The development objectives of the Phase two of the Syr Darya Control and Northern Aral Sea Project for Kazakhstan are to improve flood management capacity and improve water provision for developing aquaculture and other socioeconomic activities in the project areas along the lower Syr Darya.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: the lost irrigated lands are compensated by the identical agricultural lands, i.e identical soil fertility level and productivity. Compensation is meant to give the owners an opportunity to restore the pre-project level of livelihood. These procedures are related both to the legislation of RK and procedures of World bank; affected persons are entitled to be compensated at full replacement cost for their lost assets, incomes and businesses, including temporary losses or impacts, without adjustments for depreciation; compensation should enable affected persons to restore at least their pre-project incomes and standard of living by the end of the project; special attention should be given to households headed by women and other vulnerable persons and appropriate assistance provided to assure that their living standards are maintained or improved; land acquisition and resettlement are executed as part of the project and fully funded; and compensation will be fully provided before land can be entered for civil works or demolition.
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The development objective of the Smallholder Agricultural Productivity Enhancement Project (SAPEP) for Yemen, Republic of is to increase the adoption and use of productivity-enhancing crop and livestock practices by smallholders in targeted project areas.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: use dust control measures onsite, such as water spraying for dust suppression; regulate site access; cover lorries transporting friable construction materials and spoil; prohibit open air burning; maintain machinery and vehicles in good working conditions to minimize emissions; and provide adequate protective wear for workers; minimizing entrance of heavy machines to reduce vibration impact. For handling and occupational health, applying strict hygiene regulation and occupational health measurements is critical and a separate EMP could be required to parts of operational stages for handling, washing, classification, freezing, backing up to loading and distribution to consumption; use of bio-treatment to prevent land disposal; and septic tanks for excess treated wastewater should be lined.
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The development objectives of the Phase two of the Syr Darya Control and Northern Aral Sea Project for Kazakhstan are to improve flood management capacity and improve water provision for developing aquaculture and other socioeconomic activities in the project areas along the lower Syr Darya.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) minimizing non- regulated field motor roads and preventing fracturing of sor solonchaks surface; (2) cutting and stockpiling of top fertile soil layers, especially alluvial soils with their subsequent placing back at disturbed areas, regulation of transport and machinery traffic, especially on soils with light mechanical content; (3) prohibiting car and other machinery washing in natural water bodies and rivers; (4) prohibiting chaotic traffic, minimizing section of soil cutting and excavation, restriction of light and noise impacts; and (5) minimizing soil cover' disturbance contamination.
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The development objective of the Punjab Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Improvement Project for India is to improve rural water supply and sanitation services and service delivery arrangements in Punjab.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) making alternative power supply arrangements for restoring regular water supply; (2) ensuring that project management unit establish good rapport with the Government of India and state district water sanitation committees (DWSCs) for timely release of funds and sanctioning of contracts respectively; (3) holding multiple rounds of stakeholder consultations prior to conceptualizing and during preparation of the project; (4) reinforcing women education and empowerment programs; (5) motivating community for taking part in water and sanitation management for sustainability of service delivery so that financial viability of the schemes is not affected; and (6) hiring of professional agencies for developing and implementing communication strategy for sanitation, hygiene, and conjunctive use of water.
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The development objective of the Punjab Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Improvement Project for India is to improve rural water supply and sanitation services and service delivery arrangements in Punjab.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) making alternative power supply arrangements for restoring regular water supply; (2) ensuring that project management unit establish good rapport with the Government of India and state district water sanitation committees (DWSCs) for timely release of funds and sanctioning of contracts respectively; (3) holding multiple rounds of stakeholder consultations prior to conceptualizing and during preparation of the project; (4) reinforcing women education and empowerment programs; (5) motivating community for taking part in water and sanitation management for sustainability of service delivery so that financial viability of the schemes is not affected; and (6) hiring of professional agencies for developing and implementing communication strategy for sanitation, hygiene, and conjunctive use of water.
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The development objective of the Smallholder Agricultural Productivity Enhancement Project (SAPEP) for Yemen, Republic of is to increase the adoption and use of productivity-enhancing crop and livestock practices by smallholders in targeted project areas.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: use dust control measures onsite, such as water spraying for dust suppression; regulate site access; cover lorries transporting friable construction materials and spoil; prohibit open air burning; maintain machinery and vehicles in good working conditions to minimize emissions; and provide adequate protective wear for workers; minimizing entrance of heavy machines to reduce vibration impact. For handling and occupational health, applying strict hygiene regulation and occupational health measurements is critical and a separate EMP could be required to parts of operational stages for handling, washing, classification, freezing, backing up to loading and distribution to consumption; use of bio-treatment to prevent land disposal; and septic tanks for excess treated wastewater should be lined.
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Ratings for the Urban Water Sector Project for Afghanistan were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, risk to development outcome was high, Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: the Bank is well placed to support a reform agenda if it is willing to sustain support over the long term. Implementation though government agencies, even if weak, facilitate institutional development by putting clients in the driver's seat and promotes learning by doing. Fragile and conflict states present a unique context that must be well understood and factored into project design. Donor financing in the form of co-financing of Bank operations, or independent financing of standalone projects should take precedence over parallel financing of interdependent project components. The objectives of an International Development Association (IDA) supported project should be achievable independently of donor activities, where the government often has little or no control on the content, sequencing, or quality of activities.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3050 DEC 23, 2014
Total donor pledges for FY1393 amounts to US$1082.56 million, of which US$1027.64 has been paid-in, of which US$476.98 million (46 percent) are without preference and US$550.66 million are preference.
... See More + A total of US$188.18 million was preference for ad hoc payments, leaving a total of US$839.46 million to support the ARTF Financing Strategy. This report presents tabular data on: ARTF contributions for FY1393, as of December 21, 2014; consolidated ARTF sources and uses of funds for FY1393; recurrent cost financing requirement; ARTF financing strategy; actual and expected donor contributions; expressed donor preference by projects; ARTF commitments and disbursements; and status and ratings of active and disbursing ARTF investment projects.
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Ratings for the Second Karnataka Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) Project for India were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, risk to development outcome was moderate, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: in order to implement decentralized RWSS service delivery, strong institutions and political will is needed at state, district, and gram panchayat (GP) level. The project was able to establish a culture of paying for water and also use the sustainability monitoring index to assess completed schemes across several parameters, however many GPs were unable to establish sustainable cost recovery mechanisms and, as a result, tariff collection targets were not met. RWSS projects that implemented in a decentralized environment should build in additional time to enhance capacity of the lowest tier of local government agencies. Community management is difficult to implement for multi village scheme (MVS) schemes, and can lead to implementation delays as seen in first and second Jal Nirmal Project (JNP I and II).
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3124 DEC 19, 2014
The objective of the Water Supply and Sanitation Project (WSSP) for Belarus is to increase access to water supply services and to improve the quality of water supply and wastewater services in selected urban areas in all six (6) oblasts of the Borrower.
... See More + The change is for an extension of the Water Supply and Sanitation Project (WSSP) original loan Closing Date by twenty four months from December 31, 2014 to December 31, 2016 to enable the completion of all works in the participating towns and achievement of project objectives. This will be a second extension of the loan closing date, which was originally June 30, 2013. The two extensions will amount to a total of 42 months. The extension has been requested by the Government in a letter from the Council of Ministers dated August 20, 2014, to ensure sufficient time for completion of works planned under the original loan and achievement of the Project Development Objectives (PDOs).
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The development objective of the Optimization of Lima Water and Sewerage Systems (WSS) Project for Peru is to improve the efficiency, continuity, and reliability of water supply and sanitation services in the northern service area of Lima.
... See More + The additional loan will finance the scaling-up of successful activities and enable the expansion of the projects geographic scope. The geographic expansion will enable improvement of the efficiency, continuity, and reliability of the WSS in targeted sectors within the district of Comas and adjacent districts of Carabayllo and Los Olivos. The closing date for the additional loan will be December 31, 2019. Revised target values will be established to reflect the scale-up. New indicators will be introduced to better capture and reflect project results, including percentage-based nonrevenue water (NRW) reduction indicator, gender disaggregated data for total beneficiary indicator, and number of complaints satisfactorily resolved.
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The Mozambique Water Private Sector Contracts OBA for Coverage Expansion Project received a satisfactory outcome with low or negligible risk to development outcome.
... See More + The Banks performance was moderately satisfactory while the Grantees performance was satisfactory. Restructuring included a revision of the PDO, as follows: The objective of the Project is to increase access to piped water for the poor in the Recipients city of Maputo. Specifically, this change included the removal of the four secondary cities and of the modality of providing output-based payments to private operators. At restructuring the total number of connections remained the same, but the allocations for the four cities were transferred for implementation in Maputo. Revised outcome indicators were therefore changed to reflect the new connection targets for Maputo. The following seven lessons were learned from this project: (1) Output-based payments do not inherently provide incentives for change in behavior or investment. (2) Output-based programs need to assess ability of the recipient to pre-finance investments and consider pre-financing support mechanisms. (3) Verification procedures should focus on the ultimate objectives of the operation. (4) There needs to be a very strong understanding of the characteristics of the intended beneficiaries. (5) All the costs of program implementation accruing to the operator should be factored into the Output Based Aid (OBA) payments. (6) There needs to be a full appraisal at the time of project restructuring. (7) Implementation arrangements need to be realistic; assumptions regarding implementation need to be linked to the relevant project, rather than to goals related to other projects or programs.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR3336 DEC 17, 2014
Water is central to the Zimbabwean economy, people's livelihoods and their social well-being; its availability and reliability is a function of highly variable climatic conditions.
... See More + Irrigated agriculture is the major water using sector while rain fed agriculture depends on reliable rainfall. Agriculture not only has links to other economic sectors such as industry, but it is also important at household level because it employs the majority of the population. Power production which underpins most other production sectors depends to a large part on the flow of the Zambezi River either for hydropower generation or for the cooling of thermal power stations. Even mining, a growth sector, ultimately relies on water for both processing and electricity production. The government of Zimbabwe has long recognized the threat from climate change and joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992 and acceded to the Kyoto Protocol in 2009. It is currently preparing a National Climate Change Response Strategy (NCCRS) that is intended to mainstream climate change thinking into all key economic sectors and to bring about an integrated response across all economic sectors. Zimbabwe strategy will largely be based around adapting to the threats from climate change so that detrimental economic and social impacts are minimized and opportunities are seized. Given the implications of climate change for the hydrological cycle and the centrality of water to the economy and to social well-being, water needs to be at the core of the NCCRS. This Issues Paper, requested by the former Ministry of Water Resources Development and Management as a recommendation of the NWP, will contribute to the NCCRS by examining opportunities for adaptation to climate change in the water resources sector, using both structural and non-structural measures. It uses models to provide preliminary estimates of the possible impacts of climate change in 2050 and 2080 on these water resources. A number of opportunities to adapt to these impacts are discussed. Many of these adaptation opportunities constitute no-regrets actions, in that they are actions that are worth undertaking in their own right, irrespective of the severity of impacts from climate change.
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Ratings for the Second Phase of the Hydrology Project for India were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, risk to development outcome was negligible to low, Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and Borrower performance was moderately satisfactory.
... See More + Some lessons learned included: for technically innovative and institutionally complex projects such as the establishment of hydrological information system (HIS) across India, a long-term programmatic and demand driven approach is required, allowing each implementing agency (IA) to progress at its own pace and evolving needs. Central agencies need to take a spearheading role regarding HIS data exchange and dissemination, in order to accelerate the present paradigm shift towards river basin planning and integrated water resources management (IWRM) in India. Integration of state surface water (SW) and ground water (GW) departments and (particularly) state data centers facilitates and promotes the integration of SW and GW data analyses, enables the adoption of an IWRM approach at state level, and improves joint project management and implementation. Web-based data processing and storage systems facilitate easy accessibility across the country, central annual maintenance contract (AMC) and help desk functions, and reduce potential future licensing issues. Management information system (MIS) systems for projects of the nature of HIS - which cannot be subjected to a classic economic and financial analysis - need to implement data-related value-addition studies as part of the monitoring and evaluation and learning (M and E and L) environment, by developing a benefit assessment mechanism for HIS-related activities.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR2931 DEC 15, 2014
This restructuring paper for the Dam Safety and Water Resources Planning Project for Sri Lanka seeks the following changes to the project: Reallocation of credit proceeds from the unallocated category to other disbursement categories and reallocation of funds between disbursement categories to reflect the actual use of funds among the various categories.
... See More + This restructuring paper also formalizes the increase in hydro-meteorological stations nearly three-fold to improve the collection of data in a larger number of river basins than originally planned. The main change is under disbursement category 2(b) that is mainly meant for the upgrading of existing and installation of new hydro meteorological stations.
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The development objective of the Punjab Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Improvement Project for India is to improve rural water supply and sanitation services and service delivery arrangements in Punjab.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) making alternative power supply arrangements for restoring regular water supply; (2) ensuring that project management unit establish good rapport with the Government of India and state district water sanitation committees (DWSCs) for timely release of funds and sanctioning of contracts respectively; (3) holding multiple rounds of stakeholder consultations prior to conceptualizing and during preparation of the project; (4) reinforcing women education and empowerment programs; (5) motivating community for taking part in water and sanitation management for sustainability of service delivery so that financial viability of the schemes is not affected; and (6) hiring of professional agencies for developing and implementing communication strategy for sanitation, hygiene, and conjunctive use of water.
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The development objective of the Punjab Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Improvement Project for India is to improve rural water supply and sanitation services and service delivery arrangements in Punjab.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) making alternative power supply arrangements for restoring regular water supply; (2) ensuring that project management unit establish good rapport with the Government of India and state district water sanitation committees (DWSCs) for timely release of funds and sanctioning of contracts respectively; (3) holding multiple rounds of stakeholder consultations prior to conceptualizing and during preparation of the project; (4) reinforcing women education and empowerment programs; (5) motivating community for taking part in water and sanitation management for sustainability of service delivery so that financial viability of the schemes is not affected; and (6) hiring of professional agencies for developing and implementing communication strategy for sanitation, hygiene, and conjunctive use of water.
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