Ratings of the Green Energy for Low-carbon City in Shanghai Project for China were as follows: outcome was moderately satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was modest.
... See More + Lessons learned included: government institutions can and should play a critical role to share knowledge and coordinate interventions to unlock innovative win-win opportunities for low-carbon city development. The PMO served this role in the Project as designed and implemented. It acted as a professional management agency that forged links between building managers, project developers, financiers, energy service companies, and policymakers. The pilot schemes led by the PMO acted as a test bed for operations that succeeded by reducing information asymmetries among stakeholders. This allowed policies and programs to evolve over time and create public-private partnerships. For buildings specifically, the Project demonstrated that a holistic approach to design, construction and operation of both new and retrofit projects can achieve innovative, replicable results for near-zero emissions. To facilitate this, a project management office needs high-level support from government leaders and long-term retention of competent staff to carry though ideas and relationships from beginning to end, as occurred in Changing. Other important factors include well-targeted grants or subsidies and technical assistance activities, as well as the intensive involvement of leading experts to push the frontier in partnership with commercial developers. Access to good quality building energy data is fundamental to reveal efficiency opportunities and is useful to inform related government policy. Data access can be facilitated by building submeters connected to a secure online data platform, as pioneered in changing for government and commercial buildings through a contracted technology service provider. Such data can identify savings opportunities for individual buildings, and when aggregated and analyzed for many buildings can demonstrate the usefulness of such systems for the sector at large. Representative data for an entire district or municipality can enable more precise targeting of subsidies to support innovative interventions and the formulation of benchmarking policies. Government data collection and benchmarking programs need to consider commercial confidentiality and privacy, voluntary participation or a range of ways to fulfil data requests.
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Implementation Completion and Results Report ICR4644 JUL 12, 2019
The objective of the Hwange-Sanyati Biological Corridor Project is to develop land use and resource management capacity of managers and communities in the Hwange-Sanyati Biological Corridor (HSBC).
... See More + The project rating is satisfactory, and disbursements are at 94 percent. The extension is intended to facilitate the completion of key activities that cannot be finalized by the initial project close-out date of June 2019. This is partly because project implementation started 6 months after contract signing. The outstanding activities are: facilitating the conduct of an end of project wildlife survey in and around Hwange National Park; supporting the setting up and start-up of a Community Trust for Sidinda Wildlife Community Conservancy in Hwange district; facilitating the first instalment of voluntary carbon trading in Ngamo and Sikumi gazetted forests; and supporting the finalization of a Land Restoration tool kit for Chireya communal area.
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The objective of the Sustainable Low-Carbon Development in Orinoquia Region Project for Colombia is to improve enabling conditions for sustainable and low-carbon landscape planning and management in project targeted areas.
... See More + To overcome the legal issue related to the incorporation of grant resources into the national budget, a modification in the project implementation arrangements has been proposed by the Recipient and agreed by all parties. This modification implies the inclusion of a fiduciary agent (FIDUAGRARIA) that will be responsible for receiving and administrating the grant funds, thereby enabling the flow of funds (disbursements) and thus the activities planned by each agency to commence. In addition, all parties agree that the inclusion of the fiduciary agent will increase efficiency in the management and execution of grant resources for the following reasons: (i) it will guarantee a more expedite execution of grant funds for activities defined by the four co-implementing entities, and (ii) this modality does not require incorporation of grant resources into the national budget and therefore does not fall under the budget annuities, allowing for a longer-term planning of activities beyond the 12 month budget period. While MADR remains the lead recipient and implementing agency, this revision will result in changes to the Grant Agreement, requiring a level-two project restructuring. An official letter by MADR requesting the restructuring, was received by the Bank on July 4, 2018.
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) race to resilience just became more urgent with the release of the IPCC 1.5 degrees C Special Report. The Africa region must adapt to the 0.5 degrees C warming of the past 50 years, while at the same time prepare for the intensification of climate change impacts.
... See More + The good news is that the region is not starting from zero; the bad news is that the current pace of climate action is far from adequate. The Africa Climate Business Plan (ACBP) has been a galvanizing platform for climate action since its launch in December 2015, yet it must be even more ambitious in the scale and pace of climate action in the face of a new urgency to manage climate risks and deliver on climate-resilient development. Highlights of the progress up to andincluding FY18 as well as the main outstanding challenges are summarized here. The report also highlights successful projects that can be replicated, key lessons learned, and reflects on future strategic directions.
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Working Paper 132749 NOV 01, 2018
Rigaud,Kanta K.; Ravina Da Silva,Manuela; Shetty,Anushree Arun; Wang,TaoFrenchDisclosed
