructure or facilities under the project.
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The development objectives of the Nigeria Electricity and Gas Improvement Project (NEGIP) are to increase availability and reliability of power supply along with financial sustainability of the Nigerian power sector.
... See More + A secondary but important global objective would be the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through reduced gas flaring and enhanced share of cleaner generation. Some of the negative impacts of the project are: relocation or loss of shelter, loss of assets or access to assets, and/or loss of sources of income or means of livelihood. Mitigation measures of the project are: 1) resettlement will be avoided if possible and otherwise minimized by exploring all viable alternatives; 2) every effort will be made to provide alternative land to affected people, such as farmers and herdsmen, whose livelihoods depend on land, and who will lose land or access to land due to the subprojects; 3) if community infrastructure or services, such as schools, roads, bridges, water supplies, etc., are lost through project activities, these will be replaced in-kind; 4) affected persons and communities will be meaningfully consulted, and have the opportunity to participate in planning and implementing the resettlement program. This includes workshops and information campaigns to inform the public. Other means of information include the organization of local public forums to discuss the proposed mitigation measures, their content and means of their implementation, including timing and requirement, and to inform stakeholders about their rights and the alternatives available to them; and 5) alternative land will be provided to people who have to relocate physically because of the subprojects. These people must receive housing or residential plots that have all the advantages and productive potential of the previous site.
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The objective of Additional Financing for the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project for India is to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa to cyclone and other hydro meteorological hazards.
... See More + The additional financing will be used to scale up risk mitigation project activities and their impact and development effectiveness in the context of the October 2013 cyclone that hit the states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. These aims will be targeted through expanded activities under component B (cyclone risk mitigation infrastructure) and the related incremental management and coordination support under component D (project management and implementation support). The additional financing will be processed with the following: (i) adjustment of the indicators to reflect the proposed scale up and additional activities, and (ii) closing date of October 31, 2017. As a result of cyclone Phailin, the Government of India is seeking support to further finance disaster preparedness, ever more conscious of the need for cyclone risk mitigation infrastructure in the vulnerable coastal states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
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