Natural disasters have increasingly damaged water supply and sanitation (WSS) facilities and infrastructure, leaving entire communities without safe and reliable drinking water and the appropriate disposal of wastewater.
... See More + These emergency events could arise from inundation of facilities, loss of electricity, and exposure and disruption of infrastructures. Less severe impacts can arise from increased siltation of reservoirs and slow-onset events such as droughts, thus having longer-term effects on the resilience and reliability of services. These WSS service failures or interruptions could set off a cascading effect across interconnected infrastructure systems including public health and fire services, which in turn could pose both direct and indirect economic impacts. Japan has built the resilience of its WSS services through an adaptive management approach based on lessons learned from past natural disasters. This experience offers key insights for low- and middle-income countries seeking to sustain and build resilience of WSS services.
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This paper is a synthesis of the findings of reports that look at the drivers of performance in energy and water utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
... See More + This paper also provides other insights on issues that complement the findings of these reports. Additional data and evidence were harvested from the analysis of water and electricity utilities in all three reports, which enabled a broader perspective on the sector wide variables impacting performance, beyond internal variables for specific utilities. The two water studies provide guidance on how to provide good quality services to customers, including the poor. In contrast, because of data constraints, the energy study was limited to a narrower but deeper assessment of operational performance in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal, and Uganda. The reports fill a gap in the literature of the utilities’ performance in Sub-Saharan Africa and expand on the determinants for performance, identify the traditional and nontraditional mechanisms for reaching the poor, and highlight the critical elements for turning bad-performing utilities around. While the three background reports provide a significant step ahead (as they serve mainly as a mirror for performance assessment at the country and utility level), the reports also aimed at providing direction in the region for sector-wide improvement.
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Working Paper 108744 OCT 01, 2016
Van Den Berg,Caroline; Antmann,Pedro; Heymans,Christiaan; Danilenko,Alexander V.; Andres,Luis Alberto; Shukla,Sameer; Goksu,Amanda McMahon; Kingdom,William D.; Damania,Richard; Bakalian,Alexander E.; Kamkwalala,Jonathan S.; Bahuguna,Aroha; Wit,Joeri Frederik de; Cubas,DianaDisclosed
The objective of the Western Area Power Generation Project for Sierra Leone is to increase the power generated by independent power producers and mobilize private capital.
... See More + The Environmental and Social Action Plan will be reviewed and updated with detailed mitigation developed as part of the detailed design phase, prior 10 commencement of construction. The project-specific detailed E&S management plans and programs will be incorporated into the HSES MS, including: construction management plan; health and safety plan including fire safety and emergency preparedness and response plan; ambient air quality monitoring plan; noise management plan; construction vibration management plan; including structure survey and vibration monitoring during construction; abbreviated resettlement action plan, traffic management plan; monitoring and reporting plan; waste management plan; and stakeholder management plan.
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The objective of the Rio Bogota Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project for Colombia is to assist the Borrower to transform the Rio Bogota River into an environmental asset for the Bogotá Distrito Capital metropolitan region by improving water quality, reducing flood risks, and creating multi-functional areas along the river.
... See More + This restructuring paper (RP) consists of (i) an 18-month extension of the closing date of the Project from June 30, 2016 to December 30, 2017; (ii) a restructuring of the Project’s results framework to ensure that indicators are realistic and attributable to the project; (iii) an update of Project cost to reflect real contract values; (iv) reallocation between disbursement categories to better reflect activities to be financed by the loan; and (v) an update of disbursement estimates to account for the new implementation schedule. The proposed restructuring follows the agreements reached during the Mid-Term Review (MTR) carried out by the Task Team (TT) and the Borrower (the CAR) in January 2016.
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Poor water supply and sanitation (WSS) service provision at the municipal level led to the concentration of authority under the National Water and Sewerage Service (Servicio Autónomo Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, SANAA) in the mid-1900s.
... See More + Fifty years hence, the pendulum swung back to the decentralization of WSS services after the difficulties encountered by a single public entity in developing and managing the WSS operations of an entire country. Decentralization of public services aims to improve service quality by vesting decision making power in local authorities with a better understanding of local realities, and who are more accountable for their performance to voters. This culminated in the passage of 2003 Water and Sanitation Framework Law, which decentralizes WSS service provision in Honduras. The law delegates WSS service provision authority to municipalities, who in turn establish the service provision model to use within their jurisdiction. As of mid-2016, 13 WSS systems have yet to be transferred to municipalities on account of lingering questions about employee salaries and local capacities; these concerns are particularly pronounced in the nine small towns that have not yet received transfer. At the same time, Honduras is urbanizing and small towns are growing, especially along the GoH’s identified Development Corridors. The government recognized that establishing sound institutional models while small towns are still small will help avoid problems of unplanned urban growth that bedevil large cities in Honduras and across Latin America. The TA set out to achieve four objectives: (i) inform development financing to improve WSS service in small towns; (ii) inform government policy and strategy through the national sector policy instruments; (iii) strengthen capacity of small town WSS service providers; and (iv) deepen and disseminate knowledge around WSS service provision in small towns.
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The objective of the Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation Service Project for Ghana is to increase access to improved water supply and improved sanitation, promote adoption of open-defecation-free status and hygiene practices, and achieve sustainability of water services in selected small towns and rural communities.
... See More + This proposal seeks approval for a one-year extension of the project closure date from June 30, 2006 to June 30 2017. The proposed extension is critical to ensure that all outstanding activities under the project which includes installation and testing of the completed systems are successfully carried out to fully assure achievement of the objective of the project. The extension is also to fully utilize savings made from exchange gains to close project gaps, particularly for the sanitation component which is lagging far behind the project target.
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Convenient access to safe water is central to human health and development. Water-borne disease remains a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the world, much of which could be eliminated by a combination of better water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH).
... See More + The WHO estimates that around 502 000 deaths a year in low and middle income countries from diarrheal disease are attributable to unsafe water, and that over 1 000 children under 5 die each day from diarrheal disease caused by inadequate WASH. UNWomen estimates that in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, women and girls spend 40 billion hours a year collecting water, the time valued at around $20 billion a year. Sustainable development goal no. 6 ‘ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all’ creates a framework for tackling the challenge of mobilizing the large investments required and making WaSH available at affordable prices. The purpose of the study on which this report is based is to analyze, capture and synthesize lessons learned from closed GPOBA water projects in order to evaluate the impact of the subsidy schemes and inform the scale-up and replication of OBA approaches. These lessons offer insight to successes and failures of project design and implementation as well as solutions to more complex projects and/or less tested environments.
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The objective of competition report strengthening sector decision making through water and sanitation service delivery assessments in Pakistan is to improve decision making of the provincial government clients towards improvedaccess and quality of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene services for all, including the poor, by identifying, recognizingand addressing service delivery bottlenecks and enable the poor to get improved and sustainable WASH services.
... See More + The technical assistance studies analyze sector bottlenecks in each sub-sector, and determine which specific weaknesses in the service delivery pathway are hampering the translation of investments into outcomes. They provide an overview of the range of service delivery approaches taken by specific provinces or regions and how these translate (or not) to sector outcomes. Akey component is the dialogue with sector agencies and governments during this analysis, to ensure an understanding of these issues, and how addressing these can result in more efficient and effective use of finances and sustainable services.The data and analysis of the SDA have been instrumental to conduct the WASH Poverty Diagnostic at provincial level especially the institutional analysis and political economy analysis.
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The development objective of the Urban Water Supply Project for Mali is to increase access to sustainable water services in Bamako. The additional financing (AF) will finance activities to maximize the development impact of the original project by: (a) constructing water production, storage, and pumping facilities and primary distribution networks to improve the delivery of water in urban centers where the quality of services has deteriorated; and (b) providing access to water services through social water connections and stand posts in unserved areas.
... See More + The changes associated with the AF and project restructuring comprise modifications to the original: (a) project development objective (PDO) formulation; (b) scope of activities; (c) results framework; (d) closing date; (e) legal name of the project; and (f) safeguard policies triggered.
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The development objective of the Balochistan Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Development Project for Pakistan is to strengthen provincial government capacity for water resources monitoring and management and to improve community-based water management for targeted irrigation schemes in Balochistan.
... See More + This project comprises three components. The first component, institutions, capacity and information will support a gradual transition to IWRM approaches in Balochistan in line with the existing IWRM policy. It will support institutional restructuring, professional development, installation and operation of hydro-meteorological systems, and establishment of multi-agency river basin information systems that provide public access to all available hydromet data for the two project basins. It has two sub-components. i) It will support institutional strengthening and restructuring, and ii) It will support hydro-meteorological data collection and management to provide the required information platform for improved water resources planning. The second component, water infrastructure and management investments will support implementation of IWRM sectoral investments in the Nari and Porali basins within a framework of community mobilization and participation. This components has three sub-components includes i) Construction and/or rehabilitation of irrigation and potable water supply facilities; flood protection infrastructure; ii) Related watershed and rangeland management; and iii) On-farm water management and agricultural productivity activities. The third component, project management and technical assistance will finance expenditures associated with overall project implementation costs, including incremental costs associated with the Project Management Unit (PMU) and the Project Implementation Units (PIUs), Project Supervision and Implementation Assistance (PSIA)consultants, M&E consultants, and implementation of Management Plans and Strategic Studies including the Environmental Management Plan (EMP), the Social Mitigation Plan and the Gender Action Plan (GAP). Study tours will also be included with piloting of new technologies and others that may be identified during project implementation, as well as feasibility studies for other river basins.
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Ratings for the Jiangsu Water and Wastewater Project for China were as follows: outcomes were highly satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was low, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: Strong provincial leadership can create a supportive enabling environment that contributes greatly to successful implementation. Cost recovery can be achieved through subsidies by the municipal governments. Well designed, targeted and focused TA that is implemented in a timely manner can achieve good results, even on a low budget. Loan reallocation can be made in a timely and effective manner, without negative impacts on completion time and project outcomes. Sub-standard water supply systems of peri-urban and adjacent rural areas can be successfully integrated and amalgamated into larger urban systems. Non-Revenue Water (NRW) reduction pilot projects can achieve their targets if they are well prepared and implemented using advanced technology and incentives for staff. Innovative solutions can help address environmental and social problems.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3675 JUN 07, 2016
