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FROM: The Deputy Secretary July 14, 1999 Public Disclosure Authorized

MONTHLYOPERATIONAL SUMMARY OF BANK AND IDA PROPOSEDPROJECTS (as of June 15, 1999) Public Disclosure Authorized

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Executive Directors and Alternates President Bank Group Senior Management Vice Presidents, Bank, IFC and MIGA

Public Disclosure Authorized Directors and Department Heads, Bank, IFC and MIGA THE WORLDBANK MONTHLY OPERATIONAL SUMMARY

CONTENTS

User's Guide 3 Global Environment Facility 4

Projects in the Pipeline New Projects/Deletions 5 Africa Region 7 East Asia and Pacific Region 22 South Asia Region 35 Europe and Central Asia Region 44 Middle East and North Africa Region 58 Latin America and the Caribbean Region 63 Guarantee Operations 78

List of Abbreviations 81

Entries for Projects in the Pipelineare organized by region, country and economicsector. Entries preceded by (N) denote new listings; (R) indicates a revisionor update from the previous month's listing-such changes appear in italictype. A sampleentry is included in the User's Guide on the next page.

SECTORDEFINITIONS

Agriculture Public Sector Management (includestechnical and man- (includes forestry and fisheries) agement assistance) Education/Training Reconstruction/Rehabilitation Environment fincludes natural resources management Rural Development and pollution control) Social Sector (includeshuman resources development, Finance (includes development finance institutions) povertyreduction and women in development) Industry (includes mining) Structural Adjustment(includes imports) Infrastructure (multisector) Telecommunications Population,Health and Nutrition Transport (includesports, roads and railways) Power Cincludespetroleum and energy) Urban Development PrivateSector Development Water Supply/Sanitation

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GUIDETO THE WORLDBANK MONTHLYOPERATIONAL SUMMARY

The WorldBank MonthlyOperational Summary reports on the execution of World Bank-financedprojects, including the hiring status of projects in the WorldBank's pipeline-from the pointof of consultants and the procurement of goods and works. Con- identificationof investment opportunities to the signing of the tractors and suppliers, therefore, should contact borrowers to loanor credit. On average,it takes about 27 months for the Bank express their interest in specificprojects. They should obtain in- to process a project from identificationto loan signing. Follow- formationon what goods and services willbe needed and when ing the approvalof a projectby the Bank's Boardof ExecutiveDi- and how to submit bids and proposals. rectors, a more detailed summary appears in the Approved During implementation,consultants are often used to provide Projects section of the summary. After loans or credits are technical assistance and other project implementationsupport. signed, project entries are dropped. Unlikecontracts for goods and works, those for consulting ser- Each issue of the summary containsa table of projectsbeing list- vicesare not usually advertised.Therefore, consultantsin partic- ed for the first time as wellas a list of projects for which loansor ular should contact the responsible implementingagency early credit agreements have been signed or that have been dropped in the project preparation period to express their interest. Con- from the current lending program. tracts for consulting services, as well as some for goods and By becoming familiar with the Bank's project cycle, which is works, may also be procured prior to loan/credit approval.This summarized in the followingparagraphs, consultants or suppli- is known as advance contracting. ers of goods and works can gauge when the timing is right to The informationcontained in 7he WorldBank MonthlyOperation- pursue business opportunitieswith Bankborrowers. Each entry al Summary is intendedto enablecompanies to assess their inter- in the Monthly Project Summary tells at what point in the cycle est in supplying Bank-financedprojects. Further information a particularproject resides. should be requested fromthe borrowingcountry's projectimple- menting agency.The likelihoodof a timelyresponse is greater if the queries are brief and to the poinLWhen possible,travel to the ProjectCycle borrower's country and direct contact with relevant agencyoffi- During IDENT1FICATION,both the borrowing government cials is recommnended. and the Bank are involvedin analyzing developmentstrategies Firms should contact the World Bank (preferablyby fax) only if for the borrower's economy as a whole and in identifying they are unable to obtainaresponse to theirqueries fromthe im- projects that support those strategies. plementing agency. General informationabout business oppor- PREPARATION, the second stage of the cycle, is the responsi- tunities under Bank loans and credits may be obtained fromthe bilityof the borrower. Duringpreparation, the technicaland in- World Bank Business AffairsAdviser, Procurement Policyand stitutional alternatives for achieving a project's objectives are CoordinationUnit, at fax number (1-202)522-3318. identifiedand discussed. Preparationusually requires feasibility studies followedby more detailedstudies of the alternativesthat promise to yield the most satisfactoryresults. An environmental EnvironmentalCategories assessment is usually carried out during this phase. (See below The type, timing, and scope of environmentalanalysis to be per- for more informationon environmentalassessment.) formed by bank borrowers are to be confirmed when a given In the preparation stage of the project cycle, borrowers often project is identified. Projectsare assigned one of the following supplement their own efforts by hiring consultants to carry out categories based upon the nature, magnitude and sensitivityof a major part of the work.Contractors and suppliersof equipment environmentalissues: and goods need to start making contacts with borrowers during Category A. Environmentalassessment is normallyrequired, as this stage. the project may have adverse and significantenvironmental im- Project APPRAISAL the responsibilityof the Bank, providesa pacts. comprehensivereview of allaspects of the project(technical, insti- Category B: More limitedenvironmental analysis is appropriate, tutional,economic and financial)and laysthe foundationfor imple- as the projectmay havespecific environmental issues. menting the projectand evaluatingit when completed.Conducted by Bankstaff, project appraisal may be supplementedby individual Category C: Environmentalanalysis is normallyunnecessary. experts. The preparationof the Staff AppraisalReport condudes Projectsadded to the summary after July 1994include the envi- this stage. ronmental category A, B or C, except in the case of structural During NEGOTIATION,discussions are held with the borrow- and sector adjustment loans, which are designated "U." er, and the agreements reached are written into the loan docu- Business opportunities arising from World Bank projects after ments. Uponcompletion of negotiations,the project is presented they have been approved,including invitations to bid and to sub- to the Executive Directorsfor approval.After approval, the loan mit proposalson Bankprojects and noticesof contract awards,ap- agreement is signed. pear twicea month in DevelopmentBusiness and are also available Project IMPLEMENTATION normally starts within a few via the internet at UN Development Business Online at months of loan signing. Borrowingcountries, through their im- . plementing agencies, have full responsibilityfor the design and PAGE 4 Monthly Operational Sumrtn.ry JULY 1999

A typical summany entzy looks lke this:

VJet Nam o Name of borrowingcountry I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(R)= revised; (N) = new entry (R) Payment Systems and Bank Modernization: The =. . project will establish a computerizedpayments system in or- < Project description der to improve efficiency and modernize the banking sector. Technical assistance to strengthen the institutionalcapacity of Italics Indicatechange from last participating commercialbanks will also be provided.Preap- month's listing praisal missioncompleted. Environmental Assessment Catego- ry C. PID: VNMPA028.US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consultants will be - Amountof loan (US$ millions);lender required for project managementand commercialbank insti- tutional studies. Project ManagemnentUnit, Payment System and Bank ModernizationProject, State Bank of Viet Nam, 49 Name/address of implementingagency LyThai To, Viet Nam, Fax: (84-4)258-385, Contact Mr. Nguy- en Van Binh

GLOBALENVIRONMENT FACILITY In addition to projects financed by the World Bank, The World The GEF is striving for universalparticipation and currently156 Bank Monthly Operational Summary reports on projects fi- counties are participants. Countries may be eligiblefor GEF nanced by the GlobalEnvironment Facility (GEF). The GEF pro- funds in one oftw - ays:(1) ifthey are eligiblefor financialassis- vides grants and concessional fundingto recipient countries for tance through the financialmechanism of either the Climate projects and programs that protect the global environment and Change Conventionor the Conventionon BiologicalDiversity; or promote sustainable economic growth. (2) if they are eligible to borrow from the World Bank aBRD and/or IDA) or receive technicalassistance grants from UNDP The Facility,originally set up as a pilot program in 1991,was re- through a Country Programme.A country must be a partyto the structured and replenishedwith over US$2 billionin 1994,to cov- Climate Change Conventionor the Conventionof BiologicalDi- er the agreed incrernental costs of activitiesthat benefit the versity to receive funds from the GEF in the relevantfocal area. global environmentin four focal areas: dimnatechange, biological diversity,international waters, and stratosphericozone. Activities GEF projects must be country-driven,incorporate consultation concerning land degradation, primarilydesertification and defor- with localcommunities and, where appropriate,involve non-gov- estation, as they relate to the four focalareas, are also eligiblefor ernmental organizationsin project implementation. funding. Both the Framework Conventionon Climate Change and the Convention on BiologicalDiversity have designated the For additionalinformation on the GEF,contact the GEFsecretar- GEF as their funding mechanism on an interim basis. iat or visit their site on the WorldWide Webat: http://www.world- bank.org/html/gef/getgraphhtm GEF projects and programs are managedthrough three imple- menting agencies: the UN Development Programme (UNDP), The GEF Secretariat the UN EnvironmentProgramme (UNEP)and the World Bank. :818 H Street, NW The GEF Secretariat,which is functionallyindependent from the WashingtoqDC 20433,USA three implementingagencies, reports to and services the Coun- Tel: (1-202)473-8324 cil and Assemblyof the GEF. Fax: (1-202)522-3240. 522-3245 JULY1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE5 Southeast Europe

New ProjectsAdded ropeTransport: p. 54 Trade and Transport Facilitationin Southeast Eu- in This Issue Tajildstan RuralDevelopment: Rural Infrastructure p. 54 Africa Region Middle East And North Africa Region Mozambique Egypt Structural Adjustment:Fifth Economic Recoveryp. 17 Water Supply/Sanitation:Second NationalDrainage p. 58 Niger Finance:Financial Sector p. 17 Latin America and the CaribbeanRegion Zamnbia Education/TrainingTraining Subsector Investment Progran p.21 Structural Adjustment:Buenos Aires SocialSector Reformp. 65 East Asia and Pacific Region Peru * StructuralAdjustment: Financial Sector Adjustment Loan 11 p. 76 China Urban Development:Liao River Basin p. 26 Indonesia Projects Deleted from Education/Training:Basic Education V p. 27 This Issue Education/Training-Irian Jaya Basic Educationp. 27 Water Supply/Sanitation:Second Water Supplyand Sanitation for Low-incomeCommunities p. 29 Africa Region Lao People's Democratic Republic Gamnbia:Poverty Alleviationand MunicipalDevelopment (Cr. Population, Health and Nutrition:Family Health and Child De- 3176CGM) velopmentp. 29 Madagascar-Social Fund III (Cr. 3180-MAG) Samoa Niger:Agriculture Population,Health and Nutrition:Health Sector p. 32 Solomon Islands East Asia and PacificRegion Population,Health and Nutrition:Health p.32 Cambodia:Social Fund 11(Cr. 3179-KH) Viet NamC Rural Development:River Basin Managementp. 33 Cambodia:Road Rehabilitation(Cr. 3181-KH) China: Hunan Power Development(Ln. 4350&CHA) South Asia Region IND)Indonesia: Sumatera Basic Education (Cr. 3189-IND;Ln. 4456 Nepal Indonesia: SulawesiBasic Education (Cr. 3188-IND;Ln. 4455- Finance: FinancialSector Reformp. 41 IND) Pakistan Indonesia:Municipal Innovations (Ln. 4440-IND) Population,Health and Nutrition:Punjab Pilot Hospital Autono- Indonesia: Corporate Restructuring Technical Assistance (Ln. my p. 42 4448-IND) Malaysia:Education Sector Support (Ln. 4451-MA) Europe and Central Asia Region Samoa:Infrastructure Management(Cr. 3193-WSO) Bulgaria Public Sector Management: Cadastre/Land Registrationp. 47 South Asia Region latvia Nepal:Second Basicand Primary Education(Cr. 3185-NEP) PublicSector Management:Local Government Management Fi- nance p. 50 Europe and Central Asia Region Poland Bosniaand Herzegovina:Basic Health (Cr. 3202-BOS) RuralDevelopment: Rural Developmentp. 51 Hungary: Lake Balaton Environmental: Kazakhstan: Road Romania * Transport Restructuring(Ln. 4437-KZ) Agriculture:Agricultural Support Services p. 51 Republicof Moldova:Social Investment Fund (Cr.3170-MD) PAGE 6 Monthly Operational Summary JULY 1999 Slovenia:Small-Scale Irrigation The forner Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia:Smal Business Development Turkey: Southeast Region Urban Sanitation and Planning

Middle East And North Africa Region Egypt Secondary Education (Cr.3194-EGT) Jordan: AmmanWater and Sanitation Management West Bank and Gaza, Israel: Protecting Coastal Ecosystems of the Southeast Mediterranean by Promoting SustainableTour- ism West Bank and Gaza: CommunityDevelopment 11 Yemen: Public Sector Management Adjustment (Cr. 3178YEM)

Latin America and the Caribbean Region Brazil:Pension Reform (Ln. 4369-BR) Chile: MunicipalDevelopment II (Ln. 4429-CH) Colombia:National Roads Colombia:BogotS Metro Colombia:Antioquia/Medeliln Health Reform Ecuador: MunicipalDevelopment 11 (PDM 11) Mexico:Fondo de Operacion y Funanciamiento(FOVI) Restruc- turing (LII. 4430-ME) Mexico: Training of Municipal Authorities and Community Groups Trinidad and Tobago: Secondary Education JULY1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE7 PrivateSector Development Africa Region (R) Private Sector Development:The projectwill support (a) v______legal and judicial reform; (b) enterprise developrnent; and (c) ex- port promotion.Negotiations are scheduledfor lateJuly 1999. En- vironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: BJPE39882.US$ 12.0 Benin (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Cellule d'appui technique (CAT),BP 363, Cotonou, Benin,Tel: (229) 31-01-01, Agriculture 31-23-82,E-mail: cat0bow.internetbj Forestry The project will build on the initialsuccess of the for- Public Sector Management estry activitiespiloted under the Natural Resources Manage- ment Project (Cr. 2344-BEN).The objectiveof the project is to (R) Regional Urban: This adaptableprogram loan,which will establish a nation-wideframework for participatory,sustainable cover Benin's three maincities, aims at (a) strengthening man- and profitable management of gazetted forests. Appraisalmis- agement capacity and services delivery; (b) improving the ur- sion is scheduled for February 2000. EnvironmentalAssess- ban environment through rehabilitationof a primary road and ment Category to be determined. USS 40.0 (IDA). Consulting drainage infrastructure program;and (c) strengtheningcommu- services willbefor the enironmental -nity participation in planningand managementof local projects services will be required.for the environmentalimpact assess- to improveliving conditionsat a neighborhood level.Appraisal ment Directorateof Forests and Natural Resources,Ministry of missionis scheduled for February 2001.Environmental Assess- Rural Development,Cotonou, Benin mentCategory B. US$30.0 (IDA). Consulting services wiUlbe re- quired to conduct feasibility studies, assess the management Environment capacityof local governments and to support land management and urban development initiatives.Implementing agency is to be (R) National Parks Conservation ManagementeThe project determined. will include (a) capacity building for the relevant government Judicial Reform: The objectivesof the project are to improve agencies to promote efficient management of protected areas; the efficiencyand fairness of the legaland judicialsystem and to and (b) protectionof priority parks and eco-developmentactivi- strengthen its capacityto provideefficient and effectivedispute ties in surrounding hunting reserves and buffer zones. Board resolution through (a) strengthening and modernizing the ad- presentationwas scheduled for lateJune 1999. EnvironmentalAs- ministrationof justice and the courts system; (b) developingan sessnent Category B. USS6.0 (GEF).Consulting services to be experienced and well-trainedjudicial personnel; (c) moderniza- deterTnined.Ministry of Rural Development,National PAs Of- tion and consolidation of the legal system, specificallythe legal fice of the Forestry Administration framework for business, including dissenination of business texts issued by the Organizationfor the Harmonizationof Busi- Power ness Lawsin FrancophoneAfrica; (d) strengtheningthe capacity of parliamrentarystaff in legislativedrafting and processing; (e) (R) Seme Oil Field Closure: Offshore Seme oil field has building capacity of professional associations and advocacy reached the end of its economic life.The project willhelp in the groups; (f) supporting a government prograrn to fight child la- urgennt.safe plug as well as dismantlingof all equipment Board bor-,and (g) strengthening the role and capacityof government presentation is scheduled for late July 1999.Environmental As- auditing agencies. Projectis being identified.Environmnental As- sessment CategoryA. US$ 18.0 (IDA). Consultants will be re- sessment Category C. US$20.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be quired. A request for expressions of interest was published in determined. Ministerede la justice, Directionde la planification DevelopDeveopmxtinent Business usiessNo. No 42,daed16Mrc482.dated 16 March 1981998. MniteeMinistere 31-3147,et de la prospective,Contact: Mr. BP Adouhoueknou 967,Cotonou, Benin, Matthieu, Tel: Directeur (229)31-25-92. de la des mines, de lVenergieet de l'hydraulique,04 BP1412, Cotonou, planification/prospective Benin,Tel: (229)3141-19, Fax: (229) 31-35.46,Contact: Mr. Em- manuel Golou Urban Development (R) Seventh Power. The project will support (a) institutional (R) Urban 11 (Cr. 3234-BEN): 'Me project will support the reformnmeasures, including pivatization of the distributionuuil- (RUra IC.324BN:Tepoctwlsuotth ies. mandreinforcment epranion of the distrasision an implementationof the government's urban development strate- ities and reinforcementand expansion Of the transmissionano gy, which is being prepared under the ongoing Urban Rehabili- distributionsystems; and (b) the creation of a business environ- tation and Management Project(Cr. 2338-BEN).The project will ment for private sector power generation. Appraisalmission i most likely include urban infrastructure rehabilitationand sup- scheduledforlate October1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Cate- port to municipaldevelopment Approvedby the ExecutiveDirec- goryA. US$ 40.0 (IDA).Consulting services wDlbe required for tors on 3 June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS (a) institutionalreform and restructuring measures; and (b) en- 35.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Serhau;AGE- gineering and preparation of the bidding documents. Societe TUR beninoise d'electriciteet d'eau (SBEE),Direction generale, Car- re No. 9, BP 123.Cotonou, Benin,Tel: (229) 31-21-62,Fax: (229) Burkina Faso 31-50-28,Contact: M.C. Kohoue, Directeur generale (R) Rural Energy. The project will support the provision of Education/Training electricity to rural areas outside the utilitygrid through private Basic Education: The project will support the development sector participation.Appraisal mission is scheduled for October and implementationof a nationalstrategy program for primary 2001.Entnronmental Assesment CategoryB. USS2.5 (IDA).Con- education, including programs to promote functional literacy sultants will be required. Societe beninoised'electricite et d'eau and girls' and women's education.Preappraisal mission is sched- (SBEE), Directiongenerale, Carre No. 9, BP 123,Cotonou, Be- uled for September 1999.Environmental Assessment Category nin, Tel: (229) 31-21-62,Fax: (229) 31-50-28,Contact M.C. Ko- C. PID: BFPA309.US$ 30.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. houe, Directeur generale Ministry of Education, c/o World Bank Resident Mission. PO PAGE8 Monthly OpetIonal Summary JULY 1999 Box 622, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tel: (226) 31-31-85,Fax: Cameroon (226) 31-3642

Infrastructure Education/Training (R) Basic Education Improvement The project will assist Public Works and Employment Decentmlization: The the government in improvingthe qualityof basic education,in- project will finance a program of small municipalworks, pro- creasing access and strengthening sector management 7This mote local contractors, create new employment and develop la- project is no loxger ix the len7dingprogram; further reporting will bor-intensive projects. Appraisal mission is scheduled for be discontinued.Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: November 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ CMPE412.US$ 20.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. Minis- 10.0(IDA). Local consultants willbe required. Faso Baara, 01 BP try of Education,c/oThe WorldBank Resident Mission, PO Box 6633, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tel: (226) 31-31-85,Fax: 1128, Yaounde, Cameroon, Tlx: 8551 KN, Tel: (237) 225-176, (226) 31-36-42 Fax: (237) 230-855

Rural Development Environmet Community-Based Rural Development. The credit will sup- T . port a national program aimed at ernpoweringrural communi- Petroletun Technical Assistance and Forestry/Envi,ron- ties to bring about sustainable improvementsin natural resource -ent: The projectwill assist the governent in establishingand management, rural production and socioeconomic infrastruc- implementinga natural resource managementand forestry con- ture. Preappraisal missionwas scheduled for July 1999.Environ- servation strategy. There is a technical assistance component mental Assessment Category B. USS 40.0 (IDA). Consulting that is part of the Chad/Cameroon pipelinework. Appraisal mis- services to be determined. Implementingagency is to be deter- sion is scheduled for mid-February2000. Environmental Assess- mined. ment Category C. US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Implementingagency is to be determined. WaterSupply/SanItatIon Population,Heaflth and Nutrition Water Supply: The project will assist the government in im- proving the sector management and the rehabilitationand ex- Health Sector Investment: The project will support private pansion of the Ouagadougouwater supply.Appraisal mission is sector developmient,major reforms of health financingand per- scheduled for September 1999.Environmental Assessment Cat- sonnel policies and finance investments in the health sector. egory A. PID: BFPE306. USS 40.0 (IDA). Consulting services Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category wi1 be required for supervision of works and technical assis- to be determined. US$30.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be de- tance to ONEA. Office national de l'eau et de l'assainissement termined. Ministry of Health, Yaounde,Carneroon, Tel: (237) (ONEA),BP 170,Ouagadougou, BurkinaFaso, Tel: (226) 306- 223-525 73/4, Fax: (226) 30-33-79 Transport Burundi (R) Railway Concessioning: The projectwill assist the govern- ment in concessioningthe railwaycornpany to the privatesector. R.construction/Rehabilitation Negotiations were scheduled for late juxe 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: CMPE54786.US$ 22.0 (IDA). Emergency Economic Rehabilitation: The credit will sup- Consulting services to be determined. Infrastructureand Equip- port economic stabilizationmeasures. Projectpreparation is un- ment Rehabilitationand lnformatics Components:CAMRAUL, der way. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 30.0 51, Rehabilan and Cormatics FranenTs: CAMRAIL1 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Fi- 51, Rue LouisBlanc, 92400Courbevoie, France, Tel: (33-1)41-41- nance, Bujumbura,Burundi 54-92, Fax: (33-1)4141-50-38, Contact: Mr. Monpert; Manage- ment CapacityDevelopment Component: Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure Rehabilitation: The project willsupport (a) re- Ministry of Economyand Finance, Ministry of Public Invest- habilitation of major import/export road links, bridges, rural ment, Yaounde,Cameroon, Tel: (237)23-97-50, Fax: (237)25-51- roads and drainage systems for access to markets; (b) employ- 08, Contact: Bassoro Aminou, President of the Privatization ment generation; (c) environmentalsafety; and (d) sectoral poli- Comminee cy improvement. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 28.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be required. Direction generale des routes, Ministere des CapeVerde travaux publiques, Bujumbura, Burundi,Tel: (257)220-959, Fax: (257) 220(959, Contact: Mr. Sagaba, Directeur general des Education/Training routes (R) Education and Training Consolidation and Moderniza- Social Sector tion (Cr. 3223-CV): The objectivesof the project are to consol- idate the first stages of education and training reform (basic Social Action II: The project willpromote sustainablerecovery education and demand-driventraining and employment servic- from poverty in selected communities. Projectpreparation is un- es) and help the government identifycost-effective program op- der way. Environmental Assessment Category B. USS 10.0 tions for the medium-term development of other levels of (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Twitzimbere, schooling. Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors ox 25 May 1999. ASB1, BP 2415, Bujumbura, Burundi, Tel: (257) 22-18-04.Fax: EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$6.0 (IDA).Consult- (257) 22-451, Contact: Mr. Pontien Bikebako, Directeur de ing services to be determined. Office of the Prime Minister,CP l'unite de gestion du projet 30, Praia, Cape Verde JULY 1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE9 Private Sector Development IDA).Consultingservices to be determined. Ministry of Mines, Energy/Water (Cr. 3205-CV): The project willassist the gov- Energy,Hydraulics and Petroleum, N'Djamena,Chad ernment in increasingprivate participationin the power and wa- Electricity: The project wouldassist in the expansion of power ter sectors to improve the efficiency of sector operation, generators to increase capacity.It willalso support the rehabii- promote the developmentof renewable energy resources and tation and expansion of transmission and distribution facilities. foster the sound management of water resources. Specifically, Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment the project will support (a) the privatizationof electric compa- Category A. USS20.0 (IDA)- Consultingservices to be deter- nies and the creationof municipalwater companies;(b) the ex- mined. Implementingagency is to be determined. pansion and rehabilitation of water and sanitation systems in urban centers; (c) the expansion of wind power capacity;(d) the Structural Adjustment developmentof decentralizedwind and photovoltaicenergy sys- tems; and (e) institutionalstrengthening. Approvedby the Exec- Structral Adjustmnent IIl (Cr. 3200-CD): The credit will utive Directors on 11 May 1999. Environmental Assessment supportpolicy reforms. Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on Category A. PID: CVPE40990.US$ 16.3 (IDA).Consultants will 4 May 1999.Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 30.0 be required. Ministry of Economic Coordination,CP 30 Praia, (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing Cape Verde, Tel: (238) 61-58-46,61.03-27, Fax: (238) 61-38-97. agencyis to be determined. Contact: Mr. Antao Fortes Transport Social Sector Third Transport Sector The aim of the projectis to pursue the (R) Social Sector Development (Cr. 3224-CV): The project developmentof the priority road network and its maintenance willdecrease povertyand support qualityimprovements in child reforms. Preappraisalis scheduled forJuly 1999.Environmental health and nutrition. A Japanese grant of US$ 200,000was ap- AssessmentCategory B. US$ 20.0 (IDA).Consulting services to proved for project preparation.Approved by the ExecutiveDirec- be determined. Implementingagency is to be determined. torson 25 May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID:CVPE432. US$ 13.2 (IDA).Consulting services to be deter- Comoros mined. Ministry of EconomicCoordination, CP 30, Praia, Cape Verde, Tel: (238)615-846, 615-2605, Fax: (238)613-897 Infrastnucture

Central African Republic (R) Infrastructure, Water and Environment The project willhelp to improveliving conditions and to speed up economic growth by (a) providingadequate water and sanitation services Public SwtOr Management and safe transport and (b) protecting and improving the environ- Policy Support Projectcomponents are to be determined. menLAppraisal mission is scheduled,forJaxuary 2000. Environ- Projectis being identified.Environmental Assessment Category mental Assessment Category A. US$ 13.5 (IDA). Consulting to be determined. USS5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be de- services to be determined.Ministry of PublicWorks, PO Box85, termined. Implementingagency to be determined. Moroni,Comoros, Tel: (269) 744514,Fax: (269)732993

Structural Adjustmfent Cote d'Ivoire (R) Structural Adjustment. Project components are to be de- A termined. Appraisal missionwas scheduledforlateJune 1999. En- Agrculure vironmental Assessment Category U. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Rural Capacity Building Support The project willassist the Consultants willbe required. Ministry of Finance,Bangui, Cen- government in the implementationof a nationalprogram to im- tral African Republic,Tel: (236) 61-70-55,61-53-60,Fax: (236)61- prove the efficiencyof human resources in the agriculture sec- 63-98,Contact AnicetGeorges Dologuele tor. The project willsupport (a) streamliningof the Ministry of Agricultureand AnimalResources; (b) the nationalextension of Chad the rural vocationaltraining network;(c) streamliningof agricul- tural schools at the secondary and university levels; (d) strengthening of the rural literacy program;and (e) strengthen- Education/Training ing of agriculturalsector communication.Project preparationis (R) Education Sector Investment VI:The project builds upon under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS 30.0 Education IV and V and the government's sector strategy.This (IDA).Consulting services will be required for agriculturaltrain- project willsupport broad sector programs. Preappraisalmission ing management,institutional restructuring support and human is scheduledfor October1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Cate- resources assessment and management. Ministere de l'agricul- tbedetermined ture et des ressources animales,c/o Banquemondiale. BP 1850, gory C. US$ 20.0 (IDA).Consulting services to bedtrie. Abidjan01, C6te d'lvoire,Tel: (225)44-22-27 Implementingagency is to be determined. Second Forestry Program: The overallobjective of the project Power is to conserve and manage forest resources in an ecologically, economicallyand sociallysustainable manner.The program, to (R) Petroleum Sector Management The project will (a) pro- be supported by severaldonors, will includesector reforms, in- vide technical assistance to the government for the supervision stitutionalstrengthening and a forest resources managementin- of the Doba Oil Project, (b) increase the government's capacity vestment program. Project is being identified. Environmental to manage and promotethe petroleum sector,and (c) provideca- Assessment Category A. USS 40.0 (IDA).Project preparation pacity strengthening in the appropriate use of oil reserves. Ap- work willbe contractedprimarily to nationalconsultants and in- praisal mission was scheduled for JUly 1999. Environmental stitutions. No large-scaletechnical assistance is envisaged for Assessment Category C. PID: TDPE48202.USS 24.0 (IBRD/ projectpreparation and implementation.Ministry of Forests and PAGE10 Monthly Opational Summary JULY1999 Environment, Abidjan, C6te d'lvoire, Contact: Minister Jean- Victor Schoekher, Abidjan,Cote d'lvoire, Tel: (225)48-891, 48- Claude Kouassi 80-92,Fax: (225) 44-54-47,Contact: Mr. Eric Lecesne,President, E-mail:[email protected]@internet Education/Training (R) Adult Utercy The project wiDsupport implementationof Pfir te Sector Development the government's literacy strategy for out-of-schoolyouths and Privatiaton and Regulatory Reform: The project will sup- young adults, particularly girls and women. Boardpresentatiox port implementationof the second program of privatizationof 20 was scheduledfor late June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment enterprises selected by the government. It will also provide as- Category C. US$5.5 (IDA). Consultantswill be required Imple- sistance to strengthen the regulatory capacity in the inf-truc- menting agency is to be deternined. ture sectors. Project is being identified. Environmiiental Higher Education: The objective of the project is to improve AssessmentCategory C. US$ 25.0 (IDA).Consultants wiD be re- the qualityand relevance of higher education. Project is being quired. Privatization Committee, 01 BP 1141, Abidjan. C6te identified. Environmental AssessmnentCategory C. USS 30.0 d'lvoire, Tel: (225) 22-22-31,22-22-32, 22-22-36, Fax: (225)22-22- (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministere de 35 1'enseignement superieur et de la recherche scientinque (MESRS). Tour C, 20ime etage, Ah ijan, Cote d'lvoire, Tel: (225) 21-75-31,Contact Mr. Gioan (R) Structual Adjustment. The credit wil support l. V gov- Environment errnent's EconomicReform Program and support financialsec- National Environmental Program: rhe projectwill support a tor reform. Negotiatioxs were schedued for late Juxe 1999. progran of action to protect the environment, based on the EnvironmentalAssessment Category U. US$ 315.0 (IDA).Con- country's NationalEnvironmental Action Plan. Project is bleing sultants willbe required for project preparationand supervision. identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 10.0 Ministry of Economy and Finance, BP V 125, Abidjan, Cote (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Envi- d'lvoire,Tel: (225) 218022,Fax: (225) 211-690,Contact Mr. Em- ronment, Housing and Urban Developmnent,Abidjan, Cote d'lvo- manuel N. N'Goran ire, Fax: (225)2146-18 Park Protection and Management -,he project will include Djibouti capacity buildingfor nationalenvironment, tourism and forestry agencies, research institutions and NGOs. It will also include Education/TraIning park managementand establishmentof buffer zones for priority protected areas. Appraisalmission is scheduled for mid-October School Development The project wiUsupport education sec- 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (GEF). tor development.The objectivesare to (a) increase access to pri- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture mary education; (b) improve the quality of education at the and Natural Resources primary and secondary levels;(c) develop mechanisms for sus- tainable school-basedmanagement; and (d) strengthen institu- Finance tional capacity of the Ministry of Education. Project is being Financial Sector Development. The project willfinance tech- identified. Enviromnental Assessment Category C. US$ 10.0 nical assistance to support financialsector development,includ- (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Na- ing improving efficiency and outreach of the financial system tional Education,Djiboutiville, Djibouti, Tel: (253)35-20-52. Fax: with particular emphasis on access to credit by small businesses (253) 35619 in rural areas and financing coffee/cocoa crop credit. Appraisal mission is scheduled for late August 1999. EnvironmentalAs- Public Sector Management sessment Category C. USS 15.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be- quired for preparation and implementation.Ministry of Finane, Public Expenditure Reform: The credit will be based on the Abidjan,Cote d'lvoire government's policy framework paper which sets out the gov- ernment's medium-term strategy. The main objectives of the Population, Health and Nutrition credit are to improvepolicies, institutions and investmentsin the transport and social sectors. Projectis being identified.Environ- (R) Poverty Reduction Program: The objectiveof the project mental Assessment Category C. US 10.0(IDA). Consulting ser- is to reinforcethe capacityof government, NGOsand other part- vices to be determined. Implementing agency is to be ners in designing,implementing, monitoring and evaluatingpov- deterrnined erty reduction actions. Appraisal mission is scheduled fior November 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Soa! Sector Planning and Development Programming,Abidjan. Cote d'lvo- (R) Public Works/Social Development (Cr. 3225-DJI): ire The project will improvethe livingstandards of the poor by (a) generating employrent through labor-intensiveactivities; and Power (b) improvingaccess to basicsocial and economic infrastructure (R) Azito Partial Guarantee (BOO1-IVC):An IDA partial risk and services. Approved by the Executive Directorson 25 May guarantee will support the construction of a 450 MW gas-fired 1999. EnvironmentalAssessrnent Category B. PID: DJPA44584. power plant at Azito, sponsored by ABB Energy Ventures.The USS 14.8 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Min- total estimated total project cost is US$ 215.0million. Approved istere des finances et de l'economienationale, Unitede coordi- by the Executive Directors on 10 December 1998.Environmen- nation et de suivides actions de lutte contre la pauvrete, BP 13, tal AssessmentCategory A. US$35.0 (IDAPartial Credit Guaran- Djiboutiville,Djibouti. Contact: Mr. Idras Orah, Conseillertech- tee). No consultants are required. CINERGYSA., 62 Blvd. nique JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE11 Eritrea management;monitoring and evaluationsystems; small scale ir- rigationsystems; natural resources management;trypanosomi- Education/Training asis and tsetse control; fisheries resources management; aquaculture;and appropriatetechnology in agriculturalproduc- Education: 'The project will (a) expand rural access and in- tion and processing. Ministryof Food and Agriculture,PO Box prove educationalquality to support improvementof teaching fa- M 37, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-21)78-05-75, Fax: (233-21)66-82- cilities and increase availability of textbooks and other 45, Contact: Mr. PA. Bruce, Coordinator educationalmaterials; (b) improvethe quality ofvocational train- ing and build, furnish and equip two skills developmentcenters; Education/Training and (c) provide institutionalstrengthening to irnprovethe orga- nization and management capacitywithin the education sector. Education Sector Development. This adaptable program Negotiationsare delayed-awaiting government's response. En- credit will support the first phase of a ten-yearsector program. vironmental Assessment Caegory B. PID: ERPE34156.US$ The program will focus on strengthening the institutionalfoun- 15.2 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of dation for policy formulation,planning, budgeting and monitor- Education, PO Box 1056,Asmara, Eritrea, Tel: (291-1)11-38-79, ing of the entire education sector.The activitiesto be supported Fax: (291-1)12-19-13 by this credit include (a) strengthening of policymaking and re- source allocationcapacity; (b) effective utilizationof resources; Ethiopia and (c) post-basic education and skills developnent programs. Project is being identified.Environmental Assessmnent Category C. US$ 75.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required to support Power project preparation. Ministryof Education,PO BoxM40, Accra, Power Distribution: The project will rehabilitate electricity Ghana,Tel: (233-21)31-95-03. 66-50-58, Contacts: Chris Ameyaw- and expand distribution in Addis Ababa. Project preparation is Akumfih,Coordinator, External Donors; YawDwomoh, Direc- under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. US$ 150.0 tor, Planningand Budget (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministryof Mines (R) National Functional literacy Progrm (Cr. 3246-GH): and Energy,PO Box 486,Addis Ababa. Ethiopia, Tel: (251-1)150- The project willhelp the government prepare the second phase 465, Fax: (251-1)517-874 of the adult literacy and functionalskills program based on the evaluationof and lessons learned from the first phase of the pro- Gambia gram.Approed by theExecuive Directorson 17June 1999.Envi- ronmental Assessment Category C. PID: GHPE974.USS 35.0 Power (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Non-formalEdu- cation Division, Ministry of Education, LiteracyHouse, Accra, (R) Energy Infriastructure: This iechnicalassistance loanwill Ghana,Tel: (233-21)23-16-64, Fax: (233-21)23-16.63 (a) provide the government with the basis for decisions on the location of future energy infrastrucLurefacilities within the Public Sector Management greater Banjul area; (b) rapidly irnprove the commercialman- agement and financialsoundness of the electricity sector in or- Public Sector ManagementProgram (Cr. 3199-GH): The der to attract private investment capital,and (c) prepare a plan project will address several different areas which have been for delivery of energy services to the mostlyrural populationin identified as essential elements for the public sector reform the interior provinces.Appraisal mnissionis scheduledfor October agenda. These areas include(a) improvingsystems and process- 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IDA). es. such as human resources management systems, financial Consultantswill be required for project preparationand supervi- managementguidelines, records managemnentguidelines, facili- sion. Department of State, Trade. IndusLry and Employment, ties management, remunerationand incentivesystems and man- Banjul,The Gambia,Tel: (220)392-363. Fax: (220)227-756,223- agement information systems; (b) the national policy 252, Contact: Oumar S. Sallah, Directorof Energy managementprocess; (c) reviewingthe mandates and responsi- bilities of public sector agencies; and (d) strengtheningpublic- Ghana Mayprivate 1999. partnerships. Environmental Approved Assessmentby the Executive CategoryDirectors C. PID:on 4 GHPE50615.USS 14.3(IDA). Local consultants willbe required Agriculture to support project preparation activities. NIRP Secretariat,Of- (R) AgrIculturalServices (former y Agricultural Seruices Su- fice of the President, PO Box 1618, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-21) sectorInvestment): The project is the major instrument for imple- 780-295,Fax: (23Ci21)toranteng,780-294, Contact: Dr. Appiah menting the government's strategy for accelerated agricultural NabonalCoordinator growth and rural development.The government intends to in- Regulatory Capacity Building: The project willdevelop the crease the pace of the sector's growth with a strategy that is pri- government's capacityto regulate telecommunications,energy, vately led and export-oriented.The public sector willcreate an water and various transport sectors. Projectis being identified. enabling environment for the private sector boost to agricultural EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS27.0 (IDA).Con- production.agro-processing and exports. The project objectives sultants will be required for technical assistanceto the National are to (a) increase agriculturalproduction; (b) promote farming CommunicationAgency, Public UtilityRegulatory Commission systems and practices; (c) strengthen the technical, financial and Ministry of Transport. Implementingagency is to be deter- and managerial capacities of the sector ministry, departments mined. agencies and the district assemblies;and (d) promote partner- ships between the public and privatesectors as wellas linkages Social Sector with civilsociety. Preappraisalmission is scheduledforSeptember 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. (R) Community Development (Cr. 3237-GH) : This learn- USS40.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required for statistics and in- ing and innovation credit (LIL)will pilot mechanismsand sys- formationsystem; horticulturalexports promotion;horticultural tems for designing, implementingand monitoringcommunity- production;research management;ministerial organizationand based poverty reduction activities.The projectwas approved, fol- PAGE12 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 louningUL procedures,on 9 June 1999. EnvironmentalAssess- proved waterand sanitation facilities;and (b) provide support to ment Category C. PID: GHPE40659.US$ 5.0 (IDA).Consultants communities in planning, implementingand managing their fa- will be required for project preparation. NationalDevelopment cilities through training, sector work and stakeholder consulta- Planning Commission,Flagstaff House, P0 Box C633,Canton- tion. Appraisal mission was scheduled for late June 1999. ments, Accra,Ghana, Tel: (233-21)77-30-55, Fax: (233-21)77-30- EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: GHPA50616.USS 11 50.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required to carry out studies dur- ing project preparation.Community Water and SanitationAgen- Structural Adjustment cy, Accra,Ghana, E-mail:[email protected] (R) Economic Reform Support Operation II (Cr. 3228- Guinea GH): The credit willsupport the deepening of reforrn, in expen- diture allocation,cocoa, energy and public sector managernent. Approved by the EzecutiveDirectors on 27 May 1999. Environ- Education/Training mental Assessment Category C. US$ 178.2 (IDA). Consultants Education for All: The objectivesof the project are to attain full will not be required. Ministryof Finance, PO Box M 40 cca primary attendance and imnprovethe quality of education Ghana, Tel: (233-21)665-587, Fax: (233-21)6670& through teacher training,supply of textbooks and improvingstu- (R) Private Sector Adjustment Credit III ObrmerlyPuNic dent health. Appraisalmission is scheduled for September 1999. SectorAdjustment Credit): Project description to be determined. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Con- Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education,Con- C. US$ 75.0 (IDA). No consultants are required. Implementing akry, Guinea,Tel: (224)41-3441, Contact: Mr. ZoumanigiKozo agency is to be determined. PublicSector Management Transport (R) Capacity Building: The project will maintain the momen- (R) Highway Sector II: The project will support the govern- tum of the process of institutional reforms. The focus is on ment's highway sector strategy for the period 2000.2004,with strengthening institutional capacity in key areas of economic emphasison completing sector reform initiatedunder a previous management Appraisalmission was scheduledfor lateJune 1999. project and consolidating sustainable maintenance and execu- EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: GNPE49716.USS tion funding. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAssess- 16.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of ment Categoryto be determined USS50.0 (IDA).Consultants will Planning and Cooperation,Project Monitoring and Coordinating not be required. Ministry of Roadsand Transport, PO Box M 38, Unit,Conakry, Guinea Accra, Ghana,TeL (233-21)669-986, Fax: (233-21)667-114, Con- tact K Abbey Sam, Chief Director Rural Doevlopment Vmage Support (Cr. 3174-GUI): This AdaptableProgram Urban Developrnent Lending project will (a) help aleviate poverty at the community (R) Urban Upgrading: The project will include infrastructure level;(b) support decentralizationat the rural developmentcom- improvements in low-incomeurban cormmunitiesin main cities munity level; and (c) support basic rural infrastructure and and capacity building for local governments. Project is being maintenance.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 23 Febru- identified. Environmental Assessment CategoryB. US$ 50.0 ary 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 22.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Local (IBRD). Consultantswill be required. Ministeredu plan, PO Box Government and Rural Development,PO Box M50,Accra, Gha- 221, Conakry, Guinea,Tel: (224)41-40-12, Fax: (224)41-30.59 na, Tel: (223-21)66-54-21, Fax: (223-21)66-10.16, Contact Mr. Godfrey Ewool,Engineering Advisor Urban Development (R) Fith Urban: The project will include basic infrastructure Urban III (Cr. 3196-GUI): The objectiveof the project is to improvementsin selected secondary towns and capacity build- improve the physical and economic environment of Conakry ing for district assemblies. Appraisal mission is scheduled for and strengthen its capacity to manage urban services. The October 1999.Environmental Assessment CategoryB. US$ 60.0 project includes maintenance of secondary infrastructure and (IDA).Consulting services will be required for preliminaryen- solid waste management Approvedby the Executive Directors gineering and environmental and economic analysisof selected on 20 April 1999.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: interventions. Ministry of LocalGovernment and RuralDevelop- GNPA1074.USS 18.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- ment, PO Box M50, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (223-21)66-54-21, Fax: mined. Ministry of Urban Planningand Housing, Bld. du Com- (223-21)66-10-16, Contact: Mr. Godfrey Ewool,Engineering Ad- merce, Conakry,Guinea, Tel: (224)44-38-40,4146.87, Fax: (224) visor 41-46.88,Contact Sory Kouyate,Conseiller charge de mission

Water Supply/Sanitation Guinea-Bissau (R) Water Restructuring (formerly WaterSector Restructur- ing): The project will improveefficiency and effectivenessof ur- Private Sector Development ban water services and provide safe and affordablewater supply Private Sector Capacity Building: The project will support services to unserved, low-incomeurban areas. Project prepara- the government's policy of encouraging private sector develop- tion is under way.Environmental Assessment CategoryB. USS ment by (a) creating an enabling environment to facilitate in- 50.0 (IDA).Consulting services are required for project prepara- creased levelsof privateinvestment; (b) reducing the role of the tion. Ghana Water Corporation. PO Box M194, Accra, Ghana, state in productive sectors; and (c) improving the efficiency and Tel: (233-21)66.67-81, Fax: (233-21) 66.35-52,Contact: E.K.Y. competitiveness of private enterprise through technical assis- Dovlo,Managing Director tance. Appraisalmission is tentativelyscheduled for December Community Water II: The project will (a) financecommunity 1999.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 12.5 (IDA). development activities and the design and construction of im- Consultingservices to be determined. Ministryof Economyand JULY 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE13 Finance, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau,Tel: (245)20-16-26, Fax: (245) istry of PublicWorks and Housing,P0 Box 30260,Nairobi, Ken- 20-10-55 ya, Tel: (254-2)723-101

Water Supply/Sanitation Water Supply/Sanitation Water/Energy The project will provide a reliable and potable Mombasa Water and Sanitation: The project seeks to (a) de- water supply and electricityto the city of Bissau,and establish an velopground water sources; (b) improvethe transmissionline organization to manage, operate and maintain a water supply, between Baricho Well Field and Mombasa; and (c) provide drainage and electric-system.Board presentation is tentatively emergency measures to improve distributionsystems and re- scheduled for September 1999.Environmental Assessment Cat- duce unaccountedfor water. Project preparationis currentlyon egory A. PID: GWPE01012.US$ 20.3 (ITF).Consultantswill be hold. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. US$ 40.0 (IDA). required. Ministry of Energy, Industry, and Natural Resources, Consultingservices to be determined.National Water Conserva- Bissau, Guinea-Bissau,Tel: (245) 21-26-18,Fax: (245) 22-18-25 tion and Pipeline Corporation,Workshop Rd. and Commercial St., PO Box 30173, Nairobi, Kenya,Tel: (254-2)556-600, Fax: Kenya (254-2)545-882

Agriculture Lesotho Agriculture Sector Investent: The project will support (a) Education/Training extension, animalhealth, disease controland other essential ser- vices and regulatory activities; (b) continuationof policy and in- Education 11 (Cr. 3192-LSO): This is an AdaptableProgram stitutional initiatives begun under Agricultural Sector Lendingproject focusingon (a) primary and secondary educa- Adjustment11; (c) infrastructure to support private sector devel- tion; (b) technicalvocational education; and (c) training and non- opment; and (d) pilotinvestrnent schemes to support smallscale formal education. Approvedby the Executive Directors on 15 capital investments covering communities, NGOs and private April 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: entrepreneurs. Negotiationshave been postponed.Environmen- LSPE56416.US$ 21.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be deter- tal Assessment Category B. PID: KEPA1346.US$ 27.0 (IDA). mined. Planning Unit, Ministry of Education,Box 47, Maseru, Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Lesotho,Tel: (266)311-248, Fax: (266)310-206, Contact Mrs. M. LivestockDevelopment and Marketing,Kilimo House, PO Box Makakole 30028,Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-2)718.870, Fax: (254-2)720-586 Population, Health and Nutrition Education/Training Health Systems Support: The projectwill support health sec- (R) Strengthening Primary and Secondary Education:The tor reforms.Project preparation is underway.Environmental As- project will be a policy-basedsector investmentand maintenance sessment Category C.US$ 10.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be loan. It will be an AdaptableProgram Loanfor strengthening pri- determined. Ministryof Health and SocialWelfare mary and secondary education, and will support the first stage of the government's master plan for the education sector. Preap- Privte Sector Development praisal mission was scheduledfor late June 1999. The govern- ment is preparing a master plan for the education sector. A Privatization and Regulatory Reform Technical Assis- Japanese grant of up to US$ 556,000for projectpreparation is be- tance: The project would help the government (a) reform and ing used. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- privatizekey enterprisesin the bankingand telecommunications mined. US$30.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. Ministry of sectors; and (b) reformand increase privatesector participation Education,PO Box 30040, Nairobi,Kenya, 'lx: 963 25200,Fax: in key enterprises in the electricity and water sectors. Project (254-2)214-287 preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category B. USS 14.0 (IDA).Consulting services are to be determined. Public Sector Management Ministry of Finance, PO Box A249.Maseru 100, Lesotho,Tel: (266) 317-902,Fax: (266)317-551. Contact: Mr. M. Mashologu, Local Government Reform: The project will offer assistance Director,Privatization Unit with capacity buildingand municipalinfrastructure investments in various local authorities. Project preparation is currently on Social Sector hold. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. US$80.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry (R) Community Development Suppore This project willsup- of Local Government, PO Box 28251,Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254- port a decentralized, vilage-based microinvestmentprogram. 2) 216-197,Fax: (254-2)216-756 nhe projectwas scheduledto be approved,following LIL proce- dures,on 25 June 1999.Environmental Assessment Category B. Transport USS 4.7 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Planningand Ministryof Local Government,Box 24, Maseru, Highway Sector III: The project will support road rehabilita- Lesotho,Tel: (266) 316-410,Fax: (266)310-145 tion and institutionalreform. Project processing is currently on hold. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. US$ 140.0(IDA). Madagascar Consultants will be required. Ministry of Public Works and Housing, PO Box 30260, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-2)723-101, Fax: (254-2)720.044 Agriculture District Rural Roads Network Rehabilitation-Roads (R) Rural Development. The project is the first phase of an ag- 2000: The projectwill support the implementationof the Roads ricultural sector investment program whichwill focus on (a) ca- 2000 program for district roads. Appraisal mission was sched- pacity building at both central and local levels for rural uled for July 1999.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: development; (b) improved agricultural technology develop- KEPE54947.US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be required Min- ment and transfer for both crops and livestock;(c) sustainableir- PAGE14 Monthly OperationalSummary JULY1999 rigation infrastructure rehabilitation and operation; (d) Antananarivo,Madagascar, Tel: (261) 202-35467,Fax: (261)202- sustainable rural road rehabilitation and operation; and (e) es- 22920 tablishment of a modern national land administration system. Appraisal missionis scheduledforFebruary 2000. Environmental Strctural Adjustment Assessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Implementingagency is to be determined. (R) S&ructural Adjustment II (Cr. 32 18-MAG):The project will build on reforms implementedunder StructuralAdjustment Education/Training I to achieve significantgrowth in foreign investment Approved by the Executive Directorson 20 May 1999. EnvironmentalAs- Second Manpower Development The project will assist the sessment Category U. US$75.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be government in implementing further reforms to the vocational determined. Ministry of Finance and Economy;Ministry of De- training systems aimed at improving relevanceand efficiencyof centralizationand Budget training programs to labor market needs. Appraisal mission is scheduled for December 1999.Environmental Assessment Cat- Transport egory C. PID: MGPE57383.US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. Bureaujdu projet educationcharge du projet (R) Transport Sector. The project will support the restructur- de renforcement de la formation technique et professionnele, ing of road and transport sector, finance limited improvements (B.PE. -PREFTEC),3eme etage, Batimentex-LTGC, Complexe to road and transport infrastructure; and facilitateprivatization scolaire Ampefflloha,BP 4196, Antananarivo101, Madagascar. of transport activities.Appraisal minion is schediuedfor October Tel: (261-20)223-1438, Fax: (261-20)223.1438, Contact Mr. An- 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS50.0 (IDA). dre Ralaitsizafy,Director Consultants have been appointedfor restructuring the national railway company,restructuring of ports managementand inland Finance waterways improvements. Ministryof Transport, BP 1254,Ano- sy,Antananarivo, Madagascar, Tlx: 22301,Tel: (261-2)24604 (R) Microfinance (Cr. 3217-MAG): The project wil support the development of private finance institutionsand instruments Water Supply/Sanitation that assist low-incomeclients. Approvedby the ErecutiveDirec- ton on 20 May 1999.Environmental Assessment Category C. Urban Water Sector. The project includes the rehabilitationof PID: MGPE52186.US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consulting services are water supply and sanitation for 14 secondary urban centers, as- needed for training and specializedassistance in finance.AGEP- sistance to the restructuring of the water utility and institutional MF, BP 628,Vifla Betanica, Lot 11W4 bis.Ankorahotra, Antanan- strengthening of the water and sanitation sectors. Projectis be- arivo 101, Madagascar,Contact: Mr. RenaudRajaonah ing identified.Environmental Assessment Category B. USS26.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required for supervisionof works and Population.HeIath and Nutrition institutional support. Ministry of Energy and Mines, P0 Box 527, Antananarivo,Madagascar, Tel: (261-2)25515, Fax: (261-2) (R) Heallth I:bTheprojectwill (a) support the process ofdecen- 32554 tralizationof the health delivery system currentlyunder way:(b) reinforce the health care services at the district level; and (c) Malawi strengthen public health programs and promote community- mnanagedcost recovery.Appraisal msion wasschedaledforJune 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: Environment MGPE51741.US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be required in (R) Mulanje Mountain Biodiversity Conservation: The the areas of public health, health economics,and health systems project wil support the conservation of the biologicaldiversity management Ministry of Health, Antananarivo,Madagascar, and environmental functions of the Mulanje mountain and its Tel: (261) 236.97,236.98, Fax: (261) 297-29,Contact: Dr. Justin eco-systems through a combination of communityenvironmen- Ranjalahy tal awareness, sustainable use and alternative livelihoodinitia- tives and targeted communityconservation schemes.Appraisal Pubik Sector Management mission isscheduledforAugust1999. Environmental Assessment (R) Regional Development and Municipal Managemente Category B. US$ 5.0 (GEF).Consultants may be required. Min- This learning and innovationcredit wouldassist the government istry of Research and EnvironmentalAffairs, Mulanje Mountain in designing, testing and disseminating tools, approaches and ConservationTrust methodologies for regional planning and municipal/urban man- agement. It wil include (a) regional planningand municipal ur- Population,Health and Nutrition ban management; (b) municipal capacitybuilding in small-and (R) AIDS: The objective of this Learning and InnovationLoan medium-sizecities; and (c) informationsystems and communi- is to produce the behavioral changes needed to reduce the cation. Appraisalmtission is scheduledforSeptember 1999. Envi- spread of HIV infection, treat STDs and support care of people ronmental Assessment Category C. PID: MGPE62628. USS 3.8 with AIDS. The project includes (a) information, education and (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Bud- communication;(b) institutionalsupport; and (c) treatment and get, BP 3378, 101Antananarivo, Madagascar,Tel: (261-2)35613, care of people with AIDS.Project is beingidentified. Environmen- Fax: (261-2)35617, Contact: Mr. HerivelonaRamanantsoa-Rama- tal Assessment Category C. IUS$4.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be rcal required. NationalAids ControlProgram, P0 Box30622, Capital Social Sei;ctor City,Lilongwe 3, Malawi.Tel: (265) 781-344,Fax: (265)784-247 (R) Health and Nutrition: The project will (a) financean es- Regional Social Fund: The project willcontinue to financefur- sential health package; (b) promote a more efficientuse of re- ther activitiesunder the ongoing social fund.TIis is a follow-up sources; (c) increase health coverage; and (d) improve the project. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment quality of health services. Projectis being identified. Environmen- Category B. US$ 60.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- tal Assessment Category C. PID: MWPA36039.USS 20.0 (IDA). mined. Prime Minister's Office for Social Funds, PO Box 248, Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health and JULY 1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE15 Population,PO Box 30377,Capital City, Lilongwe 3. Malawi,Tel: City,Lilongwe 3, Malawi.Tel: (265) 780-344,Fax: (265)784-678, (265) 783-044,Fax: (265) 783-109,Contact: Dr. W.O.O.Sangala, Contact Ms. Hanna Kawalewala,Principal Secretary PrincipalSecretary

Private Sector Development Mali Private Sector. The project willprovide support for the devel- Agriculture opment of emerging enterprises. Componentsinclude a line of credit for investment projects, support to remove infrastructure Agricultural Services and Farmers' Organiztions: The constraints and technical assistance. Project preparation is un- project will focus on (a) the restructuring and capacitybuilding der way.Environmental Assessment Category C. Cofinancingis of the Ministry of Rural Development and Environment; (b) required. US$20.0 (IDA). Noconsultants are required. Ministry strengthening core public agricultural services; and (c) of Finance, CapitalHill, PO Box 30049,Lilongwe 3, Malawi,Tel: strengthening farmers' organizations. Project is being s.denti- (265) 782-199,Fax: (265) 781-679 fied. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: MLPE35630. Privatizationand Utility Reform: The project willsupport the USS50.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined.Ministry government in addressing liberalization,regulatory reform and of Rural Developmentand Environment, Bamako, Mali, Tel: privatizationissues in key utility sectors. Project preparation is (223)23-19-30, Fax: (223)22.02-95, Contact: Secretary General under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: MWPE63095.USS 10.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Eduction/Training PrivatizationCommission, PO Box 937, CDM House, Indepen- dent Drive, Blantyre,Malawi, Tel: (265)623-655, Fax: (265)621- Education Sector: The aim of the project is to expand primary 248,Contact Mr. Dye Mawindo,Executive Director education, increase enrollment, restructure higher education and improve the quality,relevance and efficiencyat all levels. StructuralAdjustment Project preparationis currently on hold. EnvironmentalAssess- ment Category C. PID: MLPE40650.Cofinancing of about US$ Fisptl Restructuring and Deregultion: The credit will sup- 30.0 millionis expected.US$ 45.0 (IDA).Consultants will be re- pXortreforms to accelerate economicgrowth and poverty reduc- qre. dMinsr ofBscEuain.o ol akRsdn tion and technical assistance to help implementpolicy reforms. Mission, BP 1864,Baako, Mali, Cl(223world Bank Resident Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category Miso,B184Bak,Ml,Te:23)2223 Fx(23 C. US$ 70.0 (IDA). Consulting services wil be required. Minis- 22-6682 try of Finance,Capital HiD, PO Box 30377,Capital City, Lilongwe (R) Community-Based Schools: The objectiveof the project 3, Malawi,Tel: (265)783-044, Fax: (265)783-109 is to develop a model of high-quality,conuiunity-based, public schooling.It will support the introduction of nationallanguages Transport as a transition to French, the establishment of commnunityin- (R) Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance (Cr. 3239- volvementin school managementand reinforcedfinancial man- MAI):The project includes (a) rehabilitationand upgrading of agement. Appraisal mission was scheduledfor late June 1999. selected primary and secondary/rural roads; (b) assistance in EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$5.0 (IDA).Consult- the planning, management and maintenanceof roads; and (c) ing services to be determined. Ministry of BasicEducation, c/o technical assistance in support of the development and imple- World Bank Resident Mission, BP 1864, Bamako, Mali, Tel: mentation of policy reforms in the transport sector covering leg- (223)22-24-50, Fax: (223)22-66-82, Contact: Mr.Salif Samake islative aspects, deregulation and road safety.Approved by the ExecutiveDirector on 10June 1999. Environmental Assessnent Financ Category B. Cofinancingis required. PID:MWPA1666. USS 30.0 (IDA).Consultants may be required for detailed engineering de- (R) Financial Sector Developmente The project willpursue signs and provision of technical assistance. Ministry of Works reforms in the financialsector, strengthen the financialsystem and Supplies, Roads Department, PO Box 316, Lilongwe 3, and deepen financialintermediation. Appraisal mission is sched- Malawi,lbx: 44285,Tel: (265)784-200, Fax: (265) 783-328 uledfor late July 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to (R) Road Safety and Traffic Management-This learning and be determined. PID: MLPE1748.US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consulting innovationcredit will support studies, training and a number of services to be determined. Ministere des finances,BP 234, Ba- pilot programs to improve Malawi's road safety record and to mako, Mali,Tel: (223)22-57-26, 22-58-58, Fax: (223)22-4853 bring about substantial improvementsin road traffic manage- ment. Projectis beingidextified. Environmental Assessment Cat- RuralDevelopment egory C. PID: MWPE57761.US$ 5.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. Ministry ofTransport, CapitalHouse, Private Bag 322, (R) Rural Infrastructure: The objectiveof the projectis to pro- Capital City, Lilongwe,Malawi, Tel: (265) 783-066,Fax: (265) vide basic rural infrastructure on a sustainablebasis to help in- 783-805,Contact: Dr.J.HA Maida, PrincipalSecretary crease agriculturalproduction, reduce poverty and improvethe livelihood of the beneficiaries.Specifically, the project will (a) Water Supply/Sanitation strengthen localcapacity in infrastructure planning,design, con- Blantyre Water Supply: The objectivesof the project are to (a) struction, operationand maintenance;(b) support the rehabilita- improveoverall health and well-beingby providinga reliable and ton and constructionof large irrigation perimeters; (c) support sustainable water supply; (b) upgrade Blantyre Water Board's rehabilitationand constructionof main rural roads; and (d) pro- (BWB)financial management and informationsystems; (c) en- vide water to rural communities.Appraisal mission was sched- hance BWB financialoperations through raising the water tar- uledfor lateJune 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. iffs; (d) expand water supply facilities;and (e) reduce water PID: MLPE41723.USS 85.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be de- production costs. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAs- termined. Ministry of Rural Development,c/o Banque mondi- sessment Category B. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consultants will be re- ale, BP 1864,Bamako, Mali, Tel: (223) 22-87-85,Fax: (223)22-02- quired. Ministry of Water Development,Private Bag390, Capital 95, Contact: Mr. Paul Coulibaly,Conseilleur technique PAGE16 Monthly Opeational Summary JULY1999 Telecommunications nanciallysustainable entity.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors (R) Telecomuunications Sector Reform: The project aixnsto on 10June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: improveeconomic competitivenessthrough improvedcoverage MRPE63791.US$10.8 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Mi- and quality and more competitiveprices for telecommunications istry of EconomicAffairs, BP 1481,Nouakchott, Mauritania, Tel: services. Appraisalmission is scheduled for July 1999.Environ- (222-2)52043,52673,90431, Fax: (222-2)91290, Contact: N'Guis- mental Assessment Category C. PID: MLPE62908.USS 72 saly Fall,E-mail: [email protected] (IDA). Consultants have been selected for studies. Localcon- sulting services will be required. Ministry of Communications, Mauritius BP 116, Bamako, Mali,Tel: (223) 22-83-92,Fax (223) 22-83-19, Contact: Mr. Dahirou Dialo, ConseillerTechnique Population,Health andNutrition

Mauritania Health: The project will support the implemnentationof health sector reforms that aim to make health systems more efficient Agriculture and responsive to the increasing incidences of non-communica- ble diseases. Project preparation is under way. Environmental (R) Integrated Development Program for Irrigated Agri- Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IBRD).Consulting services culture: The project aims to rehabilitate existing irrigation to be determnined.Ministry of Finance, Port Louis, Mauritius, schemes and access roads, develop private irrigation, promote Tel: (230)201-1446, Fax: (230) 208-8622 crop diversification and integrated agriculture. Total program cost is estimated at USS 46.0 miUion. Board presentation was scheduled for early July 1999.Environmental Assessmnent Cate- Trnpt gory A. PID: MRPE44711.USS 38.1 (IDA). Mainly short-term Transport: The project will include roads rehabilitation, the and local consultants will be requir-'d (estimated at 100 staff Port Louisbypass and other urban traffic improvements.Project weeks). Ministry of Rural Development and Environmient,c/o preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment Category WorldBank Resident Mission, BP 667, Nouakchott,Mauritania. A. US$5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined.Imple- Tel: (222) 25-10-17,Fax: (2)25-13-34, Contact:Mr. Ahmed You- menting agency is to be determined. ra, Tel: (222) 25-12-66

Popuation, Healthand Nutrition WaterSupply/Sanitation (R) Nutrition, Food Security and Social Mobilizaion (Cr. Solid Waste Management.- The project will address (a) the 3187-MAU): The project is a learning and innovation (LIL) most appropnate institutionaland legal franework, to be set up crediL It will test the feasibilityand compare the effectivenessof at the'national level, to allowgradual introductionof the private three prototype interventionsagainst mother and child malnutri- sector through operations and capital investment;and (b) the 6- tion. Two rural prototypes will address social, educationaland nancial sustainabilityof the sector as a whole. Project is being economic determinants of malnutrition. Another prototype will identified. Environmental Assessment Category A. USS 5.0 provide support for micro-projectsin periurban environments. (IBRD).Consulting services to be deterrnined.Ministry of Envi- Female cooperatives assisted by NGOs and the Secretariat ronment, Ken Lee Tower, Barracks St, Port Louis, Mauritius, d'Etat a la condition femininewill be the key actors. Improve- Tel: (230)212-6080, Fax: (230) 212-6671 ient of nutritionalstatus of children will be monitoredto assess effectiveness of prototypes.The project was approved,following UILprocedures, on 16 March 1999.Credit was signed on 17 May Mozambique 1999.Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 4.9 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Secretariat d'Etat a la condition Environment feminine,Nouakchott, Mauritania,Tel: (222-2)57-189, Fax: (222- 2) 57-156 (R) Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Management The project aims to strengthen the conservationand managementof Pubic SectorManagement globally significantcoastal and marine biodiversityby support- ing the National Forestry and WildlifeStrategy within the over- (R) Mining Sector (Credit 3206-MAU): The objectiveof the all frameworkof the nationalcoastal zone program.Negotiations project is to strengthen the government's capacityto act as a fa- werescheduledforearlyJuly 1999. AGEF advancegrant has been cilitator and regulator in order to significantlyincrease private approved to support preparation activities.Additional cofinanc- investment in the mining sector. Approvedby the ExecutiveDi- ing is being sought. Environmental Assessment Category B. rectors on 13 May 1999.Credit uwas signed on 21 May 1999.En- US$5.0 (GEF). Consultingservices to be determined. Ministry vironmental Assessment Category C. PID: MRPE57875.US$ for Coordinationof EnvironmentAffairs, Ave. Acordos de Lusa- 15.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be required. Ministry of ka, Maputo, Mozambique,Tel: (258-1)465-848, Fax: (258-1)465 Mines and Industry, BP 199,Nouakchott, Mauritania,Tel: (222) 84 253-083, Fax: (22) 253-225,Contact: Mr. Samory Soueidatt, Project Coordinator,Tel: (222)256-861 PrivateSector Development Telecommunications (R) Enterprise Development: The project willsupport private (R) Telecommunications and Postal Reform Technical As- sector development.Specific project componentsare to be deter- sistance (Cr. 3238-MAU): The project aims at improvingac- mined. Negotiationsuwere scheduledforJuly 1999. Environmental cess to, diversity and qualityof telecommunicationsservices at Assessment Category B. PID: -MZPE49874.USS 29.0 (IDA). more competitiveprices through a higher level of private sector Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Industry, investment.The project willalso support the developmentof the Trade and Tourism, Pra,a 25 de junho, 37, CP 654, Maputo, post office into a more commerciallyoriented and eventuallyfi- Mozambique,Tel: (258-1)427-204, Fax: (2581) 421-305 JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE17 Structural Adjustment ciency;and (d) strengthenmanagement capacity. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 35.0 (N) Fifth Economic Recovery: The operation will focus on (IDA).Consulting services to be determined.Ministry of Educa- structural and policy reforms aimed at improvingthe sustain- tion, Niamey,Niger, Tel: (227)72-25-26, 72-35-16, Fax: (227)72- ability and efficiencyof public sector operations,with a special 27-97,Contact: Dr. AmnadouGoumadakoye, Directeur Projets focus on fiscal reforms. Project preparation is under way. Envi- d*ucation ronmental Assessment Category U. US$ 100.0(IDA). Consult- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Planning and Finance, Praga da Marinha Popular, CP 272, Maputo, Mozarn- Finnce bique, Tel: (258-1) 43-07-51,Contact Manuel Chang, National (N) Fmancial Sector. The project includes assessment of the Director of Treasury financialsector. Projectpreparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$30.0 (IDA).Consulting services to Transport be determined. Implementingagency is to be determined. Raihways and Port Restructuring: The project will support (a) the restructuring of the MozambiqueRailways and Harbours Rural Development Company with a view to commercializationand at least partial (R) Community-Based Rural Development. The project will privatization/leasing of core activities; and (b) upgrading of support the government in promotingbroad-based poverty alle- some infrastructure. Board presentation is scheduled for mid- viationat the levelof rural communities.The project includes(a) July 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: decentralization and capacity building, (b) natural resources MZPE42039.US$ 100.00(IDA). Consulting services to be deter- management; and (c) demand-drivenbasic infrastructure and mined. Implementingagency is to be determined. other productive activities. Project is being identified.Environ- (R) Roads and Bridges Management and Maintenance mentalAssessment Categoryto be determined.US$ 30.0 (IDA). Program (formerlyRoads and CoastalShipping IIV: The project Consultingservices to be determined.Ministere delegue aupres willsupport the rehabilitationof rural infrastructure and bridg- du Premier Ministre charge du plan, BP869, Tel: (227)72-32-56, es. Projectpreparation is underway. EnvironmentalAssessment Fax: (227) 75-32-01,Contact M. YayeSaidou, Directeur, DDRL Category to be determined. US$ 100.0(IDA). Consulting servic- es to be determined.Authoridade National das Estradas,Minis- Water Supply/Sanitation try of Public Worksand Housing,Ave. Karl Marx 606, CP 268, Maputo, Mozambique,Tel: (258-1) 430-028, Fax: (2581) 421- (R) Water Supply- The project will include (a) financingof in- 369 vestments for the rehabilitation and expansion of urban water networks in parallel with the involvementof a private operator, Water Supply/Sanitation (b) support to capacitybuilding in regulationand supervisionof urban water operations;and (c) support to the elaboration and (R) National Water 11 (Cr. 3247-MOZ): The projectincludes implementationof new approaches to the developmentof basic (a) support for the private sector managementof water compa- services in rural areas. Preappraisalmission was scheduled for nies; (b) investments in urban water supply infrastructure;and late June 1999.Environmental AssessmentCategory B. US$ 30.0 (c) institutionaldevelopment support. Approvedby the Executive (IDA).Consultants will likely be required for detaileddesign for Directorson 17 June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category urban investments,assistance to regulatory and monitoringen- A. US$ 75.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Minis- tities, assistance to the preparation of a new rural water supply try of Public Worksand Housing,Ave. Karl Marx 606, CP 268, strategy and financial management assistance. Implementing Maputo,Mozambique. Tel: (258-1)430-028,420-543, Fax: (258-1) agency is to be determined. 421-369,Contact: His ExcellencyRoberto Costley-White, Minis- ter of Public Works Housing Nigeria

Niger Agriculture

Agriculture (R) Fadama 11 (formerlyNational Fadama Development11): The project willsupport the expansionof privatelyfinanced irri- (R) Agricultural Export Promotion: The project aims to de- gation developmentand complementaryactivities, including (a) velopand diversifyagricultural exports in line with the govern- support for marketing and distribution,storage and preserva- ment's development strategy, through activities targeted at tion infrastructure and agroprocessing and nutrition interven- market research and product quality development,export diver- tions; (b) support to farmer and other private organizations sification,support to agriculturalprofessional organizations and involvedin irrigation-relatedenterprises; and (c) monitoringand upgrading of export infrastructure. Preappraisal mission is evaluationof irrigation expansion,including the socialand envi- scheduledforNovember 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Cate- ronmental aspects. Project is being identified. Appraisal is gory C. USS5.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required for prepar- scheduled for November/December 1999.Environmental As- ing borrower project implementation plan, project procedures sessmentCategory to bedetermined. US$ 70.0 (IDA).The follow- manual, trade facilitation and constraints, and environmental ing consultants will be required (a) marketing/agro-industry analysis. Ministry of Agriculture, c/o Banque mondiale, BP specialist; (b) irrigationengineer (c) institutionalspecialist (lo- 12402,Niarney, Niger, Tel: (227) 73-59-29,7349-66, Fax: (227) cal consultant); (d) financialanalyst/credit specialist (localcon- 73-55-06 sultant); and (e) monitoring and evaluation specialisLFederal Ministry of Agriculture, Abuja, Nigeria,Tel: (234-9)234-1269, Education/ITraining Contact: Mr. A.O. Edacha, Director of Agriculture (R) Education: 7his adaptableprogram credit would (a) extend Water Supply/Sanitation accessto basiceducation at low cost with a tentativetarget of sev- entyper cent enrollmentration in ten years; (b) reducegender and Small Towns Water Supply: This learning and innovation rural/urban inequalities,(c) improve quality and internal effi- credit will finance a pilot project to test arrangements for a na- PAGE18 Mo ¢ Opeational Summary JULY1999 tional Small Towns Water Supply Prograam.Negotiations com- vices t. determined. Ministry of Education,Project Office, pleted. Board presentation is scheduled for September 1999. PO Box K_2, Klgali,Rwanda, Tel: (250)85043, Fax: (250)85044, EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: NGPE64(08.USS 82746,Contact Mr. Joseph Matsiko,Project Manager 5.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required to assist the project agen- cy with (a) project management; (b) provision of extension ser- Population,Health and Nutrition vices; (c) monitoringand evaluation;and (d) reviewof outcomes and modificationsto implementationmanuals. Federal Ministry Population, Health and Nutrition: The project aims to (a) im- ofWater Resources and Rural Development,Area 1, Garki,Abu- prove the efficiency of the nationalprivate health systems;and ja, Nigeria,Tel: (234-9)234-2891, Fax: (234-9)234-2895, Contact: (b) expand utilizationof health services including those in sup- Eng. Mustapha Bukar, Director SpecialDuties port of nationalpopulation and nutritionstrategies. Projectis be- ing identified.Environmental Assessment Category C. USS33.8 Reinl(IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health, Kigali,Rwanda Finance StructuralAdjustment Banque centrale Etats de I'Afiique de l'ouest (BCEAO): Economic Recovery (Cr. 3182-RW): The credit willprovide The objectivesof the project are to (a) strengthen and develop budget support and finance imports to support the govern- the financial sector within the Union economique et monetaire ment's policy reform prograrn aimed at consolidating the eco- ouest-africainein order to promoteprivate-sector led growth; (b) nomic recovery and stability, reducing rural poverty and implement a more modern payments system in at least three pi- developing human resources and the private sector. Approved lot countries; (c) reduce transaction costs and delays for intra- by the Executive Directors on 30 March 1999.Environmental and inter-country payments; (d) achieve greater alignment of AssessmentCategory C. US$ 75.0 (IDA).Consultants will be re- bank supervisory and regulatory frameworkon New Base Com- quired. Ministry of Financeand EconomicPlanning, PO Box 46, missionguidelines; and (e) assist in setting up adequate Region- Kigali,Rwanda, Tel: (250)74785, Fax: (250)77581, Contact: The al Securities Regulation.Appraisal missionis scheduled for mid- Secretary General August 1999.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 10.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Banque centrale WateSuply/senltati.n Etats de l'Afrique de l'ouest (BCEAO),Ave. Abdoulaye Fadiga BP 3997, Dakar, Senegal,Tel: (221-8)39-05-00, Fax: (221-8)23- Rural Water The project will provide (a) assistance to the 93-35 privatizationof the operation of urban water supplysystems; (b) sanitation and storm drainage in Kigali;(c) strengtheningof the Power Directorate of Water and Sanitation;and (d) rehabilitationand expansion of rural water supply schemes throughout the coun- (R) Petroleum Development and Pipeline - Chad and try. Appraisalmission was scheduled for lateJune 1999.Environ- Cameroon: The project involves (a) the developmentof Chad's mental Assessment Category B. PID: RWPA45182.USS 15.0 oil fieldsand (b) the construction of a petroleum export pipeline (IDA).Consulting services to be deternined. Ministry of Public frnm the south of Chad to the Atlanticcoast of Camneroonand re- Works, Energy and Water, BP24, Kigali,Rwanda, Fax: (250)85- lated marine installations.Appraisal mission was scheduledfor 755, Contact Mr. Emmanuel Nsanzumuganwa July 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. A draft envi- ronmental assessment is being revised. PID: TDPE44305.US$ 90.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Project Ser- Senegal vices Manager,Esso Explorationand Production Chad, Inc., 800 Gessner, Suite 400, Houston, Texas, USA 77024, Fax: (1-713) Agriculture 973-5230-,Ministry of Mines, Energy and Petroleum, BP 816. N'Djamena,Chad, Tel: (235)51-21-88, Fax: (235) 51-25-65.51-30- (R) Agricultural Services and Producers' Organizations 43; Societenationale de hydrocarbures, BP 955, Yaounde,Cam- (Cr. 3219-SE): The project follows-upAgricultural Services I eroon, Tel: (237) 20-19-10,Fax: (237) 20-46-51 and AgriculturalResearch 11.The project willsupport producers' organizations.Approved by the Executive Directorson 20 May 1999. Potential parallel financing will be provided from France Rwanda and IFAD. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: SNPE02367.US$ 27.4 (IDA). Consultants have been selected. Agrculture Ministry of Agriculture. Senegalese Institute of Research (IS- RA), BP 3120,Dakar, Senegal,Tel: (221)32-24-22, Fax: (221)32- Agriculture and Rural Market Development: This learning 24-27; Programme national de vulgarisation agricole (PNVA), and innovationloan will test different approaches of promoting BP 10428,Dakar, Senegal,Tel: (221)24-71-79, 24-41-31 local rural marketing system and encouraging increased partic- ipation by the private sector, including farmer cooperatives. Education/Training Projectis being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Minis- Quality for AL:The project willsupport sector developmentat try of Agricultureand Livestock. BP 1263,Kigali, Rwanda,Tel: all levels of education. Appraisalmission was scheduled for late (250)85063,84644, Fax: (250)85057, Contact: Celestin Kabanda, June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS40.0 Directeur de la planification. ides et suivi (IDA).Consulting services to be determnined.Ministry of Educa- tion, Senegal,Tel: (221)823-71-80, Fax: (221) 821-89-30 Education/Training Education: The project is a follow-upto the first education sec- PrivateSector Development tor credit which addresses short-term needs for reconstruction (R) PrivateSector Development: This project is a followup to and rehabilitation. Project preparation is under way. Environ- the IndustrialSector RestructuringProject (Cr. 1866-SE)and the mental AssessmentCategory C. USS22.1 (IDA).Consulting ser- ongoing Private Sector CapacityBuilding Project (Cr. 2759-SE). JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE19 It will support (a) improvement of the policy,regulatory and le- strengthening the coordinationand monitoringcapacity of the gal environment of the private sector, particularlyfinancial sec- Ministryof NationalReconstruction, Resettlement and Rehabil- tor operations;and (b) increased private investment through an itation. Project is currently on hold due to country situation. Apex line of credit and assistance to developnew financialinsti- Board presentation is tentativelyscheduled for July 2000.Envi- tutions and instruments in favorof investmentfinancing. Project ronmental AssessmentCategory C. US$25.0 (IDA).Consulting is being identified.Enuironmental Assessment Category to be de- services to be determined.Ministry of NationalReconstruction, termined. USS35.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be financed Resettlementand Rehabilitation(MNRRR), 39 SiakaStevens St., through a Japanese grant. Ministry of Economy, Finance and Freetown,Sierra Leone,Tel: (232-22)22-60.32 Planning,Immeuble Pitavin, Dakar, Senegal Structural Adjustment RuralDevelopment Emergency Recoveryr The credit will help the government National Rural Infrastructure: The project seeks to improve maintainthe momentum of the ongoing structural adjustment the living conditions of rural population by improving their ac- program and providebalance of paymentssupport until export cess to basic infrastructure and services and by creating en- capacityis restored. Project is currently on hold due to country abling conditions for rural development It will support the situation. Board presentation is tentativelyscheduled for July decentralizationof responsibilitiesfor managinglocal affairsand 2000. EnvironmentalAssessment Category U. US$ 35.0 (IDA). rural developmentto the rural communities.The project willin- No consultants are required. Implementingagency is to be de- clude (a) capacitybuilding at the central and local levels;(b) cre- terrnined. ation of a demand-driven rural investment fund, and (c) maintenanceand rehabilitation of rural roads. Appraisalmission Swaziland was scheduled for July 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Cate- gory B. US$ 50.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Implementingagency is to be determined. Scial Sector Poverty- This learningand innovationloan will strengthen pov- Transport erty programs. It wil increase the degree of communitypartici- (R) Transport II (Cr. 3183-SE): The project will support (a) pation in an existing communitysubprojects program. Project nationalroad rehabilitationand maintenance; (b) transportation preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment Category planningand operationalimprovements in road safety; (c) inter- to be determined. US$5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be de- regional transport facilitation;and (d) policy and physical im- termined. Implementingagency is to be determined. provements in civil aviation, maritime and rail transport. Ap- proved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 30 March 1999.Credit was Tanzania sigxed ox 13 May 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryB. PID: SNPE2366.USS 90.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be de- Pnance termined. Ministere de lIequipement et des transports ter- restres, Dakar,Senegal, Tel: (221) 257-355,Fax: (221) 25&4D61, (R) Second Financial Institutions Developmente The Contact KernoDiaite, Coordinator of the CELCO project will providesupport for the continuedrestructuring and Urban Mobilization Development. The objetives of the privatizationof the state-ownedNational Bank of Commerce in- project are to (a) promote the use of safer, efficient, affordable cluding (a) a performance-basedmanagement contract; (b) sys- and environmentallyand fiendlyfrendynvionmetaly publicpblictraspor transport servicessevice ininthe the tems improvement;(c) training; and (d) the implementationof metropolitanarea of Dakar, and (b) ensure the safe mobilityof some pilotmicrofinance credit schemes. It alsoaims to strength- pedestrians. Appraisal mission is scheduled for January 2000. en banking supervisionand capitalmarket developmenLNegoti- EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Con- ations were scheduled for' mid-July 1999. Environmental sultironmresntalAssessmentter e . UConseilex2cutif des trns- AssessmentCategory C. USS25.0 (IDA). Consulting services to suIting services to be determnined, beneidetermined Imleenin agncriaoneseerind ports urbains de Dakar, BP 2083,TeL: (221) 8324860, Fax: (221) be determmed. Implementingagency Is to be determined. 8324744, Contact:Mr. Ousman Thiam, President Population,Health and Nutrition Water Supply/Sanitation Health Sector Program: The project willsupport the govern- (R) Long-TermnWater Sector: The objectiveof the project is to ofment's disease efforts through to combat communitythe majorand sources preventive of Tanzania'shealth interven-burden achieve a sustainableimprovement in the provision of waterand ofdiseaseith incommity and reventive health sen- sanitation services in unserved and low-incomeareas of Dakar tions. It willassist in reformingand restructuring the health sec- and secondary cities.The project willsupport further institution- tor including support for decentralizationand greater local al and regulatoryTeforms and policyenhancements in the water control over community interventions. Appraisal mission was sector and, in parallel,remove its major physical constraints,us- scheduled for July 1999.Parts of the proposedproject are being ing private sector project financing. Appraisal mission is in the pre-tested under an existing credit. EnvironmentalAssessment field. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID:SNPE41528. Category C. PID: TZPE2814.US$ 15.0 (IDA).Consultants will US, 85,0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Imple- be required for assistancewith publichealth, contracting out, fa- USen85.0agDA). Consultingiservicesto be determined. Imple- cility-basedmanagement, health financing,specific disease pro- grams, monitoringand evaluation,municipal public finance,and health insurance. Ministry of Health and the Prime Minister's Sierra Leone Office, PO Box 9083. Dar es Salaam,Tanzania, Tel: (255-51) 20261,Fax: (255-51)36992 Reconstruction/Rehabilitation PrivateSector Development Community Reintegration: The project will support the gov- ernment's resettlement, rehabilitation and reconstruction pro- (R) Privatization: The project wouldprovide technicalsupport gram through support for post-discharge demobilization for (a) the second stage of implementationof the government's activities, reintegration of returning soldiers and refugees and privatizationprograrn through private sector development;(b) PAGE20 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 design and implementationof regulatory institutionsfor public Togo utilities; and (c) improvement in the business environment for private and foreign investment Negotiationswere scheduled for Finao late June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 28.8 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Implement- Financial Sector Adjustment: The program willsupport the ing agency is to be determined. restructuring of financial institutions, including banks, insur- ance companies,savings banks and decentralizedmicrofinance Public Sector Management institutions. Appraisalmission is scheduled for mid-July2001. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ Tax Administration (Cr. 3184-TA): The project will support 25.0 (IDA).Selection of consultantsfor projectpreparation is un- the government's efforts to increase revenue collection. It will der way.Ministry of Economyand Finance, Lome,Togo also support the newly established Tanzania Revenue Authori- ty's (1RA) capacity-buildingefforts by (a) introducing modern Popsiation, Health and Nutrition operating systems for - e major departments of the TRA; (b) computerizationof sy' ns and training; and (c) refurbishing of (R) Health: The project will (a) apply sector policiesand strate- facilitiesand provision of equipment and vehicles.Approved by gies in a limited number of health districts; (b) support the gov- the Executive Directors on 30 March 1999.Environmental As- ernnent strategy to decentralizehealth services; (c)strengthen sessment Category C. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be re- capacityat the district level to enable the district to provide es- quired under the project preparation facilityto help define the sential health services to the population at a sustainable cost; project and to design and implement a tax identificationsystem. and (d) strengthen the institutional capacityof the Ministry of Tanzania Revenue Authority, Ministry of Finance, Box 11491, Health.Appraisalmission is schediledforlateJulyl999. Environ- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-51)31539, Fax: (255-51) mental Assessment Category C. USS5.0 (IDA).Consulting ser- 31105 vices wil be required for (a) development of management information systems; (b) review and standardizationof report- Public Service Reform: The project willprovide technical sup- ing forms; (c) developmentof an accounting system at the dis- port and capacity building for implementationof the govern- trict and regional levels;(d) internet network development;and ment's mnedium-termcivil service reformnstrategy. This will (e) on-the-jobtraining of health personnel. Ministry of Health, include (a) continuationof key systems improvements(pay re- tome, Togo, Tel: (228) 22-53-73,Fax: (228) 232-3&73,Contact: form, job regrading, public financing managementreform); and Mr. Ketor Adjwoly.Project Unit Coordinator (b) sector plans for improvedservice delivery and policyformu- lation in sectors. Appraisalmission was scheduled foi uly 1999. Power Environmental Assessment Category to be detenrined. US$ 13.8 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. CivilService (R) Rural Energy II: The project willsupport the provision of Department, P0 Box 2483, Dar es Salaam,Tanzania. Fax: (255- electricity to rural areas outside the reach of the utility grid 51) 13084,Contact Joseph Rugumyamheto,Permanent Secre- through sustainable private sector participation.Appraisal mis- tary sion is scheduledfor October2000. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 2.4 (IDA). Consultants will be required for SocialSector drafting of PV codes, technical specificationsand quality assur- ance for PV systems. CEET, 10 Ave. du Golfe, BP 42, Lome, Social Action Fund: The objectiveof the project is to improve Togo, Tel: (228) 21-77-44,Fax: (228) 21-64-98,Contact M.G. the social conditionsand economicopportunities for households Cublier,Director General in targeted conrmunities.Preappraisal mission is in the field. En- (R) Power V: The project would support institutionalreform in- vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA).Consult- cluding privatizationof the distribution utilities and reinforce- ing services to be determined. Implementingagency is to be ment and expansion of the transmission and distribution determined. systems, and creating the environment for the private sector power generation. Appraisal mission is scheduledfor October Structural Adjustment 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A US$30.0 (IDA). Consulting services are required for (a) institutionalreinforce- Structural Aodjustent itu This adjustment credit willsupport ment and engineeringand preparationof bid documents;and (b) the reform of publicinstitutions. Specifically,it aims to enhance technical assistance for the restructuring of the private sector. the efficient use of public resources as well as improve the envi- CEET,10 Ave.du Golfe,BP 42, Lome,Togo, Tel: (228)21-7744, ronment for private sector investment.Preappraisal mission was Fax: (228) 21-64-98 scheduled for June 1999.Environmental Assessment Category U. USS 115.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. The Planning Rural Energy The project will support decentralized rural Commission,Dar es Salaam,Tanzania electrificationand technical assistance for institutionaldevelop- ment Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssess- WaterSuppi v/Sanitation ment Category C. US$25.0/2.5(IDAIGEF).Consulting services will be required for studies. Ministry of Energy, PO Box 389, Dar es Salaam Water Supply and Sanitation: The project Lome,Togo, Tel: (228)21-25-28, Fax: (228)22-17-21 wouldsupport technical,commercial and financialrehabilitation Social Sector Social Fund (Cr. 3195-TO): This learning and of the water supply and s:: -utationservice in Dar es Salaam.This innovationcredit willsupport a pilot socialfund in tworegions to would be achieved by pr aizing Dar es SalaamWater and Sew- experiment with a regional decentralizedapproach. The project erage Authority's operauvinsand implementinga program of re- containsthree components (a) communitysmall infrastructure; habilitation of all water supply and sanitation facilities and (b) capacity building;and (c) support to income renovating ac- extension of piped water in poorly served neighborhoods. tivities.The project was approved, followingLIL procedures, on Project is being identified t rvironmental AssessmentCategory 14 April1999. Credit was signed on 3 May 1999.Environmental B. USS35.0 (IDA).Consu .; services to be determined. Imple- Assessment Category C. USS5.0 (IDA).Consulting services to menting agency is to be ceermined. be determined. AGAIB,Togo JULY1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE21 .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Urban Development 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: UGPA44213 USS 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determnined.Imple- (R) Urban Management and Rehabilitation Regional Cen- menting agency is to be determined. ter (formerlyRegional Centers Rehabilitation): The aim of the project is to (a) developthe planning and managementcapacity of urban institutions;(b) support the five maincities with an aim Infrastructure to increase localresource mobilization;and (c) execute priority Loea Government Development Program: The aim of the urban works in the five main cities. Preappraisal mission is project is to improvewater supply,sanitation and publichygiene scheduled for late May 2000. EnvironmentalAssessment Cate- for the population in poorer urban areas by buildingand main- gory B. PID: TGPE39976.USS 25.0 (IDA). Consultantshave taining appropriate facilitieswith the involvementof the benefi- been selected. Ministry of Equipment, Lome,Togo, Tel: (228) ciaries in the context of the decentralizationstatutes. Projectis 21-25-28,Fax: (228)21-68.12, Contact Mr.Tchamdja Andjo being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS 40.0 (IDA).Consulting services are presently beingused for:an Water Supply/Sanitation investmentformulation study, environmental impact assessment and facilitationof community participation. Ministry of Local Water Sector. The project will support (a) improvementof the Government,PO Box 7037, Kampala,Uganda, Tel: (256-41)23- management of ground water resources; (b) the establishment 30-35,Fax: (25641) 23-50-51 of equitable and efficientcost-recovery policies; (c) community- managed waterservices in small towns; and (d) the expansionof water services in Lome.Appraisal mission is scheduled for Au- Population,Helth and Nutition gust 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 19.0 Health Sector Reform: The project will provide further sup- (IDA).Consultant selection is under way for a study on delega- port to the government to decentralizehealth services. Prepara- tion of commercialmanagement of urban water services. Regie tion is delayed, pending progress on two existing credits in the nationale des eaux du Togo (RNET).Angle Ave. de la liberation- health sector. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$30.0 rue du chemindefer, Lome,Togo, Tel: (228)2142-68, Fax: (228) (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of 2146-13 Health, PO Box 8, Entebbe, Uganda, Tel: (25642) 20992,Fax: (256-42)20996 Uganda Public Sector Management Agriculture (R) Economic and Fmancial Managenent: The projectwifl Agriculture Extension: The projectwould be the initialphase of support the first phase of the managementreform program that an adaptableprogramn loan focused on the agricultureextension was agreed upon in Structural AdjustmentCredit III. Appraisal subsector.This initialphase would includedesigning institutional missionwas scheduledforJuly 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment reformnsto further decentralizethe extensionsystem; instituting Category C. PID: UGPA44679.USS 21.0 (IDA).Consulting ser- contracting out of some of the extensionservices fieldactivities- vices to be determined. Ministry of Planningand EconomicDe- expanding the pluralitymethodologies being employed;and es- velopment, Uganda House, No. 10, KampalaRd., PO Box 7086, tablishinggreater participationby farmers in the designand man- Kampala,Uganda, Tel: (256-41)23-01-51, Fax: (256.41)23-01-63 agement of the extensionsystem. Appraisalmission is scheduled for August 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ Transport 25.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined.Ministry of Ag- riUlture,riculture, Anirl.Animal Industries 209 and Fisheries,:PO Fisheries,208023 PO Box 102, Entebbe,Entebbe institutional(R) Road Development strengthening Program: and capacityThe project building-,will (b) (a) improvesupport Uganda,Tel. (256-42)20981, Fax: (256-42)20803 the classified road network through pavement strengthening; Agriculture Research and Training 11 (Cr. 3204-UG): The (c) rehabilitate the classifiedroad network;(d) maintainof exist- objectivesof the project are to (a) strengthen the NationalAgri- ing roads; (e) construct traffic terminalsin Kampala;and (f) pro- cultural Research Organization(NARO) to improveits effective- vide technicalassistance. Total project cost is US$ 750.0million. ness and efficiencyfor research planning, implementationand Negotiationscompleted. Board presentationwas scheduled for late technology transfer; (b) establish and operate at least two zonal June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Parallel fi- agricultural research centers in designated agro.ecological nancing is expected from Germany and EU. USS 100.0(IDA). zones by restructuring the current institutes; (c) develop and Consultingservices to be determined. Ministryof Works,Trans- adapt technologyto intensifyproductivity; (d) reinforceNARO's port and Communication,PO Box 10, Entebbe, Uganda, Tel: technical backstoppingand in-service training support for the (256-42)20101, Fax: (25642) 20135 district extensionservices; and (e) strengthen the research and graduate training capacityof selected departments of the agri- Zambia cultural facultiesof Makerere University.Approved by the Exec- utive Directors on 6 May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 26.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- Education/Training mined. National Agricultural Research Organization,PO Box (R) Basic Education Sector Investment (Cr. 3190-ZA): 295, Entebbe, Uganda,Tel: (256-41)320-512, Fax: (256-41)321- The project will support improvementsin the qualityof, and ac- 070,Contact: Prof.J.K. Muklibi, DirectorGeneral cess to, education and training in the country.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 8 April1999. Credit was signed on I I May Finance 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: ZMPE3249. (R) Financial Markets Assistance (Cr. 3227-UG): The USS40.0 (IDA).Consulting services will be required. Ministry project will providetechnical assistance and investmentfunds to of Education,PO Box50093, Lusaka, Zambia, Tlx: 42621ZA, Tel: support reforms in three areas of the financial sector (a) non- (260-1)254-954, Fax: (2601) 252-602,Contact: ESIP Coordinat- bank financialinstitutions; (b) payment systems; and (c) capaci- ing Secretaniat ty building in bank supervision and monetary control at the (N) Training Subsector Investnent Program: The project Bank of Uganda.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 27 May will (a) strengthen the Technical Education,Vocational and En- PAGE22 Monthly OperationalSummary JULY1999 terpreneurship Training Authority; (b) build capacitywithin the Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment MinistryofScience,TechnologyandVocationalTraining,(c) sup- Category B. USS 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be re- port institutionalrestructuring; and (d) provideinformation and quired. Ministry of Local Government and National Housing, developprivate traininginstitutions. Projectpreparation is under Private Bag 7706, Causeway,Harare, Tel: (263-4)790-601, Fax: way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS 25.0 (IDA). (263-4)708-943, Contact Mr. S. Chakaipa, DeputySecretary Consultingservices to be determined. Ministryof Science,Tech- (R) Capacity Building: The objective of the project is to nology and VocationalTraining, PO Box 50464,Lusaka, Zambia, strengthen the capacityof government agencies involvedin mac- Tel: (260-1)252-411, Fax: (260-1) 252-951,E-mail: Veet@zam- roeconomic and structural policy formulation, implementation netzm, Contact Ms. Josephine Mapoma,Permanent Secretary and monitoring.Project as being idextdfeM Environmental Assess- ment Category C. US$20.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be re- Public Sector Management quired. Ministry of Finance, Munhumutapa Bldg., Samora Machel Ave., Private Bag 7705,Harare, Zimbabwe,Tel: (263-4) Public Services Capacity Development: This adaptable pro, 722-101, Fax: (2634) 796-563,Mr. C.T. Kuwaza, Senior Secretary gram loan will assist in developing the capacityof the govern- 7 F mnentto implemnentthe next phase of its public service reform program. Project preparation is under way.Environmental As- Structural Adjustment sessment Category C. USS 20.0 (IDA). Consultants will be re- (R) F;scal Restructuring: The credit will support the govern- quired. Cabinet Office, PO Box 20308, Lusaka, Zambia, Tel: nent's reforrn progran to restructure public expenditures, re- (260-1)252-644, Contact Mr. Leslie Mbula, DeputySecretary to duce domnesticdebt, privatizestate enterprises and initiate land the Cabinet reform. Negotiationswere scheduled for late June 1999. Environ- mental Assessrnent Category C. PID: ZWPE50320.US$ 100.0 Zimbabwe (IDA).Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance,Mun- humutapa Bldg., Samora Machel Ave.,Private Bag7705, Cause- way, Harare, Zimbabwe,Tel: (263-4)722-101, Fax: (263-4)796- Aodcunure 563, Contact: Mr. C.T. Kuwaza,Senior Secretary Land Reform and ResettlemenTebTe objectivesof this learning Fourth Fiscal Restructuring and Deregulation: The credit and innovationcredit (LIL)are to build the capacityto test alterna- will support the government's reform program to restructure tive privatelyinitiated or commnunity-baset:resettlement approach- public expenditures, reduce domesticdebt, privatizestate enter- es as part of the inceptionphase of the government'sland reform prises and initiate land reform. Project is being identified.Envi- and resettlement progran. The project includes (a) institutional ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 120.0 (IDA). capacitybuilding, (b) fundingor privatelyinitiated or comnmunity- Consultingservices willbe required. Ministry of Finance,Mun- based pilot resetlement schemes; (c) technicalassistance and humutapa Bldg., Samora MachelAve., Private Bag7705. Cause- studies,and (d)monitoring and evaluation.The projectwas sched- way,Harare, Tel: (263-4)722-101, Fax: (263-4)796-563, Contact: uled to be approved,following LIL procedures,in June 1999.Envi- Mr. C.T.Kuwaza, Senior Secretary ronmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (IDA).Consultants wiDbe required. Officeof the President and Cabinet,Private Bag Tranport 7700,Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe, Tel: (265)707-091 Road Reh_bilitatou: The project will strengthen the govern- Population,Health and Nutrition ment's abilityto rehabilitateand maintainits roads through coor- dinatedsector developmentplans, policy and institutionalreforms, National HealfthStraegy Support: The project will support improvedprogramrning of rehabilitation and maintenance,private (a) decentralizationof the health sector and a public/private mix sector participationand human resource development.Project on health financing issues; (b) provision of drugs and medical preparationis underway. EnvironmentalAssessrnent Category B. supplies; (c) preventive and curative care for reproductive Cofinancingwill be required. US$70.0 (IDA).Consultants will be health; and (d) strengthening of human resources. Appraisal required. Ministry of Transport and Energy, PO Box 8109, mission is scheduled for September 1999. Environmental As- Harare, Zimbabwe,Tel: (263-4)70121, Fax: (263-4)708225 sessmnentCategory C. PID: ZWPE3325.US$ 50.0 (IDA). Con- . . sultants willbe required. Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, (R) Railways Restrucduring:The project willinclude staff re- 1-4thFloor, Kaguvi Bldg., 4th St./Central Ave., Causeway, PO trenchment and rationalization, infrastructure rehabilitation, Box CY 1122,Harare, Zimbabwe,Tel: (263-4)727-951, Fax: (263- studies and technical assistance,training and counselingand as- 4) 702293, E-mail: Tel: sistance to retrenched staff. Project preparation is under way. 4)702-293.E-mail: [email protected] Exvironmextal Assessment Categoiy to be determined.PID: ZWPE57096.US$ 60.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. Na- Power tional Railwaysof Zimbabwe,PO Box 596,Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Private Power Development: The project willsupport the es- Tel: (263-4)3634838, Fax: (2634) 363-502 tablishment of a private joint venture company responsible for construction management and operation of a 1400 MW coal- fired powerplant. Projectpreparation is under way.Environmen- tal Assessment Category to be determined. USS 60.0 (IDA). East and Region Consultantswill be required. Zimbabwe ElectnicSupply Author- Asia Pacific ity,Electricity Centre, SamnoraMachel Ave.,PO Box 377, Harare, Zimbabwe,Tel: (263-4)774-542, Fax: (263-4)774-573, Contact: Eng. SimbarasheMangwengwende, Chief Executive Cambodia

Public Seor Management Education/Training Local Government and Development. The project will pro- (R) Education Quality Improvement Program: This learn- vide infrastructure financing and capacity buildingsupport for ing and innovation credit willsupport quality improvementsin local governments, including urban and rural district councils. basic education.Appraisal mission is in thefield. Environmental JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE23

Assessment Category C. USS 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to ing. Appraisal mission completed. Negotiations scheduledfor Octo- be determined. Ministry of Education,Youth and Sport, 169No- ber 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: rodom Blvd., Phnom Penh, Cambodia,Tel/Fax: (855-23)210- CNPE45264.US$100.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected. 349 Ministry ofAgriculture, ForeignEconomic Cooperation Center, No. 11 NongZhan Guan Nan Li,Beijing, 100026,China, Tel: (86- Environment 10)6419-4631, Fax: (86-10)6419-4578, Contact: Mr. Li DongTing Biodiversity and Protected Areas Managemente The project (R) Western Poverty Reduction:The project seeks to reduce would assist the government and local stakeholders in improv- absolutepoverty through a mulfisectoralprograam in an environ- ing biodiversity conservation and environmentalmanagement. mentallysustainable rural developmentthat includesupland ag- Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment riculture, rural infrastructure, social services, voluntary Category B. US$ 2.75/2.25 (GEF/IDA).Consulting services to settlementand rural enterprise development.Negotiations com- be determined. Ministry of Environment.N. 48, Sandeeh Preah pleted. Board presentation uAasscheduledfor lateJune 1999. Envi- St. Sinanouk, Phnom Penh, Camnbodia,Tel: (855-23)427-894, ronmental Assessment Category B. PID: CNPE46564.US$ Fax (855-23)427-844, Contact: Dr. Mok Mareth, Minister 60.0/100.0(IBRD/IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Leading Group for Poverty Reductionof the State Counciland Public Sector Management Three ProvincialGovernments of Gansu, Qinghai and Inner (R) Northeast Village Development (Cr. 3216-KH): The Mongolia, No. 14 Xiaoying Rd., Chaoyong District, Beijing learningand innovationcredit (LIL)aims at improvingrural live- 100101,China, Tel: (86.10)6496-0256, 6491-4443, Fax: (86-10) lihoods by piloting innovativeapproaches to the selection, fi- 6492-0134,Contact Mr.Wang Guoliang,Director, Foreign Capi- nancing and sustainable operation of rural investment tal Project ManagementCenter subprojects in select poorer districts of northeast Cambodiaas -part of a government decentralizationinitiative. 7his proect was EducutionITraining approved,following IL procedures,on 18 May 1999. Environ- mental Assessment Category C. PID: KHPE58841.USS 5.0 (R) Higher Education Reform (Cr. 3213-CHA Ln. 447 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Rural CHA): The project is expected to include (a) curriculum and Development, cnr. St. 169/Pochentong Blvd., Phnom Penh, teaching reform; (b) efficiencyimprovements in higher educa- Cambodia,Tel: (855-23)366.440, Fax (855-23)366-790, Contact: tion institutions;(c) a pilot student loan scheme; and (d) devel- Mr. Ngy Chanphal, Undersecretary of State opment of management capacity at State Education and ProvincialEducation Commissions.Approved by the Ezecutive China Directorson 18 May 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: CNPE46051.US$ 50.0/20.0 (IDA/IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministryof Education,Xi Dan Da Mu Agriculture Cong,Beijing 100816, China, Tel: (86-10)6603-3641, Fax: (86-10) (R) Guanzhong Irrigation Improvement (Cr. 3221-CHA; 6602 Ln. 4476-CHA): The project seeks to improve existing infra- Provincial Education and Training Reform:The projectwill structure facilitiesin nine project areas Also.the project seeks assist a coastal province in reforming its education and training to (a) develop new water resources to extend irrigation to anoth- system through strengthening linkages between educationand er 50,000ha; (b) improve the agriculturalproduction of 180,000 training institutions and local industries to support market-ori- ha of currently low yielding lands; and (c) strengthen organiza- ented disciplines in higher education and vocationaltraining. tional,technical and financial aspects of irrigation management, The project will include selective realignment of higher educa- including arrangements for operation and maintenance. Ap- tion institutions and training/staff development to implement proved bythe ExecutiveDirectors on 25 May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: CNPE51888. US$ 80.0/20.0 curriculum reform and improvequality. Project is being identi- (IBRD/IDA).A limited amount of technicalassistance willbe re- fied. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS5.0 (IBRD). quired. ProvincialWater Conservancy Bureau of the Govern- Consultng services to be deerrnined. Implementng agency is ment of Shaanxi, 134 Shande Rd., Xi'an.China, Tel: (86-29)742- to be deterrnined. 4062, 742-5303,Fax: (86-29)7424604, Contact Mr. Hong Xiao- kang, Deputy Director Environment (R) Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation 11 (Cr. 3222- Beijing Environment II: The project will support (a) air pollu- CHA;Ln. 4477-CHA): The project willbuild on the success of tion reduction by supporting the conversion fromcoal to natural Loess PlateauWatershed RehabilitationI (Cr. 2616-CHA).It will gas; (b) boiler improvementto conserve energy and reduce pol- support four provinces on the Loess Plateauthrough (a) land im- lution, and (c) wastewater managementfor about 30 per cent of provement, construction of silt retention structures and affores- the Beijingurban area Projectis being identified. Environmen- tation; and (b) programs to support training,technology transfer tal AssessmentCategory A. PID:CNPE42109 US$ 150.0 (BRD). and research. Approved by the Executive Directors on 25 May Consulting services to be determined. Beijing Municipal Gov- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: ennt, Finance be 6 Cegongzhun ijinG CNPE56216.USS 50.0/100.0 (IDA/IBRD).Consulting services einment, Finance Bureau, No. 6 Chegongzhuan St.. Beijing to be determined. Ministry of Water Resources, International 100044,China, Tel: (8610) 6842-3815.Fax: (86-10)6842-2833, CooperationDepartment, 1 Lane 2, BaigungRd., Beijing,China, Contact:Mr. Jiaqi Sun, Director Tel: (86-10)6354-8037. Fax: (86-10)6320-2690, Contact: Mr.Shen Huai River Basin Pollution Control: The projectwill assist lo- Guoyi, Director cal governments in (a) developingand financing municipalin- (R) Snialholder Cattle Development The project includes vestments and (b) formulatingpolicies to controlwater pollution (a) livestock production, processing and marketing in Anhui, in the basin.Project preparationis underway. EnvironmentalAs- Henan, Hebei and Shanxi Provinces;(b) crop by-productfeed- sessment Category B. USS150.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been ing; (c) household and larger scale beef production; (d) breed shortlisted for project preparation.Implementing agency is to be improvement and technical support services; and (e) process- determined. PAGE 24 Monthly Operational Summary JULY 1999 Finance tem design.A specificprocurement notice was published in De- velopment Business No. 485, dated 30 April 1998. Zhejiang Agriculture Bank of China Commerciazation: The project Electric Power Company, 2, Jinzhu Rd. (South), Hangzhou is designed to (a) support the commercializationof the Agricul- 310007, China, Tel: (86-571) 516-2427,Fax (86-571)515-3979, tural Bank of China through improvementsof managementand Contact ChenJimin, General Manager processes, and by provisionof technicalassistance, training,and equipment; and (b) enhance commercial banking skills in Guangd Baise Multipurpose: The project is designed prima- project appraisal,financial and borrower analysis and loan pric- rily to protect Nanning and nine other downstream municipali- ing through a line of crediL Appraisalmission is scheduled for ties and counties against floods. The Baise Dam and Power August 1999.Environmental Assessment Category B/Fl. PID: Facilities component will consist of a 130meter-high RCCdam CNPE36946.US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. and spillway,power facilitiesincluding a hydropowerplant of 540 AgriculturalBank of China, 5/F YuLong Hotel, 40 Fu ChengLu MW, two saddle dams and underwater works for a navigation Rd., Beijing 100036,China, Tel: (86-10)6847-5247, Fax: (86-10) shiplift. The institutional development component includes 6841-6011,Contact: Ms. HUARuoming, Chief, Foreign FundUti- strengthening the YoujiangRiver Basin DevelopmentCorpora- lization Division,International Department tion, developmentof a flood forecastingand monitoringsystem and operationprocedures includingthe EPP and related institu- Population, Healthand Nutrition tional reform. The project also includesa resettlement compo- nent and an environmental management component Project Health IX (Cr. 3201-CHA; Lm.4462-CHA): The projectwill preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category support maternal health and a comprehensive package of A. US$ 400.0 (IBRD).Consultants for project preparation and health, nutrition and psycho-socialinterventions for childhood feasibilitystudies have been selected. YoujiangWater and Power development Approved by the Executive Directors on 4 May Development Corporation, No. 36 Jianzheng Rd., Nanning, 1999. EnvironmentalAssessrnent Category to be determined. Guangxi 530023,China, Contact Mr. Wu Xijin,General Manag- PID: CNPE36953.USS 10.0/50.0 (IBRD/IDA). Consultantsfor er, Tel: (86-771)562-8529, Fax: (86-771)563-7491 project preparation have been identified. Ministry of Health, Foreign Loan Office,CAPM Floor 7, 27 Nan Wei Lu, Xuanwu PrWvateSector Deveopment District, Beijing 100050,China, Tel: (86-10)6303-3033, Fax: (86- 10) 6303 0077 (R) Enterprise Reform: The credit willfinance consulting ser- vices and training to support the pilot implementationof various Powwr enterprise reform measures. Negotiationscompleted. heproject was schedxledto be approved,followixg llL procedures,in late (R) RenewableEnergy Development (La. 4488-CHA): The June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 5.0 objectives of the project are to supply electricity in an environ- (IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. PID: CNPE60270. mentally sustainable manner and to provide modern energy to State Economicand Trade Commission,No.26 XuanWumen Xi- remote rural households and institutions. The project includes dajie, Beijing100053, China, Tel: (86-10)6319-3116, Fax: (86-10) (a) installationand operation of 190 MW ofgrid-connected wind 6319-3111,Contact Qin, YongFa, Vice Chief farms in four provinces; (b) supply of about 10 MW of photovol- taic (PV)systems to households and institutions;(c) support for Public Sector Management technology upgrading to improve the performance and reduce the cost of windfarms and solar PV technologies in China; and (R) Pension Reform (Cr. 324 1-CHA): This learning and in- (d) assistance to strengthen institutionalcapacity and market in- novation credit (LIL)will support policy assessment, informa- frastructure for commercializationof windfarms and PV.Ap- tion systems design and implementationand trainingin one pilot proved by theExecutive Directors on 8 June 1999. Environmental province and one municipality. Thisproject was approved,fiollow- Assessment Category B. PID: CNPE46829. USS 100.0/35.0 ing IL procedures,on 4 June 1999.Environmnental Assessment (IBRD/GEF).Consulting services will be required for strength- Category C. PID:CNPE58308. US$ 5.0 (IDA).C onsulting servic- ening the government's institutional capability to implement es will be required. Ministry of Labor and SocialSecurity, No. 12. windfarms and PV projects. Please refer to the general procure- Hepingli,Zhaongjie, Beijing 100716.China ment noticepublished in DevelopmentBusiness No. 493,dated 31 ()TcnclCoeao V(r 22CA n 43 August 1998.uPID:CiNPED4682&9. Statte Power Corporation. 137 CHA):(R) Technical The project Cooperaion will provide IV a line(Cr. of 3212-CHA; credit to finance Ln. consult- 4473- Fuyou St., Beijing, China; State Economic and Trade Commis- ing services, training,equipment and studies for key central and sion, 26 Xi Dajie, Xuan Wumen,Beijing provincial agencies in support of project preparation and the (R) Tongbai Pumped Storage: 7Te objectivesof the projectare government's economicreform program and related institution- to (a) increasepeaking capacityand improve load-followingcapa- al strengthening. Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 18 May bility and power quality in the Zheiiangpower system; and (b) im- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: prove the operatingand investment efficiencyin generation by CNPE42299.US$ 10.0/35.0 (IBRD/IDA).Consultants will be re- developingand implementinga competitivegeneration market in quired to carry out studies, deliver the trainingcomponent and Zhejiangprovince. The loan will helpfinance the constructionofa support project preparation. Ministry of Finance,San U He Lu. major pumpedstorage power plant,and the implementationof an Beijing 100820,China, Tel: (86-10)6852-8731, Fax: (86-10)6851- efficientmechanism to price its outputin the market.An associated 1062 objectiveis to enSurethat the market structure created can easily transition to wholesalecompetition. ATe associated sector restruc- Rural Development turing, regulatorycapacity buildingand removal of transmission constraintswill be undertaken to achievethis objective.Appraisal (R) Middle Yangtze Flood Management:eThe project in- mission was scheduledfor mid-July1999. EnvironmentalAssess- cludes (a) rehabilitationof 900 km of main dikes and associated ment Category A. PID: CNPE56424.US$ 324.0 (IBRD). Con- structures on the middle reach YangtzeRiver, (b) rehabilitation sultantshave beenselectedfor preparation. Consultants will also be of some of the major detention basin structures; and (c) upgrad- requiredfor detaileddesign, reviewand constructionsupervision, ing of flood emergency management systems and advanced financial management information system expansion,technical flood forecastingsystems. Project preparationis under way.En- assistanceingeneration planning, tariff designand regulatorysys- vironmental Assessment Category B. USS300.0 (IBRD).Con- JULY 1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE25 sultants will be required for design reviews and construction CommunicationsDepartment, Changsha, Hunan, China, Fax: supervision. Implementing agencies are the three provinces- (86-731)225-2801, Contact: Mr. LiAn, Director Hubei, Hunxaxandf iangri-coordinated b a cextral officeunder (R) National Railway: The project willassist the government the Ministry of WaterReservationi and the Ministry of Railwaysin (a) planning and managingthe Guizhou Agriculture Developmene The project will support transition in policy and organizationfrom a plannedto a socialist the government's objective of reducing poverty in Guizhou market economy; and (b) addressing railway capacity bottle- through a participatoryand multisectoralrural developmentap- necks. Identificationmission completed.Preappraisal mission is proach. The project will focus on (a) environmentallysustain- tentatively scheduledfor mid-October1999. EnvironmentalAs- able improvements in agricultural production, (b) rural sessment Category C. US$ 300.0(IBRD). Consulting services to enterprise development,(c) improvedaccess for the poor to ba- be determined. Ministry of Railways,10 Fuxing Rd., Beijing, sic infrastructure and financial services and (d) monitoringand 100844,China, Tel: (86-10)6324-8416, Fax: (86-10)6324-1845, evaluation of poverty reduction programs at the local level. Contact Mr. Yang Haichang,Director Project is being identifiedEnvironmental Assessment Category (R) Second Fujian Highway: The project includes (a) con- B. USS 200.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required, but there is struction of a 140 ki, four-laneexpressway between Zhangzhou limited need for internationalconsultants. Implementing agency and Zhao'an; (b) institutional strengthening and (c) highway maintenance management and expressway corporatization. Sustainable Forestry Developmene The project will (a) im- Board presentation was scheduledfor late June 1999. Environ- prove protectionand management of natural forests; and (b) de- mental Assessment Category A. PID: CNPE51705.US$ 200.0 velop new forestry resources to address China's increasing (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined.Fujian Provincial timber deficit and to support economic development of local Transport Department,6th Floor,Bldg. 2, HongyangNew Zone, communities to redress the social and fiscal impacts of the new 118Yangqiao Rd., Fujian,China, Tel: (86-591)760-1472, Fax: (86- logging ban. Identificationmission is in the field. Environmental 591) 760.1477,Contact: Mr. Zhuo Chao, DeputyDirector Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0(IBRD) . Consultingservices (R) Urumqi Urban Transport The objectiveof the project is to be determined. State Forestry Administration, 18 Hepingli to devlop UrbanTransport Te meanvtfatate etia East St., Beijing,China, Contact Mr. Jiang Xingyong,Director, to develop the urban transport system as a meansto facltate i- growth, economic developmentand expansionof the city, Tel: (86-10)6422-3216, Tel: (8-10)Fax: (86-10)(610) 622-3216Fax: 6421-7796641-7796ture and serve the development needs of XinjiangYugur Autono- Water Conservation: The project will support improvements mous Region,while improvingthe qualityof lifewithin the city. to irrigation delivery systems and on-farmirrigation systems in The project will focus on (a) improvementsto the road network; the North China Plain and in Northeast China. The project (b) improvedtraffic managementand road safety;(c) improved would include canallining and canal system improvements,put- levelof public transport services; (d) environmentalprotection ting existing tertiary canals and ditches into low-pressurepipe, and improvement;and (e) better urban planning.Appraisal mis- developing sprinkler and micro-irrigationsystems, improving siox is scheduledfor October1999. EnvironmentalAssessment on-farm surface irrigation systerns, agriculture practices im- Category to be determined. PID: CNPE45915.US$ 100.0 provements, forestry and environmentimprovements and insti- (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project preparation. tutional development. Project preparation is under way. Urumqi Municipality,Urumqi. XinjiangUygur Autonomous Re- EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS100.0 (IBRD). Dur- gion, China, Fax: (86-991)281-9357, Contact Mr. Guo Y. Kun, ing project preparation,consulting services will be required in Vice Mayor,E-mail: [email protected] the areas of irrigation, agriculture,water balance,environment, Container TransrLu. 4444-CHA: The aim of the institutional development and project management. Ministry of pjtis to Tracilita (Lnd penetrAtion sth of Water Resources, Department of Rural Water Resources, proqectis to facilitatethe inland penetraion of seaborne contain- Baiguang Rd., Beijing, China, Contact: Mr. [i Bin, Deputy Di- ers. The project will support government efforts to establish a rector, Tel: (86-10)6320C2877, Fax: (86-10)6320-2870 ter-modalpolicyframework markets. conducive The projectto competitive includes (a)and development user-orientedof in- land container depots; (b) enhancement of container handling Transport efficiencyat Tianjin Port; and (c) buildingup the operationalca- (R) Guangxi Provincial Highway The projectwould include pabiity of container handling.Approved by the ExecutiveDirec- (a) highwaycapacity (a)higwaycapcitesanson rpansionfocusingox ocuingon the he constructiononsrucionofofthe he PID:PIDtorson CNPE3653. 16 March US$1999. 71.0Environmental (IBRD).Consulting Assessment services Category are re- B. 230 km of national trunk highway system (NTHS) connecting quired for enhancingcontainer handling capacityfor inlandcon- Shuiren and Nanning; (b) a highwayrehabilitation and improve- taier depots and Tiajin Port. Central Project Management ment program;(c) a highwaysafety component focusing on black Office, No. 3 RailwayMiddle School, 9 Sanlihe, East Rd., Xi- spot improvement;and (d) strengtheninghighway management cheng District, Beijing, Tel: 86-10-53-3272,Fax: 86-10-6353- capacity of GuangxiCommunications Department. Preappraisal 3 P . mission wasscheduledforjuly 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment 3272,Contact Prof Wang Derong and Ms. Wang Huimin,Dep- Category to be determined. PID: CNPE58843. USS 200.0 utyTeam Leaders (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined.Guangxi Provin- Liaoning Urban Transport (Ln. 4453-CHA): The projectin- cial Communications Dept., No. 67, Xinmin Rd., Nanning, cludes construction of infrastructure, public transport improve- Guangxi, China, Tel: (86-771) 2890-4365,Fax: (86-771) 280- ments, traffic management and safety,motor vehicle pollution 4365,Contact:Mr. Li Shangyan, DeputyDirector, Mr. LiaoXiao- control, street maintenanceand technicalassistance in the cities bo, DivisionChief of Shanyang, Anshan and Fushun. Approvedby the Executive (R) National Highway IV (Ln. 4493-CHA): The project will Directors on 30 March 1999.Environmental Assessment Cate- finance the construction of a four-laneexpressway between Wu- gory A. PID: CNPE41890.US$ 150.0(IBRD). Consultants have han in Hubei and Changsha in Hunan (about 300 kin). Approved been selected for preparation.Liaoning Urban Construction and by the ExecutiveDirectors on 17June 1999. EnvironmentalAs- Renewal Project Office (LUCPRO),No. 282 Danan Shenhe, sessment Category A. PID: CNPE41268.US$ 350.0 (IBRD). Shenyang(aoning, 110015, China, Tel: (86-24)481-2920, Fax: Consulting services to be determined. Hubei ProvincialCom- (8624) 481-2392 munications Department, Hubei, China, Fax: (86-27)281-9589, Shijiazhuang Urban Transport:The objectiveof the projectis Contact: Mr. XiongGuoxian, Deputy Director;Hunan Provincial to reduce congestion, improve transport conditions and estab- PAGE26 Monthly Opwaiional Summary JULY1999 lish an institutionalcapacity for the planning and managementof munities lacking such supplies;(b) assistance to ongoing rural sustainable transport operations. The project will include road sanitationand health educationefforts to improvewater use and infrastructure, public transport and trafficmanagement compo- sanitation and hygiene practices;and (c) support to beneficiary nents. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment villages through surveys/research and trainingprograms. Ap- Category C. US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- provedby theExecutive Directors on 3June1999. Environmental mined. Hebei Finance Bureau, World Bank Loan UtilizationOf- Assessment Category B. PID: CNPE57352. USS 16.0/30.0 fice, Fax: (86-311) 582-1129, E-mail: [email protected], (IBRD/IDA).Consulting services will berequiredfor technical as- Contact Mr. Ning Jinbiao, Director sistanceand traixing.National Patriotic Health CampaignCom- Third Henan Provincial Highway- The project would include mittee, NPO 17 GovernmientSt, Changping County,China, Tel: (86-10)6874-4468, Fax: (86-10)6974-4437, Contact: Mr. Shi Ma- (a) construction of a 95 km expressway connecting the counties lin,Director of Zhumadianand Xinyang;(b) construction or upgrading of five linkingroads to improveacce-s to the expressway:(c) construc- Chongqing Urban Enviromnene The project is the firstphase tion and improvement of z I roads; and (d) training, equip- of a long-term program to improveurban environmentalservic- ment and studies to strengt. agencies/institutions involvedin es includingwater, wastewater collection and treatmnent,and mu- highway research, planning, design, construction supervision, nicipal solid waste management and cultural heritage construction management,environmental monitoring and oper- management. The target sector investments will be in Chong- ations and maintenanceof hijbways. Projectis being identified. qing municipality.The policycomponents will focus on strength- EnvironmentalAssessment ( egory A US$150.0 (1BRD). Con- ening municipal finance, GIS systems, environmental sulting services to be deternmined.Henan ProvincialCommnuni- management and financialsustainability of urban services. Ap- cations Department, 93 Zhongyuan Rd., Zhengzhou, Henan praisal mission is scheduled for early September 1999.Environ- 450052, China, Tel: (86-371)797-1214. 797-1224, Fax: (86-371) mental AssessrmentCategory A. PID: CNPE49436.USS 250.0 743-9540,Contact: Mr. Shi Faliang, Vice Director (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Chongqing Municipal lhird Inland Waterways:The project willsupport (a) modern- Government,234 RenminRd., Chongqing, China,Fax: ,6811) ization of inland waterways transportation on the YangtzeRiver 385-1258,Contact Ms. Tong Xiao Ping, Vice Chairman, Plan- tributary; and (b) Dreparationof a master plan for the Yangtze ning Commission River inland water waytransport development. Project is being Hebei Water Supply and Environment: The project will fo- identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. USS 200.0 cus on the water supply and waste water treatment in fou. cities (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Implementingagency is to in Hebei Provincein the context ofoverall environmentalprotec- be determined. tion and urban services delivery.Preappraisal completed. Ap- praisal is tentatively scheduled for September 1999. UrbanDevelopment EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. PID: CNPN45910USS 150.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- (N) Liao River Basin: The project will be implementedin the mined Hebei ProvincialGovernment, Finance Bureau,40 South provinces of Liaoning,Inner Mongolia and Jilin and focus on ma- Zhonghun SL, Shijiazhuang050051, China, Tel: (86-311)701- jor river basin pollutioncleanup. The policy component will fo- 1251,Fax: (86311) 701-0246,Contact: Mr. MengZhanbiao cus on enviromnental ma izement and urban services pricing. The investment compont is expected to cover water supply, wastewater management, municipal and industrial solid waste, Fiji heritage asset managementand environmental resource protec- tion. Project identificationwill begin soon. Environmental As- Urban Development sessmnentCategory A. USS350.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required. Liaoning Provincial Government/LUCRIPO Informal Settlements: Tbe project will (a) strengthen security and Liao River Basin Projeci Office with City Governments, 19 oftenure and improveinfastructure and utilityservices; and (b) CaitaSL, Shenyang, China, ..15. Tel: (86-24)2384-2898, Fax: support economic opportunitiesin low-income,squatter and in- (86-24) 2392-2290, E-mrn: [email protected] formal urban settlements.The project is on hold pending the TA.NET.CN,Contact ZengJu- n. Director government's efforts in securing grant financing.Environmen- tal Assessment Category B. US$3.5 (IBRD).Consultants will be (R) Sichuan Urban Environment (Cr. 3251-CHAA Ln. required for socioeconomicsurveys, topographicalsurveys, en- 4496-CHA): The project is the first phase oifa long-term pro- gineering and design work and consultationswith beneficiaries. gram to improve urban environmental services such as water, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Government Bldgs., wastewater and solid waste management; geographic informna- PO Box 2212,Suva, Fiji.Contact Mr. HamayatAli, Head, Office tion systems; and cultural heritage asset management. The tar- of Human Resettlement get cities are expected to be Chengdu and other major cities of SichuanProvince in the two river basins. The policv components willfocus on municipalfinance, GIS systems, land management Indonesia and financialsustainabiity of urban services. Approvedby the Er- ecutive Directorson 17June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Agnculture Category A. PID: CNPE43933. US$ 148.0/2.0 (IBRD/IDA). Some bilateral assistance is being provided for project prepara- (R) Decentralized Agricultural and Forestry Extension: tion consultants. Additional consultants will be required. Si- The project will improvethe provisionof extension support ser- chuan Urban Environment Project Management Office, 36 vices at the district level through an operational, integrated, Section 4 Renminnanlu, Chengdu 610041, China, Tel: (86-28) farmer and agribusiness-orientedagricultural and forestry ex- 557-1036,Fax: (86-28)557-1037, 556-8193, Contact: Mr. Yang tension system which would promote the adoption of environ- Hong Bo, DeputyChief mentally sustainable farming practices and increase farmers' income. The project wiU(a) enhancefarmen' capacityto partic- Water Supply/Sanitation ipate in edension activities;(b) strengthenthe capacityof exten- sion staff, and (c) provide central extensionpolicy and project (R) Rural Water Supply IV (Cr. 3233-CHA; 4485-CHA): managementsupport. Negotiations were scheduledfor earlyJuly The project will include (a) provision of safe water to poor com- 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: IDPE3983. JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE27 USS18.0 (IBRD).Consultants have completedsocial and gender Maluku Conservation and Natural Resources Manage- analysis, and the review of incentives for extension workers. ment The project willinclude (a) environmentalperformance- Ministry of Agriculture, NationalCenter for AgriculturalExten- based kabupaten blockgrants; (b) on-sitemanagement of prior- sion, J1.Harsono, RoomNo.3, A Bldg., liI floor,Ragunan Passar ity protected areas; (c) protected-areassystems establishment; Minggu,Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel/Fax: (62-21)780-4226, Contact: (d) biodiversitymonitoring; (e) an environmentalpublic aware- Dr.Soedrajat Martaamidiaja ness campaign;and (f) independentmonitoring. Project prepara- tion has been delayed due to civil unrest in Maluku. Education/Training EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: IDPE37095.US$ 2.0/6.0 (IBRD/GEF). Consulting services to be determined. (N) Basic Education V: This project willprovide support for BANGDA,Jl. Kalibata Raya20, Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: (62-21) basic education (grades one through nine) through quality im- 744-2631 provement programs in several provinces.Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 75.0 Finance (IBRD/IDA). Technical assistance will be required for institu- tional development, teacher training programs and physical Municipal Finance: The project would providefunds through school rehabilitation programs. Ministry of Educationand Cul- domesticbanks to onlend for municipal infrastructure or equip- ture, E Bldg., 5th Floor,JI. Jenderal Sudirman,Jakarta, Indone- ment for agencies, enterprises or private sector.The project will sia, Tel: (62-21)5299-3000, Fax: (62-21)5299-3111 (Tel. and Fax also providefor technicalassistance to improvetechnical capac- c/o World Bank Resident Staffin Indonesia),Contact: Mr. Indra ity for project identificationand preparationof local urban enti- Djati Sidi, Director General of Primary and Secondary Educa- ties and commercial banks. Project identification has been tion delayed. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- mined. US$60.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. (N) Irian Jaya Basic Education: The projectwill support qual- Implementingagency is to be determined. ity improvementsin basic education (primary and lowersecond- ary) through (a) teacher training, school rehabilitation; (b) nfrstructure provision of books and equipment; and (c) capacity-buildingat the provincial and district levels. The project may also include (R) Lombok Infrastructure Development (formerlyLombok expansion of access, particularlyfor children in poor familiesin UrbanInfrastructure): The projectwill support economic develop- remote areas. Identificationmission is scheduled for October ment in Lombokin an environmentallyand sociallyresponsible 1999.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IDA). manner through (a) infrastructureinvestments; (b) establishing Consultants will be required to determine effectiveteaching/ mechanismsfor environmextaland social protectionfor project learning strategies specific to Irian Jaya. Ministry of Education and tourism-relatedinvestments; and (c) strengtheninginstitu- and Culture, E Bldg.,5th Floor,Jl. Jenderal Sudirman,Jakarta, tional-capacityProject preparation is under way Environmental Indonesia, Tel: (62-21)5299.3000, Fax: (62-21)5299.3111 (Tel. AssessmentCategory A US$50.0 (IBRD). AJapanese Grant has and Fax c/o World Bank Resident Staff in Indonesia).Contact: beensigned to finance prefeasiblitystudies. Consultantsfor project Mr. Indra Djati Sidi, Director General of Primaryand Secondary preparationare in thefield Ministryof PublicWorks, J1. Pattimu- Education ra 20, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 712-805,Fax: (62-21) Community Education: The project aims to enhance the qual- 739-2563 ity of primary education in selected districts. Project is being Semarng Flood Control: The aim of the project is to mitigate identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 50.0 flooddamages to areas located east and west of Semarang in (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministryof Edu- CentralJava The project willfinance floodprotection works and cation and Culture,Jl. Jend. Sudirman,Senayan, Jakarta, Indone- related studies for possible future investments and introduce a sia, Tel: (6221) 5734477,Fax: (6221) 573.1436 cost recovery policy for such works. Preparationstudies began in October 1998with completionrescheduled for October 1999. Distance Learning and the New Technologes: The project Preappraisalmission is scheduled for January 2000. Environ- willsupport the government's Open Universityby improvingits mental Assessment Category to be determined. USS 75.0 primary and secondary teacher training prograns, strengthen (IBRD).Consultants have been selected for project preparation the Center of Communicationand Technologyin several areas studies. Ministry of PublicWorks, Directorate General of Water of its activities, and support proposals for developingon-line Resources Development,Ji. Pattimura 20, Jakarta, Indonesia, based courses in selected resource universities.Project is being Tel: (62-21)739-5588. Fax: (62-21)739-2563 identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministryof Edu- Population Healthand Nutrition cation and Culture,J1. Jend. Sudirman,Senayan.Jakarta, Indone- sia, Tel: (62-21) 573-2594,Fax: (62-21)573-1436 District Health: The projectwill build on the government's pro- gram to decentralize health services to the provincialand dis- Environment trict level. The project will develop, in selected provinces, a medium-termplan for the health sector withstrong participation (R) West Java and Jakarta Environmental Management: by the provincialand district health administrators.The overall 7he projectwill address (a) air quality and provisionofsanitation strategy is to move to programmaticlending in provinces with servicesto residentialareas; (b) solid wastecollection and dispos- adequate institutionalcapacities, and the Bankwill finance time- al; (c) social strategyto emphasizewaste reduction;(d) improve- slices of expenditure programs for municipalitiesand districts. ments to the manufacturingprocess of small-scaleindustries; and The project will address issues related to manpower, capacity (e) regional and nationalenvironmental managementstrategies building, service quality,flow of funds and performance moni- and actionjplans. Appraisal mission is tentativelyscheduled for toring. Project preparationis under way.Environmental Assess- September1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. AJap- ment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be anese grant has been signed to finance project preparation.USS determined. Ministry of Health,J1. H.R. Rasuna, Said, Blok.X.5, 70.0 (IBRD). Consultantsfor projectpreparation are in thefield. Kav.4-9, Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: (62-21)520-1597, Fax: (62-21) Implementingagency is to be determined. 580-5188 PAGE28 Monthly Opeational Summary JULY1999 Provincial Health II: The project winlstrengthen 'ernment operation are (a) banking sector reforms; (b) implementabionof communicable disease control activitiesthrough (a) improved the Jakarta Initiativeto facilitatecorporate restructuring; (c) ini- laboratory capacity at the central level; (b) targeted control ac- tiatives to increase the efficiencyand transparencyof publicsec- tivities at the provinciallevel; and (c) capacitybuik: Lg.Project tor operations,such as acceleratedprivatization and establishing is in the early stages of identification.EnvironmeL. al Assess- sectoral guidelineson the pfivate provisionof infrastructureser- ment Category to be determined. US$ 45.0 (IBRD).Consulting vices; (d) policyreforms to increase private sector efficiencyand services to be determined. Ministry of Health,Ji. H.R Rasuna, competition; and (e) actions to ensure environmentalsustain- Said, Blok. X5, Kav.4-9, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 520- ability.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 20 May1999. Loan 1597,Fax: (62-21)520-5188 was signedon 28 May 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Catego- Quality Improvement of Medical Education: The project ry U. PID: IDLL60258.US$ 500.0(IBRD). Consulting services to aims to improvethe qualityof pre-serviceand specialistmedical be determined. CoordinatingMinistry for the Economy,Finance education in Indonesia through improvedtraining, strengthen- and Industry,Taman SuropatiNo.2, Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: (62- ing of policy frameworkrelated to medicaleducation and estima- 21) 384-3655,Fax: (62-21)334-779 tion of requirements for medical graduates in the short-term. Project is in the early stages of identification.Environmen"tal As- Transport sessment Category to be determined. US 65.0 (IBRD).( 'sult- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Education and (R) Eastern Indonesia Regiona Roads: The proect willsuo- Culture, Ji. Jend. Sudirman, Senayan,Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: port decentralizationand traxsportxetwor preservationand a (622-1)573-2594, Fax: (622-1)573-1436 velopment in Easterx lxdoxesia. Project preparation is under way.A PHRDGrantfor project preparation is available.7Te terms Water Supply and Sanitation for Low-income Comimi- of refierencefor the preparatorystudies are under preparation.En- ties II: The project willprovide water, sanitationand health ed- vironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. USS100.0 ucation to low-incomevillages. Project identification has not (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Implementing been initiated.Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- agen is to be determined. mined. US$50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determnined. g cy Ministry of Health, JI. H.R. Rasuna, Said, Blok. X.5, Kav. 4-9 Jakarta Urban Transport: The project willinclude secondary Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: (62-21)520.1597, Fax: (62-21)580-5188 road networks,traffic managementand public transport servic- es within the framework of the Jabotabek Urban Mass Transit Public Sector Managenont project. Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. USS75.0 (IBRD).Consultants will Public Sector Performance and Governance Reform Pro- be required for project preparation.Implementing agency is to gram: The project will provideinitial supportfora mediur erm be determined. program of anti-corruptionmeasures, structural reform, cen- Ports Environment Improvement: The project willassist the balization, civil service reform, legal and judicial systems government in the implementationof policies that address the strengthening and key sectoral reforms. Program design and environmental issues of maritimetasport. The objectivesare project identificationare under way.Environmental Assessment to (a) develop the capacity for appropriate disposa of ship Category U. US$30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- wastes; (b) upgrade the capacityfor oil-spillprevention and con- mined. CoordinatingMinistry for DevelopmentSupervision and tingencyplanning-, and (c) developthe capacityto manageponlu- AdministrativeReform, JI. Gatot Subroto Kav.51, Jakarta, Indo- tion fron contaminated dredged materials. Project preparation nesia, Fax: (62-21)525-2720, Contact Mr. Darmin Nasution, As- tis under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. Pti: sistant Minister IDPE40892.USS 25.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- mined. Researchand DevelopmentAgency, Ministry of Commu- Soda! Sector nications, Il. Angkasa No. 1 Kemayoran, Jakarta 10610, (R) Social Safety Net Adjustment (La. 4471-IND): The Indonesia,Fax: (62-21)424-1741,424-6805, Tel: (62-21)424-5939, project includes (a) the launch of a campaign to accelerate the 424.0908,Contact: Mr. SoebagioSumadihardjo, Chairman,Re- implementationof the key safety net programs that will involve search and DevelopmentAgency a joint civil social/government commnissionanswering directly Second Strategic Urban Roads Infrastructure: The project to the President; (b) policycondition on design of safety net pro- willfinance the construction of bypasses for severallarge towns grarn for the coming fiscal year; and (c) conditionalityon the in the North Java transport corridor. Project is being identified. budget for the next fiscalyear to protect key socialexpenditures. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. US$ 150.0(IBRD). Con- Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 20 May 1999. Loan was sulting services will be required for project preparationand im- signedon 28 May 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. plementationsupport A request for expressions of interest was USS 600.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deterFnined.BAP- published in DevelopmentBusiness No. 509, dated 30 April1999. PENAS,Jalan Tarnan suropati 2, Jakarta 10310,Indonesia. Tel: BINKOT,Ministry of PublicWorks, Ji. Pattimura No.20, Jakarta (62-21)390-5650, Contact: Mr. Herman Haeruman,Deputy 5 Selatan, Indonesia,Tel: (62-21)7244045, Fax: (62-21)724-6973, Contact: Mr. ParlindunganSimanjuntak, Director, BINKOT Structural Adjustment (R) Agriculture Sector Adjustnent The project would assist Urban Development the government in policy reforms designed to overcome the (R) Urban Poverty (Cr. 3210-IND): This project has been present crisis, including agriculturalrestructuring, price liberal- prepared to help poor communitiesundertake economicactivi- izationand privatization.Preappraisal mission was scheduled for ties and localinfrastructure improvements.Technical assistance mid-July 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ will be provided at the local level.Approved by theExecutive Di- 300.0 (IBRD). Consultingsertvces to bedetermined. BAPPENAS, rectorson 18 May1999. Creditwas signed on 28 May1999. Envi- JI. Taman Suropati No. 2, Jakarta, Indonesia ronmental Assessment Category B. PID: IDPE55821.USS 100.0 (R) Policy Reform Support 11 (Ln. 4470-IND): The loan (IDA).A PHRDgrant has been obtained. DeputyV, Bappenas,Jl. will providefast-disbursing balance of payments support for the Madiun 4-6, Third Floor,Jakarta, Indonesia, Fax: (62-21)314- ongoing reform program.The key areas being supported by this 4131 JULY1999 Monthly Operational Sunmary PAGE29 Urban Developmnent ties; and (b) a package of health, nutrition and education inputs to improvevillage health and child developmentin selectedcom- Kalimantan Urban/Rural linkages: The projectwill finance munities. Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment priority investments in institutional development, urban plan- Category C. US$ 3.0 (IDA).Specialists will be required to (a) to ning, improved provision of decentralized municipal services monitor the design and conduct impactassessments of viDage- and enhanced environmentalservices. Project is delayeddue to level development interventions, gender dimensions and de- the problems in Indonesia. EnvironmentalAssessment Catego- mand-drivenfinancial intermediaries; (b) plan health nutrition ry to be determined. US$ 100.0 (IBRD).A grant will finance and education componentsfor execution at the villagelevel; (c) preparationactivities. Ministry of PublicWorks. JI. Pattimura20, design social funds; and (d) conduct institutionalanalysis. Min- Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: (62-21)739-5588, Fax (62-21)7392563 istry of Finance and LaoWomen's Union

WaterSupply/Sanitation Rural Development (N) Second Water Supply and Sanitation for Low-Income District Upland Development and Conservation (Cr. Communities: The objective of the project is to improve the 3186-IA): The objectiveof this learning and innovationloan health status, productivityand quality of life in poor communi- (UL) is to foster adoptionof more intensifiedagricultural prac- ties. This would be achieved by improvingthe health behavior tices by farmers in pilot areas as a means to improve the liveli- and health services of the community with a focus on water- hood of localcommunities while atthe sametimeconserving the borne and selected other diseases, and supporting demand- biodiversityof high-priorityprotected areas. The project was ap- based improvementsto water supply,household and community proved, followingUIL procedures, on 18 March 1999.Environ- sanitation.The project would incorporatea demand-responsive mental Assessment Category C. USS 2.0 (IDA). International approach that would involvecommunity participation in village- and local services required include project management;in-ser- level project design, implementation,financing and manage- vice and on-the-jobtraining to develop implementationcapacity; menL Projectactivities are grouped into three maincomponents monitoring and evaluation;and speciazed technical expertise (a) communitycapacity-building; (b) improvinghealth behavior in agroforestry/farming systems wildlifebiology, anthropology and services; and (c) developingwater and sanitationinfrastruc- and non-timber forest products. Governor's office in Kham- ture. Projectis being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- mouane Province,Mekong River Side SL,Thakhek City,Kham- egory C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Specialistswill be required in the mouane Province.Lao PDR, Tel: (856-51)212-132, Fax: (856-51) areas of health; water and sanitation;procurement and project 212-307,Contact Mr. Thongphoun Chanphengxay, Director, management; and community institutions, organization and Project ImplementingUnit management Ministry of Health, Directorate General of Com- municable DiseaseControl and EnvironmentalHealth, JI. Perc- etakan Negara 29, PO Box 223,Jakarta, 10560 Indonesia,Tel: Transport (62-21)424-7608; Fax: (62-21)420-7807, Contact Dr.Achmad Su- Road Maintenance: The project would support the develop- judi, Director General,Communicable Disease Control and En- ment of an efficientmaintenance management system for the en- vironmentalHealth tire road network. Project is being identified. Environmental Jatiluhur Water Resources Management: The project will Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 25.0 (IDA).Con- (a) improvethe existing Jatiluhur canal networks and strength- sultants will be required. Ministry of Communication,Trans- en system organizationand managementto increase agricultur- port, Post and Construction,Wat Nark Noy Rd., Vientiane,Lao al productionand guarantee continuationof the water supplyfor PDR,Tel: (856-21)313-192, Fax: (856.21)414-132, E-mail: som- agricultural, industrial,municipal, and other uses and (b) pro- [email protected],Contact: Mr. Sommad Phalsena, Director vide water for industrial purposes and new irrigation on about of CommunicationDepartment 5,000ha. Projectpreparation is proceedingunder a technicalas- sistance study.Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- Malaysia mined. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected. Ministryof PublicWorks, Directorate Generalof WaterResourc- es Development,JI. Pattimura 20, Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel; (62- Transport 21) 739-5588,Fax: (62-21)739-2563 (R) Road Asset Management:The objectiveof the project is to assist the government during the present financialcrisis in Lao People'sDemocratic Republic preserving the existing highwaynetwork and increasingsafety of travel. The project includes (a) pavement strengthening and Education/Training rehabilitationof the federal roads; (b) protectionof slopes along high-riskareas on selectedhighways; (c) replacement and reha- (R) Education Development 11:The objective of this adapt- bilitationof bridges; (d) a road safety program: (e) capacityex- able program loan is to improve access to and quality of primary pansionof somepriority sections of thefederal roads; (fl a program and secondary education within the context of strengthening for controlof axle loadsand vehicleweights; and (g) institutional the managementand delivery of educationservices. Preparation strengtheningand trainingof staff of Departmentof Worksand mission is in the field. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. HighwayPlanning Unit, includingdevelopment of a road asset US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Educa- management information system. Preappraisal mission is complet- tion,LaneyAugAve., Vientiane, LaoPDR,Tel: (856-21)216.006, ed. Appraisal missionwill bescheduled if the governmentdecides Fax: (856-21)412415, 216.006 that it will borrowfromthe Bankfor thisproject. The timing ofthe appraisalmission would depend on thegovernment's decision. En- Population.Health and Nutrition vironmental Assessment Category to be determined, but will most likely be category A for most of the capacityexpansion (N) Family Health and Child Development. This learning works. USS300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. and innovationcredit willfinance a three-yearpilot project in five Ministry of Public Works,Jalan-Sultan Salahuddin, 50580 Kuala provinces where UNICEFhas already laid the groundwork for Lumpur,Malaysia, Tel: (60-3)468-4030, Fax: (60-3)469-6564, E- further village-leveldevelopment. The project willoffer commu- mail: [email protected],Contact: Dato Ali Bin Bahri, Deputy nity support grants for (a) demand-drivendevelopment activi- Secretary General PAGE30 MonthlyOpeational Summary JULY1999

Mongolia building institutional capacity in the public sector Project prepa- ration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. Power US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants wil be required to establish a training database within the Departrnent of Personnel Manage- Energy Secton The project will support power distribution sys- ment and establish a national employment database within the tem development and efficiency improvements. Negotiations Department of Employment and Youth. Department of Person- are scheduled for fiscal year 2000. Environmental Assessment nel Management, Waigani, NCD, Papua New Guinea, Fax: (675) Category B. PID: MNPE40907. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants 327-6732 have been selected for project preparation. Energy Authority of Mongolia, Chiuggis Ave., Ulaanbaatar 36, Mongolia, Tel: (976-1) Reconstruction/Rehabilitation 341-105 (R) Gazelle Restoration II: The project will complete the res- P'rivate Sector Development toration and access to a range of essw ial infrastructure a; itil- ity services (transport, electric, ,.iwer, water supply and (R) Private Sector Development (Cr. 3226-MOG): The sewerage, solid waste, communications, social services, health, project will support the government's private sector-led growth education, public safety and fire protection) following the volca- strategy by increasing the availability of commercial bank loans nic eruption in the peninsula. Negotiationsare scheduledfor late to private enterprises. The project also aims to strengthen finan- August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: cial intermediation and resource allocation capabilities of exist- PGPE54238. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services are needed ing commercial banks, while providing much needed term loans for socioeconomic impact assessment, regional/urban strategic to private enterprise. Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 25 planning and development studies, engineering designs and May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: project assessment Gazelle Restoration Authority, Kokopo, East MNPE49789. USS 12.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be re- New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Tel: (675) 9828-633, Fax: (675) quired. Bank of Mongolia, Commercial St. 6, Ulaanbaatar, Mon- 9828.767, Contact: Mr. John Painap, Project Manager golia, Tel: (976-1) 322-074, Fax: (976-1) 311-471, Contact Mr. Bold, Deputy Governor Structural Adjustment transport (R) Social and Economic Development Program: The project will support the governmenxsstructural reformprogram Transport Infrastucture Development: The project will in- for 1999-2000(YThe second phase of the program wilfocus on (a) clude rural and urban roads components and a component for improvixg service delivery; (b) promoting private sectorled em- development of the national road network. The first two compo- ployment creation; and (c) enhancing accountabilityand gover- nents will support road maintenance funds, with subprojects to nance in management off1inancial axd natural resources.Project be identified according to criteria to be developed during project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: preparation. The third component will help bring the principal PGPE4396. US$ 90.0 (TBRD).Consulting services will be funded East-West national highway up to all-weather standards. Project under a PHRD grant. Department of Treasury and Corporate Af- is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be fairs. Vulupindi Haus, Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua New Guin- determined. USS 27.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- ea, Tel: (675) 3288452, Fax: (675) 3288.431, Contact Mr. Brown mined. Ministry of Infrastructure Development. PO Box 1104, Bai, Secretary Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Fax: (976-1) 310.612, Contact: Acting State Secretary Transport (R) Highlands Highway The project will rehabilitate the High- Papua New Guinea lands Highway and support the establishment of an authority to manage it with reliable funding arrangements. Project is being Education/Training identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- mined. USS 30.0 (IBRD). Consultants wil be required to assist (R) Education Reform: The project will support education re- in the preparation of engineering, environmental, economic, in- form with appropriate policy reform and investments. PoJect is stitutional and financing aspects. Department of Transport and being idenxiied. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS Works, PO Box 1108, Boroko NCD, Papua New Guinea, Tel: 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Departrnent (675) 324-1343,Fax- (675) 324-1277 of Education, PO Box 446, Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea, Tel: (675) 301-3469,Fax: (675) 325-0525,Contact: Mr. Benedict Pl i Kipma, Project Coordinator Philippies

Environment Agriculture Forestry and Conservation: The project will improvethe envi- (R) Mindanao Rural Development: This AdaptableProgram ronmental sustainabilityof forest harvests and irnplementa strat- Loan is being designed as a long-term targeted poverty reduc- egy to promote conservation areas and small-scalesustainable tion program for the rural poor of Mindanao (includingindige- use enterprises. Appraisalis completed.Negotiations to be sched- nous communities). It will aim at increasingfarm and non-farm uled. Environmental Assessment Category B. USS 12.5/17.0 incomes of smallholders (includingincreased productivity)and (IBRD/GEF). Consultantswill be required. NationalForest Ser- build up the planning and implementationsystems and capaci- vice, PO Box 5055, Boroko,Papua New Guinea, Tel: (675)327- ties of local government units to better support the rural com- 7877,327-7930,Contact Mr. KanawiPoruo, General Manager munity. Appraisal mission is in the field. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: PHPE58842.USS 28.0 (IBRD). Public Sector Management Consultantsare being financedby a PHRDgrant. Departmentof Agriculture, EllipticalRd., Quezon City, Philippines,Tel: (63-2) Public Sector Reform: This project willsupport development, 920-1407,Fax: (63-2)928-8741, Contact: Ms. Zenaida Villegas, strengthening and management of regulatory mechanisms and Chief, ProjectPackaging Group JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE31 Finance Transport (R) Fmancial and CorporateRestructuring: The loanwould (R) Metro Manila UrbanTransport Integration: The project support the government's reform agenda for housing finance, aims to improve the transportation system in Metro Manila contractual savings and corporate restructuring. Projectprepa- through (a) road construction and rehabilitation;(b) trafficman- ration is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. agement and safety measures; (c) and strengtheningtransporta- US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. De- tion. planning, traffic management and policy formulation partment of Finance, 6th Floor, Department of Finance Bldg., capabilityin the Metro ManilaDevelopment Agency. Preapprais- BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Malte. Manila 1004, Philippines, al missionis in thefield.Environmental Assessment Category B. Contact Mr. Joel Banares, Undersecretary,Tel: (63-2)525-0260, PID: PHPE57731.U$ 89.0 (IBRD).Consultants have beenshort- Fax: (63-2)521-2948, E-mail: [email protected] listedfor detailedengineering. Department of PublicWorks and Highways,Bonifacio, Drive., Port Area, Manila,Philippines, Tel: PublicSector Management (63-2)527-7871, Faxc (63-2) 5274121, Contact Ms. LindaTemp- lo, Director, Planning Ill Service (R) Housing Fmiance:The project willredefine the role of the (R) National Roads Improvement Management: The government in the housing financesystem in order to clarifythe project willpromote reformin the highwaysector in order to de- alocation of roles, responsibilitiesand risks between the public velopa sustainable national highwaynetwork. It will (a) provide and private sector. Appraisalmission wasscheduledfor lateJune informationtechnology and associated technical assistance to 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: improvethe effectivenessof managementsystem; and (b) reha- PHPE50596.US$ 4.6 (IBRD). Consultaxtswill be requiredto (a) bilitate and maintain critical links in the nationalhighway net- strengthen capacity for policy formulation; (b) design a housing work. Project preparation is under way. Environmental subsidyscheme; (c) developthe primary and secondarymortgage Assessment Category A/B. PID: PHPE39019. US$ 125.0 markets;and (d) rationalizegoverxment housing finance institu- (IBRD). Consultants for project preparationare being financed tions. Housing and Urban DevelopmnentCouncil, 6th Floor,Atr- by a PHRDgrant. Consultingservices are needed for project im- um Bldg., MakatiAve., Makati, Philippines,Contact: Ms. Toby plementation.Department of Public Worksand Highways,Bon- Melissa C. Monsod, Deputy Secretary General,Tel: (63-2)811- ifacioDrive, Port Area, Manila, Philippines,Tel: (632)527-8921, 4113. Fax: (63-2)8114158 Fax: (632) 527-5618,Contact Mr. ManuelM. Bonoan,Assistant Public Sector Reform: The loan willassist the government in Secretary for Planning formulating and implementinga reform program covering civil CAIA Regional Transport: The project will promotean inte- service, publicexpenditure programmingand management,tax grated strategy for regional developmentand transport,through incentives and privileges and local government finance. Project the initiationof local government-basedland managementprac- is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category B. USS tices, investments in priority transport infrastructure and 100.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Depart- strengthening of cooperationamong localgovernments. Project nient of Budget and Management, EspinosaBldg., DBM Com- is being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be pound, Gen. Solano SL. San Miguel, Manila, Philippines,Tel: determined. USS80.0 (IBRD).Consultants for project prepara- (63-2)7354934, 735-1782, Contact Ms. LauraPascua, Assistant tion are being financed by a PHRD grant. NationalEconomic Secretary and Development Authority.NEDA ComplexE de Los Santos Ave., Quezon City. Philippines,Tel: (63-2)976-479, Fax: (63-2) RuralDevelopment 926-6556,Contact: Mr. Oskar D. Balbastro,Project Director Land Administration and Management Progran: This Urban Development project is being designed as learning and innovationloan (LIL). It aims to developa clear consensus amongstakeholders on the (R) Local Government Units Finance and Development policy and institutionalpoliy adrformreforms intittionl inlandmangemetin land management aas wellwel as ture(Ln. and4446-PH): services inThe poorer project local will government financemunicipal units. Itinfrastruc- will also develop and pilot test procedures in land titling, management strengthen and reorganize the MunicipalDevelopment Fund and evaluation. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAs- and willsupport technicalassistance and trainingto nationaland sessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to local government agencies. Approved by the Executive Direc- be determined. Department of Environmentaland Natural Re- tors on 23 March 1999.Loan signingwas scheduledforlate June sources, DENRBldg., VisayasAve., Diliman, Quezon City,Phil- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: ippines, Tel: (63-2) 928-0691,Fax: (63-2) 920(352, Contact: PHPE48588.US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultantsfor project prepara- HonorableAntonio Cefilles, Secretary tion are beingfinancedbya PHRDgrant. Department of Finance, Rm.516, Five-Storey Bldg., Central BankComplex, Manila, Phil- Social Sector ippines,Tel: (63-2) 521-2948,Fax: (63-2)521-9495, Contact: Lily Social Expenditure Managemente The mainobjective of the Gruba, Undersecretary loan is to protect the financingof basic social services duringa WaterSupply/Sanitation period of continuing fiscal difficulties in the aftermath of the East Asia financialcrisis. The second project objectiveis to im- (R) Water Districts Development (Lns. 4227-8-PH): The prove the performanceand efficiencyof the socialsector depart- projectwill (a) support the government'ssectoral reforms in the ments by reforming systems, strengthening financial water sub-sector to encourage private sector participation;and management and laying the groundworkfor future structural re- (b) finance thegovernment's investment programfor specific prior- forms, which could be subsequently financed under sector in- ity waterand sanitationprojects, focusing on low-incomecommu- vestnent loans. Project is being identified. Environmental nities. Approved by the Executive Directors on 9 September Assessment Category C. USS 200.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be 1997.A restructuredloan was signed on 15 May 1999. Environ- required in the areas of financialmanagement, procurement and mental Assessment Category -A. PID: PHPE4576. US$ 38.6 MIS. Department of Budget and Management,Espinosa Bldg., (IBRD).Consulting services will be required. A shortlist was General Solano St., San Miguel, Manila, Philippines,Tel: 63-2- prepared. Land Bankof the Philippines,313 Sen Gil Puyat Ave., 735-4943,Fax: 63-2-7354918,Contact: Ms. Laura Pascua Makati. Philippines,Tel: (63-2) 814-0154,Fax: (63-2)8174619, PAGE32 Monthly Operaonal Summary JULY1999

Contact Ms. Cecil Borromeo, E-mail: Landbank@ World- Solomon Islands, Tel: (677) 22535,23700, Fax: (677) 20392, r 'n- bank.org@internet tact Mr. George Kiriau, Ministry of Finance Solid Waste and Ecological Enhancement: The project ains to (a) improve the legal and regulatory framework and cost re- Thailand covery mechanisms of the solid waste management sector to safeguard the environment and encourage private sector in- Power volvement; (b) increase technical, administrative and regulatory capacities at the national and local levels to improve sector man- (R) Electricity Generating Authority of lhailand - Invest- agement and operations; (c) improve solid waste services and ment Progran Support. Through the raising of two bonds of extend their coverage in participating cities; and (d) mitigate the US$ 300.0 million each, one around September 1998 (which has social impact on waste-pickers and promote recycling and com- already closed) and the other around June 1999 (subject to mar- posting of appropriate wastes. Appraisal mission is scheduled for ket conditions), the project would help meet part of the financing February 2000. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: * - PHPE48587. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants for project prepara- gap for EGAT investments dunng the perod fiscal year 1998 tion are being financed by a PHRD granL Department of Envi- 2001. The proect was presented to and approved by the Board ronment and Natural Resources, Visayas Ave., Diliman, Quezon as a single operation for two bond issues. In the first instance City, 1100, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 929-6626to 29, Fax: (63-2) 928- Board authorization was obtained for a partial credit guarantee 0970, Contact Mr. Antonio Cerilles Secretary for the first bond issue. Board approval will now be sought for the terms and conditions pertaining to the second bond issue and the provision of a second partial credit guarantee. The Samoa Board would be informnedof the progress in respect of financial and institutional aspects, without undertaking a second full Population, Health and Nutrition project appraisal.A reviewminion to assessthis progress wasfield- (N) Heaidh Sector The project will provide support for the sec- ed in February 1999, and another such mission uwnt in late May tor within the framework of the Health Sector Strategic Plan. 1999, prior to Board presentation. Environmental Assessment Specifically, the project willprovide support in the areas of policy Category A. US$ 300.0 (IBRD Partial Credit Guarantee). Con- development and health care legislation, improvement of region- sultants have been selected. Electricity Generating Authority of al service delivery, upgrading of physical infrastructure. priority Thailand (EGAT), Nonthaburi 11130, Thailand, Tel: (662) 424- interventions in women's health and studies of emerging issues 2894, Fax: (662) 433-6317, Contact Mr. Viravat Chlayon, Gover- and problems. Project is being identified. Environmental Assess- nor ment Category to be determined. US$ 7.0 (IDA). Consulting ser- vices to be determined. Implementing agency is to be Private Sector Development determined. (R) Corporate Restructuring Implementation: The project Solomon Islands will support large corporate restructuring through (a) provision of mediators; (b) accounting,legal and industry expert support for mediators; (c) training and other capacity building for the Education/ITraining Corporate Debt Restructuring Advisory Committee (CDRAC); Fourth Education: The project will provide support for basic and (d) strategic advisory support for CDRAC. Support for re- education, particularly to improve the quality of the Community structuring by small and medium enterprises will be provided High Schools (CHS) and improve the financing and manage- through three regional business advisory centers. Negotiatioxs ment of the sector. Project is being identified. Environmental As- are under way Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- sessment Category C. USS 8.0 (IDA). Consulting services will mined. US$ 23.0 (IDA). Consulting services to determined. be required for preparation and implementation. Ministry of Ed- Bank of Thailand, 273 Samsen Rd., Bankhunprom, Bangkok ucation and Human Resources, PO Box G28, Honiara, Solomon 10200,Thailand, Tel: (66-2) 2283-5900,Fax: (66-2) 283-6488,Con- Islands, Tel: (677) 23900, Fax: (677) 21560, Contact: Mrs. Mylyn tact: Sub. Lt. Uodchair Choosri, Director, The Office of the Cor- Kuve, Acting Director, IPU porate Debt Restructuring Advisory Committe; Ministry of Finance, Fiscal Policy Office, Loan and Policy & Management Population, Health and Nutrition Division, Bankgok, Thailand, Tel: (66-2) 273-9822, Fax: (66-2) 273-9058,Contact: Sun Vithespongse (N) Health: The project is expected to support (a) national care and family planning, (b) malaria prevention and control; and (c) provincial health programs and the Ministry of Health:: Med- Pubic Sector Management ical Services. Project preparation is under way. Envirc .mnental Public Sector Reform (formerly Public Sector Govermance): Assessment Category C. USS 3.0 (IDA). Consultants have been This program is designed to support an agreed program of insti- selected for preparation. Consulting services for implementation tutional reforms to improve public management. The program to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. will consist of annual adjustment loans over three years. The Public Sector Governance Program builds on the objectives of Structural Adjustment (a) delivering citizen-focused and efficient services; (b) improv- (R) Structural Adjustnent (Cr. 3252-SOL): The credit will ing the poverty-focus and income equity considerations in gov- support the government's efforts in (a) improving the develop- ernment's taxing and spending decisions; and (c) enhancing ment effectiveness of public expenditures; (b) reforming the fi- accountability and transparency to help restore trust in govern- nancial sector; (c) sustainable forestry management; (d) private ment. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment sector development and (e) addressing selected social sector is- Category to be determined. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting ser- sues. Approved by the Erecative Directors on 17June 1999. Envi- vices to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Rama VI Road, ronmental Assessment Category C.USS 10.0 (IDA). Consultants Bangkok 10400, Thailand, Tel: (662) 273-9209. Fax: (662) 273- have been selected. Ministry of Finance, PO Box 26, Honiara, 9404 JULY 1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE33 Vanuatu assistance will be required for project implementation.Bilateral financingwill be providedby DANIDA.Ministry ofAgriculture Education/Training and Rural Development,Dept. of InternationalCooperation, 2, Ngoc Ha St., Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4)845-9670, Fax: (84-4) Education II: The project will provide assistance for pre- 845-4319,Contact: Mr.Le VaxMinh, Director of Dept.of Interna- schools, primary schools and secondary schools including tional Cooperation teacher training, improvingthe supply of educationalmaterials, providing facilitiesand improvingmanagement planning.Preap- Population,Health and Nutrition praisal missionwas scheduled for mid-July1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: VUPE04823.US$ 8.0 (IDA).Con- (R) Curative Care for the Poor. The projectwill develop a hos- sultants recruited under the Japanese Grant Facilityhave con- pital rationalizationprogram and analyze alternatives;the pro- ducted a preliminary evaluation of the education system for gramnwill also design programs for financing catastrophic project preparation.Need for further consultants is to be deter- curative care for the poor. Preappraisalmissiox is tentatively mined. Ministry of Education,Sports and Youth, Port-Vila,Van- scheduledformid-Axgust 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- uatu, Tel: (678)22-309, Fax: (678) 24-569 egory C. USS60.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health, 138AGiang Vo,Hanoi, Viet Nam,Tel: (84-4) WetNam 846-4051,Fax: (84-4)846405

Agriculture Power (R) Mekong Delta Water Resources (Cr. 3 198-VN): The Rural Energy: The project's main developmentobjectives are project will support (a) rehabilitation,completion and improve- to (a) expand rural access to electricityin about 690communes ment of infrastructure for irrigation, drainage, flood protection located in 32 provinces of Vietnamthrough grid extension;(b) and control of salinityintrusion; (b) provisionof clean water and establish institutionalmechanisms for rural electrificationwith- improved sanitation; and (c) institutional developmenL Ap- in EVN, the distribution companies and the provinces/com- proved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 4 May 1999.Credit signing munes that facilitatethe long-termviability of the power sector is to be scheduled.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: and continuedimplementation of power sector reformsin accor- VNPE4854.US$ 101.8(IDA). Consulting services in the amount dance with the 1995Policy Letter and strategy;and (c) promote of USS 7.9 millionare required for studies, design, implementa- the applicationof renewable energy sources in areas inaccessi- tion, supervision and monitoring. Ministry of Agriculture and ble to the national grid and to supplementgrid power supply Rural Development,23 Hang Tre, Hanoi. Viet Nam, Tel: (844) through implementationof some demonstration projects.The 824-2363,Fax: (84-4)824-2372. Contact: Mr. Le Van Hien,Project project is expected to provide energy to about 500,000house- Manager,CPO, MARD holds in Vietnam and includes some of the poorest communes identified in the Governmenfs special commune program. Project is being identified.Retroactive financing is beingconsid- Education/Training ered. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 150.0(IDA). Primary Education in Disadvantaged Areas: The project Consultingservices to be determined. Electricityof Viet Narn, would support provisions of basic/primary education to disad- 18 Tran Nguyen Han St., Hanoi,Viet Namn,Tel: (84-4)825-3553, vantagedgroups in selected targeted zones.The project willtar- Fax: (84-4)824-9462, Contact: Mr. HoangTrung Hai,General Di- get poverty alleviationand increase access to primnaryschooling rector through (a) school construction; (b) use of special delivery methods; and (c) scholarships, targeted subsidies and other in- Public Sector Management centives to enroll and maintain children in primary schools. Project processing is on hold. EnvironmentalAssessment Cate- Ministry of Finance Financial Systems: The projectwould gory C. USS90.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. support the ministry'sreform and modernizationeffort in one or Implementingagency is to be determined. two high-priorityareas, such as treasury, budget, tax or state owned enterprise monitoring.It would help establish an overall Primary Teacher Education: The project would support pri- informationtechnology design for the ministry's systems and mary teacher education programs in one or two provinces.This build institutionalcapacity. The project will providefunding for will be the first operation in a series of four AdaptableProgram policy advice, technical assistance, computerizationand train- Loans to professionalizethe primary teaching force with a com- ing. Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssess- prehensive program of professional development through pre- ment Category C. PID: VNPA36944. USS 50.0 (IDA). and in-servicetraining in accredited programs followedby the Consultantsare workingon project preparation.Consultants will adoption of new terms of service. Preappraisal mission was ten- be required for implementation.Ministry of Finance,8 Phan tatively scheduled for late June 1999. Environmental Assess- Huy Chu St., Hanoi. Viet Namn,Tel: (84-4)826-3468, Fax: (84-4) ment Category C. PID: VNPE51838.USS 80.0 (IDA).Consulting 824-8259,Contact: Mr. Pham VanThuan services to be determined. Ministry of Education and Training, Primary Teacher Training Project, 49 Dai Co Viet, Hanoi. Viet Nam, Tel/Fax: (844) 868-1683 Rural Development (N) River Basin Management: The project willintroduce inte- Environment grated water resource managementin selected basins.Project is (R) Coastal Wetlands Protection and Development The ob- being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS jectives of the project are to re-establish and protect mangrove 130.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministryof wetland areas and valuableecosystems in southern coastal prov- Agricultureand RuralDevelopment (MARD), 2 NgocHa St, Ha- inces to revive fishery nurturing abilities, promote sustainable noi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4)733-0782. Fax: (844) 824-7133,Con- aquaculture and agnculture in the buffer zone. Board presenta- tact: Mr. Pham Hong Giang, Vice Minister,MARD tion is scheduledforearly September 1999. Environmental Assess- (R) Community-Based Rural Infrastructure: This a targeted ment Category B. PID: VNPE45268.USS 32.0 (IDA).Technical povertyreduction project that willsupport the goverqment'sde- PAGE34 Monthly OperationalSummary JULY1999 cision to mobilize support to assist Viet Namn'spoorest com- 2945,Fax: (84-4)826-7291, Contact Mr. BuiTien Dung,General munes. The project will be demand-driven,providing a range of Director infrastructure (roads and access, drinking water, irrigationsys- HighwayMaintenance Adaptable Program Lending: This tems, schools and health centers and rural electrification)in re- Hisha mtece aptance train ing:dThis sponse to priorities identified at the local level through a projecisamixoftechni'-4lassistance,trainingandgradualyde- participatory planning process. The project will focus on two or cining capital fundingto help the government address the cur- three of the poorest regions (the North Central Coast, the Cen- rently inadequate periodic maintenance of roads and set up an tral Coast and the Central Highlandsregions). It will strengthen efficientmanagement and fundingsystem at all levelsof govern- local capacities to plan and implement local development ment. The decliningfunding would be matched by a growing al- projects, and central capacitiesto coordinate,monitor and evalu- locationof locallyraised users' charges into a road maintenance ate decentralized development initiatives. Preparationmission fund. The technicalassistance and training willsupport the re- was textativelyschedule for late June 1999. EnvironmentalAs- quired policy,legislative and institutionalchanges whilethe APL sessmnentCategory to be dett mined. US$ 100.0(IDA). Consult- design willlink institutional/policyprogress to tranches of fund- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Planning and ing. This program will be managed in close coordination with Investment, 2 Huang Van Thu St., Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Viet Nam, other donors. Identificationmission was scheduled forjuly 1999. Tel: (844) 8044408, Fax: (844) 823-4716,Contact Dr. Nguyen Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. USS Van Phuc, Deputy Director, ForeignEconomic Relations Depart- 200.0 (IDA). Consulting services are required for preparation ment and for implementation. A PHRD grant is being sought for (R) Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction: 'he objective projectpreparation. Ministry of Transport, 1876Tay Son SL,Ha- of this project is to reduce poverty in the Northern Mountains noi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4)851-1277, Fax: (844) 857-2213,Con- Region through (a) an integrated grass-roots program of envi- tact Mr. Pham Ngoc Thuy, General Director, E-mail: MU- ronrentally sustainable improvements to agricultural produc- [email protected] tion; construction of smal-scale basic rural infrastructure; and (c) improvedaccess to basic education,health and nutrition.Sec- Water Supply/Sanitation ond preparatioxmission is scheduledforlate November1999. En- vironmentalAssessmnent Category to be determined. US$ 100.0 (R) Ho Cht Mimh City Environmental Si t asion: The (IDA).A limitedanount of technical assistance will be required proect will rehabilitate the drainage system in the basin, ir- during project preparation. Ministry of Planning and Invest- prove environmentalconditions in the area and enhance operat- ment, No. 2 Hoang VanThu, Ba Dinh, Hanoi,Viet Nam, Contact: ing capability of drainage system operating agencies. The Mr. Phan Doanh, Director, Agricultureand Rural Development project will (a)renovate existing drainage network and extend it Departrent, Tel: (84-4)846-1421, Fax: (844) 843-2016 in under-served areas; (b) upgrade management of septic tanks including disposal of septage; (c) provide interceptor sewers Structural Adjustment along the canal including necessary pumping and suitable wastewatertreatment; (d) upgrade the embankment,alignment Structural Adjustment II: The credit willfinance a structural and bottom stability of the canal; (e) develop institutionalcapa- adjustment program in support of the government's medium- bilitiesof operating agencies, improve the skills of the staff and term program of macroeconomic stabilizationand structural re- enhance the cost recovery to ensure sustainabilityof the physi- form, as wellas measures to strengthen the social safetynet. Ap- cal investment;and (f) provide equipment, materials and vehi- praisal 'mission is tentatively scheduled for August 1999. cles required for adequate operation and maintenance of EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 250.0 (IDA).Con- facilities.Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment suiting services to be determined. State Bankof VietNam, 4749 Category to be determined. US$ 140.0(IDA). Consulting services Ly Thai To SL, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4)255-769, 252-831, forfeasibiitystudiesandpreliminaryengineeringdesigare being Fax: (844) 258-385,Contact Mr. Le Duc Thuy,Deputy Governor financed througha PHRDgrant Department of Transport and Public Works,252 Ly Chinh Thang St., District 3, HoChi Minh Transport City.Viet Nam, Tel: (84-8)8467400, Fax: (84-8)8290.458, Con- (R) Mekong Transport and Flood Protection: The project tact Eng. Phan Chan Tran willsupport the government's efforts to complete the rehabilita- (R) Three Cities Sanitation (Cr. 3211 -VN): The project will tion of HighwayOne. It will focus on (a) the protection of flood- eliminatedrainage, sewerageand sanitation bottlenecksin Dan- prone sections in the central coastal area; and (b) the improve- ang, Haiphong,Halong City and Cam Pha Townby (a) rehabili- ment of the surface transportation system in the MekongDelta tating drainage and sewerage networks; (b) improvingsolid area. Preappraisalmission was scheduledfor late June 1999. En- waste management: (c) strengthening operating agencies; and vironmental Assessment Category B. PID: VNPE42927.US$ (d) assisting in preparing a long-termninvestment program.The 150.0(IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministryof project willcomplement the Water Supply Project (rrF N0260). Transport and Communications, 187BTay Son St. Hanoi, Viet Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 18 May 1999. Creditssgn- Namn,Tel: (84-4) 851-1278,Fax: (84-4) 852-1013,Contact: Mr. ing is to be scheduled.Environmental Assessment Category A. Pham Ngoc Thuy. General Director, PMUI PID: VNPE51553.USS 80.5 (IDA). Consultingservices will bere- (R) Second Rural Transport The project will contribute to quiredfor constructionmanagement and institutiondevelopment the government's poverty alleviationprograrn in the rural areas. in Danang.It is anticipatedthat similar serviceswill be supported Specific objectivesare to (a) improveaccess of rural communi- in Haiphongand Halong Kam Pha by DANIDA and FINNIDA, ties to markets, off-farm opportunities and social services; and respectively A USAID is also consideringsupporting institutional (b) develop the lcal capacityto improve the level of service of developmentin Danang. Danang Urban EnvironmentCo.. 253 the rural transport network and to maintain it on a sustainable Nui Thang, Danang,Viet Nam, Tel: (84-51)825299, Fax: (84-51) basis. Appraisal mission is in the field. EnvironmentalAssess- 615912,Contact: Mr. NguyenTan Lien, Director, HaipongSew- ment Category B. PID: VNPA59864.USS 100.0(IDA). Consult- erage and Drainage Co., Fax: (84-31) 841072), Contact: Mr. ants will be required. Project Management Unit 18, Ministryof Nguyen Ba Can, Director, HalongEnvironment Co., Tel: (84-33) Transport, 80 Tran Hung Dao, Hanoi. Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4)825- 826501,Contact: Mr. Nguyen Manh Ha JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE35 ing its objectivesto increase the functionalapplication of literacy skills by providingpost-literacy and continuing educationto neo- South Asia Region literates and school dropouts through a more comprehensive and enhanced system of non-formaleducation.The project will support the Directorate of Non-Formal Education and other Bangladesh stakeholders to deliver quality programs. Projectpreparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required during project preparation. Agriculture A PHRD grant has been approved. Directorate of Non-Formal (R) Fourth Fisheries: The objectiveof the projectis to support Education,PMED, Block E, 2/6 Lalmatia,Dhaka, Bangladesh, sustainablegrowth and the equitable distributionof the benefits Tel: (8802) 814-814,Fax: (880-2)810G980, Contact Mr. Khandak- generated from increased fish and shrimp production. The er Shahidul Islam,Director General, DNFE project includes (a) inland open-waterfisheries management; (b) coastal shrimp aquaculture; (c) freshwater aquaculture ex- Environment tension and training; (d) aquatic resources development man- (R) Air Quality Management: This learning and innovation agement and conservationstudies; and (e) institutionalsupport. loan (LIL)will address the rapidly worsening air pollutionprob- Cofinancingis confirmed from GEF and DFID. Total project lems in Dhakaand selectedcities. The project includes (a) vehic- cost is US$ 60.8 million.Board presentationis scaedulegfor late ular emissionsenforcement, update of standards and regulation July 1999. Environmen0(DA/sesF)m A Japanese PHRDgrant awareness raising; (b) air pollution monitoring equipmentand is being used to finance consulting services. Ministry of Fisher- sched and (c)and sourceass essay eect is iesDet. nd jvetockf Fiheres,Bhabn 6 Rom 50, Bng- scheduledto beapproved, following ies and Livestock,Dept. of Flsheries, Bhaban6, Room507, Bang- 1999. Environmental AssessmentLIL procedures,Category ini C. December PID: ladesh Secretariat,Dhaka,Bangladesh,Tel:(880-2) 83s699,415- BDPE57833.US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be re- 005, Contacts: Mr. Matin, Director General; Mr. Nasir Uddin quired. Terms of reference are being drafted. Ministry of Envi- Abmed, Project CoordinabingDirector ronment and Forestry, Department of Environment, E-16 Agricultural and Rural Development The objectivesof the Agargaon,Dhaka, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)911-2490, Fax: (880- project are to (a) eliminatepolicy barriers to agriculturalgrowth 2) 911-8682,Contact Mr. AR. Khan, Director General,E-mail: and effective poverty alleviation;(b) improvethe efficiency of [email protected] public investments; (c) create an environment more conducive to privatesector investment;(d) strengthen localgovernment in- Finance stitutions;and (e) reform food policy.Project is being identified. A new project concept document is being prepared. Environ- (R) Central Banking Technical Assistance: The project will mental Assessment Category B. USS 100.0 (IDA). Consulting focus on strengthening the central bank in the areas of function- services to be determined.A PHRD grant has been approvedfor al reorganization,human resources development,bank regula- project preparation. Ministry of Agriculture,Bhaban 4, Room tion and supervision, problem bank unit, external debt 508, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2) management, accounting and auditing and automation/MIS. 864-513, Contact: Mr. A. Waheed Khan, Deputy Chief, Policy Preappraisalmission was scheduledfor mid-Juxe 1999. Environ- Planning and Coordination mental Assessment Category C. US$ 24.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. A PHRD grant has been signed. Bangladesh Education/Training Bank, Head Office Motijheel C/A, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Fax: (880-2)956.6212, Contact: Dr. Sohrab Uddin, DeputyGovernor, Education Quality Improvement: The project willaim at in- Ministryof Finance,Bhaban 7, Room238, BangladeshSecretar- proving the overallquality of education by makingspecific inter- iat, Dhaka, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)860-406, Fax: (880-2)865- ventions for improvingteaching and learning in the classroom. 581,Contact Mr. Akbar Ali Khan It willpilot innovativegovernment and NGOmodels and provide (R) Financial Institutions Development: The project aims at continuous feedbackto the system to help upgradeteaching and developingnon-bank financial institutionson a sustainablebasis. learning practices in schools. Project preparation is under way. It would assist the government in (a) facilitatingresource mobi- EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS5.0 (IDA).Consult- lization by non-bank financial institutions through eliminating ants will be required for project preparation.Directorate of Pri- distortions in government savings schemes, establishingan ap- mary Education, Section 2, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: dsorions infgovernmentesaoingsschemes, establishingeanpmp- (880-2)805-491. Fax: (880.2)806-499, Contact: Sharmsul Haque. propriateinfrastructure for bond markets and eliminatingbarri- Director of Training ers to institutionalinvestors; and (b) ensuring the development of quality non-bankfinancial institutions and other financialin- Post Primary Education: The aim of the project is to imnprove termediaries providing investment financing through a tempo- poor people's access to and the quality of post primary educa- rary financing facility and/or a backstop facility that would tion. The project will support (a) establishmentof a research support bond issuance by them. Board presentationis scheduled fund; (b) creation of scholarship funds and/or loan funds that for mid-September1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category meet merit and equity criteria;and (c) strengthening the nation- B. PID: BDPE44811.US$ 46.9 (IDA). A Japanese PHRDgrant al institutions that oversee the quality of secondary education is financingconsulting services for project preparation.Ministry and higher education. Project is in the early stages of identifica- of Finance,Bhaban 7, Rm. 303, Bangladesh Secretariat,Dhaka, tion. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS100.0 (IDA). Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)869-302, 865-360, Contact: Mr. Golam Consulting services to be deterrnined.A Japanese PHRDgrant Rahman,Additional Secretary, Banking Division of US$500,000 is financingpreparation work. Directorate of Sec- Microcredit 11:Te project will support poverty alleviationfor ondary and Higher Education (DSHE),Shikkah Bhavan,16, Ab- targeted 11: T inlues (a)lextensionpovertyrocreditbtofor dul Ghani Rd.. Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 956-3390 targeted groups. It includes (a) extension of microcreditto the Contact~~~:Po. Naya Sutaa Dietrteea rural poor, (b) extension of urban credit to the urban poor, (c) microenterpriselending to borrowers who have graduated from Post-literacy and Continuing Education for Human De- microcreditactivities, and acquired skillsand resources to move velopmente The project will support the government in achiev- to microenterprises;and (d) technical assistance for sustainable PAGE36 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 institutional developmentand impact assessment of the borrow- to provide advice and trainingsupport on trade policyanalysis, ers. Project Concept Document is being prepared. Environmen- customs and tax administration,global and regional trade coop- tal Assessment Category C. USS 100.0 (IDA). Consulting eration and managing matching grant funds for enterprises' services will be required. Palli Karrna Sahayak Foundation, product market developmenL.Ministry of Commerce, Room18, House 31/A, Rd. 8, Dhanmondi RA, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: Bhaban 3, Dhaka, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)869-648, Contact Mr. (880-2)912-6240, Fax: (880-2)912-6244, Contact: Dr. Salehuddin Fazbul Huq, Additional Secretary; NationalBoard of Revenue, Ahmed, ManagingDirector, PKSF Segunbagicha, Dhaka, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)412-532, Con- tact: Mr. Saiful Islam Khan, Member,Administration; National Population, Health and Nurition Board of Revenue,Segunbagicha, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880- 2) 412-532,Contact: Mr. S.l. Khan,Member, Administration and (R) National Nutrition Progmm (formerly Social lxvestment Reform Program):The project will seek to achieve progress in meeting the objectivesand targets of the NationalPlan of Action for Nu- Public Sector Management trition 2000-2010(NPAN). The objectiveof the NPANis to elim- inate malnutrition as a public health problem by 2010. The Legal and Judicial Capacity Building The project will sup- project will address this objective by reducing severe and mod- port the government's efforts to improvegovernance by en- erate malnutrition among children through reducing anemia hancing tne quality and cost effectiveness of the legal, and other micronutrient deficiencies among pregnant women, regulatory and institutionalframework for private sector devel- school-aged women and adolescent girls. Project preparation is opment in the country.Project components include (a) strength- under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS ening the legal and regulatory framework;(b) improvingcourt Amount to be determined. (IDA). A PHRD grant is financing administration and streamlining court procedures; (c) imple- preparation activities. National Nutrition Program, 7 Paribag, menting a MIS for the judiciary; (d) developingjudicial training Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)966-5509, Contacts: Prof. and legal education; and (e) buildingand/or upgrading physical Rezaul Karim,Team Leader and Mr. SalimKhan, Program Prep- infrastructure. Appraisal mission is scheduled for September aration Team Coordinator 1999.Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: BDPE44810. USS 45.0 (IDA). A Japanese PHRDgrant financed consulting Power services for project preparation.The grant financed both local and international consulting services to prepare an in-depth Harpur Partial Risk Guarantee: An IDA partial risk guaran- analysisof the current situation of the legal system,identify key tee will support implementation of the Haripur Independent issues, determine needs and recommendmeasures for develop- Power Project.Total project cost is US$ 175.0million. Board pre- ing legal and judicial capacity.A draft strategy paper based on sentation is tentativelyscheduled for September 1999.Environ- the consultant's report was discussed with stakeholders in Feb- mental Assessment Category A. PID: BDPE65131.US$ 70.0 ruary/March 1999. Ministryof Lawand ParliamentaryAffairs, (IDAPartial Risk Guarantee). No consultants are required. Min- Government of the People's Republicof Bangladesh, Rm. 722, istry of Finance and AES Corp. Bhaban 4, Bangladesh Secretariat,Segunbagicha, Dhaka, Bang- Power Reform: The objective of the project is to promote sec- ladesh, Tel: (880-2)864-693, Fax: (880-2)868-557, Contact: Mr. tor reform by unbundlingand commercializingthe operating en- M. Aminullah,Secretary, Ministryof Lawand ParliamentaryAf- tities and establishing a regulatory body.The project will be fairs carried out as an adaptable progran loan (APL)operation with Public Sector Managemente The projectwill finance technical the first stage covering transmission separation,rationalization assistance to support subprojects for policy reform, capacity of peripheral distributionsystems and a socialprogram. The sec- buildingof public and privatesector institutions,initiatives to im- ond, third and fourth APLswill address distributionand existing prove publicsector managementefficiency and institutionbuild- generation privatizatioand enhance system reliability access to ing. Project preparation is under way. Environmental electricity in rural areas. Project preparation is under way.Cofi- Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 30.0 (IDA).Con- nancing is expected from OECE Environmental Assessment sultingservices to be determined. EconomicRelations Division, Category B. US$ 125.0(IDA). A Japanese PHRDgrant has been TA Cell,Block 8, Sher-e-BanglaNagar, Dhaka,Bangladesh, Tel: extended to undertake the preparatory work. Ministry of Ener- (880-2)818-611. Fax: (880-2)811-660, Contact: AZM Shafiqul Is- gy and Mineral Resources (MEMR),Bhaban 6, Bangladesh Sec- lam, Project Director retariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2)863-992, Fax: (880-2) 865.097,861-110, Power Grid Co. of Bangladesh Ltd., House No. 1/A (5th flr), Rd. No. 13, Mirpur Rd., Dhanmondi, R/A,Dhaka RuralDevelopment 1209, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2)823-225, 823-226, 823.228, Fax: Rural Credit The objective of this learning and innovation (880-2)823-227; Rural ElectrificationBoard (REB),Joarsahara, credit (LIL)is to alleviatepoverty and promote rural economic Khilkhet, Dhaka, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)896412, 896-403, Fax: growth through testing the provisionof group credit to eligible (880-2)896-400 NGOs to small and marginalfarmers and other smallrural entre- preneurs that have no access to formal public or private banks. Private Sector Development Projectis being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category (R) Export Diversification (Cr. 3229-BD): The objectiveof teriet.to be determined. minisr U$Sof AgrIclu. 5.0 (IDA). CansConsulting 4,roomservices 54 to bean- de- the project is to accelerate Bangladesh's integration into the ladesh Secretariat, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)867- world economy by expanding net export production through 474 F 8 D 0 product and market diversification.The project willaddress key 474, Fax: (880-2)867-040 constraints to achievingthis objective by combining (a) funda- Second Coastal Embankment Rehabilitation: The objec- mental institutionalreforms to lay a solid foundationfor the me- tives of the project are to (a) save life and property during cy- dium term with (b) immediate, direct assistance to jump-start clones; (b) secure and increase agriculturalproduction; and (c) the process of diversificationby private exporters. Approved by mitigate against environmental degradationcaused by earlier the Executive Directorson 1 Jumne1999. Credit was signed on I water sector investments. Project is being identified. Environ- June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: mental Assessment Category to be determined. USS 117.0 BDPE49790.US$ 32.0 (IDA). Consultants have been contracted (IDA).Consulting services are being financed under a supple- JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE37 mental credit for the ongoing Coastal Embankment Rehabilita- Consultantsare required for institutionaland financialstrength- tion Project.Bangladesh WaterBoard Development,Directorate ening, project implementationand final design. LocalGovern- General of Planning, WAPDABldg., Motijheel,C/A, Dhaka, ment EngineeringDept. (LGED),5/7 Lalmatia,Block-B, Dhaka Bangladesh - 1207, Bangladesh

Social Sector Water Supply/Sanitation (R) Social Investnent Program (formerlySocial Development School and Community Sanitation: The objective of the Investment):The main project objectiveis to improveaccess of project is to reduce sicknessand premature mortalitycaused by the poor to basic social and economic infrastructure and servic- lack of sanitary facilities,poor surface water quality and inade- es, by supporting small scale projects identifiedand implement- quate hygiene practices.A secondary objectiveis to establish a ed through community participation. The key project sustainable framework for sanitation and water supply invest- componentsare (a) community subprojects sponsored by eligi- ments through reorienting the central government agency, ble NGOs,civil societyorganizations and localgovernment bod- strengthening localgovernment functionsand increasingbene- ies; (b) institutional-supportto establish and operate the Social ficiary participation in the design, construction and mainte- Development Foundation; (c) technical assistance to build ca- nance of assets. Projectpreparation is underway. Environmental pacity;and (d) communicationdevelopment for informationdis- Assessment Category B. USSAmount to be determined.(IDA). semination.Appraisal mission is scheduled for September 1999. Consultingservices willbe required for projectpreparation. De- EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: BDPE53578.US$ partment of Public Health Engineering,DPHE Bhavan, 175-178 50.0 (IDA).Consultants willbe required for project preparation Kakrail,Dhaka 1000,Bangladesh and implementation.A PHRDgrant of US$ 475,000has been ap- proved. Ministry of Finance, Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2)860.406, Fax: (880-2)865-581, Contacts: Mr. Akbar India Ali Khan,Finance Secretary; Mr. ZakiaChowdhury, Prime Min- ister's Office Agriculture Cultural Heritage: This learning and innovationcredit (LIL) (R) Integrated Watershed Development-Hills 11 (In. will test a mechanism to channel funds through a Cultural Heri- 4492-lN; Cr. 3242-IN): The project has two components. tage Foundationto private and public sector institutionsdedicat- The watershed developmentand protectioncomponent includes ed to promotionand conservation of cultural heritage. Project is (a) watershed treatment; (b) fodder and livestockdevelopment; being identified.Environmental Assessment Category to be de- and (c) rural infrastructure development. The institutional termined. USS 5.0 (IDA). The government is expected to re- strengthening componentincludes (a) policy reforms, studies quest a PHRDgrant to finance project preparation. Ministry of and human resources development; (b) beneficiary capacity Cultural Affairs,Bhaban 6, Room IO11. BangladeshSecretariat, building; (c) income-generatingactivities for women;(d) infor- Dhaka 1000,Bangladesh, Tel: (880-21868-977. Fax: (880-2)869 mation management, monitoring and evaluation;and (e) sup- 512, Contact Mr. Muhammad Azizur Rahman. Secretary in port to project coordination.Approved by the ecwutiveDirectors Charge on 15 June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 50.0/85.0 (IDA/IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Telcommunications Governments of Haryana,Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kash- mir, Punjab and Uttar-Pradesh;Village DevelopmentCommit- (R) Telecommunications Sector Reform: The project will tees; The Secretary to the Governmentof India,Department of support the government in implementinga comprehensivetele- EconomicAffairs, Ministry of Finance,New Delhi,DIN 110001, communicationssector reform program designed to promote India private investments,operations and competition.The project in- cludes (a) technicalassistance for the Telecom RegulatoryCom- Rajasthan Water Resources Consoldation: The projectwill mission (TRC) to build up its regulatory capabilities and includea comprehensiveprogram of reforms ofthe state'swater undertake selected studies; (b) a frequency management and resources managementin general, and irrigation drainage and monitoring system; (c) financing necessary facilities in the groundwatermanagement in particular.The projectcontains the BangladeshTelegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB)network followingcomponents (a) participatoryrehabilitation and farm- to satisfyfuture interconnectionneeds of private operators; and er organization;(b) systems and agriculturalimprovement and (d) a study to improvefinancial management,billing and collec- farmer turnover; (c) institutionalreorganization reforms; (d) ag- tion and network managementto make BTTBmore efficientand ricultural intensification;(e) groundwater management; (f) wa- competitive.Appraisal mission is tentativelyscheduled for Sep- ter resources planning and environment management; (g) tember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: resettlement and rehabilitation;and (h) water resources re- BDPE44788.US$ 12.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be required for search, innovations and demonstrations. Project preparation preparation and implementation.Ministry of Posts and Telecom- support restricted to minimumactivities pending assessment of munications,Bhaban 7, Rm. 411, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dha- government commitment after state elections in November ka, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)831480, Contact:Secretary; BTT, 1998.Environmental Assessment Category A. USS100.0/150.0 TelejogajogBhaban, 37/E, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka, 1000,Bang- (IBRD/IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Govern- ladesh, Tel: (880-2)407-800, 831-500, Fax: (880-2)832-577, Con- ment of RajasthanIrrigation Dept. Secretariat,Jaipur 302005.In- tact: Chairman dia, Tel: (91-141)380335, Contact: Mr. PIC Deb, Secretary

Urban Development Education/ITraining (R) Municipal Services (Cr. 31 77-BD): The projectwill sup- (R) Rajasthan District Primary Education (ITF N044-IN): port economic development of Bangladesh's urban sector and The objectiveof the projectis to assist the government of Rajas- improve environmentaland infrastructure services availableto than to build and strengthen state, district and subdistrictcapac- the urban population.Approved by the Executive Directors on ity to accelerate progress toward universalprimary education in 16 March 1999.Credit was signedon 26 April 1999. Environmen- ten low-literacydistricts. The project will support activitiesde- tal Assessment Category B. PID: BDPA41887.US$ 138.6(IDA). signed to (a) increase access to primary education; (b) reduce PAGE 38 Monthly Opeaional Summary JULY 1999 dropout and imnprovinglearning achievement;and (c) strength- tional HIV/AIDS controlprogram. The projectwill run overfive en the capacity of institutions at the state and district level to yeats. 7he projectwill be part of an overallgovernment national manage primary education. 7he credit was approved,following AIDS controlprogram. The objectivesof the projectare to (a) re- ITF procedures,on 8June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- duce the rate of the growthof HIV infection;and (b) strengthen egory C. PID: INPE45050.USS 83.6 (IDA).Consulting services India's capacityto respond to HIV/AIDS.Approved by the Execu- to be determined. Ministry of Education,Government of Rajast- tive Directorson 15June 1999.Environmental Assessment Cate- han, Jaipur, India, Tel: (91-141)380-654. Fax: (91-141)380-928, gory C. PID: INPA40511.USS 191.0 (IDA). Consultingservices Contacts: Mr. O.P Behari, PrincipalSecretary and Development to be determined. Ministry of Health and FamnilyWelfare, Gov- Commissioner,GOP, Mr.AK Singh, State Project Director,Ra- ernment of India, New Delhi 110 001, India, Tel/Fax: (91-11) jasthan; Departrnent of Education,New Delhi,India, Tel:(91-11) 301-7706,Contact Mr. J.V. Prasada-Rao,Additional Secretary 338&2298,Fax: (91-11)338-6153, Contact: Mr. RS. Pandey,Joint and Director, NationalAIDS Control Organization Secretary Uttar Pradesh State Health Systems Development: The pol- Rajasthan District Primary Education 11: The objectiveof icyreformn component will (a)establish a PolicyPlanning Group; the project is to assist the government of Rajasthanto build and (b) oversee analysis;and (c) finance technicalassistance, pilot strengthen state, district and subdistrict capacity to accelerate studies and public inforrmationto developand test new policies. progress toward universal education in nine low-literacydis- The institutionaland systems developmentcomponent includes tricts. The project will support activitiesdesigned to (a) increase (a) developmnentof managementsystems for planning and bud- access to primary education; (b) reduce dropout and improving geting, (b) financial management; (c) health information sys- learning achievement;and (c) strengthen the capacityof institu- tems; (d) disease surveillance;(e) foodand drug control;and (f) tions at the state and districtlevel to manage primary education. hospital waste management.The health service improvements Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category component will (a) rehabilitate, re-equip and make functional C. US$ 100.0(IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Min- the existing stock of public sector facilitiesand programs; and istry of Education,Jaipur, Rajasthan,India, Tel: (91-141)380654, (b) extend CHCand district hospitalservices to underserved ar- Fax: (91-141)380-389, Ministry of Education,Government of Ra- eas. A project concept document has been ptepared and project jasthan, Jaipur, India, Tel: (91-141)380.654, Fax: (91-141)380- preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category 928, Contacts: Mr. O.P. Behari,Principal Secretary and Develop- B. US$ 125.0 (IDA). Consultants for project preparation have ment Commissioner,GOR; Mr. AX Singh, State Project Direc- been identified. Departmentof Medical Health and FamilyWel- tor, Rajasthan;Departmnent of Education,New Delhi, India,Tel: fare, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow,India, Tel: (92- (91-11) 338-2298,Fax: (91-11)338-6153, Contact Mr. RS. Pan- 522) 239-237.Fax: (91-522)238-312, Contact: Mr. V.K Dewan, dey, Joint Secretary PrincipalSecretary, Health,Government of Uttar Pradesh Upper Primary Education: This project will build upon a se- nies of IDA credits which have been made to expand and im- Powe prove the quality of primary education across 12 states in India. (R) Rajasthan Power Sector Restructuring: This adaptable The project wiiDsupport the development of upper-primary program loan will include (a) an investment component to fi- schooling in one or more states. Project is being identified.En- nance expansion and upgradingof transmissionand distribution vironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. USS100.0 facilities;and (b) a technicalassistance packageto assist the gov- (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing ernment of Rajasthanin implementing the sector reform pro- agency is to be determined. gram. Project preparationis under way.A PPF advance of US$ Uttar Pradesh District Primary Education III: The project 2.0 millionwas extended for project preparation.Environmental will help strengthen institutional capacity to ensure that more Assessment Category B. PID: INPE38334. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). children in Uttar Pradesh, especially those from sociallydisad- Consultants will be required for implementationof.the reform vantaged groups, complete a five-yearprimary education cycle program. The SuperintendingEngineer, (SSPC/ .PC/PROC- of appropriate quality. Preappraisal mission was scheduled for 1), Rajasthan State Electricity Board, New Hotel Bldg., Ajmer June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 200.0 Rd., Jaipur 302 016, India, Fax: (91-141)368-134, Contact: Mr (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Department of Ed- C.S.Rajan, SecretaryofExergwGovernmentofRajasthan, Room ucation, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow 22601,Uttar No. 140,First Floor,Secretariat, Jaipur, India,Tel: (91-141)380- Pradesh, India,Tel: (91-522)386-477, Fax: (91-522)386-481, Con- 222ext. 2238, Fax: (91-141)380-635 tact: VrindaSarup, Director,State Project Office (R) Solar Thermal Power: The project willfocus on construc- tion of a solar thermal/fossilfuel hybrid power plant of about 140 Infrastructure MW,incorporating a parabolictrough solar thermal field of 35 to (R) Capital Markets Development: The project will (a) sup- 40 MW.It willalso includea technical assistancepackage to sup- port Cpthegernment's DevebpmetoinreaTheprivatet provisionup- port commercializationof solar thermal technology. Project port the government's program to increase prvate provisionof preparation is under way.GEF approved a USS750,000 advance nfrastructure through supporting funding opetons of select for project preparation.Environmental Assessment Category A. financal institutons and (b) assist dtevelopmentof domesc cap- US$49.0 (GEF).Consultants will be required. RajasthanEnergy ital markets through a standby facilityto provide for term exten- Development Agency. E-166, C-Scheme, Yudhisther Marg, sion of funding. Project is being identified. Environmental Jaipur, India, Tel: (91-141)382-759, Fax: (91-141)380-928. Con- Assessment Category to be determined. USS250.0 (IBRD).Con- tact:Mr. SubhashCarg, &ecutive Director sulting services to be determined. InfrastructureDevelopment Finance Co. Ltd, Ramon House, 169, Backbay Reciamation, (R) Uttar Pradesh State Power Sector Restructuring: The Mumbai 400 020, India, Tel: (91-22) 204-6986, Fax: (91-22) project will include (a) upgradingand expansionof transmission 285-0078, Contact:Mr NasserMunjee, DeputyManaging Direc- and distribution facilities; (b) systems and retail consumer tors meters; (c) implementationof demand-side management and other efficiencyimprovement measures; and (d) technical assis- Population, Health and Nutrition tance and trainingfor implementingthe reform program and in- stitutional strengthening to the power sector corporations. (R) Second National AIDS Control (Cr. 3242-IN): 7The Projectpreparation is under way.A PPFadvance of US$3.0 mi- projectwill help implement thegovernment's second phase of its na- lion was extendedfor projectpreparation. Environmental Assess- JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE39 ment Category to be determined. PID: INPE35172.USS 150.0 ty in the areas coveredby increasingemployment opportunities, (IBRD).Consulting services willbe required for implementation land productivityand earning capacitythrough better organiza- of the reform program and various investmentcomponents. De- tion and skills. Project preparationis under way.Environmental partment of Energy, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0(IDA). Consultingservices 226001,India, Tel: (91-522)211-119, Fax: (91-522)215-279 to be determined. Government of Andhra Pradesh, Dept. of Fi- Powergrid System Development II: The project will support nance and Planning,Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India;Depart- a five-yeartime-slice of Powergrid's investment program and is ment of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Gate 2, New expected to help implement (a) power system coordinationand Delhi,India, Tel: (91-11)301-1558 control facilitiesfor the Eastern and Westernregions; (b) trans- District Poverty Initiatives (Madhya Pradesh): The project mission system development,including inter-regionaltransmis- willdevelop and test new direct approaches to improvingthe liv- sion links from the Eastern region to the Northern, Southern ing standards of the poor. The specificobjectives of the project and Western regions and related regional transmission system are to (a) establish mechanismsfor the poor to identify,plan and reinforcementprograms; (c) technicalassistance for institution- execute small-scale,demand-led, poverty reducing activitiesin al developmentand training, including promotingprivate sector selected districts; (b) strengthen the capacities of the district participationin the power sector and assessing Powergrid'spro- and subdistrict governmental and civil institutionsto engage in posed diversificationinto telecommunications and (d) the com- demand-drivendevelopment; and (c) reduce the levels of pover- pletion of similar facilities and activitiesfinanced by the Bank ty in the areas coveredby increasingernployment opportunities, under Loans 3237-INand 3577-IN.Board presentation has been land productivityand earning capacity through better organiza- postponed until further notice. EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- tion and skills. Projectpreparation is under way.Environmental egory A. US$ 450.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selected. Assessment Category B. USS100.0 (IDA).Consulting services POWERGRIDCorporation of India Ltd., B-9,Qutab Institutional to be determined. Governmentof Madhya Pradesh, Dept. of Ru- Area, KatwariaSarai, New Delhi 110016, India,Tel: (91-11)656- ral Development,Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; Department 0190,Fax: (91-11)656-0086, Contact: Mr. S. Majumdar,General of EconomicAffairs, Ministry of Finance, Gate 2, New Delhi, In- Manager,Corporate Planning dia, Tel: (91-11)301-1558 Second Haryana Power Sector Restructuring: The project Distsict Poverty Initiatives (Rajasthan): The project will de- willfocus on privatizationof distribution business, achievement velop and test new direct approaches to improvingthe living of financialsustainability in the power sector, institutionaldevel- standards of the poor. The specificobjectives of the project are opment and improvement in the system efficiency, quality of to (a) establish mechanismsfor the poor to identify,plan and ex- power and customer services. Project preparation is under way. ecute smal-scale, demand-led,poverty reducing activitiesin se EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS200.0 (IBRD). Con- lected districts; (b) strengthen the capacitiesof the district and sultants will be required. Shakti Bhawan,Sector 6, Panchkula subdistrict governmental and civil institutions to engage in de- 134109,Haryana, India,Tel: (91-172)560-579, 560.652, Fax: (91- mand-drivendevelopment; and (c) reduce the levels of poverty 172) 560M7, E-mail: hseb%hry.nic.in@internet,Contact: Mr. in the areas covered by increasing employment opportunities, RanjitIssar, Chairman - land productivityand earning capacitythrough better organiza- Second Renewable Energy: The project includes (a) a small tion and skills. Project preparationis under way.Environmental hydro componentwhich will finance200 MWsof small hydro in- Assessment Category B. PID: INPA10505.USS 100.0 (IDA). vestments by the private sector (b) an energy efficiencycompo- Consulting services to be determined. Government of Rajast- nent to finance selected investments, and (c) technical Ean, Depo of Planning,Jaipur, Rajoftiancea,Govn Department of assistance in support of the energy efficiency initiative.Board Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, presentation has been postponed until further notice. Environ- Gate 2, New Delhi, India,Tel: (91-11)301-1558 mental Assessment Category B. USS 80.0/50.0/5.0 (IBRD/ Woman and Child Development (rn N042-IN): The objec- IDA/GEF).Consultants will be required. India RenewableEner- tive of the project is to improvethe nutritional,health and educa- gy Development Agency Ltd., Core 4-A East Court, 1st Floor tional status of young children; and the health of pregnant and HabitatCentre Complex,Lodhi Rd., New Delhi 110003,Tel: (91- nursing mothers in the poorest populationsin selected areas of 11)460-1344, Fax: (91-11)460-2855, E-mail: gen@iredal, Contact: fivestates. The credit was approved,following ITF procedures, Dr.V. Bakthavatsalam,Managing Director on 29 June 1998.Although this project is being financed by the ITF,procurement restrictionswill not apply. EnvironmentalAs- PublicSector Management sessment Category C. PID: INPA35827.USS 300.0 (rflF). Con- sultants will be required for studies, MIS, monitoring and Technical Assistance for Economic Reform: The project will evaluation.Department of Womenand Child Development,Min- provide funds for technical assistance (consulting,training) for istry of Human Resources Development,Room #615,A Wing, government agencies at the central, state and local levels, to as- Shastri Bhavan,New Delhi 110 001, India,Tel: (91-11)338-6227, sist them in the design and implementationof economic reform Fax: (91-11)338-1800 programs. Project preparation is under way.Environmental As- sessment CategoryC. USS45.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be Telecommunications determined. Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Fi- nance. Contact:V. Bhaskar, Director (FB),Tel: (91-11)461-7241 (R) Telecommunications Sector Reform: The project seeks to promote private investment and competition in the telecom- SocialSector municationssector through strengthening elements of the poli- cy and regulatory environment. This will be achieved by District Poverty Initiatives (Andhra Pradesh): The project assisting (a) the Department of Telecommunications to will developand test new direct approaches to improvingthe liv- strengthen its government functions, including strengthening ing standards of the poor. The specificobjectives of the project and modernizing the Wireless Planning and Coordination are to (a) establish mechanismsfor the poor to identify,plan and Wing's radio frequency management and monitoring systems execute small-scale,demand-led, poverty reducing activitiesin and the TelecommunicationsEngineering Center's technical selected districts; (b) strengthen the capacities of the district standards setting; and (b) the TelecommunicationsRegulatory and subdistrict governmental and civil institutionsto engage in Authority of India in strengthening its capabilityto promote ef- demand-drivendevelopment; and (c) reduce the levels of pover- fectivecompetition in all market segments. Negotiations are ten- PAGE 40 Monthly Operational Summary JULY 1999 tatively scheduledfor August 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Complex, Block No. 14, Gandhinagar 38210, India, Tel: (91) Category C. PID: INPE55456.USS 68.0 (IBRD).Consultants will 2712-20177,Fax: (91) 2712-20052,Contact: Mr. H. P Jamdar be required. Department of Telecommunications,Sanchar Bha- Tamil Nadu State Highwry The project wouldenhance the ef- wan, Room No. 301, 20 Ashoka Rd., New Delhi 110-001,India , ic Tel: (91-11)371-7411, Fax: (91-11)337-2049, Contact: Mr. Gur- ficiencyof the state road network by reducing transport costs deep Singh, Joint Secretary; Telecoms RegulatoryAuthority of and transport constraintson economicactivity; improving riding India, 16th Floor,Jawahar VyaparBhawan 1,Tolstoy Marg, New quality and capacityof selected core road segments; improving Delhi 110 001, India, Fax: (91-11) 33167,Contact Mr. Rakesh maintenanceeffectiveness; and improvingthe State's institution- Kapur,Joint Secretary; Ministry of Communications,Dak Bha- al capabilitiesfor managing and monitoring its expenditures in wan, Room No. 317, Parliament SL, New Delhi 110 001, India, road sector. The project components are (a) upgrading and Tel: (91-11) 375-5440,Fax: (91-11)371-6111, Contact: Mr. PK strengthening of priority roads; (b) design and supervision; (c) Garg, Joint Wireless Advisor,Telecommunications Engineering land acquisitionand resettlement,and rehabilitation;(d) period- Center, Kurshid lal Bhawan,Opp. Janpath Hotel,New Delhi 110 ic maintenance;and (e) institutionalstrengthening ofState Road 001, Tel: (91-11)3324703, Contact Mr. S.K. Malhotra.Deputy Agency. Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAs- Director General sessment Category B. USS330.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- quired for construction supervision;institutional strengthening Transport and maintenance.Highways and RuralWorks. TamD Nadu Road (R) Haryana State Highways: The projec includes (a) the Sector Project. Highways Research Station, Guindy, Chennai widening and reconstruction of about 600-700km of state high- 600 025,India, Fax: (91-44)230-0195, Contact S. Ramakrishnan, ways; (b) periodic maintenance of about 2,600km of state roads; Project Director (c) establishment and initial operation of a road-management system for state highways; and (d) associated institutional Urban Development strengthening reforrns. Board presentation has been postponed. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$275.0(IBRD). Con- (R) Second Tamil Nsdu Urban Developrent (Ln. 4478- sultants have been selected. Public Works Department,Govern- IN): The project includes (a) an institutionaldevelopment com- ment of Haryana, Chandigarh 160 001, India,Tel: (91-172)740- ponent to support urban sector reformsin Tamil Nadu; and (b) 128. Fax: (91-172)740-526, Contact: Urrashi Gulati, Commission- an urban investmnentcomponent for the Tamil Nadu Urban De- er axd Seretary velopment Fund and the Integrated Sanitation Program. Ap- (R) Rajahn State Highways: The project will support (a) provedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 27May 1999. Environmental widening and strengthening of 1500 km of state highways and Assessment Category B. US$ 105.0(IBRD). Consultants will be main district roads; (b) periodic road maintenance;and (c) tech- required. Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure FinancialServices nical assistance for strengthening institutionalcapacity to man- lAd.,Vairam Complex,1st Floor 112,'TheyagarayaRd., T. Nagar, age the state road network including improved road Chennai 600017,India, Tel: (91-44)823.6578, Fax: (91-44)823- management methods. A general procurement notice for this 6581,Mr. K Rajiram,CEO; Governmentof Tamil Nadu,Depart- project was published in DevelopmextBusiness No. 465, dated 30 ment of MunicipalAdministration and Water Supply,Ezhilagam June 1997. Board presentationhas been postpoxeduntil further Annexe Chepauk, Chennai600005, India, Tel: (9144) 854-9921, notice. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Fax: (91-44)561-567, Contact: Mr. Sanwat Ram,Commissioner INPE50640.USS 360.0 (IBRD).Consultants willbe required for of MunicipalAdministration construction supervision. Government of Rajasthan, Public Works Department, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Tel: (91-141) Water Supply/Sanitation 375529, Fax: (91-141)372248. Contact: Mr. H.L Meena, Chief Engineer (R) Third Chennai WaterSupply and Envirownental San- (R) 'ThirdNational Highways: The project includesthe reha- itation: The projectwill financethe rehabilitationand expansion bilitation and widening of about 400 km of NationalHighway of water distribution and sewerage system as well as invest- Two and construction of bypasses. The componentsinclude in- ments in low-costsanitation. Appraisal mission was tentatively stitutional strengthening; road and corridor maintenanceman- scheduled for mid-June1999. Environmental Assessment Cate- agement; bridge maintenance system; road safetysystems; and gory B. PID: INPE42744.US$ 105.0 (IBRD). Consultingservic- preinvestmnentfeasibility studies for follow-upprojects. Project es willbe required for constructionsupervision. Chennai Metro preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category Water, No. I PumpingStation Rd., Chennai 600 002, India,Tel: B. US$400.0(IBRD). Consultants will be requiredforssupervision. (91-44) 853-5998,Fax: (91-44) 853-1243,Contact: C.P. Singh, National HighwaysAuthority of India, 1 Eastern Ave.,Maharani ManagingDirector Bagh, New Delhi 110065,Tel: (91-11)692-3901, Fax: (91-11)692- Second Hyderabad Urban Water Supply and Sanitaion: 4383, Contact: Mr. Deepak Dasgupta, Chairman The project includes (a)the reorganization/reengineeringof the Gujarat State Highways: The project willsupport (a) widening HyderabadMetropolitan Water Supply and SewerageBoard; (b) and strengthening of about 800-900km of state highways;(b) pe- reduction of unaccounted-forwater programs; (c) rehabilitation riodic maintenance of about 1,000km of state roads; (c) design and expansionof water supplytransmission and distributionsys- and supervision of civilworks contracts; and (d) technicalassis- tance for strengthening institutional capacity to manage the tems; (d) strengthening and expansionof the seweragesystem; state road network including improvedroad managementmeth- and (e) engineerng and consultingservices. Negotiationshave ods. Ageneral procurement noticefor this projectwas published been postponed. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: in DevelopmentBusixess No. 465, dated 30 June 1997.Board pre- -NPE42755.USS 180.0 (1BRD).Consultants will be required to sentation has been postponed until further notice. Environmen- implement the reengineering program, supervise civil works tal Assessment Category B. USS381.0 (IBRD).Consultants will and conduct studies. HyderabadMetropolitan Water Supply and be required for supervision of civil works. Consultants have Sewerage Board, Khairatabad, Hyderabad 500004, India, Tel: been selected for supervision of phase one works. Prequalifica- (9140) 339-4402, Fax: (91-40) 339-4610, E-mail: hm- tion for Phase One civilworks is completed. Governmentof Gu- [email protected],Contact: LV. Subrahmanyam,Managing jarat, Roads and Building Department, New Sachivalay Director JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE41

Maldives Power (R) Power Development. The objectivesof the project are to Education/Training (a) optimizethe use of Nepal'shydropower potential in an envi- ThlirdEducation T'hid adand Edcatin Tririig:Training: The he pojecproject wilwill (a(a) impoveimprove promotePronmentallyprivate sustainable participation and in socially the developmentacceptable of Nepal'sway; andpower (b) educational quality and relevance; (b) improveaccess and equ'- sectorto meet the domesticdemand for electricityand to export ty; (c) reduce skill shortages; (d) improve institutionalcapacity; powerwhere possible and itstified;(c) to ensure appropriatebal- and (e) assess sectoral needs. Negotiations are tentatively ance between investments in generators, transmission,and dis- scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1999.Environmental Assess- tribufion; and (d) improve the efficiency of operations of the ment Category C. US$ 17.0(IDA). Consulting servicesto be de Nepal ElectricityAuthority. Project components include (a) trans- termimed. Ministry of Human Resources, Employment and missionand distributioninvestments and institutioxalstrengthen- Labor,Ghazee Bldg. Male 20-05,Republic of Maldives,Tel: (960) ing measuresto be implementedby the NepalElectricity Authority 327-352,Fax: (960)331-578, Contact: Rasheeda Ali, Director, Hu- (b) technicalassistance for theestablishment of thepower develop- man Resources DevelopmentProgram mentfund which willprovide and catalyzefuxdingfor private in- vestmentsin the power sector;and (c) technical assistance for Nepal capacitybuilding at the Ministryof Populationand Environment and Ministry of Water Resources. Board presentation is tenta- tively scheduled for January 2000. EnvironmentalAssessment Agrnculture *Category A. PID: NPPA43311. US$40.0 (IDA). Consultantswill (R) Terai Groundwater Irrigation:The project will support be required. Ministry of Water Resources,Singha Durbar, Kath- (a) the strengthening of national and local institutionsin prepa- mandu, Nepal,Tel: (977-1)228923, Fax: (977-1)227536, Contact: ration of groundwater legislationand regulation,monitoring, ex- Mr. D. N. Dhungel, Secretary ploration and exploitation of groundwater in Terai: (b) development of groundwater irrigation by small, medium and Telecommunications deep tubewells on about 4000 ha in central Terai; and (c) man- agement transfer of public tubewellsto the water users' groups Telecommunications Sector Reform: The objectives of the after necessary rehabilitationof the tubewelDson 2000ha in cen- projectare to promote private investments,operations and com- tral Terai. Projectprepartion is under wa EnvironmentalAs- petition in the provision of telecommunicationsservices. The sessment Category B. PID: NPPEa506s72.USS 21.8 (IDA). project will assist sector entities in developing an appropriate Consultants will be required. Department of Irrigation,.Iawala regulatoryand sectoral legal framework,including the manage- KhelKathmantsdu,llbepal, Tued:Department of37-136,tont: M Mmentl of the radio frequency spectrum, and by improvingNepal Khel, Kathmandu,Nepal, Tel: (977-1)537-136, Contact: Mr. M.N. TelecommunicationsCorporation's (NTC) ability to intercon- Aryal,Director General nect withprivate operations.The project wouldalso support the Land Resources Management. The project will aim to sup- expansion of telecommunications services into rural areas. port the conservation and management of land resources, Components are likely to include (a) regulatory and sector re- through the integration of forest management with soil conser- form; (b) privatzaion of NTC; (c) introduction of competition; vationand biodiversityprotection and management,as set out in (d) rural development; and (e) interconnectionfacilities. Ap- the Forest Sector Master Plan. Projectcomponents may include praisal mission is scheduled for September 1999. Cofinancing (a) institutionaldevelopment; (b) policyand market analysis;(c) has been arranged with OPEC,DANIDA and NDF.Environmen- program implementationto support an integrated approach to tal AssessmentCategory C. US$25.0 (IDA).Consultants will be land resource management;and (d) assistance for prioritizedre- required for preparation and implementation.Ministry of Infor- search, technologyand extensionprograms. Projectpreparation mation and Communication,National Telecommunications Au- is underway. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$30.0 thority, Singh Durbar, Kathmandu,Nepal, Tel: (977-1)215-444, (IDA).Recruitment of localconsultants is under way.Ministry of 227-525,Fax: (977-1)226-260 Forests and Soil Conservation, Singa Darbar, Kathmandu,Ne- pal,Tel: (977-1)223-862, Fax: (977-1)22-099, Contact:R. B. Bis- Transport ta (R) Road Development and MaintenanceII: 7he projectwill Finance include (a) a policyreform component to establisha roadsboard and fund; (b) upgradingand developmentof priorityfeeder roads (N) Financial Sector Reform:The project willsupport finan- (450km); (c) rehabilitation(160 km) and periodicmaintenaxce cial sector reform with a particularemphasis on (a) strengthen- (470 km) of highwaysand feeder roadsin the strategicxetwork; ing the capacity of the banking supervision department to and (d) strengtheningand training of the Departmentof Roads. competentlyconduct examinationsof financialinstitutions and Negotiationswere scheduled for July 1999.Environmental As- undertake appropriate remedial action; (b) the production of sessment Category A. PID:NEPE45052. US$ 50.0 (IDA).Con- timely and reliable financial accounts of the banks and improv- sultants will be required for feasibility studies, design and ing central and commercial banking legislation;(c) production supervisionof road works. Ministryof Worksand Transport, Di- of bid packages for the privatizationof Rastriya BanijyaBank rector General Departmentof Roads,Babar Mahal.Kathmandu, (and possibly Nepal Bank Limited) with the participationof an Nepal,Tel: (977-1)231-510, Fax: (977-1)225-993 international strategic partner; and (d) liberalizingthe banking sector and improving market orientation.The project includesa Pa small technical assistance component and a large policy-based kistan operation. Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAs- sessment Category B. USS55.0 (IDA).Consulting services will Agriculture be required. Nepal Rastra Bank, Bulawatar,Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 414-552, Fax: (977-1) 414-533,Contact: Mr. Ram (R) Agricultural Sector lnvestmene The projectwill support Babu Pant; Ministry of Finance, Kathmandu, Nepal; National continued agricultural growth through agricultural price and PlanningOffice market policyreforms, restructuringof agriculturalpublic enter- PAGE42 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 prises and private sector development. Board presentation is ing services will be required for technical assistance on (a) scheduledforlateJuly !999. EnvironmentalAssessment Catego- designing a more effective administrativeand implementation ry B. PID: PKPE1054 JS$75.0/35.0 (IBRD/IDA).Consulting mechanism for linking NGOs to government activities;(b) con- services for financial . .nagement will be required. Ministry of ducting policy and planning seminars; (c) designing a monitor- Food, Agricultureand Livestock, Islamabad,Pakistan, Tel: (92- ing and evaluation mechanism; (d) developing a student 51) 921-0351,Fax: (92-51)922-1246 performance assessment mechanism; and (e) designing and evaluatingprograms for teacher training (R) FourthOn-Farm Water Management:The project would Government of Sindh, Department ofand Education, curriculum Oldreforrn. KDA focus on policy improvementsand institutionalreforms in the ir- vrnn fSnh eatmn fEuain l D fogationsetor. Themprojementshas insthetfolong cformp s (a)ter- Bldg., Karachi,Sindh, Pakistan,Tel: (92-21)263-3603, Fax: (92- figation sector.The project has the followingcomponents (a) so- 2'9112 cial mobilization program for developing effective farmers' 21) 921-1221 organizations; (b) improvement and rehabilitation of distribu- taries and minor watercourses in canal commanded areas; (c) Environment improvementin water distributionfacilities in the barni and hill torrents areas; and (d) pilot projects to introduce technological (R) Protcted Area Management: The objectiveof the project improvementsof water management. Board presentatioxis ten- is to conserve globally important species, their populationsand tatively scheduledfor November 1999. EnvironmentalAssess- habitats in the protected areas of Pakistan.The project will in- ment Category B. PID: PKPE50754. US$ 75.0/61.8 (IDA/ clude (a) integrationof localcommunities in protectedarea man- IBRD). Consulting services will be required for social mobiliza- agement; (b) strengthening of park management; (c) public tion, transfer of irrigation management, introducingtechnologi- environmental awareness; and (d) human resources develop- cal improvementsin water and management,project accounting ment. Negotiationsare tentativelyschedukd for late September and external auditing. Federal CoordinationUnit of Ministry of 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS10.0 (GEF). Agricultureand ProvincialOn-Farm Water Management Direc- An international NGO has completedproject preparation.Minis- torates try of Environment,Local Governmentand RuralDevelopment lAwer Bai Dob and Chenab Canal Command: The project will (a) decentralize irrigation management; (b) support policy Population,Heaith and Nutrition and institutional reforms for participatory irrigation manage- ment; (c) establish a public utility and farmer organizations on (N) Punjab Pilot Hospital Autonomyr This learning and in- Lower Chenab Canal and on LowerBari Doab Canal command novationcredit wiDlsupport experiment in greater autonomyin areas; and (d) improve the operational efficiency of the irriga- three large teaching hospitalsin Punjab province.Appraisal mis- tion system through rehabilitationof the irrigation/canalsystem sion is scheduled for Septemnber1999. Environmental Assess- infrastructure. Project preparation is under way.Environmental ment Category C. USS 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA).Consulting services determined. Health Department, Government of Punjab, Civil to be determined. Ministry of Water and Power,Office of Chief Secretariat, Lahore, Pakistan,Tel: (9242) 516-8043,Fax: (9242) Engineering Adviser,16-D East Safdar-Mansi,Blue Area, Islam- 5168256,Contact Dr. Naeem-udDin Mian, ExecutiveDirectors, abad, Pakistan,Tel: (92-51)826-589 Special Projects, E-mail:[email protected] Health Sector Reform:The project willsupport reforms in the Education/Training health sector in Punjab province,with a focus on primaryhealth, maternal and child health, farniy planning and communicable Balochistan K-8 Education Development: The project aims disease control. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAs- to (a) continue buildingon the success of the BalochistanPrima- sessment Category C. USS100.0 (IDA). Consulting services to ry Education Project (BPEP) at the primary level, especially be determined. Health Department, Governmentof Punjab,Civ- those initiatives focused on increasing access and improving il Secretariat, Lahore, Paistan, Tel: (9242) 516.8043,Fax: (92- quality;(b) expand pilotsimplemented under BPEP in using par- 42) 516-8526,Contact Dr.Naeem-ud Din Mian, ExecutiveDirec- ticipatory approaches to increase access and improve school tor, Special Projects, E-mail:[email protected] outcomes to cover grades K-8;and (c) support on. .ing institu- tional reforms supported by BPEP and the Social ActionPro- Public Sector Management gram to improve financial and resource management, and increase efficiencyand capacity of the system. Project is being (R) Tax Administration Reform: The project willsupport the identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 70.0 start-up phase of tax administrationreformns, focusing on pilot (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Government of testing of new processes for tax collection and tax facilitation. Balochistan,Departmnent of Education,Quetta, Balochistan,Pa- This learning and inxovatiox credit (L/L) is scheduledto be ap- kistan, Fax: (92-81)920-2360, Contact: Directorof PrimaryEdu- proved,foilowing LJL procedures,in late July 1999. Environmen- cation, Tel: (92-81)920-2499 tal Assessment Category C. US$5.0 (IDA).Consulting services Sindh Basic Education and Capacity Developmnent:The will include reengineering of customs, income, sales and excise project willincrease the number of children completingelemen- taxes for simplificationand reduction of taxpayer compliance tary education and their knowledge base and skills. The objec- costs. Central Board or Revenue,Constitution Ave., G-5 Islama- tives are to (a) strengthen service delivery capacity of NGOs; bad, Pakistan,Tel: (92-51)920-4418, Fax: (92-51)920-5308, Con- (b) enhance planning and management capacity of the depart- tact: Mr. Munir Qureshi, Member,Restructuring ment of education; (c) decentralize appropriate management and supervision functionsto the district and school levels,espe- Social Sector cially in monitoring and assessment; (d) buttress capital devel- opment efforts initiated under the Social Action Program; (e) Poverty Alleviation Fund: The project aims to alleviatepover- improve access to elementary education for girls and other un- ty by empowering the rural and urban poor and providingthem der-served populations; (f) foster community involvement in with access to resources and services. Specifically,the project schools; and (g) improve public expenditure effectivenessand will (a) increase the income of poor households by providing timely resource allocation. Project preparationis under way.En- loans and technical support; (b) empower the poor, especially vironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 75.0 (IDA). Consult- women;(c) increase. ?ess to physicalinfrastructure in order to JULY 1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE43 improvelivelihood opportunities for the poor, and (d) strength- regulatory framework;(g) rationalizationof the labor force;and en the institutionalcapacity of the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation (h) the procurement of equipment and technical assistance. Fund and of its partner organizations and communities.Project Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment components include community infrastructure, microcredit, Category A PID: PKPA41886.US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultants working capital loans, program support and capacity building. willbe required to (a) reviewthe existing regulatoryframework; Boardpresentation was scheduled for June 1999.Environmental (b) prepare implementationplans and bidding documents for AssessmentCategory C. US$ 90.0 (IDA).Consulting services works on the channel and breakwater, (c) upgrade the comput- willbe required for impact assessments, performanceand finan- erization initiative;(d) enhance private sector participation;(e) cial audits and sector studies. The Poverty AlleviationFund, assist in project supervision. Karachi Port Trust, PO Box No. House GA, Park Rd., F-8/2, Islamabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 4725,Karachi 74000, Pakistan. Tel: (92-21)231-1132; Fax: (92-21) 253-178,Contact: Mr. Kamal Hyat, Chief Executive 231-1567,Contact: GeneralManager RailwayPrivatization: The project wouldsupport the privatiza- Structural Adjustment tion of Pakistan Railwaysthrough investments and technicalas- sistance based on an agreedrestructure and reform agenda.The Banidng Sector Adjustmfent 11: Tisu structural adjustiment project components include(a) technicalassistance for the new loan willsupport privatizationof financialinstitutions in the con- RailwayRegulatory Authoity; (b) financing of a portion of the text of the government's medium-term banking sector reform severancepay in additionto retraining and placementfor redun- program. Project preparation is under way.Environmental As- dant employees;(c) financeof emergency investmentsto remne- sessment Category C. US$ 250.0 (IBRD).No consultants are re- dant safety and of dergencies; teme-lo quired. Ministry of Finance, Pakistan Secretariat, Block Q dy critcal safety qRed.n 202 Islamabaisr kisancTe,Pakistan (25 Secretaiat, Bk Q assistance for the overalland operationalprivatization deficiencies;program; and (d) (e) technical techni- Room202, Islamabad, Pakstan, Tel: (92-5'1)9202253, Fax: (92- cal assistance to developa project managementsystem. Preap- 51) 920-5166 praisal mission is scheduled for January 2000. Environmental Power Sector Adjustment. The objectiveof the loan is to as- Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultants will be sist the government's efforts to implementdeeper structural re- required during identification.Privatization Commission of Paki- forms in the power sector and to achieve higher levels of stan, Government of Pakistan,5-A Constitution Ave., Islamabad, efficiency,competition, customer service and financial viability. Pakistan,Tel: (92-51)921-6514, Fax: (92-51)920-3076, Contact The loan will provide balance of payments support to sustain Mr. MahmoodRashid macroeconomicadjustment and help forestalla financialcrisis in the power sector. Negotiationsare scheduled for October 1999. Trode mod transportFacilitation procedures anditransn EnvironmentalAssessment Category U. PID: PKPE57308.US$ troducing modern transport facitation procedures and trans- 200.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of port legisltion. Negotiastonsare scheduled for August 1999. Finance,Pak Secretariat,Block Q, Islamabad,Pakistan, Tel: (92- EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US3.0 (IDA). Consult- 51) 920-2576,Fax: (92-51)920-5166; Ministry of Water and Pow- badn Pasistan, Tel (92-51) 920-d.25s Fax (92-51) 920-5241s er, Pak Secretariat, Block A, Islamabad, Pakistan Tel: (92-51) Conad,:Pakistan,Tlr9y 1 2-85,Fx 9-1 2-21 9202335,921-1852, Fax: (92-51)920-6272 Contact Secretary

Transport UrbanDevelopment (R) Balochistan Rural Infiastructure: Trheobjectives of the Punjab Municipal Development Fund: The project will (a) project are to provide rural access roads, increase agricultural mobilizeadditional resources for urban infrastructure develop- productionand marketing and reduce rural poverty.Project is be- ment in the province of Punjab; (b) developan efficientmecha- ixg identiJied.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$25.0 nism for allocating public resources for urban infrastructure (IBRD). Consultingservices are needed for feasibilitystudies. investment;and (c) strengthen the financial,administrative and BalochistanProvincial Government managerial capacities of the Urban Local Bodies. Appraisalis Highways Rehabilitation: The objectiveof the project is to im- scheduled for December 1999.Environmental Assessment Cat- prove the efficiency of the National Highway Network by the egory B. US$ 100.0/50.0(IBRD/IDA). Consulting services to be year 2010through (a) a more rationalallocation of publicexpen- determined. Governmentof Punjab, Punjab MunicipalDevelop- ditures in the highway sector, includingincreasing the share of ment Fund, Chief Minister's Secretariat, 90-Shahrae Quaid-e- resources for rehabilitation,maintenance and selective improve- Azam,Lahore, Pakistan.Tel: (9242) 631-211,631.0803, Fax: (92- ments; (b) introductionof new sustainablesources of financefor 42) 631-219,Contact Dr.Zafar lqbal Qureshi, Team Leader,Ad- road maintenance,with greater user and privatesector participa- visory Team, PMDF tion in generationof revenues and managementof funds; and (c) efficiency improvements through institutional strengthening/ progressivecommercialization of road sector agencies and pro- Sri Lanka motionof private sector provision and operationof h5ghwayand related services. Preappraisal missionis scheduled for October Power 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A. USS 125.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. National High- Power Sector Restructuring: The policycomponent will (a) way Authonty (NHA) , Plot No. 27, MauveArea, G-9/ 1, Islama- support restructuring and corporatizationof the CeylonElectric- bad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 926-0409,Fax: (92-51) 926-0983, ity Board, and initiate a gradual decentralizationof the power Contact:Muhammad ljaz Khan, Member, NHA sector; (b) create an enablingenvironment for privatesector par- Karachi Port Developmente The project will include (a) im- ticipation;and (c) establish a power sector regulatory frame- provementof the navigation channel and rehabilitationand ex- work. The technical assistance component will finance (a) tension of the breakwater; (b) provisions for pollutioncontrol various studies; (b) an MISsystem; (c) projectconsultancy; and equipmentand hazardous cargo terminal;(c) regulating the flow (d) other institutional capacity-buildingmeasures including of port traffic; (d) development of an off-dockterminal; (e) en- training. The hardware component may address transmission hancement of privatization initiatives;(f) improvement of the and/or distribution. Projectpreparation is under way.Environ- PAGE44 Monthly OperationalSummary JULY1999 mental Assessment Category B. PID: LKPE44795.USS 40.0 structure services to low-income settlements and trunk (IDA). Consultants will be required for preparation of bidding infrastructure through effective partnerships amongkey stake- documents, bid evaluation and supervision. Ministry of Irriga- holders; and (d) a line of credit for housing financefor low-and tion, Power and Energy,600 TB Jayah Mawatha,Colombo 10, Sri middl-income families;and (e) institutionalstrengthening and Lanka,Tel: (94-1)687-370, Fax: (94-1)694-968; Ceylon Electricity technical assistance. Appraisal mission is in the field. Environ- Board, 50 Sir ChittampalamGardiner Mawatha,PO Box 540,Co- mental Assessment Category B. PID: LKPE41885.US$ 60.0 lombo 2, Sri Lanka,Tel: (94-1)329-108, Fax: (94-1)449-572 (IDA).Consultants will be required for managementand adviso- ry services and implementation.Clean Settlement ProjectUnit, Public Sector Management Ministry of Housing, Construction,and Public Utilities,Colom- (R) Legal and Judicial Reform: Theproject aims to (a) im- bo, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-1)872170, Fax: (94-1)872167 prove the legalframework, legal educationand accessto legal in- formation in thearea of commerciallaw; (b) enhancethe capacity Water Supply/Sanitation of the Registryof Companies;and (c) improvethe efiaeneyaxd qualityof judicia servicesand training. Projectpreparation is un- (R) Communiy and Pnvate Sector WaterSupply and San- der way. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID- itaton: The project would form part of a program of rural water LKPE44809. US$ 18.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required dur- and sanitation investments to be implementedover fiveyears by ing preparation and implementation. Ministry of Justice, Su_ a variety of service providers.The project willprovide access to preme Court, Superior Court Complex, Colombo12, Colombo, waterand water sanitationto about 2.5 millionpeople in 2,500vil- Sri Lanka. Tel: (94-1)329044, Fax: (94-1)320785, Contact Mr. lages. Partner organizations would help create community- M.S. Jayasinghe, Secretary, Ministry ofJustice based organizationsthat would be activelyinvolved in the plan- ning, design and implementation of the schemes with private Postal Sector Reform: The objective of the project is to devel- sector support. The project would adopt policies, criteria and op the postal service into an efficient, high-qualityprovider of procedures developedduring the CommunityWater Supply and postal communicationand financial services through (a) reha- Sanitation Project (Credit 2442-CE)and introduce enabling re- bilitation of the retail network: (b) institutionaland regulatory forms for further private sector participation.Project prepara- reform; and (c) improving operational efficiency.Project prepa- tion is under way.Environmental Assessment Category B. USp ration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. bon idA). Environtsentl Assessreng idegoryiB.tUSS PID: LKPA57176.USS 37.2 (IDA). Consultantshave been select- 60.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required duPng identficaion. ed for project preparation supporL Ministryof Posts, Telecom- Government of Sri Lanka, Community Water Suply Project munications and Media,World Trade Center.West Tower, Floor Unit,Ministry of Housing and Development,9th Floor,Sethsirfi- 18, Echelon Square, Colombo I. Sri Lanka,Tel: (94-1)329568, paya,Sri Jayewardenepura,Kottes, PO Box 30, Battaramulla,Co- Fax: (94-1)441-659, Contact Mr. K-C Logeswaran,Secretary lombo, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-1) 872144, Fax: (94-1) 872143, Contact: Mr. W Piyasena,Director Socal Sector Poverty Alleviation/Rural Development The project will fa- Europe and cilitate access to resources and soaal services to promote self A employmentand entry into the labor market for the poor. Project Central Asia Region has not yet been identified. The government is reviewing its pov- erty alleviationstrategy. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. USS40.0 (IDA). Consultingservices will be re- Albania quired. Ministry of Finance Policy Planning,Ethnic Affairsand National Integration, Sethsiripaya. Battaramulla,Sri Lanka Tel: (94-1)562-485 Agriculture (R) Irrigation and Drinage (Cr. 3232-ALB): The aim of the Transport project is to establish a sustainable irrigationand drainage sub- sector by (a) completingthe rehabilitationof physicalinfrastruc- (R) Port Efficiency Improvement The project will include ture; and (b) introducing comprehensive water resource (a) a policycomponent to support the corporatizationof the Jaya management in rural areas. Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors Container Terminal; (b) a safety and environmentalcomponent; on 3 June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: (c) a trade facilitationcomponent; and (d) technical assistance. Al.PE43178.US$ 24.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment miyied. Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Skenderbej Square, Category B. PID: LKPA44886. USS 40.0 (IDA).Consulting ser- Tirana, Albania,Tel: (355-42)23825, Contact: Mr. Dede, Irriga- vices are being financed through a PPF advance.Sri Lanka Port tion Director, Project ManagementUnit Authority,19, Church St., PO Box 595, Colombo,Sri Lanka,Tel: (94-1)432-714, Fax: (94-1)421-201, Contact: Chairman Finance

Urban Development (R) Microcredi- The project will support the establishment of a private, sustainable rural financesystem based on the current Clean Settlements: The project will support the government's system of villagecredit funds. It will also support the expansion efforts to improve the living conditions of low-incomesettle- and further developmentof the existing urban microcreditpilot ments in the Colombometropolitan area. Projectcomponents in- program. Board presentationwas scheduledfor late June 1999. clude (a) slum upgrading; (b) regularizationof insecure tenure EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: ALPE51310.USS to enhance private savings and provide access to housing fi- 12.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Implement- nance by the urban poor, (c) provision of sustainablebasic infra- ing agency is to be determined. JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE45 Structural Adjustment Transport (R) Public Expenditure Support (Cr. 3197-ALB): The Transport/Trade: The project will includehighway rehabilita- credit will (a) help safeguard public institutionsduring the Kos- tion and restructuring and repair of railways.Project preparation ovocrisis so implementationof the reform agenda can continue; is under way.Cofinancing of USS30.0 millionis expected from (b) maintain macroeconomicstabilization; (c) help monitorand OECF. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 enforce an orderly public expenditure pattern during the crisis; (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of and (d) establish a vehicle for cofinancingfor other donors will- Transport, Zaijan 10,375015, Yerevan, Armenia, Tel: (374-2)563- ing to support these objectives.Approved by the Executive Di- 391, Contact: Mr. Eduard Karapetyan, Department of Invest- rectors on 6 May 1999.Credit was signedon 6 May 1999 and is ment and Construction fully disbursed.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$30.0 (IDA). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance,Desh- Azerbaijan morete KombitBlvd., Tirana, Albania, Tel:(355-42) 28405 (R) Structurl Adjustment (Cr. 323 1-ALB):The main objec- Agriulture tive of the credit is to back the government's efforts to restore (R) Agricultural Development (Cr. 3236-AZ): The project and sustain growth and improve living standards through re- will establish (a) an interim, short-tern agricultural lending forms that improvegovernment functioningand enhance the en- scheme; and (b) a new privatelyfunded and operated rural agri- vironmentfor a more efficient private sector development.The cultural finance system.The project includes (a) financialinter- governance and institutional reform would be the backbone of mediarylending to farmers; (b) a policyand institutionalreform the reform program supported by this credit.Approved by the Ex- component;and (c) a technicalassistance componentfor institu- ecutive Directorson 3 June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment tion buildingand project implementation.Approved by the Erecu- Category C. US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consulting services may be re- tive Directors on 8 June 1999. Environmental Assessment quired in the areas of publicadministration reform, legal and ju- CategoryB. PID: AZPE35813.USS 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting ser- dicial reform and pension reform. Ministry of Finance, vices to be determined. Ministry of Agricultureand Food, c/o Deshmoret e KombitBlvd., Tirana, Albania,Tel: (355-42)28405 Project ManagementUnit (PMU), 40 V. HajibekovSL, Govern- ment House, Room 807,Baku 370016,Azerbaijan, Tel: (99.412) WaterSupply/Sanitation 934-693,Fax: (99.412)981-395, Contact: Mr. VagifHusseynov, Director,PMU Municipal Water and Wastewater. The project willrehabili- Irrigation 1: The projectwill support the rehabilitationof major tate and upgrade water and sanitationsystems in Durres, Fier, irrigation and drainage infrastructure. Project is being identi- Lezheand Saranda, and provide technicalassistance to strength- fied. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 43.2 (IDA). en localwater and sewerage networks.Project preparation is un- Selectionof consultants for project preparation is under way. der way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 State Irrigation Comnittee, V Floor,Government Bldg., Prospe- (IDA). Consultants have been selected. Ministry of Construc- kt Azaldique,Baku, Azerbaijan, Tel: (994-12)936-154, Fax: (994- tion and Tourism,Skenderbej Square,Tirana, Albania,Tel: (355- 12)931-176, Contact Mr.Ahmed J. Ahmedzade,Chairman 42) 28345,Fax: (355-42)27879 Education/Training Armenia (R) Education

Private Sector Devolopment Bulgaria (R) Enerprise Export Faclity-BEEF (fonnely Export En- ternrise Finance Facility): The project will support an increase in Education/Training exports by (a) financing working capital loans to enterprises en- Education Sector Reform: The project will focus on reform in gaged in export activity;(b) establishing a performance bond supor filiexpty and. () providing a assistance ford specific areas of the education sector, including, curriculum, supportand .lity.c) providing technicalassistancefor textbooks, teacher training, cost effectiveness, assessment and strengthening the implementing agency (Investment Guarantee facilities u.ading. Projt is bein identified. Environmental Agency) and exporters. Board presentation was scheduledfor late Asses pgrsmeCategorg. C. USig300 gnvirviesnBRD). June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category Fl. PID: Assessment Category C. USS 30.0 (IBRD). Consultng services BAPE62936. USS 12.0 (IDA). Retroactivefijancing of up to US$ to be determined. Ministry of Education and Science, 21 Naria 200,000 is being considered for the technical assistance compo- Louiiza S 1000Sofia, Bulgara Tel: (359-2) 987-9429.Fax: (359 nent. Investment Guarantee Agency, No. I Fra Audjela Zvizdav- 2) 987-9618 ica St., 2nd floor, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fax: (3877) 202-231, Contact: Ms. Lamija Kozaric, General Director Environment Environmental Remedies and Private Support This is a fol- ReconstructionfRehabilitation low-up project to the Environmental Remediation Pilot Project (R) Local Development Pilot (Cr. 3191-BOS): The objec- (Ln. 4321-BUL). The project will (a) assist the government in ful- tive of the project is to help local governments gain access to filling its obligations in respect to past environmental liabilities credit for investments in local infrastructure and services. The of large public enterprises; (b) facilitate the privatization of large first component will consist of a revolving loan fund which will industrial polluters by reducing risks of environmental liabilities; be made available to eligible local governments for priority in- (c) mitigate environmental liabilities; and (d) mitigate environ- vestments. Eligible investments will include electricity distribu- mental risks caused by past operations. Project preparation is tion, urban transport, water, sewage, solid waste and markets. under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- The institutional development component will provide grant fi- mined. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required Ministry nancing for technical assistance and training for borrowers. Ap- of Environment and Waters, 67 William Gladstone St., Sofia proved by the Executive Directors on 13 April 1999. Credit was 1000, Bulgaria, Tel: (359-2) 88 25 77, Fax: (359-2) 80 32 24, Con- signed on 3June 1999. Cofinancing is expected from the govern- tact: Marin Marinov, Deputy Minister JULY1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE47 Finance Water Suppiy/Sanitation Partial Risk Guarantee: The objective of the operation is to in- Irrigation Restructuring: The project will improve irrigation crease the flow of private financing for viable production activity systems utilization and management, mainly through the trans- by providing political risk guarantees to foreign business and fi- fer of management and investment responsibility to users' orga- nancial institutions who lack financial exposure in Bulgaria. nizations and assisting them in improving related irrigation Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment system deficiencies on the basis of acceptable cost-sharing. Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment mined. Implementing agency is to be determined. Category B. PID: BGPA8311.US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Consulting ser- vices to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Population, Health and Nutrition Agrarian Reform, 55 Christo Botev Blvd., 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria, Health Insurance: The project will begin to address institution- Tel: (359-2) 980-1862, Fax: (359-2) 853-2626, Contact Mr. An- al and efficiency quality issues which must accompany the intro- dreev Kalin, Head of Irrigation Policy Unit, Plant Production De- duction of health insurance. It would also help define the partment appropriate balance between the public and private sector in the provision of financing health care services. Project is being iden- Central Asia tified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health, 5 Sve- E ta Nedelya Square, 2000 Sofia, Bulgaria, Tel: (359-2) 80-016, nvronment Fax: (359-2) 80.-16. (R) Central Asia Trans-boundary Biodiversity: The project will focus on (a) protection of mountain ecosystems, critical Power biodiversity and vulnerable habitat; and (b) strengthening of ex- District Heating II: The project will assist with the rehabigita- isting protected areas and reinforcement of national biodiversity tionofthe RousseabneBour: Plevjen, Povdivassistvnth th a heat- strategies. Board presentationwas scheduled for late June 1999. tion of the Rousse, Bourgas, Pleven, Plovdivand Kazanlakheat- EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 10.1(GEF). Con- ing systems. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. USS 50.0 (IBRD). Con- sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Ecology of the sulting services to be determined. Commnitteeof Energy, 8 Tria- YKyrgyzRepublic; Ministry of Ecology and Bio-resources of the ditza SL. 1040, Sofia, Bulgaria, Fax: (359-2) 875-826, Contact Mr. Republic of Kazakhstan; State Comminee for Nature Protection Drumi Drumev, Vice President of the Republic of Uzbekistan District Heating: The project will assist with the rehabilitation of the heating systems in Sofia and Pernik. Project preparation Croatia is under way. Cofinancing will be required. Environmental As- sessment Category B. PID: BGPE8314. USS 60.0 (IBRD). Con- Population, Health and Nutrition sulting services to be determined. Committee of Energy, 8 Triaditza SL, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria, Fax: (359-2) 875-826, Contact: (R) Health II: The project will reinforce the progress made un- Mr. Drumi Drumev, Vice President der the Health I project and will support an extension of the gov- ermnent's medium-termn reform agenda for the health sector. PublicSector Management Negotiationswere scheduJedforJuly 1999. Environmental Assess- ment Category C. PID: HRPE51273. USS 30.0 (IBRD). Consult- (N) Cadastre/Land Registation: The objectives of the ing services will be required. Ministry of Health, Project project are to (a) provide security for recently restored real es- Implementation Unit, Baruna Trenka 6, Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: tate ownership rights; and (b) establish simple and cost-effective (385-1) 459-1333, Fax: (385-1)431-067 procedures for real estate transactions. Project preparation is un- der way. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 20.0 Public Sector Management (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Fi- nance, 102 Rakovski St., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, Tel: (359-2) 869- (R) Technical Assistance 11 (Ln. 4460-HR): The loan will fi- 355, Fax: (359-2) 801-148 nance technical assistance in support of structural reforms sup- ported by Bank-financed adjustment operations. Approved by StructuralAdjustment the Executive Directorson 20 April 1999.Loan was signedon 5 sMay1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 7.3 (R) Agriclture Structural Adjustnbent This structural ad- (IBRD).Consultants wiD be required. Ministry of Finance,Ka- justment loan will support agriculturalreforms in trade policy, tanciceva 5, 10000Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: (385-1)459-1258, Fax: land restitution policyand privatization.Negotiations completed. (385-1)433-446, Contact Mr. Kulisic,Assistant Minister Board presentationwas scheduledfor late May 1999.Environ- mental Assessment Category to be determined. PID: Pension System Investment. The project willhelp financein- BGPE57925.US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices to be deter- vestmentsrequired to support the reformof the pensionsystem. mined. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Agrarian Reform, The reforms are intendedto restructure the current pay-as-you- 55 Hr. Botev.Blvd., 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria,Tel: (35-92)951-5816, go pension tier while adding both mandatory and voluntary Fax: (35-92)981-9173, Contact: Ms. ValyaSarcheva, Deputy Min- funded tiers to the pension system. The project is likelyto in- ister clude (a) a broad range of technicalassistance and training; (b) Financial and Enterpise Sector Adjustment: The loan will support for the strengthening or creation of organizations to support structural reformnsin the enterprise and financialsector plan, implement,administer, regulate or supervise the reformed through privatizationof state-owned enterprises, banking re- system, especiallythe second and third pillars;and (c) prepara- form, energy sector restructuring and capital market develop tion of public informationprograms concerning the reforms. ment. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment AssessmentCategory U. US$ 100.0(IBRD). No consultantsare Category C. USS20.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- required. Implementingagency is to be deterrnined. mined. Implementingagency is to be determined. PAGE48 MonthlyOpeational Summary JULY1999 Structural Adjustment GEPE57813.USS 13.4 (IDA). Consulting services will be re- quired for court administration,case management and judicial Public Sector Adjus*ment.:The project will support the gov- training. Councilof Justice of Georgia, 80,Agmashenebeli Ave., ermnent in implementing fundamnentalreformns in the pension Tblisi, 380038,Georgia, Tel/Fax: (995.32)957-599, Contact Mr. system, including the developmnentand introductionof a funded Gia Kavtaradze second pillar.Project preparaton is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 100.0(IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Katanciceva 5, 41000 Zagreb, Structural Adjustment Croatia, Tel: (385-1)433-446, Fax: (385-1)432-789 (R) Structural Adjustment III (formerlyStructural Reform Support): The credit will support government efforts to UrbanDevelopment strengthen fiscalmanagement and promote private sector devel- Kastela Bay Cultural Heritage: The loan will support the re- opmentlBord presentationws scheduledgforlte une1999. En- habilitationof Diocletian's Palace, a museum and other rehabiliw vironmentalAssessmnent Category C. PIDeGEPE52153. US$ tation investments in Trogir and Solin. Appraisal is completed. 60.0 (ID). Consulfingservices to be detemined. Mixistry of EnvironrnentalAssessment Category C. PID: HRPE57255.US Finace, Thlisi,Georgia 18.3 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined.The Agency for the HistoricCore, 21000Split, Croatia, Fax: (385-21)345-300; Transport The RegionalInstitute for Protection of Cultural Monuments, Transport Sector Reform: The project will include (a) high- Split, Croatia, Fax: (385-21)345-710 priority investments;and (b) restructuring and institutionalre- form measures including enhancing commercial management Estonia and cost recovery, strengthening of the private sector and im- provingcompetition and market determined prices.The project Transport will cover technicalservices, roads, rail and ports. Project prep- aration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. Transport: The project will support (a) the upgrade of the PID: GEPE40556.US$ 30.0 (IDA).Consuking services to be de- Tallinn-Tartuhighway; (b) construction of the Narva bypassand termined. Transport Reform and RehabilitationCenter, 12 Ka- new border facilitiesin Estonia, coordinatedwith a correspond- zbegi Ave.,Tblisi, Georgia,Tel: (99-532)986-385, Fax: (732)888- ing project in Russia; (c) impklmentationof a second safetypro- 9688 exL 147,Contact Mr. George Tsagareli, Director gram; (d) introduction of imnprovedroad user charges covering the cost of network access and use; (e) institutionalstrengthen- Water Supply/Sanitation ing of the Estonia RoadAdministration; and (f) developmentof a trade and transport facilitationstrategy. Project preparation is Tbilisi Water Supply: This project is a follow-upto a municipal under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: infrastructure rehabilitationproject, and will focus primarilyon EEPE35775.USS 20.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be pro- further rehabilitationand upgrading of municipalservices in wa- vided under PHRD funding. Consulting services are required ter supplyand wastewater in Tbilisi. Projectpreparation is under for feasibilitystudies, design, and institutional support. Imple- way.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: GEPE49171. menting agencyfor civilworks: Estonia RoadAdministration, 24 USS 25.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Tbilisi Paernv Rd., EE 001, Tallinn. Estonia,Tel: (372-6)442-381, Fax: Water and SanitationUtility (Thilkalcanal) and Tblisi WaterUtil- (372-6)313-112, Contact: AleksanderKaldas, Technical Director ity Development Bureau (IWUDB), 33, 1st Lane, KostavaSLt Tblisi, Georgia, Tel: (995-32)94-21-84, Fax: (995-32)98-26-07; Georgia Contact: Mr. Sergo Lomtatidze,Director

Education/Training Hungary Education 1: The project willsupport the government's realign- ment and strengthening program in the education sector. Envronment Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Szekesfehevar Biomass: The project aims to improvethe glo- Category C. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- bal and Hungarianenvironment by reducing harmful emissions mined. Ministry of Education, 52 Uznadze St., Tblisi, Georgia, through system modernization (network and CHPS) energy Tel: (995-32)958-886, Fax: (995-32)770073 conservation and use of biomass energy (reduction of green- house gas and other emissions) at three to four city district heat Environment systems. Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAs- sessment Category to be determined. US$ 6.0 (GEF).Consult- Biodiversity Conservation: The project will support imple ing services to be determined. Ministry of Industry and Trade. mentation of the Georgian National Park Planning program. Vigado Utca 6, 1051 Budapest, Hungary, Tel: (36-1) 118-5415, Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Fax: (36-1) 1184452,Contact: Mr. Kalman Gergely, Ministryof Category to be determined. US$ 9.6 (GEF).Consulting services Industry and Trade to be determined. Ministry of Environment,68A Kostava St., Tb- lisi, Georgia, Tel: (995-32)334-853, Fax: (995-32)983-425, Con- Szombathely Biomass : The project willsupport the develop- tact: Nini Chkhobadze ment of an environmentallyfriendly and cleaner new source of energy through (a) an assessment of the biomass potential of Public Sector Management the country; and (b) an investment operation. Project prepara- tion is under way.Environmental Assessment Category to be de- (R) Judicial Reformn:The project willsupport (a) the develop- termined. USS 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be ment of a court administration and case management system; determined. Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vigado Utca 6, (b) judicial training, (c) enforcement of court decisions; and (d) 1051 Budapest, Hungary, Tel: (36-1) 118-5415,Fax: (36-1)118- a public education campaign. Board presentationwas scheduled 4452, Contact Mr. Kalman Gergely, Ministry of Industry and for lateJune1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: Trade JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE49 (R) Municipal Wastewater The project willconsist of (a) the formation, legal education and public awareness and judicial first phase ofa nationalmunicipal sewage treatment program for strengthening. Approvedby the Executive Directorson 13 May Hungary's 23 largest cities (includingBudapest, Szekesfehervar 1999. Loan was signedon 20 May 1999. A PPF advance of USS and Dunajuvaros)and (b) technical assistancefocusing on priva- 500,000and a PHRDgrant of US$ 415,000have been approved. tization,water quality management, sector issues and commer- EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: KZPA46046.US$ cial operations.Boardpresentation is tentativelyscheduledfor late 16.5 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Project Preparation July 1999. Cofinancingof USS18.0 millionis expected from the and ImplementationUnit (PPIU), Ministryof Justice, 45 Pobeda EU. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: HUPA08497. St., Astana, Kazakhstan,Tel: (7-3172)320433, 391213, Fax: (7- US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selected for project 3272)324464, Contact Mr. Andrei Dyomin,Director (PPIU) preparation, design and supervision. Municipalityof Dunaju- varos, 24000 Dunajuvaros,Varoshaza ter. 1, Hungary.Tel: (36- Water Supply/Sanitstion 25) 411-407,Fax: (36-25)410-404, Contact Mr.Gal Zoltan,Direc- tor of MunicipalDevelopment; Municipalityof Budapest, 1364 (R) Atyrau Municipal Rehabilhation (Ln. 4486-KZ): The Budapest 4, PO Box 1, H-1052,Hungary, Tel: (36-1) 117-6310, objective of the project is to encourage economic growth in Fax: (36-1)327-1811; Contact: Mr. AttilaPocs, Head of PIU Atyrau by improving the water supply, sewage disposal and drainage system with possible reuse of treated effluenton farm Kazakhstan land and in oil production.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 8June 1999. Cofinancingof US$ 1.5 millionis expected fromUS- AID. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: KZPE8500. Fiance USS 16.5 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. State Partial Risk Guarantee: A partial risk guarantee facilitywill be Committee for Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Al- establishedto issue guarantees againstpolitical risk to privatein- maty, Kazakhstan,Tel: (7-3272)623-310, Fax: (7-3272)623-983; vestors. Appraisal mission was tentatively scheduled for late State Committeefor Water Resources,28A Mazhayevsky St., As- June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be deter- tana, Kazakhstan,Tel/Fax: (7-3172)241-428, Contact: Mr. Serik- mined. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. bay Smalov, Director, Atyrau Development Corporation, 45 Agencyfor Foreign Investments in Kazakhstan,10 Beibitshilik Aiteke bi St., Atyrau,Kazakhstan, Tel: (7-3122)254.058, Fax: (7- St.,Astana, Kazakhstan, Contact Mr.Anwar Saidenor, Chairman 3122)254-056, Contact Mr. Gabit Mynbaev,Director Kyzl Orda Water and Sanitation: The project includes four Population, Heath and Nutrition components (a) water supply; (b) sanitation; (c) hygiene educa- tion and public awareness; and (d) capacity building. Project (R) Health Restructuring (La. 4457-KZ): At the oblast level, preparation is under way.Cofinancing of US$ 15.0 minlionby the project willsupport (a) primary health care; (b) facilityreor- KfWis proposed. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ ganizationand rationalization;and (c) financialand management 17.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selected. State Committee strengthening. At the national level. the project will support for Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculure, Almaty,Kazakh- health promotionand health policy evaluation.Approved by the stan, Tel: (7-3272)622-310, Fax: (7-3272)623-983; State Commit- ExecutiveDirectors on 8 April 1999 CreditUaS signedon 10 May tee for Water Resources, 28A Mazhayevsky SL, Astana, 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryC. PID: KZPE46499. Kazakhstan,Tel/Fax: (7-3172)241428, Contact Mr. Serikbay US$ 42.5 (IBRD).Consulting services willbe required. Ministry Smailov,Director of Education,Culture and Health. 63 AbvlaiKhan Ave., Rm. 27- 29,Almaty, Kazakhstan, Tel: (7-3272)33-48-31. Fax/Tel: (7-3272) Syr Darya Control and Northern Aral Sea: The projectwill 33.16-97,Contact: Ms. Gulnara Nokina. Head, Head, Projec Co- allowmore water to be passed down to the dela and the North- ordinationUnit ern Aral see to benefit the environment,agriculture, livestock and fisheries. Projectpreparation is under way. Environmental Power Assessment Category C. PID: KZPA46045.U$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. State Committee for Water Re- Electricity Transmission Rehabilitation: The project will in- sources, Ministry of Agriculture, Almaty,Kazakhstan, Tel: (7- clude (a) substationrefurbishment includingthe replacement of 3272)622-310, Fax: (7-3272)623-983; State Committeefor Water high-voltageequipment (circuit breakers, disconnectingswitch- Resources, 28AMazhayevsky St., Astana, Kazakhstan.Tel/Fax: es and measurementtransformers, etc.) at 30 substations and re- (7-3172)241-428, Contact: Mr. Serikbay Smailov,Director placementof protective relaying at 63 substations;(b) upgrading of dispatch through installationof SCADA/EMS,reinforcement of the telecommunicationssystem and commercialmeters; (c) Kyrgyzstan institutionalstrengthening through introductionof management informationsystems; and (d) technical assistanceto improvethe Finance Kazakhstan ElectricityGrid Operating Company'scapability to undertake managerialand operationalimprovements and to pro- (R) Rural Finance II: The project willestablish financialser- vide engineeringservices and training under the project Project vices in rural areas. The project will (a) providea credit fund to preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category private farmers and processing enterprises; (b) support and B. US$ 140.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required for strengthen financialinstitutions; and (c) strengthen the institu- project preparationand implementation.Kazakhstan Electricity tional legal frameworkto establish a more flexiblecollateral sys- Grid Operating Company, 162 zh, Shevchenko St., Almaty. tem, develop cooperatives and expedite the creation of land 480008,Kazakhstan, Tel: (3-272)686-200, Fax: (3.272)684-308. markets. The project will involve the Kyrgyz Agriculture Fi- Contact: Mr. Erik Ulrikh, Director nance Corporation (KAFC)and other commercial banks and credit unions. Board presentation was scheduledfor late June Public Sector Management 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Kyrgyz AgriculturalFi- (R) Lega Reform (LI. 4467-KZ): The project will provide nance Corporation,60 Tagolok Mldo St., Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, technical assistance to the government for modernizingits legal Tel: (996-3312)211-534, Fax: (996-3312)620.664, Contact: Ms. B. framework. Projectcomponents include legal drafting, legal in- Jeenbaeva PAGE50 Monthly Opetional Summary JULY1999 Latvia sessment Category A. US$ 28.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. KlaipedaState Seaport Authority,J. Janonio24, LT5800,Klaipeda, Lithuania, Tel: (370.6)39-3249, Fax: (370.6) Education/Training 31-17-00,25-71-70, Contact: Mr. VytautasKaunas, Manager Education Improvement (Ln. 4463-LV): The objective of the project is to improvethe cost-efficiencyof education services Urban Development through (a) improvedresource utilization,including energy and space efficiency;and (b) buildingand strengthening educational (R) Municipal Developmente The project will include (a) a achievement and institutional capacity to assess and promote municipalinvestment component to finance priority municipal quality learning in basic and secondary education.Approved by infrastructure investrmentsin selected municipalities;(b) a local the Executive Directors on 6 May 1999. EnvironmentalAssess- capacity-buildingcomponent to organize technicalassistance to ment Category C. PID: LVPE49172.US$ 31.1 (IBRD).Consult- municipalities;and (c) a technicalassistance componentfor pol- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Education and icy developmentand project implementation.Approved by the Er- Science, 2 ValnuSt. LV 1098,Riga. Latvia,Tel: (371-7)224-512, ecutiveDirectors on 27 May 1999.Bilateral cofinandng of US$ Fax: (371-7)212-05, Contact Gatis Kristaps 6.0 millionis proposed.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: LTPA35802.US$ 20.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been se- Power lected forproject preparation.Ministry of PublicAdministration, Reforms, Gedimino Ave., 11, LT 2039, Vilnius, Lithuania,Tel: Riga District Headng Rehabilitation: The project would (a) (370-2) 235-249,Fax: (370-2) 233-626,Contact Arvydas Bag- support the rehabilitation of the district heating system in Riga donavicius to improverelability and service level and (b) support the devel-. opment of the heating company.Appraisal mission was sched- Po d uled for late June 1999.Environmental Assessment Category B. an PID: LVPE8530.USS 40.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been select- ed for project preparation. Rigas Siltums, CESU lela 3, Riga, Environment Latvia 1012,Tel: (371-7)017-300, Fax: (371-7)017-363, Contact: Renewable Energy/Geothrmal: The project willhelp devel- Mr. Zigurs op geothermal energy as a resource for district heatingsystems and reduce local air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. Pubik Sector Management Project preparation is under way.Cofinancing is being sought. (N) Local Government Managenent Finance: The project EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: PLPA37339.USS willprovide investmentsupport to various municipalitiesand im- 32.6 (IBRD).No consultantsare required. GeotermiaPodhalan- prove the system of localgovernment budgeting and investment ska, Olcza,Stachonie 2A, 30-502. Zakopane, Poland, Tel: (4818) planning. Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAs 2015-041,Fax: (48-18)2015-044 sessment Category U. US$25.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to Rural Environment Protection: The project willprovide tech- be determined. Implementingagency is to be determined. nical assistance and investmentto (a) introducesustainable ag- ricultural practices and (b) build water and sanitation Lithuania infrastructure to reduce nutrients flowinginto rivers that drain into the Baltic Sea Board presentation is scheduled for late July 1999. EnvirommentalAssessment Category to be determined. Population, Health and Nutrition PID: PLPE50660.USS 2.5/3.0 (IBRD/GEF).Consulting servic- Health: The project will include health care financing, primary es to be determined. National Fund for EnvironmentalProtec- health care and hospital restructuring. Projectpreparation is un- tion and Water Management,02-673, Warsaw. Konstruktorska der way. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: 3A, Poland, Tel: (48-22)49-80, Ext. 521, Contact Ryszard LTPA35780.USS 25.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Jacek Rogowski,M.Sc. Ministry of Health, Gedimino Dr. 27, 2682 Vilnius, Lithuania, Tel: (370-2) 620-150,Fax: (370-2)224-601, Contact: Mr. Kostas Power Vilimas (R) Hard Coal Sector Adjustment (Ln. 4490-POL): The Power primary objectiveof the adjustment loan is to support the gov- ernment's Hard Coal Sector RestructuringProgram, particular- Vilnius District Heat The project will includerehabilitation of ly the labor force rationalization.Approved by the Executive the Vilnius and Klapeidadistrict heating systmes and support Directorson 10June1999. Environmental Assessment Category for the commercializationand strengthening of the two district B. USS300.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required for heating companies. Project is being identified. Environmental sector privatizationassessment, sector environmental assess- Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IBRD).The feasibility study ment and auditing of program's cash flows. Inter-Ministerial being conducted in Vilniusis being financedby the Government Coal Steering CommitteeChaired by the Ministry of Economy, of Sweden. The municipalityof Klapeidais still considering fi- Plac Trzech Krzyzy5, 00-950Warsaw, Poland, Tel: (48-22)628- nancing options for the feasibility studies. VilniusMunicipality, 1887,Fax: (48-22)628-6808, Contact: Mr. Szlazak Gedimino Ave. 9. 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania, Tel: (370-2) 626-136, Fax: (370-2)225-615, Contact: Mr. VladimirisKakura, Adviser to Public Sector Management the Mayor,E-mail: [email protected] Pension Reform: The project will help the socialsecurity ad- Transport ministration implement pension reform. Project preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 100.0 Klaipeda Port: The project will include the reconstruction of (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Zaklad Ubez- breakwaters, realignment of the enteric channel and deepening pieczen Spolecznych(ZUS), ul. Czerniakowska16,00.701, War- of selected berths. Projectpreparation is underway. Bilateralc"- saw, Poland, Tel: (4822) 623-3201, Fax: (48-22) 640.3495, financing of US$ 10.0 million is proposed. Environmental As- Contact: Mr. StanislawAlot, President, ZUS JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE51 Rural Development Protectionof the Family.1 HincestriSt., Chisinau,Moldova, Tel: (N) Rural Development: The objectiveof the project is to alle- (373-2)72-96-90. Fax: (373-2)73-51-81 viate rural poverty through the creation of new employment- StructuralAdjustment generating economic activities.Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS100.0 (IBRD). Con- (R) Structural Adjustmnent:The credit willsupport reforms in sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture and agriculture,energy and enterprise privatization.Board presenta- Food Economy,ul. Wspolna30,00-930, Warsaw, Poland, Tel: (48- tiox uas scheduledforlateJune 1999.Environmental Assessment 22) 621-8711,623-1157, Fax: (48-28)623-2206, Contact Deputy Category C. PID: MDPE61496.US$ 40.0 (DA). No consultants Minister Henryk Wujec;Ministry of Education,Al. J. Ch. Szucha are required. Ministry of Finance, 7 CosmonautilorSt., 2012, 25, 00-918Warsaw, Poland, TeL: (48-22) 629-7241, 628-0461, Fax: Chisinau,Republic of Moldova,Tel: (373-2)227-306, Fax: (373-2) (48-22) 628-6953,Deputy Minister Karwacki; Ministry of Fi- 228-610,Contact: Anatol Arapu, Minister of Finance nance, ul. Ewietokrzyska12, 00-916Warsaw, Tel: (48-22) 694- 5555, Fax: (48-22)826-6352, Deputy Minister K Ners; Ministry Romania of Interior,ul. Baltorego7/9,02-591 Warsaw,Poland, Tel: (48-22) 621-0251.Fax: (48-22)628-9983, Deputy MinisterStepien; Minis- try of Labor, ul. Nowogrodzka 1/3/5, 00-513Warsaw, Poland, Agriculture Tel: (48-22) 621-8550,Fax: (48-22) 661-0159,Deputy Minister (N) Agriultural Support Services: The project will (a) fi- Grazyna Gesicka; Ministry of Economy,Polish Foundation for nance technical assistance for conducting a strategic review of Smalland Medium Enterprise Promotionand Development,A]. agricultural support services; (b) develop a competitive re- Jerozolimske 125/127, 02-017Warsaw, Poland, Tel. 48-22-699- search grant fund to support appliedresearch on priority prob- 7044 or 45, Fax. 48-22-699-7046,Director General, Krystyna Gur- lerns of private farners; and (c) support innovative, pilot biel, Email:[email protected] initiativesto test alternativeapproaches of organizingadvisory services for private farmers. Project preparationis under way. Transport EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IBRD).Con- sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agricultureand (R) Ports Modernization II: The loanwill support (a) rehabil- Food,24 Blvd.Carol I, Bucharest,Tel: (40-1)614-4020, Fax: (40- itation of port infrastructure for general cargo in Gdynia; (b) ba- 1) 613-0322,Contact Mr. Ghargue Lacatusu,General Director sic infrastructure for the first development phase of a ferry for InternationalCooperation terminal in Gdynia;(c) breakwater extensionin Gdansk; and (d) physical rehabilitation of the Szczecin-SwinoujcieFairway. Agricultural Support Services: The project will (a) provide Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment technicalassistance for a strategic reviewof agricultural support Category A. PID: PLPE8615.USS 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting ser- services; (b) develop a competitiveresearch grant fund to sup- vices to be determnined.Component A. Ministry of Transport port applied research on priority problems of private farmers; and Maritime Economy (MTME), ul. Chalubinskiego4/6, 00 and (c) support innovative,pilot initiativesto test alternativeap- 928 Warsaw,Poland, Tel: (48-22)628-64-38, Fax: (48-22)830-09- proaches of organizing advisory services for private farmers. 47, Contact: Mr. AndrzejGdula, Director,Components B-D:De- Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment partnent of Shippingand Seaports; Port Authority of Gdansk, Category C. PID: ROPA43882.USS 15.0 (IBRD).Consultants Tel: (48-58)43.92-00, Fax: (48-58) 43-93-08,Contact: Mr. Bycz- will be required. Ministry of Agricultureand Food, Directorate kowski, President; Port Authority of Gdynia,Tel: (48-58)20-91- of Research,Education and Extension,24 Blvd.Carol 1,Buchar- 86. Fax: (48-58)21-69-16, Contact Mr. Jerzy Czartowski, Presi- est, Romania,Tel/Fax: (40-1)614-5340, Contact Mr. Gheorghe dent/Managing Director, Port Authorityof Szczecin-Swinoujcie, Sin, DirectorGeneral Tel: (48-91)34-41-12, Fax: (48-91)33-37-42, Contact Mr. Michal Grain Market Export: The project will support irnprovements D. Popik, General Director in the flowof grain to and from Romaniaand neighboringcoun- tries. The project includes (a) infrastructure improvementsin Republic of Moldova selected Danubeports; (b) constructionof a 100,000ton capaci- ty grain silo; (c) improvementof marketing,quality control and associated services; and (d) possible provision of foreign ex- Power change for export working capital. IFC Agrobusiness has ex- pressed an interest in financing the grain silo. Project Energy Il: The project will support the demonopolizationand preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment Category privatizationprogram for the power sector, including(a) upgrad- B. PID: ROPA8790.USS 47.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be ing of power system control and data acquisition facilities; (b) determined. Ministry of Transport, B-dul Dinicu Golescu No. commercial metering equipment; (c) upgrading of electrical 38, Bucharest, Romania,Tel: (40-1)222-3636, Fax: (40-1) 312- substations;and (d) technicalassistance for institutionalreform. 0772, Contact: Ms. LilianaBarna, Director InternationalRela- Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category tions, Tel: (40-1)638-3584 to be determined. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be de- termined. Department of Energy and Energy Resources, 50 M. Environment Eminescu St., Chisinau277012, Republic of Moldova,Fax: (373- 2) 22-22-64,Contact: Mr. Anatol Gonciar,Director General (R) Biodiversitr The project will focus on developingRoma- nia's nationalparks system in forest ecosystems.It will seek to Public Sector Managernent developsystems of workingwith local communitiesin prepara- tion and implementationof managementplans, taking selected (R) Social Insurance Management: The project will support protected areas and managed natural forests as models. It will the developmentof a more effective,efficient, flexible and client- also coordinatewith conservationof carpathianecosystems in oriented social insurancesystem. Negotiationscompleted. Board adjacent countries and expand Romania'ssystem of national presentationwas schedued for late June 1999.Environmental As- parks and protected areas.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on sessment Category C. PID: MDPE51173.USS 30.0 (IDA). Con- 27 May 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 5.5 sulting services to be determined. Ministryof Labor and Social (GEF).Consultants will be required Ministryof Waters, Forests PAGE52 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 and Environment, 12 Libertatii Blvd., 5 Bucharest, Romania, Ministry of Finance, 17Apollodor St., Bucharest, Romania,Tel: Fax: (40-1)411-14-36, Contacts: Mr. loan Seceleanu,Secretary of (40-1)410-3400, 410-3550. 410-5025, Fax: (40-1)312-1630 State or Mr. Btond Kiss, Secretary of State Russian Federation Population,Health and Nutrition HealithSector Reform: The project will (a) support reforms of Agricultwe sectoral finance and governance of the creation of an efficient. Agricultwual Sector Adjustment: The project willsupport the equitable, and financiallysustainable health system; (b) support agriculture sector policyreform program and financeimports of the upgrade of ifastructure and equipmentfor deliveringprior- critical agricultural inputs and/or provide balance of payments ity services of knowncost effectiveness;and (c) support innova- support. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment tions in health system managementat the national,district, and Category C. US$ 500.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- institutional levels. Project preparation is under way. Environ- *n. . a mental Assessment Category C. PID: ROPE8797.US$ 100.0 mied.Implementngagncyistobedetermied. (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Implementing Sustainable Forestry Pilot The projectprovides for the devel- agency is to be determined. opment and testing of reform models in federal and regionalfor- est regulatory frameworkand sustainable use of forests in three Power Assessmnentpilot regions.Category Project preparation B. USS60.0 is (IBRD). under Consultingway. Environmentalservices (R) Mining Sector Restructuning: The project willsupport re- to be determined Implementingagency is to be determined. structuring of the mining sector and the promotionof private in- vestment in the sector.The project will includeassistance in the industry developmentof an appropriate legal and regulatory framework, restructuring of the mining sector and closure of several uneco- Coal Mining Safety:The project willsupport the eliminationof nomic mines. Boardpresentation is schedukdfor lateJuly 1999. unsafe situations and acts in the workplace.It will (a) introduce EnvironmentalAssessment Category B.US$ 150.0(lBRD). Con- modern and more efficient practices for safety management, sultants will be required. Ministry of Industry and Commerce, monitoringand enforcement;(b) incorporate the extensiveuse Calea Victoriei No. 152, Bucharest, Romania,Tel: (40-1) 650- of protective equipment and controls; (c) modernize the safety 2183, Fax: (40.1) 312.0513,Contact Mr. Nicolae Staicuescu, regulatory frameworkof the coal industry; (d) address the need Secretary of State to improve the mine rescue services and the increasing inci- dence of occupationaldiseases. Furthermore, it willinclude sup- port for technical assistance to enhance safety in current mine Dlayoutsand designs, and to assess options for methane draw- (R) Private Institution Building (Ln. 4491-RO): This ings/use on the basis of wellproven technologies,which will re- project willsupport the developmentof smallbusiness. It willin- duce dangerous conditions and enhance the economicviability chide three maincomponents: (a) a set of policymeasures to im- of some mines. Appraisalmission is tentativelyscheduled for the prove the business environment;(b) support to the development first quarter of fiscal year 2000.Environmental Assessment Cat- and demand of business advisory services; and (c) creation of egory C. USS 100.0(IBRD). Consultants will be required. Refor- special financial investments for small-and medium-sizeenter- mugol, Smolenskiy Blvd. 3/5, 119121, Moscow, Russian prises.:Approvedby the ErecutiveDirectors on 10june 1999.En- Federation,Tel: (7-095)915-5887, Contact: Mr. Dmitry Novosy- vironmental Assessment Category C. PID: ROPE39251.USS olov,Executive Director,E-mail: [email protected] 25.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required. Ministry of Finance, 17 ApolodorSt., Bucharest, Romania,Tel: (40-1)410- Population,Health and Nutrition 3400,Fax: (40-1)312-2077, Contact Traian Decebal Rem'--- Health Reform Implementation: The project will help the government and the Federal Ministry of Health to develop spe- Social Sector cific instruments that will support the health reformnprocess. Social Sector Development: The project will support reformns These instruments willbe tested in two pilot regions. The main in the social sector including pension reform, social assistance objectives of the project are to (a) identify a range of concrete program improvements, local government financial manage- measures to irnprovethe cost-effectivenessand qualityof health ment and social programs for minority groups. Project is being care; and (b) develop the technical, regulatory and institutional identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 100.0 frameworkfor reform at the federal and regional levelsin order (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of La- to facilitate implementation of these measures countrywide. bor and SocialProtection, 2, Demeru I. Dobrescu SL,Bucharest, Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Romania,Tel: (40-1)615.0200, Fax (40-1)613-8764 Category C. PID: RUPE46497.US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting ser- vices willbe required. Russian Health Care Foundation,Malays Trubetskaya ul., 12th Floor,Office 8, Moscow 119048.Russian Structural Adjustment Federation,Tel: (7-095)257-2665, Fax: (7-095)257-2606, Contact: (R) Private Sector Adjustrnent (Ln. 4489-RO): Tle loan Mr. AnatolyPleshanov will support policy reforms in the areas of finance and private sector development.Approved by the ErecutiveDirectors on 10 Power June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS 300.0 Municipal Heating: The objectiveof the project is to support (IBRD).No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance, 17 the government's reforn programifor housing and communal ApolodorSt, Bucharest, Romania,Tel: (40-1)410-3400, Fax: (40- services. The project willreduce the financialburden on munic- 1) 312-2077.Contact: Traian Decebal Remes ipalitiesassociated with the supply of heat. Appraisalmission is Structural Adjustnent 11:The project will support structural tentatively scheduled for September 1999. EnvironmentalAs- reforms in publicadministration and public enterprise develop- sessment Category B.PID: RUPE38551US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Con- ment. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment sulting services to be determined. Central Project Development Category U. USS300.0 (IBRD).Consultants will not be required. Unit, 117331,PB 92, ProspectVernadskogo 29. Room2201, Mos- JULY 1999 Monthly OperationalSummnary PAGE53 cow, Russian Federation,Tel: (7.095)131-6910, 131-6911, 131- Transport 6901, Fax: (7-095)131-6947, Contact: Ms. MarinaVelikanova Moscow Urban Transport: The objectivesof the projectare to PublicSector Management (a) improvetraffic and transport operationsby increasingthe ef- ficiencyof existing traffic and transport facilities;(b) improve (R) Development of the State Statistical System (QA. utilizationof availableroad-based public transport vehicles; (c) 4468-RU): The project will consist of several subprojects to reduce traffic-relatedemissions; (d) improveroad safety; and support (a) improvementin organization,management strategy (e) assist in improvingthe institutionalcapacity and efficiencyof and perspective planning; (b) fosteringknowledge of standards the agencies to plan and design traffic management schemes and methodologies; (c) strengthening of statistical infrastruc- and to enforce traffic regulations. The project componentswill ture; (d) reorganization of data collection, processing and dis- be infrastructure,traffic systems management,public transport semination methods, including the systemic introduction of operations management and metropolitan transport strategy. saeminauionets,e includimengothe sosermintroductio of Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment sample surveys; (ef Improvementof thegovernment fnancesta- Category B. US$ 150.0(IBRD). Consultants will be required for tisticsand the compilationof financialstatistics; (i) timprovement detailed engineering and for preparationof a strategic transport of the coverageand qualityof balanceof paymentsstatistics; and plan. Department for Unique Projects, Moscow City Govern- (s) establishment of an autonomousfoundation to support the ment, Prospect Mira 19, Moscow 129090,Russian Federation, developmentof the state statisticalsystem. Approved by the Exec- Tel: (7-095)281-59-55,281-57-27, Fax: (7-095)281-62-55, Contact: utive Directorsox 13 May 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- Ms. Ekaterina Popova,PIU Director egory C. PID: RUPE50487.USS 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required. State Committeeon Statistics(Gosko- Water Supply/Sanitation mstat) and Foundation,39 MyasnitskayaSL, Moscow 103450, Russian Federation,Tel: (7-095)2074536,763-3431, Fax: (7-095) Water/Sewerage: The project will support rehabilitation,insti- 921-8480,Contact: Mr. VladimirL Sokolin,Deputy Chairman tutional development,and selective investmentsin expansionin (R) Regional Fiscal Technical Assistance: The project will water, sewerage, and sanitation services in selected cities. The include (a) strengthening of federal legislationon intergovern- project will support institutionalstrengthening of participating mentaludefiscalrelations;) strengthe of ningfeaeraln moterovrng municipalwater and waste water companies and the rehabilita- mental fiscal relations; (b) strengthening of federal monitorng tion and expansionof water and waste water services to improve capacity;(c) regional reform of accountingand budgetingprac- service safety and reliabilityand operationalefficiency of plants tices; and (d) sectoral public expenditure reviews.NVegotiations and networks. Project preparation is under way.Environmental were tentatively scheduied for earlyJuly 1999. Environmental As- Assessment Category B. PID: RUPA8832. USS 150.0 (IBRD). sessment Category C. US$30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will Consultantswill be required for feasibilitystudies, designand in- be required. Bureauof EconomicAnalysis, Maly Gnezdnikovski stitutionalsupport. Project Preparation Unit,Stroitely St., Mos- Pereulok, 4, Moscow103009, Russia, Tel: (7-502)937.6750, Fax: cow, Russia, Tel: (7-095) 930-3705, Fax: (7-095) 930-9600, (7-502)937-6753, E-mail: [email protected], Contact Leonid Contact:Valeria Sergeeva, Project Manager M. Grigoriev,Director General Slovakia Socatl Sector (R) Pension Reform Implementation: The project will sup- Public Sector Managenent port the government's pensionreform program by assistingthe Pension Fund in (a) the irnplementationof the individualac- Social Benefits Reform: The project willimprove implementa- counts initiative;and (b) designing systems for implementing tion capacityfor the new socialinsurance program,including im- pension reform. Negotiationsare scheduledforAugust 1999.En- proved collection of beneficiary contributions and policy vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD).Con- reforms designed to contain public outlays on social benefits. vultonmenvice wlberqie.PninFnofteRsan Project preparation is under way. Envirownental Assessment suiting services will be required. Pension Fund of the Russian Category C. US$ 27.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- Federation, 1 Sushevsky Val.,Moscow 127018, Russian Federa- mined. Ministry of Labor,Social Affairs and Farnily,Spitalska 4- tion,Tel: (7-095)972-9205, Fax: (7-095)973-1125 6, 816 43 Bratislava,Slovak Republic,Tel: (42-7)338-1310, 338- Northern Out-Migration:The project will include (a) migra- 1312,Contact: VojtechTkac, State Secretary; Social Insurance tion assistance to people voluntarilyleaving participating North- Agency,Ul. 29. Augusta,813 63, Bratislava,Slovak Republic, Tel: ern settlements; (b) financing of technical assistance for policy (42-7)384-8301. 384-8302, Contact JUDr. Igor Liptak,Director; makers to provideanalysis needed for the developmentof a new NationalLabor Office,Slovak Republic,Contact: DanielaBacik- migration strategy and draftingof legislation;and (c) monitoring ova, Director and evaluation.Project preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$80.0 (IBRD).Consulting services Slovenia will be required during project preparationto undertake the de- sign of the migrationassistance schemeand to undertake the so- Environment cial assessment. Implementingagency is to be determined. (R) Land Cadastre:The project willcontinue the work carried Structural Adjustment out on the geographical informationsystems (GIS)in the Envi- ronment Project (Ln. 4022-SLO).It will enlarge the area for the Regional Fiscal Reform Adjustment. The objective of the GISto a larger part of the country.Total projectcost is estimated project is to accelerate structural reforms at the subnationallev- at US$ 20.0 million. Negotiationscompleted. Board presentation el, primarilyfocused on the fiscal reformagenda. Projectprepa- was scheduledfor late June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment ration is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Category C. PID: SIPE55304.USS 15.0 (IBRD).Consulting ser- USS800.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required. Imple- vices to be determined. Implementing agency is to be deter- menting agency is to be determined, mined. PAGE54 Monthly Opwational Summary JULY1999 Population, Health and Nutrition provedby theExecutive Directors on 10Juxe1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: TJPA049718.US$ 20.0 (IDA). Health Sector Reform: Project components are not yet identi- Consulting services to be determined. State Land Committee fied. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- and Land Organization,Giprozem Town Area, Dushanbe,Tajiki- egory C. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be stan, Tel: (7-3772)31-16-83 determined. Implementingagency is to be determined.

PublicSector Management Education/Training (R) Education Reform (Cr. 3214-TJ): This learning and in- Pension Reform: The project wail assist the government i I novation credit (LIL) will address the problems of declining ac- efforts to reform the pay-as-yougo system and implemensta cess to education, the deteriorating qualityof education and the three pillar system. It will take measures to strengthen institu- inefficientuse of resources. The project willalso support institu- tional capacityof the pension fund, including (a) new payrolltax inal strenthenig textbook and ectional mateias, ma- collection and audit mechanisms; (b) better client services; ando - (c) improvedrevenue/expenditure monitoringand projectcapa- agement system reforms and some school reconstruction. A bilities.Project preparationis underway. EnvironmentalAssess- pilot projectwill study the most efficientway of trainingteachers ment Category C. US$ 10.0 (IBRD).An actuary consultant has to use new methods for more activelearning. 7hisproject was ap- been identified. A PHRD grant is approved and the technical proved, fouowing LIL procedures, ox 13 May 1999. Environmen- work initiated. Ministryof Finance, Beethovnova11, 1502Ijubi- tal Assessment Category C. USS5.0 (IDA).Consulting services jana, Slovenia,Tel: (386-61)178-3331, Fax: (386-61)125-2067, E- will be required. Ministry of Education,Dushanbe, Tajikistan, mail: [email protected],Contact Irena Sodin, Advi- Tel: (7-3772)23-33-92, Contact Munira Inoyatova sor to the Minister Population, Healthand Nutrition SoutheastEurope Health: The objective of the project is to determine whether a model ofhealth care deliverybased on primarycare and per capita Transport resource alocation wil improveservice delivery and the qualityof care. Projectprration is underway.Environmental Assessment (N) Trade and Transport Faclitation in Southeast Europe: Category C. PID:TJPE49892. US$ 5.0 (IDA).Consulting services The project will includephysical improvementsof border cross- to be determined. Ministryof Health,Dushanbe. Tajikistan ings and technicalassistance to restructure the customs admin- istration and border crossing posts. The physical improvement component willinclude (a) construction/refurbishment of infra- PublicSecor Management structure and equipment for selected expansions of border crossing stations; (b) introduction/improvement of MIS sys- (R) Institution Building and Technical Assistance meSCr. tems used to cover the needs of customs, border police,sanitary 3249-TJ): The project wiO support public sector management and veterinary inspectionand transport agencies. The technical reforms with a focus on economic managementand civil service assistance component will include (a) legal amendments; (b) reform. Approvedby the Executive Directorson 17Juxe 1999.En- training and (c) process reengineering required to formulate vironmentalAssessment Category C. US$6.7 (IDA).Consulting and enforce a revised legal framework, reorganize customs and services willbe required. A general procurementnotice for this border inspectionposts and implement new procedures and sys- project was published in DevelopmentBusixne No. 510,dated 16 tems. Project preparation is under way. PID: 7EPE65041.Envi- May 1999. Office of the President, Rudaki Ave., Dushanbe, ronmental AssessmentCategory B. US$31.1/39.1 (IDA/IBRD). Tajikistan,Tel: (7-3772)21-34-46, Fax: (7-3772)21-51-10, Contact: Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance. Mr. GulaymBabaev, State Advisoron NationalEconomy Deshmoret e KombitBlvd., Tirana, Albania,Tel: (355-42)284-05, Fax: (355-42) 284-94,Contact: H.E. Anastas Angjeli, Minister, Rural Development Ministry of Finance, 14 Dame Gruev St. Skopje, FYR Mace- donia, Tel: (389-91)116-012, Fax: (389-91)117-280, Contact: H.E. (N) Rural Infrastructure: The project will be part of the gov- Boris Stojmenov,Minister, Ministry of Finance, 5 Katanciceva ernment's program to encourage sustainable increases in agri- St., Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: (385-1)433-687, Fax: (385-1)422414, cultural production, raise income levels and reduce rural Contact H.E. Boris Skegro, Minister; Ministry of Finance, 102 poverty.The project will (a) rehabilitate inter-farmirrigation and RakovskiSL, Sofia, Bulgaria,Tel: (359-2)987-4745, Fax: (359-2) drainage structures; (b) pilot sustainablevillage water and elec- 980-2425,Contact H.E. Muravei Radev, Minister, Federation tricity developments;and (c) strengthen institutionsto improve Customs Administration,6 Mula-Mustafe Baseskije, Sarajevo, water management and rural infrastructure. Project is being Bosnia and Herzegovina,Tel: (387-71)442-256, Fax: (387-71) identified. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 206-340,Contact: Mr.Stipo Vujevic,Director, RepublicCustoms (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Irri- Administration,7 Mladena Stojanovica, Banja Luka, Republika gation and Water Resources, 105 Rudaki SL, Dushanbe, Tajiki- Srpska, Tel: (387-58)42-009, Fax: (387-58)44-251, Contact: Mr. stan, Tel: (7-3772)212-031, 328-705, Contact: Mr. Mubsoyabshob Dragoljub Trivanovic, Director; General Department for Cus- Nazriev,Minister toms, Bucharest, Romania,Tel: (40-1) 312-1395,Fax: (40.1)210- 6577, Contact: Mr. Nini Sapunaru, General Director Socal Sector

Tajikistan Poverty Alleviation II: The project willsupport the expansion of the microprojectand microfinanceprogram carried out by the Agriculture Tajikistan Social InvestmentFund. Projectpreparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS 15.0 (IDA). (R) Farm Privadization(Cr. 3240-TJ): The main objectiveof Consulting services to be determined. TajikistanSocial Invest- the project is to support the government program for land priva- ment Fund, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tel: (7-3772)218-753, Con- tization and restructuring of pilot state and collectivefarms. Ap- tact:lamshed Karimov.Executive Director i~~~~~~~

JULY1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE55 The former YugoslavRepublic Turkey of Macedonia Agriculture Power Sanliurfa and Harran Plains on-Farm and Village Devel- (R) Development of Mini-Hydropower Plants: The objec- opment: The project willinclude (a) land development,consist- tives of the project are to (a) reduce the emissionof carbon diox- ing of land consolidation and land-use planning, farm access ide by substituting hydropower for electricity generated from roads and land leveling,(b) improvedland management consist- burning fossil fuels, primarilylignite; and (b) encouragethe de- ing of cadastral management,farmer trainingand extensionser- velopmentof independent small-scalepower hydropowerplants. vices, pest management and soil restoration; and (c) village The project willhelp finance about six small hydropowerplants infrastructure improvementssuch as improveddrinking water which willbe installed on town water supplypipes and which will and village roads. Project preparation is under way.A PHRD be owned and operated by town utilities.7he project has beexsub- Grant will be used for technicalassistance. EnvironmentalAs- mitted to the GEF Secretariatfor approval.Environmental As- sessmentCategory B. USS100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- sessment Category B. US$0.8 (GEF).There willbe cofinancing quired for project preparation. A request for expressions of in the amount of USS 2.2 million. Ministry of Economy,Bote interest from consultingfirms to provide preparationassistance Bosevski 9, 91000 Skopie, Macedonia, Fax: (389-91)111-541, was published in DevelopmentBusiness No. 462, dated 16 May Contact MagdalenaManuseva, Advisor 1997.Southeastern AnatoliaProject, RegionalDevelopment Ad- ministration,Ugur Mumcu'nunSokagi No.59,Gazi Osman Pasa Structural Adjustment 06700,Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312)445-0215, 445-0216. 445- (R) Fmnancialand Enterprise Structural Adjustment 11- 0217, 445-0218,Fax: (90-312)437-6777, Contact Sahin Cengiz, The project will address the completionof the privatizationpr DeputyDirector cess in the enterprise sector, strengthening enterprise financial discipline and improving corporate governance.In the financial Environment sector it will focus on strengthening the supervisionof the bank- ing sector, improvingbank portfolios and increasingsector com- Biodiversity The project will strengthen Turkey's capacityto petition. The operation will also focus on improvingthe legal manage its system of protected areas and nationalparks. It will frmework for both sectors, especially the rights ofcreditors and prepare and implementmanagement plans with localcommuni- shareholders. Project preparation is under way. Environmental ties and build on the experiencegained under the ongoinggene Assessment Category C. US$ 40.0 (IBRD/IDA).Consultants conservationprojecL Project preparation is under way.Environ- have been selected in the areas of private sector development, mentalAssessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (GEF).Consulting ser- capital markets, banking sector reform, tax reform, payments vices to be determined. Ministry of Forestry. General systems and project preparation work. Ministry of Finance, Directorateof NationalParks, Games and WildWife,Mili Parklar Dame Gruev 14, 91000 Skopje, FYR Macedonia,Tel: (389-91) General Mudurlugu,Gazi Tesisleri 11, nolu Bina, Sogutozu,An- 117-288,Fax: (389-91)117-280, E-mail: [email protected], kara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312)213-9281, Fax: (90-312)222-5140, Contact:Mr Boris Stoimenov,MinisterofFinance Contact Mr. Nejat Ozkan, DeputyDirector General

Transport Finance (R) Transport (Lm. 4439-MK): The transport project willfo- (R) Export Fuunnce Intermediation: The loan will provide cus on upgrading the main road network started under the on- short- and medium-term financing for the procurement of going transit facilitation project and supporting the goods, equipmentand services by private importers. Boardpre- government's efforts in restructuring the railways.Approved by sentationwas scheduledfor earlyJuly 1999. EnvironmentalAs- the Executive Directors on 9 February 1999.Loan was signedon sessment Category Fl. USS252.5 (IBRD).Consulting services 24 May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: to be determined. Turkish Export Import Bank, MudafaaCad- MKPE50589.USS 32.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- desi, 20/B Bakanliklar06100, Ankara, Turkey,Tel: (90.312)417- mined. Fund for National and Regional Roads, Skopje, FYR 1300,Fax: (90-312)425.7896, Contact: Mr. Osman Asian, Assis- Macedonia. Fax: (389-91)220-535, Contact: Mr. Georgi Pupako- tant General Manager ski, Director; Macedonian Railways,Skopje, FYR Macedonia, Tel: (389-91)118-177 Ext: 5252, Fax: (389-91)411-021, Contact: Mr. Stojan Naumov,Director General Private Sector Development (R) Industrial Technology (Ln. 4495-TU): The project will Water Supply/Sanitation support (a) strengthening of measurement, standards, testing Water Supply and Wastewater:The project willimprove the and quality (MSTQ) and industrial property rights infrastruc- operations of water and wastewater companiesin Skopje,Bitola tore; (b) restructuring of the research and developmentinstitu- and Prilep. In Bitolaand Prilep it will financethe completionof tions; and (c) strengthening of the technologicalcapabilities of the wastewater collection system and build wastewater treat- industry through financing of research and development ment plants. Project preparation is under way. Environmental projects, technoparks, venture capital funds, technical assis- Assessment Category A. USS 16.0/16.0 (IBRD/IDA).During tanceandtraining.ApprovedbytheErecutiveDirectorson I7June implementation,consulting services willbe required for design 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: TRPE9073. of collector and treatment plants and to assist water and waste- USS155.0 (IBRD). Consulting services willbe required. Nation- water companies in improving their operations. Consultants al Institute of Metrology,PO Box 21, 41470,Gebze-Kocaeli. Tur- have been selected and are conducting feasibilitystudies. Minis- key,Tlx: 34123,Tel: (90-41)2300, Fax: (90.41)2309, Contact Mr try of Urbanism and Construction, DarneGruev 14,Skopje, Tel: Kumuran Turkogly, PIU Manager; Technology Development (389-91)277-204, Fax: (389-91) 117-163,Contact: Mr. Strahinja Foundation of Turkey, Attaturk Bulvari No. 221, Kavaklidere Trpvski, Undersecretary, Ministry of Urbanismand Construc- 06100,Turkey, Tel: (90-312)46-2189, Fax: (90-312)46-409, Con- tion tact: Mr. Medar Okte, PIU Manager PAGE56 Monthly OperationalSummary JULY1999 Public Sector Management Assessment Category B. USS20.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture,24, KreshchatikSt., Social Development Fund: The project will support poverty Kiev,Ukraine. Tel: (380-44)229-8756, Fax: (380-44)226-3466 reduction activities in Turkey's poorest regions, including Southern and Central Anatoliaand the BlackSea region. Project preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment Category Environment B. US$ 10.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Turk Biodiversity Conservation: The project willsupport the Black Patent Enstitusu (TPE), lzmir Cad No. 28,06440Kriziley, Anka- Sea EnvironmentProgram by buildingcapacity in localMinistry ra, Turkey,Tel: (90-312)419-0230, Fax: (90-312)419.0248, Con- of EnvironmentStaff and creating a sufficientcoastal wetlands tact Mr. Ulgen Gummussoy,Manager, PIU; Marmara, Arstirma national park system. Project preparation is under way.Environ- Merkezi,PO Box 21,41470 Begzo-Kocaeli,Turkey, Tel: (90-262) mental Assessment Category C. US$ 6.9 (GEF). Consultants 641-2309,Contact: Ms. Nilgun Orenchik, Vice President, Head have been selected for project preparation.Ministry of Environ- PIU mental Protection and Nuclear Safety, 5 Khreshchatyk St. 252601,Kiev, Ukraine, Fax: (380-44)228-2922, Contact Mr.Yaro- Turkmenistan slav Movchan, DeputyMinister of Environment Donetsk Environment: The project will (a) reduce pollution Agriculture and protect areas with abundant natural resources; (b) improve the delivery of essential urban resource recovery programs in Agriculture Development: The project will support the gov- industry; and (c) improveenvironmental management and relat- ernment's ongoing agriculturalreform program by supporting a ed regulatory infrastructure at local and nationallevels. Project land registration system, training and advisory services and a preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category credit componenL Project preparation is under way. Environ- B. PID:UAPE43880. USS 20.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be mental Assessment Category C. USS 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting determined. Ministryof EnvironmentalProtection and Nuclear services to be determined. Cabinet of Ministers, Ashgabat Security, 11/1 Observa Tornaya SL,Kiev, Ukraine,Tel: (38044) 744000,Turkmenistan, Tel: (993-12)356-945, Fax: (993-12)392- 226-2428,Fax: (380-44)228-0644 464,Contact: Mr. YolliGurbanmuradov

Population,Heath and Nutrition .nance Fiancial Services: Tbe project willinclude (a) a line of credit Health: The objectives ofthe project are to (a) improvethe qual- of about US$ 100.0to 150.0million to be channeledthrough qual- ity ofcare and efficiencyof health care delivery in a pilotdistrict; ifyingparticipating banks and financialleasing companies to pri- and (b) build sufficient capacity in the Ministry of Health and vate and privatized enterprises. (b) technical assistance to medical industry to prepare, evaluate and replicate reforms. Re- support problem bank resolution and bad loan workoutfor se- forms would consist of (a) rationalizationof health services; (b) lected banks; (c) technicalassistance to support the creation of implementationof incentive systems and newclinical protocols; a credit rating agency-,and (d) automation financingfor selected and (c) implementationof organizationalschemes focusing on banks. Project preparation is under way.Environmental Assess- the integrated provision of cost-effectivecare aimed at reducing ment Category B. US$About 200.0(IBRD). Consulting services the burden of disease. Projectpreparation is under way.Environ- to be determined. National Bank of Ukraine, 9 lnstitutska St., mental Assessment Category C. PID. TMPA43330.USS 10.0 252007Kiev, Ukraine,Tel: (380-44)226-2914, Fax: (380.44)293- (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health and 1698 Contact Mr. VictorA Youshchenko.Governor Medical Industry, 95 Magtumguly. Ashgabat. Turkmenistan 744000,Tel: (7-3632)251-063. Fax: (7-3632)253-250, Contact: Rural Finance: The loanwill support capitalizationof pilot lend- Mr. K. Berdimuhamedov,Minister ing institutions which focus on financing private farms and re- structuring farms. Project preparation is currently on hold. WaterSupply/Sanitation EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$50.0 (IBRD).Con- sulting services to be determined. NationalBank of Ukraine,9 Irrigation and Drainage: The project will (a) rehabilitate two Institutska St., Kiev 252007, Ukraine, Tel: (380.44)293-2192. large hydrauliccontrol structures on the KarakumCanal; (b) im- Fax: (380-44)293-1698, Contact: Ms. Natalia Ivanik,Deputy Di- prove the canaloperation by means of telemetry; and (c) provide rector, EconomicGroup capacity building through provision of technical assistance and equipment. Project preparation is under way.Environmental As- Powe sessment Category B. USS40.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Land Reclamationand Water Man- Coal Mining Improvement: The objectiveof the project is to agement, I Seidi SL,Ashgabat 744000,Turkmenistan, Tel: (993- foster the developmentof viable coal mining companies i im- 12) 393437, Fax: (993-12)398-539,298.539, Contact Mr. TA Al- proving the operations of selected low-costmines and closing tyer, Vice Minister uneconomic mines. The project will provide support for reduc- ing labor redundancies,improving the efficiencyof selectedvia- Ukraine ble mines, closing uneconomicmines, creating employmentand divesting social assets. Projectpreparation is under way.It is ex- pected that bilateraldonors willfinance technicalassistance. En- Agriculture vironmental Assess,r -nt Category B. US$ Amount to be Agribusiness DevelopTnent The project willimprove the stan- determined. (IBRD). .onsulting services to be determined. dard of agribusiness management through (a) agiribusinessed- Ministry of Coal Industry, 4. B KhmelnitskySt., Kiev, Ukraine ucation at the Ukrainian National Agricultural University; (b) 252008,Tel: (380-44)226-2847, Fax: (380-44)2282131 agribusiness centers which willprovide consulting services and Kiev Public Buildings Energy Efficiency: The project would training to agribusiness companies and restructured farms; (c) (a) support public initiatives to improve energy efficiency in establishment of agriculturalmarketing informationsystem; and schools, hospitals. kindergartens, and public administration (d) upgrading the policy research unit at the Institute of Agricul- buildingsand (b) support the developmentof an energy efficien- tural Economics.Project preparation is on hold. Environmental cy market in Kiev.Negotiations are tentativelyscheduled for late JULY1999 Monthly Operational SummarY PAGE57 September 1999.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: tion is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ UAPA55739.US$ 20.0 (IBRD).Consulting services for project 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Imple- implementationwill be financed by the Governmentof Sweden. menting agency is to be determined. Kiev City State Administration, Khreschatic St., Kiev 252044, Ukraine,Tel: (380-44)442-5289, Fax: (380-44)446-8023, Contact: Water Supply/Sanitation Mr. Victor Padalka,Vice Mayor,Finance Sevastopol Heat Supply Improvement. The project would Lviv Water. The project willfocus on institutionalreorganiza- support (a) the introductionof a decentralizedheating service in tion and strengthening of water and wastewater enterprises in Sevastopoland (b) developmentof a new heatingenterprise. Ne- Odessa and Lviv,investments in water and wastewater infra- gotiationsare tentativelyscheduled for late November1999. En- structure, engineering services and environmental activities. vironmental Assessment Category B. PID: UAPA55738.USS Project preparation is under way. Cofinancingexpected from 28.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be financed by the Gov- SIDAin the arnount of USS6.0 million.Environmental Assess- ernment of Finland.Sevteploserviss, 3 L PavlitchenkoSt., Sev- ment Category B. US$ 24.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be re- astopol 335000,Ukraine, Tel: (380-0690)52-5896, Fax: (380- quired. MunicipalWater and WastewaterEnterprise of Lviv,City 0690)52-0720, Contact: Mr. Sergey Doral,Direcor of LvivCouncil, 1 Rynok Sq., 290008Lviv, Ukraine, Fax: (380) 482-664-093;Municipal Water and Wastewater Enterprise of Private Sector Development Odessa, City of Odessa, 5 BasseynovayaSt., Odessa, Ukraine Private Sector Development: The project will (a)promote the Uzbekistan private sector by strengthening the competitivenessof Ukraini- an enterprises; (b) accelerate the entry of private small-and me- dium enterprises; and (c) create a supportive business Agriculture environment.Project preparation is under way.Environmental . . T * AssessmentCategory C. US$300.0 (IBRD).Consulting services Aculture Enterpinse Restructuring: The proeat will (a) to be determined. Ukrainian Center for Enterprise Restructur- help create the enablingconditions for farm privatizationand re- ing and PrivateSector Developmnent,28 PredsalvinskaSt., Suite structuring, includingthe legal framework,land registrationand Kiev 252006,Ukraine, Tel/Fax: (380-44)234 3814 training of farrners; and (b) initiatethe process of farm privatiza- 403,Kiev 252006, Ukraine, Tel/Fax: (380-44.)234-3814 tion by providing the necessary support to farmers who choose to participate in the process. Project preparation is under way. Pubik Sector Management EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: UZPE46043.USS Legal Reform:The project will (a) support the creationof an in- 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined.The Cabinet dependent, effectivejudiciary system; (b) upgrade and expand of Ministers, Project ImplementationUnit, 29 SuleymanovaSt., existing sources of legal information;(c) upgrade the qualityof Tashkent, Uzbekistan,Tel: (7-3712)391-887, Fax: (7-3712)394- legal education; and (d) rationalize the process of legislative 469, Mr. Inoiat Nurov,Director General drafting. Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAs- sessment Category C. USS30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to Finance be determined. Ministry of Justice, 13 Karl Marx St., Kiev, Ukraine,Tel/Fax: (380-44)229-5401 .(R) Financial Institution Building (In. 4479-UZ): The project will support enhancement of the financial sector,focus- Public Resource Management: The project would support ing on improving the policyenvironment for financialsector ac- the government's Public Sector Reform Program, with an em- tivity,restructuring of the bankingsector, upgrading of financial phasis on taxationand budgetary reform. Project preparationis sector legal/supervisory frameworkand capital markets devel- under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be deter- mined. US$ 200.0(1BRD). Consulting services willbe required. vironmentalAssessment Caytegory.veDireckm oUZ27May 1999. En- Implementingagency is to be determined. (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Implementing Transport agency is to be determined. Highway Rehabilitation: The project will include (a) expan- Sodal Sector sion of periodic road maintenance; (b) technical upgrading through introductionof improvedstandards and qualitycontrol; Social Transformation Fund: The project will include (a) (c) improvementof road management; (d) institutionalimprove- small-scaleinfrastructure rehabilitation;(b) support to micro- ments through technical services and training to Ukravtoddor credit prograns; and (c) support to small-and medium-sizeen- and one oblast road organization; (e) a road safety program; (f) terprises and financial institutions in the form of support assistance in developinga competitiveroad construction and en- services and small credit lines. Project preparationis underway. gineering industry. Project preparation is under way.The Euro- EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS15.0 (IBRD).Con- pean Union willcofinance the project in the anount of USS2.4 sultingservices to be determined.Implementing agency is to be million. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: determined. UAPE9110.US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consulting services are being fi- nanced by the European Union. UKRAVTODOR,9 Fitzkultura Transport St., Kiev,Ukraine, Tel/Fax: (380-44)220-1034 Urban Transport The project will support transport invest- Urban Development ments in five Uzbek cities.The project willinclude the provision of new vehicles and the rehabilitationof existing vehicles,and Community Developmene This is an adaptableprogram loan the supply ofworkshop toolsand equipment.Project preparation which will support decentralizationthrough investment in mu- is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: nicipalinfrastructure and targeted socialinvestments in commu- UZPE50508.USS 31.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- nities.The first phase will focus on (a) investmentsin municipal mined.Uzbek State StockCorporation of AutomotiveTransport, and communal services in urban areas and (b) community- 6 AmirTemur St., Pass 1,Tashkent 700000,Republic of Uzbeki- based microprojects in targeted communities.Project prepara- stan, Tel: (7-371)133-6148, Fax: (7-371)133-1525, 133-2483

PAGE58 MonthlyOperational Summary JULY1999 Egypt Middle East and North Edts"tion/Training Africa Region Skils Deveopment The project will focus on improving the current vocational and technical education system in order to produce market-relevant skills. The project will support (a) ratio- Algeria nalization of the training system; (b) improvement of the internal and external efficiency of training; (c) improvements in training; Educatton .Training (d) the development of a governance structure for vocational and technical education; and (e) development of sustainable fi- Education Reform: The project will (a) help increase enroll- nancing mechanisms. Preappraisal mission is scheduled for Sep- ment rates in secondary education; (b) upgrade the quality of tember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 40.0 learning through the generalization of standard setting and eval- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing uation methods; and (c) promote changes in curricula and edu- agency is to be determined. cation research. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessmnent Category C. USS 50.0 (IBRD). Con- Power sulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. (R) Private Sector Thermal Generation (Sidi Krir): The project includes construction of a steam turbine power plant with a capacity of 650 MW. The plant will be built by a private de- veloper at Sidi Krir. An IBRD partial risk guarantee is being con- Financial System Infrastructure Development The project sidered and is subject to sponsor's request. The plant output will will (a) support modernization of the payments system including be sold to EEA. Thisproject is no loxger in the kndixg program; data and teletransmission facilities; (b) fund the development further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental Assess- costs of a long-term professional bank training program leading ment Category A. USS 100.0 (IBRD Partial Risk Guarantee). to a graduate degree under a consortium of international learn- Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is ing institutions and based on distance fearning technology; and EEA; project sponsor/developer is Intergen. (c) improve the statistical database of the financial sector and the management information system of the central bank. Nego- Private Sector Developrnent tiations are tentatively scheduled for September 1999. Environ- mental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 20.0 (R) Private Sector and Agicultual Development The (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Bank of Algeria, 12, Blvd. project would (a) increase employment and income in rural Colonel Amirouche, Algiers, Algeria, Tel: (213-2) 73-89-50,Fax: Egypt; (b) strengthen the financial and institutional viability of (213-2) 68-39-54, Contact Mr. Mohamed laksaci, Vice-Gover- the Principal Bank for Development and Agricultural Credit (PB- nor, Bank of Algeria DAC); and (c) expand technology dissemination in agriculture to enhance productivity and value-added activities. The project Health andNutrition will include a line of credit and institutional development of PB- Population, Health and NuDnon DAC.Negotiations compkted. Board presentationwas scheduled Health Sector. The project will support the government's ef- for latejuxe 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: fort to improve the efficiency and organization in the health care EGPE53832. US$ 225.0/75.0 (IBRD/IDA). Consulting services deliver system and to prepare for broader policy reforms in the to be determined. Principal Bank for Development and Agricul- sector. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assess- tural Credit, 110 Kasr El Enin St., Cairo, Egypt, Tel: (20-2) 354- ment Category C. USS 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be 4827, Fax: (20-2) 354-1494,Contact: Dr. Hassan A. Khedr, Chair- determined. Ministry of Health, 125. Chemin Abderrahmane, man Laala, Algiers, Algeria, Tlx: 65339, Tel: (213-2) 66-33-15, Fax: (213-2) 66-24-13 Sodal Sector

Social Sector (R) Social Fund Ill (Cr. 3230-EGI): The project will support the Social Fund for Development (SFD). The objectives of the Social Safety Net 11: The project is an expansion of Social Safe- SFD are to (a) create employment opportunities for the poor and ty Net I and will finance phase 11of the project, consisting of la- unemployed; (b) improve living conditions for the poor, (c) in- bor intensive public works to create temporary employment and prove infrastructure in poor and underserved areas; and (d) help community development programs to improve social services in the Social Fund define its long term role. Approved by the Erecu- poor communities. Project preparation is under way. Environ- tive Directors on I June 1999. Environmental Assessment Cate- mental Assessment Category C. PID: DZPA42419. US$ 24.0 gory C. PID: EGPA52705. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project preparation. to be determined. Social Fund for Development, 1 Hussein He- Agence de developpement social, Rue des 4 Canons, Algiers, Al- gazy St., Cairo, Egypt, Tel: (20.2) 354-0077, 354-8339, 355-9877, geria, Tel: (213-2) 71-97-57, Fax: (213-2) 74-99-31, Contact: Mo- Fax: (20.2) 355-0628, Contact: Dr. Hussein El Gammal, Manag- hamed Thaminy ing Director

Water Supply/Sanitation Water Supply/Sanitation Algiers Sanitation: The project seeks to improve, rehabilitate (N) Second National Drainage: The project will support the and expand sewerage services in Algiers. Project preparation is second phase of the national investment prograrn for (a) provi- under way. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: sion of subsurface drainage; (bYrenewal and rehabilitation of ex- DZPE4957. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for isting malfunctioning subsurface drains; (c) remodeling of open construction supervision. Algeria Wilaya, Algiers, Algeria, Tel: surface drains for agricultural lands; and (d) provision of drain- (213-2) 64-63-29,Fax: (213-2) 61-85-51 age for the Western Desert and Siwa Oasis. Project preparation JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE59 is under way.PID: EGPE45499.Environmental Assessment Cat- Water Supply/Sanitstion egory B. US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consulting services will be re- DislAmman Watr Conveyor.The development objective of quired. Egyptian Public Authority for Drainage Projects, the operationis to providean adequateand reliablesupply of Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources, Giza Street, Gi- bulk waterto meetthe needsof municipaland industrial con- za, Cairo, Egypt,Tel: (20-2)5734039, 573-8280,Fax: (20-2) 573- sumers in greater Amman.The projectwill beimplemented and 8647, Eng. Mohamed Fathy,Chairman managed by a private sector concessionaire,with costs recov- ered from consumers, and withinthe context of a strengthened Jordan national water resources managementcapability. Project prepa- ration is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID:JOGU51749. US$ 100.0(1BRDpartial risk guarantee).Con- suiting services to be determined. Water Authority of Jordan, Health Sector Reform (Ln. 4449-JO): The project is expect- PO Box 2412-5012.Tel: (962-2)680-100, Fax: (962-2)679-143, ed to increase the efficiency,quality and long-run financialsus- Contact: Dr.Hazim El-Naser tainability of health services in Jordan through the following components (a) rationalizingJordan's health infrastructure in- Lebanon vestment program; (b) developingand implementinga national and facility level health information system; (c) implementing Education/Training modern facilitypayment and managementmethods; and (d) re- forming the pharmaceuticalsector. Approved by the Executive (R) General Education: The objectiveof the project is to irn- Directors on 25 March 1999.A PPF advance of US$ 0.4 million prove the equity, quality and managementof general education. was approved to finance preparation costs. EnvironmentalAs- The project includes (a) managementand institutionaldevelop- sessment Category B. PID: JOPE39749.US$ 35.0 (IBRD).Con- ment; (b) expansionof access; and (c) quality interventions.Ne- sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health, Royal gottatuoxs are scheduled for October 1999. Environmental suIting evc,P o 6 man odn e:(6-)65 AssessmentCategory B. PID: LBPA45174.US$ 50.0 (IBRD). MedicalServiceF (96 04Box373 86, Amman, ordan,Tel:(962-)65- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education, 131,Fax: (962.6) 688-373 Youth and Sports, Beirut, Lebanon,Tel: (961-1)866-475, Fax: (961-1)645-844, 647-947, Contat MinisterJean Obeid; National Power Center for Educational Researchand Development,Beirut, Leb- {^ . . . Contact Professor Mounir Abou-Assali,President Samr First Private Power: The project will consist of a 300- ~~~~~~~~~~~~anon, 450 MW, dual-fired(diesel oil and natural gas) combined-cycle E power plant to be located near Amrnmanand developedby a pri- vate special purpose company on a build,own and operate basis. Waste to Energy- The project would support the reduction of It will (a) support the government's new initiativefor private methane gas from landfills to mininize greenhouse gas emis- power generation and its efforts to tap new sources of private sions. Project preparation is under way.Environmental Assess- capital for the power sector; (b) add new power generating ca- ment Category B. US$ 8.0 (GEF). Consulting services to be pacity at competitiveprices while improving the efficiencyand determined. Council for Developmentand Reconstruction,PO reliabilityof the power supply,and (c) strengthen the capacityof Box 5351/116, Beirut, Lebanon,Tel: (961-1)643-960, Fax: (961- the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources to prepare future 1) 647-947,Contact: Mr. MahmoudOthman, President private projects and put into effect key policies for the sustain- able developmentof the energy sector. The request for propos- Infastructure als for selection of private project sponsors has been released. (R) Municipal Development:The project will (a)finance the EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. US$ 50.0(IBRDpartial rehabilitationand upgrading of essential physicalinfrastructure, risk guarantee).Consultants will be required. Ministryof Energy particularly in low revenue base communities;and (b) provide and Natural Resources, PO Box 140027,Amman, Jordan,Fax: technical assistance to the Ministry of Municipaland RuralAf- (962-6)582-1398, Contact: Eng. Ahmad Bashir,Secretary Gener- fairs, and pilot municipalities.Project will requirepost-appraisal al, Ministry of Energy and NaturalResources prior to negotiations.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: LEPE50544.USS 60.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be Pubic Sector Managernent deternined. Ministry of Municipaland Rural Affairs, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 924-310,924-308, Fax: (961-1) 468-456, (R) Third Economic Reform and Development (In. 4482- Contact: Eng. Naji Hasan, Project Manager and Adviser to the JO): The project will support trade and investment policy re- Minister forms to (a) further reduce anti-export bias, foster integration with world markets and reduce transaction costs through tariff Private Sector Development reform and rationalizationand modernizationof the customs law and administration;(b) improve bankingcompetition and the ef- Awali-Beirut Water Conveyor. The projectis a bulk watersup- ficiencyof financialintermediation; (c) improveviability of finan- ply build-operate-transferoperation to provide water to greater cial institutions;(d) encourage long-term savings and promote Beirut. The project includes constructionof a water conveyorto developmentof new financial instruments and markets; (e) en- tunnel water from Joun for a distance of 24 km. with a treatment courdge entryone courge mprveinanciaetryand icenivesfor insents oregnan marets; ivesors.Ap- Ae- Beirut.plantand Requestreservoir for and proposalsdistribution is beinglink finalized. to supply'Thewater prequalifi-to South proved bythe Executive Directors on 1June 1999. Loan wassigned cationprocess is underway.7The prequalification notice waspub- on 4 June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category U. PID: lished by the Councilfor Developmentand Reconstructionon 22 JOPA45676.USS 120.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- October 1998,prequalification documents have been submitted mined. Ministry of Planning,PO Box 555, Amman,Jordan, Tel: to CDR and are being evaluated. EnvironmentalAssessment (962-6) 649-341,Fax: (962.6) 634-511,Contact: Dr. Abderrzaq Category A. PID: LBEC45101.US$65.0(IBRDPartial Risk Guar- Bari Hari. Secretary General antee). Councilfor Developmentand Reconstruction(CDR), PO PAGE60 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 Box 116-5352,Beirut. Lebanon.Tel: (961-1)643-980, Fax: (961-1) op the sector, mainlyby improvingsector planningand informa- 647-947,Contact: Mr. NabilA. Jisr, President tion systems; and (b) testing,on a pilot basis, new approachesto improvefish product quality,develop landing facilitiesfor small- Transport scale fisheries and upgrade marketing infrastructures around three fishing ports. Approvedby the Executive Directors on 6 Beirut Urban Transpore The project will (a) improve traffic May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: management through technical assistance to build capacity for MAPE52247.USS 5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- traffic managementwithin a Traffic ManagementOrganization mined. Ministry of Marine Fisheries (MOMF), Office national and financing traffic signals and layout improvementsfor inter- des peches (ONP),66, Ave. MoulayYoussef, Rabat, Morocco, sections in the greater Beirut area; (b) controlparking in select- Tel: (212-7)77-05-48, Fax: (212-7)77-85-40, Contact: M. Tijani ed zones, enforce paid on-street parking and increase off-street Rhanmi,Secretary General,Tel: (212-7)77-10-61 parking capacityin those zones through developingappropriate regulations and operational arrangements and financing the Lakhdar Watershed Management Pilot (Lm. 4426-MOR): construction of two parking facilitiesto be concessioned to pri- The project will test a participatory approach to improve land vate operators; (c) improvetraffic flowalong major corridors by use and natural resources management in mountainous areas. financingthe constructionof grade separationsat thirteen high- The project includes(a) natural resources managementand ero- ly-congested intersections; and (d) develop urban transport sion control; (b) communityinvestments (such as access roads, plans and follow-upprojects. Project processing is continuing. waterpoints and simpleirrigation works); and (c) supportingin- EnvironmentalAssessment Category A PID: LBPA34038.US$ stitutionalstrengthening. Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Councilfor on 22 December 1998.Environmental Assessment Category B. Development and Reconstruction (CDR), Talet El-Serail, PO PID: MAPA5519.U$ 4.0 (IBRD).Consulting services are need- Box 116-5351,Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1)643-966, Fax: (961-1) ed. Ministry of Water and Forestry, Cite administrative,Rabat, 647-947,Contact Mr.GhassanKhairallah, Project Manager Morocco,Tel: (212-7)76 44 46

Urbah Development EducationiTraining Culbtral Heritage and Tourism Development The project Education Reform: The project will implementreforms in gen- will finance (a) priority site conservation and enhancement in- eral and higher education.Project preparationis under way.En- vestments and associatedurban infrastructureimprovements in vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). the selected sites of Baalbeck,Beirut, Byblos,Saida, Tripoli and Consulting services to be determined. Ministryof NationalEd- Tyre;and (b) technicalassistance servicesto strengthen the ca- ucation, Rabat, Morocco,Tel: (212-7)773.016, Fax: (212-7)772- pacityof the Directorate General ofAntiquities (DGA), Ministry 048;Ministry of Higher Education of Tourism (MOT)and target municipalitiesin cultural heritage preservation and tourismdevelopment.The project components Environment include (a) culturalheritage preservation;(b) site operation and visitormanagement; (c) conservationof Saida and Tripoli histor- (R) Protected Areas Management The overallproject objec- ic old towns; (d) Urban regeneration and infastructure improve- tives (a) to establish a system of protectedareas in Morocco;and ments; and (e) capacity building in cultural heritage (b) to promote sustainableconservation management,with the preservation and culturaltourism developmenLProject prepara- participation of the local population,in the ecosystems in the tion is under way.Environmental Assessment Category B. USS projectareas. The projectincludes (a) implementationof conser- 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Council for vationmanagement plans in selected protectedareas; (b) prepa- Development and Reconstruction (CDR),Talet El Serail, PO ration and implementationof pilot programs for reintroduction Box 116-5351,Beirut, Lebanon,Tel: (961-1)981-373/4/5/6, Fax: of selected mammals and raptors; (c) trainingof park manage- (961-1)864-494, Contact: Dr. Wafa Sharafel Dine, Project Man- ment staff and rangers;and (d) public awarenessactivities, in co- ager operation with NGOs, schools and local organizations, to promote understandingabout nature conservation.Appraisal is WaterSupply/Sanitation completed.Appraisal report is beingprepared. Environmental As- sessment Category C.PID: MAPA48314. US$ 10.0 (GEF). Short- Greater Beirut Water Supply and Sanitation: The objectives term consultants willbe required in the areas of protected areas of the project are to (a) improve water supply and distribution management/park managementand socialassessment. Admin- and wastewatercollection services in greater Beirut; and (b) lay istration des eaux et des forets et de la conservation des sols the groundwork for the sustainable institutionaldevelopment of Ministry of Agriculture,Cite administrative, Rabat, Morocco, water and wastewaterservices. Projectpreparation is under way. Tel: (212-7)76-44-46, Contact: Dr.Abderrahnane Hanan, Direc- EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: LBPE49903.US$ teur general de l'administration 65.0 (IBRD). Consultantswill be required for project prepara- tion. Council for Developmentand Reconstruction(CDR), Talet El Serail, PO Box 116-5351,Beirut, Lebanon,Tel: (961-1)643- Population,Health and Nutrition 980, Fax: (961-1)647-947, Contact: Mr. NabilA. EIl-isr, President Health Management (Ln. 4424-MOR): The project will (a) support the developmentand implementationof new financing Morocco mechanisms, mainlyhealth insurance; (b) support hospitalman- agement reforms; and (c) improvethe qualityof services provid- Agriculture ed through priority rehabilitation of health infrastructure, training of relevant personnel, maintenance programs and so Pilot Fisheries Development (Ln. 4464-MOR): The objec- forth; and; (d) improvethe capacity for policy formulation.Ap- tives of the project are to test and implementoptions to enhance proved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 17 December 1998.Envi- value-addedand competitivenessof the fisheries sector and pro- ronmental AssessmentCategory C. PID: MAPA5525.USS 66.0 mote exports. The project will assist the government in imple- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of menting its fisheries developmentstrategy by (a) strengthening Health,335, Ave.Mohamed V, BP 812, Mechanar,Rabat, Moroc- the Ministry of Marine Fisheries' capacityto manage and devel- co, Tel: (212-7)76-16-75, Fax: (212-7)76-38-95, Contact: M. Mo- JULY 1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE61 harned Laaziri. Director, Planning and Financial Resources Tunisia Directorate Industrv SoaialSectow (R) Export Development (In. 4475-TIN): The project Social Fund: The project willestablish a socialfund to finance wouldassist the governmentin (a) defining and implementinga social investments and promote local communityparticipation. strategy and institutionalframework for trade expansion;(b) in- Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment creasing opportunities for access to export markets and buyers Category to be determined. US$ 10.0(IBRD). Consulting servic- forTunisian exporters and potentialexporters; (c) improvingac- es to be determined. Implementingagency is to be determined. cess to preshipment export finance; and (d) trade facilitation. Approved by (he Executive Directors on 20 May 1999. Loan was Structural Adjustment signed on 3 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: TNPE55814. USS 35.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be (R) Policy Reform Support (Ln. 4483-MOR): This quick- deterrnined. Ministry of Commerce, Ave. Khereddine Pacha, disbursing adjustment operation will support institutional and Tunis, Tunisia, Tel: (216-1)890-263, 892-313, Fax: (216-1)792- policy reforms, including (a)macroeconomic and budgetary pol- 420,Contact: Mr. MondherZnaidi, Minister of Comrnerce icy framework; (b) public sector reform, covering budgetary in- stitutions, civil service reformnand judicial reform; .(c) private Infrastructure sector development. covering public enterprise reform and Cultural Heritage Management: The objectiveof the project privatization,the business environment, access to finance and is to conserve and promoteTunisia's cultural heritage,by updat- private provisionof infrastructure,and access to finance;and (d) ing the nationwideinventory of sites and increasingthe contri- human and social development,covering poverty reduction and bution of this heritage to the local and national economy.The basic social and infrastructure services. Approved by the Eecu- project will identify a clear strategy on cultural heritage manage- tive Directors onl june 1999. Loan was signed on 14 June 1999. ment for the Ministries of Culture, Tourism and Regional Devel- EnvironmentalAssessment Category U. PID: MAPE58356.USS opment, NGOs and the private sector. The project will select 250.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Ministere des af- appropriatekey sites, set measures up a legal from protection the long-termn policystrategy and promote to conserve them faires generales du gouvernement, Rabat, Morocco,Tel: (212-7) based on an assessment of their significanceand economicjus- 77-20466,Fax: (212-7) 7747-76, Contact M. Monkid Mestassi, tification.Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAs- Directeur des relationseconomiques internationales sessment Category C. PID: TNPA48825.US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultants are currently conducting strategy and feasibility Structural Adjustment studies. Additionalconsulting services will be required. Institut nationaldu patrimoine,Ministry of Culture, 2 Placedu chateau, (R) Telecommunications, Post and Information Technolo- Tunis, Tunisia,Tel: (216-1)26-16-22,26-12-59, Fax: (216-1) 56-24- gy Structural Adjustment (Ln. 4465-MOR): The loan will 52, Contact M. Boubaker Ben Fraj support Treasury reforns in the telecomununications,postal and informationtechnology sectors. Disbursement would take Structural Adjustment place in two tranches. Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 6 May 1999. Loan was signed on 12 May 1999. Environmental As- Second Economic Competitiveness Adjustment (in. sessment Category U. PID: MAPE58128. USS 101.0 IBRD). 4461-1U1N): The operation will (a) increase the financial soundness of the banking system through the settlement of non- Consultants willbe required. Agencenational de r6glementation performing loans to publicand semi-publicenterprises; (b) limit des telecommunications, 2, Rue Al Khali, Rabat 10000, Moroc- recurrence of non-performing loans through privatisation and co, Fax: (212-7) 20-38-62,Contact: Mr. Mostafa Terrab, Directeur liquidation of state enterprises; (c) reduce government presence genera! IAM, Fax: (212-7) 71-33-00,Contact: Mr. Ahizoune, Di- in the banking system through bank privatization and increased recteur general; BAM, Fax: (212-7) 77-82-71, Contact: Mr. market discipline in the management of state-owned banks; (d) Wakrim, Directeur general; Ministry of Post and Information improve monetary management by reforming the government's Technology, Fax: (212-7) 70-56-41, Contact: Mr. Larbi Azzoul, securities market; and (e) enhance regulatory framework of the Secretary of State banking system and non-bank financial intermediaries. Ap- proved by the Executive Directors on 20 April 1999. Loan was signed on 29 April 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. Syrian Arab Repubiic PID: TNPE53255. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required in the areas of banking law and regulation of mutual Environment funds and securities firms. Ministry of International Coopera- tion and Foreign Investment, Ave. de la liberte, 1002,Tunis, Tu- Conservation of Biodiversity and Protected Area Manage- nisia,Tel: (216-1) 260-552,661-111, Fax: (216-1)363-959,Contact: mene The project aims at creating the enabling environment to H.E. Mohammed Ghannouchi, Minister of International Cooper- protect biodiversity. The objectives include strengthening insti- ation and Foreign Investment tutional capacity to manage protected areas, including adoption of necessary legal mechanisms, and the development and imple- Water SupplyfSanitation mentation of a pilot protected area site. The project is likely to re- ceive cofinancing from UNDP and the FAO.The project brief WaterSector lnveswmenteThe project will promoteintegrated ceiveappofinancing fromby NDPanthe O. FAOFTe romnectalbf development and demand management of water resources. It was approved by the GEF in October 1998.Environmnental As will include (a) physicalworks for water storage, ground water sessment Category C. US$ 1.4 (GEF). Consulting services will exploration and monitofing-, Cb) small-scale irrigation;wc) be required. Ministry of Environment, PO Box 3773, Tolyani, ground water management pilot: and (d) studies, technical assis- Damascus, Syria, Tel: (963-11) M4-7608, Fax: (963-11) 441-2577, tance and policy measures. Project preparation is under way. En- Contact: Eng. Yahya Awidah vironmental Assessment Category to be determined. USS 75.0 PAGE62 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 (IBRD).Consultants are conductingpreparatory studies in wa- Consulting services to be deterrnined. Ministry of Education, ter management. Ministry of Agriculture,30, Rue AlainSavary, ProjectCoordination Unit. PO Box 96, Sana'a,Yemen, Tel: (967- Tunis,Tunisia 1) 235-919,Fax: (967-1)236-005, Contact: Dr.Toufik Sufian, Ex- ecutive Director West Bank and Gaza Population, Health and Nutrition Population,Health and Nutrition Health Sector. The objectiveof the project is to improvethe de- (R) Health Sector. The project willimprove financialsustain- livery of essential curativeand preventiveservices to the poor, ability,efficiency and equity of the health system.Appraisal mis- particularlywomen of reproductiveage and young children.The sion is in thefield. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: project will strengthen the planningand regulatory role of the XOSF53892.US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- Ministry of Health, improvehealth sector financingand support mined. Ministry of Health, PO Box 14, Nablus,Jerusalem, Tel: new interventionsfor services delivery at the communitylevel. (972-7)829-173, Fax: (972-7)869-809, 826-295, 826-325, E-mail: Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Mohgaza@palneLcom,Contact Dr. RiyadZanoun, Minister Category C. US$ 10.5 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- mined. Implementingagency is to be determined. Power PrivateSector Development (R) Electricity Sector Investment and Management The project includes (a) upgrading and rehabilitationof the West (R) Privadzation Support: The project will help (a) strength- Bankdistribution network (center and south); and (b) technical en the Republicof Yemen's institutionalcapacity for privatiza- assistance for power sector institutions.Negotiations were com- tion; (b) prepare a small number of large transactions for pleted in April 1999.Board presentation is scheduledforlate July privatization; and (c) provide programmatic support for the 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: privatizationof smallerassets. The project wil primarilyfinance XOPE40506.USS 15.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. Pal- technicalassistance. Boardpresentation is scheduledfor22 July estinian Energy Authority,PO Box 3591,Al-Bireh Office, Rarnal- 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID:YEPE49735. lah, GazaCity, Gaza, Tel: (972-2)998-6190, Fax: (972-2)996191 USS10.9 (IDA).Consultants will be required. TechnicalPrivati- zation Office, PO Box 19544,Sana'a, Yemen,Tel: (967-1)413- PrivateSector Development 716, Fax: (967-1)264-248, Contact: Mr. Abdul-KarimAl Saidi, (R) Financial Sector Development The project willsupport Chief Operating Officer newfinancial sector programs and institutionsto improveaccess to credit by businesses and to reduce the credit risk inherent in P commercial bank lending. Negotiationsare tentatively sched- (R) Civil Service Modernizaion: The program will support uled for mid-July1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. (a) improvements to personnel and financial managementsys- PID: XOPE43340.USS 12.0 (IDA).Consultants are being used. tems; (b) reengineering of government agencies with an objec- PalestinianMonetary Authority (PMA),Omar Mukhtar SL, El tive to improvethe incentiveframework for deliveringservices Rimal,PO Box 4026,Gaza Strip, Palestine,Tel: (972-7)282-5713, and to increase the efficiencyof work flow,poicies, procedures Fax-(972-7) 2824599, Contact: Dr. Fouad Beseiso, Governor and organizationalstructure; and (c) the developmentof a work force adjustment program. Appraisalmission was tentatively Water Supply/Sanitation scheduledforlateJune 1999. Environmental Assessment Catego- (R) Southern Area Water and Sanitation Improvement: ry C. PID: YEPA50706.USS 30.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be re- The project aims to (a) improvethe sufficiencyand efficiencyof qunied. Technical Secretariat to Supreme Council for Civil water and wastewater services to customers in terms of quality Service and AdministrativeReform, Ministry of CivilService, quantity and management by buildingon existing authoritiesin Sana'a, Republic of Yemen,Tel/Fax: (967-1) 276.715,Contact: Bethlehem,Beit Jala, Beit Sahour and the water departments of Nabil Shamsan, General Manager the Municipalityof Hebron and the villagesin the southern West Legal and Judicial Development: The project would assist Bank; and (b) prepare for and implementan appropriateinstitu- the government in (a) increasing the efficiency of the judicial tional framework for water and wastewater services provision, process; and (b) commencingthe process of putting in place a including the implementationof a performance-basedmanage- legal framework adequate to encourage private sector activity. ment contractand buildingregulator and institutionalcapacity in Board presentation was tentativelyscheduled for mid-June1999. the PalestinianWater Authority.Approved by the ErecutiveDirec- EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: YEPE57915.USS tors on 27 May 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. 2.5 (IDA). Consultantswill be required. Ministry of Justice and PID: XOSF51564.USS 21.0 (IDA).Management contract wasini- Ministry of Legaland ParliamentaryAffairs, Sana'a, Yemen, Tel: tialed with selected operator. PalestinianWater Authority,PO (967-1) 202-735, Fax: (967-1) 202-737,Contact Mr. Abdullah Box 891, Rarnallah,West Bank,Tel: (972-2)574-7147, Fax: (972- Ahmed Ghanem, Minister of Legaland ParliamentaryAffairs 2) 574-7148,Contact: Fadle Kawash.Deputy Commissioner

Yemen Social Sector (R) Child Development: The project will follow-upon recom- Education/Training mendations of a study conducted by UNICEF and the World Bank. The project will design and support maternal and child (R) Educadon Sector Management Reform: The project will health care, girls education and early childhood development improvethe abilityand the effectivenessof the education system programs through community-basedapproaches. Appraisal is at the central and governorate levels to plan, finance,implement completed.Negotiations were scheduled for mid-July 1999. Envi- and monitor basic and secondary education services. Appraisal ronmental Assessment Category C. PID: YEPE50483.USS 30.0 mission is tentatively scheduledfor November 1999. Environmen- (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. YemeniCouncil tal Assessment Category C. PID: YEPA43255.USS 29.3 (IDA). for Childhoodand Motherhood. Ministry of Insuravce and So- JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSurnmary PAGE63 cial Affairs,Sana'a, Yemen, Tel: (967-1)262-809, Fax: (967-1)262- sessment Category to be determined. USS 5.0 (IBRD). 806, Contact H.E. Mohamed AbdullahAl-Batani Consultingservices to be determined. Implementingagency to be determined. Water Supply/Sanitation (R) Sana'a Water Supply and Sanitation (Cr. 3209-YEM): Environment The project willfinance (a) an extension of water productionand World Bank-GEF Coastal Contamination Prevention and distribution facilities;(b) wastewater collection;(c) exploratory Sustainable Fisheries Management The main objectivesof water well drilling;(d) technical assistance; and (e) preparation the GEF project are to promote the conservationof biodiversity and implementation of sector reforms including private sector alongthe Argentinecoastline and to protect the PatagoniaShelf operation and management for the Sana'a Branch of NWSA. large marine ecosystem through prevention and mitigationof Contracts for the initial three civil works projects have been coastalpollution and the sustainablemanagement of fisheries re- awarded. Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 13 May 1999. sources.The project willstrengthen institutionsand implement Credit was signed on 3 june 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment priority investments to (a) address the threats from land-based Category B. PID: YEPE5907.US$ 25.0 (IDA), Consultantshave contaminationin the Patagoniacoastal area; (b) improvefisher- been selected for project preparation and supervision of initial ies managementpolicy to prevent over-harvestingin the large civil works. Additionalconsulting services to be tendered after marine ecosystem, which is adversely affecting marine and project is effective. Project ImplementationUnit, Sana'a Water coastal biodiversity;and (c) safeguard coastal and marine biodi- Supply and Sanitation Project, Sana'a, Yemen,Tel: (967-1)400- versity from accident and pollution risks resulting from in- 284, Fax: (967-1)203-240, Contact: Eng. Isam Makki, Project Di- creased commercial traffic. The main project outputs are the rector establishment of an integrated, operationalstrategy for coastal Rural WaterSupply and Sanitation (RWSS): The objectives pollutionmanagement; the design and installationof an electron- of this five year project are to (a) test a decentralized, demand- ic marine informationinfrastructure; and the developmentand based, community participation and management method; (b) implementationof a sustainablefisheries managementprogram. improve rural health by expanding RWSScoverage; and (c) lay Projectpreparation is under waywith support froma GEF Grant. the ground for a RWSSDevelopment Strategy and a large-scale EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 8.4 (GEF). Con- national RWSSprogram. The project would help rehabilitate ex- sulting services will be required for project preparation.Secre- isting water supply schemes and buid new ones, and provide taria de Recursos Naturales y Desarrollo Sustentable, Lavalle health education and sanitation infrastructure. Project prepara- 547, Piso 7, Buenos Aires, 1047,Argentina, Tel: (54-11)4393- tion is under way.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: 9257, Fax: (54-11)4322-5014, Contacts: Dra. Mabel Behal, Lic. YEPPE5906.USS 15.0 (IDA). Consultantshave been selected for Ana Corbi project preparation. Ministry of Planning, PO Box 175, Sana'a, Yemen,Tel: (967-1)250-113, Fax: (967-1)251-503,250.605, Con- Finance tact: Mr. Anwar Harazi, Deputy Minister for Project ProgramS- ming and Planning Special Repurchase FaciHtySupport (In. 4406-AR): The project would support the Central Bank's repurchase facilityas a contingentloan. Approved by the Executive Directorson 10 ______"November 1998. Loan signing was tentatively scheduled for July 1999. Environmental Assessment Category U. USS 505.0 Latin America and (IBRD).Consulting services willnot be required. BancoCentral de la Republicade Argentina Reconquista266 (1003),Buenos the CaribbeanRegion Aires,Argentina, Tel: (54-11)434&3715, Fax: (54-11)4394-0976, Contact Dr. Pedro Pou, Presidente

Argentina IndustrV (R) Mining Decontamination: The objectives of the project Agriculture are to cleanup uranium mines and tailing sites and strengthen the environmental management capacity of the responsible Sustainable Fisheries Management: This learning and inno- agency,Comision Nacional Energia Atomica. The projectwill be vation loan will support implementationof an IndividualTrans- an adaptableprogram loan.The first loanwill represent US$ 21.0 ferable Quota system and other measures associated with million,while the estimated total would be around US$61.0 mil- improved, sustainable fisheries management including assis- lion. Appraisalmission is textativelyscheduled for earlyAugust tance to displaced workers. Project is being identified. Environ- 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID:ARPE57124. mental Assessment Category C. USS 5.0 (IBRD). Consultants US$ 21.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. will be required for project preparation. Secretariat of Agrcul- Comisi6nNacional Energia Atomica,Ave. del Libertador,8250 ture, Livestock,Fisheries and Food, 982 Paseo Colon, Buenos Buenos Aires, 1429,Argentina, Tel: (54-11)4704-1217, Fax: (54- Aires, Argentina 11)4704-1165. Contact: Jose Gregui

Education/Training Export Promotion/Small and Medium Enterprises 11:The objectiveof the project is to help increase the internationalcom- Millennium Science Initiative: The objectiveof the project is petitiveness of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The to revitalize the Argentine National InnovationSystem through project willinclude (a) a cost-sharing grant scheme to continue the support of advanced training of human capital by world-class assistingSMEs in obtaininginformation and skillsneeded to de- scientists engaged in cutting-edgeresearch. The project willpro- velopexport plans; and (b) institutionalstrengthening aimed at vide the necessary technical assistance and funding to establish helping SMEsobtain credit through developmentof activities to and strengthen centers of excellence in research. These centers reduce banks' perception of risks involvedin lending to SMEs. would be part of a network of centers of excellence in the South- Projectis being identified.Environmental Assessment Category ern Cone. Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAs- C. US$75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined.Sec- PAGE64 Monthly OperationalSummary JULY1999 retaria de Pequefas y Medianas Empresas,25 de Mayo22, Bue- cility Advanceof US$ 1.5mDlion has been approved to finance nos Aires CP1002,Argentina preparation of legal registries and the Judicial Council compo- nent. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Population, Health and Nutrition Consultingservices will berequired in the areasof court adminis- trationand judicial traixiug.Ministry of Justice, Sarmiento329, (R) Health Insurance for the Poor:This learning and innova- Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4328- tion loan would provide the necessary technicalassistance and 3015/19, Contact:Hugo Mercer,Project Coordinator inputs in two pilotprovinces to design and implementa health in- (R) Social and Fsc National Idenficafon Syste3m(Ln, surance scheme for the non-insured poor.Appraisal missiox was 445ScAl and Frjcal National infocation em (Lt- scheduledforJuly1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. 4459-AR): The project willset up an informationexchange net- US$4.8 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry work that wtilpermit improvedtargetng of socal programsand of Health and SocialAction, Ave. 9 de Julio 1925,1332 Buenos better control Oftax evasion.Approved by the Executive Direc- ofiHealthArgendina l Action,11)e.4381-911e Jx 15 4381-2182 tors on 20 April1999. Loan was signed on 27 May 1999. Environ- Aires,Argentina, Tel: (54-11)4381-8911, Fax: (54-11)43812182 mental AssessmentCategory C. US$ 10.0 (IBRD).Consultants (R) Pubfic Health Surveillance and Disease Control: The will be required. NationalSocial SecurityAdministration, Ave. project willinclude (a) strengthening of health surveillancesys- Cordoba 720 1001 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel/Fax: (54-11) tem and laboratoryinfrastructure; (b) disease control;(c) health 4321-1054,4321-1128,Contact: H. Rodriguez,General Manager promotion;and (d) project administration.Negotiatios were ten- Municipal Reform: The project willsupport reforms at the mu- tativelyscheduledfor lateJune 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment nicipal Reform:pTheficl management refocal resou- Category B. US$52.5 (IBRD). Consultingservices are to be de- nicipal level to improvefiscal management and local resource termined. Ministryterrtine. oof HeathHealth Mnisty andnd ScialActon,Social Action, Buenosuens Aies,Aires palmobilization, services. Projectand enhance is being the identified. quality andEnvirornmental efficiency of Assess-munici- Argentina,Tel: (54-11)4345-3612, Fax: (54-11)4804-0680, Con- ment Category C. US$300.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be tact: HoracioLopez. determined. Ministryof Interior,Hipolito Yrigoyen 340, Buenos Second Health Insurance Reform: The projectwould follow Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina,Tel: (54-11)4342-0171, Fax: up, extend and consolidate the results obtained by the first (54-11)4342-7390, Contact: Dr. RodolfoVacchiano Health Insurance Reform Project (Lns. 4002/3AR),which sup- Provincial Pension II: The project willsupport the transfer of ported the launch of the Health Insurance ReformProgran. Spe- provicial Pension 11:The rored Natiort Pension of cifically,the project will support three sets of policy and provincialpensionfundsitontheireformed National Pension Sys- institutionalchanges including (a) policyreforms and regulato- tem. Projectis beingidentBed. EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- ry development;(b) restructuring of provincialand nationalso -egory C. USS 200.0 (IBRD). Consulbtng services to be cial health insurance funds; and (c) health insurance for the detenrmned.Ministry of Economy,Hipalito Yrgoyen 250, Bue poor. Projectpreparation has been postponedto fiscalyear 2000. nos Aires,Captal Federal,Argentina EnvironmentalAssessment Category C.US$ 250.0(IBRD). Con- sultants will be required. Ministry of Health and SocialAction, socal Sector Ave.9 de Julio 1925,1332 Buenos Aires,Argentina, Tel: (54-11) (R) Social Protection IV (LI. 4398-AR): The project is ex- 4381-8911,Fax: (54-11)4381-2182 pected to (a) providetargeted and focusedsocial services to the poor, and (b) promote transparencyand efficiency,and partici- Power pation of the civil society. These objectives would be accom- renewable EnergyRenewblefor RuralRralEergyfor Marketsarket (uin.(im 4454-AR):4454AR):pUshed Te SocialDevelopment by supportingFund the (FOPAR); second phaseand (b) of information (a) Participatorysystem project whilsupply energy to rural areas using renewable re for monitoring and evaluationof social programs (SIEMPRO). sources where feasible. It will (a) support the transfer of the op Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 15 October 1998.Loan eration of the rural power sector from the government to the Approved.edule.ort y sh lat August 99 r9 omn8E private sector; and (b) strengthen the regulatory function of stgai s tentatevgly Bched.Uedfo975(lBRD)u Consulting ser- provinces.Approved by the Executive Directors on 30 March vices to be determined. The Social Development Secretariat, 1999.Loan signing was tentativelyscheduled for June 1999.En- Ave 9 detJuio n92.Ps1 BuenosAes,lopgent Tel:e(54- vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0/10.0 (IBRD/ 11) 4381-8157 4383-9965,43i83366,Aires, ArgentinaTel (54- GEF). Consultingservices will be required. Secretariatof Ener- 4383-4439;FO 3R9Cnat Ms. A 3a4EtchegaxyS5EMPRO gy, PaseoColon 171,Piso 8, Ofic.803, BuenosAires, Argentina, 43C3t4439;FOPAR Contact: Ms. Ana Etchegyy; SIEMPRO Tel: (54-11)4349-8423, Fax: (54-11) 4349-8417,Contact: Ing. Contact Ms. Irene Novakovsky Waltervon Ledaber,General Coordinator Indigenous Development: This learning and innovationloan will establish three pilot indigenous protected areas in three PublicSector Management provincesof the south and northwest regions to be co-managed by indigenouspeoples, Parques Nacionalesand INAI (Instituto (R) Provincial Reform III: The project will support reforms, NacionalIndigenista). The projectwill be formulatedwith the di- includingfiscal adjustment, improvementof social services de- rect participationof indigenous organizationin the three prov- livery and efficiency,and private sector development.Appraisal inces. Main project components will be (a) investment in mission was scheduledformid-July 1999. EnvironmentalAssess- production and resource managementsystems; (b) assistance ment Category C. US$ 250.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be for capacity building; and (c) administration,monitoring and determined. Ministry of Economy, HipolitoYrigoyen 250, Bue- evaluation.Project preparation is under way.Environmental As- nos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4349-5521, sessment Category to be determined. USS5.0 (IBRD).Consult- Fax: (54-11)4349-5833, Contact: Lic. AlejandroCaldarelli ing services to be determined. Instituto Nacionalde Asuntos (R) Reform of Justice System: The project willsupport inde- Indigenos (INAI),Pte. Peron 524, Piso 4 (1038), BuenosAires, pendence of the judiciary, the administrationof the Ministryof Argentina,Tel: (54-11)4343-0370, Fax: (54-11)4342-1584, 4342- Justice and the Attorney General's Office.It will establishtrain- 1734,Contact Dr.Jorge Pereda, Director ing facilities,improve access to justice, establish alternativedis- Integated Drug Abuse Prevention Pilot (Ln. 4472-AR): pute resolution mechanisms, strengthen the role of the legal This learning and innovationloan (LIL)will (a) reduce the de- professionand support research of law and economics.Apprais- mand for illicitdrugs through strengthening of public and pri- al missionwas scheduledforJuly 1999. A Project PreparationFa- vate drug abuse prevention institutions; and (b) support JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE65 infornation gathering to assess the prevalenceand factors asso- Bolivia ciated with drug abuse. Participatory mechanism,targeting vul- nerable groups (i.e. youth) would be used to establish capacity Environment in drug abuse prevention, treatment, rehabilitationand reinte- gration of addicts into society.The projectwas approved, follow- Sustainability of the Bolivian Protected Areas System: The ing LIL procedures, on S May 1999.Environmental Assessment project will support the management of nationalparks and pro- Category to be determined. USS4.8 (IBRD).Consulting servic- tected areas. Appraisalmission was scheduled for lateJune 1999. es to be determined. Secretariat of Drug Prevention,Sarniento EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS 15.0 (GEF). Con- 546, Piso 4, 1041546,Pis Buenos 4, Aires,Ares 041Buens Argentina,Argntia, Tel:Tl: (54-11)54-1) 4383483- velopmentsulting services and Planning, to be determined.La Paz, Bolivia, M .nistryTel: of (591-2)Sustainable430-881, De- 3166, 4383741, 4381-8157,Fax: (54-11)4383-4439, 4393-3166, Fax: (591-2)434-540 Contact Licda.Viviana Fridman Population, He"lthand Nutrition StructuralAdustment (R) Health Reform (Cr. 3244-BO): The project would (N) Buenos Aires Social Sector Reform:The loan willsup- strengthen health services provisionand financingin peri-urban port reforms in health care, education and social protection in and rural areas to help improvechild and maternal health within the Province of Buenos Aires in order to extend second genera- the context of a health sector reform program. Approvedby the tion reforms initiated in the other provincialreform projects. ExecutiveDirectors on 15June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category Category to be determined.US$ 23.0 (IDA).Consulting services U. US$ 400.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required for project to be determined. Ministry of Health, Ave. Arce No. 2147, La preparation. Ministry of Economy, HipolitoYrigoyen 250, Bue- Paz, Bolivia,Tel: (591-2)37-20.60, Fax: (591-2)37-13-76 nos Aires, Capital Federal,Argentina, Tel: (54-1)349-5521, Fax: (54-1)349-5833, Contact: Federico Mongan Public SwetorMaagement (R) Institutional Reform (Cr. 3245-BO): The projectaims to Water Supply/Sanitaffon create a modern civilservice by (a) raising salaries; (b) downsiz- ing through attrition;and (c) overhauling recruitment and train- (R) Water Sector Reform (In. 4484-AR): The projectwill ing policies.Approved by the ErecutiveDirectois on 15June 1999. (a) support the reform strategy of the government to transfer EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: BOPA06207.US$ water and sanitation sector operations to the private sector, and 40.0 (IDA). Consultingservices will be required for project im- (b) strengthen the regulatory function of the governmenLThe plementauion.Ministry of Finance and EconomicDevelopment, project will be an adaptableprogram loan.The first loan willbe Calle Bolivar No. 688,La Paz, Bolivia,Tel: (591-2)32-5336, Fax: for USS30.0 million,while the estimated totalwill be around USS (591-2)39-2008 200.0 milUion.Approved by the ExechtiveDirectors on I Jue 1999. Judicial Reform: The project will assist in (a) the implementa- Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: ARPE6046.US$ tion of the strategic plan adopted by the Judicial Council for 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required for project im- 2000 04; (b) implementation of alternative dispute resolution plementation. Secretary of Natural Resources,San Martin 459, mechanisms; (c) the establishment and operation of a judicial Piso 2, 1004 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11)43488382, school; and (d) the implementationof theJudicial Career Act, in- Fax: (54-11)4326-7682, Contact: Ms. MariaJulia Alsogaray cluding development of an incentive package. Project is being identified Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 20.0 Drainage lnfrastructmu-eand ManaRemene.~The Project (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Jus- would complementthe investmentsmade under the Flood Reha- tice/Judicial Council bilitation Project and the Flood ProtectionProject by providing adequate drainage infrastructure and other associated services Sodat Setor in econornicallyactive urban areas. Projectis being identified.A PHRD (Grantproposal was submitted in January 1999for project Indigenous People: The project will (a) strengthen the institu- preparation. EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryA US$ 175.0 tional and organizationalcapacity of indigenousand Afro-Bolivi- (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined.Sub-Unidad Cen- an peoples as well as governmental institutions working with utal de Coordinacionpara Emergencia (SUCCE),Ministerio del these groups; (b) revise and reform indigenous legal frame- Interior, H. lrigoyen340, Piso5, Oficina 5076,(CP 1086),Buenos work; (c) test innovativemicroprojects managed by and for in- Aires, Argentina,Tel: (54-1)342-1030, Fax: (54-1)342-6727 digenous and Afro-Boliviancommunities; and (d) establish comnmunalreserves for biodiversityconservation. Project is be- ing identified. EnvironmentalAssessrnent Cate, !ry C. USS5.0 Belize (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Viceministerio de Asuntos Indigenas y Pueblos Originarios (VIPO), Sanchez Education/Training lima 2072, Mazzanine,CP M-10126,La Paz, Bolivia,Tel: (591) 2374295 (R) Education Sector Improvement Project: The major ob- jectives of this sector project are (a) to support implementation Transport of a primary and a secondary school reform program that would (R) Abapo .CamiiHighway (Cr. 3235-BO):Tbe project will increase access, equity,and qualityof education;and (b) to assist ()c Abapo-CanuriHogwa r 3ect w5l of the Abapo-CamiriRoad, a section 152 the government inthe thethedesFn ovenmet desion iof f appropriateapropiat policiespoicis andan levelsleelsofof financekm long the of construction the corridor from Santa Cruz to Yacuibaand the budgetsupportforsustainable education programs. Project prepa- ports of Argentina.The project includesthe access road (40kmn) ration will start in fiscal year 2000. EnvironmentalAssessment to the indigenouscommunities of El Espinoarea. Approvedby the Category C. US$12.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Min- ExecutiveDirectors on 3 June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment istry of Education, Belmopan, Belize, Tel: (501) 823-342,Fax: Category B. USS 88.0 (IDA). Consulting services completed. (501) 823-389 ServicioNacional de Caminos,Edif. Centro de Comunicaci6nes, PAGE66 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 Piso 8, Ave. Mariscal Santa Cruz, esq. Ororu, La Paz, Bolivia, Center West regions. The project would also support the provi- Tel: (591-2)342-957, Fax: (591-2)391-764 sion of new classrooms for out-of-schoolchildren in these three San JosePuerto Suarez:The credit willfinance construction regions. Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 8 June 1999.En- of the San Jose-Puerto Suarez road, a section of about 400 km of vironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Con- the export corridor Santa Cruz-Puerto Suarez. Identification sultants will be required. Ministry of Education, Projects missionis scheduled for fiscalyear 2000.Environmental Assess- ManagementCenter, Via N-I Leste Paviliaodas Metas, Brasilia, ment Category to be determined. US$ 65.0 (IDA). Consulting DF 70150-900,Brazil, Tel: (55-61)316-2908, Fax: (55-61)316- services to be determined.Servicio Nacional de Caminos,Edif. 2910,Contact Ant6nioEmilio Sendim Marques,Director Gener- Centro de Comunicaciones,Piso 8, Ave. Mariscal Santa Cruz, al esq. Ororu, La Paz, Bolivia,Tel: (591-2)342-957, Fax: (591-2) Bahia Education: The project is designed to increase enroll- 391-764 ments, permanence, performance and promotion rates of stu- dents in secondary cycle (9-11grades) and fundamentalcycle (1- Urban Development 8 grades) schools in the state of Bahia. The design is coordinat- ed with planned federal projects and complementstheir activi- Municipal Sector II: The project willprovide financing for in- ties in the State. Appraisalmission is scheduled for early August vestments in municipal services as well as technical assistance 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 129.4 to improve the institutionalcapacity of local governments and (IBRD).Consultants willbe required. Secretariatof Education, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Regional.Project preparation is Bahia, Centro Administrativoda Bahia, 5 Ave.550, Andar 3, Sal- under way. EnvironmentalAssessmnent Category C. US$ 20.0 vador,41796-900Bahia, Brazil,Tel: (55-71)3715611, Fax: (55-71) (IDA). Consulting services to be detennined. Fondo Nacional 371 5650,Contact EraldoTinoco Melo, State Secretary de Desarrollo Regional(FNDR), Ave. 20 de Octubre, No. 2038, La Paz, Bolivia,Tel: (591-2)390-896, Fax: (591-2)392-123, Con- Ceara - Quality Improvement in Basic Education: The tact: Bernardo Silva project willimprove the qualityof basic educationin the state of Ceara though the followingactions (a) promotionof early child- hood development activities;(b) regularizationof student flows; Brazil (c) teacher training programs; (d) programs in the area of sci- ence education; (e) support of school developmentprojects; (f) Agriculture decentralizationof educationalmanagement; and (g) communi- (R) Animal and Plant Health Protection (Lm. 4480-BR): ty participation and social mobiGzation.Appraisal mission is The project will continue to support the government's effort to scheduled for mid-August1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- reduce/eliminate animaland plant diseases affecting Brazilian egory C. US$ 80.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Secre- exports of beef, pork, poultry and selected fruits. It would be tariat of Education, Ceara, Centro AdministrativoVirgilio mainlyconcentrated in the exporting areas of southern Brazil Tavora, Bairro Cambeba,60830-070, Fortaleza, Ceara, Tel: (55- This is a followup to a livestockcontrol project financed by the 85) 218-1412,Fax: (55-85)218-1446, Contact Antenor Manoel Bank.Approved by theExecutive Threctors ox 27 May 1999.Envi- Naspolini,State Secretary ronmental Assessment Category B. USS44.0 (IBRD).Consult- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Environment Esplanadados Ministerios,BI 'D', Anexo B, Sala 406, Brasilia DF 70043-900,Brazil, Tel: (55.61)226.6182, Fax: (55-61)224 (R) National Environment Policy II: The project will 3995 strengthen environmental protection institutions at the state and local leveland support decentralizedinitiatives involving market Land Management Ill (Sio Paulo) (Lm. 4238-BR): The mechanisms and the private sector. This is an AdaptablePro- project aims to generate sustainable productivitygains through gram Loan and the first loan is for S15.0million. Appraisal mis- improved land management and soil conservation in approxi- sun was scheduled for late Juxe 1999. Environmental mately 1,500microcatchments (6 million ha) involving90,000 Assessment Category B. PID: BRPE35741.US$ 15.0 (IBRD). farmers in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo.Approved by the Consultingservices to be determined. Ministryof Environment, Executive Directors on 28 October 1997.Senate approval still Water Resources and the AmazonRegion, Esplanada dos Minis- pending. Environmental Assessment Category B. USS 55.0 tefios, Zona Central, Bloco B. CEP 70.068.900,Tel: (55.61)321- (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined.Secretary of Ag- 6323, Fax: (55.61) 224-5605,Contact: Dra. ReginaCrespo Gual- riculture of Sao Paulo,Ave. Brasil 2340,CP 280, Sao Paulo, Bra- da, Coordenadora do Programa Nacionaldo MeioArnbiente zil,Tel: (55-19)241-3800, Fax: (55-19)241-4963 Biomass Pilot Power The project will indude commercial land Reform 11:The project, the first component of an APL, scale demonstration technology for generation of electricity, would address land distribution and its effects on the poor. based on the gasificationof woodchips or sugar cane bagasse. Adopting an innovative,market-based approach, it would em- Project feasibilityis welladvanced under GEF/UNDP technical powercomrnmunities to take the lead in land purchases and devel- assistance funding. Appraisal mission was scheduled for July opment. The project would build upon lessons learned during 1999.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: BRPA37048. the implementationof the Land ReformProject. Projectprepara- US$ 22.0/23.0 (IBRD/GEF).Consulting services to be deter- tion is under way.Environmental Assessment Category B. USS mined. Ministry of Science and Technology;Companhia Hidro 200.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministro Electricado Sao Francisco (CHESF),Divisao de Projetode Fon- Extraordinariade PoliticaFundiaria SBN, Ed. Palaciodo Desen- tes Alternatives (FEFA), Rua Delmiro Gouveia.333, Anexso 1, volvimento,Andar 18,70057-900Brasilia, DF, Brazil,Tel: (55-61) Bloco B. Sala 3, 50761-901,Bonji, RecifePE, Brazil,Tel: (5.5-81) 214-7474,Fax: (55-61)226-3855 251-0011/228-2605, Fax: (55-81)251-2785, Contact: Mr. Eduardo Carpentieri,Manager Education/Training Emergency Fire Prevention (Ln. 4389-BR): The project (R) Fundescola 11 (Ln. 4487-BR): The objective of the will help identifyrisk areas, take mitigationmeasures and com- project is to increase student learning and achievement The bat fires. Approvedby the Executive Directorson 10 September program would finance and support subprojects prepared by 1998.Loan signing was scheduled for late June 1999.Environ- states, municipalitiesand schools in the North, Northeast and mental Assessment Category B. PID: BRPE58129.USS 15.0 JULY 1999 Monthly Operational Sunmary PAGE67

(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Instituto (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Government of Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Ren- Rio de Janeiro Municipality, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ovaveis (IBAMA), SAIN - Ave. LA Norte, Ed, Sede 70800.200, Brasilia, DF, Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 316-1212, Fax: (55-61) 316-1025 Power PROAGUA 11: The objectives of the project are to (a) promote (R) Energy Efficiency (GEF): This project is the GEF compo- a continuous policy of sustainable use and participatory manage- nent for the Energy Efficiency (IBRD) project. Negotiations were ment of water resources in federal rivers, especially in the South, scheduled for late June 1999. Environmental Assessment Catego- Southeast and center West; (b) decenbtalize the function of water ry C. US$ 20.0 (GEF). Consulting services to be determined. resources management to independent user associations and ELECTROBRAS, Secretario Executivo Adjunto do PROCEL, river basin committees; and (c) evaluate an appropriate institu- Ave. P Vargas 409, Andar 12, Edif. Hermes Stoldz, CEP 20071- tional framework for the creation and expansion of a network for 003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tel: (55-21) 221-5739, 296-3939, Fax: technical support and operation of an integrated water resource (55-21 224-2060 management to make effective use of water resources from fed- eral and state rivers. Project is being identified. Environmental (R) anergy Efficiency (IBRD): The objective of the project is Assessment CategoryA. U$S 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to improve the efficiency of electricity supply and use. The to be determnined. Secretariat of Water Resources SGAN, Quadra project consists of three main interrelated components: (a) dem- 601, Lote 1, Edif. CODEVASF, Sala 401, Brasilia, Brazil, Tel: (55- onstraon projects involving new energy efficient technologies, 61) 317-1291, Contact Dr. Fernando A. Rodriguez, Secretary proper price signals and delivery service options; (b) core sup- 61) 31-19, ona rFrnno.port activities to facilitate future replication of energy efficient measures; and (c) a capacity-building module to enhance policy, Finance - regulatory and implementation functions. Negotiations were Norteast Micro Finance: The objective of the programnis to scheduledfor lateJuxe 1999. Environmental Assessment Catego- deelpand dMonsroFatCedeveopad anindeendnt,ajn drnontrat ide°pbendent, sustainable ustanabe mecha-meha- rybe C.deem_ned. PID: BRPA39200. ELECTROBAS,USS 43.4 (IBRD).Secretario Consulting Executivoservices Adjunto to nism for providing financial services to poor entrepreneurs in ur- do PROCEL Ave. P. Yargas 409. Andar 12, Edi.t Hermes Stoldz ban and rural areas in the northeast region. 'The project would dCPROCEL00, Avoe. janeroa 0, Bndra TEl:f(512, He21)22-5739,26 support the Credit Aniigo microfinance pilot progra's expan- 3939 Fax (5521) io22d4e2060eiro,Brazil, Tel: (5521) 221-5739,296 sion in the areas of clent outreach and financial services of- fered. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. USS 50.0 (IBRD). Con- Public Sector Management suiting services to be determined. Banco do Nordeste, Ave. (R) Administrative and Labor Reform Adjustment: The Paranjana 5700, Caixa Postal 628, CEP 60740-000,Fortaleza, Bra- project consists of actions to improve fiscal performance chiefly zil, Tel: (55.85) 299-3041, 299-3050. Fax: (55-85) 299.3674. through reducing the burden of the wage bill in the federal, state and municipal governments, as well as in the Federal District. Infrastructure Negotiatioxs were tentatively scheduled for lateJxue 1999. Envi- ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 750.0 (IBRD). Consult- Fortaleza Urban Transport: The objectives of the project are ing services to be deterrnined. Ministry of Finance, Esplanada to (a) improve the quality of public urban transport in the FMR dos Ministefios, Bloco P, Andar 5,70048-900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil, by enhancing the development of a fully integrated urban trans- Tel: (55-61) 321-3995, Fax: (55-61) 226-7935; Ministry of Admin- port system under the coordination of a Regional Transport Co- istration, Esplanada dos Ministerios, Bloco C, Andar 7, 70046- ordination Commission (RTCC); (b) rehabilitate the Metrofor 900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 217-1414, Fax: (55-61) 321- North Line; and (c) increase private sector participation in the 2625, Contact: Nelson Marconi operation and management of the Metrofor system (North and South lines). Project is being identified. Environmental Assess- (R) INSS Reform This learning and innovation loan will help ment Category to be determined. USS95.0 (IBRD).Consulting improve the efficiencyand effectivenessof the Social Security menticategoryto be determined..US$Companhia IBrasiad nsUlg Administration, at the national and state level, in order to reduce services to be determnined.Companhia Brasilearade Trens Ur- undue pension payments and improve the quality of services. banos (CBTU), Estrada Velha da Tijuca 77, Rio de Janeiro. RJ uNegotpations were tentativelyscheduled for mid-July 1999. Envi- Brazil, Tel: (55-21) 575-3399, Contact: Dr. Flavio Mota Monteiro, ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consulting CBTU services to be determined. Ministry of Social Security, Esplana- da dos Ministerios, Bloco F, 70059-900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil, Tel: Population, Health and Nutrition (55-61) 224-5914, Fax: (55-61) 225-7490 (R) Bahia Health: The project's main objective is to support Minas Gerais State Privatization (La. 4318-BR): The the health reform process of the State of Bahia. specifically to (a) project will support the reform of the states' fiscal and financial develop and strengthen the health secretariat's initiatives; (b) in- accounts and institutional development Approved by the Execu- crease access to basic health care services; and (c) improve the tive Directors on 28 April 1998. Loan signing pending congres- efficiency and quality of public hospitals and clinic services. sional approval. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS Project concept review was scheduled for late June 1999. Environ- 170.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Secretaria de Estado mental Assessment Category C. USS 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants do Planejamento e Coordenacso Geral (SEPIAN-MG), Rua da will be required. Secretariat of Health, Bahia. Ave. Luis Viana Fil- Balma 1600, Andar 10, (30160-907) Belo Horizonte, Minas ho - 4 Ave., Platafoma 6, Lado B, CAB, 41746-900 Salvador, Ba- Gerais, Brazil, Tel: (55-31) 273-5733, Fax: (55-31) 339-3109 hia, Tel: (55-71) 370-4383, Fax: (55-71) 371-2488. Contact: Jose Maria Magalhaes Neto. State Secretary Transport Integrated Early Child Development: The project will sup- (R) Rio de Janeiro Mass Transit (Ln. 4291-BR): The port expansion of access to education, health and social services project will finance rehabilitation of infrastructure and equip- for low-income children and their families, including improved ment and assist in setting up a regional transport coordination integration of services across sectors. Project processing is cur- commission. The commission will introduce predictable financ- rently on hold. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS60.0 ing mechanisms and prepare bids for concession of FLUMIT- PAGE68 Monthly OperationalSummary JULY1999 RENS.Approved by the Executive Directors on 5 March 1998. 900,Brazil, Tel: (55-61)322-7170, Fax: (55-61)322-7223, Contact: Loan was signedon I June 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- MarcioTagliari, Coordinator egory B. PID: BRPA43421.US$ 186.5(IBRD). Consultants will Ceara Water Resource Management'Te project will sup- be required. FLUMrIRENS, Pca. Cristiano Ottoni s/n, Edif. port te Resource Matemene Thegrqed water Dom Pedro II, 20221-250Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,Tel: (55-21)233- port the implementationof the State of Ceara's IntegratedWater 8594, Fax: (55-21)253-3089 ResourceManagement Plan. The project will includethe devel- opmentof the institutionalframework, management methodolo- (R) Salvador Urban Transport (Ln. 4494-BR): The project gies and the infrastructure to achieve the integrated will improve the quality of public transport by contributing to a managementof the state'swater resource basinsand to improve fully integrated transport system including a new light rail sys- the efficiencyof use and stabilizethe water supply.Project prep- tem. Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 17June 1999. Envi- aration is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. ronmental AssessmentCategory A. PID: BRPE48869.US$ 150.0 USS150.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Un- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. CBTU, Estada idad de Preparacao do Proagua, Secretaria de Recursos Hidri- Velha daTijuca, 77 Usina 20531-080.Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, cos, SGAN,Quadra 601,Lote 1, Ed. Sede da CODEVASF,Andar Tel: (55-21)575-8750, Fax: (55-21)208-1780 4, BrasiliaDF 70068-900,Tel: (55-61)224-7020; Secretaria de Re- (R) Sbo Paulo Transport (Fourth Line): The project would cursos Hidricos do Estadodo Ceara, RuaAntonio Augusto 555, integrate the rail-basedmodes in the Sao Paulo MetropolitanRe- Aldeota Fortaleza, Ceara, 60110-370,Brazil, Tel: (55-85)219- gion (includingCBTU, FEPASA and Metro) and the Sao Paulo 1710/11,Fax: (55-85)219-1073 Municipalsystem and build a 13.5km underground metro line. Appraisalmission is postponeduntilfirther notice.A general pro- P ba do Sul: 'Me loan wil support an integrated resources curement notice for this project was published in Development management project induding water quality management for Business, No.468, dated 16 August 1997.Environmental Assess- Brazil'ssecond most importantwatershed - the Paraibado Sul ment Category B. USS350.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Riverin the States of RiodeJaneiro, Sao Pauloand MinasGerais. determined. Transport Secretariat of Sao Paulo, Ave. Paulista Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment 402,Andar 15,01310-903Sao Paulo,Brazil,Tel: (55-11) 2850993, Category B. USS25.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- 281-6101,Fax: (55-11)285-9054, Contact Mr. Arnaldo Pereira mined. Ministerio do MeioAmbiente, dos Recursos Hidricose da Amazonia,(MMA) and Secretaria Recursos Hidricos (SRH), So Paulo Integrated Urban (BARRAFUNDA-Roosevelt) Esplanada dos Ministerios Bloco B, Andar 5, 700553-900 Transport (Ln. 4312-BR): The project will integrate the rail Brasilia,DF, Brazil,Tel: (55-61)317-1000, Fax: (55-61)226-4345 based modes in the Sao Paulo Metro region (includingCBTU FEPASA,METRO) and the inter-municipalbus system seeking Prosanear II: The projectwill developinstitutional capacity to a reduction of buses on the street, reducing travel times and im- extend water and sewerage services to the urban poor, using proving the environmentby building a 7.3 km rail link on an ex- community participation and appropriate low-costtechnology. isting right of way.Approved by the Executive Directors on 7 Board presentation is scheduled for July 1999. Environmental April 998. Loansigning was tentativelyscheduled for July 1999. Assessment Category B. PID: BRPA39199.US$ 30.0 (IBRD). EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: BRPA06559.USS Consultingservices willbe required. Secretary of Urban Devel- 45.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Transport opment,Sector BancarioSul, Edif. BNDES,Andar 18, Brasilia, Secretariat of Sao Paulo, Ave. Paulista 402, Andar 15, 01310-903 DF, CEP 70076-900,Brazil, Tel: (55.61)322-7170, Fax: (55-61) Sio Paulo, Brazil,Tel: (55-11)285-0993, 281-6101, Fax: (55-11) 322-7223,Contact: AdelmarTorres 285-9054,Contact: Mr. Arnaldo Pereira State Highway Management III: The project would help fi- Chile nance (a) the rehabilitation and maintenance of Minas Gerais' state road network; (b) the upgrading and paving of gravel roads; and (c) the strengthening of the state's road sector man- Education/Training agement. Project processing is currently on hold. Environmen- Millennium Science Initiative (Ln. 4466-CH): The objec- tal Assessment Category B. USS 165.0 (IBRD). Consulting tive of the project is to revitalizethe ChileanNational Innovation services to be determined. Departamento de Estradas de Roda- Systemthrough support of advanced training of human capital gem do Estado de Minas Gerais, Ave.dos Andradas, 1,120-s/215 by world-classscientists engaged in cutting-edgeresearch. This - Predio A-CEP30120-010 Belo Horizonte,Minas Gerais, Brazil, Learningand Innovationloan will providethe necessary techni- Tel: (55-31) 224-8497,235-1278, E-mail: der6mg.gov.br., Con- cal assistance and fundingto establish and strengthen centers of tact: Julio Cesau DivizOliveira, Project Coordinator, Tel: (55-31) excellencein research. These centers would be part of a net- work of centers of excellencein the Southern Cone.The project

WaterSupp .y.Senimion was approved,following LIL procedures, on 30April 1999.Envi- WaterSupply/Sanitation ronmentalAssessment CategoryC. USS5.0 (IBRD).Consulting (R) Water Sector Modernization 11 (Ln. 4292-BR): The services to be determined. MIDEPLAN,Ahomada 48, Piso 4. project will (a) finance investments in water and sewerage utili- Santiago,Chile ties in poor states and municipalitiesof the North, Northeast and Center-WestRegions; (b) assist these utilities to improvetheir Water Supply/Sanitation operational and managerial efficiency;and (c) assist states and municipalitiesto study and implementinstitutional and regulato- Water Resources Management.The project would support ry reforms of their water sector, including private sector partici- the government's efforts to define and irnplementa nationalwa- pation. Approvedby the Executive Directors on 5 March 1998. ter resources managementpolicy and develop an innovativein- Dateof loan signingis to be determined.Cofinancing of US$1050 stitutional framework suitable for the decentralized millionis expectedfrom OECF.Environmental Assessment Cat- managementof water resources. Project is being identified.En- egory A. PID: BRPA43420.USS 150.0(IBRD). Consultants will vironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. USS25.0 be required. Secretary of Urban Development PMSS,Sector (IBRD).Consulting services will be required. Implementing Bancario Sul, Edif. BNDES,Andar 18, Brasilia, DF.CEP 70076- agencyis to be determined. JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE69

Colombia financing and investments of sufficient magnitude and at the best possible terms to help meet Colombia'sgrowing infrastruc- Agriculture ture needs. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAssess- ment Category C.US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required Partnership for Peace: The project will support the restruc- for prpject preparation. Implementing agency is to be deter- turing of the land reform agency and facilitate the transfer of mined land to the rural poor. Appraisal mission is scheduled for Sep- tember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Infrastructure COPA41642.US$ 40.0 aBRD). Consultantswill be required for studies on farm size/efficiency relationships and cost/benefit Earthquake Emergency Recovery: The project willassist the analysis. Ministry of Agriculture and ColombianLand Reforrn government in the reconstruction of social and economic infra- Institute structure in the area affectedby the earthquake that hit the cof- fee growing region in late January 1999. Project is being Education/Training, identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- mined. US$ 225.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- Decentralized Human Capital: The project would introduce mined. Fondo para la Reconstruccion de la Region del Eje and test innovativefinancial intermediation arrangements to Cafetero (FOREC) channel funds to decentralizedentities (departmentaland local governments) for investments for human development,while Public Sector Management ensuring fiscal discipline. Project preparation is under way.En- vironmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 30.0 Judicial Reform: The Judicial ReformProgram will (a) intro- (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Fundacion So- duce community-based,conflict resolution mechanisms; (b) im- cial, Calle 72 No. 10-71.Pisos 11 y 12,Santafe de BogotA,Colom- prove the civil process and court administration; and (c) bia, Tel: (57-1)310-5700, Fax: (57-1) 321-0841, Contact Alvaro improve the judiciary's governance and managerial capacity. Davila,Presidente; Departamento Nacionalde Planeacion,Edif. Projectis being identified.Environmental Assessment Category Fonade, Calle26 No. 13-19,Piso 14, Santafede Bogota,Colom- C. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. bia. Tel: (57-1)281-3348, Fax: (57-1)334-0221, Contact Dr.Jaime Corte Suprema deJusticia, Campo de laJudicatura Ruiz,Director Public Fmancial Management II: lhe project will support Rural Education: The scope of the project is to be determined. the consolidation and completionof reform in tax and customs Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment administration.It would also enable the extension of the inte- Category C. USS20.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- grated financial management system throughout the central mined. Ministryof Education,Grupo de Educacion,Ave. El Do- government and improve public expenditure management rado Can. Oficina 301, Santafe de Bogota Colombia,Tel: (571) Projectis being identified.Environmental Assessment Category 222-3828,Fax: (571)222-3828. Contact: Mrs. TemildaOlarte to be determnined.US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministryof Finance, Carrera 7A, No. 6-45,Santafe Environnwnt de Bogota,Colombia, Tel: (57-1)286-3656,284-8026, Fax: (57-1) 284-5396 High Andes: The project will support the implementationof a program for conservationand sustainable use of biodiversityin Sodial Sector the Andes. Project preparation is under way.Environmental As- sessment Category to be determined. USS 15.0(GEF). Consult- (R) Ecawibe: This learning and innovationloan willtest a vari- ing services to be determined. Ministro del Ambiente,Calle 37 ety of strategies to integrate education and health services for No. 8-40,Bogota, Colombia, Tel: (57-1)288-6877, Fax: (57-1)288- cooperatives,small producers and their families in the Caribbe- 9892 an coast of Colombia.7Tis project is no longerin the currentknd- ing program; further reporting will be discontinued. Sierra Nevada: 'Te project will support the conservation of EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. US$5.0 globally significant biodiversity within the framework of the sus- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Direccion Nacio- tamable development plan for the Sierra Nevada de Stamarta. nal de Planeacian (DNP) Estrategias par la Gente del Caribe, Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category Calle 26 No. 13-19,Piso 14, Santafe de BogotA,Colombia, Tel: to be determined. USS7.0 (GEF).Consulting services to be de- (571)2816642 Fax: (571)282-5210 Contact: Mr. AlbertoAbello termined. FundacionPro-Sierra Nevada de Sta Marta, Calle 74, ( No. 2-86, Bogota,Colombia. Tel: (571)310-0571 Structural Adjustment Sustainable Development of Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria: This learning and innovationloan (LIL)will support the Funancial Sector Adjustrnent. The loanwill support a compre- implementationof the SustainableDevelopment Plan for Sierra hensive financialsector adjustment program, includingreforms 4evadade Santa Maria. The UL would support the establish- in legislationand regulatory framework,deposit insuranceand ment and effective operation of the institutional and financial reform/privatizationof state-ownedbanks and cooperativesys- mechanisms for carrying out the five- to ten-year program for tems. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment the eco-region which is defined in the plan. Identificationmis- Category to be determined. USS500.0 (IBRD).Consulting ser- sion took place in December 1998.Environmental Assessment vices to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Carrera 7A No. 6- Category C. USS5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- 45. Piso 3, Bogota,Colombia. Tel. (571) 286-3656.Fax. (571)284- mined. National Planning Department, Edif. Fonade, Calle 26, 5396 No. 13-19,Bogota, Colombia, Tel: (57-1)336-1600 Urban Development Finance (R) Colombia Barrio Upgrading and Land Regularization: Infrastructure Project Finance Facility: The loan would es- The project will support the improvementof livingconditions in tablish an Infrastructure FinanceFacility to be managed by Ban- low-income areas in Colombia's largest cities (Bogota, Cali. co de Comercio. The Facility would aim to attract private Medellin, Barranquillaand Cartagena) by (a) improvingsanita- PAGE70 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 tion services, access roads, public spaces and communalservic- Telecommunications es; (b) regulrizing land titles; (c) strengthening community (R) Telecomunications Regulation: The projectseeks to development programs; and (d) supporting development of a (R) Theommuicatio Rn egulatt eproject tee- longer term strategy to finance low incomeshelter. Project is be improvethe abilityof the government to regulateand grant tele- ing identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be deter- communicationconcessions and licenses and to increase effi- mined. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices to be determined. ciency of telecommunicationservices within a competitive Municipalitiesof Bogota,Cali, Medellin, Barranquillaand Cart- fraework. Nqotations completed Board presertatwn was agena; Ministry of Development scheduledforearlyJuly1999. Environmental Assessment Catego- ry C. US$ 12.3 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Secretaria Tecnica de la Presidencia (SECTEC),Edif. Oficinas Water Supply/Sanitation Gubernamentales,Bloque C, Piso 2, Ave. Mexico,Esquina Dr. (R) Cartagena Water and Sewerage:The project will finance Delgado,Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic,Tel: (809) 221- sewerage and wastewater treatment works including (a) expan- 2977,Fax: (809)221-2980, Contact: Jose ManuelLuna sion of sewerage networks and main collectors; and (b) con- struction of municipal wastewater treatment and disposal Ecuador installations.Board presentationis tentativelyscheduled for late July 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: Education!Training COPA44140. US$ 85.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices to be deter- mined. Municipalityof Cartagena in Partnership with Aguas de (R) Education Sector Development (formerlyTeacher Devel- Barcelona,Manga 3ra,Ave. 21-62, Cartagena de India,Colombia opment):The project wouldsupport strengthening of the frane- work for pre-service and in-service teacher training. Project Costa Rica preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment Category to be deternined. USS25.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministeriode Educacion,San Salvadory Eloy Alfa- Finance ro (s/n), Piso4, Quito,Ecuador, Tel: (593-2)555-360, Fax: (593- Pension Reform and Financial Sector Development The 2) 557-015,Contact Sra. RosangelaAdoum, Ministeriade Edu- project will support the reform of Costa Rica'spension system cacion and institute reforms in the banking/financial sector. The (R) Education Systems and Management (fomerlyEduca- project will build on technical work undertaken with PHRD tion ManagementTransformation): The project would support grant funds in 1997.Project is in the early stages of identification. transformationand strengtheningof the Ministryof Education. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment 100.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Category to be determined.US$ 5.0 (IBRD).Consulting servic- Finance,San Jose, Costa Rica,Tel: (506)2554874 es to be determined. Ministeriode Educaci6n,San Salvadory Eloy Alfaro (s/n), Piso 4, Quito, Ecuador,Tel: (593-2)555-360, Fax: (593-2)557-015, Contact Sra. RosangelaAdourn, Ministeria Dominica de Educacion Education/ITraining Education II: The project will include (a) institutionaland ad- ministrative strengthening,and (b) support for expansionand (R) Education I: The project willsupport the second stage of quafity improvement of primary and secondary education. the OECS Basic Education Reform focusing on improving the Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment quality of teaching and the expansion of the access to Level 11. Category to be determined.USS 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting servic- 7Thisproject is no longerin the currentlending program;fUrther re- es to be deternined. Ministerio de Educacion, San Salvadory porting will be discontinued.Environmental Assessmnent Catego- Eloy Alfaro(s/n), Piso 4, Quito, Ecuador,Tel: (593-2)555.360, ry C. US$ 4.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Fax: (593-2).557-015,Contact: Sra. RosangelaAdoum, Ministena Ministry of Education and Youth Affairs, Government Head- de Educaci6n quarters, Furci BichardoSt., No. 4. Roseau, Dominica,West In- dies, Tel: (14809)535-8006, Fax: (1-809)535-3067 Power Public Enterprise Reform and Privafizaton: The project Dominican Republic will support structural and regulatory reform and privatization of the hydrocarbon,electricity and telecommunicationssectors. Power Project has been identified.Environmental Assessment Catego- ry B. US$ 22.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Power Market Development. The project'soverall objective is Implementingagency to be determined. to support power sector reform by establishing a competitive bulk supply market for electricity.Specifically, the project seeks Rural Development to lifttransmission constraints that hinder open access of power generators and to support (a) installationof an Energy Control Rural and Small City Water: The project will(a) financewater Center (ECC) and Financial Settlement Center (FSC); (b) and sanitation projects in about 55 small towns and 500 rural strengthening and expansion of the Interconnected Transmis- communities;(b) providecapacity building for nationaland pro- sion System; (c) providingtechnical assistance to sector regula- vincial governments to assist small towns and rural communi- tory entities; and (d) contribution to separationcosts for sector ties; and (c) provide technical assistance for institutional staff. Project preparation is under way.Environmental Assess- strengthening of beneficiarytowns and communities.Appraisal ment Category A. US$ 110.0(IBRD). Consulting services will be mission is scheduled for September 1999. EnvironmentalAs- required for environmental,financial and institutional studies. sessment CategoryC. US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will Comisi6n de Reforma de la Empresa Piiblica(CREP), Tel: (51- be required. Ministerio de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano 809)683-3591, Fax: (51-809)683-3888, Contact Ing. Marcos Co- (MIDUVI),Toledo 684 y Lerida, Ecuador, Tel: (593) 554400, chon Fax: (593)560-338, Contact: Sigifredo Aldaz JULY 1999 Monthly Oprtional SummarY PAGE71 Social Sector ty of teaching and the expansion of access to Level II. 7his project Peace and Integraion: is nolonger in thecurrent Iendingprogram;further reporting wilI This loan will assist the government be discontinued. Environmental Assessment on the peace process with Category C. US$ 4.0 Peru by supporting activities which (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. would help strengthen and increase Ministry of Edu- the economic development cation, Young St., Saint George's, Grenada, West and integration in Indies, Tel: (1- the border area. Activities are likely to be 809) 440-2166 Fax: (1-09) 440.6650 geared toward providing basic infrastructure needed to support other economic activties. Project is being identified. Project preparation wil depend upon progress attained in the peace pro- Guatemala cess. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project preparation. Implement- Agriculture ing agency is to be determined. (R) Land Administradon (La. 4415-GU): The project will Structural Adjustment (a) increase legal security of land tenure in Peten Department in Guatemala; (b) strengthen the legal and institutional framework Financial Sector Assessment The loan will provide technical of land registry and cadastre services in Peten; and (c) establish assistance and partial financing for bank failure resolution in or- a projeci der to management unit. This is to be achieved through a par- contribute to a stronger banking system. Project is being ticipatorj process identified. for conflict mitigation and resolution. Ap- Environmental Assessment Category C. 11$ 150.0 proved by the (IBRD). Executive Directors on 3 December 1998. Loan Consultants will be required for project preparation. signing is tentativelyscheduledfor Ministry late August 1999. Environmen- of Finance, Ave. 10 de Agosto y Jorge Washington, tal Assessment Category Edif. Min. de B. PID: GTPA49616.USS 31.0 (IBRD). Finanzas, Quito, Ecuador, Tel: (593-2) 500l704, Fax: Consultants will be required. (593-2) 569-386 Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food, 7 Ave. 12-90,Zona 13, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatema- la, Tel: (502) 3624762, Fax: (502) 334-3510 Transport (R) Land Fund (Ln. 4432-GU): The project would support Rural Roads and Development one of the land-related commitments under the December 1996 The loan will finance (a) Peace Accords. SpecificaDly,the objectives are to (a) technical assistance for institutional facilitate ac- strengthening, regulatory cess to land; (b) provide technical assistance and reformn and increased private sector participation; subproject fi- and (b) a rural nancing to beneficiaries, and (c) initiate improvements to the roads rehabilitation and maintenance program. Project prepara- effidency of land markets. Approved by the Executive Directors tion is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be de- on 7 January 1999. Loan sigxixg is tentatively scheduled for termined. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting late services to be August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. USS determined. Implementing agency to be determined. 23.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agri- culture, Livestock and Water SuppIy/Saniation Food, 7 Ave. 12-90, Zona 13, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, Fax: (502) 334-3510, Contact Lic. Luis Guayaquil Water HI: The project will support privatization of Alberto Castaneda, Vice Minister water and sewerage services of Guayaquil and initial investment programn, including rehabilitation of the drainage networks, and Fmnnce extension of the water and sewerage network to low income Rural Financial Markets: The project will support govern neighborhoods. Appraisal mission is scheduled 7 for December ment efforts to improve the functioning of financial markets in 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. USS 40.0 (IBRD). rural areas. Specifically, Consulting it will (a) improve the business environ- services to be determined. Implementing agency is ment for financial transactions; to be determined. (b) improve regulatory/supervi- sory framework for non-bank financial institutions; (c) support target poverty alleviation El Salvador interventions; and (d) support overall policy reforms for the sector. An analysis of rural finance issues and a study on the environment for secured transactions are nearly completed. Education/Training Project identification and preparation will be initiated shortly. Environmental Assessment Category (R) Educadon C. USS Reform (Ln. 4320-ES): The loan will support 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting the first phase services to be determined. Implement- of an Adaptable Program Loan. It will assist the ing agency is to be determined. government in (a) improving equity both in access and quality of basic education to achieve universal coverage at this level and Private Sector Development strengthen programs in initial and preschool education; and (b) further the institutional modernization process initiated under Competitiveness: The project will support regulatory changes previous Bank-supported projects in the sector. Approved by the and institutional development to promote increased internation- Executive Directors on 7 May 1998. Loan signing was tentatively al competitiveness of businesses, most likely through assistance scheduled for latelune 1999. Environmental Assessment Catego- in firm-level skills ry B. USS$85.0 training, information technology, internation- (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. al trade and product quality and certification Ministry of Education. Intersection Calle Guadalupe systems. Project y Alameda preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category Juan Pablo 11,Edif. Plan Maestro, Nueva San Salvador, El Salva- to be determined. USS 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting dor, Tel: (503) 281-0299,Fax: (503) 281-0305 services to be determined. Ministry of Economy,01001 &a. Ave. 10-43 Zona 1, Guatemala, Tel: (502) 251-8606,251-7135, Fax: (502) 238-2413 Grenada Transport Education/Training Rural Roads: The project will continue the work started under Loan 4260.GU to improve road transport access in the poorer ar- (R) Education: The project will support the second stage of the eas of the country to stimulate economic activity, improve com- OECS Basic Education Reform focusing on improving the quali- mercialization of non-traditional agricultural products and PAGE72 Monthly OperationalSummary JULY1999 provide greater access to social services. Project preparation Haiti will begin once the ongoing Rural Roads project is more ad- vanced. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determnined. Agriculture US$75.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Institu- to de Fomento Municipal, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Fax: (R) Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: The project (502)334-6709, Contact: Alberto Alfaro,Manager would aim at (a) enhancingthe capacity of public and private agencies to provide agriculturalservices (research, extension, training) to rural farmers; (b) enhancing food security by in- Urban Development creasing and diversifyingfood supply; (c) reducing rural poverty Low Income Urban Settlements Improvements: The by raising the livingstandard of poor, small farmers through in- project in s (provementand restorationof the productivepotential of their re- projectincludes (a) a communitysubprojectscomponent to im- source base; and (d) enhancing environment quality by prove physical infrastructure and build the social and technical improvingland and water management in a more sustainable capacityof communities to participatein the improvementof set- way. The projectwill be droppedfrom the lendingprogram, and tiement living conditions; (b) a land tenure regularizationcom- wil be replacedwith ecoxomic sector work to preparea Rural De- ponent to provide registered land titles to squatters of public velopmentStrategy which will lead to a lexdtngoperationin the ru- land in project areas; and (c) an institutionalstrengthening and ral sector EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. USS 15.0 project management component to provide technicalassistance (IDA).Consulting services to be deternined based on project and equipment and carry out studies. Project preparationis un- concept review. Ministry of Agriculture, Port-au-Prince, Tel: (509)223-599, Fax: (509)225-221, Contact Mr.Nicolas Haiti,Dau- der way. Environmental Assessment Category B. USS 20.0 phin (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined.Ministry of Pub- lic Finance,Guatemala City,Guatemala Education/Training

Guyana Basic Education: The project would assist the government in promoting greater equityand quality in delivery of basic educa- tion services. Negotiationsare tentativelyscheduled for Novem- Environment ber 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS 28.0 (IDA). Consultants winlbe required. Ministry of Education, 5 National Proteced Area Systeims:The project willenable the RueAudain, Local IPN, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tel: (509)22-50-42, government to establish a national system of protected areas Fax: (509)23-78487 which would conserve globally important biodiversityas an es- sentialstep toward the sustainablemanagement of the country's SocidaSector natural resources, and the maintenanceof access to internation- al markets for these resources. Projectpreparation is under way. (R) Economic and Social Fund 11:The project will support EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 6.0 (GEF). Most tors. Appraisal missionis tentativelyscheduled for 15 Janxary consultantshave been contracted. Officeof the President,Geor- 2000. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 35.0 (IDA). getown, Guyana Consultingservices to be determined. Ministry ofFinance, Port- au-Prince,Haiti, Fax: (509)231-247 Structural Adjustment StructuralAdjustment- This credit is a follow-upto the recent- Honduras Iyclosed Private Sector DevelopmentAdjustment Credit and the ongoing Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program.The opera- Environment tion will focus on accelerating privatization,civil service refor-m Sustainable Coastal Tourism Planning and Management: and financial sector strengthening. Projectpreparation is under This learning and innovationloan will support developmentof a way.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IDA). nationalpolicy for sustainabletourism on the CaribbeanCoast of Consultants will be required. Ministryof Finance, Privatization Honduras through a learning and participatory process. The Unit,Main St. & Urquhart Rd., Georgetown,Guyana, Tel: (592) project will work at the national and municipallevels to create 260-576,Contact Winston Brassington the necessary safeguards to ensure that environmentalgoods, services and amenitiesthat are the basis for marine-basedtour- ism in the region are guaranteed,and that benefits fromtourism Urban Development are widelydistributed to ensure a broad participationin the eco- Secondary Towns Infmastructure Development: The project nomicdevelopment that investmentin the Caribbeancorridor is willsupport (a) policyreform support; (b) developmentof urban likely to bring aboult Project is being prepared with PHRD funds. EnvironmentalAssessmnent Category C. US$ 5.0 (IDA). and rural infrastructure facilitiesand inter-urban roads in the Consultingservices to be determined. Honduras NationalInsti- projectarea:and (c) strengthening ofthe institutional,manageri- tute of Tourism, ApartadoPostal 3261,Tegucigalpa, Honduras, al, financialand technicalcapabilities of the concerned towns to Tel: (504)2224002. Fax: (504)238-2102 operate and maintain these facilitieseffectively. Environmental Impact Assessment has been reviewed.Environmental Assess- Population,Health and Nutrition ment Category A. PID: GYPA35723.USS 25.0 (IDA).Consult- Hlth Sector Reform: The objectivesof the project are to (a) ants have been selected to prepare studies in the areas of urban improvethe institutionalcapacity and managementsystems of transportation, development,and environment.Ministry of Pub- the Ministry of Health and the health fund of the socialsecurity lic Works, Communications, and RegionalDevelopment, Fort system;(b) increase the quality of service delivery;(c) strength- St., Kingston, Georgetown, Guyana, Tel: (592-2) 59868, Fax: en the financingmechanisms of the health sector; and (d) pro- (592-2)59865 vide support to institutionalizeexisting rural water supply and JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE73 nutrition initiatives.Project is being ioentified.Objectives will be nology generation and transfer and a number of related support revised to take into account the dan-,agecaused by Hurricane activitiesincluding targeting and monitoringsystems. Approved Mitch. A PHRD Grant has been approved for project prepara- by the Executive Directors on 22 December 1998.Loan was tion. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. signedon II May1999.Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 45.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry US$444.0 (IBRD).Consulting services no longer required. SA- of Health and IHSS,Contiguo al Correo Nacional,Tegucigalpa, GAR, Direcci6n General de Desarrollo Agropecuario,Insur- Honduras, Tel: (504)228-518, Fax: (504) 384-141 gentes Sur 476, Mexico, DF, Mexico, Tel: (525) 574-5908, Contact: Lic. Ma Angeles Peralta Social Soctor Rural Development in Marginal Areas II: This projectis the (R) PROFUIURO (Cr. 3250-HO): The developrmentobjec- second phase of the Rural Developmentin MarginalAreas pro- tive of this project is to promote and expand cultural, scientific, gram under the AdaptableLending Program approach. It aims at and technologicalknowledge and management in the context of expanding the program into new regions, and improvingfarm- Honduran sustainable development and ethnic diversity. To er's income through productive investments,community devel- achieve its objective,the project willundertake the followingac- opment and technical assistance. Project preparation is under tivities: (a) prepare an inventory that assesses the cultural and way.Environmental Assessment Category B.US$ 100.0(IBRD). environmentalresources of Honduras; (b) design, carry out and Consultingservices to be determined. SAGAR.Ministry of Agri- support a managementplan for priority archeologicalsites; and culture and Rural Development,Recreo No. 51, ColActipan del (c) design and construct an interactivelearning center for sus- Valle03230, Mexico, DF, exico, Tel: (525) 534-9263,Contact tainable development;and (d) support research on Maya sci- Eduardo Perez Haro, Director General,Regional Programs ence and environmentalmanagemenL Approved by theExecutive Directorson 17June 1999.Environmental Assessment Category Education/Training B. USS8.3 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Conse- Basic Education Developmen.- This project is the second jo de Ciencias y Tecnologia,Col. Alameda, Ave.Julio Nozano phase of a current adaptableprogram loanprogram. the project Dias, Casa 1354,Tegucigalpa, Honduras includes (a) measures to increase access and improvequality in basic education services; (b) innovations in education to im- StructrswlAdjustment prove the quality of education; and (c) strengthening the man- Fnancial Sector Adjustment: The credit will support reforrn agement of the Ministry of Educationand decentralizationand of the banking sector. Identificationmission to be scheduled strengthening of administrationat the state level.Appraisal mis- shortly. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. sion is scheduled for the second quarter of fiscalyear 2000. En- US$50.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). of Finance/Central Bank, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Fax: (504) Consultingservices to be determined. Secretaria de Educacion 237-6261 Ptibica, Ave.Argentina No. 28, Ofic. 301, Piso 2, Col. Centro, 06029 Mexico,DF, Mexico,Tel: (52-5)510).0358, Fax: (525)521- Tranapeit Technical Training and Certification: The general objective Rural Roads: The orginal objectiveof the project was to reha- of the project is to enhance the internationalcompetitiveness of bilitate high-priorityroad sections which connect Honduras to the labor force by improvingthe skill level of workers. Specific its neighboringcountries and improveroad transport access in goals are to (a) develop a demand-ledvocational training system the poorer areas of the country to stimulate economic activity in selected states and stronger links between trainingprograms and provide greater access to social services. Project prepara- and industry; (b) improve the quality of training delivery sys- tion is under way and willnow need to take into accountthe im- tems and outcomes in the labor market; (c) developmore effec- pact of Hurricane Mitch.Environmental Assessment Category tive and financially sustainable training institutions; (d) to be determined. US$82.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be de- consolidatelabor competenciesnorms and certificationsystem; termined. Secretaria de Obras Publicas,Transporte y Vivienda, and (e) increase private sector participationin trainingdelivery. Barrio La Bolsa, Comayaguela,Honduras, Tel: (504)333-038 Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. USS250.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be Jamaica determined. Secretaria de Educacion Publica, Ave. Argentina No.28, Oficina301, Piso2, Col. Centro, 06029Mexico, DF, Mex- Environment ico, Tel: (525)510-8927 Cockpit Country Conservation: The goal of the project is to Environment conserve the biodiversityof the Cockpit Country in northwest- ern Jamaica by managingit as a protected area, and to strength- Air Quality and Urban Transport: This project willcomple- en Jamaica's overall system of protected areas. Project ment activitiesunder the Air Quality 11project. The objectiveis preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category to reduce uie costs of environmental degradation caused by C. USS 3.5 (GEF). Consultantswill be required. National Envi- emission of greenhouse gases in the MexicoCity metropolitan ronmental SocietiesTrust, 95 DumbartonAve., Kingston 10,Ja- area. Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssess- maica, Tel: (876) 960-3316, Fax: (876) 968-5872, Contact: ment Category B. USS25.0 (GEF).Consultants will be required Michael White, President Comisi6n Ambiental Metropolitana, Plaza de la Constitucion. No. 1, Piso 3, Col. Centro Delegacion Cuauhtemoc,CP 06068, Mexico Mexico Air Quality II: The project is a follow-upto the First Urban Agriculture Transport (Ln. 2824-ME)and- the Transport Air PollutionCon- trol (Ln. 3543-ME)projects. The main objectivesof the project (R) Agricultural Productivity (In. 4428-ME): The project are to improve air quality and help establish a sustainable air willsupport SAGAR'sdecentralization strategy and willpromote quality policy framework in the Mexico City metropolitanarea. agricultural productivitythrough productive investments,tech- Project preparation is under way EnvironmentalAssessment PAGE74 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Border InfirastructureTijuana: This learning and innovation Comisi6n Ambiental Metropolitana, Plaza de la Constitucion, loan will financeurban services and physicalinvestments in se- No. 1, Piso 3, Col. Centro DelegacionCuauhtemoc, C.P. 06068, lected municipalitiesin the Northern Border area Projectprep- Mexico aration is underway. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. US$ 5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- Alternative Energy: The project would assist the government mined. Implementingagency to be determined as SEMARNAP in removingbarriers to the use of solar and windtechnology for is facingbudget constraints. productive applicationsin isolated areas inhabited primarilyby poor rural households and small farmers. This would be Population HeaIthandNutrition achieved through an integrated approach involving financial P support for investmentin equipment, technologydemonstration (R) Health Investment SSA: The scope of the projectis to be and dissemination,and technical assistance to strengthen local determined.Identification mission is scheduledforearTlyfiscalyear industrialcapacity, vendor chainsand institutionsinvolved in the 2001. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 300.0 development of alternative energy applications. The project (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Implementing would complement the activitiesof the recently approvedAgri- agency to be determined culturalProductivity Improvement Project. Projectis being iden- (R) Health Reform ISSTE:The scope of the project is to be de- tified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. USS8.0 (GEF): termined.Identification mission is scheduledforSeptember 1999. Consultingservices to be determined. FIRCO,San Luis Potosi EnvironmentalAssessment Category C.US$ 350.0(IBRD). Con- No. 209, Mexico, DF, Mexico, Tel: (52-5) 264-5288,Contact: sulting services to be determined. Implementingagency to be InanvelContijoch Escontria, Director determined Mesoamerican Biological Corridor The objective of the Health Reform IMSS: The project wiDlconsolidate health re- project is to promote conservation and sustainableuse of biodi- form within Instituto Mexicano de Seguridad Social that was versitythrough the establishment of biologicalcorridors in the started under the adjustment loan. Identification mission is southeast of Mexico. The corridors will foster the ecological scheduled for May 2000.Environmental Assessment Category equilibriumof land and coastal ecosystems,within a sustainable C. US$500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. In- developmentapproach. Project being identified. Environmental stituto Mexicanode SeguridadSocial (IMSS),Alvaro Obregon Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 14.0 (GEF). Con- 121,Piso 5, Mexico,DF, 06700 Mexico. Tel: (525)208-5433, Fax: sulting services to be determined. Instituto Nacional de (525) 533-2793 Ecologia,Ave. Revolucion 1625, Nivel 25, Ca.Tlacopac, S. Angel, 0100 Mexico, DF, Mexico,Tel: (525) 624-3332,Fax: (525) 624- PrivateSector Development 3589,Contact: Hector Barranco Business Development Services: This learning and innova- PROMAD:The project will assist the government in strength- tion loan will seek to increase the outreach, impact,cost-effec- ening environmental management and decentralization.Project tiveness and financial viability of Mexico's business preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category developmentservices for micro-,small- and medium-scalefirms. B.USS 50.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been contracted. Ministry Projectis being identified.Environmental Assessment Category of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries (SEMAR- to be determined.US$ 5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be de- NAP),Periferico Sur No. 4209,60 Piso, Col. Fraccion Amineto termined.Implementing agency is to be determined. Jardines en al Montafia,Mexico, DF, Mexico, Tel: (525)628.8602 State-LevelPrivate Sector Developmente The project will Finance supportthe competitivenessof the private sector on the regional level.Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Cat- Financial Infrastructure: The loan will support reforms in egory to be determined. USS10.0 (1BRD).Consulting services regulation and law in the areas of secured transactions, bank- to be determined. NAFIN ruptcy,asset securitization and capital markets. It will also sup- port improvementsin the institutionalinfrastructure for lending Sodal Sector and capital markets transactions. Project preparation is under (R) Municipalization of DIF: The project willbe designed as way.Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 150.0(IBRD). a learningand innovationloan with pilotexperiments in selected Consultantswill be required for several components.Secretaria states. It willsupport the restructuring of the NationalSystem of de Hacienda y Credito PNiblico(SHCP), Jose Maria Ibarraran Integral FamilyDevelopment (DIF). Specificobjectives include No. 33, Piso 2, Colonia Jose Maria Insurgentes, Mexico, DF, the developmentof a nationalpolicy for social protection pro- Mexico,Tel: (525)651-7284 gram; the strengtheningof the capacityof localgovernments to States Decentalization: The project would support the states' take over from the Federal Government the functionof policy developmentas part of Mexico'songoing decentralizationpro- developmentand program implementation;and more efficient cess. Project preparation is under way. A PHRD grant was use of DIF resources. Negotiationsare scheduledfor October signed. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$5.0 (IBRD). USS300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Imple- Consultingservices to be determined. DesarrolloIntegral de la mentingagency is to be determined. Farnilia,Emiliano Zapata 340, Piso 1, Col. Santa Cruz Atoyac 03310,Mexico,'DF, Mexico, Tel: (525)629-2304 Infrastructure Social Welfare: TIhegeneral development objective of the project is to complementother poverty-orientedprojects in Mex- Border Infrastructure Juarez: This learning and innovation ico. The project would followup the pilot food distributionpro- loan willfinance urban services and physicalinvestments in se- gram includedin an earlier loan, and replicate the pilot program lected municipalitiesin the Northern Border area. Project prep- on a wider scale to other poorstates covered by the BasicHealth aration is under way.Environmental Assessment Category to be I and 11projects, taking into accountlessons learned from evalu- determined. USS 5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- ation ofthe pilotfood distribution progran. Projectis being iden- mined. Implementingagency to be determined as SEMARNAP tified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. is facing budget constraints. USS400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined.Secre- JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE75 taria de DesarrolloSocial (SEDESOL),Ave. Constituyentes 947, ronmental Assessment Category C. USS10.0 (IDA). Consulting Edif. B, PA, Col. Belemde las Flores, 01110 Mexico,DF, Mexi- services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Frente a la co Asamblea Nacional, Ave. Bolivar, Managua, Nicaragua, Tel: (505-2)227.061, Fax: (505-2)222-934, Contact: Esteban Dugue Structural Adjustment Estrada, Minister of Finance (R) Fiscal Adjustment The loan will support fiscal reforms and protect social sector expenditures. 7his projectis no loxger StructuralAdjustment in the currentlendingprogram;further reportingwill be discontin- Adjustment Il: The project will support the government's ef- ued. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. fort to reform its pensionsystem from a publiclymanaged de- US$500.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Secre- finedbenefit system to a privatelymanaged definedcontribution taria de Hacienda y Crditol. blico (SHCP),Jos, Mariaibar- system. At the same time,the operationwill improve banking su- rarin No. 33, Piso 2,6nsurgentes, Col. Jose Maria M6xico,DF, pervisionand foster changes in other areas of the financialsec- Mexico,Tel: (525) 651-7284 tor that are required by the pension reform effort. Project is Fuancial Sector Restructuring II: The loan will support being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category U. US$ structural reforms in Mexico's banking sector. Projectprepara- 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of tion is under way.Environmental Assessment Category to be de- Finance,Managua, Nicaragua,Tel: (505)222-7061, Contact: Es- termined. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be teban Duque Estrada, Ministerof Finance. determined. Implementingagency is to be detennined.

Transport Telecommunications Second Highway Rehabilitation: The project would support Telecommunications Sector Reform: The objectivesof the (a) rehabilitationand periodic maintenance of federal roads; (b) project are to strengthen the polcy and regulatoryenvironment improvement in road maintenance management and toll roads in the telecommunicationssector and improve access to servic- management; and (c) staff training. Projectpreparation is under es. Project preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment way. Environmental Assessment Category B. USS Category C. US$ 7.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- 200.01BRD.Consultantswill be required for engineering and re- mined. Empresa Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaciones(ENI- habilitation,maintenance and works supervision.Secretariat of TEL), Managua, Nicaragua, Tel: (505-2) 7894444,Ext. 72130, Communicationand Transport, Mexico,DF, Mexico,Tel: (525) Fax: (505-2)770-669, Contact Ing. RaulBarrios; Instituto Nicara- 519-3097 guense de Telecomunicacidnesy Correos (TELCOR),Man- State Roads: The project will support (a) developmentof state agua, Nicaragua, Tel: (505-2) 632-171,Fax: (505-2) 632-169, road networks and (b) state road institutions. This is an adapt- Contact Ing. Mario Montenegro able program loan. Projectis being identified.Environmental As- sessment Category B. USS 300.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices Panama will be required. Secretauia de Comunicacionesy Transportes; other selected state transportation agencies

Nicaragua Land Administration: The project will support the develop- ment of transparent and well-functioningmarkets and the estab- Education.Triing.lishment of a system of hnd administration services in the Education/Traimmng context of equity, landtenure securityand sustainableuse of nat- Second Basic Education Development- The projectwill sup- ural resources. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAs- port a second-phase development program for basic education sessment Category to be determined. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). and will include (a) expansion of coverage and consolidationof Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Planningand the primary and secondary school decentralizationmodel; (b) PoliticalEconomy, Apartado2694, Zona 3, Ciudad de Panama, expansion of coverage of the non-formalpre-primary education Panama,Tel: (507) 269-3276,Fax: (507)264-7755 model; (c) quality improvements in basic education (teacher training, provision of educationalmaterials, rehabilitationof ed- Education/Trairing ucational infrastructure); and (d) institutionalsupport to policy development,planning and research. Project preparation is un- Basic Education II: The project willexpand the current Basic der way.The project willbe modifiedaccording to needs arising Education Project to approximately120 townships.The project from the impactof Hurricane Mitch. EnvironmentalAssessment will include (a) expandingthe coverageand improvingthe qual- Category to be determined. US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting servic- ity of primary education by supporting rehabilitationand con- es to be determined. Ministry of Education, Centro Civico struction of primary schools, supporting in-service and pre- M6dulo S. Managua, Nicaragua,Tel: (505)265-1253, Fax: (505) service teacher training with an emphasis on multigradeteach- 265-2162,E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Aurora Gurdian ing and supporting the provisionof textbooks and didacticmate- de Lacayo,Coordinadora Nacionalde Proyectos rials for primary schools: (b) expansion of non-formal and preschool education programs (Communityand FamilyCenter Public Sector Management for Initial Education and Madre a Madre) with active participa- Economic Management Technical Assistance: The project tion of the communities;and (c) support for the decentralization will provide technical assistance to (a) strengthen the govern- of the Ministry of Education.Appraisal report is being prepared. ment's capacityto forrnulateand manage economic policieswith EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$42.0 (IBRD).Con- emphasis on publicexpenditures; (b) regulate and supervise the sultingservices willbe required to prepare studies of severalar- banking sector; (c) reform the national pension system; and (d) eas. Ministerio de Educacion,Banco Exterior,Ave. Balboa. Piso increase the country's competitiveness in key sectors. Project 13, Ciudad de Panama,Panama, Tel: (507) 227-1472,Fax: (507) preparation is under waywith support from a PHRDgrant Envi- 227-1473,Contact: ReynaldoHumberto Bedoya,Coordinator PAGE76 Monthly Operational SummarV JULY 1999 PublicSector Management AssessmentCategory to bedetermined. US$25.0 (IBRD).Con- Public Policy Reform Technical Assistance: The projectwill sultants will be required. Implementingagency is to be deter- support the government's public policy reform program in the mined. areas of (a) trade reform, (b) civil service reform, (c) social se- curity reform, (d) privatization,(e) domesticcompetition policy, Urban Development (f) tax reform, and (g) poverty reduction.Project preparation is Asunci6n Mun.cipal Modernization:The project wil provide under way with support from a PHRDgrant. A Project Prepara- assistance to the Municipaltyof Asuncionfor reform to include tion FacilityAdvance of US$ 1.0 millionwas approved to finance outsourcingsolid waste collecfionand disposal,improvements preparation of the project, includingthe designing, monitoring and implementationof the Public PolicyReform Program, civil in revenue administrationand financial management and pro- service, social security and povertyreduction reforms. Environ- curement.The project willalso support a two-yearcapital invest- mental Assessment Category C. PAPE55844.USS 10.0 (IBRD). ment program. The project will be reinstated in the lending Consultantswill be required. Ministryof Economy and Finance, program for fiscal year 2000. EnvironmentalAssessment Cate- Apartado 2694, Zona 3, Ciudad de Panama, Panama, Fax: gory B. US$20.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required. (507)264-260,Contact:Elna Medrano de Gonzales, Director of Municipalityof Asuncion,Asuncion, Paraguay, Fax: (595-21)61- Technical Unit 0591, Contact Martin Burt

Transport Peru (R) Second Roads Rehabilitation (In. 4393-PA): The project wil support (a) rehabilitationof selected high-priority Population,Health andNutrition primary and secondary roads, urban roads and intersections; (b) continued development of institudonalcapacity of the Minis- Health Sector Reform: The project will support the govern- try of Public Works; and (c) urban trafficmanagement, improv- ment's efforts to develop and implement policy and structural ing urban passenger transport, improving maintenance changes withinthe contextof a broad health sector reform pro- management and training staff. Approvedby the Executive Di- gram. Appraisalmission was scheduled for mid-July1999. Envi- rectors on 15 September 1998. Loansigning was scheduledfor ronmental Assessment Category to be determined. PID: late June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. USS PEPE62932.USS 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- 85.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Ministerio de Obras mined. Ministry of Health, Ave. Salaverry, Cdra. 8, s/n Jesus Ptiblicas, Curundu, Ciudad de Panama,Panama, Tel. (507-2) Maria, Lima,Peru, Tel: (51-1)424-8425, Fax: (51-1)432-6177 325420, Fax. (507-2)325-353, Contact Ing. Carlos Mclean, Di- rector, UnidadEspecial Coordinadoradel Programa BID-BIRF SodalSector

Paraguay Indigenous People: The project will (a) strengthen the institu- tional and organizationalcapacity of indigenousand Afro-Petuvi- Environment an peoples as well as governmental institutions working with these groups; (b) revise and reform indigenous legal frame- Sustainable Rural Investment The project willsupport small work; (c) test innovativemicroprojects managed by and for in- agro-industry investments targeted to rural poor communities digenous and Afro-Peruviancommunities; and (d) establish within the framework of sound natural resources management communalreserves for biodiversityconservation. Project is be- practices. Project preparation is under way.Preparation is being ing identified.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 supported by a pilot program in three departments. Environ- (IBRD).Consulting services to be determnined.SecretariaTecni- mental Assessment Category B. USS20.0 (IBRD).Consultants ca Para AsuntosIndigenas (SETAI), Ministerio de Promocionde have been selected. Ministerio de Agriculturay Ganaderia,Pts. Ia Mujer del Desarrollo Humano (PROMUDEH),Jr. Camnana Franco entre O'Leary y Ayolas, Edif.Ayfra, Asuncion, Paraguay, No. 616-Lima1, Lima,Peru, Tel: (511)428-5467 Tel: (595-21)449-614, Fax: (595.21)449-951

Finance Structural Adjustment Banidng Sector Restructuring: This policyoperation willsup- (N) Financial Sector Adjustment Loan II: The operationwill port the establishment of a new regulatory framework govern- support (a) reforms in the banking sector (regulatory reform, ing the intervention, resolution and liquidation processes for modernized bank resolutionmethods); (b) capital markets de- reforming the banking system.The operation will establish the velopment;and (c) pensionreform (improvingthe efficiencyof legal tools and powers to allowasset and liabilitytransfers from the privatepension system,and rationalizingthe publicsystem). failingbanks to healthy banks, whileminimizing the use offiscal The operationalso includesa poverty componentfor the vulner- funds for payment of defined deposit insurance coverage to de- able populationsby protecting critical social programs during positors. Project preparation has been cancelled due to country the course of the adjustmentperiod. Appraisalis completed.En- situation. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 vironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Con- (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Banco Central sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance and del Paraguay, Asuncion. Tel: (595.21)608-011, Ext. 2532, Fax: Economy,Jr.Junin 319, LimaPeru, Tel. (511)426-9452 (595-21)608-149, Contact: Mr.Gabriel Gonzalez,Superintendent of Banks (R) PovertyReduction and Social Sector Reform (formerly StructuralAd*ustmentLoan): The loanwill deal with povertyand Transport social sector policy issues. Appraisal mission is scheduled for September 1999.Environmental Assessment Category to be de- Rural Roads: The project will promote community participa- termined. USS500.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deter- tion in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of mined. Ministryof Finance,Jr. Junin 319, Lima,Peru, Tel: (511) rural infrastructure. Project is being identified. Environmental 426-8495,Fax: (511)428-2101 JULY1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE77 Transport Marine Resources. Saint Claire Circle, Saint Claire, Port of Lima Urban Transport The project will focus on improving Spain,Trinidad and Tobago,Tel: (868)622-1221 public transport and other mobility needs of the low-incomepop- PublicSector Management ulation. Projectpreparation is underway. EnvironmentalAssess- ment Category B. PID: PEPE35740. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). (R) Posal Services Reform (Ln. 4458-TR): The project will Consultantshave been selected for project preparation.Consejo (a) restructure the Post Office (includingcorporatization, revi- de Transporte y Lima Callao,Ave. 28 deJulio No. 800, Piso4, Li- talizationof postal network and resources, and development of ma, Peru, Tel/Fax: (51-1)433-2968, Contact Mr. AlejandroMo- institutionalcapacities; (b) arrange and partiallyfinance, on a de- rales Espinoza,Secretario Tecnico clining basis, private sector participation in the Post Office Transport Rehabilitation II: The project will assist with (a) through an incentive based management contract; and (c) pro- improvementsto nationalhighways in Northern Peru; (b) traffic vide technical assistance to assist the government in addressing safety program; and (c) pilot program to strengthen highway labor retrenchment issues resulting from these reforms. Ap- maintenance and management. Project preparation is under proved by the Executive Directors on 13 April 1999.Environ- way.Environmental Assessment Category B. USS184.0 (IBRD). mental Assessment Category C. US$ 14.85 (IBRD). Most Consultantshave been selected for project preparation.Proyec- consulting contracts have been awarded. Ministryof Public Util- to Especial Rehabilitacion Infraestructura de Transportes ities, Port of Spain,Trinidad and Tobago,West Indies, Tel: (868) (PERT),Ave. Bolivia 120, Torre de Lima,Piso 4. Lima, Peru, Tel: 627-4424(PBX), Fax: (868)625-2783,625-7004 (511) 433.4606,330.3960. Fax: (511) 330-2233,Contact: Waldo Judicial Reform: The project will support an institutional re- Carreno Meza, Director Ejecutivo form program within the judiciary to test the Ministry of Public Administration'scapacity to support such institutionalreforms. Urban Development including (a) restructuring and professionalizationof the court's administration;and (b) introductionof a number of mechanisms Urban Rehabilitation and Mdnagement The project will designed to expedite and enhance the qualityand cost-effective- strengthen institutionaland policy reform in selected municipal- ness of dispute resolution services provided by the judiciary. ities, including the metropolitan region of Lima, and improve Project being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category services in selected urban subsectors. Projectpreparation is un- C. USS 2.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Su- der way. Environmental Assessment Category B. USS 40.0 preme Court of Trinidad and Tobago, Hall of Justice, Port of (IBRD). Local and foreign consultants for project preparation Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, Tel: (868) 627-2695, have been hired and are being financed by a Japanese PHRD Fax: (868)6774431,6774577 Grant Ministry of Transport, Communication. Housing and Construction.Ave. 28 de Julio, 800 Lima, Peru, Tel/Fax: (51-1) WaeSul/Sntto 330.698, Contact Raul Molina WaterSupplylSanhtion Drainage and Flood Control: The project includes (a) rehabil- Lucia itationof selected existing irrigationand floodcontrol infrastruc- Saint ture installations; (b) construction of the Caroni River Basin works; (c) construction of the Vistabellaand MarbellaRiver Ba- SocialSector sin works; (d) and construction of the short termnCaparo River Poverty Reduction Fund: The project would improve access Basin works. Project preparation is under way. Environmental among the poor in relatively disadvantagedcommunities to ba- Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). ^onsultants have sic socialand economic infrastructure and services, through the been hired. Mmistry of Works and Transport, Level5, Salvatori financing of small-scale projects identified and implemented Bldg., Frederick St., Port of Spain,Trinidad and Tobago, Tel: with a high degree of community participation.The project's de- (868) 625-4512 velopmentobjectives are to (a) develop the institutionaland op- Water and Sewerage Rehabilitation: The project willaddress erational frameworkfor a social fund model that is appropriate a high-priorityemergency investmentprogram to reduce water for Saint Lucia.and to pilot the model's abilityto increase access losses includingmetering, replacementof water mains and reha- to basic socialand economic infrastructure and services among bilitation of pumping stations, groundwater wells, water treat- the poor and vulnerable, in accordance with their demands; and ment plants and water reservoirs. Project preparation is under (b) contribute to the sustainabilityof such investments; and (c) way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: TTPA8107. foster and build capacityfor community-leddevelopment initia- USS 95.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selected. Water and tives. Appraisalmission took place in March 1999.Environmen- Sewerage Authority (WASA),Farm Rd.,St. Joseph, Trinidad and tal Assessment Category B. USS 3.0 (IBRD/IDA).Consulting Tobago,Tel: (868)662-2301-7, Fax: (868)662-3584 services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Planning and SustainableDevelopment, Government Bldg.,Conway, Castries, Uruguay Saint Lucia,West Indies, Tel: (758) 453-7919,Fax: (758) 452- 6161,Contact: Mr. Curtis Greer, Executive Director, PovertyRe- duction Fund Environment Coastal and Marine Management The projectwould provide Trinidad and Tobago technical assistance and investmentsto strengthen the manage- ment of coastal and marine resources, and address priority is sues by (a) mitigating and preventing municipal, agricultural Environment and industrial pollutionalong the Uruguayan coastline;(b) sup- National Parks: The project will address renewablenatural re- porting the implementation of policy changes in the fisheries source management issues, and will introduce a system of pro- sector, (c) applyingleast-cost, technological solutions to assist in tected areas including a National Parks Authority. Project enforcement and monitoring; and (d) establishing public/pri- preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category vate partnerships to improve environmental performance. B. USS 12.0 (IBRD).Most consulting services have been con- Project is being identified. A GEF marine biodiversity/interna- tracted. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, National Parks and tional waterscomponent is also being identified.Environmental PAGE78 Monthly Operational Summary JULY1999 Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Consulting services ronmnent,Simon Bolivar Bldg.,Caracas, Venezuela,Tel: (58-2) to be determined. Presidencia de la Republica,Oficina de Pla- 408-1266,Fax: (58-2)483-9112 neamiento y Presupuesto (OPP), Edif.Libertad. L.A. de Herrera Sustainable Management of Imatac The project wif assist 3350, Montevideo, Uruguay, Tel: (58-2) 487-2110,Fax: (58-2) the government with specificmeasures and recommendations 480-7085,Contact: Cra. Mariella Maglia aimed at improving its environmental performance. Project preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category Environnent A. US$5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Min- Coastal Contamination-Fisheries: The project will address istry of Environmentand Natural Resources, Edif.Simon Boli- (a) environmental improvements in ports, and prevention and var,Caracas, Venezuela control of ship wastes; (b) oil spill contingency plans and strengthening of emergency response capacity; (c) improved Public Sector Management storage, handling and transport of hazardous materials and wastes; (d) updating' and complefion of the naval cartography (R) Public Expenditure ManagemnenteThe project aims at along the Uruguayancoast; (e) establshment ofa satellite-based improvingtransparency and accountabilityin the management and/or terrestrial electronic marine informationinfrastructure of public finance, and at strengthening mechanismsof monitor- (EMII); (f) regulatory and enforcement strengthening;and (g) ing and control of public resources. Negotiationscompleted. institutional capacity building, particularlyin the areas of pro- Board presentationwas scheduledfor late June 1999. Environ- moting integrated coastal and marine management. Project mental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD).Consulting preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category services to be determined. Ministry of Finance,Ave. Urdaneta, B. US$ 50.0 (GEF).Consulting services to be determined. Pres- Edif. Ramia, Piso 7, Caracas, Venezuela,Tel: (58-2)802-1723, idencia de la Republica,Oficina de Planeamientoy Presupuesto 802-1724,Fax: (58-2)802-1730,802-1731 (OPP), Edif. Libertad, LA de Herrera 3350, Montevideo,Uru- guay, Tel. (58-2) 487-2110,Fax: (58-2)480-7085, Contact: Cra. Urban Development Mariella Maglia Low Income Barrios II (National): The project includes (a) Public Sector Management institutionaldevelopment for the central government and local governments on decentralizationissues and (b) investmentfor (R) Financial Sector Reform: The projectwould support the barrio upgrading,focusing on water and sanitation,power distri- government's efforts to strengthen the financialsector, includ- bution, paving, titling and urbanization in secondary cities out- ing banking supervision and regulations. Projectis being iden'ti- side of metropolitan Caracas. Project is being identified. fied. Environmental Assessment Calegory C. USS 120.0 EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Con- (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Implementing sulting services and infrastructure works to be determnined. agency to be determined. FUNDACOMUN,Ministerio Familia, Ave. Abrahma Lincoln, fi- Second Contractual Savings Adjustment The project will nal Blvd.de Sabanas Grandes, Edif. FUNDACOMUN,Chacaito, implement further measures for strengthening capital markets Apartado50.218, Caracas, Venezuela, Fax: (58-2)952-0947 and enhancing the private pension scheme. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. USS 100.0 WaterSupplySanitation (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Implementing Caracas Water. The project will (a) arrest the deteriorationof agency to be determined. key facilitiesin the water supply system of Caracas and improve its reliability;(b) support the government's initiativeto privatize Venezuela the Caracaswater system; and (c) help the governmentbuild up an appropriateregulatory framework in the sector.The newgov- Education/Training ernment is reviewingthe priority of this project.Environmental AssessmentCategory C. US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be Secondary Education: The project would promote increased required for project preparation.Ministry of Environment,Cen- coverage, quality,efficiency and equity in secondary education tro SimonBolivar, Torre Sur, Piso 25, Caracas,Venezuela, Tel: through reforms in curriculum, textbooks,teacher trainingand (58-2)408-1001, 408-1002, 408-1004, Fax: (58-2)483-1148 managementof schools. Projectis being identified.Environmen- tal Assessment Category C. US$50.0 (IBRD).Consulting servic- Water Sector- The project willsupport the decentralizationof es to be determined. Ministerio de Educacion, Proyecto de water supply and sanitation services in selected states. Project EducacionSecundaria, Tel: (582) 564-1243,Fax: (582)564-0370, preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category Contact Dr. Hector Navarro, Ministro C. USS 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. HIDROVEN,States and Municipalities,Ave. Principal de Marip- Student Loan II: The scope of the project is to be determined. erez con. 9a. Transversal, Edif. Hidroven, Caracas,Venezuela, Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Category Tel: (58-2)793-1275, Fax: (58-2)793-0238 to be determined. USS 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Fundayacucho Segundo Projecto de Reforma de Credito Educativo, Caracas, Venezuela,Tel: (58-2) 241-3894, Fax. (58-2) 241-3777, Contact: Dr. Andres Mujica Guarantee Operations Environment In September 1994,the Bank's Executive Directorsapproved a Biodiversity (GEF): The project willsupport conservationand proposal to make guarantees a mainstream instrument of Bank sustainable use of biodiversityby reducing threats from mining, operations.These guarantees are most likelyto be used for infra- oil production and forestry. Project is being identified. Environ- structure financing,where the demands for fundingare large, mental Assessment Category to be determined. USS 10.0 political and sovereign risks are significant, and the need for (GEF).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Envi- long-maturityfinancing is often critical to a project'sviability. JULY 1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE79 By covering some of the risks that the market is not able to bear Thailand or adequately evaluate, the Bank's guarantee can attract new sources of finance, reduce financing costs, and extend matufi- Finance ties. The guarantee can be especially valuable where activities traditionallyundertaken and financed by the government are be- Investment Program Support Project-Bond Issue II: ing shifted to the private sector but where the government re- (Public Sector) The first of the two partial credit guarantees of mains as a regulatoror provider of inputs and a buyer of outputs. US$300.0 million each, was closed in October 1998.The second The Bank's participation as guarantor can also facilitate the bond is scheduled for fiscalyear 2000.Board presentationis ten- transparency of these transactions. tativelyscheduled for fiscalyear 2000. Since the guarantee is intended to be a catalytic instrument, the Bank offers only partial guarantees, and risks are clearlyshared South Asia Region between the Bank and private lenders. The Bank's objective is to cover risks that it is wellpositioned to bear givenits credit, its ex- perience with developingcountries, and its special relationships Bangladesh with governments. The risk-sharing may be for specific risks (the partial risk guarantee) or for part of the financing (the par- Power tial credit guarantee). A partial rsgurnecoesrikaHanpur Power. (Private sector) Estimated total project cost A partial rsk guarantee covers risks arising from nonper- USS175.0 million. Partial risk guarantee of about USS70.0 mil- formance of sovereigncontractual obligationsor from force ma- lion in support of the project is being considered. OC approval jeure aspects in a project.A partial credit guarantee typicallyex- was obtained earlier this calendar year. Board presentation is tends maturities beyondwhat private creditors could otherwise tentativelyscheduled for fiscalyear 2000. provide, for example,by guaranteeing late-datedrepayments or by providing incentives for lenders to roll over medium-term Sri Lanka loans.SrLak For more informationon the Bank's guarantee program and to Power obtain a copy of the pamphlet `The World Bank's Guarantees,' KeHnissa Power Project: (Private sector) Estimated total (available in English, French and Spanish) please contact the project cost: US$ 125.0mElson. Partial risk guarantee in support Manager, ProjectFinance Group.Tel: (202)473-1650; Fax: (202) of the project is being considered. Board presentation is tenta- tively scheduled for fiscal year 2000. East Asia and Pacific Region Europe and CentralAsia Region Lao People'sDemocratic Republic

Power Romania Nam Theun Power. (Private Sector) Construction of a 682 MW hydropowerproject to export power to Thailand.Estimated Industry total project cost: USSI.3billion. A partial risk enclaveguarantee Constaniza South Marine Grain Terminal: (PrivateSector) of a maximum of US$ 100.0million is being considered for this Construction and financingon a BOO/BOTbasis of an export- project. The operation received conditional approval by the OC oriented intermodal grain handling and storage compiex. Esti- late last year. PPAand Concession Agreement are currently be mated total project cost: USS65.0 million.Partial risk guarantee ing discussed. Board presentation is tentativelyscheduled for of about US$ 20.0 million covering Romania'sGovern:,.ent con- fiscal year 2000.01. tractual obligationsunder a concession agreement. Prequalifica- tion and Request for Proposal (RFP) under preparation.Board Viet Nam presentation is tentativelyscheduled for fiscal year 2000.

Power Turkey Phu My 2/2 Power. (PrivateSector) Construction and opera- Power tion of gas-fired generation plant of about 700MWcapacity by a private sponsor. Estimated total project cost: US$400.0million. Iskenderum Power Project (IPrivateSector) Construction IDApartial risk guarantee of up to US$ 75.0 millionin support of and Operation of a 1200MW coal fired power project and related commercial debt financewas offered as an option in the bidding. coal handling facilities in western Turkey. Estimated total Bids were submitted on 2 April 1998,Whether the IDA guaran- project cost: US$1.4billion. A Partial Risk Guarantee of about tee would be required by the winning bidder willnot be known US$ 180.0million to back Turkish Treasury's obligationsto the for another 3-5months. Board presentation is tentativelysched- project. The Energy Sales agreement was signed in January. uled for fiscal year 2Mo. Board presentation is tentativelyscheduled for fiscal year 2000. PAGE80 Monthly OperationalSummary JULY 1999

Middle East and Latin America and North Africa Region the Caribbean Region

Lebanon Bolivia/Brazil

Water Supply/Sanitation Power Awali-Beirut Water Conveyer Project- (Private Sector) Con- Bolivia -Brazil Gas Pipeline (Public/Private Sector):The con- struction of a water conveyer to tunnel water from Juan for a dis- struction of an approximately 3,000 km pipeline to transport nat- tance of 24 kilometers, with a treatment plant and reservoir, to ural gas from Rio Grande in Bolivia to Porto Alegre in Brazil via supply water to south Beirut. Estimated total project cost: US$ Sao Paulo. Estimated total project cost: US S2.0 billion. A partial 210.0 million. Partial risk guarantee of at least US$ 50.0 million credit guarantee of about US$ 180.0 million is being considered against government obligations to the project. Request for pro- for the project company in Brazil. The Brazilian interministerial posal is under preparation. Board presentation is tentatively body, COFIEX, has approved the use of partial credit guarantees scheduled for fiscal year 2000-01. for the project The project was approved by the Executive Di- rectors on 18 December 1997. Request for Proposal (RFP) to be issued soon. Board presentation is tentatively scheduled for fis- cal year 2000. JULY 1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE81

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AUSAID AustralianAgency for International ICB Internationalcompetitive bidding Development IDA InternationalDevelopment ADB Asian DevelopmentBank Association ADF AfricanDevelopment Fund IDB Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank AiDB AfricanDevelopment Bank IEPS Initial ExecutiveProject Summary APL AdaptableProgram Loan IFAD InternationalFund for AgriculturalDe- BADEA Banque arabe de developpement velopment economique en Afrique IsDB IslamicDevelopment Bank BOAD Banque ouest africainede 1`F InterimTrust Fund developpement KfW Kreditanstaltfir Wiederaufbau CDB Caribbean DevelopmentBank (Germany) CFD Caisse francaisede developpement UIL Learningand InnovationLoan CIDA Canadian InternationalDevelopment NCB NationalCompetitive Bidding Agency NGO Nongovernmentalorganization DANIDA Danish InternationalDevelopment NORAD NorwegianAgency for DevelopmentCo- Agency operation DFID Department for International OECF Overseas EconomicCooperation Fund Development (UK) (Japan) EBRD European Bankfor Reconstructionand OPEC Organizationof PetroleumExporting Development Countries EDF European DevelopmentFund PHRD Policyand Human Resources EIB European InvestmentBank Developmnent(apan) EU European Union PID Project InformationDocument FAC Fonds d'aide et de cooperation (France) PPF Project PreparationFacility FAO Food and AgriculturalOrganization of SDC SwissDevelopment Cooperation the United Nations SIDA SwedishInternational Development FAO/CP FAO CooperativeProgram (withthe Authority World Bank) UNDP United NationsDevelopment FINNIDA Finland InternationalDevelopment Programme Agency UNFPA United NationsPopulation Fund GEF Global EnvironmentFacility UNICEF United NationsChildren's Fund G1Z Deutsche Gesellschaftfir Technische USAID UnitedStates Agencyfor International Zusammenarbeit Development IBRD International Bankfor Reconstruction WHO WorldHealth Organization and Development PAGE82 Monthly Opwatinal Summary JULY1999

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