Ratings for the Land Records Management and Information Systems Project for Pakistan were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, risk to development outcome was low or negligible, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: successful participation and communication strategies are impediment to major cultural and behavioral transformation. Technical innovation and candid analysis is fundamental to successfully develop a customized software adapted to local capacities and needs. The technical and social complexities inherent in land administration reform require a programmatic approach and design that is scalable. Political support to major transformational change depends on adequate strategies, the achievement of results, and constant communication flows. Implementation in a limited geographical area provides important lessons and reduces transaction costs for country-wide replication.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3719 JUN 21, 2017
The housing deficit in Argentina is estimated to affect 6 million out of the 24 million households nationally. Macro-economic turmoil has contributed to this imbalance in two ways.
... See More + First, the continuous inflation and currency depreciation made real estate a refuge investment protecting the capital value of investors. Second, rapid inflation acts a strong deterrent to the provision of long term finance and in particular mortgages. The government overhauled the public housing assistance policy by launching a 2016-2019 integrated housing and habitat plan (plan integral de vivienda y habitat). This plan aims to stimulate the production, or to provide one million housing solutions through two programs: a neighborhood improvement program targeting informal settlements, and a credit-linked subsidy program, solucion casa propria, through which up-front subsidies are granted to first time home buyers who contract mortgages, thus leveraging the impact of public intervention with bank credit. The broad prohibition of indexation has for a long time stunted the provision of long term, finance. To successfully grow the mortgage market, banks need funding and tools to manage interest rate and liquidity risks - that is, in the absence of significant derivative markets, funding from the capital market. The eventual development of a mortgage bond market based on housing loan portfolios, will help to increase the supply of stable long term funding instruments.
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Working Paper 117110 JUN 01, 2017
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The objectives of the Additional Financing for the Second Land Administration Project for Nicaragua are: (a) to strengthen the property rights of the population in the Project area through improved regularization, titling, and registry services; and (b) to improve Nicaragua's capacity to respond promptly and effectively to an eligible emergency.
... See More + The AF focuses on: (i) expanding the Integrated Cadastre Registry Information System (SIICAR) in Managua and Estelí; (ii) scaling-up cadastral, titling, and regularization services; (iii) strengthening municipal cadastre capacity; and (iv) supporting land administration studies and Project management, monitoring and evaluation. The AF will use the existing implementation arrangements, with the exception of two of the co-executing agencies, the National Institute for Development Information (INIDE) and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA), given that their activities will be completed under the original credit. To allow sufficient time to complete all AF activities, the project’s closing date will be extended by 18 months, from December 31, 2018 to June 30, 2020. The original credit’s closing date will not be extended. Disbursement estimates, components, costs, and the implementation schedule have been revised to reflect the scale-up of activities and extension of the closing date. The results framework is also updated to reflect the expanded scope of investments and additional implementation time.
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The development objective of the Improving Access to Affordable Housing Project for Mexico is to increase access to affordable housing for low-income beneficiaries.
... See More + The project comprises of three components. The first component, acquisition of housing units will enhance access to housing by assisting low-income beneficiaries to purchase their first new or existing housing unit in eligible locations through the provision of direct supports. The second component, self- production of housing units will enhance access to housing by assisting low-income beneficiaries in the design and construction of their housing units through the provision of direct support. The third component, strengthening urban management will foster the development of affordable housing through the carrying out of: (a) technical and analytical studies to assist in the formulation and revision of selected municipal urban planning instruments including, inter alia: (i) housing demand diagnostics; (ii) infrastructure requirement analysis to inform master plans for urban renovation and or densification; (iii) technical-prefeasibility studies; (iv) architecture urban design studies; and (v) financial structuring for affordable housing investments; and (b) citizen awareness campaigns and other dissemination and communication activities.
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Ratings for the Real Estate Registration Project (RERP) for Tajikistan were as follows: outcomes were not applicable, risk to development outcome was not applicable, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately unsatisfactory.
... See More + In a letter of January 4, 2017 Ministry of Finance (MOF) reiterated that State Unitary Enterprise for Registration of Immovable Property (SUERIP) was not able to accept the terms and conditions of the subsidiary agreement under the project and that MOF wished to redirect the funds from RERP to another project. This was later discussed with the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Vice President in a meeting on January 17, 2017 with the First Deputy Prime Minister, and again during a meeting between the Country Manager and the Chairman of the State Committee for Land Management and Geodesy (SCLMG) on February 13, 2017. During the latter meeting, it was confirmed that the Government of Tajikistan did not wish to proceed with the project. Based on the project’s failure to become effective a cancelation notice was sent on March 17, 2017 effective January 5, 2017. The main implication of the failure of the project to become effective is that SUERIP and the citizens of Tajikistan will not benefit from the project activities to implement a land administration system and the investment the project will have provided to modernize the system.
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The development objective of the Nairobi Metropolitan Services Improvement Project for Kenya is to strengthen urban services and infrastructure in the Nairobi metropolitan region.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) cash compensation of all immoveable developments on the affected land, such as structures; (2) replacement of lost land by agricultural land of similar potential under similar customary tenure arrangements - cash compensation for land or non - cash compensation of land; (3) resettlement house of similar or better quality on a resettlement plot and cash compensation of the lost house per Kenyan law at full replacement value; and (4) cash compensation of standing perennial crops at replacement value and of non-perennial crops at market value.
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The development objective of the Integrated Habitat and Housing Project for Argentina are to: (i) increase access to formal housing for eligible households; and (ii) improve living conditions for households in selected precarious urban settlements.
... See More + The project consists of four components are : First component, increased access to formal housing will finance the provision of up-front subsidies to selected beneficiaries . It will support the roll-out of the first nation-wide demand-driven housing subsidy program, the Solucion Casa Propia Program (SCPP). Second component, integrated habitat improvement will finance subproject interventions in precarious urban settlements that meet basic eligibility criteria. Each subproject will aim to transform the settlements (both physically and socially) through integrated interventions to provide secure legal tenure, access to basic services, public spaces, community infrastructure, works to reduce environmental risks, including those related to climate change and social programs, such as gender specific programs. Each subproject will be designed and implemented in a participatory manner (consultations will include the GOA, civil society and private sector service providers), leveraging existing programs and services. Third component, institutional strengthening is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments in the housing, habitat and urban sectors through, inter alia, the provision of support to strengthen SVH’s capacity to implement the project, including: (a) carrying out of assessments of the existing national-level housing initiatives; (b) design and implementation of an evaluation study for SCPP; (c) provision of support for the design and implementation of the management, operational and reporting systems for federal housing programs; (d) strengthening land regularization processes, improving urban design and sustainability of basic services and improving economic, cultural and social aspects of the subprojects under Component 2; and (e) carrying out of capacity building and training activities for the national and local governments’ staff and the participating entity’s staff for subproject preparation, in line with the National Habitat Plan; Fourth component, project management will finance support for the management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Project, including, inter alia: (a) carrying out of the Project audits; (b) conducting outreach campaigns to disseminate the Project; (c) carrying out of mid-term and final impact evaluation surveys to evaluate the Project’s impact; (d) provision of technical support on procurement, safeguards and financial management requirements, including the hiring of the National Coordination Unit (UCN) staff; and (e) financing of Operating Costs.
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Ratings for the Second Land Administration Project for West Bank and Gaza were as follows: outcomes were highly unsatisfactory, the risk to development outcome was high, the Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also highly unsatisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: all the related parties should be engaged in the previous mentioned discussions in any project in order to have logical, achievable and measurable objectives. This engagement allowing making discussions regarding the potential problems and maybe agreeing upon the solutions before facing the problems during the implementation of in the project. The committee responsible for the coordination between the project activities and the administration body of the PLA was directed by the project manager and this is not best practice because same person cannot represent the project and play the role of the coordinator at the same time. There was a bid for privatization activities of settlement for 90,000 dunum but no one applied, this was a failure in understanding the local facts of the Palestinian private sector and their capacities, and it also means that the estimations were very high and that the persons who developed the bid did not have a correct vision of what could be accomplished. The preparation phase of the project should include the M&E system to be up and running before the starting of the project not within the or after the project implementation phase.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3978 JAN 13, 2017
The objectives of Hunan Integrated Management of Contaminated Agricultural Land Project for China is to improve environmental management of agricultural land contaminated with heavy metals and other pollutants for safe agricultural production in selected counties in Hunan.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts are includes : (i) The impacts include air-borne dust, nuisance odor and tail gas, construction wastewater and solid waste including the dredged sediments, noise and destroy of artificial vegetarian cover; Some of the mitigation measures are includes : (i) no-horn sign shall be set up in sensitive spots and measures shall be adopted to reduce noise, such as using low-noise equipment, control noise source, transmission and traffic noise; (ii) earth excavated should be used for grad filling in other contracts of the project; (iii) construction works should be divided into several sections to reduce dust. Water spray should be applied on the site; (iv) construction works should be divided into several sections to reduce dust. Water spray should be applied on the site; (v) rehabilitation or construction of irrigation ditches should be scheduled to avoid the irrigation season, and temporary pass-by ditches should be provided as necessary; (vi) settling tanks should be set up at construction sites to treat the construction wastewater for reuse on site; (vii) construction management should be enhanced to avoid the leakage of fuel from equipment; the drainage system should be established in the spoil stockpile area; (viii) contractor works should be trained on the environmental protection; (ix) domestic solid waste on construction site should be collected and transported out of the site to local landfill facility for landfill; (x) environmental awareness of farmers should be enhanced by launching comprehensive awareness outreach plans; (xi) institutional capacity for supervision and implementation of the project should be enhanced;
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Ratings for the Conservation of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Management in the Atlantic Forest of Eastern Paraguay Project for Paraguay were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, risk to global environment outcome was moderate, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: landscape approaches should engage the broadest cross-segment of civil-society and private-sector groups as possible. Sustainable landscape management and restoration projects require longer timeframes. The participation of indigenous communities and National Indigenous Peoples Institute (INDI) in the overall project activities was critical to reach the project outcomes. Innovation and adaptability is required for unforeseen project challenges. Under weak institutional frameworks, sophisticated economic incentive schemes do not work properly.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3922 JAN 10, 2017
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP.
... See More + This study, however, identifies a deeper reason: African cities are closed to the world. Compared with other developing cities, cities in Africa produce few goods and services for trade on regional and international markets. To grow economically as they are growing in size, Africa’s cities must open their doors to the world. They need to specialize in manufacturing, along with other regionally and globally tradable goods and services. And to attract global investment in tradables production, cities must develop scale economies, which are associated with successful urban economic development in other regions. Such scale economies can arise in Africa, and they will—if city and country leaders make concerted efforts to bring agglomeration effects to urban areas. Today, potential urban investors and entrepreneurs look at Africa and see crowded, disconnected, and costly cities. Such cities inspire low expectations for the scale of urban production and for returns on invested capital. How can these cities become economically dense—not merely crowded? How can they acquire efficient connections? And how can they draw firms and skilled workers with a more affordable, livable urban environment? From a policy standpoint, the answer must be to address the structural problems affecting African cities. Foremost among these problems are institutional and regulatory constraints that misallocate land and labor, fragment physical development, and limit productivity. As long as African cities lack functioning land markets and regulations and early, coordinated infrastructure investments, they will remain local cities: closed to regional and global markets, trapped into producing only locally traded goods and services, and limited in their economic growth.
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The study aims to assess the market for low and middle income housing finance in Bangladesh and identify the demand trajectory of this segment over the next 4 years.
... See More + In addition, the report identifies factors that constrain the housing finance from serving low and middle income households.
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It is acknowledged that conflict over land is a major source of violence in various parts of Mindanao, particularly the prosed Bangsamoro region.
... See More + Historical accounts trace the root cause of land issues and identity-based conflict to the introduction of the Regalian doctrine of land ownership by Spanish colonizers. During the American colonial regime at the turn of the 20th century, dispossession of land held by the original inhabitants of Mindanao accelerated, with an emphasis of titling lands for private ownership that clashed with the tradition of ancestral domain. This was further exacerbated by migration instigated by the central government, starting with the development of "agricultural colonies: in the early 1900s to 1940s, to the passage of a series of land reform laws from the 1960s until the end of the 1980s to encourage individual land titling as a strategy for agricultural development. These evens radically altered land ownership patterns in Mindanao, as communal ownership of land by its original inhabitants gave way to individual titles in the possession of settlers from Luzon and the Visayas.
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The development objective of the Metro Manila Corridor Improvement Project for Philippines is to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of the public transport system along the project corridor in metro manila in an environmentally sustainable manner.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) full cash compensation at replacement cost without deduction for capital gains, documentary stamp, transfer taxes, and other directly related transaction costs; (2) full cash compensation at replacement cost for the affected structure without deduction; and (3) compensation for lost wages equivalent to the remaining days in the contract (usually less than six months).
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The development objective of the First Phase of Capacity Augmentation of the National Waterway Project for India is to enhance the transport capacity and reliability of national waterway and augment institutional capacity for the development and management of India's inland waterway transport system.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: registered tenants, contract cultivators and leaseholders and sharecroppers will be eligible for compensation for trees and crops as per the agreement document between the owner and the beneficiaries; squatters and encroachers will be provided cash assistance at replacement cost for loss of structures valued as per Basic Schedule of Rates (BSR); reconstruction of community structure and Common property resources in consultation with the community; if post acquisition, residual land is economically unviable, the land owner will have the choice of either retaining or sell off rest of the land; and compensation to be paid by the contractor for loss of assets, crops and any other damage as per agreement between the 'contractor' and the ‘affected party’.
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Ratings for the Affordable Mortgage Finance Program Development Policy Loan Project for Egypt were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was high, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: The main lesson learnt is that there are critical factors that contributed to the success of the operation, mainly: prior sound and extensive analytical work; strong policy dialogue with the authorities; prompt response to client‘s needs and the changing environment; provision of complementary technical assistance; conducive legal and regulatory framework; consultations with the different stakeholders; and overall flexibility in implementation of the reforms. All this was crucial to the successful implementation of the project. strong analytic underpinning. Technical assistance needs to accompany the Development Policy Loan (DPL) program to strengthen capacity. Consultations with stakeholders and market participants was a recipe for success.Importance of early and continuous promotion of the program.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3865 AUG 31, 2016
