Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation (P148023) National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation (P148023) EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA | Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of | Transport & ICT Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2015 | Seq No: 5 | ARCHIVED on 27-Dec-2016 | ISR26497 | Implementing Agencies: Public Enterprise for State Roads Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date:23-Sep-2014 Effectiveness Date:22-Dec-2014 Planned Mid Term Review Date:01-Sep-2016 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:31-Oct-2016 Original Closing Date:30-Sep-2019 Revised Closing Date:30-Sep-2019 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The Project Development Objectives are to enhance the connectivity of selected national and regional roads, primarily to Corridors X and VIII, and to improve Public Enterprise for State Roads' capacity for road safety and climate resilience. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No PHRPDODEL Components Name Component 1: Road Civil Works:(Cost $78.84 M) Component 2: Institutional Strengthening and Project Management:(Cost $4.70 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO  Satisfactory  Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP)  Satisfactory  Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating  Moderate  Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions 12/27/2016 Page 1 of 8 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation (P148023) Component 1: Road Civil Works - Component 1includes all activities related to national and regional roads improvements in infrastructure. Overall, all sub-components have been well implemented in the first two years and are on track for satisfactory completion. The team recommended to PESR to focus in the next six months on preparing the procurement for the rehabilitation for the second round of roads and on completing the identification and procurement preparations for the black spot improvement. Component 2: Institutional Strengthening and Project Management 1 Project Management and Implementation. The Team was strengthened with two specialists on procurement and financial management. Despite repetitive public announcements, specialists for monitoring and reporting and contract management have not been contracted due to lack or interest from the market and this has affected these aspects of the implementation. 2 Road Safety Advisor and advisory services to establish Road Safety Unit. The contract with the consultant firm SAFEGE was signed on July 22 and commenced on September 18. The inception report from SAFEGE was well received both by the client and the Bank team. The consultant already prepared the draft road safety audit guidelines and manual. PESR is in discussion with SAFEGE to extend the contract to include addition task – task 4 to carry out road safety inspections of the roads rehabilitated under the NRRRP program as part of the first phase of the program. 3 iRAP. The contract for iRAP is expected to be signed by December 30, 2016 and the actual network assessment is expected to start from March 2017 as weather conditions permit. Upon completion of the above two tasks, the third task for road safety design of black spot improvement will commence using outputs from the above two tasks. 4 Road Asset Management Equipment and Data Collection and Preparation of a Five-year Strategic Program. Due to staff limitations in PESR and the large workload, PESR has been unable to provide the RAMS team sufficient time to dedicate to RAMS and this has negatively impacted the process of understanding RAMS and using the system so far. Unless resolved, this will be the key risk to embedding RAMS in PESR’s operation. PESR completed the evaluation of the three offers received for the consultant services to install a RAMS software to be financed with project funds to the Bank for review on December 6. It is expected that the signature will be signed at the beginning of 2017, with the expectation that the consultant firm can start its assignment by February 2017. In the meantime, the hardware for support of this component was already purchased with project funds. On December 6, PESR also completed the evaluation the two offers received for the supply and installation of traffic counters which should enable PESR to collect traffic data automatically on the entire motorway and national roads network. 5 Technical Assistance and Impact Analysis. PESR engineers have benefited from various training opportunities on FIDIC contracts, safeguards and road safety inspections as agreed in the training plan. The training plan for 2017 should be updated and submitted to the Bank for review and no- objection. It should foresee specific training options with regard to contract management for the PESR technical and procurement specialists, involved in the project, and financial management both on project and contract level, for the financial management specialist. The Bank team has supported PESR to develop a comprehensive ToR for identification of climate resilience remedies on road network and preparation of climate resilience guidelines, emphasizing improving climate resilience on the engineering design of roads works and future maintenance activities on given roads and strengthening PESR’s capacity in conducting climate resilience analysis during planning phase as well as emergency response. This activity will be launched at the beginning of 2017. There is a delay in launching the beneficiary survey and determining the baseline for citizens’ engagement related indicators due to market unresponsiveness. Activities to capture the beneficiary’s feedback and assess their satisfaction with the intervention have been delayed because of complete lack of interest from competent companies to participate in two procurement procedures for the qualitative assessment of the selected roads before and after rehabilitation. Since civil works for most of the selected roads have been completed or are close to completion the ToR was revised to capture the assessment of the beneficiaries ex – post. During the second procurement process only one firm applied but PESR has not started the negotiation of the contract by the time of Midterm review. The following step for PESR is to carry on the negotiation and if possible to start working with the consultant as soon as possible. 12/27/2016 Page 2 of 8 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation (P148023) Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance  --  Moderate  Moderate Macroeconomic  --  High  High Sector Strategies and Policies  --  Moderate  Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program  --  High  High Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability  --  Moderate  Moderate Fiduciary  --  Moderate  Moderate Environment and Social  --  Low  Low Stakeholders  --  Low  Low Other  --  Moderate  Moderate Overall  --  Moderate  Moderate Results Project Development Objective Indicators PHINDPDOTBL  Reduction in travel time for passenger cars, in percentage, along the project roads sections to be rehabilitated (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 3.82 10.00 12/27/2016 Page 3 of 8 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation (P148023) Date 12-Mar-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 PHINDPDOTBL  Reduction of vehicle operating costs for heavy trucks, in Euro per vehicle-km, along the project road sections to be rehabilitated (Amount(USD), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.79 0.00 0.69 0.69 Date 12-Mar-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 PHINDPDOTBL  Percentage of all PESR road projects that incorporate road safety audit recommendations (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 75.00 100.00 Date 12-Mar-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 PHINDPDOTBL  Climate resilience design guidelines prepared and integrated by PESR in their internal design process (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value N N N Y Date 12-Mar-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 Overall Comments The VOC reduction was calculated for a sample of five roads, which had complete roughness and rutting data. The other completed roads are currently surveyed and the result will be updated. Intermediate Results Indicators 12/27/2016 Page 4 of 8 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation (P148023) PHINDIRITBL  Roads rehabilitated (Kilometers, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 6.00 93.58 112.00 Date 14-Jul-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 PHINDIRITBL  Roads in good or fair condition as a share of total classified roads (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 79.00 85.00 85.00 81.00 Date 14-Jul-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 PHINDIRITBL  Road safety design audit guidelines prepared (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value N N Y Y Date 14-Jul-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 PHINDIRITBL  Climate resilience design guidelines prepared (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value N N Y Y Date 14-Jul-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 12/27/2016 Page 5 of 8 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation (P148023) PHINDIRITBL  Number of km of road network surveyed for road safety (iRAP) (Kilometers, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 500.00 500.00 500.00 4,000.00 Date 14-Jul-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 PHINDIRITBL  Five year rolling program for national and regional roads preservation works prepared based on the RAMS (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value N N N Y Date 14-Jul-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 PHINDIRITBL  Percentage of beneficiaries expressing satisfaction with condition of the project roads. (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 50.00 0.00 0.00 70.00 Date 14-Jul-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 PHINDIRITBL  Direct project beneficiaries (number), of which female (percentage) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Date 30-Jul-2015 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 12/27/2016 Page 6 of 8 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation (P148023) PHINDIRITBL  Annual performance report prepared and published by PESR (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value N N Y Y Date 14-Jul-2014 19-Apr-2016 16-Dec-2016 30-Sep-2019 Overall Comments Roads in good or fair condition as a share of total classified roads - this is based on PESR visual inspections; a network-wide condition survey is scheduled for 2017 and this indicator will be validated afterwards. "Percentage of beneficiaries expressing satisfaction with condition of the project roads" and "Direct project beneficiaries (number), of which female (percentage)" - these indicators still don't have a baseline and target due to delay in contracting consultants. PESR is working with social safeguards specialist to define the baseline and they should have the first survey results in the course of 2017. Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed P148023 IBRD-84200 Effective USD 70.98 70.98 0.00 21.32 44.81 30% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P148023 IBRD-84200 Effective 23-Sep-2014 21-Oct-2014 22-Dec-2014 30-Sep-2019 30-Sep-2019 Cumulative Disbursements 12/27/2016 Page 7 of 8 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation (P148023) Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 12/27/2016 Page 8 of 8 Public Disclosure Copy