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1DA PROPOSED PROJECTS SUMMARY OF BANK AND MONTHLY OPERATIONAL (As of May 15, 1997) Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Distribution:

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-r- used in the MOS List of Abbreviations Bureau DevelopmentAssistance AustralianInternational AIDAB Bank Asian Development ADB Bank AfricanDevelopment AfDB de Developpement Caisse Francaise CFD Bank CaribbeanDevelopment Agency CDB Development DanishInternational and Development DANIDA Reconstruction EuropeanBank for EBRD Bank EuropeanInvestment EIB EuropeanUnion of the UN EU Organization Food and Agricultural WorldBank) FAO Program(with the FAO Cooperative Agency FAO/CP Development Finland International FINNIDA Facility GlobalEnvironment Zusammenarbeit GEF fur Technische DeutscheGesellschaft and Development GTZ for Reconstruction InternationalBank IBRD Association InternationalDevelopment IDA Bank Inter-AmericanDevelopment Development IDB for Agricultural InternationalFund IFAD Bank Islamic Development IsDB Wiederaufbau (Germany) Kreditanstalt fur Cooperation KfW for Development NorwegianAgency (UK) NORAD Administration OverseasDevelopment (Japan) ODA CooperationFund OverseasEconomic Countries OECF Exporting Organizationof Petroleum OPEC Facility ProjectPreparation Authority PPF Development SwedishInternational SIDA Programme UnitedNations Development Development UNDP for International United StatesAgency USAID WorldHealth Organization WHO Table of Contents (MOS) Monthly Operational Summary Projects of IBRD, IDA and GEF Proposed

1-27 Africa Region 28-48 East Asia and Pacific Region 49-72 Europe and Central Asia Region 73-94 Region Latin America and the Caribbean 95-104 Region Middle East and North Africa 105-116 SouthAsia Region 117-120 Issue New Project Added in This 121 ProjectsDeleted from This Issue'

MOS ANNEX I 1-2 Operations Prospective World Bank Guarantee

projects signed. from the lending programor lConsists of projects dropped A User's guide to the World Bank Monthly Operational Summary

The Monthly Operational Summary (MOS) reports on the status of projects in the World Bank's pipeline-from the point of identification of investment opportunities to the signing of the loan or credit. After loans or credits are signed, entries are dropped from the MOS.

By becoming familiar with the Bank's "project cycle," summarized in the following paragraphs, consultants or suppliers of goods and works can gauge when the timing is right for them to pursue business opportunities with Bank borrowers. Each entry in the MOS tells at what point in the project cycle a particular project resides.

During IDENTIFICATION, both governments and the Bank are involved in analyzing development strategies for the borrower's economy as a whole and in identifying projects that support those strategies. When the project identification is completed, the Project Information Document will be available through the Public Information Center -see below for more information.

PREPARATION, the second stage of the cycle, is the responsibility of the borrower. During preparation, the technical and institutional alternatives for achieving a project's objectives are identified and discussed. Preparation usually requires feasibility studies followed by more detailed studies of the alternatives that promise to yield the most satisfactory results. The environmental assessment is usually carried out during this phase-see below for more information on environmental assessment. In this stage of the project cycle, borrowers often supplement their own efforts by hiring consultants to carry out a major part of the work.

Project APPRAISAL, the responsibility of the Bank, provides a comprehensive review of all aspects of the project (technical, institutional, economic, and financial) and lays the foundation for implementing the project and evaluating it when completed. Conducted by Bank staff, project appraisal may be supplemented by individual experts. A Staff Appraisal Report is published following this stage.

During NEGOTIATIONS, discussions are held between the Bank and the borrower and agreements reached are contained in the draft loan documents. Upon completion of negotiations, the project is then presented to the Executive Directors of the Bank for their consideration. After approval, the loan agreement is signed.

IMPLEMENTATION of a project usually starts after the loan is declared effective, which can normally be expected to take a few months after loan signing. Contractors and suppliers, therefore, should contact borrowers expressing their interest in specific projects. They should obtain information on what goods and services will be needed, and when and how to submit bids and proposals. During implementation, consultants are often used to provide technical assistance and other project implementation support. As contracts for consulting services are not usually advertised, consultants, in particular, should contact the responsible implementing agency early in the project preparation period to express their interest.

Within each region, projects are classified by the following sector designations:

Agriculture Education/Training Private Sector Development Environment Public Sector Management Finance Social sector Industry Structural Adjustment Infrastructure Transport Population, Health, and Nutrition Urban Development Power Telecommunications Water Supply/Sanitation A typical entry in the MOS looks like this:

Kenya o Country Water Supply/Sanitation < ~~~~~~~~~~~Sector Mombasa Water and Sanitation: The project seeks to (a) develop ground water sources; (b) improve the transmission Title line between Baricho Well Field and Mombasa; and * Project and (c) provideemergency measures to Description improve distribution systems and reduce unaccounted for water. Project Stage preparation is under way. Environmental of Processing and Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. Assessment Category US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultant services to be determined. National Water - Amount of Conservation and Pipeline Corporation, loan or Workshop Road credit (US$ millions) and Commercial Street, PO Box 30173, Nairobi, 4 Name and Address of Implementing Kenya, Tel: (254-2) 556-600, Fax: Agency (254-2) 545-882

Information About the Environmental Assessment Applied Process to IBRD and IDA ProposedProjects In October 1989 the Bank established a specific policy and procedures for environmental analyses of IBRD environmental assessment and related and IDA lending operations. Under type, timing and main issues this environmental assessment process, of environmental analysis to be performed the time that a given lending operation by the borrower are to be confirmed is initiated into the Bank's prospective at the and updated on a quarterly basis lending program and thereafter reported in the Monthly Operational Summary. In October 1991 the Bank revised its policies and procedures categories based so that projects are now assigned upon the nature, magnitude, and one of the following sensitivity of environmental issues: Category A - Environmental Assessment is normally required adverse as the project may have and significant environmental impacts. Category B - More limited environmental analysis is appropriate, as the project may specific environmental impacts. have

Category C - Environmental analysis is normally unnecessary. "U" (unclassified) is being introduced to indicate structural and sectoral one of the above three adjustment loans, which do categories for purposes of the directive not fall within governing environmental assessment. The 1991 revision also introduced the use of a standard environmental main issues and schedule data sheet for all projects to identify for any required environmental analysis. the Project descriptions in every issue of the Monthly or Operational Summary include C, except in the case of structural the environmental category A, and sectoral adjustment loans which B, (in the January, April, July and are designated "U". On a quarterly October issues) the Monthly Operational basis annex which includes the environmental Summary contains an environmental data sheets for Category A projects, projects, and a listing of projects data sheet headers for Category in Categories C and T ("to be determined"). B Business Opportunities full responsibilityfor the design and Borrowingcountries through their implementingagencies have the hiring of consultantsand the procurementof goods implementationof WorldBank-financed projects, including for goods and works., are normallyprocured during and works.Contracts for consultingservices, as well as some approval(advance contracting). implementation,but may also he procuredprior to loan/credit works, are only advertisedwhen a contract is valued Contractsfor consultingservices, unlike those for goodsand shouldcontact the responsibleimplementing agency more than US$ 200,000.Therefore,consultants, in particular, interest in providingservices described in the MOS. early in the projectpreparation period to express their possible enable consultantsto assess their possibleinterest. The information in the MOS is intendedto be adequateto agency.The likelihoodof a timelyresponse is Further informationshould be requestedof the implementing travelto the borrower's countryand establishing enhancedif the queries are brief and to the point. Whenpossible, direct contactswith the relevantagency officials is recommended. by fax) only if they are unableto obtain a response Firrns shouldcontact the WorldBank task manager(preferably from the implementingagency. loans/creditsmay be obtained form the WorldBank General informationabout businessopportunities under Bank Unit, at fax number(202) 522-3317.Detailed BusinessAffairs Adviser, Procurement Policy and Coordination implementingagency or task manager.It is strongly informationon specificprojects should be obtainedfrom the attend one of the WorldBank MonthlyBusiness suggestedthat anyoneinterested in trackingWorld Bank projects and the Europeanoffice in Paris. Briefingsoffered in the Bank's WashingtonDC headquarters

World Bank Publications comrnmunity,may be obtained throughthe World Bank The followingpublications, which are useful to the business and booksellerslocated in some 80 countriesand PublicationsDepartment or throughWorld Bank distributors territories in every continent: Guide to International Business Opportunities The Project Cycle b World Bank Borrowers Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants Credits Guidelines: Procurement Under IBRD Loans and IDA StandardBidding Documents Regional and sectoralstudies World Bank Group Telephone Directory at 701 18thStreet NW Mondayto Friday, 10:00a.m. Visitors to WashingtonD.C. may visit the Bank's bookstore the Publisherat: (202) 473-1155,or fax your order to to 4:00 p.m. To order publicationsplease call the Officeof can link up to the Bank's Indexof Publicationsat: (202) 676-0581.Computer users with access to the Internet http://www.worldbank.org

Public Information Center A wide varietyof documentsis availableat the The Bank opened its Public InformationCenter in early 1994. free throughthe Internet at the above location.The Center and many of these same documentsare also available tel: (202) 458-5454,fax: (202) 522-1500,E-mail: office is located at 1776G St. NW,Washington DC 20433, bookstore.Types of documentsthat are available [email protected] of operationare the same as the EnvironmentalAssessments, and ProjectInfornation include Staff AppraisalReports, Country EconomicReports, MOS. Thesetwo-to-three page project summaries, Documents(PIDs). The PIDs are a useful supplementto the projectinformation than is possibleto publishin the producedduring projectprepaiation, contain more specific entry by listingthe PID number. MOS. If a PID is available,this is indicatedin the MOS project also open in WorldBank offices in Paris, London, and PIC reading rooms, with documentsand work stations,are the PIC and will provide the documentsspecific to the Tokyo. Bankresident missionswill provide informationon country where the officc is located. documents,not blanket requestsfor information. Please note the PIC will deal only with requestsfor specific

C) WorldBank 1997 Africa Region June 1997 1 Angola buildingprogram for the Ministryof Social Assistanceand Agriculture Reintegration.Board presentation is scheduledfor April 1998.Environmental Assessment Category C. AgricultureRehabilitation: The project will work with the US$ 24.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agricultureto restart the adaptive trials Ministryof SocialAssistance and ReintegrationSupport, program,initiate extension services and review the current Ave. DeolindaRodrigues, Luanda, Angola, Tel: (244-2) structureand activitiesof the Ministryof Agriculture. 342-929 Projectprocessing is currentlyon hold. The NGO componentpreviously reported has been incorporatedinto Angola the EmergencyReconstruction Project. Cofinancingwill be StructuralAdjustment required. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: StructuralAdse AOPE40145. The S u justment: project US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consultants will provideimpor will be required. financingto supportthe structuraladjustment Ministryof Agricultureand program. Rural Development,Ave. Projectidentification is contingentupon ComandanteGika, Luanda, the government's Angola,Tel: (244-2) 322-694, progressin implementinga stabilization Fax: (244-2)321-943 program. Cofinancingwill be required.Environmental Category Assessment Angola U. US$ 115.0(IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Education/Training Ministryof Finance,Ave. 4 de Fevereiro,No. 127. CP 592, Luanda, Angola, lx: 3363, Tel: (244-2) 335-804,332-122 LaborForce Skills Developmentand Training:The project will (a) promoteskills development;(b) make Angola i technical and vocationaleducation and training more Water Supply/Sanitation responsiveto the needsof employersand the labor market; (c) give a more importantrole to the privatesector in the UrbanWater and Sanitation:The project will provisionof training;and provide (d) improve the qualityand institutionalstrengthening to the National efficiencyof public Directorateof . sectortraining. Project preparation is Water and the ProvincialCommissariat under way. of Luanda. The EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: project will also improve AOPE31. public and individualwater supply and sanitationfacilities in Luanda and disseminationin US$ 30.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. up to five provincialcapital cities. Negotiationsare tentativelv Ministryof Labor,Public Administration and Social scheduled Sec:irity, for August 1997.Environmental Assessment Luanda, Angola,Tel: (244-2) 338-943,Fax: (244- CategoryB. 2) 338-943 An interest in cofinancinghas been expressed by the EuropeanUnion (US$ 7.0 million) and Italy (US$ 13.0million). Additional cofinancing will be required.PID: Angola AOPE00046. Infrastructure US$70.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. NationalDirectorate of Water, Rua RainhaGing, No. 210- Post-ConflictReconstruction: The project will focus on 10, Luanda,Angola, Tel: (244-2) 33-38-90,Fax: (244-2) rehabilitatingcritical infrastructurein six cities. 33-40-37 Negotiationsare scheduledfor October 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Benin US$ 104.0(IDA). No consultantsare required. Ministryof Planning,Largo 17de Septembro,Luanda, A Angola,Tel: (244-2)338-686 AgricultureSector Investment: The program is a follow- up to the Agricultural Angola ServicesRestructuring Project. The focus will be on the public sector agricultureprogram: research, SocialSector extension,animal health, forestry and fisheries. Theproject will promotediversification, (R) Emergency small-scale SocialRecovery: The projectwill provide irrigationand feedsdistribution social assistance throughthe private sector. to groupsaffected by the war.Components Preappraisalmission was include scheduled for June 1997. (a) a reintegrationfund for small-scalecommunity- EnvironmentalAssessment basedprojects CategoryB. PID: BJPEI14. to supportthe resettlementand reintegration US$ 40.0 (IDA).Consulting of demobilized servicesto be determined. soldiers,internally d:splaced people, Ministryof Rural Development, returning BP 03-2900,Cotonou, refugeesand the handicapped;b) an emergency Benin,Tel: (229)30-04-96 fund for childrenaffected by the war; and (c) a capacity

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Benin Africa Region Education/Training Burkina faso Labor Agriculture Force Trainingand Development: support:(a) in-service The projectwill (R) trainingof personnel AgriculturalSector Adjustment informalsectors in formal and II (SECALII): and (b) employmentservices project will assist the government The emphasison women. with in deepeningreforms Preappraisalmission initiatedunder SECAL 1. scheduledfor is tentatively This includes reformsin September1998. Environmental pricingfor agriculturalcommodities, trade and Category C. Assessment sub-sector reforms in the cotton and restructuringof US$ 30.0(IDA). Consulting Negotiations the Ministryof Agriculture. Ministry services will be required. were scheduledfor mid-June of Labor,Employment EnvironmentalAssessment 1997. Administrative and Social Affairsand CategoryC. Reform;Ministry US$40.0 (IDA). Restructuring of Planning, Economic Consultantsmay be required. and EmploymentPromotion Ministryof Agriculture B and AnimalResources Benin BurkinaPaso Environment Agriculture (R) NationalParks Conservation: (R) AgriculturalServices (a) capacity The project will include II: The projectwill be a buildingfor the relevant up to Agricultural follow- to promote governmentagencies ServicesI and will concentrate efficientmanagement extensionand functional on protection of protected areas; and (b) literacy,reinforcing of priorityparks and nationalresources the links with in surrounding eco-developmentactivities managementand promotion huntingreserves organizations.The of farmers' preparation and buffer zones. Project project will also provide is underway. Submission NationalAgricultural supportto the expected to the GEF Council ResearchInstitutes to in July 1997. An advance is technologiesrelevant generate assist has been approved to producers' and in implementing government to The total project processors'needs. institutional reforms cost is estimated at necessaryfor project implementation. Board presentation US$ 47.1 million. Assessment Environmental is scheduled for 24 June CategoryB. EnvironmentalAssessment 1997. US$ 5.0 (GEF). CategoryB. PID: BFPE296. Consultingservices to US$ 41.2 (IDA). Short-term Ministryof be determined. consultantservices will Rural Development,National requiredin the field of gender be ForestryAdministration PAs Office of the programs. issuesand selectedresearch Ministryof Agriculture Benin and AnimalResources, BP Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso, 7010, (226) Tel: (226) 30-85-14,Fax: 31-08-70;Ministry of PrivateSector Development Education Secondaryand Higher and ScientificResearch, (R) PrivateSector Development: Faso, Tel: (226) Ouagadougou,Burkina Theproject will 335-708,Fax: (226) 310-968 (a) legal and judicial reform; support: (b) enterprise development; and (c) exportpromotion. Burkina Faso Appraisalmission is scheduled for September1997. Environmental Agriculture C. AssessmentCategory PID: BJPE39882. (R)Private Irrigation: US$ Te projectwill promote 30.0 (IDA).Consulting services iRrigate mailgall-scale private Implementing to be determined. project lomot agencyis to be determined, irrigation,mainly small-scale pring from irrigation,by low-liftpumping Benin storageshalow aquifers,and possibly providedby existing earth large-scaleirrigation, usitig dams. Totalproject cost estimatedat US$ is UrbanDevelopment tentatively 21.0million. Appraisal mission scheduledfor late May wasI Urban II: The Assessment 1997. Environmental project will supportthe implementation CategoryB. PID: BFPE302, the government'surban of US$ developmentstrategy 16.5(IDA). Consultingservices being preparedunder which is Ministry to be determined. the ongoingUrban Rehabilitation of Agricultureand Animal ManagementProject and Ouagadougou, Resources,BP 7010. (Cr. 2338-BEN).The project BurkinaFaso likelyinclude urbaninfrastructure will most Burkina rehabilitationand Faso supportto municipaldevelopment. Preappraisalmission scheduledfor January 1998. is Education/Training Ucaegory EnvironmentalAssessment Bor Jan. Envi.ental BasicEducation: The US$ determed. project will supportthe 35.0 (IDA).Consulting services and implementation development Implementing to be determined, of a rational strategy agencyiS to be determined. education,including programs for primary 2 to promotegirls education.

-ir. - 1t June 1997 AfricaRegion US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. identified.Environmental Assessment (ONEA),c/o Projectis being OfficeNational de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement CategoryC. WorldBank ResidentMission, BP 622, Ouagadougou, US$ 30.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. Mission, BurkinaFaso, Fax: (226) 30-33-79 Ministry of Education,c/o WorldBank Resident Faso, Tel: (226) 31- PO Box 622, Ouagadougou,Burkina Burundi 31-85,Fax: (226) 31-36-42 Education/Training Faso The project will assist the governmentin Burkina (R) EducationV: of improvingthe efficiency,quality, and relevance Industry education,including teacher education and deployment. Buildingand Environment Mining Capacity The governmentis designing a long-termeducational The project aims to support government The Management: strategywith the support of UNICEF and UNESCO. comprehensivereform to promoteprivate sector initiativesfor situationin Burundi is not yet conduciveto renewing in mining.Board presentationis for August sector investment dialogue. Preappraisal mission is scheduled 1997. Environmental Assessment scheduled for October 1997.Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: BFPE283. to CategoryC. US$ 20.0 (IDA).Consultants are likelyto be required Consultantswill be requiredfor regulatory. on education. US$ 20.0 (ITF). assist the governmentin elaboratingits policy institutionalstrengthening and for work Mission, tax, environment, Ministryof Education,c/c World Bank Resident database. (257-22) on the geology BP 2637. Bujumbura,Burundi, Tlx: 5095, Fax: Ministry of Energyand Mines,Directorate General BurkinaFaso, Tel: 26005 Geology,01 BP 514, Ouagadougou, Cameroon (226) 31-78-64,Fax: (226) 31-78-64 Agriculture Burkina Faso (R) AgriculturalExtension and ResearchProgram Infrastructure is to increaseproduction will Support:The aim of the project Public Works and EmploymentIl: The project more effectivetechnology works, promotelocal and incomesby supporting finance a programof small municipal through national agriculturalresearch and develop labor- transferto farmers contractors,create new employment programs.Board presentationis scheduled is beingidentified. and extension intensiveprojects. Project 1997. PID: CMPE45348.Environmental CategoryB. for August EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryB. servicesto be determined. Assessment US$ 10.0 (IDA).Consulting 30.0 (IDA). Consultantservices to be determined 6633, Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso, Tel: US$ (237) Faso Baara,01 BP Ministry of Agriculture,Yaound6, Cameroon, Fax: (226) 313-185,Fax: (226) 31-36-42 31-67-02;Ministry of Sciencesand TechnicalResearch. Yaounde,Cameroon, Fax: (237) 22-14-54 Burkina Faso Cameroon StructuralAdjustment The project will support a Education/Training (R) StructuralAdjustment II: Improvement:The projectwill assist the reformsincluding completion BasicEducation secondphase of macro-policy in improvingthe quality of basic education, as well as reformsin the energy government of financialsector reform, access, and strengtheningsector management. sectors.Project preparation is increasing and telecommunications mission was scheduled for June 1997. was scheduledfor June Preappraisal under way. Project concept review AssessmentCategory C. AssessmentCategory U. Environmental 1997. Environmental US$ 10.0(IDA). Consultantswill be required. Consultingservices to be determined. US$ 60.0 (IDA). Ministryof Education,c/o The World Bank Resident Finance,and Planning,BP 7050, 8551 Ministry of Economy, Mission,PO Box 1128,Yaounde, Cameroon, Tlx: Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso KN, Tel: (237) 225-176, Fax: (237) 230-855 Burkina Faso Cameroon Supply/Sanitation Water Development assist the governmentin PrivateSector Water Supply:The project will Divestiture: The projectincludu; rehabilitation Enterprise Reform and improvingthe sector managementand the (a) privatization,including supply.Appraisal the followingcomponents: and expansionof the Ouagadougouwater reform and transactions;and (b) 1997.Environmental regulatoryand institutional mis5,ionis scheduledfor September to addressbottlenecks to BFPE306. competitiveness AssessmentCategory A. PID: 3 June 1997

domestic/international competition Africa Region Projectpreparation and related areas. is underway. Bank Resident AssessmentCategory Environmental Mission,Rue de C. Bangui,Central Missions,PO Box 819, US$ 150.0(IDA). AfricanRepublic, Tel: Consultantswill be required 577, Fax: (236) 616-087 (236) 616-138,616- of privatizationand competitiveness. in the areas Ministry of Finance,c/o Box World BankResident Central African 1128,Yaounde, Cameroon, Mission,PO Republic Fax: (237) 21-07-22 Cameroon StructuralAdjustment StructuralAdjustment: Social deepen The project Sector the structuraladjustment will broadenand Rural process through *~~~ua Infrastructure changes policy .nrsrutr Fund:This project will designedto rehabilitate creatingemployment Fud This...... prjc willg aim at and improve opportunitythrough aimoratjc frameworkof key state the regulatory infrastructureat the provisionof basic enterprises,including communitylevel. energy sector. rprainhsbe dlyddetthose in the identified.Environmental Projectis being Projectpreparation has AssessmentCategory country situation. been delayeddue US$ 10.0(IDA). Consulting B. EnvironmentalAssessment to Ministry servicesto be determined. PID: CFPE35990. CategoryU. of Finance,c/o The World US$ 20.0 PO Box 1128, BankResident Mission, (IDA).Consulting services Yaounde,Cameroon, Ministryof will not be required. 20-31-57,21-08-36, Tel: (237) 20-38-15. Finance, PO Box 912, Fax: (237) 21-07-22 Republic,Tlx: Bangui,Central African 236 5280, Tel: (236) Cape Verde 61-63-98 61-70-55.Fax: (236) SocialSector Central African Republic SocialSector Development: Transport poverty The projectwill decrease and supportquality improvements Transport and nutrition. in child Sector Il: The project Project is being health rehabilitation will focus on (a) of US$ identified.A Japanese and maintenance 200,000was approved grant and selected of the primary road Environmental for project preparation. feederroads, (b) network AssessmentCategory small- developmentof emerging US$13.2 C. and medium-sizedenterprises (IDA).Consulting services industry in the construction Ministry to be determined. (c) improvementof transport of EconornicCoordination, preparation facilitation.Project Verde, CP 30, Praia,Cape is delayeddue to current Tel: (238) 615-846,615-2605, Environmental countrysituation. Fax: (238) 613-897 AssessmentCategory US$ 30.0 A. CentralAfrican (IDA). Consultantswill Republic Ministeredes be required. Transportset du Desenclavement, Education/Training des TravauxPublics, Ministere du Logementet de BasicEducation: l'Amenagementdu Projectobjectives Territoire,BP 978, Bangui, applyingstrategic includedeveloping and (236) 61-62-94.Fax: Central African Republic, planningof sector (236) 61-65-79 Tel: investment,with spendingand special emphasison educational CentralAfrican and femalebasic education. quality Republic way. Projectpreparation UrbanDevelopment EnvironmentalAssessment is under CategoryC. US$ 15.0(IDA). Consulting Urban Ministry servicesto be determined. EnvironmentRehabilitation: of Education,c/o World on (a) the The projectfocuses Rue de Missions, BankResident Mission, rehabilitationand improvement PO Box 819, Bangui, infrastructure, of urban Republic,Tel: CentralAfrican including stormdrainage, (236) 616-138,616-577, sanitation, water supply Fax: (236) 616-087 (b) launchingcommunity and in urbanneighborhoods; developmentprograms CentralAfrican and (c) the Republic reform of urbaninstitutions. developmentand Population, scheduled Board presentation Healthand Nutrition for late July1997. is EnvironmentalAssessment (R) Healthand Category Nutrition:The project US$ 18.8B. PID: CFPE455. qualityand availability will improvethe (IDA).Consultant of basic services, Ministryof Public services will be required. sanitation,nutrition, including Works,BP 978, Bangui, and family planning Republic,Tlx: 980 CentralAfrican Preappraisal mission services. 5267 is tentatively scheduledfor 1997, pending country November Chad Assessment conditions. Environmental CategoryC. Education/Training US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consultantswill Ministryof Public be required. Health and Social Education Sector Affairs,c/o World Investment:The 4 EducationIV and project builds upon TMIisproject V and the government's will supportbroad sector sector strategy. programs.Project is

IU AfricaRegion June 1997 beingidentified. Environmental Assessment Category C. Chad US$ 30.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agencyis to be determined. Transport Chad Third TransportSector: The aim of pursuethe developmentof the prioritythe road project networkis to Environment and its maintenancereforms. Project is being identified. (R) Hou(seholdEnergy: The EnvironmentalAssessment Category project will (a) increasethe US$ 20.0 (IDA).Consulting to be determined. sustainablesupply of wood fuels,(b) improvethe efficiency servicesto be determined. of household US$2. d TrAvu Pul ice to e des fuels in urbancenters; and (c) enhancethe MTnistpre role of the des TravauxPublics, de ('Habitatet des private sectorin the householdenergy sector. Transports(N'Djamena, Negotiations were scheduledfor Chad, Tel: (235) 51-20-96,Fax: early June 1997. 125) 52-37- EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Chad US$ 5.8 (IDA). No consultantsare required. Ministry of Mines, Energy and Petroleum,N'Djamena, UrbanDevelopment Chad, Tel: (235) 51-34-37,Fax: (235) 51-25-65 UrbanInfrastructure: The project will include Chad community-basedwater and sanitationimprovements (mainlydrainage) at the neighborhood Power level and urban servicesmanagement. Appraisal missionis scheduled (R) PetroleumSector Management: for The projectwill (a) March 1998.Environmental providetechnical assistance US$ 10.0 AssessmentCategory B. to the governmentfor the MinistryoPbcors,itate (IDA).No consultants are required. supervisionof Daka Oil Project, (b) re anised increasethe ' government'scapacity to manageand promotethe N'Djamena,Chad, Contact:Mr. Ismael Mochtar petroleumsector, and (c) provide capacitystrengthening in Comoros the appropriateuse of oil reserves.Appraisal mission is scheduled for 27 June 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Education/Training Categoryto be determined. (R) ThirdEducation: The project will continueto (a) US$ 12.0to 15.0(IBRD/IDA). Consulting services to be determined. strengthenthe deliveryof educationthrough quality inputs, communityparticipation, Ministry of Mines, and decentralizedmanagement; Energy, Hydraulicsand Petroleum, and (b) support N'Djamena,Chad vocationaltraining. The project is scheduled to be presentedfor approval,following ITF procedures,in Chad late June 1997.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$8.3 (ITF). Consultingservices Power to be determined. Ministryof Education,Bureau des Projets (R) Sedigi Petroleum Education, and Power: The projectaims to Moroni, efficiently Comoros,Tel: (269-73)3086, Fax: (269-73)3086 substitutedomestically produced petroleum for Comoros imports.The projectconsists of a pipeline,refinery and power generation facility. Appraisal mission is scheduled Social for October Sector 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. Population Amount and HumanResources II: The project will to be determined(IDA). Consultingservices to be continue determnined. to financeactivities under the ongoingsocial fund. The projectis likely SEERAT,N'Djamena, Chad to includehealth initiatives. Preappraisalmission was scheduledfor June 1997. Chad EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$5.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. StructuralAdjustment Ministryof Finance,Moroni, Comoros, Tel: (269) StructuralAdjustment II: 73-26- The operationwill support 81, Fax: (269) 74-41-69 Chad's adjustmentprogram which includesimproving Cororos public finance,divestiture and private sectorpromotion. Projectpreparation is under way.Environmental Structural Assessment Adjustment CategoryU. Structural US$20.0 (ITF). Adjustment: The operation willfocus on No consultantsare required. macro-economic Ministry of Planning,N'Djamena, measuresand deregulationto strengthen Chad, Tel: (235) 51-89- economicperformance 81, Fax: (235) 51-51-85 and promoteprivate-sector development.Project preparation is under way. S

-Ir. June 1997 Africa Region Environmental Assessment Category U. PID: KMPE35619. Project Concept Document US$ 8.0 (IDA). No was issued in May 1997. consultants are required. Environmental l Ministry Assessment Category to be determined. of Finance, Moroni, Comoros, Tel: (269) 74-41-41 US$ 8.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Congo Ministry of Public Works Agriculture Congo Agricultural Services: The project will support the Urban Development V establishment of effective agricultural support services Urban Sanitation: The project will support including extension services, adaptive and (a) labor-based agricultural improvement of urban infrastructure; research and support training and functional (b) community-based literacy. sanitation improvement of poorer Project preparation is under way. neighborhoods; and (c) Environmental urban services management. Assessment Category B. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 9.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consultants will Ministry of Agriculture, BP 98, Brazzaville, be required for final Congo, Tel: designs and works supervision. (24-2) 83-08-14, Fax: (24-2) 83-23-93 Agence Congolaise d'Execution de Travaux Urbains. Congo ACETUR ville de Pointe Noire; Ministry of Planning Population, Health and Nutrition Cote d'Ivoire (R) Health Services Development (formerly Population, Structural Health Adjustnent and Nutrition): The project is designed to deepen the Structural Adjustment: The credit will support policy and institutional reforms in the public the health and government's Economic Reform nutrition (HNP) sector and to Program. Project accelerate the expansion of preparation is basic HNP services under way. Environmental Assessment with the participation of the NGOs and Category communities. U. Appraisal mission is scheduled for late June US$ 150.0 (IDA). Consultants will be 1997. Environmental Assessment Category required for project C. preparation and supervision. US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be required. Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Health and the Congolese BP V 125, Abidjan, C6te Family Planning d'lvoire, Tel: (225) Association (ACBEF), 218-022, Fax: (225) 211-690. Contact: PO Box 2101, Brazzaville, Congo, Mr. Emmanuel Tel: (242) 836-818 N. N'Goran Congo Coted'lvoire Transport Public Sector Management (R) Transport Sector Adjustment Investment: (R) Public and Financial The Sector Reforn (Structural project Adjustment aims to improve efficiency, cost performnance Credit): The project objective is to support and service level in the transport sector by funding: Congo's transition from a state-controlled to a market (a) the privatization of parastatals; (b) the privatization economy through (a) civil service and public expenditure of the execution of road maintenance works; reform; (b) privatization and private sector (c) institutional development; reforms; (d) regulation reformns; and (c) financial sector reforms. Negotiations (e) fiscal reforms; (f) were managerial training for scheduledfor June 1997. the public and private sectors; and Environmental Assessment (g) civil Category U. works, road rehabilitation and periodic maintenance, selected investments US$ 20.0 (ITF). Consultants will be in road transport and required for port infrastructure and privatization, legal framework, equipment. Appraisal mission is in debt inventory, and reform thefield. Environmental of social security agency. Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA). Consultants Ministry of Economy and Finance, will be required for Brazzaville, Congo, Tel: preparation and (242) 83-78-30, Fax: supervision. (242) 83-77-99 Ministere des Infrastructures Economiques, clo World Bank Regional Congo Office, Abidjan, C6te d'Ivoire, Tel: (225) 44-20- 38, Fax: (225) 44-16-87, Contact: Mile Transport Niale Kaba, Chef de Cabinet adjoint du Premier Ministre Emergency Road: The project will finance the rehabilitation of major paved roads and restore road maintenance capacity. Project is being identified. Draft 6 Africa Region June 1997

CMted'lvoire scheduledfor September1997. Environmental Assessment UrbanDevelopment CategoryA. PID: CIPE40827. US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. (R) Urban Land Management:The project will assist in Ministry of Agricultureand Livestock,BP 82, Abidjan, the preparationof a reform packagewhich wouldlead to an C6te d'Ivoire, Tel: (225) 21-14-21;Ministry of Finance, enabling environmentfor a market-orientedland Abidjan,Cote d'Ivoire managementand housing financesystem. Board presentation was scheduledfor 10 June 1997. Cote d'lvoire EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Education/Training US$ 10.0 (IDA). Education:hrcisp(t Consultantswill be required. BasicEducation: The project will support (a) the Ministryof Housing,BP V 153,Abidjan, C6te d'Ivoire, revitalizationof the educationsystem, (b) increasingthe Fax: (225) 21-45-51 accessto and equity of educationand (c) strengthening sectormanagement. Appraisal mission was scheduledfor CMte d'lvoire June 1997.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IDA).Consultants will be requiredin the areas of - Agriculture public managementand administration;decentralization of (R) AgriculturalServices II: The project will support(a) services;and education,finance, and school-levelresearch the AutonomousAgricultural Services Agency and management. (ANADER);and(b) agriculturalresearch restructuring. Ministriesof Education,Technical Training and Higher Appraisal mission is scheduledfor September 1997. Education EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be requiredto support CMted'lvoire agriculturalresearch. Environment Ministry of Agricultureand Livestock,BP 82, Abidjan, (R) NationalEnvironmental Program: The project will Coted'Ivoire, Tel: (225) 21-14-21 ()Ntoa niomna rga:Tepoetwl support a programof action to protectthe environment, CMted'lvoire basedon the country's National EnvironmentalAction Agriculture Plan. Projectis being identified.Environmental Assessment CategoryC. (R) RuralLand Managementand Infrastructure US$ 40.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Development:The projectwill support (a) community- Ministryof Environment,Housing and Urban Development, based natural resourcesmanagement and village Abidjan,Cote d'Ivoire,Fax: (225) 21-46-18 infrastructuredevelopment; (b) institutionalstrengthening and improvementof regulatoryframework; and (c) CMte d7voire environmentalmonitoring and geographicinformation. The Environment project was presentedfor approval,following ITF procedures,on 22 May 1997.Environmental Assessment (R) Park Protectionand Management:The project will CategoryA. PID: CIPE01194. includecapacity building for nationalenvironment, tourism US$41.0 (ITF). Consultantswill be required in the areas of and forestryagencies, research institutions and NGOs. It land surveys,community development, and legislation. will also include park managementand establishmentof Ministryof Agricultureand Livestock,BP 82. Abidjan, buffer zones for priorityprotected areas. A project C6te d'Ivoire,Tel: (225) 21-14-21;Ministry of Planning preparationadvance has been approved.Appraisal mission and Industrial Development; Office of the Prime Minister, is scheduled for February 1998. Environmental Assessment Tel: (225) 21-11-00 Category B. US$ 10.0(GEF). Consultingservices to be determnined. C6te d'lvoire Ministryof Agricultureand Animal Resources Agriculture Cote d'lvoire (R) Second Forestry Sector: The project will be the second Finance phase of a long-term nationalforestry development plan to (a) pursue implementation protection and management (R) Financial Sector Development: The project will activities in state forests; (b) strengthen environmental and financetechnical assistance to support financial sector forestry policies, training and research; and (c) strengthen development. Preappraisal mission is scheduled for local capacitv forforest management. Appraisal mission is September 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 12.0 (IDA).Consultants will be requiredfor 7 June 1997 Africa Region preparationand implementation. Ministryof Finance Equatorial Guinea Power C6te d'lvoire Energy I: The project will PrivateSector Development support(a) improvementof the (R) managementof oil and PrivateSector Development Technical gas resourcedevelopment; (b) power The project will support Assistance: sectorreform thecreation of an arbitration and promotionof private investment and a privatelymanaged court generationand (c) upgrading in power exportpromotion company. of distributionnetworks and Negotiations power systemoperations. were scheduled for mid-June Appraisalmission is scheduled Environmental 1997. September for AssessmentCategory C. 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment US$ 5.0 (IDA). PID: GQPE656 CategoryA. Consultingservices to be determined. PrimeMinister's US$ 10.0 (IDA). Technical Office,Abidjan, Cote d'lvoire, Tel: assistancewill be required 22-18-47,Fax: (225) the areas of (a) monitoring in (225) 21-70-41 of oil explorationand production activitiesand negotiations Cote regulations; (c) setting with oil companies:(b) enforcing d'lvoire up an informationsystem on UrbanDevelopment hydrocarbonresources; (d) reformingthe powersector; (e) bidding for the private sector and power to build, own and operate Urban Rehabilitationand Employment: stations in Malabo and Bara. to improve The projectseeks Ministry urbanproductivity and urban of Mines and Energy,Malabo, Equatorial through environment Tel: (240-9) Guinea. primaryinfrastructure investments. 2086,3567,Fax: (240-9) 3353 also facilitate The project will regulatoryreforms through local of environmental management Eritrea issues.Preappraisal mission for mid-September is scheduled Education/Training 1997.Environmental Assessment CategoryA. US$ 65.0 (IDA).Consultants Education:The project will be required. will (a) expand rural accessand Ministryof Construction improveeducational quality and Urbanism to supportimprovement of teachingfacilities and increaseavailability Djibouti other educationalmaterials; of textbooksand (b) improvethe quality of vocationaltraining and build, furnish E;ducation/Training and equip two skills developmentcenters; and (c) provide School strengthening institutional Development:The project will to improvethe organization sector supporteducation capacity and management development.The objectives withinthe educationsector. Negotiations to primary are to (a) increaseaccess scheduled are education;(b) improvethe quality for September1997, pending at the primary of education discussions. government and secondarylevels; (c) develop EnvironmentalAssessment Category mechanisms ERPE34156. B. PID: for sustainableschool-based management; (d) strengtheninstitutional and US$ 15.2(IDA). Consulting capacityof the Ministryof servicesto be determined. Education.Identification Ministry of Education,PO missionis tentativelyscheduled Box 1056,Asmara, Eritrea,Tel: for September/October1997. Environmental (291-1) 11-38-79,Fax: (291-1) 12-19-13 CategoryC. Assessment US$ 10.0(IDA). Consultingservices Eritrea Ministry to be determined. Population, of NationalEducation, Djibouti-ville, Healthand Nutrition Tel: Djibouti, Popultion, (253) 35-20-52,Fax: (253) 35-68-19 Hea ethaNutrition (R) Health: The the project's overallobjectives are Djibouti health and well-beingof the population Coimprove country's and reduce the burdenof disease in a cost-effective Population,Health and sustainable manner. and Nutrition Project components include: Health: construction of two referral (a) the The project will support (a) health hospitals; (b) equipping health policies; (b) furnishing and sector management; and (c) service existing health centers and health preparation delivery. Project development stations; (c) is under way. Specific processing of management and financing dependent schedule is strengthening systems; and (d) on development of macro-economic institutional capacity of the Ministry and completion framework Health. Total of of a povertyassessment. Environmental project cost is US$ 14.5 million. Assessment mission was Appraisal CategoryC. scheduledfor late May 1997.Environmental US$ 14.5(IDA). AssessmentCategory Consultingservices to be determined. B. Ministryof Health,Djibouti-ville, US$ 9.1 (IDA).Consulting Djibouti,Fax: (253) 35- servicesto be determined. 21-38 Ministryof Health,Asmara, Eritrea 8

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Eritrea Ethiopia Transport Population,Health and Nutrition (R) Ports: The project will supportthe rehabilitationand Health Sector: This project willprovide support upgradingof the physical, to the managerialand operational HealthSector Development Program (HSDP). Project capabilitiesof the portsof Massawato meetthe expected componentsto be determined.Environmental Assessment traffic demand from Eritrea and its neighboringhinterland. Categoryto be determined.Several technicalstudies have This will improvethe overall capacityoutput of the two been financedthrough a PHRDgrant to assist the ports and addressthe urgentcapacity requirementsup to the preparationof this operation.A second PHRD year 2005. Negotiations grant has are scheduledfor September1997. been obtainedto financeadditional studies. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: ERPE3415. US$ 100.0(IDA). Localconsultants have been hired to US$ 30.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. conductstudies. Departmentof MaritimeTransport, PO Box 851,Asmara, Ministry of Health Eritrea, Tel: (291-1) 12-13-59, Fax: (291-1) 12-13-16 Eritrea Ethiopia Power Transport (R) EnergySector: The primaryaim of the project is to Road Engineering (Cr. 2945-ER):The projectwill meet growingdomestic demand for electricity undertakefeasibility and export of and detailed designstudies for roads, energy by expandingtransmission and and a National generationcapacity. Bridge Inventoryand ConditionSurvey. Appraisal mission is in thefield. Environmental Institutional strengtheningand capacitybuilding will be AssessmentCategory A. providedfor contractadministration, warehouse US$ 200.0 (IDA).Consultants will be requiredfor projecx managementand equipmentmaintenance. Approved by the preparationand implementation. ExeeutiveDirectors on 10 April 1997. Environmental EthiopianElectric Light and PowerAuthority, PO Box AssessmentCategory C. 1233, AddisAbaba, Tel: (251-1) 112-263,Fax: (251- 1) US$ 6.3 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. 551-324 Ministryof Construction,PO Box 841, Asmara,Eritrea, Tel: (291-1) 11-45-88,Fax: (291-1) 12-06-61 Ethiopia Ethiopia Power Agriculture Power Distribution: The project will rehabilitateelectricity and expanddistribution in Addis Agricultural Research and Training: Ababa. Projectpreparation The project will is underway. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be build on progressmade underagricultural research, with a determined. focus on regionalresearch stationsand institutionaltraining US$ 80.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. to supportfood securitymeasures and alleviatepoverty. Ministryof Mines and Energy,PO Box 486, Addis Projectpreparation is under Ababa, way. Environmental Ethiopia,Tel: (251-1) 150-465,Fax: (251-1) 517-874 AssessmentCategory to be determined.PID: ETPE733. US$ 60.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Ethiopia Ministryof Agriculture,PO Box 62347,Addis Ababa, Transport

RoadSector Ethiopia III: The project will supportthe government's Road SectorDevelopment Program. Components include: (a) Education/Training rehabilitation,upgrading, strengthening and maintenanceof trunk and major link roads and rural roads Education Sector Investment: The project will supporta and (b) institutionalstrengthening and capacity building for sector investmentprogram. The investmenttouches all the EthiopianRoads Authority.Appraisal mnissionwas levels of education,with emphasis in primaryeducation. scheduledfor June 1997.Environmental Assessment Key objectivesare to increaseaccess and improvedquality CategoryA. of education.Project is being identified. Environmental US$300.0 (IDA). Consultants for designreview of selected AssessmentCategory C. roadshave beeninvited to submitproposals. Consultants US$ 100.0 (IDA).Consulting willbe servicesto be determined. selectedfor supervisionof worksduring implementation. Ministryof Education,PO Box 1367, Addis Ababa, EthiopianRoads Authority,PO Box 1770,Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,Fax: (251-1) 550-877 Ethiopia,Tel: (251-1) 156-603,Fax: (251-1) 514-866 9 June 1997

Gabon Africa Region PrivateSector Development Gambia, The (R) PrivatizationTechnical Population,Health provided Assistance:Support and Nutrition to implementprivatization will be Participatory enterprises of major public Health,Population, and and modernizationof the project will follow-up Nutrition:The Board presentation regulatoryframework. on health and Women was tentatively Development(WID) in 1997.Environmental scheduled for 3 June initiativesstarted under AssessmentCategory and WID projects. the first health US$ 9.8 (IBRD). C. The project will support Consultantswill be required health,population, and activities in preparationin the for project nutrition and AIDS areas of telecommunications, the government.Appraisal as defined by industries and transport. agro- September missionis scheduledfor Ministere 1997.Environmental Assessment du Commerce,de l'Industrie, PID: GMPE825. CategoryC. MoyennesEnterprises, des Petites et de l'ArtisanatCharge US$ 18.0(IDA). Consulting Redressementdu Secteur de Ministry servicesto be determined. Libreville, Parapublicet de la Privatisation, of Health,The Quadrangle, Gabon,Tel: (241) 76-29-43, Tel: (220) Banjul.The Gambia, Fax: (241) 72-40-38 22-78-82.Fax: (220) 22-85-82 Gabon Ghana Transport (R) Agriculture TransportSector: The efficiency aim of the projectis to improve (R) Forest and Widlife and financialsustainability the projectwill ResourcesManagement: The project of the transportsector. supportimplementation The willassist the government policies through of forestryand wildlife introducing in privatizingand/or forest policyand professionalsfrom management institutionalreform, and transport the private sector to semi-public of savannawoodlands entities.Project is being Preappraisal and protectedareas. Project identified.Initial Executive mission was scheduledfor Summary will be Environmental June 1997. issued in November 1997. Assessment EnvironmentalAssessment US$ CategoryA. Categoryto be deterrmined. 15.0 (IDA). Consulting US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consultants Ministry services to be determined. feasibility will be requiredfor of Lands and Forestry, studiesand supervision Ghana,Tel: PO Box M212,Accra, Implementing of works. (223-21)66-54- 21, Fax: agencyis to be determined. (223-21)66-68-01 Gabon Ghana UrbanDevelopment Infrastructure Public Works and PublicWorksandEmp (R) GatewayTechnical Employment TThetGeneration: Assistanceand will finance small works Theproject econoniicproject will supportGhana Infrastructure: improvingaccess, transit gatewaythrough the in becominga West Afrivcn sanitationconditions in and processing developmentof an export and poor neighborhoodsof zone and an industrial other cities. The project Libreville is under park. Project preparation management willalso supporttraffic way. The project concept in Librevilleand June 1997. reviewwas schedule appropriate would establishan EnvironmentalAssessment for and sustainablemechanism determined. Categoryto be infrastructuremaintenance. for financing urban Preappraisalmission US$15.0 (IDA). Consulting scheduledfor June was Gateway servicesto be determined. 1997.Environmental Assessment OversightComsumtittee, Categoryto be determined. Box Ministryof FinancesP0 M40, Tel: (233-21)66-80-15, US$ 20.0 (IDA). No consultants Fax: (233-21)66-70-79 Implementing are required. agencyis to be determined. Ghana Gambia,The Population, Healthand Nutrition Education/Training (R) Health Sector Support:The (R) credit will supportthe Third Education:The government'smedium-term primary, projectwill cover literacy, strategicframework secondaryand higher development. for health identified. education.Project is being The strategywill The Project Concept healthservices, aim to increaseaccess in Document will improvequality to September1997. Environmental be prepared households of services,empower US$ Assessment and communities, 30.0 (IDA). Consulting CategoryC. development forge linkages with Ministry services to be deterrnined. partners, and improve of Education,Banjul, services. Negotiations the financingof health 85-22, Fax- The Gambia,Tel: (220) were tentatively (220) 22-50-66 22- 1997.Environmental scheduledfor June AssessmentCategory is expected. Retroactivefinancing C. Cofinancing 10 GHPE949. is planned for 1997. PID: Africa Region June 1997 US$ 35.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, PO Box scheduled for June 1998. Environmental M44, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233- Assessment 21) 667-967, Fax: (233-21) 663-810 Category B. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for project Ghana preparation, including an evaluation of current supply facilities water Social Sector and rehabilitation/expansion requirements, (R) Village Infrastructure: rights an assessment of environmental The project will support issues, and the formulation and water poverty alleviation and regulatory of operating contracts efforts through small investments legislation. grants targeted and Implementing at small, resource-poor communities. agency is to be determined. project was scheduled The to be presented for approval, following ITF procedures, Guinea on 22 May 1997. A PPF advance of US$ 440,000 has been approved to assist with project preparation. A supplemental Population, Health and PPF of US$ 800,000 was Nutrition approved to begin pilot Population and Reproductive activities. Environmental Health: The project will Assessment Category assist the government B. PID: GHPE41150. in strengthening population programs US$ 30.0 (ITF). Consultants and integrating them into will be required. essential primary health care Ministry of Food packages. Identification and Agriculture, PMB 37, Accra, mission is tentatively scheduled Tel: (233-21) Ghana, mid-July 1997. for 66-65-67. Fax: (233-21) 66-82-45 Environmental Assessment Category US$ 15.0 C. (IDA). Consultant services to Ghana Ministry be determined of Public Health and Social Guinea, Affairs, Conakry, Telecommunications Tel/Fax: (224-4) 134-63 (R) Telecommunications Guinea III: The project government will support the in implementing a comprehensive sector program of Public Sector reform designed to expand service, Management quality coverage, and (R) Capacity through the involvement of the Building: The project will private sector and organization finance throughpromoting competition. and management strengthening This project is no longer in to institutions the lending program and managing public resources. further reporting will be Negotiations are scheduled for discontinued. July 1997. Environmental Assessment GNPE01067. Category C. PID: Ghana US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consultants will implementation. be required for project Transport Ministries of Planning Intermodal Transport: Guinea, Tlx: and Finance, BP 579, Conakry, Project components may include (224) 339-MIFI-GE, Tel: (224-4) road transport, railways, 42-162 ports and lake and air transport. Technical assistance will Guinea be provided, under a PPF advance, for facilitating private sector participation in ports. Project is being identified. Water Supply/Sanitation Discussions are ongoing. Environmental Assessment Category (R) Water Supply III (NO B. A PPF Advance of US$ 0.75 7-GUI): The project will focus nmllion, approved on 7 on three areas (a) capacity April 1993, was used for an building; (b) urban water supply; intermodal transport and (c) urban sanitation. study. Project was approved, following US$ 50.0 (IDA). ITF procedures, on Consulting services to be determined. 17 April 1997. Environmental Ministry of Roads Assessment Category and Transport, Accra, Ghana, B. PID: GNPE01075. 21) 668-452 Tel: (233- US$ 25.0 (ITF). 11 Consulting services to be determined. Guinean National Urban Water Development Co. Ghana (SONEG), BP 150, Conakry, Guinea, Tlxx:995-2365. (224-4) 143-70, Fax: Tel: Water Supply/Sanitation (224-4) 118-22, Contact: Mr. Ousmane Water Aribot, General Manager, Rehabilitation II: The project of Land Development National Directorate will provide and Urbanism (DATU), BP financing to facilitate the Conakry, Guinea, Tel: (224-4) 846, restructuring of the water supply 640-94, Fax: (224-4) 642- sector where private 14, Contact: Mr. Bandian operating companies will be Kourouma, National Director; introduced. Financing National Hydraulics will be provided for Directorate (DNH), BP and expansion rehabilitation Guinea, 295, Conakry. and might include guarantees Tel: (224-4) 313-74, Fax: (224-4) risk to reduce the Ousmane 149-13. Mr. of private sector participation. Kankalabe Diallo, National Preappraisal mission is Director June 1997 Africa Region Guinea-Bissau US$ 90.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Ministry Education/Training of Education, PO Box 30040. Nairobi, Kenya. Tlx: 963 25200. Fax: (254-2) 214-287 (R) Basic Education: The project will support F management, access, and quality of primary education. A Kenya short term emergency component will expand student Environment access to grades I and 2. It will also support teacher training, training materials, improved management i and Environment Adjustment: The project will support the data base systems. Board presentation was scheduledfor 10 government's efforts to (a) stabilize Kenya's long-term June 7997. Environmental Assessment Category C. growth prospects by implementing fiscal, institutional, US$ 8.6 (IDA). Consultants will be required. policy and legal reforms which would ensure the sustainable Ministry of Education, rue Ariolina Cruz, Bissau, Guinea use of its natural resources and (b) put Bissau, Tel: (245) 20ry4-00, Fax: (245) 20-14-00 in place regulatory mechanisms that would limit future environment costs. The credit will support institutional and legal reforms that create Guinea-Bissau a regulatory framework to ensure environmental standards are developed, environmental assessments are carried Population, Health and Nutrition out in a manner that adequately captures the potential impact of National Health Development: The project will support investment activities and mitigation plans are development the development and implementation of national programs and implemented as a result. Project preparation is under to (a) encourage declining fertility and (b) launch a way. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. vigorous AIDS prevention strategy. Appraisal mission was US$ 55.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. scheduled for June 1997. Environmental Assessment Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment Category C. and Natural Resources, PO Box 30126, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: US$ 9.0 (IDA). Consultants (254-2) will be required. 229-261, Fax: (254-2) 332-017 Ministry of Health, c/o World Bank Resident Mission (Senegal), BP 3296, Dakar, Senegal, Fax: (221) 23-62-77 Kenya Guinea-Bissau Population,Health and Nutrition Early Childhood Development (ITF: NOI 5-KE): The Water Supply/Sanitation project will develop and test interventions to improve Water/Energy: The project will provide a reliable and school-readiness among pre-school children and improve potable water supply and sewerage system to the city of the health and nutritional status of primary school children. Bissau, and establish an organization to manage, operate. The project was approved, following ITF procedures. and maintain a water supply, on 8 drainage, and sanitation April 1997. Environmental Assessment system. The Category C. PID: project will also finance technical assistance for KEPE34180. municipal development, equipment, vehicles, and offices for US$ 27.8 (ITF). Consultants will be required. the new organization. Appraisal mission was scheduled for Ministry of Education, National Center for Early June 1997. Environmental Childhood Assessment Category A. PID: Education, Jogoo House, PO GWPE01012. Box 30040, Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: (254-2) 33441, Fax: (254-2) 214287 US$ 15.0 (ITF). Consultants will be required. Ken Ministry of Energy, Industry, and Natural Resources, y Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Tel: (245) 21-26-18, Fax: (245) 22- Power s8-25 (R) Energy Sector: The project Kenya will finance investmentsPe needed to meet power demand, sector restructuring and reform, efficiency improvement, institutional support Education/Training and geothermal resource development. Board presentation is Basic Education:The project will be a policy-basedsector scheduled for 26 June 1997. Environmental investment and Assessment maintenance loan. It will support the first stage Category A. PID: KEPE01344. of the government's master plan for the education sector US$ 125.0 (IDA). Consultant services will be required. Projectpreparation is under way. The government is preparing Ministry of Energy, Nyayo House, PO Box 30582, Nairobi, a master plan for the education sector. A Japanese grant of up Kenya, Fax: (254-2) 228-314 to US$ 556,000 for project preparation is being used. 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Kenya Lesotho Public Sector Management WaterSupply/Sanitation Local Government Reform: The project will offer Highland Water -- Phase IB: This is the second phase of a assistance with capacity building and municipal project to transfer water from Lesotho to the Guateng infrastructure investments in various local authorities. province of South Africa. This phase will add 12 m3 /sec to Project preparation is under way. Completion of the Project the 18 m3n/secunder phase A. The project includes Concept Document is scheduled for September 1997. construction of a 150 meter high dam, a 19 meter high weir Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. A and two tunnels (one 31.5 km and one 6.4 km) and PHRD grant is funding preparation activities. complementary environmental and social activities. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Appraisal mission was scheduled for June 1997. Ministry of Local Government, PO Box 28251, Nairobi, Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: LSPE1396. Kenya, Tel: (254-2) 216-197, Fax: (254-2) 216-756 Cofinancing, mainly export credits, is required. Kenya US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for engineering, supervision, environmental support and Transport management strengthening. Most of the contracts will be Highway Sector III: The project will support road awarded to individual consultants. t* * **a- * * Ar . rehabilitation and institutional reform. Project . ~~~LesothoHighlands Development Authority, P0 Box 733^..t preparation Maseru 100, Lesotho, Tel: (266) 311-280, Fax: (266) 31 - is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be 060 310- 187 determined. US$ 120.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Madagascar Ministryof PublicWorks and Housing,PO Box30260.M Nairobi,Kenya, Tel: (254-2) 723-101, Fax: (254-2) 720-044 Kenya Agriculture K(enya (R) AgricultureSector (formerly Agriculture Research 11): The project, a follow-up to Agriculture Research I, will seek Water Supply/Sanitation to streamline government-financed activities and to institute MaW (a)reto sustainable financing mechanisms and ties with Mombsand SnittionWter Theprojct seksoperators. private develop ground water sources; The project concept will be reviewed following (b) improve the transmission theretru. cTuriofet agrcltu wlbenin pfollio line between Baricho Well Field and Mombasa; and (c) the restructunng of the agrculture lendC.g portfolio. provide emergency measures to improve distribution US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. systems and reduce unaccounted for water. Project MS$ (IAe. RChercheApiqes topbedeter rued preparation IS underprearaionis way.wa. EnvironmentalEvirnmetalAssssmntMinist6re nde de la Recherche, Applique Assessment Fernaud Kassanga, BP 694, Antananarivo,Developpement, Madagascar, rue US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Telex: 32539, Tel: (261-2) 21718, Fax: (261-2) 24075 National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation, Madagascar Workshop Rd. and Commercial St., PO Box 30173, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-2) 556-600, Fax: (254-2) 545- Education/Training 882 Education Sector Development: The project will support Lesotho qualitativeand quantitative improvementin learningat the school level. It will extend reforms and actions initiated Agriculture under the Education Sector Reinforcement Project (R) AgriculturalSector Investment: The project will (a) (CRESED) (Cr. 2094-MAG). Appraisal mission was support strategic reforms in marketing, trade, scheduled for June 1997. Sector strategy and investment agroprocessing and small irrigation development, (b) program are being finalized. Environmental Assessment improve natural resources management; and (c) support Category C. PID: MGGPE1559. agribusiness development and institutional reforms. Project US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Ministry of Education, c/o The World Bank Resident Category to be determined. Mission, I rue Patrice Lumumba, Antananarivo 101, US$ 22.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Madagascar, Tel: (261-2) 28917, 28777, Fax: (261-2) Ministry of Agriculture; Cooperatives, Marketing and 32902 Youth Affairs; Commission of Lands in the Ministry of Home Affairs

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Madagascar AfricaRegion Environment review; (b) private sector, market-basedsupport Environment upgradeprivate servicesto II (ITFN009-MAG): administration associationsand financecontinuing The project will reforms;and private firms;(c) tax activitiesin soil conservation, privatization (d) market liberalization managementand biodiversity forest programs.Board presentation and operations conservation, for 29 May 1997. wasscheduled in marine and as well as pilot EnvironmentalAssessment was approved urbanenvironment. US$ 23.0 (IDA).Consultants CategoryC. followingITF The project will be required. GEF was procedureson 9 January PrimeMinister's office approvedby the Executive 1997. December1996. Directorson 12 EnvironmentalAssessment Madagascar PID: MGPE1537. CategoryC. US$ 30.0 StructuralAdjustment (ITF);US$ 20.8 (GEF). determined. Consultingservices to be Structural National Environmental AdjustmentI (ITF Office, Antananarivo, will support NOI2-MAG): The Tel: (261-2) 259-99, Madagascar, the next phase project Fax: (261-2) 306-93 restoring of adjustmentreforms, macroeconomicequilibrium, including Madagascar incentivesystem, support reform of the exports,divestiture for private sector Finance of publicenterprises, activitiesand of publicsector and improvement management.The (R) Financial followingITF procedures, project was approved, Sector Support: Environmental on 14 March policyreforms The project willsupport Assessmernt 1997. in the financialsector. US$ 70.0 CategoryU. include (a) technical The project will (ITF). Consultingservices assistanceand Ministry to be determined. the regulatory trainingin support of Finance and Planning frameworkfor the financial of developmentof private system;and (b) preparation rnicro-financeinstitutions. Madagascar is under way. Project scheduled Project concept review Structura Adjustment for September1997. is CategoryC. EnvironmentalAssessment US$ StructuralAdjustment 50.0(IDA). Consulting Il: The project Ministry servicesto be determined. reformsimplemented will build on of Finance achieve under Structural significantgrowth AdjustmentI to preparation in foreign investment. Madagascar is under way. Project CategoryU. EnvironmentalAssessment Population, US$ 70.0 Healthand Nutrition (IDA). Consulting Ministryof servicesto be determined. (R) Health and Nutrition Finance; Ministry III: The project Decentralization of Budget and the process of decentralization will (a) support currently of the health delivery underway; (b) reinforce system Madagascar strengthen the healthdistricts, publichealth programs Transport managedcost recovery; and promote community- community and (c) supportthe nutritionprograms extensionof other nationwideusing Transport Sector: grassrootsorganizations. NGOs and The project will (a) scheduledfor Preappraisal restructuringof public supportthe September mission is enterprisesin Category 1997.Environmental transportand coastal chargeof road and to be determined. Assessment shipping; (b) finance rail US$ 35.0 improvementsto ports, limited (IDA).Consultants and air and rail transport public will be requiredin (c) supportprivatization infrastructure; health,health economics, the areas of preparation of road activities. management, health system is underway. Project nutritionprograms, Category EnvironmentalAssessment project management micro-nutrientsand B. Ministry and implementation. US$ 31.4 (IDA). of Health,c/o Consultantshave I rue The World Bank Resident restructuringthe been appointedfor PatriceLumumba, Mission, nationalrailway company, Tel: Antananarivo101, portsmanagement restructuring (261-2) 289-17,287-77, Madagascar, and inland waterways of Fax: (261-2) 329-02 Ministryof Transport, improvements. BP 1254, Anosy, Antananarivo, Madagascar Madagascar,TIx: 22301, Tel: (261-2) 24604 Private Sector Development Madagascar (R) Private SectorDevelopment: Urban Development (a) joint government-private The project will support sector competitiveness (R) Decentralized policy Infrastructure 14 project willfocus Management: on the strengthening The of infrastructure Africa Region

June 1997 management by newly established local governments in small towns and the Antananarivo Malawi metropolitan area. It will include labor-based public works in medium sized urban municipalities to befinanced Environment under a matching grant mechanism. Project preparation, (R) Environment Support: supported by PHRD The project will support the funding has started. Preappraisal implementationof Malawi's Environmental mission is scheduled for Support Program October 1997. Environmental through institutional and capacity Assessment Category B. development,environmental US$ 15.0 (IDA). Financing awarenessand education, is being sought for consulting community-basedenvironmental services. management activities and a series of priorityenvironmental Ministry of Budget actions and studies. The and Decentralization will handle project was scheduled to be studies. AGETIPA following ITF approved, may be the executing procedures,in mid- June 1997. works. agency for civil Assessment Environmental Category C. PID: M'WPE1664. US$12.4 (ITF). Consulting services to be determined. Madagascar Ministry of Research and Environmental Affairs, of Natural Resources, Ministry Water Supply/Sanitation Lilongwe, Malawi Malawi (R) Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (formerly Rural Water Sector Pilot): The project will improve local capacity to maintain rural water Environment supplyfacilities. Appraisal mission was scheduled for June Mulanje Mountain Biodiversity 1997. Environmental Assessment Conservation: The Category B. PID: project will support MGPE1564. the conservation of the biological US$ 14.0 (IDA). Consulting diversity and environmental services will be requiredfor functions of the Mulanje technical, organizational mountain and its ecosystems and institutional support. through a combination of Ministry of Energy and Mines, community environmental PO Box 527, Antananarivo, awareness, sustainable use and Madagascar, Tel: (261-2) alternative livelihood 255-15, Fax: (261-2) 325-54 initiatives and targeted community conservation schemes. Project preparation is under Madagascar project preparation way. A grant was approved in December Water The project will be submitted 1996. Supply/Sanitation for preliminary GEF Council Review. Environmental (R) Water Assessment Category Sector: The project includes US$ 5.0 (GEF). Consultants B. of water the rehabilitation Ministry may be required. supplyfor 14 secondary urban of Research and Environmental to the centers, assistance Mountain Affairs, Mulanje restructuring of the water utility Conservation Trust strengthening. and institutional Appraisal mission is scheduled 1998. Environmental for February Malawi Assessment Category US$ 26.0 (IDA). B. Consultants will be requiredfor supervision Population, of works and institutional support. Health and Nutrition Ministry of Energy and Mines, Population/FamilyPlanning: PO Box 527, Antananarivo, The project will provide support Madagascar, Tel: (261-2) for reproductivehealth services, 25515, Fax: (261-2) 32554 familyplanning and for carrying out the population policythrough the Malawi and expansion rehabilitation of facilities, expansion of community-based distributionand strengthening-information, Education/Training education and communication. Education Sector III: Project preparation is under The project aims to assist the Environmental AssessmentCategory way. Ministry of Education Cofinancing will C. PID: MWPE36038. in expanding access to and be required. improving quality US$ 20.0 (IDA). in secondary schools, Components Consultnts may be required. include: (a) Ministry school construction; (b) provision of Health and Population, Secretary instructional of Box 30377, for Health, P0 materials; and (c) management Capital City, Lilongwe 3, to improve strengthening 730-099, Malawi, Tel: (265) performance of secondary school Fax: (265) 783-109 Project teachers. preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category Malawi C. PID: MWPE1670. Cofinancing expectedexete tooberqurd be required. is US$ 40.0 (IDA). PrivateSector Development Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education, Private Sector: The PO Box 328, Lilongwe 3, project will provide support Tlx: 988 4407, Malawi, development for the Tel: (265) 784-800, Fax: of emerging enterprises. Components (265) 782-873 a line include of credit for investmiientprojects, infrastructure support to remove constraints and technical assistance. Project is 15 June 1997

being identified. Africa Region EnvironmentalAssessment Cofinancingis required. CategoryC. Mali US$ 35.0 (IDA).No consultants Ministry are required. of Finance,Capital Hill, EducationlTraining 3, Malawi, PO Box 30049,Lilongwe Tel: (265) 782-199,Fax: Education Sector: The (265) 781-679 aim of the projectis to expand primary education,increase Malawi enrollment.restructure higher educationand improvethe Transport at all levels. quality,relevance and efficiency Projectpreparation is under Road way. Rehabilitationand Maintenance: EnvironmentalAssessment includes Theproject CategoryC. PID: MLPE40650. (a) rehabilitationand upgrading Cofinancingof about primary of selected US$ 10.0 millionis expected. and secondary/rural US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consultants roads; (b) assistancein the will be required. planning,management and Ministry of Basic technical maintenanceof roads; and Education,cto WorldBank assistancein support (c) Mission,BP 1864, Resident implementation of the developmentand Bamako,Mali, Tel: (223) of policy reforms (223) 226-682 222-283,Fax: covering in the transportsector legislativeaspects, deregulation Mall Project and road safety. preparationis under way. Assessment Environmental CategoryB. Cofinancing Finance US$ is required. 30.0 (IDA).Consultants Banking and Finance: may be requiredfor detailed The project will pursue engineeringdesigns and provision the financialsector, reformsin Ministry of technicalassistance. strengthenthe financialsystem of Works and Supplies, deepen financialintermediation. and Box Roads Department,PO Project is being 316, Lilongwe3, Malawi, Projectconcept review identified. 200, Tlx: 44285,Tel: (265) 784- was plannedfor June 1997. Fax: (265) 783-328 EnvironmentalAssessment Categoryto be determined. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consulting Mali servicesto be determined. Implementing Agriculture agency is to be determined. (R) IrrigationPromotion Mali (formerlyPrivate Irrigation PromotionPilot): The credit Population, to will finance a pilot operation Healthand Nutrition test privatesector mechanisms (R) HealthSector which would provide Development:The project technicaland managerial governmentin: (a) accelerating will assist the producers. servicesto small-scale fertilitydecline; Theproject was scheduled iffigation expanding (b) approval,following to be presentedfor accessto basic health care: ITF procedures, efficiencyand effectiveness (c) improvingthe PPFeen in late May 1997. of the health PPF advancehas beenavancehas aprovd to und repartion(d) A effimien care system;and approved to fundpreparation improving indtienaessoure moblzato activitiesby local consultants. mission is internal resource mobilization. Appri san EnvironmentalAssessment scheduledfor February 1998. Appraisal CategoryB. PID: MLPE1738. AssessmentCategory Environmental US$ C. 4.2 (ITF).Short-terrn and US$ 36.0 (IDA). Consultant required. local consultantswill be servicesto be determined (estimatedat 100 staff weeks). Ministryof Health,Bamako, Ministry Mali, Tel: (223) 22-53-01, of RuralDevelopment and Fax: (223) 23-02-03 Mali, Tel: Environment,Bamako, (223) 23-19-30,Fax: (223) SecretaryGeneral 22-02-95,Contact: Mali

Mali Public Sector Management Institutional Agriculture Development:The project will improvethe (R) RuralSector capacityof Support:The projectfocus governmentagencies to implement restructuring on (a) the and social economic and capacitybuilding of the policies.Project processing Developmentand Environment; Ministryof Rural pending is currentlyon hold (b) strengthening confirmationof the government's public agricultural core project.Environmental interestin the services;and (c) strengthening AssessmentCategory organization.Project preparation farmers' MLPE174. C. PID: is under way.Project concept review is scheduledafor US$ 8.0 (IDA). Mostly AsF'ssment July 1997. Environmental local and short-termconsultants CategoryB. PID: MLPE35630. be required. will US$ 50.0(IDA). Consulting General servicesto be determined. Secretaryof the President, Ministry of Rural Resident c/o WorldBank Developmentand Environment, Mission,Bamako, Mali, Mali, Tel: Bamako, Tel: (223) 227-515,Fax: (223) 23-19-30,Fax: (223) (223) 226-682 SecretaryGeneral 22-02-95,Contact: 16

-1UI~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Africa Region June 1997 Mali was scheduled Social Sector for June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: MRPE35689. (R) Grassroots Hunger US$ 14.0 (IDA). Consulting and PovertyAlleviation: The project services to be determined. will test and implement Ministry of Health and Social an innovativeapproach to government Affairs, BP 169, Nouakchott, and civil societys collaboration Mauritania, Tel: (222) 25-62-14, in responding to hunger and Fax: (222) 25-22-68 poverty.Negotiations are scheduledfor October 1997. Environmental Mauritius AssessmentCategory C. PID: MLPE35617. US$ Finance 15.0 (ITF). Consultants will be required. Bureau de gestion Fmance du Projet d'Appui aux Initiatives de dans la lutte contre Base (R) Financial Sector Investment: le faim et la pauvrete (PAIB), Bamako, The project will develop Mali, Tel: a two-tier payment system (223) 221-589, Fax: (223) 221-590 in the central and commercial banks. Preappraisal mission Environmental is scheduledfor July 1997. Mauritania Assessment Category C. US$ 7.0 Agriculture (IDA). Consultants will be required. Bank of Mauritius, Sr. William, (R) Rainfed Natural Mauritius, Tel: Newton St., Port Louis, Resources Management: Through (230) 208-4164, Fax: (230) 208-9204, the strengthening Contacts: Mr. De Maraye. of existing rural associations, the Governor, Mr. D. Limfat, will aim at ensuring project lnformation Technology community participation in Adviser management the of their resources, extending a sustainable intensified Mauritius production system, while establishing and productive protective investments at the village level. Board presentation Population, Health and is scheduledfor 17 June 1997. Environmental Nutrition Assessment Health: The project will Category B. PID: MRPEO1875. Parallel support the implementation of financing agreed. health sector reforms that aim to make health systems more US$ 14.0 efficient and responsive (IDA). Consultants will be required to the increasing incidences of building, for institution communicable non- financial management, social diseases. Project is being identified. assessment and Project The domestic management. Concept Document is being prepared. Ministry of Rural Environmental Assessment Category Development and Environment, c/o C. World Bank US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Resident Mission, BP 667, Nouakchott, Mauritania, Tel: Consulting services to be (222-2) 51-017, Fax: (222-2) 51-334 determined. Ministry of Finance, Port Mauritania Louis, Mauritius, Tel: (230) 201- 1446, Fax: (230) 208-8622 Agriculture Integrated Mauritius Development Program for Irrigated Agriculture: Water Supply/Sanitation The project aims to rehabilitate existing irrigation schemes Sewerage and Sanitation: and access roads, develop private The project will support the irrigation, promote government in: (a) modernizing crop diversification and integrated existing legislation on agriculture. Total waste water disposal; (b) setting project cost is estimated at US$ 78.0 up a cost-recovery system; million. Preappraisal (c) providing institutional mission was scheduled for June strengthening of the Waste Water Environmental 1997. Authority; and (d) invest Assessment Category A. PID: MRPE44711. in Montagne Jacquot sewerage US$ 18.0 (IDA). system. Appraisal mission Mainly short-term and local consultants was scheduled for June 1997. will be required Environmental (estimated at 100 staff weeks). Assessment Category A. Ministry of Rural US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Consulting Development and Environment, c/o services to be determined. World Bank Resident Waste Water Authority, Mission, BP 667, Nouakchott, Louis Pasteur St., Port Louis, Tel: Mauritania, (230) 242-6444, Fax: Tel: (222-2) 51-017, Fax: (222-2) (230) 208-6497 Mauritania 51-334 Mozambique Population, Health and Nutrition Agriculture Health Sector Investment: The project will provide sector- wide support with (R) Agricultural Sector targeted interventions in the following Investment: The project will selective program support the agricultural areas: STDIAIDS, family planning, investment program that is being communicable prepared by the Ministry diseases surveillance. Preappraisal of Agriculture and Fisheries. The mission program will focus on (a) agricultural research and extension; (b) pilot land demarcation, adjudication and

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Government of Mozambique Mozambique, Maputo, Mozambique Environment Mozambique Water Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Supply/Sanitation Management: The project aims to strengthen National Water Development: the conservation and The project consists management of globally institution building of (a) significant coastal and marine and reform including private biodiversity by supporting management sector the National Forestry of urban water supply and Wildlife Strategy and implementation more sustainable within the overall framework of rural water supply, national coastal of the development human resources zone program. Project preparation and studies for provision way. A GEF is under formulation of sanitation; (b) advance grant has been approved of a flexible investment preparation to support development program for activities. Additional cofinancing of the sector; (c) investment sought. Environmental is being and extension in rehabilitation Assessment Category of urban water supply determined. to be resources systems; and (d) water protection and development. US$ 10.0 (GEF). scheduled Negotiations are Consulting services to be for July 1997. Environmental DNFFB/MICOA determined. Category Assessment B. PID: MZPE39015. Cofinancing required. will be Mozambique US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Environment Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Ave. Karl Marx Trans-frontier Conservation 606, Caixa Postal 268, Areas Pilot Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: Institutional and 430-028, (258-1) Strengthening: The Fax: (258-1) 421-369 trans-boundary project will focus on protected areas management, Namibia management planning, demarcation, environmental legislation and review Infrastructure updating, and field level activities. Executive Approved by the Directors on 12 December (R) Walvis Bay Industrial Assessment 1996. Environmental and Urban Development: Category B. project will support the development The US$ of the planned export 5.0 (GEF). Consultants will processing zone in Walvis be required. Bay by financing an integrated National Directorate for Forestry urban development and Wildlife project. The project will finance expansion of the existing the sewage treatment works Mozambique electricity supply, and servicing of low and middle Private housing sites and the income Sector Development development of a new sanitary landfill. Enterprise Development: Appraisal mission is scheduledforAugust The project will support Environmental Assessment 1997. sectordevelopment. private US$ 10.0 Category A. PID: Specificproject components (IBRD). Consultants will NAPE43349. determined. Project are to be Walvis be required. preparation is under way. Bay Municipalityl concept review The project Niger was scheduled for June 1997. Environmental Assessment iger Category to be determined. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consulting Infrastructure services to be determined. Implementing agency (R) Transport is to be determined. Infrastructure Rehabilitation: will support a reform The project Mozambique program and develop a capacity building strategy in the transport Structural Adjustment three-year earth sector. It will finance road rehabilitation program. a (R) Economic mission was scheduledfor Appraisal Recovery III (ITF NOIO-MOZ): early June 1997. Environmental will support mleasures The credit Assessment to: (a) improve macroeconomic Category A. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultants 18 Ministry will be required. of Equipment and Infrastructure ir1', Africa Region June Niger 1997 Regional Infrastructure (R) Urban Infrastructure Power Rehabilitation:The project develop capacitiesin municipalities will (R) PetroleumDevelopment to plan their and Pipeline- infrastructuredevelopment. Cameroon: Chad and It will finance a program The project involves:(a) the development small urbancivil works. of Chad's oil fields of Boardpresentation was and (b) the constructionof a for 29 May 1997. scheduled exportpipeline petroleum EnvironmentalAssessment Category for the south of Chad to the Atlantic US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consultants B. Cameroonand related cost of will be required. marine installations..Project NIGETIP,Niamey's preparationis under municipalities,Ministry of Equipment way. EnvironmentalAssessment and Infrastructure CategoryA. Draftenvironmental assessmentis being reviewedby the borrowinggovernments. Niger US$ 115.0 PID: TDPE44305 (IDA).Consultants have been Public ProjectServices Manager, selected. Sector Management Esso Explorationand Production Public Chad, Inc., 800 Gessner, SectorManagement Modernization 77024, Suite 400, Houston.Texas, USA Building: and Capacity Fax: (1-713)973-5230; Ministry The projectseeks to (a) improve and Petroleum,BP 816, N'Djamena, of Mines.Energy management policy-makingand 21-88, Chad, Tel: (235) 51- capacityin the publicsector, Fax: (235) 51-25-65,51-30-43; effective and (b) develop Hydrocarbures, SocieteNationale de personnelmanagement and public BP 955, Yaounde, management finance 20-19-y10, Cameroon,Tel: (237) policiesand practices.Project Fax: (237) 2046-51 way. preparationis under EnvironmentalAssessment Category US$ C. PID:NEPE2000. 20.0 (IDA). Consultantswill Rwanda Implementing be required. agencyis to be determined. Agriculture Niger Agriculture Sector Support:The increasedagricultural projectwill: (a) support StructuralAdjustment productivitythrough improvements (R) Public in the qualityand delivery SectorAdjustment (Cr. 2939-NIR): (b) reinforce of agriculturalsupport services; willstrengthen Theproject plan. the capacityof the government the competitivenessof the programand monitorsustainable to coordinate, improving economythrough in the investmentactivity publicsector management, civil sector; and (c) enhancerural publicenterprise servicereform, capacity, agriculture's' productive reform.Approved by the Executive promotecommunity and private on 20 March 1997. Directors alleviate initiatives,and Creditwas signed on 20 March rural poverty.Project preparation EnvironmentalAssessment 1997. Elnvironmental is underway. CategoryU. A PPFadvance AssessmentCategory to be approvedfor preparation was US$ 25.0 (IA). determined activities.PID: NEPE1974. Consultantservices to be determined US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting Ministryof Agriculture servicesto be determined. and Livestock,BP 1263, Kigali, Implementingagency to be determined. Rwanda Regional Rwanda Finance Reconstruction/Rehabilitation UnionEconomique RegionalFinanomiqe et Monetaire Ouest-Africaine Regional SectMoreteprOject-Afllprovicae (R) EmergencyRehabilitation FinancialSector: The project will provideresources and Recovery:The financing willprovide economic for the emergencyconstruction project to set up the regionalsecurities recoveryof Rwandaby and will provide exchangewhich the (a) providingsupport to a trading mechanismfor budget;(b) providingforeign UEMOA securitiesissued in sector exchangefor private countries.Project is being identified. imports; and (c) promotingand Environmental macroeconomic accelerating AssessmentCategory C. and structuralreforms. Appraisal US$ 10.0 (ITF). Consultants in thefield. Environmental mission is willbe requiredfor project AssessmentCategory preparationand implementation. determined. to be Banque CentraleEtats de l'Afrique US$ 40.0 (IDA).Consultant Ave. Abdoulaye de l'Ouest (BCEAO), services to be determined Fadiga BP 3108, Dakar, Ministry of Finance BP (221-23) Senegal,Tel: 158,Kigali, Rwanda,Tel: (250) 1615,Fax: (221-23)9335 77-994,Fax: (250) 77-581 Rwanda Water Supply/Sanitation WaterSupply III: The project will provide: (a) assistance 19 June 1997

to the privatization Africa Region of the operationof urban systems; (b) sanitation watersupply cofinancing and stormdrainage in by the Dutch government strengtheningof Kigali: (c) under of US$ 8.8 million is the Directorateof Water and consideration.Board presentation and (d) rehabilitation Sanitation: 12 June wasscheduledfor and expansionof rural 1997. Environmental schemesthroughout water supply US$ AssessmentCategory C. the country.The project 5.2 (IDA); US$ 4.7 (GEF); need to be redefined components required. Consultantswill be in the new contextof post-war reconstruction.Environmental Ministry of Environment US$ AssessmentCategory B. and Protectionof Nature 33.8 (IDA).Consulting services Ministryof Industry and Ministry to be determined. and Energy,BP 1831, Dakar, of Public Works,Energy Tel: (221) 32-06-28,Fax: Senegal, Kigali, and Water,BP 26, (221) 32-04-26 Rwanda,Fax: (250) 85-755 Senegal Sao Tomeand Principe Population,Health StructuralAdjustment (R) and Nutrition EndemicDisease (Cr. 2951-SE): IslandDevelopment: the government The project will assist The projectwill provide in strengtheningcapacities paymentssupport balanceof and in surveillance to the governmentbudget. controlof endemicdiseases. tentativeplan There is a Directors Approvedby the Executive to includean investmentcomponent on 8 May 1997. Environmental energy sector.Project in the Category Assessment is being identified.Environmental C. AssessmentCategory C. US$ 15.0(IDA). Consulting US$ servicesto be determined 5.0 (IDA).Consulting services Ministryof Health Implementing to be determined. and Social Action, Palais du agencyis to be determined. Gouvernement,Dakar, Senegal, (221) Tel: (221) 22-35-25,Fax: Senegal 22-26-09 Agriculture Senegal AgriculturalServices Population,Health and Producers'Organizations: and Nutrition Follow-up (R) to AgriculturalServices I and IntegratedHealth Sector ResearchII. Agricultural will Development:The project The projectwill includetwo further strengthenpolicies producers'organizations components(a) population and programsin health and support;and (b) rural finance. includingthe qualityof primary Appraisalmission is referralservices health care and scheduledfor November initiatedunder the Human EnvironmentalAssessment 1997. Development Resources CategoryB. PID: Project.Appraisal mission Potentialparallel SNPE02367. late May wasscheduledfor financingfrom France. The 1997.Environmental Assessment componentwill rural finance PID: CategoryC. be financedentirely by CFD. SNPE2369. US$ 50.0 (IDA). US$ Consultantshave been 25.0 (IDA). Consultantswill Ministryof selected. Ministry be required. Agriculture,Senegalese Institute of Planningand Health, (ISRA),BP of Research Senegal, c/o ResidentMission 3120, Dakar, Senegal,Tel: PO Box 3296, Dakar, in Fax: (221) (221) 32-24-22, Senegal,Tel: (221) 23-36- 32-24-27;Programme National 30, Fax: (221) 23-62-77 Agricole(PNVA), de Vulgarisation BP 10428,Dakar, Senegal, 24-71-79,24-41-31 Tel: (221) Senegal Senegal Public Sector Management E:nvironment (R) Urban TransportReform TechnicalAssistance: and CapacityBuilding The project will provide (R) Sustainableand Participatory assistancefor implementing technical The EnergyManagement: the policy and institutional objectiveof the projectis sectorreforms defined demand to meet the increasingurban by the government.The for householdfuels, without component will support main and the loss of forestcover capacitybuilding through the ecosystem'scarbon sequestration awarenesscampaigns training. potentialand and advisory servicesfor: diversity.This objectivewill and local government (a) central be met through (a) agenciesfor policy development; implementingand monitoring assistanceto the privatization (b) environmentally 300,000ha of of SOTRAC:(c) sustainableforest resource establishmentand management managed by the systems Also, of a coordinatingbody. communities; (b) promoting a sustainablefinancing mechanism inter-fuel substitution, private sector would for the sector and private sector be established. Board improved and NGO-based presentation was scheduled stove initiatives;and (c) strengthening 10 June 1997. Environmental for institutions the Assessment Category C. managing the sector and SNPE44383. PID: society's promoting the civil participation in US$ 6.3 (IDA). sector maniageiienit.Bilateral Consultants will be required. 20

ir~~~~ _ Africa Region June 1997 ConseilExecutif des Transports Urbains de Dakar,BP rehabilitating 4014, Dakar, Senegal,Tel: (221) buildings;and (g) providing technical 23-98-34,Fax: (221) 23- equipment. 82-74, Contact:Soudou Diagne, Appraisalmission is scheduled SecretaireExecutif Environmental for July 1997. AssessmentCategory C. PID: SLPE2425. Senegal US$ 10.0(IDA). Consultantshave preparation. been selected for project Transport (R)Transport II: The project Departmentof Education, (R) Transport will support. (a) national New England,Freetown, Sierra II: The project will support: (a) national Leone,Tel: (232-22)240-846, Fax: road rehabilitation (232-22)240-137 and maintenance: (b) transportation planning and operational Sierra Leone improvements in road safety; (c) inter-regional transport facilitation; and (d) policy and physical Public Sector Management improvements in civil aviation, maritime transport. and rail (R) Judicial and Legal Appraisalmission is scheduledfor June Services: The project will support Environmental 1998. the developmentof a judicial Assessment Category to be determined. and legal services US$ 38.8 environment conducive (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. to expanded private sector Ministere investment.The projectaims de l'Equipementet des TransportsTerrestres, to strengthenthe capacity in Tel: (221) the judicial and legal 257-355, Fax. (221) 258-061, Contact: sectoras it pertains to businessand Kemo commerce. Board Diait4, Coordinator of the CELCO presentation was scheduled for 1997. 10 June Environmental Assessment Category Senegal SLPE2436. C. PID: US$ 5.7 (IDA). UrbanDevelopment Consultingservices are required for training (R) UrbanDevelopment and legal staff, a study legal and par- Decentralization:The and of court roomproductivity and the study project will include(a) institutionaldevelopment implementationof a registry modernization central at the AttomeyGeneral plan. and local governmentlevels and and Secretaryof State for JudicialAffairs, (b) investmentsin 3rd floor, Guma prioritymunicipal services and facilities. Building,Lamina, SankohSt., Freetown, Negotiationswere SierraLeone, scheduledfor late May 1997. Environmental Tel: (232-22)223-498 or 22-93-03,Fax: Category Assessment (232-22)22-96-77, B.Mage Contact:Ms. Martina Kroma,Project US$ 75.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determnined Ministryof Finance, Manager Ave. Carde,Dakar, Senegal,Tel: (221) 23-48-45,Fax: (221) 22-41-95 SierraLeone Seychelles SocialSector (R) Recoveryand Infrastructure Reintegration:The project will support the government'sresettlement, InfrastructureManagement: reconstruction rehabilitationand The project will focuson programthrough support water supplyrehabilitation demobilizationactivities, reintegration for post-discharge and expansion.Project is being of returning soldiers re-identifiedunder and refugees and strengthening the ongoingEnvironment and Transport the coordinationand Project.Environmental monitoringcapacity of the AssessmentCategory to be Ministryof National determined. Resettlement,Rehabilitation and Reconstruction. presentation Board US$ 8.0 (IBRD).Consultants is tentatively scheduled for will be required. Parallel late June 1997. Ministryof ForeignAffairs, Planning, financingis expectedfrom UNDP, and Environment, Germany. ODA and P0 Box 656, Mont Fleuri,Mahe, PPF advanceis financingpreparation Seychelles,Tel: (248) 22- Environmental activities. 46-88, Fax: (248) 22-48-45 AssessmentCategory B. PID: SLPE40649. US$ 15.0(IDA). Consultants Sierra Leone have been selectedfor project preparation. Ministry of National Education/Training Reconstruction,Resettlement and Rehabilitation(MNRRR), (R) EducationIV: The project 39 Siaka StevensSt., Freetown, will support the Sierra government's education Leone, Tel: (232-22)22-60-32, Contact: reform initiatives, particularly in Mr. Kanja the areas of (a) improving Sesay, DeputyMinister services of the Department of Education; (b) improving Sierra Leone the budgetary allocation to education; (c) reviewing education sector personnel; (d) enhancing teacher Structural Adjustment training; (e) strengthening the production (R) StructuralAdjustment and supply of leaming materials. II: The project will assist tl (f) new government in maintaining the existing structural

21 June 1997 Africa Region adjustmentprogram and provide balanceof payments supportuntil the health insurance. country's exportcapacity is restored. Board presentation Ministryof was scheduledfor 17June Health and the PrimeMinister's Environmental 1997. 9083, Dar-es-Salaam, Office, PO Box AssessmentCategory U. Tanzania,Tel: (255-51) US$ 55.0 (IDA). (255-51)36992 20261,Fax: Consultingservices to be determined. Ministryof Finance, Tanzania SecretariatBuilding, George St., Freetown,Sierra Leone, Power Tel: (232-22)22-41-41, 22-93-04, Fax: (232-22) (R) SongoSongo Gas Development: 22-53-53,Contact: Financial Secretary The project includes installationof a gas-gathering South Africa system for about five wells, construction of a gas-processingfacility, Private0 Sector gas pipeline,a a 20 km offshore Development 220 km overland pipeline,a power- (R) IndustrialCompetitiveness generationfacility and Job Creation: near Dar Es Salaam, distribution project includes:(a) The a village electrification works, a firm-levelmatching grant scheme scheme, and privatization, assist firms in accessing to reinforcementand expansion technologicaladvice and of the Mtwara/LindiBay information;(b) a sector-level powersystem. Negotiations matchinggrant scheme are scheduled for fosternetworking and to EnvironmentalAssessment July 1997. informationsharing; and CategoryA. PID: TZPE2797. termnexport finance (c) a short- US$ 250.0 (IDA). guaranteefacility. Board presentation Consultantservices will be required was scheduledfor 29 assist the government to May 1997.Environmental Assessment and TANESCOduring CategoryB. PID: ZAPE48606. implementationand for studies. US$ 46.0 (IBRD). Ministryof Water, Consultantswill be required. Energy and Minerals,PO Box Departmentof Trade Dar-es-Salaam, 2000, and Industry,Pretoria, South Tanzania;Tanzania Electric Tel: (27-12) 310-9791, Africa, Company(TANESCO). Supply Contact: Mr. Dave Adrich SamoraAve., PO Box es-Salaam,Tanzania, 9024, Dar- Tel: (255-51) 112-891,Fax: Tanzania 113-836;SONGAS, (255-51) Maarifa House, Ohio St., PO Box Agriculture 6342, Dar-es-Salaam,Tanzania, Tel: (255-51) 22-002,Fax: (R) Agricultural (255-51)116-719 ResearchII: The project institutionbuilding, will support Tanzania researchprograms, human resource developmentand technicalassistance. Appraisal mission is scheduledforAugust 1997.Environmental PublicSector Management CategoryC. Assessment TaxAdministration: The projectwill support the US$ 25.0 (IDA).Consulting services government'sefforts to increase Ministry to be deterrnined. revenuecollection. It willalso of Agricultureand Cooperatives, supportthe newly-establishedTanzania PO Box Pamba House, (TRA) RevenueAuthority's 9192, Dar-es-Salaam,Tanzania, capacitybuilding efforts by (a) 112323, Tel: (255-51) operating introducingmodern 112324 systemsfor the majordepartments lIT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~computerization ofthe TRA;(b) of systemsand training; Tanzania facilities and (c) refurbishingof and provisionof equipment and missionis scheduled vehicles.Appraisal Population,Health and Nutrition for September1997. Environmental HealthSector AssessmentCategory C. Reform:The project will support US$ 25.0 (IDA). government'sefforts the projectpreparation Consultants will be required under to combatthe major sources facilityto help define the the Tanzania'sburden of of design and implement project and to disease throughcommunity a tax identificationsystem. preventivehealth interventions. and TanzaniapRevenu It will assist in reforming auot inistyof Fiane,B and restructuringthe health sector 11491,Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, decentralization includingsupport for Tel: (255-51)31539, Fox: and greater local control (255-5a1)31105 interventions. over community Appraisalhas been delayed of the indefinitely.Parts proposedproject are beingpre-tested Tanzania existing credit. underan EnvironmentalAssessment Category PID: TZPE2814. C. Social Sector US$ 50.0 (IDA).Consultants (R) HumanResources will be required for assistance DevelopmentI: The project with public health,contracting includes(a) supportfor out, facility-based a communityeducation fund to management,health financing, increaseprimary school specific diseaseprograms, enrollmentand quality; (b) support monitoringand evaluation, for a programto increase municipalpublic finance,and the enrollmentand performance 22 of girls in secondary school;and (c) a componentfor Africa Region June 1997 monitoringand evaluationin education. Negotiationswere US$ scheduledfor June 1997. Environmental 50.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required Assessment preparation for CategoryC. PID: TZPE2789. studies including:(a) strategicreview SocieteNationale and audit US$ 20.0 (IDA).Consultants will d'Invetissements;(b) evaluation be required. Caisse of the Officeof the Prime Minister,PO d'Epargne du Togo; (c) audit of Box 3021, Dar-es-Salaam, Togolais Groupement Tel: (255-51)41-352, 41-503 d'Assurances;(d) assessmentof informal markets; financial Tanzania and (e) functioningof the judicial system. Ministryof Economyand Finance StructuralAdjustment (R) Structural Togo Adjustment: The credit will support policy key Finance reformsin the areas of fiscal management, social services banking, Debt Buy Back: and the parastatalsectors. Board Theproject will focus on the buy back presentation commercial of is scheduledfor 19 June debt. Projectpreparation is under 1997. Environmental Environmental way. AssessmentCategory U. PID: TZPE2821. Assessment Category U. US$ 128.0 (IDA). Amountto be determined. No consultantsare required. (IDA). Legaladvisors have been Ministryof Finance selected. Ministryof Finance Tanzania Togo StructuralAdjustment Population, StructuralAdjustment Healthand Nutrition II: This adjustmentcredit will support the reform of public (R) HealthSector Decentralization institutions. Specifically, it and Restructuring aims to enhance the (formerly Health Sector Restructuring): efficient utilization of public resources The project will (a) as well as improve support the government's the environment for private sector effort to decentralize the health investment. systems at the district Appraisal has been delayed.The timing level through a phased approach, projectprocessing of strengthensector institutions; (b) will dependon StructuralAdjustment (c) develophuman resources CreditI. Environmental capacity;and (d) support AssessmentCategory to be a numberof high priority determined. programssuch as STD/AIDs preventionand controland US$ 100.0 reproductive health. (IDA). Consultantswill be required. Appraisal mission is scheduled for The Planning October1997. Environmental Commission,Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania AssessmentCategory C. US$ 15.0(IDA). Consulting ,Togo servicesto be determined. vMinistryof Public 210-927, Health,BP 336, Lome,Togo, Tel: (228) Agriculture Fax: (228) 222-821,Contact: Dr. Essosolem Batchassi,Directeur (R) NationalAgricultural General de la Sante ServicesSupport: The project includes (a) restructuring Togo the Ministry of Agricultureand agriculturalresearch extension services (b) farmer's Public Sector organizationsupport; and (c) institutional Management presentation support.Board Public Enterprise is scheduledfor 22 July 1997. Restructuringand Privatization: Environment project will support The assessmentcategory C. the government'spolicy of divestiture US$ 25.0 (IDA). fromcommercial activities Consultantsmay be required for project and promoteprivate sector implementationin participationin the productive the areas of cooperativesupport, on-the- sectors.Specific objectives job training, financial are: (a) reducethe size of research and agriculturalresearch. the public enterpriseportfolio; (b) Ministryof Rural Development, reform the post and telecommunications Lome, Togo, Tel: (228) 21- improve sector in order to 55-63,Fax: (228) 21-10-62 access, price and diversityof commnunications servicesvia Togo increasedcompetition; and (c) support institutionalreform and sector. capacity buildingin the financial Finance Appraisalmission was scheduledfor Environmental June 1997. (R) FinancialSector Adjustment: AssessmentCategory C. The program will US$ supportthe restructuringof financial 20.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be required. institutions,including Ministry banks,insurance companies, savings of MiningEquipment, Transport, banks and Telecommunications, Posts and decentralizedmicrofinance institutions. Lome,Togo, Telex: Appraisalmission (228) (228) 986, Tel: is tentativelyscheduled for December 212-528,Fax: (228) 216-812;Ministry 1997. Environmental Enterprises, of State AssessmentCategory C. Lome, Togo, Tel: (228) 2 12-368,Fax: 214-305 (228)

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-U - June 1997 Africa Region Togo Uganda Transport Education/Training (R) Road Transport (fornerly Transport Sector): main objective The (R) Uganda Education: of the project is to increase the This sector adjustment operation competitiveness will provide the of the economy by budgetary support required to enable lowering transport costs. government the The project will: (a) rehabilitate to implement its education the main trunk roads and development feeder roads through program, focusing on improving a pilot operation;(b) finance allocation and efficiency in improvements the use of resources, quality and maintenance of the sector's of educational inputs and sector infrastructure; management and planning. (c) strengthen management capacities Preappraisal mission was of the scheduled for responsible institutions; and (d) mid-June 1997. Environmental Assessment create the opportunity for Category private sector involvement. Negotiations to be determined. were scheduled for US$ 100.0 late May 1997. Parallel financing (IDA). No consultants are required. is expected by EU and Ministry Germany, subject to political of Education, Crested House, reforms. Total project cost is Kampala, Uganda, US$ 55.0 million Tel: (256-41) 258-629, Fax: Environmental Assessment Category (256-41) 232-104 PID: TGPE2875. B. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Uganda Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Mining Environment Equipment, Transport, Posts and Telecommunications,Lome, Togo, Telex: (228) (228) 986, Tel: (R) Protected 212-027, Fax: (228) 217-625 Areas Management:The project will (228)Fax: (228)212*027, 217-625 support (a) management and biodiversity and conservation of protected areas Togo through rehabilitation and improved management of national areas; parks and other key protected Urban Development (b) promotion and regulation of tourism strengthening by (R) Regional district and local levels Centers Rehabilitation (formerly of government in Infrastructure Rehabilitation): partnership with the private sector The aim of the project is to to facilitate sustainable (a) develop the planning tourism development; and (c) promotion and management capacity of urban of local community institutions; (b) support participation in management the five main cities with an aim and sustainable use of the increase local to protected areas and natural resource mobilization; and (c) execute resources. PPFs totaling US$ priority urban 1.9 million have been works in the five main cities. Preappraisal approved to finance essential mission preparation activities is scheduled for March 1998. Environmental and participatory approaches in Assessment Category designing project components. to be determined. PID: TGPE39976. In addition, a GEF/PPF US$ 40.0 (IDA). grant of US$ 289,000 Consultants have been selected. was approved for preparation of an Ministry of Equipment, associated GEF project. Appraisal Lom6, Togo, Tel: (228) 21-25-28, mission is scheduledfor Fax: (228) late June 1997. Environmental 21-68-12, Contact: Mr. Tchamdja Assessment Category B. Andjo US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Tourism, Togo Wildlife, and Antiquities, PO 4241, Box Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 256-534 Water SupplyfSanitation Uganda (R) Water Resources Management: The project will support (a) improvement Finance of the management of ground water resources; (b) Finance - Restructuring and the establishment of equitable and Rehabilitation: The project efficient cost recovery will provide technical assistance policies; (c) community managed and investment funds to water services in small support reforms in three areas towns; and (d) the expansion of of the financial sector: (a) water services in non-brtkreforrnsainthreetareassof Lome. Appraisal mission was scheduled thepinancialysector:a(a for June 1997. Environmental non-bank financial institutions; (b) Assessment Category A. payment systems; and US$ 19.0 (IDA). (c) capacity building in bank Consultant selection is under way supervision and monetary study for a control at the Bank on delegation of commercial management of Uganda. Project is being identified. water of urban Environmental services. Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 20.0 Reige Nationale des Eaux du Togo (IDA). Consulting services to be (RNET), Angle Ave. de Implementing determined. Ia Liberation-rue du Chemin agency is to be determined. de Fer, Lome, Togo, Tel: (228) 214-268,Fax: (228) 214-613 Uganda Infrastructure (R) Peri-Urban Infrastructure: 24 The aim of the project is to Africa Region June 1997 improve basic infrastructure in peri-urban areas of the four Uganda project towns and to establish mechanisms for participatory design and implementation of investment in local infrastructure Structural Adjustment services. Appraisal mission is scheduled for November 1997. (R) Structural Adjustment HI: Environmental AssessmentCategory B. The credit will support long-term fiscal sustainablity within US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consultant services the newly are presently being decentralized political used for: an investment system. The project was scheduled to formulation study, environmental be presentedfor impact assessment approval, following ITFprocedures, in and facilitation of community late May participation. 1997. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 125.0 (ITF). Consulting services Ministry of Local Government, PO to be determined. Box 7037, Kampala, Ministry of Finance, PO Uganda, Tel: (256-41) Box 8147, Kampala, Uganda. Tel: 256-533, Fax: (256-41) 258-127 (256-41) 23-47-00 Uganda Uganda Population, Health and Nutrition Transport (R) Health Sector Reform: The project will provide Institutional furthsersupport Support - Technical Assistance: The to the government to decentralize health project services. will provide institutional and engineering support Preparation is delayed, pending progress on two to the road sector. In addition, it will provide reviews existing credits in the health sector. The Initial Executive and update designs for components included in Project Summary will be issued in May 1998. the first road sector project. Negotiations were scheduled Environmental Assessment Category C. for June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services C. to be determined. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants Ministry of Health, PO Box will be required. 8, Entebbe, Uganda, Tel: (256- Ministry of Works, 42) 42-20992, Fax: Transport and Communications, PO (256-42) 42-20996 Box 10, Entebbe, Uganda, Tel: (256-42) 20101, Fax: (256- Uganda 42) 20135 Uganda Population, Health and Nutrition (R) Nutrition and Child Development: The project will Transport focus on delivery of nutrition and child development _ Roads Sector I: The project will: (a) support services, including (a) community-based nutrition, institutional parental strengthening and capacity building; education on early childhood development, (b) improve thenig child growth classified road network through mnonitoringand promotion;(b) micronutrientdeficiency pavement stengthening; (c) rehabilitatethe classifiedroad network; control program; and (c) early childhood care and (d) maintainof existing roads; (e) construct traffic terminals development. Appraisal mission was scheduledfor in Kampala; 1997.Ev iopment al late May and (f) provide technical assistance. mission watedfor C. May US$ 750.0 Total project cost is 1997PEnvironmental Assessment Category C. PID: million. Preappraisal mission is scheduled for UGPE40551. September 1997. IEPS has been reviewed. Environmental US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be required. Assessment Category B. Parallel financing Ministry of Planning and Economic is expected frcrm Development, Uganda Germany and EU. Hoase, No. 10, Kampala Rd., PO Box 7086, Kampala, US$ 270.0 (IDA). Uganda, Tel: (256-41) Consulting services to be determined. 230-151, Fax: (256-41) 230-163 Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication, PO Box Uganda 10, Entebbe, Uganda, Tel: (256-42) 20101, Fax: (256-42) 20135 Public Sector Management WesternAfrica Economic and Financial Management: The project will Environment continue assistance in strengthening economic planning and Regional Environmental public financialmanagement. Information Management: The Appraisalmission was Rgoa niomna scheduled for June 1997. Environmental nomto aaeet h Assessment objective of the Category to be determined, project is to establish a demand-driven and action-oriented infornation system and build up capacity US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined, at the local, national and regional levels. Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Negotiations are Uganda scheduled for September 1997. Environmental House, No. 10, Kampala Rd., Assessment PO Box 7086, Kampala, Category C. Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 230-151, Fax: (256-41) 230-163 US$ 20.0 (IDA/GEF). Consulting services Minist6re to be determined. de l'Environnement et des Forets (MINEF), Porte

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Africa Region 802, Immeuble Ministeriel no. 2, Yaounde, Cameroon, (237) 23-92-33, Tel: Zambia Fax: (237) 22-94-88, Contact: Atok Denis, Chef de la Mr. Keedi Education/Training Division des Affaires Juridiques: Ministere de la Recherche (MINREC), BP Brazzaville, 2499, Education Congo, Tel: (242) 82-37-92, Sector: The project 37, Contact: Fax: (242) 83-13- will support improvements Mr. Maurice Onange, in the quality of, and access Direction Generale de to, education and training RechlercheScientifique et la the country. Project in Technique; Ministere des preparation is under way. Finance, du Budget, will be required. Cofinancing et des Participations, Gabon; Environmental Assessment Ministerio de Sanidad PID: ZMPE3249. Category C. y Medio Ambiente (MINSAMA), Calle Rey, Malabo, US$ 30.0 63, Guinea Ecuatorial, Tel: (IDA). Consultant services 14, Fax: (240- (240- 9) 50- Ministry will be required. 9) 33-13, Contact: Mr. Dario of Education, PO Box Olomo, Ministro Tadeo Ndong 50093, Lusaka, Zambia, de Sanidad y Medio Telex: 42621 ZA, Tel: (260-1) des Ambiente; Ministere 254-954, Fax: (260-1)252- Eaux et Forets, de l'Environnement, 602, Contact: ESIP Coordinating cellule et du Tourisme. Secretariat Juridique, Bangui, Central . African Republic, Tel: (236) 61-09-92, Fax: (236) Zambia 61-47-11, Contact: Mr. Alexis Ngomba, Ministere du Plan, Environment de l'Economie, et de la Coop6ration Internationale; (R) Enviro.nent: The Minist4e de project will assist in the Conservation de la Nature, l'Environnement, et du Tourisme, Kinshasa, implementation of the government's Contact: Contat: Mr.Musa Musngesh Zaire, c environmental program Mrs. Musengeshi Musau, Consilier Techique w o t. w in Ministerede Consei'llre Technique, coordination with other p l'Environnement capital and technical donors, It will provide investmentl assistance to alleviate environmental natural and Western Africa resource problems in Zambia. Board presentation was tentativelyscheduled for Power Assessment 10 June 1997. Environmental Category C. PID: ZMPE3253. (R) Regional Power (Mali, US$ 12.8 (IDA). Consulting Mauritania, and Senegal): services to be determined. The project has been designed Ministry of Environment to develop a hydro project and Natural Resources, Manantali and erect associated at 34011, Lusaka, Box transmission lines Zambia, Tel: (260-1) 253-410, power to Dakar, Bamako, to supply 252-952 Fax: (260-1) and Nouakchott. Board presentation is scheduled for 24 June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category A. Zambia US$ 38.0 (IDA). Power Consultants will be requiredfor recruitment of private operators, reservoir management program, environment (R) Power issues, administrative Rehabilitation: The project procedures. andfinancial rehabilitation will (a) support the of the generation, transmission, Governments distribution and of Senegal, Mauritania, infrastructure of Gerlin and Mali; Societe de the Zambian grid; (b) reform de l'Energie de Monantali, the Zambian power sector; Organization Tel: (221) 284-708; and (c) support the pour la Mise en Valeur commercialization of du Fleuve Senegal the Zambia Electricity Supply (OMVS), Rue Carnot, Dakar, Corporation (ZESCO). Senegal, Telex: 670 Appraisal mission is scheduledfor ORMIVAF, Tel: (221) 223-679 July 1997. Environmental Assessment Category ZMPE35076. Cofinancing B. PID: Western Africa US$ 50.0 will be required. (IDA). Consultants will be Zambia required. Power Electricity Supply Cooperation (ZESCO), PO 3304, Lusaka, Box West Africa Regional Zambia, Tel: (260-1) Gas Pipeline: The project 222-753 228-084, Fax: (260-1) with the implementation will assist of the construction of transport Nigerian a pipeline to Zambia gas to Ghana, Togo and activities will Benin. Project be rescheduled due to decisions Ministerial Steering made by the Private Committee in West Africa. Sector Development Environmental (R) Enterprise Assessment Category to Development: Financing be determined. The project includes (a) a arrangements to complement credit component with short-term participation. private sector export finance facility and a medium-term investment US$ finance facility; (b) 260.0 (IBRD/IDA). Consultants matching grant scheme a West will be required. to assist firms to access advice Africa Pipeline Company information; and (c) ar.a (to be created). technical assistance for financial institutions and business support services to upgrade operations. Board presentation their was tentatively scheduled 26 for 27 May 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. Africa Region June 1997 PID: ZMPE44324. Zimbabwe US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be required. Ministryof Commerce,Industry and Trade,Box 31968, Lusaka,Zambia, Transport Tel: (260-1) 226-727,Fax: (260-1) 226- Road 673 Rehabilitation: The project will strengthenthe government'sability to rehabilitateand maintainits roads Zambia throughcoordinated sector developmentplans, policy and institutionalreforms, improvedprogramming StructuralAdjustment of rehabilitationand maintenance,private sectorparticipation Economicand SocialAdjustment and human resourcedevelopment. Project III: The credit will identified.Environmental is being supportfollow-up actions AssessmentCategory B. to previousoperations and Cofinancingwill reformsin new areas identified be required. in subsequenteconomic and US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consultants sectorstudies. The credit will provide will be required. criticalbalance of Ministryof Transportand Energy, paymentssupport. Project is being identified. PO Box 8109, Tel: (263- Environmental 4) 70121, Fax: (263-4) 708225 AssessmentCategory U. Cofinancingis required. US$ 90.0 (IDA). No consultantsare required. Ministry of Finance,PO Box 50062,Lusaka, Zambia, Tel: (260-1) 253-512.Fax: (260-1) 250-886 Zambia Transport (R) NationalRoad Sector Investment(formerly National Road Sector):The project will help the governmentto rehabilitateand maintainnational road infrastructureby placingthe managementof roads on a more commercial basis and throughgreater reliance on the private sector.In addition to institutional reform and strengthening, the project wilifinance rehabilitation of selected main, urban and rural roads. Negotiations are scheduledfor July 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: ZMPE3236. Cofinancingis required. US$ 70.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be requiredin the areas of highwayand rural road engineering,systems analysis, institutionaldevelopment, procurement and environmental management. Ministry of Communicationand Transport,PO Box 50065, Lusaka, Zambia,Tel: (260-1) 254-158,Fax: (260-1) 253- 260 Zimbabwe Infrastructure Rural DistrictCouncil Pilot CapitalDevelopment: The project will supportcapacity building of recentlyformed rural district councils and finance small-scalerural infrastructure. The project is scheduledto be presentedfor approval,following ITF procedures,on 27 May 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B US$ 12.3million (ITF). Consultantswill be required. Ministry of Local Government,Rural and Urban Development,Mukwati Building,Private Bag 7706, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe,Tel: (263-4)791-428, Fax- (263-4) 791-441

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Ti I June 1997 East Asia Cambodia and PacificRegion mission was Agriculture scheduled for early June AssessmentCategory 1997. Environmental (R) Agriculture US$ 29.0 (IDA). B. PID:KHPE45629 ProductivityImprovement Consultantswill be required The project aims (NOI1 -KH): building, for capacity to build capacityneeded for supervisionand technical agriculturaldevelopment sustained Phnom assistance. throughselective Penh Water SupplyAuthority, technical assistance programsof Cambodia. PhnomPenh, and trainingand support Fax: (855-23)427-657 and fisheries.The for agriculture projectwas approved,following procedures,on 28 ITF China February 1997.Credit was March 1997. Environmental signed on 26 Agriculture a AssessmentCategory ~~KHPE04033.Cofinancing C. PID: Agriutre in the amountof US$ 4.7 will be providedfrom IFAD. million (R) Forestry will Developmentin Poor Areas: US$be (oITF.fConsultants wi]l supportthe dissemination Theproject will 27.0 (ITF). be requiredfor project of improvedsilvicultural for intensivelymanaged models Ministry provideincome generationplantations to poor areas. of Agriculture.Forestry and employmentopportunities It will Rural and Fisheries;Ministry to Development of supportpoverty alleviation. Preparationmission is field. EnvironmentalAssessment in the Cambodia CNPE46952. CategoryB. PID: US$ Infrastructure 120.0(IBRD); US$ 80.0 (IDA). be determined. Consultingservices to Road Rehabilitation:The project Ministryof Forestry, 18East rehabilitation will include: (a) St.. Heplingli,Beijing, China of nationaland provincial 100714,Tel: (86-10)6422-9944, road drainage priorityroads; (b) Fax: (86-10)6421-7796 rehabilitation;and (c) road building materials maintenanceand China studies.Preappraisal mission scheduledfor mid-July is Agriculture 1997.Environmental Assessment CategoryB. Agriculture US$ 55.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be (R) HeilongjiangAgricultural supervision required for Development(Ln and technical assistance. CHAt: The project will develop 4161- Ministryof integratedcrop and Public Worksand Transportation, livestockproduction and processing, Blvd., Phnom Naradom oriented and promotemarket- Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855) enterprisedevelopment (855) 23427-862,Contact: 23427-862, Fax: industries. in rural Heilongjiang Mr.Tram Iv Tek, Approved by the Executive State Secretaryof 1997 Directors on 13 Retroactivefinancing of May requested. up to US$ 4.0 million will EnvironmentalAssessment be Cambodia CNPE38988. CategoryB. PID: US$ 120.0(IBRD). Infrastructure A limitednumber of requiredin the areas consultantswill be Rural processing. of livestockbreeding Development: The project and agro- infrastructure will provide rural and production-related Heilongliang Provincial provinces investments in Government, Administrative in northeastern Cambodia, of World Bank Loans, Office linked to the rural 202 Zhong Shan Rd, development decentralization District, Harbin, Nangang initiative. Preappraisal China, Tel: (86-451) 263-2146, missionis scheduledfor July 451) 263-8547, Fax: (86- 1997.Environmental Contact: Mr. Yu Fei, Director, AssessmentCategory C. ManagementOffice Project US$ 20.0 (IDA).Consulting services Implementing to be determined. agencyis to be determined. China Cambodia Agriculture (R) QinbaMountains WaterSupply/Sanitation PovertyReduction: project is to reduce The aim of the (R) absolutepoverty in the WaterSupply: Theproject Sichuan,Shaanxi and Ningxia provincesof to (a) aims to improveaccess througha multi-sectoral potable water in urban areas programof environmentally Sihanoukville of PhnomPenh and sustainablerural development throughthe rehabilitation includingupland agriculture, supply systems of existing water rural enterprisedevelopment, and (b) will supportinstitutional educationand health, labor strengthening. mobilityand training,and Appraisalmission will provisionof basic infrastructure the institutional follow preparationof such as roads, drinking strengtheningcomponent. waterand electricity.Retroactive Appraisal financingof up to I SO.million will be requested. US$ 28 Board presentationwas East Asia and Pacific Region June 1997 scheduled for 10 June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category infrastructure. Preparation mission is in thefield. B. PID: CNPE03590. Environmental US$ 150.0(ITF); AssessmentCategory B. PID: CNPE46563. US$ 30.0 (IBRD).A limitednumber of US$ 90.0 foreignconsultants (IDA); US$ 60.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to will be required. be determined. StateCouncil Leading Groupfor PovertyReduction, FinanceBureau ForeignCapital Project of XinjiangAutonomous Region, No. 16 ManagementCenter, Building 19, Ming de lu, Urumqi ANHUI DONGLI,Chaoyang 830002, China,Tel: (86-991)281- District,Beijing 100101, 6751. Fax: (86-991)281-0084 China, Tel: (86-10)6492-0129, Fax: (86-10) 6492-0134 China China Agriculture Agriculture AnningValley Rural (R) Smallholder Development:The project includesa CattleDevelopment (formerly Beef diverseprogram Cattle Development): of rural developmentactivities, centered on The projectincludes (a) livestock irrigation production,processing expansion,including sericulture, fruit production, and marketingin Anhui.Henan, watershedconservation Hebei and ShanxiProvinces; and agroindustrydevelopment. (b) rangelandmanagement Preparationmission and crop by-productfeeding; was scheduledfor June 1997. (c) householdand larger scale EnvironmentalAssessment beef production;(d) breedimprovement CategoryB. and technical US$ 130.0(IBRD). Individual supportservices; and (e) processing. consultantswill be required Preappraisalmission for preparation,chiefly is scheduledforfiscal year in the area of agroindustry. 1999. Environmental Sichuan Province AssessmentCategory B. US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultants will be requiredfor agro- China processing, rangelandmanagement, micro-credit programs Agriculture and livestockproduction. Ministry of Agriculture,Bureau of AnimalHusbandry, 11 State FarmsCommercialization: The projectwill NongzhanguanNanli, Beijing, 100026,China, Tel: (86-10) support policyand institutionalreforms of the state farm sector 6419-3366,Fax: (86-10)6419-3107, Contact: Mr. Li in Baogen areas of managementreforms, introductionof alternative forms of ownershipand technologicalmodernization. It will China also supportthe institutionaldevelopment of the project financialintermediary to increaseits capacity to conduct Agriculture long-termlending activities. Negotiations will be scheduled pendinga governmentreview (R) Sustainable of the project. PID: CoastalResource Development: The CNPE3591. project will supportfour coastalprovinces in promoting US$ sustainable 200.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredto provide developmentof coastalresources through (a) support planning and to the financialintermediary. executionof coastal zone managementplans; Ministry (b) investing of Agriculture,11 Nong Zhan Guan, Nan Li, in selectedmariculture activities and 10026 supporting Beijing,China, Tlx: 22233,Tel: (86-1) 6500-3366, services;and (c) investingin improved Fax: processing (86-1)6500-2448 of aquatic products. Preappraisal mission is in the field. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: China CNPE03539. Education/Training US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultants will be requiredfor frmlto of cosa zoemngmetpas EducationTIng (R)Basic Education IV: The aim of the projectis toextend Ministry of Agriculture,11 Nongzhanguan Nanli, Beijing the provisionof quality universalbasic education to poor 100026,China, Tel: (86-10) 6419-2402,Fax: (86-10) 6500- 2448 rural children,including girls and minorities.The project will financeimproved schooling counties, conditionsin selected China includingfacilities, material inputs and trainingof teachers and educationmanagers. Retroactivefinancing of Agriculture up to US$ 8.5 million has been requested. Board presentation was scheduledfor 27 May 1997. (R) Tarim BasinIl: The project will supportirrigation EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. improvements,poverty reductionand improved PID: CNPE36957. environmental US$ 85.0(IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. managementin Uygurand other minority State Education areas in Tarim Commission,Xi Dan Da Mu Cang, Beijing Basin, throughinvestment in irrigation and 100816, water resources, China, Tel: (86-10)6609-6679, Fax: (86-10) 6609- land reclamation,drainage and rural 6263

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East Asia and Pacific China Region Education/Training scheduled for October Education/Training 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 Higher Education Reform: (IBRD). Consultants will The project description is be required for project determined. The Bank to be preparation. is currently waiting for the government's decision Anhui Provincial Finance on the project. Environmental Bureau, Huai River Basin Assessment Category Pollution Control C. Project, 85 Changjiang Rd., US$ 50.0 (IDA), Province 230001, Hefei, Anhui US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting China, Tel: (86-551) 264-6633, be determined. services to 551) 264-6633, Fax: (86- Contact: Mr. Shen Weiguo, State Education Deputy Director Commission, Xi Dan Da 100816, Mu Cong, Beijing China, Tel: (86-10) 6603-3641, China 0332 Fax: (86-10) 6602- Environment

China Huai River Basin Pollution Control: Control pollution of water in the Huai River Basin Environment Preappraisal will be supported. mission is in the field. (R) Assessment Environmental Beijing Environment II: Category B. PID: CNPE41888. Project description is to be determined. Project will US$ 50.0 (IBRD). A be identified in October 1997. limited number of international Environmental Assessment experts will be required Category to be determined. in the areas of pulp and USS 150.0 (IBRD). industries. tanning Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency Anhui Provincial Finance is to be determined. Bureau, Huai River Basin Pollution Control Project, 85 China Changjiang Rd., Hefei, Anhui Province 230001, China, Tel: (86-551) 264-6633, Fax: 551) 264-6633, Contact: Mr. (86- Environment Shen Weiguo, Deputy Director (R) Shandong Environment: China The project will support: the provincial government's (a) environmental action improve environmental plan to Finance management; (b) development environmental of (R) China strategies and subsector action Construction Bank Transformation: cities and the Xiaoging plans in two project The River Basin; (c) improvement will support the transformation urban water of the Construction of China supply and waste water collection Bank into a commercial Jinan; systems in bank. It will (a) assist (d) district heating investments in the establishment of a new in Yantai and governance mechanism; (b) Weihei; (e) improvement of help design new systems industrial pollution control for financial accounting, risk through pollution control funds; management and internal and (f) the provision of controls; and (c) upgrade technical assistance in most commercial banking skills. areas of environmental Negotiations were scheduledfor management and performance. June 1997. Environmental The project will also support Assessment Category B. PID: cleaner production technologies CNPE03605. and river basin protection. Board presentation was US$ 230.0 (IBRD). scheduled for 27 May 1997. Consultants will be required Environmental design and for the Assessment Category A. PID: implementation of new financial Up to CNPE40185. information accounting and US$ 10.0 million will be required systems, internal controls financing. for retroactive management. and risk US$ 95.0 (IBRD). China Construction Consultants will be required Bank, 12 Fuxing cor.,truction for China, Rd., Beijing 10081'. management and institution/financial Tel: (86-10) 6851-4488 strengthening studies. Shandong World Bank China Project Management Office, Jingwu XiaoweisiRd., No. 46, Finance Jinan, China,Tel: (86-531) 792- 8263, Fax: (86-531) 793-8315 Agriculture Bank of China Commercialization: China project is designed The to (a) support the commercialization Environment the Agricultural of Bank of China through management improvements of and processes, and by Huai River assistance, provision of technical Basin Pollution Control II: training, and equipment; assist The project will commercial and (b) enhance local governments in (a) developing banking skills in project investments and financing and appraisal, financial and (b) formulating borrower analysis and loan policies to control water pricing through a line of pollution in the basin. Identification credit. Date of preappraisal mission is tentatively mission is subject to agreements 30 on policy issues. Environmental Assessment Category B.

717-~~~~~~~~I East Asia and Pacific Region June 1997 US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. US$ 50.0 (IDA).Consultants AgriculturalBank of will be requiredto assist with China,40 FuchengRd., Beijing project preparation. 10046,Tel: (86-10) 6841-3852,Fax: (86-10) 6841-3128 Ministry of Health,Foreign Loan Office, CAPMFloor 7, 27 China Nan Wei Lu, Xuanwu District,Beijing 100050, China Industry China (R) State-Owned EnterpriseReform (Hubei): The project Power will supportthe state-ownedenterprises with a focus on (R) Energy divestiturein manufacturing Conservation: The project will supportnew and servicesin Wuhanand initiativesto Huangshicities. Preparation overcomeconstraints to rapid adoptionof more mission is in thefield. energy efficient EnvironmentalAssessment technologies,especially in industry. CategoryB. Conceptdecison US$ 100.0 (IBRD). meetingis scheduledfor September1997. Consultants have been selected for Preappraisal project preparation. mission is scheduledfor FY'98. E:nvironmentalAssessment Category Hubei ProvincialGovemment Office, Wuhan, Hubei B. PID: CNPE03606 US$ 65.0 (IBRD);US$ 35.0 (GEF).Consultants 430071,Tel: (86-27) 781-1487,Fax: (86-27) 781-1323, with 781-1731 experiencein energy servicecompany operations and managementare required. State China Economicand Trade Commission,Department of ResourceSavings and ComprehensiveUtilization Infrastructure China (R) XiaolangdiMultipurpose II: The project will complete the ongoing XiaolangdiMultipurpose Dam project,the first Power phase of whichis financedby Loan No. 3727-CHA. (R) Jiangsu Power Transmission: Negotiationsare under way. The project will EnvironmentalAssessment support:(a) the CategoryA. PID: CNPE34081. developmentof the 500 kV networkto ensure a reliable supply and US$ 430.0 (IBRD).Consulting services improvetransmission have alreadybeen efficiencythroughout the contractedunder Phase I provinceover the long term;(b) to of the project. connectthe Jiangsu Ministryof Water Resources, power system to the YanchengPower 1, Lane 2 BaiguangRd., Plants (6 Beijing 100761, x 350 MW) in Shanxiprovince; and (c) to China, Tel: (86-1) 6327-3322, Fax: (86-1) increase 6326-0365 and improve inter-provincial power exchange. The project is in the early stages of identification. China EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. US$ 250.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be requiredto Population,Health and Nutrition (a) reviewengineering studies planning; and transmnissionsystem (R) BasicHealth Services in Poor Areas: The project (b) assist the beneficiary in preparing the will environmental assessment report; (c) demonstrate new approaches to sustagnable assist in preparing health and consolidating the improvement in poor countries accounts of the East China Electric through better resource Power Group allocation and Corp. Other consulting services to be impronvedfinancial access to services. A determined. secondpreparation mission was scheduledfor June 1997. East China GroupCompany, 201 Nanjing EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Rd., Shanghai PID: CNPE3566. 200002,China, Fax: (86-25) 6329-0543 US$ 85.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health,Foreign Loan Office,CAPM Floor 7, 27 China Nan Wei Lu, XuanwuDistrict, Beijing 100050,China China Power (R) ShanghaiWaigaoqiao Thermal Power: The project Population,Health and Nutrition will include(a) constructionof 2 x coal-fired 900 or 2 x 1000MW (R) HealthIX (formnerlyMaternal Health and Childhood super-criticalthermal units; (b) installationof a desulfurizationdevice to controlthe overall sulfur Development):The project will supportmaternal health emissions and in Shanghai;and (c) supportfor reform and a comprehensivepackage of health, nutritionand restructuringof psycho- ShanghaiMunicipal Power Electric Company. social interventionsfor childhooddevelopment. Initial Board presentationis scheduledfor 24 June 1997. discussionson the project are in progress.Environmental Cofinancingin the amountof about US$ 400.0 to US$ AssessmentCategory to be determined, 500.0 million will be required.Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: CNPE44485.

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East Asia and Pacific Region US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consultants will improvement be required for (a) of accounting management US$ 15.0 (IBRD); US$ 20.0 systems and (b) (IDA). Consultants will be engineering services for required to carry out studies, construction management. deliver the training component Shanghai Municipal Electric and support project preparation. Power Company, 181 Nanjing Rd., Shanghai, China Ministry of Finance, 200002, Tel: (86-21) 6329-1010, San Li He Lu, Beijing (86-21)6329-1440 Fax: Tel: (86-10) 100820, China, 6852-8731, Fax: (86-10) 6851-1062 China China~~~~~~~Chn Transport Power (R) Tuoketuo (R) Container Transport Power: The project includes Services and Trade: The construction (a) the the aim of of 2 x 600 MW coal-fired project is to develop a smooth units at Tuoketuo inland distribution system mine mouth power plant in along selected pilot corridors. Inner Mongolia to essentially To this end, the project meet the needs of the Beijing/Tianjing support (a) intermodal will areas; (b) a facilities and equipment including transmissionl distribution inland container depots; rehabilitation and development (b) implementation of component actions essential policy to improve power supply and for smooth trans-shipment Beijing; efficiency in cross-border and efficient and (c) a technical assistance clearance and improved Inner component to the line-haul services; and Mongolia Power Company (c) technical assistance for for a pilot divestiture of enhancing management generation assets. Board presentation capability of container handling was scheduled for and trade facilitation. May 1997. Cofinancing 27 Identification mission in the amount of US$ 100.0 is in thefield. Environmental will be required. Environmental million Assessment Category Assessment Category B. PID: CNPE3650. A. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consultants State Economic and will be required for Trade Commisssion and participating organizational restructuring (a) provinces. and financial systems and technical assistance for asset divestiture and (b) a power loss study in Zhangzhu City. China Contact for Transport power plant component: Tuoketuo PowerGeneration Electric Company;Contact for Transport transmission/distribution (R) Guangzhou component: North China City CenterTransport: The Power Group Company, Electric identified following projectwas _ 32cZaolin Qianjie, Beijing, an urban transport study completed Tel: (86-10) 6354-3377, China, June 1994. Components in Fax: (86-10) 6326-2 123 include transport infrastructure, traffic management, motor vehicle pollution China reform, and technical assistance. controls, bus Preappraisal mission was tentativelyscheduled for June Power Assessment 1997. Environmental Category A. PID: CNPE03614. Hunan Power US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants Development: Initial discussions will be required. scope on project Guangzhou are under way. Project is being Urban and Rural Construction Environmental identified. Commission, 29, Assessment Category Fujian Rd., 7th Floor, Guangzhou A. 510100, China, Tel: (86- US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting 20) 3818-9282, Fax: (86-20) services to be determined. 3818-9282. Contact: Mr. Deng Hunan Electric Power Co., Changsha, Hanying, Vice Director Project 554-3185 China, Fax: (86-731) Office China China Transport Public Sector Management (R) National (R) Highway II (Ln. 4124-CHA): Technical Cooperation IV: main component will be the The project's The project will provide a construction of two high- line of credit to finance consulting priority sections of the inter-provincial services, training, expressway between equipment and studies Guangzhou and Changsha. for key central and provincial Approved by the Executive agencies in support of Directors on 17 December project preparation and the 1996. Environmental government's economic Assessment Category reform program and related A. PID: CNPA03654. institutional strengthening. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). The government has Consultants are being selectedfor deferral of appraisal requested construction to later this year, possibly supervision. or October September Hunan Provincial 1997. Environmental Assessment Communication Department, Category C. China, Hunan. Fax: (86-4) 12572; Guangdong Communication Provincial Department, Guangdong, China 32

-r1 I East Asia and Pacific Region June 1997 China China Transport Transport (R) National HighwayHI (HubeiExpressway): The LiaoningUrban Transport:The project includes project willfinance construction of sectionsof China's constructionof infrastructure,public transport national trunk highwaysystem in Hubei Province,including improvements,traffic managementand safety,motor a build-operate-transfer scheme for a Yangtzebridge. A vehiclepollution control, street maintenanceand technical review of the preappraisal mission findings was held in late assistancein the cities of Shanyang,Anshan and Fushun. April 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: Preappraisalmission is scheduled for November CNPE36949. 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: CNPE41890. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices to be determined. US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selectedfor Hubei ProvinceCommunications Department, Fax: (86-27) preparation. 281-9589 LiaoningUrban Construction and RenewalProject Office China (LUCPRO),No. 282 Danan Shenhe,Shenyang 110015, Liaoning,China, Tel: (86-24) 481-2920, Fax: (86-24) 481- Transport 2392 (R) Tri-Provincial:The project will support the construction China of: (a)Baotou-Dongcheng highway and the Sihandala- Fengzhenhighway in InnerMongolia; (b) Liugohe-Zhonghe Transport highwayand Xujiamo-Gulanghighway in Gansu;and (c) National HighwayIV: The project will financethe Guoyazi-Wangquanliang highwayand Yanchi-Xingren constructionof a four-laneexpressway between Wuhan in highwayin Ningxia.It willalso supportthe program of Hubei and Changshain Hunan (about 300 km). improvement and constructionof rural highways,institutional Preappraisalmission is scheduled for February 1998. strengthening/training and promotehighway safety in eachof EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: CNPE41268. the three provinces.Identification mission is in thefield US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Environmental AssessmentCategory A. Hubei and HunanProvincial Communication Departments US$ 230.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. CommunicationsDepartment of NingxiaHui Autonomous China Region,Uinchuon City, Ningxia,China, Fax: (86-951) Transport 6504-4959,Contact: Mr. Chen Min-qiu,Director; Gansu Provincial E CommunicationsDepartment, Lanzhou City, RailwaysVIII: The project will supportpriority railway Gansu Province,Fax: (86-931)6846-4035, Contact: Mr. Hu reformsand investmentsfor capacity expansion,the Guo-bin, Leader, ForeignCapital Office; Communications acquisitionof technologyto modernizerailways iand Department of Inner MongoliaAutonomous, Hohhot Het, environmentalprotection. Preappraisal mission ismt China,Inner Mongolia,Fax: (86-471)696-7588, Contact: tentativelyscheduled for October 1997.Environmental Mr. Hao Ji-Ye/WungQuay AssessmentCategory A. PID: CNPA3640. US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. China Ministryof Railways,10 Fuxing Rd., Beijing 100844, China,Tel: (86-10) 324-1895,324-8416, Fax: (86-10) 327- Transport 1295 InlandWaterways II: The project willfocus on the developmentof inland waterwaysin Jiangsuand China Guangdongprovinces. A secondpreparation mission is in UrbanDevelopment the field. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. (R) SichuanUrban Environment: The project is the first WaterwayBureau, Communications Department of Jiangsu phase of a long-termprogram to improve urban Province,342 South ZhongshanRd Nanjing,China environmentalservices such as water, wastewaterand solid 210005; GuangdongWaterway Bureau, 280 Changti Ave., wastemanagement. The targetcities are expectedto be Guangzhou 510120, China,Tel: (86-20) 8332-3084,Fax: Chengduand others major cities of SichuanProvince to be (86-20) 8332-3084 identified.The policycomponents will focus on municipal finance, land managementand financial sustainabilityof urban services.Initial discussions on the project are under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B.

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East US$ 200.0 Asia and Pacific Region (IBRD). Some bilateral provided assistance is being for project preparation Implementing consultants. Additional agency is to be determined. consultants will be required. Sichuan Urban Environment Project China Management Office, 40 Section 4 Renminnaniu, Water Supply/Sanitation (86-28) Chengdu 610041, P8628ro555-5886, Fax: (86-28) China, Tel: ProjectManagement OFfi 557-1037, 556-8193; ManagementOffice of Sichua Provincil (R) National Commission, of Schuan Provincial P water to Rural Water Supply Chengdu, Sichuan, Planning unela.EvrnetlAsesetCtgrpoor rural areas will III: The supplyof China, Fax: (86-28) be supported.Negotiations safe 7572, Contact: Mr. Zhong 667- under are Lukun, Dep. Chief way. EnvironmentalAssessment .PD Mr. ChenKCuanjin, Fax: or Contact: CNPE3637. CategoryB. PID: Mr. Chen Kuanjin, (86-28) 667-3549 Fax: (86-28) 667-3549 US$ 70.0 (1IFE). China required A limited numberof in the area of water consultantswill be plant operations and Water Supply/Sanitation sanitation. China Water Supply and (R) Chongqing Urban No. 17 Sanitation National Services: The project Government St., Changping Project Office, a long-term program is one stage of County Beijing to improve urban China, Tel: (86-10) 100220, services environmental 6401-5620, Fax: (86-10) including water, wastewater Contact: Mr. 6974-4437, treatment, collection and Shi Malin, Director and municipal solid waste target cities management. The are expected to be China Wuxian. Chongqing, Fuling and The policy components Water Supply/Sanitation municipal will focus on strengthening finance, environmental (R) Wanjiazhai management and Water Transfer: financial sustainabliity the constructi The project consists of urban services. Initial of on the project are discussions Tunner:of Theral cong under way. Project is theconstruction of 144 EnvironmentalAssessment being identified. km of tunnels, several CategoryB. stations, and other structures, pumping USS 250.0 (lBRD). Consultants pipelines including another 43 will be required. and structuresto transfer km of Chongqing Municipal of water 640 million cubic Govranment, 234 Renmin per year from the Yellow meters Chongqing, China, Fax: Rd., River to North (86-811)385-1258, area (Taiyuan). The project Shanxi Tong Xiao Ping, Contact: Ms. will also have a Vich Chairman, Planning institutional development significant TongVichChairman,PlanningCommissionWater Xiao Commission component for Ping, Diversion Project the Yellow River China ConservancyOffice and for the Shanxi Bureau. RetroactivefinancingProvincial US$ of up to Water Supply/Sanitation 28.0 million was scheduled requested. Board presentation for 3 June 1997. was (R) Guangxi Urban Category A. Environmental Assessment Environment: The aim PID: CNPE36405. is to support the protection of the project and rehabilitation US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consultants water sources of natural have been selected. and to help improve documents for major Bidding waste, and waste water, municipal civil works were industrial waste management contractors issued to prequalified Nanning and treatment in December 1996. and Guilin. Appraisal in Yellow mission was tentatively River Diversion Project scheduledfor June 1997. Changhe Office Cooperation, Environmental Assessment Bldg. 49 Jinci Rd., Category A. PID: CNPE36414. China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030028, Tel: (86-351) 604-1241-2405, US$ 75.0 (IBRD); Fax: (86-351) US$ 25.0 (IDA). Bi-lateral 0723 604- being provided for assistance is project preparation consultancies. Guangxi EPB, I Mine Lu, Nanning, Guangxi, Fiji 771) 586-4670,Contact: Fax: (86- Trans Mr. Zhong Senrong,DirectorP ort China (R) Roads Upgrading III: The project works for will include (a) civil Water Supply/Sanitation 1OOkm.of roads upgrading; services for (b) consulting (R) Hebei supervision of civil works Water Supply and Environment: subprojects; (c) consulting for the selected will focus on The project services for detailed the water supply and and design of subprojects; engineering three to waste water treatment (d) civil works four cities in Hebei Province in rehabilitation; for road overall in the context (e) civil works for road environmental protection of (f) consulting safety improvements; Preparation and urban development. services for project implementation; mission is in thefield. technical support (g) scheduled Concept review is and asset management; for rmid-June 1997. reform. and (h) sector Environmental Appraisal mission is Category to be determined. Assessment Assessment in thefield. Environmental Category B. The US$ 150.0 (IBRD). project is being jointly Consulting services financed (US$ 22.0 million) 34 to be deteiuiiined by ADB. East Asia and Pacific Region June 1997 US$ 18.0(IBRD). Consultants willbe requiredfor supportservices; (b) promote income-generating engineeringdesign and supervision, activities asset management, in villages;(c) improveminor rural infrastructure, technicalservices and sector reform. such as connectingroads; and (d) strengthenlocal institutions. Ministryof PublicWorks, Infrastructureand Transport, Appraisal mission is scheduledfor early September 1997. GanilauHouse, Suva, Fiji, Tel: (679) 315-133, Fax: (679) EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined.PID: 301-198 IDPE40061. Indonesia US$ 22.0 (IBRD).Consultants may be requiredto provide technicalassistance during implementation. Agriculture The ProvincialGovernment of Bengkulu,Jalan (N) Kalimantan Pambangunan,Bengkulu, Tel: (62-736) Area Development:The project will 736) 21502,24512 21450,Fax: (62- reducerural poverty in agriculturalupland areas by: (a) raising agriculturalproductivity and diversifyingsources of Indonesia income,supporting community-based forest management and comnmunitydevelopment initiatives; (b) providing Agriculture infrastructurefor productionand market linkages. and (c! Lake Toba CatchmentManagement: The project will facilitatingflow of credit and strengthening farmerself-help raise the living standardsof poor upland farmers in four groups, NGOs,research institutes,local and regional kabupatensof the Lake Toba catchmentarea by improving governmentsand technicalagencies. ProjectConcept and restoringthe productionpotential of Document (PCD)has their resourcebase. been issued.Further project actions The project will also enhancewatershed will be determined environmental followingthe PCD review. quality and protect downstream Environmental watershedresources. AssessmentCategory B. Identificationmission is completed. US$22.5 (IBRD).Consulting Environmental servii;esto be determined AssessmentCategory to be determined. BANGDA,JI. Kalibata Raya 20, Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: US$ 25.0(IBRD). Consulting services being procured. (62-21) 744-2631,Fax: (62-21) 794-2637;BAPPENAS ProvincialGovernment of North Sumatra,BAPPEDA TK Indonesia l, Sumatra,Utara, JI.P. Doponegero,21A, Medan, Indonesia,Tel: (62-61) 538-045,Contact: Dr. Rustam Agriculture Djamaan (R) DecentralizedAgricultural and ForestryExtension Indonesia Pilot: The project will improvethe provisionof extension supportservices at the district level throughan operational. Agriculture integrated, farmerand agribusiness-orientedagricultural MalukuRegional Agricultural and forestryextension Development:The system which wouldpromote implementationof an agriculturally adoptionof environmentally baseddevelopment sustainablefarming practices project in three kabupatensin the Maluku and increasefarmers' province will be income.The project will enhance supported.Project preparation is farmers' participation underway. Environmental and capacity to determinethe AssessmentCategory B. PID: IDPE37095. extensionprogram and priorities,strenghten the intergrated US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consultants for district level agricultural preparationhave been and forestryextension system and selected and are in the field. extensionstaff capacity,and provide central extensionand Bangdaand MalukuBAPPEDA project management support. Review of the Project Concept Documenit was scheduled for mid-May 1997. Indonesia EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Agriculture US$ 12.0(IBRD). Consultants have completedsocial and Agiculture genderanalysis. RegionalWatershed Development Ministryof Agriculture,Center (Sulawesi):The project for AgriculturalExtension. will raise the living standardsof poor Jl. Harsono,Room no. 3, A upland farmers in Building,III floor,Tel: (62-21) selectedkabupatens in prioritywatershed 780-4426,Fax: (62-21) management 780-4428,Contact: Dr. Ir. H. areas in South Sulawesi by RochayatHarun improvingand restoringthe productionpotential of their resourcebase. also enhance The project will Indonesia watershedenvironmental quality and protect downstreamwatershed resources. Project preparation is under Agriculture way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor project (R) Sumatra(Bengkulu) Regional Development: The preparation. objectivesof the projectare to (a) improveagricultural

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East Asia and Provincial Government Pacific Region of South Sulawesi, n1.Uril Sumoharjo Bappeda Tk 1, Km 5, Ujung Pandang, Provincial Government 327-486, Contact: Tel: (62-41 1) of West Sumatra, JI. Khatib Mr. Muhammad Idrus Salaiman No. I, Indonesia, Said Tel: (62-751) 515-91, Indonesia 751) 545-55 Fax: (62- Agriculture Indonesia Sulawesi Education/Training Water Resources Management: introduce integrated The project will river basin water resources (N) Sumatra Basic Education: management, expand improvements The project will the irrigation service in the quality support support efficient fee program, and management of basic levels of operation and education in North Sumatra, ensure sustainability maintenance to Riau and Bengkulu. of existing irrigation preparation is under Project support infrastructure and way. Environmental Assessment new infrastructure development. Category to be identification Project determined. is currently on hold US$ 60.0 (IBRD). progress pending review of Consulting services to on water resources management Ministry of Education be determined Environmental program. and Culture, J1. Jend. Assessment Category Senayan, Jakarta, Sudirman, US$ to be determined. Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting (62-21) 573-1436 573-2594, Fax: Ministry services to be determined. of Public Works, Directorate Resources General of Water Development, J1. Indonesia Indonesia, Pattimura 20, Jakarta, Tel: (62-21) 739-5588, Education/Training Fax: (62-21) 739-2563 Indonesia (R) Distance Learningand the project New Technologies:The Agriculture will assist selectedexisting information technologies programsusing Sumatra and expand opportunities (Jambi) Regional Development: distance learning in Indonesia. for include (a) The project will The project will support improvement of agricultural government's open the (b) promotion support services; university to improve of income generating programs, strengthen the quality of its improvement activities in villages; (c) the Center of Communication of minor rural infrastructure; Technology and support and strengthening and (d) proposals for developing of local institutions. PHRD on a dual mode basis courses preparation. grant obtained for in selected universities. Needs assessment was being identified. Project is Detailed started in March 1997. Environmental Assessment design of the project determined. Category to be completion will begin following of the needs assessment. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Assessment Environmental Consulting services to Categoryto be determined. Ministry of Education be determined. US$ P1D:IDPE46685. and Culture, J1. 20.0 (IBRD).Consultants Senayan,Jakarta, Jend. Sudirman. technical may be requiredto provide Indonesia,Tel: (62-21) assistancefor project (62-21) 573-1436 573-2594,Fax: implementation. preparationand Provincial Governmentof Jambi, Indonesia No. 1,Indonesia, J1. RM. Nur Atmadibrata Tel: (62-741)634-94, Fax: 22 (62-741)621- Education/Training Indonesia (R) Early ChildDevelopment: programof early The project will support child developmentservices a children with particular for poor Agriculture emphasison early programs.Project identification child education Sumatra(West Sumatra) early is completed.A RegionalDevelopment: childdevelopment is ongoing study on objectivesof the project The activities. for preparatory are to (a) improveagricultural EnvironmentalAssessment supportservices; (b) promote determined. Categoryto be in villages; income-generatingactivities (c) improveminor US$ 30.0 (IBRD). connecting rural infrastructure,such Consultingservices roads; and (d) strengthen as Ministry of Education to be determined. PHRDgrant local institutions.A and Culture,Jl. Jendral has been obtained for Senayan,Jakarta, Indonesia, Sudirman, needs assessment preparation.Planning for Tel: (62-21) 573-1618, is in progress.Environmental 3352, Fax: (62-21) 573- Categoryto Assessment 573-6870 be determined.PID: IDPE4471 US$ 20.0 (IBRD). 7. Indonesia Consultantsmay be required technicalassistance during to provide Education/Training implementation. project preparationand (R) UndergraduateEducation: 36 the establishmentof a system The project will support of competitivelyawarded East Asia and Pacific Region June 1997 grants to targeted academicprograms in public, and possibly private Indonesia universities. Negotiations completed. Board presentation is scheduledfor 17 June 1997. Environmental Environment AssessmentCategory C. (R) Coral Reef US$ 71.2 (IBRD). Consulting services Rehabilitationand Management:The needed for study project will grants and for selection and (a) establish a national policy for coral review of grants. management; reef Directorate General of Higher (b) establish a conducive legal and Education, Ministry of enforcementframework; Education and Culture, Jl. Pintu (c) conduct public awareness 1, Senayan, Jakarta, campaigns; Indonesia,Tel: (62-21) (d) establish a coral reef information 573-2594,573-4477, Fax: (62-21) (e) network; 573-1436 build localcapacity; and (fl implementcommunity- based management in pilot sites. Preappraisal mission scheduledfor was Indonesia June 1997. Environmental Assessment CategoryB. PID: IDPE36048. Education/Training US$ 25.0 (IBRD);US$ 12.0(GEF). Technical (R) West Java Basic Education: will be required for assistance Theproject will support Bureau project implementation. improvementsin the quality of Marine,Aerospace, Environment. Science and managementof basic Technology and education on a decentralized (BAPPENAS),Jl. TamanSuropati basis. Preappraisal mission is No. 2, scheduled Jakarta 10310, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) for late June 1997. Environmental Assessment 390-5649, Fax: (62- CategoryC. 21) 310-5374, Contact: Dr. Agus Pakpahan US$ 60.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry Indonesia of Education and Culture, iB.Jend. Sudirman, Senayan,Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 573-4477 Environment BADEPAL Indonesia DevelopmentTechnical Assistance I: The projectseeks to assist Education/Training the Agency for EnvironmentalImpact Control (BADEPAL)in expanding QualityImprovement of complianceprograms, its pollution control MedicalEducation: The project system developingand implementinga aims to improve the quality of pollutioncharges, and developingcapacity of pre-serviceand specialist provide to medical education in Indonesia technicalguidance on pollutionprevention throughimproved training, industrial in key strengtheningof policy framework subsectors.Project is being identified. relatedto medical Environmental education and estimationof requirements AssessmentCategory C. for medical US$ 10.0 g;raduatesin the short-term. (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredto serve Projectis being identified. advisors as Japan Grant fundingrequested. to BAPEDALmanagers at the regionaloffice Totalproject cost is US$ and at the level 100.0 million. center on water pollutioncontrol, air pollution US$ control, hazardouswaste management 65.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. and marine pollution Ministry control. Consultantswill also of Education and Culture,JI. Jend. Sudirman, be required for assignmentsin Senayan,Jakarta, Indonesia, clean technologyinformation systems, emergency Tel: (622-1) 573-2594,Fax: planning response (622-1) 573-1436. and market-basedpollution controlinstruments. Agencyfor EnvironmentalImpact Control Indonesia (BADEPAL) Indonesia EducationfTraining Environment Sulawesi Basic Education: The project will support improvementin the quality MalukuConservation and Natural Resources and managementof basic Management: education in Sulawesiand The project will include (a) creation Maluku.Project is in the early improved and stages of project identification. managementof terrestrialand marine reserves, EnvironmentalAssessment (b) natural CategoryC. resourcesmanagement of watersheds,coastal US$ zones, fisheriesand forests; 60.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. and (c) incomegeneration, Ministry primarilyfrom agriculture, of Education and Culture,JI. Jend. Sudirman, in the target areas. Project Senayan, preparationis under way Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: (62-21)573-4477 EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryB. PID:IDPE37095. US$ 15.0 (IBRD);US$ 8.0 (GEF). Consultantswill required be for project preparationin the areas of coordination, economic analysis,social assessment,park and management, reserves natural resourcesmanagement and developmentactivities. 37

1F June 1997 East Asia and Indonesia Pacific Region Power mandate by enhancing its financial performance auditing and (R) Renewable capability. The project will: Energy: The project BEPEKA's efforts to remove (a) strengthen development aims to promote the existing audit scope of renewable energy limitations and other power projects by the regulatory constraints; (b) private sector, NGO's, and demand for BEPEKA's promote cooperatives within the audits; (c) reduce framework of a least-cost constraints internal supply electrification strategy by upgrading technical particular emphasis with (d) and managerial capacity; on serving the needs build the management information consumers. of rural system; and (e) Renewable technologies introduce international best effective that provide a cost- practices. Board presentation basis for reducing green-house is scheduledfor 17 June gas emissions will 1997. Environmental Assessment be promoted under the project Category C. PID: by a grant from the Global IDPE4905 1. Environment Facility. US$ 16.4 (IBRD). Negotiations completed. Consultants will be presentation is scheduledfor Board assistance required for technical 19 June 1997. Environmental and training of BEPEKA Assessment Category strategy, staff in policy and B. PID: IDPE35544. skills development and US$66.4 (IBRD); management. audit information systems US$ 4.0 (GEF). Consultants required. will be The Supreme Audit Board of Indonesia, PT PLN (Persero), Keuangan Badan Pemeriksa JI. Trunojoyo Blok MI/135, Republic of Indonesia (BEPEKA), (62-21) 739-2203, Jakarta, Tel: Subroto JI. Jend. Gatot Fax: (62-21) 724-5185 No. 31, Jakart Pusat - 10210, 21) 570-5370, Indonesia, Tel: (62- Indonesia Fax: (62-21) 570-5370, contact: Drs. I. Gusti Agung Rai, MA, Head of Private Sector Development Training Center Indonesia (R) Local Institutions: The project will support the development of local institutions Telecommunications to eventually increase participation of local, small (R) Information contractors in the provision Infrastructure and Applications infrastructure. Project of Development: is being identified. Environmental The objectives of the Assessment Category and intensify project are to extend to be determined. communications and connectivity US$ 100.0 (IBRD). regions and to the Consulting services to be to develop the legal and BAPPENAS,334371 determined. to promote regulatory framework IBU SATI, Jaklrta, Indonesia, information technology (62-21) 336-207, Tel: NVegotiations applications. Fax: (62-21)314-5374 are under way. Environmental Indonesa,US$ CategoryC. PID: Assessment Indonesia IDPE48715 70.2 (IBRD). Consultants services will Private Sector develop a strategy and action be required to Development plan for extending postal East communications Java StrategicRegional network, strategy for will Development:The project participation in areas private sector support provincial initiatives management,and informationof postal services, internet environmental in land management, systemsand informationnetwork protection and private managy aning. within a strengthened sector participation planning and programming technology training. framework. Project Ministry is being identified. Environmental of Tourism, Post and Assessment frarewor.bing PrJectiSdentfied Envronmntal16-19, Gedung Telecommunications, Category to be determined. Depparpostel - 15th Floor, A Japanese grant Jakarta,Indonesia, JI. Merdeka Barat No. was approved to initiate 1 Fax: (62-21) 386-7600 preparation of a policy and implementation plan, Indonesia a land management improvement plan and to provide provincial-level local assistance to prepare programs and the project. Transport US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consulting services (R) Northern Sumatra Province to be determined. Regional Roads: The project of East Java (BAPPEDA), include (a) network preservation will Surabaya, JI. Pahlawan 110, and development; Indonesia, Tel: (62-31) regional planning, (b) 46520, 333806, Fax: focusing on strengthening 31) 334-339 (62- institutions responsible regional for transport development and implementation; planning and (c) improve resource Indonesia and use. allocation Appraisal mission is scheduled Public Sector Environmental Assessment for early July 1997. Management Category A. PID: IDPE03993 (R) BEPEKA Audit Modernization: US$ 160.0 (IBRD). Consulting The project technical assistance services will be neededfor strengthen the Supreme will implementation for strategic planning Audit Board of Indonesia support. and (BEPEKA) so that it can better fulfill its constitutional 40

T -'l- East Asia and Pacific Region June 1997 Ministry of Public Works, JI. Pattimura 20, Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 724-756, Fax: (62-21) 739-2563; Water Ministry Supply/Sanitation of Home Affairs, JI. Medan Merdeka Utara 7, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 345-0919, Fax: (62-21) 36- (R) Jatiluhur 00-21, 36-00-91 Water Resources Management: The project will (a) improve the existing Jatiluhur canal networks and strengthen Indonesia system organization and management to agricultural increase production and guarantee continuation of Transport the water supply for agricultural, industrial, other uses municipal, and (R) Second Strategic Urban Roads Infrastructure: and (b) provide water for industrial purposes and The new irrigation on about 5,000 ha. Project project will finance the construction of preparation is bypasses for several proceeding under a technical large towns in the North Java transport assistance study. corridor. Project is Environmental Assessment being identified. Environmental Category to be determined. Assessment Category to be US$ determined. 75.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected. Ministry of Public Loan amount to be Works, Directorate General of Water determined (IBRD). Consulting services Resources will be requiredfor Development, JI. Pattimura 20, Jakarta, project preparation and implementation Indonesia, support. Tel; (62-21) 739-5588,Fax: (62-210 739-2563 BINKOT, Ministry of Public Works, JI. Pattimura No. 20, Jakarta Indonesia Selatan, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 71-57-52. Fax: (62- 21) 71-69-73, Contact: Mr. G. Harahap, Director, Binkot Water Supply/Sanitation Eastern Indonesia Islands Water and Sanitation: The project may include investments in water supply, drainage, sanitation, Transport solid waste management, accompanied measures, by institutional (R) Transport Corridors (Kalimantan) (formerly improved community health and environmental awareness. Project is being identified. Regional Roads II): The project will support Environmental transfer Assessment Category to be network preservation and development determined. in Kalimantan for US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultants the main regional center. Project will be required for project is being identified. preparation. Terms-of-reference Environmental Assessment are being finalized by the Category to be determined. povernment. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined Implementing agency is to be determined. Indonesia Kiribati Urban Development Education/Training (R) Kalimantan Urban Development II: The project will Education: The project will improve finance priority investments in selected the quality of primary cities in: (a) urban education through provision roads; (b) water supply and of textbooks and access to distribution systems; (c) storm junior secondary drainage and flood control; education through construction of schools. (d) solid waste collection and Project preparation disposal; (e) human is currently on hold pending waste disposal (sewerage and on-site government sanitation proposal. PID: KIPE34892. facilities); (f) multi-sectoral programs for US$ 2.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. kampung (low income neighborhood) improvements, market Ministry of Education, Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati, improvements, and infrastructure for urban renewal Fax: pilot (686) 28222, Contact: Dr. Tetau Taitai projects and for low cost housing developments; (g) programs for the development and strengthening of local Lao People's Democratic Republic institutions; (h) programs to increase local revenue generation; and (i) technical assistance for implementation. Education/Training Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Education II: The Category to be determined. project contents are to be determined. Preappraisal mission is scheduled US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services for mid-August 1998. to be determined. The content of the Implementing agency project will be modified in light of the is to be determined. findings of recently concluded work in the education sector. Discussions to identify the revised project concept are ongoing. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required.

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East Asia Ministryof Education, and Pacific Region Laney Aug Ave., PDR, Tel: (856-21) Vientiane,Lao 216-006,Fax: (856-21) governmentin the financial 006 412-415,216- Specifically, and enterprisesectors. the projectis expected non-performing to reducethe level loans, support of Lao People'sDemocratic banking the restructuringof Republic system and assist commercial the Infrastructure management.Within banks in debt enterprisesector, the objectives (R) Rural assist are to Infrastructure:The RRraIfrtwillimprovethe the government'sprivatization core rural projectwill improve the improvingthe efforts while transportnetwork of enterprises. governancestructure rural Laos in order to alleviate The project will also includeof privatized povertythrough the provision a pilot scheme to markets and of greater accessto other infrastructure. Directorson 1 scheduled Preappraisalmission is May 1997. Environmental for July 1997.Environmental CategoryC. PID: Assessment Category Assessment MNPE41741. C. PID: LAPE42237 US$ 10.0(IDA). US$ 15.0 Consultingservices (IDA). Consultingservices Ministry of are not required. Ministry to be determined. Finance,Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, of Communication,Transport, 320-491,Fax: (976-;) Tel: (976-1) Construction, Post and 320-247,Contact: Mr. Wat Nark Noy Rd., Vientiane, Gansukh (856-21)31-31-92, Lao PDR,Tel: Fax: (856-21)31-47-08 Mongolia Lao People's DemocraticRepublic Finance Power (R) Banking, Enterprise and Legal Technical Assistance (R) Subtransmission and (Cr. 2948-MOG):The RuralElectrification: institutions project's objectiveis to projectwill finance(a) The programs implementingthe government's support the expansionof distribution in their sectors.The reform networksin southern support, project will finance advisory and central Laos; tb) rural trainingand, where electrificationin remote equipment appropriate,materials and communities;and (c) for the Ministry of studies.Appraisal mission planning institutions, Justice and judicial was scheduled for the Tradeand EnvironmentalAssessment June 1997. Property DevelopmentBank and CategoryB. Committee. Approved the State US$ 30.0(IDA); US$ 0.8 on I May by the Executive Directorv (GEF). Consultantswill 1997.Environmental req,ired for project implementation. be PID: MNPE47683. AssessmentCategory C. Electricit6du Laos,PO Box 309, Vientiane, US$ 2.0 (IDA). Consultants (856-21) Lao PDR, Tel: will be required in 212-807,Fax: (856-21) bankingskills, debt workout, the areas of 212-806 development,enterprise Lao People's viabilityassessment and DemocraticRepublic restructuringand Transport legislative/regulatoryreform. Ministry of Justice,Ulaanbaatar, (R) HighwayImprovement 322-383, Mongolia,Fax: (976-1) III (Cr. 2943-LA): Contact: Mr. Sougar, will financeupgrading The project Deputy Minister; State of existing highways PropertyCommittee, Ulaanbaatar, assistanceand training. and technical 310-011, Mongolia,Fax: Approvedby the Contact:Mr. Enkhbold, (976-1) Directors on 8 Executive Chair;Trade April 1997. Credit signing DevelopmentBank, Ulaanbaatar, and scheduled was tentatively Mongolia,Fax: for June 1997. Environmental 325-685, Contact: Mr. (976-1) CategoryB. Assessment Narankhuu, President Nordic DevelopmentFund M technicalassistance will financeall and consultingservices. Mongolia LAPE4210 PID: Power US$ 48.0 (IDA). Consultants (R) will be required EnergySector: The project construction supervision for is expectedto support and technical assistance power systemdevelopment maintenance,highway for road Project and efficiencyimprovements. planning and project management. concept review is scheduledfor Ministryof Communications, Environmental September 1997. Construction, Transport,Post, and AssessmentCategory Vientiane,Lao US$ 35.0 (IDA). to be determined. PDR, Fax: (856-21)41-41-23 Consultantswill be required Mongolia preparationin 1997. for project Implementing Finance agencyis to be determined. (R) Bankingand Mongolia EnterpriseSector Adjustment 2947-MOG):The (Credit project'sobjective is PrivateSector Development strengthenthe to supportand reformefforts being undertaken PrivateSector Development: by the The project will support 42 developmett of the private the sectorin Mongoliathrough

-r East Asia and Pacific Region June 199J7 enterprise reform, privatization and policy reform. Project is Papua New Guinea being identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Structural Adjustment Ministry of Finance, Octiabrim 7, Ulaanbaatar I1, Social and Rural Development Program: The project will Mongolia, Tel: (976-1) 320-491, Fax: (976-1) 320-247 or support the second phase of the reform agenda and 329-491, Contact: Mr. P. Tsagaan, Minister of Finance improvement of service delivery with the assistance of Mongolia NGOs and civil society. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. Water Supply/Sanitation US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required and will Ulaanbaatar financed under a PHRD grant. be Services Improvement: The project will Department include of Finance, Papua New Guinea, Fax: (675) (a) upgrading infrastructure services in traditional 288-495 living areas; (b) rehabilitation of bulk water supply production and distribution; and (c) cecondary sewer PapuaNew Guinea rehabilitation. Additionally, there will be support for institutional development and project implementation. Transport Negotiations are under way. Environmental Assessment (R) Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation: The project Category B. PID: MNPE36052. AUSAID is financing will (a) finance works for national and provincial detailed design preparation. AUSAID roads, a is expected to road maintenance and rehabilitation cofinance US$ 5.0 million. program and (b) continue a program of institutional development in the area US$ 16.1 (IDA). Consulting services will be required during of transport/works including training of national implementation for project and utility management and contractors; and (c) strengthen sector policy reviews. provincial government's capacity for increasing role in Municipality of Ulaanbataar maintenance responsibilities. Appraisal mission was scheduledfor late May 1997. Papua New Guinea Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: PGPE04397. US$42.1 (IBRD).Consulting services are required for Agriculture engineering design and for implementation and project (R) Agriculture Sector Investment: The project will Department of Transport, P0 Box 457, Konedebu, NCD, support policy, regulatory and institutional reforms as well Papua New Guinea; Department of Works, PO BOX 1108, as selected investments in a range of subsectors, within an Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea, Tel: (675) 241557 overall medium-term strategy for the agricultural sector. Further project processing steps will be decidedfollowing Papua New Guinea agreement with the government on the proposed scope of the project. Environmental Assessment Category B. Transport US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be financed through a Highlands Highway: PHRD grant. The project will support the establishment of an authority to provide emergency Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock maintenance and rehabilitation of the Highlands Highway. PapuaNew Guinea Project preparation studies have been initiated. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. Environment US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required to assist in Forestryand Conservation: the preparation of environmental, The project will facilitate and financingaspects. economic, institutional sustainable forest management through training, planning, Department of Transport and monitoring and Works, PO Box 1108, Boroko enforcement of Papua New Guinea's NCDe Papua logging New Guinea, Tel: (675) 324-1248, Fax: (675) code. The project will promote conservation 324-1139 through national initiatives and regional integrated conservation development project interventions. Project has Philippines not been identified. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 16.0 (IBRD/GEF). Consultants will be required. Agriculture National Forest Authority (R) Community-Based Resource Management: The project will support the introduction of sustainable resource management and poverty alleviation in five regions as a follow-up to the Central Visayas project. Appraisal mission

43 June 1997 East is scheduledfor Asia and Pacific Region late June 1997. Category EnvironmentalAssessment B. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). US$ Consultingservices 45.0 (IBRD).Consulting Subic Bay Metropolitan will be required. Implementing servicesto be determined. Authority,Building agencyis to be WaterfrontRd., 229, determined. Subic Bay FreeportZone Tel: (63-47) 222-3572, 1111,Philippines, Philippines Fax: (63-47) 252-3434 Agriculture Philippines MindanaoIntegrated Rural Transport Infrastructure:The will focus on the enhancement project Manila Urban and of agriculturalproductivity Transport:The project crop diversificationthrough transportation aims to improvethe infrastructure, the provisionof essential system in Metro Manila which might include construction throughroad ports farm-to-marketroads, and rehabilitation,traffic or warehousingand post-harvest safety measures managementand as well processingfacilities, and strengtheningtransportation, as essentialsupport services. and policy formulation. planning suspended Projectpreparation is Project is being identified. until the governmentprepares EnvironmentalAssessment programfor an investment CategoryB. Mindanao.Environmental US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultants CategoryB. Assessment for projectpreparation be financedunder a Japanese will US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Metro PHRDgrant. Consultantswill be financed Manila Development grant. by a PHRD St., Agency,EDSA Corner Gaudalupe,Makati City, Orense Departmentof Agriculture, 8464, Philippines,Tel: (632) 818- Planningand Monitoring Fax: (632) 818-8490, Division,Elliptical Nacianceno, Contact:Mr. Robert C. Rd., Diliman,Quezon City General Manager Philippines,Tel: (63-2) 1100, 929-8247,Fax: (63-2) 9204078 Philippines Philippines Education/Training UrbanDevelopment (R) Local GovernmentUnits Early ChildhoodDevelopment: Theproject will Financeand Development: The project financemunicipal infrastructure supporta new integrated will(a) services and nationalprogramn in poorer local government improvethe health, which will strengthen units. It will also nutritional,educational, the operationof social developmental and psycho- Fund the MunicipalDevelopment statusof pre-schoolchildren; and will support technical strengthenthe capacity and (b) national assistance and training of central and local governments and local government to plan and manageearly to is under agencies.Project preparation childhooddevelopment way. EnvironmentalAssessment Appraisalmission L scheduled programs. PHPE48588. CategoryB. PID: Environmental for mid-July1997. AssessmentCategory US$ 100.0 (IBRD). US$ 40.0 C. PID: PHPE04566 Consultingservices to (IBRD).Consulting services Departmentof Finance, be determined. Department to be determined. Rm. 516, Five Storey of Health,Rizal Ave., BankComplex, Manila, Bldg., Central Philippines, San Lazaro,Manila, Philippines,Tel: (632) Tel: (63-2)711-6095; Department Fax: (632) 521-9495 521-2948, Welfare and Development, of Social BatasanComplex, Constitution Hills, QuezonCity, Manila, Philippines 8191, Philippines,Tel: (63-2) Fax: (63-2)931-8138 931- Water Supply/Sanitation Philippines (R) WaterDistricts Development: support The project will (a) Infrastruicture the government'ssectoral sector reformsin the water to encourageprivate sector sub- (R) Second Subic Bay finance the government's participationand (b) Freeport(Ln. 4911-PH): investment follow-upproject will The priority programfor specific continueto providecritical sewerageprojects. Negotiations improvementsneeded in late May were schedutedfor SubicBay Freeport(SBF) 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment infrastructure,administration, PID: PHPE4576. CategoryA. management, and environmental in order to continue US$ 60.0 (IBRD). investors to attract private Consultingservices to SBF.Major components Land Bankof will be required. supply will include(a) the Philippines,313 Sen and sewerage;(b) power water Makati, Philippines, Gil Puyat Ave., bridges; distribution;(c) roads and Tel: (63-2) 814-0154, and (d) institutionalstrengthening. 4619, Contact: Fax: (63-2)817- the Executive Approved Ms. Cecil Borromeo,email: Directorson 26 by [email protected]@internet signing November1996. Loan has been delayed until Environmental specific issues are resolved. AssessmentCategory B. 44 PID: PHPE40981. East Asia and PacificRegion June 1997 Philippines stages of identification.Project concept paper will be Water Supply/Sanitation completedin June 1997. Environmental CategoryC. Assessment LocalGovernment Unit Urban Waterand Sanitation: US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Consultants The projectwill providewater and sanitation have been selected. services in Implementingagency is to be determined. approximately100 small towns.The project will also fund investmentsto improvethe urban environmentand build Thailand capacityin the Local GovernmentUnits and in national agencies. Education/Training The projectconcept is beingrevised in light of the government'spolicy changes.Environmental Assessment (R) Secondary CategoryB. EducationQuality Improvement II: The project will US$ 80.0 (IBRD).Consultants supportquality improvementin secondary will be required for educationthrough financing engineeringdesign in a staff developmentprogram. about ten pilotsand will be financed upgradingscience by a Japanese PHRD and languagesequipment and facilities Grant. and civil Department works. Date of negotiations to be confirmed by the of Interior, FranciscoGold Condominium, government. ESDA Corner, EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: MapagmahalSt., QuezonCity, Philippines, THPE42259 Tel: (63-2) 928-6357,Fax: (63-2) 929-9406,E-Mail: [email protected]@INTERNET US$ 194.7(IBRD). Consultants will be requiredfor project managementprocurement of equipment. Thailand Ministryof Education,Rachadamnoen Nok Ave., Bangkok, Thailand, Tel: (662) 281-8903,Fax: (662) 281-0068 Agriculture Thailand (N) Community Irrigation:The project,through active Education/Training communityparticipation, would supporta programfor improvedwater resourcesmanagement, irrigation systems (R) University improvement,crop Science and Engineering(Ln 4160-TH): diversificationand on-farmactivities. The project ProjectConcept Review will improvequality throughfaculty upgrading, scheduledfor late May 1997. new course EnvironmentalAssessment development,and strengtheningof information Category C. services. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Approved by the Executive Directors on 13 May Consultantswill be required.PHRD 1997.Environmental funds will finance AssessmentCategory C. PID: consultingservices. THPE04805. Royal IrrigationDepartment US$ 143.4(IBRD). Consultants will course be requiredfor new Thailand development,project management and procurement. Technicalassistance will be financedby AUSAID. Agriculture lMinistryof UniversityAffairs, Si AyuthayaRd., Bangkok. (R) Thailand,Tel: (66-2) 246-4030,Fax: (66-2) 246-883 Dam Safety: The objectivesof the projectare to (a) formalizethe regulatoryprocess of inspectingand Thailand monitoringthe performanceof dams throughthe establishmentof a permanent,technically qualified, and adequatelystaffed Eucahoi/Trainng and equipmentdam safety organization (R) Vocational in the Thai Royal Irrigation Training: Theproject will financean Departmentand (b) to provide institutionalimprovement for the reinforcingof basic safety programwhich will include facilitiesand undertaking overseastraining for remedialworks as necessary. administratorsand teachingstaff and Appraisalmission was consultingservices schedutledfor mid-June for project managementand 1997. Environmental Assessment procurement. CategoryC. Awaiting Cabinet approval of negotiations. EnvironmentalAssessment Category US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will C. PID:THPE42258. be financed US$ 60.9 (IBRD).Consultants will through the Japanese PHRD facility. be requiredfor project management and procurement Royal Irrigation Department of equipment. Ministry of Education, Rachadamnoen Nok Ave., Bangkok, Thailand, Tel: (662) 281-8903,Fax: (662) 281-0068 Thailand Thailand Agriculture Northern Watershed Management: The project will Environment supportwatershed protection in selectedpriority sub- watersheds Coastal Resource Management: Theproject will in the northern region. Project is in the early support the government and local initiatives to improve 45 June 1997 East management Asia and Pacific Region and conservationof coastal areas. Appraisal resources in five for mission was scheduled early September1997. Environmental Environmental for June 1997. Category Assessment AssessmentCategory to be C. US$ 45.0 (IEBRD). determined. US$ Consultantshave been 67.0 (IBRD).Consultants pre-investment selectedfor the social will be required for training study. securitystaff and a reorganization Ministryof Agriculture Social study. and Cooperatives,Office SecurityModernization and AgricultureEconomics, of 4818Prachachuen DevelopmentProject, RajdamnernAve., Bangkok, Rd., Chatuchak,Bangkok Thailand,Tel: (66-2)281-3958, Thailand, Tel: (66-2) 10900, Fax: (66-2) 280-1555 585-9600,Fax: (66-2)585-7040 Thailand Vanuatu Infrastructure Educationfrraining (R) Transmission Education Grid Reinforcement: II: The project willexpand includethe The project will accessto secondary followingcomponents: (a) schools, undertaketeacher kV lines (2, constructionof 500 training, improvethe supply 500kV,about 300 km long, educationalmaterials, and of along the doublecircuit lines improve managementplanning. westerncorridor and 2, 500kV, Project identificationis long, double about 170km on hold. EnvironmentalAssessment circuitlines along the eastern CategoryC. PID: VUPE04823. associatedsubstations corridor)and US$ for transportof power 8.0 (IDA). Consultingservices plants; (b) reinforcing from IPP Japanese recruitedunder the the existing 230 kV GrantFacility have conducted ring aroundgreater transmission evaluation a preliminary Bangkok; (c) resettlement of the educationsystem compensationof and Need for project preparation. personsaffected by the 500 for furtherconsultants to transmission kV Ministry be determined. lines; and (d) corporatepolicy of Education,Sports and environmental for resettlement and Youth,Tel: (678) 22- management.Appraisal 309, Fax: (678) 24-569, Contact: tentativelyscheduled mission is Secretary Mr. Alfred Kalontas,First for late June 1997. Environmental AssessmentCategory B. Retroactive 22 million financingof aboutUS$ will be required.PID: THPE39026. VietNam US$ 220.0 (IBRD). Consulting services ElectricityGenerating are not required. Authorityof Thailand, Agriculture 1100, Fax: (662) Nonthaburi 433-6317,Tel: (662) 424-8523 (R) Agricultural Diversification: increaserural The project aimsto Thailand agricultural incomes,employment opportunities productionin Viet Nam's and region poor central highland Power by developingsmallholder environmentally rubber plantationsin sound manner and an MetropolitanDistribution: agriculturaldevelopment exploringother expansion The projectwill cover opportunities.Preappraisal of MetropolitanElectricity mission is scheduled power Authority's(MEA) for late June 1997. Environmental distributionsystem over the AssessmentCategory will consist years 1997-2001and B. Cofinancingin the amount of three maincomponents: 35.0 millionwill be of US$ distribution (a) transmissionand providedby CFD. PID: VNPE4844 substationsystem; (b) transmission US$ 85.0(IDA). Consulting systems;and line Implementing servicesto be determined. (c) distributionsystem. Board agencyis to be tentativelyscheduled presentationis determined. for 24 June 1997.Retroactive financingof about US$ Viet Nam 14.5million will be required. EnvironmentalAssessment Agriculture CategoryB. PID: THPE37086. US$ 145.0(IBRD). Consulting required. serviceswill not be (R) Forest Protection Metropolitan and Rural Development: ElectricityAuthority project will focus The Ploenchit of Thailand,30 on managementof priority Rd., Pathumwan,10330, forests with high special-use 253-1424, Thailand, Fax: (66-2) biodiversityvalues through Tel: (662) 256-3005 strengtheningprotection (a) measures and management capabilitiesof Thailand central three parks/specialuse forests highlandsand (b) improving in the low to in these livelihoodsof residents Public areas.Negotiations are Sector Management 1997. Environmental scheduledfor mid-July AssessmentCategory SocialSecurity Modernization of about US$ 5.5 million B. Cofinancing and Development:The is expected from the Netherlands. project will focus on the procurement PID. VNPE4839 and technical of a computersystem assistancefor the institutional US$ 23.6 (IDA). Consulting the Social Security developmentof Ministry servicesto be determined. Office.Appraisal mission of Forestry, 123Io 46 is scheduled (84-42) Duc, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: 53236,Fax: (84-42) 52542 East Asia and PacificRegion June 1997 Viet Nam financing of about US$ 15.0million will be required.PID: Agriculture VNPE45628. US$ 150.0(IDA). Consultants services (R) MekongDelta will be required for: Water:The project will supportwater (a) development resourcesand of a transmissionmaster plan, (b) detailed agriculturedevelopment in the Mekong design Delta. Preappraisal of 500 kV transmissionsystem; and (c) detailed missionis scheduledfor November design 1997. Environmental of 220 kV cable circuit.Technical assistance is AssessmentCategory B. PID: required VNPE4854 in: (a) preparationof a nationalhydropower master plan; (b) demand-side US$ 100.0 (IDA).Consultant selection management;and (c) improvementof is underway. transmissionand distribution Implementingagency is to be determined. functions. Electricityof Viet Nam, 69 DinhTien Hoang, Viet Nam Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4) 824-8637,Fax: (84-4) 824-9462 Education/Training Viet Nam HigherEducation Reformand Consolidation:The project Power will providesupport to the higher education sector.It will Dai Ninh Hydropower:The project focus on universityreforms, managementand will be located on the Dong Nai River, the maintributary of the Saigon administrationof highereducation and encouragequality River which flows throughHo Chi Minh City to the improvements,and greater institutionalautonomy and South China accountability. Sea. The developmentincludes (a) dams and Appraisalmission was scheduledfor late a reservoirin May the headwatersof the Dong Nai River; (b) an 1997.Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: 11km tunnel VNPE04828. to divert waterto a reservoiron the Luy River which supplies US$ 60.0 (IDA). irrigationwater to the arid coastal plain; (c) a Consultantswill be required for higher powerhouse educationadministration at the downstreamend of the tunnel,utilizing and systemsmanagement; the financing and 610 m elevationdifference to generate300 MW, 1120 regulation;institutional planning and GWh development. per annum of power in 2x150MW Pelton units; and (d) 170 Ministryof Education km of 110 kV transmissionand 132 km of 220 kV and Training,Project Preparation transmission Units, 49 Dai Co lines. Projectpreparation is under way. Viet St., Hanoi, Viet Nam,Tlx: 412 262 Environmental BDH VT, Tel: AssessmentCategory A. PID: VNPE04849. (84-4)869-3227, Fax: (84-4)869-3229 US$ 175.0 (IDA).Consultants are currentlyengaged in preparing Viet Nam designs and bid documents.Consultants are also conductingthe environmental Environment impact assessmentand resettlement studies. Consultingservices will be neededf X CoastalWetlands Protection and Development:The Cobjectaletlsofteprotectiareton adevestabloshdpm tent: project management. objectivesof the project are to re-establishand protect Power and Investigationand DesignCompany Electricityof Viet Nam, 18 Tran Nguyen No. 2 mangrovewetland areas and valuableecosystems in Han St., Hanoi, southerncoastal Ve a,Tl 8-)2536 a:(44 5-2 provincesto revive fisherynurturing Viet abilities, Nam, Tel: (84-4)255-326, Fax: (84-4) 259-226 promote sustainableaquaculture and agriculturein the VietNam buffer zone. Preappraisalmission is scheduledfor July 1997.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: VNPE45268. StructuralAdjustment (R) US$ 50.0 (IDA); Debt and Debt Service Reduction Operation:The US$ 5.0 (GEF). Consultingservices to be project determined. will financea portion of the upfrontcosts of the government's Implementing agency LondonClub Agreementwith its commercial is to be determined. creditors. Viet Nam Negotiations were tentatively scheduledfor late May 1997. Timingof the projectis dependenton closing transactions Power betweenthe governmentand the Commercial Bank AdvisoryOperation Committee. Environmental (R) Transmissionand DistributionDevelopment: The (r)jectTransmission (and DikVstrbtio Dvelopment: AssessmentCategory C. PID: VNPE39914. project will cover:(a) 500 kV systemexpansion; Te US$ 30.0 (IDA). No consultants (b) State Bank of Vietnam,47-49 are required. rehabilitationof distributionnetworks; Ly Thai To St., Hanoi, Viet (c) 220 kV system Nam, Tel: (84-4) 255-769 expansion;and (d) rehabilitationand or 252-831, Fax: (84-4),Contact: compensationof M.L u hi euyGvro persons affectedby the transmissionand distribution projects. Appraisal missionis scheduled for early July 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Retroactive

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- I -~~~~~~~~ June 1997 East Asia and Pacific Region VietNam US$ 98.6 (ITF). Structural Adjustment Consultingservices are being financed through bilateral donors. (R) Structural Adjustment Hanoi Water Business Company, II: The credit will finance 44 Yen Phu Rd., Hanoi, structural a Viet Nam, Tel: (84-42) adjustment program in support of 829-3179, Fax: (84-42) 829-4060 government's the medium-term program of macroeconomic stabilization and VietNam structural reform. Appraisal mission tentatively scheduled is for mid-July 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. Transport I US$ 150.0 (IDA). (R) Urban Transport Consulting services to be determined. Improvement: The project would State Bank of Viet aim to increase the efficiency, Narn, 47-49 Ly Thai To St., Hanoi, capacity and safety of the Nam, Tel: Viet existing transport system (84-4) 255-769, 252-831, Fax: (84-4) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh Contact: 258-385, through: (a) City Mr. Le Duc Thuy, Deputy Governor the application of transport system management measures; (b) locations, investment in strategic Viet Nam and (c) improved institutional capacity administration, in traffic management and regulation. Transport preparation Project is under way. Environmental Assessment (R) Category to be determiined. Highway Rehabilitation 11(NO13-VN): PID: VNPE4833 will The project US$ 45.0 focus on the reconstruction of (IDA). Consulting services are being azout 290 km of through financed Highway no. I (including bridges), a PHRD grant. periodic maintenance of about 1000 km of national Transportation and Public Works highways and equipment and Service of Hanoi, 12-14 capacity building for Phan Dinh Phung St., Ba Dinh-Hanoi, road maintenance. The project was Vietnam, Tel: (844) approved, following 825-6537, Fax: (84-4) 825-6333; ITF procedures, on 8 April 1997. Transport and Public of loan signing Date Works Service of Ho-Chi-Minh to be determined. Environmental City, 94 Nam Ky Khoi Assessment Category Nghia St., District I - B. PID: VNPE4842. Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, Tel: US$ 195.6 (IIF). (84-8) 822-3782, Contact: Consulting services will be required Dr. Nguyen Dinh Vu, Director constructionsupervision, for maintenance supervision, Western technical assistance and training. Samoa Ministry of Transport, .c.Tv 80 Tran Hung Dao, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4)851-1278, Contact: Mr. Education/Traning Thuy Education: r The project will aim to improve Viet the education system, and strengthen Nam expand access to secondary schools, provide teacher training and upgrading, support curriculum development, supply educational materials, and improve (R) Inland Waterways: management planning. The The project will finance the project proposal is being rehabilitation and developed by the government. upgrading of about 600 km of primary inland waterways US$ 6.0 (IDA). Consulting and ancillary facilities in the Mekong services will be financed by a Delta and the rehabilitation PHRD grant. of the Port of Can Tho. Negotiations were Ministry of Education, scheduledfor early June 1997. PO Box 1869, Apia, Western Environmental Samoa, Fax: (685) 21917 Assessment Category A. PID: VNPE04843. US$ 72.0 (IDA). Grant financed consulting services for detailed engineering are underway. Ministry of Transport, 80 Tran Hung Dao, Hanoi, Na.ii, Tel: Viet (84-4) 825-2079, Fax: (84-4) 826-7291, Mr. Nguyen Contact: Ngoc Hai, General Director, Project Management Unit - South Waterways VietNam Water Supply/Sanitation (R) Water Supply: The project will finance rehabilitation of water supply systems in Hanoi, Haiphong, Halongi/Cam Danang, and Pha. The project is scheduled to for approval, be presented following ITF procedures, in Environmental late June 1997. Assessment Category B. PID: VNPE04830. 48 Europeand CentralAsia Region June 1997 Albania Albania PrivateSector Development WaterSupply/Sanitation PrivateEnterprise Development: Theproject will support MunicipalWater and the creationof a favorableenvironment Wastewater:The project will to encouragenew rehabilitateand upgrade entry into the private sector and water and sanitationsystems in expandprivate sector two or more medium-sized activities.Negotiations have been postponed. cities and provide technical assistanceto strengthenlocal water EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. and sewerage networks. PID: ALPA40983. Projectpreparation is under US$ 8.2 (IDA). Consultantswill be required. way. Environmental AssessmentCategory B. Ministry of Finance,Deshmoret e KombitBlvd., Tirana. US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be Albania,Tel: (355-42)29049, Fax: (355-42)28494 required for final design, constructionsupervision and technicalassistance. Albania Ministry of Constructionand Tourism,Skenderbej Tirana, Square, Albania,Tel: (355-42)28345, Fax: (355-42)27879 Transport Albania/Macedonia Durres Port:The project will (a) financethe rehabilitation of .lafrastructure (berth strengthening,breakwater Environment rehabilitation,channel widening and otherrehabilitation); Lake Ohrid Conservation: The project and (b) assist in privatizingport operations,establishing will supportthe an implementationof a programof joint autonomousport and improvingoperations and management(by finance. Macedoniaand Albania)for the Appraisalreport is being prepared.Environmental protectionof Lake Ohrid. Assessment The projectwill promotecost-effective, preventive CategoryB. PID: ALPA40818.Cofinancing of US$ 5.0 rmillion solutions,including a well-targetedinvestment program. by OPEC Fund wasproposed. The US$ 15.0 (IDA). maincomponents of the project will be: (a) Consultantswill be requiredfor strengthening supervisionof construction of trans-nationalcollaboration and and technicalassistance for development institutionalimprovements. of an institutionalframework; (b) preparation of a Lake Ohrid Port of Durres Authority,Durres, Basin ManagementPlan and Investment Albania,Tel: (355-52) Program;(c) monitoring 23427,Fax: (355-52)23115 of water quality;and (d) priority measuresand pilot demonstrationprojects. Project Albania preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment CategoryB. Cofinancingis being UrbanDevelopment sought. US$4.0 (GEF).Consultants (R) Land have been identified. Development:To cope with the rapidgrowth of Ministry of Constructionand Tourism(Albania), settlement of Urban Planning,Construction and EnvironmentMinistry on un-serviced land, the project will improve infrastructure (Macedonia) services (roads, water, sewerage and drainage) in selected sites in the greater Tirana area, and possibly Armenia other cities. Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryA. PID: ALPA40975. Agriculture US$ 10.0(IDA). Consultantsare requiredfor feasibility Agricultural Reform studies,environmental studies, Support: The project willprovide (a) and technicalassistance assistanceto agro-processing during project preparationand restructuringand export of implementation. agriculturalproducts; Ministry of Construction,Land Management (b) credit for small farmers; (c) land Task Force, registrationand land administration; SkenderbejSquare, Tirana,Albania, Tel: (355-42) and (d) assistancefor 22773, developmentof extension,research Fax: (355-42) 27940,Contact: Ms. ShpresaLeka and agricultural education.Project preparation is under way. Environmental Albania AssessmentCategory B. PID: AMPA35806. US$ 10.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. Water Supply/Sanitation Ministry of Agriculture,Agricultural Reform Support (R) Water Privatization:uhe project Project, ProjectPreparation Unit, willfinance a Yerevan375010, Armenia, VardanantsSt. 13A, management contract and upgrading Tel: (374-2)578-090, Fax: of the Tirana water (374-39) 07192 system.Project preparation is underway. Environmental AssessmentCategory B. PID: ALPA41441. Armenia US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultants have been selected. Ministry of Constructionand Tourism,Skenderbej Square, Tirana, Education/Training Albania, Tel: (355-42)28345, Fax: (355-42)27879 (R) Education: The project will supportthe strengthening 49 June 1997 Europe and Central Asia Region and decentralization of general education. Project preparation is under way. Ministry of Economy, Government Environmental Assessment House, Republic Square, Category C. PID: Yerevan 375010, AMPA828 1. Armenia, Tel/Fax: (374-2) 151-142 US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education, Azerbaijan 13 Kchorenatsy St., Yerevan, Armenia,Tel: (374-2) Agriculture 526-602,Fax: (374-2) 564-110 Armenia Irrigation I: The project will support a proposed five-year government investment Population, program, on the basis of Health and Nutrition and environmental selection economic infrastructure. criteria, for major irrigation Health: The project will The project includes (a) rehabilitation support the implementation of of health financing and primary irrigation systems to improve health care reform. Project reliability and efficiency of preparation is under way. water use; (b) improvement Environmental Assessment of drainage infrastructure for Category C. water disposal; (c) improvement of cost recovery by US$ 8.0 (IDA). establishing a mechanism Consulting services to be determined. for determining and updating Ministry of Health, water rates, as well as 8 Tourmanian St., Yerevan, Armenia by strengthening irrigation and 375001, Tel: (374-2) environmental management 564-498, Fax: (374-2) 151-097 agencies, including technical assistance and training; and (e) Armenia assistance for preparation of a follow- up project. Project preparation Environmental is under way. Power Assessment Category B. US$ 43.2 (IDA). Electricity Transmission Selection of consultants for seek and Distribution: The project project seeks to (a) rehabilitateto(a)rehbiltatth eletriitytrasmisio preparation is under the electricitytransmission an State Irrigation way. distribution network; and ProspektAzaldique, Committee, V Floor, Govemment and (b) commercialize sector Baku, Azerbaijan,Tel: (994-12)Building, enterprises. Project 154, Fax: (994-12) 936- preparation is under way. 931-176, Contact: Mr. Ahmed is being Cofinancing Ahmedzade, J. sought. Cofinancing is expected Chairman Environmental from OECF Japan. Assessment Category B. US$ 35.0 Azerbaijan (IDA). Consultants may be required. Ministry of Energy and Fuel, 2 Government House, Republic Square, Yerevan, Reconstruction/Rehabilitation Armenia, Tel/Fax: (374-2) 151- 687 (International); 592-327 (N) Azerbaijan Pilot Reconstruction: (Local) The project's overall objectives are to: (a) pilot a program to assist in the Armenia of Internally return Displaced People (IDPs) to their Structural resuming a normal economic land and in Adjustment life, as the security situation StructuraleI: Adjustment evolves; and (b) develop The loan will provide a domestic institutional capacity assistance in support balance of manage reconstruction to of economic reforms. Project activities, including prepaymeiontisunder land mines. The Project's the clearance of way. Environmental Assessment specific objectives are: (a) Category reconstruct and rehabilitate U. PI AMPE44796.wy: the most essential basic physical US$ 60.0 (IDA) Consulting and social infrastructure and Us$ 6. services to be deternined. housing needed for the Ministryof (IDA. Economy,Consutn series tobe, resumption of normal economic GovernmentHouse, dermined, that are life in the war-torn areas Yerevan 375010, RepublicSquare, ofln-ie;()poietemsnow under civilian rule; (b) Armenia, Tel: (374-2) 527-878, assist in the clearance (374-2) Fax: of land-mines; seta ntttoa 151-069 (c) provide the most essential support institutional services for carrying out agricultural Armenia the project areas; (d) activities in develop income generating activities Urban Development for the IDPs temporarily settled in project areas; develop the institutional and (e) capacity to manage reconstruction (R) Municipal Development: activities, including de-mining, The project will (a) improve in the liberated areas. basic municipal infrastructure Project preparation is under (water, wastewater, land way. Environmental housing) and (b) and Assessment Category: support the relief effort and reconstruction B. in the earthquake zone. US$ 23.1 (IDA). Consulting Project preparation is under way. services will be required to En.!ironmental Assessment support (a) the clearance Category to be determined. of land-mines, (b) the activities AMPA35805. PID: the Azerbaijan Resettlement of and Reconstruction Agency; US$ 25.0 (IDA). (c) income generating Feasibility studies of the water/waste activities; and (d) afforestation. water have been Azerbaijan Resettlement completed. Additional Consulting and Reconstruction Agency to be determined. services (ARRA), 69 Fizuli St., Baku, Azerbaijan, Tel: 78-38, Contact: (99-412) 93- 50 Ali Mamedov, Director ARRA

TF Europe and Central Asia Region June 1997 Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Structural Adjustment Education/Training (R) Structural Adjustment: The project will support Education deepeningof the government's Reconstruction: The project will support structuralreform program reconstructionlrehabilitation and complementstabilization efforts of selectedprimary school throughthe provision facilities and of balanceof payments.Negotiations provisionof educationalmaterials. were scheduledfor Negotiationscompleted. mid-May 1997.Environmental Assessment The projectwas scheduledto be CategoryC. presentedfor US$ 75.5 (IDA).Consulting approval,following ITF procedures,on 15 servicesto be determined. May 1997. Ministry of Finance,Cabinet EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. of Ministers,Lermontov St. US$ 68, Baku 37001,Azerbaijan, 10.0(ITF). No Consultingservices will be required. Tel: (994-12)981-254, Fax: Federation (994-12)930-743 and RepublikaSrpska Ministries of Education Bosniaand Herzegovina Belarus ffi F Environment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Finance (R) Bankingand Enterprise (R) Phase-out of Ozone Depleting Privatization:The project Substance: Project will will support focus on phase-outof ozone depleting the design and implementation of a substancesincluding privatizationplan enterprisetechnology conversion subprojects for Bosnia.The project will also extend and lines of credit to banks institutionalstrengthening. Approved by restructuringtheir portfolio and the Executive operationsand preparing Directorson I May 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment for privatization.Project CategoryB. preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment CategoryC. US$6.9(GEF). Consulting services are requiredfor TA, US$ 30.0 trainingand procurementservices. (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Implementingagency Ministryof Natural Resourcesand Environmental is to be determined. Protection,10 Kollectornaya St., 220048,Minsk, Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Finance Agriculture !(R) Public Finance Reform: establishment The project will support the (R) Wood and reform of key public finance institutions Supply and Forest Management (formerly and policies at the level of Emergency Wood Supply and Forest Management): the state and the entities, with The the objective of improving project will helpjump-start post-war rehabilitation fiscal efficiency, removing forestry of the distortionsto resourceallocation and woodindustries by supporting;(a) the and ensuring that policies rehabilitation conduciveto privatesector led growth of wood harvestingcapacity and (b) are followed.Project forest restoring preparationis under way.Environmental management.Board presentationwas scheduled Assessment mid-May for Categoryto be determined. 1997.Environmental Assessment Category Cofinancing B. Amountto be determined.(IDA). in the amountof US$ 9.4 million has Consultantswill not be approved been required. by the EuropeanUnion. US$ 7.0 (IDA). Ministriesof Finance of Consultingservices to be determined.A general the entities,Mehmeda Spahe 5, Sarajevo,Bosnia and procurementnotice for this project waspublished Herzegovina,Tel: (387-71)668-672, Development in Fax: (387-71)668-673 Businessissue no. 458, dated 16 Federation March 1997. of Bosniaand Herzegovina:Ministry of Bosnia Agriculture,Water Resources and Herzegovina and Forestry,Sarajevo, Power Bosnia and Herzegovina,Tel: (387-71) (387-71) 663- 659, Fax: 666-540, Contact: Mr. Faruk Mekic, General (N) Second Electric Secretary;Republika Srpska: Power Reconstruction: The project Ministryof Agriculture, will finance Forestryand Water Resources,Pale, rehabilitationof hydro and thermal power Bosniaand stations and transmission Herzegovina,Tel: (381-76)471-412, and distributionnetworks. Total Fax: (381-76)472- projectcost 353, Contact:Mr. RadovanSimic, is US$ 285.0 million.Preappraisal is currently Vice-Ministerfor underway. Forestry EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (IDA).Consultants will be requiredfor engineeringservices and project management. Elektroprivreda BiH, Vilsonorosetaliste 20, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosniaand Herzegovina,Tel: (387-71)652-056, Fax: (387-71)525-236, Contact: Mr. Sabaheta Sodikovic, 51 Europe and CentralAsia Region June 1997

Manager,Project Implementation Unit; Elektroprivreda BGPA8314. servicesto be determined. Mostar,Tel: (387-88)800-259, Fax: (387-88)801-079, US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consulting Company,23 Jastrebezstr.,1680 Contact:Mr. Mate Jurkovic,General Manager; Sofia District Heating (359-2) 597-015,Contact: Mr. ElektroprivredaRepublika Sprska, Petro 1, Karadordevica Sofia, Bulgaria,Fax: Pernik District Heating 11, Banja Luka,Tel: (381-78)44015, Fax: (381-78)41224. Valentin Dimitrov,Chairman; 2300 Pernik Bulgaria,Contact: Contact:Mr. NikolaErceg, GeneralDirector Company.Moshino Qrt., Bosniaand Herzegovina Mr. Ignat Bovzhinov, Director Power Bulgaria (R) EmergencyGas SystemReconstruction: The project Power will supportrehabilitation of the will finance(a) reconstructionof the transmissionpipeline EnergyII: The project Kompania'sgenerating facilities to as well as the distributionsystem in Sarajevo,including NationalElektricheska nuclear plants.Project preparationis conversionof tens of thousandsof self-madeconnections allow closureof unsafe will be required.Environmental into industrystandard connections; (b) institutional under way. Cofinancing B. PID: BGPA08321. strengthening;and (c) improvementof sectorfinance. AssessmentCategory Consulting services will be required. Board presentation is tentatively scheduledfor late July US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Kompania (NEK),8 Triaditsa 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. NatsionalnaElektricheska Tel: (359-2) 86191,Fax (359-2) US$25.0 (IDA).Consultants will be requiredfor project St., 1040Sofia, Bulgaria, Nabatov,Executive Director managementand engineeringsurveys. 875826, Contact:Nikita 467-713,Fax: (387-71)445-525 Sarajevogas,Tel: (387-71) BAulgaria Bosnia and Herzegovina StructuralAdjustment Rehabilitation(Ln. 4157-BUL):Tr.x Reconstruction/Rehabilitation (N) CriticalImports import of essential commodities ReconstructionAssistance (Republika Srpska): The project loan willfinance the supply.The loan will be disbursedin a will: (a) assist RepublikaSrpska in recoveringfrom the currently in short effectivenessbased on measuresalready effectsof the recent hostilitiesand internationalembargo by singletranche upon Approvedby the Executive financingessential reconstruction activities, including civil taken by the government. 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment works for housingrepairs and water supplysystem Directorson 8 May imports for agricultureand repairs to electric CategoryC. rehabilitation, servicesto be determined. powersystems; and (b) supporteconomic reintegration of US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consulting 102 RakovskiSt., 1000 Sofia, Bosniaand Herzegovinathrough trade reforms. Project Ministryof Finance, 869-222,Fax: (359-2) 870-581 preparationis underway. EnvironmentalAssessment Bulgaria,Tel: (359-2) CategoryB. US$ 17.0(IDA). Consultants will be requiredfor (a) Bulgaria agriculturalservices, StructuralAdjustment designs and supervision, engineering, Adjustment:The trainingand studies.A general (R) Financialand EnterpriseSector technicalassistance, (a) accelerating for this projectwas published in project will supportreforms aimed at: procurementnotice financial Businessissue no. 458, dated 16 March 1997. privatization,reducing losses and restoring Development enterprises;(b) ensuring that ProjectCoordination Unit, Ministryof Reconstructionand disciplinein state-owned utilitiesto operate RepublikaSrpska, Banski Dvor,Banja Luka, tariffs are set at levels sufficientto allow Development, the legal, regulatoryand Bosniaand Herzegovina,Tel: (381-78)39-349, 46-474, at a profit; (c) strengthening the banking sector; and (d) Fax: (38a1-78)30-H103, Contact: Mr. Novak Kondic, supervisoryframework of and Development privatizingand improvinggovernance of public sector Ministerof Reconstruction banks. Projectpreparation is underway. Environmental AssessmentCategory U. Bulgaria US$ 170.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selected. 102Rakovsky St., Sofia, Bulgaria,Tel: Power Ministry of Finance, (359-2) 881-207 (R) DistrictHeating: The project will assist with the (359-2) 870-622,Fax: rehabilitationof the Sofia and Pernik Districtheating systemsand add cogenerationcapacity to these systems. Projectpreparation is under way. Cofinancingwill be required.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: 52 Europeand CentralAsia Region June 1997 CentralAsia Croatia Environment Public Sector Management CentralAsia Trans-boundaryBiodiversity: Projectwill (R) PublicSector Adjustment: The project will support the focus on: (a) protectionof mountain ecosystems,critical reductionof recurrentpublic expendituresand improve the biodiversityand vulnerable habitat;and (b) strengtheningof fiscal and regulatoryframework of publicfinances, thereby existing protected areas and reinforcementof national improvingresource allocation in the publicsector. biodiversity Project strategies.Project preparation is under way. preparationis underway. EnvironmentalAssessment Environmental AssessmentCategory C. CategoryC. Projectpreparation is under way. US$ 7.2 (GEF). Consultingservices to be determined. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Ministryof Ecology of the KyrgyzRepublic, Ministry of US$ 100.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Ecologyand Bio-resources of the Republicof Kazakstan, Ministryof Finance,Katanciceva 5, 41000 Zagreb, StateConmnittee Croatia, for Nature Protectionof the Republicof Tel: (385-1) 433-446,Fax: (385-1) 432-789 Uzbekistan Croatia Central Asia StructuralAdjustment Environment (R) Enterpriseand FinancialSector Adjustment(Ln. Waterand Environmental Management:Project aims to 4159-HR):The objectiveof the loan is to provide timelv ensure the sustainable and managementand futuredevelopment responsivesupport to efforts to implementeffective reform of the natural resourcesof the Aral Sea Basin, especially of the enterpriseand financialsectors. The loan will also internationalwaters, soils and biodiversity.Project facilitateenterprise privatization and restructuringand preparationis under way. EnvironmentalAssessment acceleratethe developmentof a strongand supportive Category B. financialsector. Approved by the Executive US$ 12.0(GEF). Consulting Directorson 13 servicesto be determnined. May 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category U. PID: ExecutiveCommittee of the InternationalFund for the Aral HRPA08327. Sea US$ 95.0 (IBRD).A portion of the Consultingservices requiredare being financedby the TechnicalAssistance rCroatia Loan approvedon 23 March 1996. Finance Ministryof Finance,Katanciceva 5, HR-41000Zagreb, Investment Recovery: The project will stimulateprivate Croatia,Tel: (385-1)433-446, Fax: (385-1) 432-789 sectordevelopment through the financingof new Croatia investmentsin private or newly privatizedenterprises in need of capital for expansionor restructuring.It will also WaterSupply/Sanitation supportthe government's objectiveof promoting Municipal Environmental Infrastructure Investment: competition in the financialsystem by helpingstrengthen Theproject will finance assistanceto six municipalities the institutionalcapacity of participatingcommercial banks. (Split,Solin, Kastela,Trogir, Draga and Pula) to improve Negotiationsare tentatively scheduledfor June 1997. their wastewatercollection, treatment and disposalsystems EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryB. in orderto reduceenvironmental pollution of the US$ 30.0 Kastela (IBRD).No consultantsare required. Bay area. Projectpreparation is under way. Ministry Environmental of Finance, Katanciceva5, Zagreb41000, Croatia, AssessmentCategory A. PID: HRPA43444. Tel/Fax:(385-1) 459-1306 US$ 45.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required for detailed design, tenderdocument preparation and contractor Croatia selection. Power CroatianBank for Reconstructionand Development, Hovatska,Vodaprivreda, Zagreb, Croatia, ZagrebEast Combined-CyclePower and Heat: The 8166, Fax: (385-1) 611-0522 Tel: (385-1) 456- project includes(a) reconstructionand extensionof existing power and heat generationunits into a gas-firedcombined- Estonia cycle cogenerationplant and (b) enterpriserestructuring and price reforms. This project is no longer in the lending Public Sector Management progranmandfurther reporting will be discontinued. Housing/Finance Development: The project will (a) supportthe developmentof a housing market in Estonia, providinga rangeof choice for consumersand (b) develop 53 June 1997 Europe and Central Asia Region

longer-term housing finance strategies to allow a shift of the 32) 935-744, Contact: Mr. Giorgi Vashakmadze, Executive government's role in the sector, from direct provider to Director indirect regulator, while also providing targeted assistance to disadvantaged groups. Project components will include: Georgia (a) development of enabling policies, regulations and Power institutions; (b) testing of housing finance instruments; and (c) streamlining property rights, land registration and (R) Power Rehabilitation: The project will include the building codes. Project preparation is under way. rehabilitation of a thermal power plant and building ofifuel Environmental Assessment Category B. reserves. Appraisal report is being prepared. Cofinancing About US$ 15.0 (IBRD). is Consulting services to be being sought. KfW has expressed determined. interest in cofinancing. Advance contracting and retroactive financing of up to US$ Ministry of Economic Affairs, Kiriku 2/4, EEOOOITallinn 10.0 million for the purchase of fuel has been Estonia,Tel: (372-2)445-173, requested by Fax: (372-2)/472-831 the borrower. Board presentation was scheduledfor June 1997. Environmental early Georgia Assessment Category B. US$ 56.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be required for project Agriculture implementation and corporate management and privatization of the power company. (R) Agriculture Development and Privatization (Cr. TBILSRESI, I Vekwa St., 380005 Tblisi. Georgia, Tel: 2941-GE): The project will support: (a) implementation of (995-32) 94-35-48, Fax: (995-32) 94-35- 49 land registration; (b) provide a line of credit to the rural sector; (c) develop a network of rural credit unions; and (d) Georgia implement a selected number of studies to improve Private Sector Development government agricultural support services. Approved by the Executive Directors on 25 March 1997. Environmental (R) Enterprise Rehabilitation: The project would: (a) Assessment Category B. PID: GEPA84 15. initiate self-sustainable adjustment of privatized enterprises US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for bank and through owner- and creditor-led restructuring; (b) improve credit union supervision, land registration, studies and pilot the intermediation ability of banks with the widest outreach; projects on government agricultural support services. and (c) strengthen accountability of managers and mobilize Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Project Implementation new financing through development of capital markets. Unit, 41 Kostava St., 380023 Tblisi, Georgia, Tel: (7-8832) Project preparation is under way. Environmental 363-311, 935-502, Fax: (7-8832) 985-778, 294-905, AssessmentCategory C. Contact. Mr. George Maglakelidze, Project Manager, E- US$ 10.0 (IDA).Consulting services mail:[email protected] to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. Georgia Georgia Power Social Sector (R) Georgia Oil Institution Building (Cr. 2944-GE): The (R) Social Investment Fund: The project will: help project will include (a) a feasibility study of a major oil alleviate poverty; promote the sustainability of small-scale export pipeline from Baku, Azerbaijan to Supsa, Georgia infrastructure; establish a quick and efficient mechanism to and of related terminal and storage facilities at Supsa, (b) a rehabilitate infrastructure; and promote local capacity training fund to finance Georgian participation in formal building at the community, municipal government and training courses in Georgia and abroad and on-the-job private contractor level. Appraisal mission is in the field. training in international companies in the oil industry; (c) Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: GEPA39929. negotiations advisors to provide specialized legal and US$ 14.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined financial advice prior to and during negotiations for oil Georgia Social Investment Fund Unit, 55 Virsaladze St., trar.sit, as well as to assist in preparing related contractual Tbilisi, Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 983-968, Fax: (995-32) 983- documents; and (d) project management services to be 968 provided in kind by Georgian International Oil Corporation. Georgia Approved by the Executive Directors on 8 April 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: GEPE44830. Structural Adjustment US$ 1.4 (IDA). International and local consultants will be Structural Adjustment II: The project would provide requiredfor implementation of components (b) and (c). balance of payments assistance in support of economic Georgian International Oil Corporation, 7 Freedom Square, policy reforms. Project preparation is under way. Tblisi 380007, Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 935-694, Fax: (995- 54 June 1997 Europe and Central Asia Region

quality of Lake Balaton. Environmental Assessment Category U. project is to improve the water of restoration of US$ 60.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Project options include (a) the completion the construction of dikes Implementing agency is to be determined. the bio-filtering marshes through in the reclaimed land of the Kis-Balaton wetlands and (b) Georgia studies of dredging, phosphate fixation, and other options for reducing the level of phosphorous nutrients in the Urban Development Project preparation is under way. Kenszthely Bay. PID: HUPA39753. (N) MunicipalDevelopment and Decentralization:The EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. been contracted for project's primary objectives are (a) to promote an enabling US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants have environment at the central and local level; (b) support project preparation. Policy, capacity building in overall municipal management; (c) to Ministry for Environment and Regional improve revenue mobilization; and (d) to improve Fo utca 44-50f (36- 1) 201-2043, Fax: (36- municipal investment programming. Project preparation is H-lol Budapest, Hungary, Tel: under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. 1) 201-2491 US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. 1) 201-2491 Independent Agency for Development of Municipal Hungary Services, Agmashenebeli Avenue 89/24, Tbilisi, Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 986-950, Fax: (995-32) 951-003, Michael Finance will support the Ardia, Director Banking Supervision: The project implementation of the three-year institutional development Hungary program of the banking supervision agency. Components and information Education/Training include financing of technical assistance technology. Project preparation is under way. lR) Higher Education: The project will support the C. (R) Higher Education: The project will support the Environmental Assessment Category be requiredfor limplementation of the government'sreform programn AboutUS$ 5.0 (IBRD).Consultants will through a policy and institutional framework and by bank supervision and regulation. Supervision, Csalogany supporting institution-specific restructuring plans to achieve State Banking and Capital Market Tel: (36-1) 201-0166, a higher level of efficiency and responsiveness. Project u.S9-11, 1027 Budapest, Hungary, preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Fax: (36-1) 201-1216 Category C. US$ 150.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Hungary Ministry of Culture and Education, Szalay j. 10/14, Budapest 1055, Hungary, Fax: (36-1) 302-3002 Power Quick Start Gas Turbine: The project will finance about Hungary 200 MW of gas turbine power generating capacity to be in Hungary. Board Educationf raining installed at two distinct locations is tentatively scheduled for late May 1997. iR) Vocational Youth Training: The project will provide presentation A. PID: HUPA45251. (R) Vocational Youth Training: The project will provide Environmental Assessment Category have been selected. equipment, software, technical assistance and training to US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consultants Utca 5-7, 1011 Budapest,Hungary, Tel: l ~~continuedevelopment and strengtheningof youth MVMRT, Vain 202-1246 vocational orientation and training programs. There are two (36- 1) 201-7668, Fax: (36-1) components: post-secondary/compulsory school labor market training and secondary vocational schools. Hungary Appraisal mission was tentatively scheduled for mid-May 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. Structural Adjustment Loan: The project will US$ 36.4 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. (R) Public Sector Adjustment programs in the pension and The Ministry of Labor, World Bank Program Management support government reform lending. Appraisal Unit, Roosevelt Sq. 7-8, Budapest, 1373 Hungary, Tel: (36- health systems through quick-disbursing September 1997. 1) 331-9169, Fax: (36-1) 331-9169, Contact: Mr. Jozsef mission is tentatively scheduledfor Category C. Papp, Head of Office Environmental Assessment US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected. Hungary Ministry of Finance, Jozsef Nador 2/4, PO Box 181, 1369 118-2066, Fax: (36-1) 118- Environment Budapest, Hungary, Tel: (36-1) Kis-Balaton Environmental: The main objective of the 2570 55 June 1997 Europe and Central Asia Region Hungary US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required during StructuralAdjustment implementation. Ministry of Justice, 67 Aiteke-bi, 480091, Almaty, Tel: Enterprise and Financial Sector Adjustment Loan (Ln. (732-7) 262-21-61, Fax: (732-7) 263-76-07 4141-HU): Implementation of a structural reform program covering primarily enterprise reform, bank restructuring, Kazakstan and privatization will be supported. Approved by the Population, Health and Nutrition Executive Directors on 11 March 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. (N) Health: The project will include two components: (a) a US$225.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. program at the oblast level which would include primary Ministry of Finance, Jozsef Nadar Ter 2/4, Budapest 1051, health care, facility reorganization and rationalization and Hungary, Tel: (36-1) 138-2633 financial and management strengthening; and (b) a program at the national level supporting health promotion Hungary and health program evaluation. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Water AssessmentCategory C. Supply/Sanitation US$ $25.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. (R) Municipal Wastewater: The project will consist of (a) Ministry of Health, 63 Ablai Khan Avenue, Almaty, the first phase of a national municipal sewage treatment Kazakstan, Tel: (7-3272) 33-46-11, Fax: (7-3272) 33-17-19 program for Hungary's 23 largest cities (including Budapest, Szekesfehervar, and Dunajuvaros) and (b) Kazakstan technical assistance focusing on privatization, water quality Public Sector Management management, sector issues and commercial operations. Legal Reform: The project seeks to provide technical Botard presentation is scheduled for July 1997. Legal to Thegovect fo mode tschnial Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: HUPA08497. assistance to the government for modernizing its legal US$ 22.5 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected for framework. Project preparation is under way. project preparation, design and supervision. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: KZPA46046. Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Water US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Management Development Department, H-1077 Budapest, Ministry of Justice, 67 Aiteke Bi St., Almaty, Kazakstan, Dob u 75-81, Hungary, Tel: (36-1) 322-0330 ext. 541, Fax: Tel: (7-327) 623-105, Fax: (7-327) 637-607, Contact: Mr. (36-1) 351-7527 Merei K. Vaisov, Deputy Minister Kazakstan Kazakstan Agriculture Structural Adjustment Farm Restructuring: The project will support the Public Sector Resource Management Adjustment: The agricultural privatization program and the development of project seeks to help deepen the government's structural private farmningand agribusiness activities. The focus will reform program and complement stabilization efforts likely be on farm restructuring, and post-privatization through the provision of balance of payments and technical support to private farms and rural enterprises. Project assistance support. Project preparation is under way. preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Environmental Assessment Category C. Category B. PID: KZPA8503. US$ 180.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Economy, 115 Zheltoksan St., Almaty, Implementing agency is to be determined. Kazakstan, Tel: (7-327) 626-500, Fax: (7-327) 636-984 Kazakstan Kazakstan Agriculture Transport Piot Real Estate (Ln. 4146-KZ): The project will support Road Transport Restructuring: The project will (a) the establishment of a real estate registration system; (b) rehabilitate and maintain key parts of the country's road technical assistance and training in specialized areas; and infrastructure, help restructure the road construction (c) support to agencies administering the land and building industry and implement key improvements in sector policies : cadastre.Approved by the Executive Directors on 3 April and institutions. Project preparation is under way. 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. A PPF Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: KZPA8499. advance of US$ 1.5 million was approved. PID: US$ 120.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. KZPA46044. Department of Automobile Roads, Ministry of Transport 56 1997 Europeand CentralAsia Region June

and Communications,86 Gogol St., Almaty480091, (b) providecapacity buildingfor operationsand Kazakstan,Tel: (7-3272)324-769, 322679, Fax: (7-3272) maintenanceand (c) assist in the preparationof an action 324-449,322-679, Contact: Mr. A. Yelgonov,Deputy plan for irrigationefficiency improvement. Project Director;Department of AutomobileRoads Transport, preparationis underway. EnvironmentalAssessment Ministryof Transportand Communications,458 Seifyllin CategoryB. PID: KGPA46042. Ave., Almaty,480083, Kazakstan,Tel: (7-3272)391-263, US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Fax: (7-3272)393-255, Contact: Mr. A. Logunov,Director Ministryof Agricultureand Water Resources,4a Sovetskaja St, Bishkek720 020, KyrgyzRepublic, Tel: (7-3312)47-46- Kazakstan 72, Fax: (7-3312)47-49-02, Contact: Mr. NickolyN. Water Supply/Sanitation Judahin, Chief of the TechnicalBoard (R) Aral Sea CommunityRehabilitation: The project Kyrgyz Republic includesfour components:(a) water supply,(b) sanitation, (c) hygieneeducation and publicawareness and (d) capacity Agriculture building.Project preparationis under way. Environmental Rural Finance: The projectwill (a) establish interim AssessmentCategory B. mechanismsfor channelingcredit to farm and agribusiness US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selectedand are enterprises;(b) developcommercially viable village-based technical being financedby the KuwaitFund and the Arab Economic financialinstitutions and markets; and (c) provide DevelopmentBank. assistanceto agribusinessenterprises to facilitatetrade for MinistryofAgriculture, 118 ZheltoskanSt., Almaty, credit linkages.Negotiations were tentativelyscheduled Kazakstan,Tel: (7-3272)673-483, Fax: (7-3272)631-428 mid-May 1997.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0(IDA). Consultantswill be required. Kazakstan AgricultureFinance Corporation, 96 KievskayaSt., Bishkek WaterSupply/Sanitation 720300, KyrgyzRepublic, Tel: (7-3312)263-775, 266-454 Syr Darya Controland NorthernAral Sea: The project KyrgyzRepublic will allow more water to be passed down to the delta and the NorthernAral see to benefit the environment, SocialSector agriculture,livestock and fisheries.Project preparation is People's Initiative: The project will assist the government low- underway. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: in improvingthe productivityof rural and peri-urban KZPA46045. incomegroups throughcommunity participation in the US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. design and implementationof local developmentinitiatives. Committeefor Water Resources,4, Squareof the Republic, The projectwill support:(a) capacity buildingfor Almaty480091, Kazakstan,Tel: (7-3272)637-601, Fax: (7- communitygroups to plan and implementlocal 3272) 623-777,Contact: Mr. SmailovScrikbai, Project developmentprojects; (b) micro-creditschemes to finance Manager small farming activities,agroprocessing and other rural incomeearning activities; (c) small rehabilitationsub- KyrgyzRepublic projects focusedon rural/peri-urbaninfrastructure and Agriculture social facilities such as village water and sanitation facilities, schools and health clinics; and (d) establishment AgricultureSupport Services: The project willestablish and managementof a nationalfoundation to act as an the supportservices necessary for the developmentof a intermediaryto facilitateproject implementationthrough productiveand competitiveprivate farmingsector. Project local communitygroups. Preappraisalmission is in the preparationis under way. EnvironmentalAssessment field. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. CategoryC. PID: KGPA40721. US$ 13.8(IDA). Consulting services to be determnined. US$ 14.4(IDA). Consultingservices will be required. Implementingagency is to be determined. Ministryof Agricultureand Food, 96 KievskayaSt., Bishkek,Kyrgyz Republic,Contact: Mr. S.M. Tynaev, First KyrgyzRepublic DeputyMinister StructuralAdjustment Kyrgyz Republic (R) Public Sector ResourceManagement Adjustment Agriculture (ITF N016-KG):The credit will support the reforms of government's budgetingand inter fiscal relations.The IrrigationRehabilitation: The proiect will (a) support project was approved,following ITF procedures,on 17 rehabilitationof major irrigation infrastructureand dams, April 1997. Creditwas signed on 6 Ma) 1997. 57 June 1997 Europeand CentralAsia Region EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryC. PID: KGPA8521. May 1997. US$ 43.2 (ITF). EnvironmentaiAssessment Category C. PID: Consultingservices to be determined. LVPA35807. Ministry of Finance,Erkindik St., 58, Bishkek720874, US$ 18.1(IBRD). Consultants will be provided KyrgyzRepublic, Tel: (7-3312)225-986, Fax: (7-3312) through 227-404 donor financing. Ministry of Welfare,Skolas St. 28, Riga 226331,Latvia, Tel: (371) Latvia 7021-686, Fax: (371) 7820-396, Contact: Ms. Vineta Fortina, Director, Project Coordination Unit Agriculture Latvia RuralDevelopment: The project will assist the government in (a) developing a sustainablerural finance system;and (b) Transport fosteringeconomic growthand generatingemployment in (R) Highways rural areas. Project (Ln. 4145-LV):The projectwill focus on (a) preparationis underway. rehabilitation EnvironmentalAssessment of sectionsof the main road network;(b) CategoryB. PID: LVPA44804. bridge repair; US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Short-term (c) a pilot project on gravel road maintenance consultantswill be required and low cost bitumization and financed througha PHRD grant. of gravel roads; (d)laboratory Ministry equipment;(e) technicalassistance; and (f) a road of Agriculture,Republikas Laukums 2. LV 1841 safety program.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on Riga, Latvia, Tel: (371-2) 783-0276,Fax: (371-2) 783-0275 27 March 1997.Loan was signed on 2 May 1997.Environmental Assessment Latvia CategoryB. Cofinancingis expectedfrom the KuwaitFund (US$ 15.0 million)and EU-PHARE Education/Training (US$ 5.8 million). Education Infrastructure:The primaryobjective of this US$ 20.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. projectis to achieve Latvian Rd. Administration,3 GogolaSt., Riga, Latvia, energy savingsin schoolsto reduce Tel: education (371-2) 227-818,Fax: (371-2) 225-827 expendituresby about 10percent. The projectwill also initiatea sectordialogue which will developinto a Latvia sectorreform programto be implementedunder a follow-up project.Project preparation is under way.Environmental Water Supply/Sanitation AssessmentCategory to be determined. MunicipalSolid Waste Management: US$ 10.0(IBRD/IDA). Convulting services to be Theproject will determined. includeremediation and continuedoperation of an existing landfill serving Ministryof Finance, Riga city which generatesabout 45 percent I Smilsu St., LV 1932,Riga, Latvia, of all municipal Tel: (371-7)226-672, solid wastein Latvia. Projectpreparation is Fax: (371-7) 820-010;Ministry of under Educationand way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: Science, 2 Valnu St. LV 1098,Riga, Latvia, LVPA40553. Tel/Fax:(371-7) 222-415 US$ 7.9 (IBRD);US$ 5.1 (CEF). Consultantswill be Latvia required. Ministryof Environmentaland Regional Education/Training Development, PelduSt. 25, LV-1494Riga, Latvia, Tel: (371-2) EducationReform: The project 226-578, will supportthe review of Fax: (371-2) 820-442 educationalobjectives, revision of curriculum,preparation of Lithuania new teachingmaterials and retraining of teachers.Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Finance US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices to be determined. Bank Ministryof Finance, and EnterpriseRestructuring: The aim of the I Smilsu St., Lv. 1932,Riga, Latvia, project Tel: (371-7)226-672, is to address issues in the bankingsector and Fax: (371-7) 820-010;Ministry of enterprise Educationand insolvencythrough a focusedprogram of Science,2 Valnu St., LV 1098,Riga, Latvia, financial Tel/Fax:(371-7) 222-415 and physical restructuring,accelerated privatization,institutional development and a deepening legal of Latvia and regulatoryreform. Projectpreparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. SocialSector US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting (R) Ministry services to be determined. WelfareReform (Ln. 4154-LV): The projectwill of Finance, Sermiksniu6, Vilnius, Lithuania,Tel: support (370-2) 625-172,Fax: (370-2) 226-387 implementationof reformsin social insuranceand social assistance. Approved by the Executive Directors on 6 58 Europe and Central Asia Region June 1997 Lithuania associationsand restructuringof water management I organizations.Project preparation is under way. Environmental Population, Health and Nutrition AssessmentCategory B. PID: MKPA38399. (R) Health: The project is aimed at increasing efficiency. US$ 7.5 OBRD); US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consultants will be quality, access and consumer satisfaction of the health care required during project implementation for water-users system by: (a) implementing a hospital restructuring association support and project implementation support. program and strengthening primary health care in pilot Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, regions; and (b) strengthening the capacity of the Ministry Leninova St. 2, Skopje, FYR Macedonia, Tel: (389-91) 111- of Health to implement a health insurance program. Project 792, Fax: (389-91) 112-035 preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. Macedonia,former YugoslavRepublic of US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be needed for Power project preparation. Pwr Ministry of Health, Gedimino Dr. 27, 2682 VilniusPower: The project includes (a) rehabilitation of hydro Lithuania, Tel: (370-2) 226-596, Fax: (370-2) 227-587 plants; (b) completion of an energy management system; and (c) distribution network improvement. Project Lithuania preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Social Sector Category B. PID: MKPA42399. US$ 35.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for (a) Social Policy and Community Social Services hydropower plants rehabilitation and (b) power system Development (Ln. 4135-LT): The project will support the least-cost expansion program. government in providing social security to the population at Elektrostopanstvo na Makedonija (ESM), Ul "Bote an affordable cost through the implementation of Bocevski" 9, 91000 Skopje, FYR Macedonia, Contact: institutional development activities to improve the capacity General Manager, Tel. (389-91) 211-237, Fax: (389-91) to analyze sound policy at all stages and improve 228-350 community social care services. Approved by the Executive Directorson 18 February 1997. Environmental Assessment Macedonia,former YugoslavRepublic of Category C. PID: LTPA08539. Structural Adjustment US$ 3.7 (IBRD). Consultants are being provided through Structural Adjustment donor financing. (R) Structural Adjustment (Ln. 4153-MK),(Cr.2949-MK): Ministry of Social Security, Vivulskio 11, 2693 Vilnius, The project will support the economic reforms initiated Lithuania, Tel: (370-2) 652-621, Fax: (370-2) 652-463 under Economic Recovery Loan I and the Financial and Enterprise Sector Adjustment Loan. Both the loan and Lithuania credit were approved by the Executive Directors on 6 May Urban Development 1997. Environmental Assessment Category U. About US$ 30.0 (IBRD); US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants will Municipal Development: The project will include (a) a be required for the privatization of agriculture enterprises. municipal investment component to finance priority Ministry of Finance, Dame Gruev, 14, Skopje, FYR municipal infrastructure investments in selected Macedonia, Tel: (389-91) 116-012, Fax: (389-91) 117-280 municipalities; (b) a local capacity building component to organize technical assistance to municipalities; and (c) a Moldova technical assistance component for policy development and Agriculture project implementation. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: LTPA35802. Rural Finance: The project will provide support to farmers US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected for affected by the land reform process. Project preparation is project preparation. under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. Ministry of Public Administration,Reforms, Gedimino Ave. US$ 22.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. 11, LT 2039, Vilnius, Lithuania, Tel: (370-2) 226-942 Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, 162 Stephan Cel Mare Ave, Chisinau, Moldova, Tel: (373-2) 23-25-36 Macedonia,former YugoslavRepublic of Moldova Agriculture (R) Irrigation Rehabilitation and Restructuring:The project will EduatinTraining (a) rehabilitate and improve irrigation schemes that benefit (R) General Education (Ln. 4151-MD): The project will private farmers, and (b) support the developmentof water user support new curricula, new teaching materials and textbook 59 June 1997 Europeand CentralAsia Region development,as well as teacher trainingand a new Moldova educationalassessment system. Approved by the Executive Directorson 22 April 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment UrbanDevelopment CategoryC. PID: MDPA08558. (R) First Cadastre:The US$ 16.8(IBRD). Consultants project will supportreal estate willbe required. registrationand titling in urban Ministryof Education. I Marii and rural areas, including AndunariNationale Square, related institutionaland 277033Chisinau, Moldova, capacitybuilding aspects. Tel: (373-2) 233-519,Fax: Negotiationsare (373-2)233-474 substantiallycompleted. Environmental AssessmentCategory C. PID: MDPA35771. Moldova US$ 15.9 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. The NationalAgency for GeodesyCartography and PrivateSector Development Cadastre,47 Pushkin Str., 277005Chisinau, Moldova, Tel: (R) PrivateSector Development II: The project will (3732) 226-373,Fax: (373-2) 244-469 includethe establishmentof a competitivenesscenter and Moldova provisionof on-the-joband managementtraining for enterprise managersand policy makersto improvethe Water competitiveness Supply/Sanitation of Moldovanindustries. Negotiations are WaterResources substantiallycompleted. Management:The project will support EnvironmentalAssessment irrigation investment CategoryB. activities.Project preparation is under way. Environmental US$ 9.0 (IDA). Consultants AssessmentCategory B. will be requiredto assist with US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consulting the establishmentof a competitiveness servicesto be determined. center. Water Agency, Alec RussoSt. 1, Chisinau, Ministryof Finance;Ministry of Economy Moldova,Tel: (373-2) 438-122,Fax: (373-2)233-844, Contact: Mr. Moldova Pencov SocialSector Poland (R) Social InvestmentFund: The projectwill support Environment rehabilitationof critical social infrastructureand local (R) Ozone Depleting Substance Phase-out: Project capacitybuilding. The approachrequires community will focus on identificationof key ozonedepleting substance participationto identify,organize and supervisepriority (ODS)reduction activities, new technologyfor microprojects.areas of focus include:(a) critical ODS phase- social out and a recyclingand recoveryprogram. Approved infrastructure;(b) environmentmanagement, specifically by the Executive Directorson 11March 1997.Loan water;(c) institutionbuilding of municipalgovernments was signed on 14 May 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category and local communityorganizations; and (d) B. children's US$ 6.2 (GEF). No consultantsare required. social development. Project preparation is under way. Ozone Layer Protection Unit EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Poland Office of the DeputyPrime Minister and Ministerof Environment Economyand Reforms, 1, Piata Marii AdudnariNationale Str., Chisinau,Moldova, Tel: (373-2) 23-41-22,Fax. (373- Geothermaland 2) 23-40-64,Contact: Environmental:The aim of the project is Mr. MihailMoraru, DeputyMinister to reduce air pollution of Economyand Reforms and its associateddamages to healt and the environmentin the Podhale region. Project Moldova preparationis currentlyon hold. EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryB. PID: PLPA37339. StructuralAdjustment US$ 50.0 (IBRD).No consultantsare required. GeotermiaPodhalanska, Olcza, Stachonie (R) Second 2A, 30-502, StructuralAdjustment: The project seeks to Zakopane, deepen Poland,Tel: (48-165)11-980, Fax: (48-165) 11- the government's structuralreform programand 981 complementstabilization efforts throughthe provisionof balanceof paymentssupport. Projectpreparation is under Poland way. Environmental AssessmentCategory U. Finance US$ 100.0 (IDA).No consultantsare required. Ministry of Finance,Cosmonauts St., 7, Chisinau 277005, (R) MunicipalFinance: me project will provide Moldova,Tel: (373-2) 23-35-75,Fax: (373-2) 22-86-10 long-term Moldova,Tel: (373-2) 23-35-75,Fax: (373-2) 22-86-10 financing to domesticcommercial banks for municipal infrastructuresub-projects in the water,wastewater, solid 60 Europe and CentralAsia Region June 1997

waste and urbantransport sectors. Board presentationwas PowerDistribution Companies are being selected. tentatively scheduled for mid-June 1997. Environmental AssessmentCategory B. PID: PLPA35082. Poland US$ 22.5 (IBRD).Consulting services are beingfinanced Public Sector Management from existing grants. Rp Bankfor Socio-EconomicInitiatives; Powszechny Bank (R) RegistryReform: The project will support the l KredytowyS.A., Warsaw,Poland upgradingof judicial infrastructurein the area of public registries.Components include registries for real estate Poland property,economic entities and pledges.Negotiations are scheduledfor June 1997. Environmental Assessment Finance CategoryC. WarehouseReceipts: The projectwill assist with the US$ 37.9 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. creationof a national systemof warehousereceipts, mainly Ministryof Justice,Al. VjazdowskieI1, Warsaw,Poland by providinga contingentloan to the indemnityfund of participatingwarehouses. Project preparation is underway. Poland EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 15.0(IBRD). Consulting services will be requiredfor Transport project preparation. (R) RoadsII: The project will support improvementof the VOCA and MAFE,N. Wspolna30, 00930, Warsaw,Tel: nationalroad networkfocusing on (a) constructionof urban (48-22) 623-1652,Fax: (48-22)623-1505 bypassesand bridges;(b) road pavementrehabilitation and modernization;(c) procurementof equipmentfor road Poland maintenanceand safety; and (d) technicalassistance and trainingin transportmanagement, traffic engineering,road Industry safetyand environmentalprotection. Appraisal mission was Coal SectorAdjustment: The projectwill provide (a) scheduledfor mid-May1997. EnvironmentalAssessment indirectfinancial assistance for closure/mergerof mines; (b) CategoryA. PID: PLPA08593. incentivepackages; and (c) mine site reclamation.Project US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment transportmanagement, traffic engineering,road safety and CategoryB. environmentalprotection. US$ 150.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Transportand MaritimeEconomy, General Implementingagency is to be determined. Directorateof Roads,Wsnolna 1, 00921Warsaw, Poland. Tel: (48-2) 230-0894,Fax: (48-2)625-3467 Poland | Industry Poland WholesaleMarket Gdansk: The project will constructa Water Supply/Sanitation wholesalemarket for perishablefoodstuff in Gdansk. BydgoszczWater and Wastewater: The project will Projectpreparation is under way. Environmental financeinstitutional strengthening and investmentsfor AssessmentCategory A. PID: PLPA8616. rehabilitationand expansionof water supply and US$ 15.0(IBRD). Consulting services are being financed wastewatersystems for the municipalwater and wastewater with bilateralaid. utilityof Bydgoszcz.Negotiations will be scheduled Ministry of Agricultureand Food Economy,30 Wspolna followingfinalization of the conditionsfor negotiations. St., 00-930Warsaw, Poland, Tel: (48-22) 623-1701, EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: PLPA43139. Contact:Director, Office for WholesaleMarkets and US$ 15.0(IBRD). Consultants will be required. CommodityExchanges MWiKBydgoszcz, ul. Torunska 103,86-817, Bydgoszcz, Poland,Tel: (48-52) 71-87-46,Fax: (48-52)71-12-97, Poland Contact:Mr. WojciechPawlak, Director Power Poland Power DistributionCompanies: The project will finance investmentsin energy efficiency,demand-side management, WaterSupply/Sanitation inst:tutionalstrengthening, and restructuring.Project Krakow Water and Wastewater: The project will finance preparationis under way. EnvironmentalAssessment institutionalstrengthening and investmentsfor the CategoryB. rehabilitationand expansionof water supply and Up to US$ 60.0 (IBRD).Consultants may be required. wastewatersystems for the municipalwater and wastewater 61 June 1997 Europe and Central Asia Region

utility of Krakow. Project processing is currently on hold. Romania Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: PLPA43137. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Agriculture MPWiK Krakow, ul. Senatorska 1, Krakow, Poland, Tel: (R) Cadastre and Land Registration: The project will (48-12) 21-20-11, Fax: (48-12) 21-44-12, Contact: Mr. assist in establishing a general cadastre Wojciech Studnicki, Director and land registration system. Project preparation is under way. Poland Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: ROPA34213. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required for Water Supply/Sanitation project implementation. V Ministry of Finance, Wroclaw Solid Waste Management Privatization: The General Directorate for Intemational Financial Relations, 17 Apoldor St., Bucharest, Romania, project will improve the solid waste collection and disposal Tel: (40-1) 631-2039, Fax: (40-1) 312-6792 services in Wroclaw through the introduction of private sector financing, building, and operation of these facilities. Romania Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category A. Agriculture L US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected. Agricultural Support Services: The project will include an City of Wroclaw, Pl. Nowy Targ 1/8, 50-141 Wroclaw, agricultural research component, an agricultural extension Poland, Tel: (48-71) 407-112, Fax: (48-71) 443-750 component and a strategic review of agricultural support Poland services. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: ROPA43882. Water Supply/Sanitation US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Wroclaw Water and Wastewater: The project will Agriculture and Food, Directorate of Research. Education and Extension, 24 Blvd. Carol I, Bucharest. finance (a) rehabilitation and improvements of water supply Romania, Tel/Fax: (40-1) 614-5340, Contact: and waste water facilities in the Mr. city of Wroclaw and (b) Gheorghe Sin, Director General institutional strengthening of the Wroclaw water and waste water company. The project has been appraised and is Romania currently on hold. Environmental Assessment Category B. A u PID: PLPA40075. Agriculture US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for final Irrigation Rehabilitation Pilot: The project will support: designs and supervision of construction and technical (a) rehabilitation of 4-6 pilot irrigation areas assistance for institutional strengthening. or schemes, and (b) transfer of irrigation management to water users. MPWiK Wroclaw, ul NA Grobli 14/16, 60-421 Wroclaw, Project preparation is under way. Environmental Poland, Tel: (48-71) 44-71-21, Fax: (48-71) 44-65-15, Assessment Category B. PID: ROPA43881. Contact: Mr. Witold Sumislawski, General Manager US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project Romania implementation. Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Program Management Agriculture Unit, 17 Blvd. Carol I, Bucharest, Romania, Tel: (40-1) 312-403 1, Fax: (40- (R) Agriculture Sector Adjustment: The project will (a) 1) 312-4029. promote the privatization of agricultural trade and service Romania enterprises and food industries; (b) liberalize the agricultural trade regime; (c) liberalize prices and reduce Agriculture subsidies; (d) reform land law; (e) reform agricultural Private Farmer and Enterprise Support II: The project finance policies; and (t) redefine the role of the Ministry of will provide: (a) foreign exchange to support Agriculture. Board presentation private sector was scheduledfor early initiatives by financing the import June 1997. Environmental of machinery and (b) Assessment Category C. PID: equipment and permanent ROPA8795. working capital for the import of essential agricultural inputs. About US$ 15.0 million will US$ 350.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. be allocated to private investment financing for small Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 24 Carol I Ave., farmers. This project is no longer in the lending Bucharest, Romania, Tlx: 11217; program 11367, Tel: (40-1) 614- andfurther reporting will be discontinued. 4020, Fax: (40-1) 311-2278, 613-0322

62 Europeand CentralAsia Region June 1997 Romania disbursedin a single tranche.Board presentationwas I scheduledfor 3 June 1997.Environmental Assessment Education/Training CategoryC. (R) SchoolsRehabilitation: The projectwill (a) US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. rehabilitateand furnish about900 extensivelydamaged Ministryof Laborand Social Protection,2 Demetru1, schools;and (b) provide training to nationaland regional DobrescuSt., Bucharest,Romania, Tel: (40-1) 615-0200, staff in: the applicationand enforcementof safety norms, Fax: (40-1)613-8764, Contact: Mihai Seitan, Counsellorto technicalstandards and practicesgoverning the design and the Minister constructionof educationalfacilities, construction managementand in the managementof comprehensive Romania maintenanceprograms for educationalfacilities. The project Telecommunications will finance civil works, trainingand professional/specialist services.Negotiations were cheduled for early June 1997. Telecommunications: The project will assist in (a) EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. liberalizationof the sector to facilitateprivate investment; US$50.0 (IBRD). Schoolmapping and projectpreparation (b) the privatizationof Rom Telecom;and (c) the consultantshave been selected. establishmentof a regulatoryagency, includingspectrum Ministry of Education,Bucharest, Romania, Tel: (40-1) management.Project preparationis under way. 614-4588,Fax: (40-1) 312-4719 EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: ROPE8788. US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Romania Ministryof Communications,14 Libertatii Ave., Bucharest. Romania,Tel: (40-1) 400-1888,Fax: (40-1) 400-1742; Environment ROMTELECOM,14-16 Libertatii Ave., Bucharest, (R) Fuel Cell Power Plant: The projectwill constructa Romania,Tel: (40-1)400-1202, Fax: (40-1) 400-1002 scaleable,phosphoric acid fuel cell electricitygeneration plant using gaseous hydrogenfrom an ammoniaplant. Romania Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Transport Category to be determined.Environmental Assessment CategoryA. (R) SecondRoads: The project is a follow-upoperation to UtS$5.0 (GEF).Feasibility study completed the ongoingtransport project. Componentsinclude (a) road Recommendationto be reviewedwith GEFto determine and bridgerehabilitation; (b) nationalroad safety program; amount of GEFgrant available.Consulting services to be (c) institutionalstrengthening; and (d) assistance to the adetermined, constructionindustry. Board presentation was scheduled for Ministryof Industry early June 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: ROPA39250. Romania US$ 150.0(IBRD). Consulting services will be requiredfor Pprojectsupervision. Power NationalRoads Administration,Blvd. Dinicu Golescu38, Oil and Gas Development:The project will assist the Bucharest,Romania, Tel: (40-1) 312-8496,Fax: (40-1) govemmentin restructuringthe refinery sectorto improve 312-0984 the efficiencyof operationand optimizationof the sectorto promoteprivate-sector investment, including privatization RussianFederation of someof the refineries.Project is being identified. Agriculture EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. Agriculture US$ 150.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be requiredfor AgriculturalSector Adjustment:The project will support project implementation. the agriculturesector policyreform program and finance Ministry of Industry 152Cale Victerieri,70034 Bucharest importsof critical agriculturalinputs and/or provide Romania,Tlx: 864-1i1109, Tel: (40-Vl)637-7320, Fax: (40- balanceof paymentssupport. Project is being identified. 1) 120-513 EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 500.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Romania Implementingagency is to be determined. StructuralAdjustment Russian Federation (N) SocialProjection Adjustment: The loan will provide Education/Training financialresources that will permit the governmentto s implementits social protectionprogram. The loan will be (R) EducationInnovation: This project will support 63 June 1997 Europe and Central Asia Region government reforms to restructure textbook and materials financing. Russian Federation The project will also support reforms in selected higher education institutions, especially in the quality of Power social sciences teachings. Board presentation was scheduled (N) Power Sector for early June 1997. Reform Support: The project would Environmental Assessment Category finance C. PID: RUPA8825. foreign and Russian advisors to work with the various sector entities and government US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. agencies on implementation of the reform National Training Foundation, Smolensky agenda. Assistance would fall Blvd. 3/5, 4th into three broad categories: floor, Moscow, Russian Federation, (a) assistance to the government Tel: (7-095) 246-1884, in further refining Fax: (7-095) 246-9892 and developing its concept for reform and elaborating a detailed implementation plan including analyzing RussianFederation technical and institutional barriers to meeting objectives the and identifying alternative solutions; (b) Finance assistance in carrying out the activities necessary to (N) Non-Bank Financial Institutions: implement the plan; and (c) support for the The project will electricity sector development of support a program to entities, including corporatization and develop institutional investors, commercialization primarily insurance companies of operating companies and institutional and private pension funds. strengthening Project is being identified. of the regulators. Negotiations under way. Environmental Assessment Environmental Category C. Assessment Category C. US $40.0 kIBRD). Consulting services US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to to be deterrined. be determined. Electricity Reform Implementation Implementing agency is to be determnined. Unit Russian Federation RRussianFederation Industry Power Krasnodar Power Generation: (R) The project consists of 900 Enterprise Restructuring: The project will provide MW of combined cycle generation in technical assistance to enterprises on a cost-recovery the Krasnodar region. basis, Appraisal mission has been to prepare and implement the enterprise delayed. Procurement: All restructuring plans. bidding documents have Board presentation was scheduled been drafted and are currently for early June 1997. being reviewed. Environmental Assessment Environmental Assessment Category A. Category C. Canadian and PID: Finnish RUPA40162. Trust Funds have been approved and signed in the US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will amounts US$ 50,000 and US$ 170.000, respectively. be required. Kuban GRES, c/o V. I. US$ 85.0 (IBRD). Consultants Gorin, Chief, Department of - will be required. Foreign Economic Implementing agency Relations, RAO EES Rossii, 103074, is to be determined. Moscow, Russien Federation, Kitaigorodsky Proezd, 7 Tel: RussianFederation (7-095) 220-67-36 Population, Health and Nutrition RussianFederation (R) Health Reform Pilot: The project would develop and support Private Sector Development the National FamnilyMedicine Program and reforms in (N) Enterprise Support II: The loan will provide health service delivery and financing. Board presentation term finance to private enterprises through was scheduledfor early June 1997. Environmental private commercial banks (line of credit). Project is being identified. Assessment Category C. PID: RUPA8814. A PPF advance Environmental Assessment Category of US$ 729,000 has been approved to finance B. consultants US$ 500.0 (IBRD). No services for federal level components. consultants are required. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency Russian Health is to be determined. Care Investment Foundation, 10 RussianFederation Voznesensky Per., Room 30-31, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-095)229-0234, Fax: (7-095) 290-3962, Public Sector Management Mr. Vladimir Shinkarenko, Project Director, Central (R) Economic Support Unit, Russia Policy: The project will support the Health Reform Pilot Project establishment of a bureau to provide high-quality economic policy advice to senior government economic managers. Board presentation was scheduled for 5 June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: RUPE44200. A PPF advance of US$ 1.46 million has been approved. 64 Europe and Central Asia Region June 1997 1 US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. rehabilitating or reconstructing high-priority road sections Bureau of Economic Analysis, Slavyanskaya Square, 412, and bridges in Siberia and the Far East. Project preparation Room 595, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-095) 229- is under way. Procurement of civil works will follow ICB 6016, Fax: (7-095) 924-9027, Contact: Eugeny procedures. Environmental Assessment Category to be Gavrilenkov, Deputy Director General determined. PID: RUPA42722. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. RussianFederation Ministry of Transport, Federal Highway Department, 4 Social Sector Bochkov St., Moscow, Russian Federation (R) Social Protection Adjustment: The project will RussianFederation support social sector reform, including pensions, unemployment insurance, child allowances, social Urban Development assistance and federal transfers. Appraisal mission is in the St. Petersburg Center City Rehabilitation Engineering field. Environmental Assessment Category C. (Ln. 4144-RU): The project will finance a comprehensive US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. package of studies, designs, capacity building, and pilot Ministry of Economy, Ul. Novy Arbat 19, Moscow 103025, investments to permit immediate implementation of a Russian Federation, Tel: (7-095) 203-7609. Fax: (7-095) subsequent investment project for renovation of the historic 203-6421 center of St. Petersburg. Approved by the Executive Directors on 27 March 1997. Environmental Assessment Russian Federation Category C. PID: RUPA42720. Cofinancing is expected Social Sector from Finland, Sweden and USAID. US$ 31.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Social Protection Implementation: The project will Government of St. Petersburg, Department of Construction, finance technical assistance to support policy actions for 76 Moika emb., St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tel: (7- reforms of the social safety net, which are being undertaken 812) 319-9030, Fax: (7-812) 310-0002 in connection with the Social Protection Adjustment loan. Appraisal mission was tentatively scheduled for mid-May Russian Federation 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Water Supply/Sanitation Ministry of Economy, Ul. Novy Arbat 19, Moscow 103025, Water/Sewerage: The project will support rehabilitation, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-095) 203-7609, Fax: (7-095) institutional development and selective investments in 203-6421 expansion in water, sewerage and sanitation services in selected cities. Project preparation is under way. Russian Federation Environmental Assessment Category B. Structural Adjustment US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. (R)Structural Adjustmnent: The loan will supportImplementing agency is to be determined. (R) Structural Adjustment: The loan will support economy-wide structural reforms that: (a) advance Slovenia competitive enterprise and market development and impose financial discipline on the enterprise sector and (b) have a Agriculture major direct impact on macro-fiscal stability. Board Irrigation: The project will finance extension of the presentation was scheduledfor early June 1997. existing irrigation schemes and new schemes throughout Environmental Assessment Category C. the country. The project will also strengthen institutions in US$ 600.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. the sector and encourage farmers' participation in irrigati.)n Ministry of Finance, Ilyinka 9, Moscow, Russian management. Project preparation is under way. Federation, Tel: (7-095) 925-6139, Fax: (7-095) 913-4315, Environmental Assessment Category A. Contacts: Mr. A. Filev, Director, Department of US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Selection of Consulting services for International Financial Institutions; Mr. 0. Viugin, Deputy project preparation studies is under way. Minister, Ministry of Finance Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 33 Parmova, 61000 Russian Federation Ljubljana, Tel: (38-661) 317-592, Fax: (38-661) 313-466

Transport Slovenia Siberia and Far East Highway: The project will help Private Sector Development improve the condition of the Russian road network by Investment Recovery (Lns. 4072-4-SIO): A direct

65 June 1997 Europe and Central Asia Region complement to Ln. 3636-SLO. The project will help finance development, a new cycle of consisting of land consolidation and land private investments anticipated as a result of use Slovenia's planning, farm access roads and land leveling; implementation of enterprise reforms. Approved (b) improved land management consisting of cadastral by the Executive Directors on 25 July 1996. Retroactive management, farmer training and extension services, financing of up to DM 6.5 million is being provided pest management for and soil restoration; and (c) village expenditures incurred after 10 June 1996. infrastructure Environmental improvements such Assessment Category B. as improved drinking water and village roads. Project preparation is About US$ 50.0. Loan currency is under way. A PHRD Grant will Deutsche Mark. Loan be used for technical amount is DM 75 million. assistance. Environmental Assessme.at (IBRD). Consulting services will Category not be required. B. A request for expressions of interest from consulting firms to provide Nova Ljubljanska Banka d.d., Trg republike preparation assistance was 2, 1520 published in Development Ljubljana, Slovenia, Fax: (386-61) Business issue no. 462, dated 16 125-0331, 125-2097; May 1997. SKB Banka dd, Ajdovscina 4, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Fax: US$ 60.0 (IBRD). (386-61) 171-5757; Banka Consultants will be required for project Celje dd. Vodnikova 2, 3000 preparation. Celje, Slovenia, Fax: (386-63) 25-118 Southeastern Anatolia Project, Regional Development Administration, Tajikistan Ugur Mumcu'nun Sokagi No. 59, Gazi Osman Pasa 06700, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) Social Sector 445- 0215 - 18, Fax: (90-312) 437-6777, Contact: (R) Pilot Poverty Alleviation Sahin Cengiz. (Cr. 2946-TJ): The project Deputy aims Director to support the government in its efforts to alleviate existing poverty Turkey and to address the transitory negative social effects of the development of a market economy by Agriculture (a)supporting the rehabilitation of essential social and economic (R) Participatory Privatization of Irrigation infrastructure; (b) stimulating employment and Management and Investment - 1st income generation; and (c) strengthening institutional Phase (formerly capacities. Privatization of Irrigation Operation and Maintenance): The project will build upon existing development The project will: (a) assist water-user activities now being carried out largely by NGOs. organizations Approved (WUOs) in purchasing required by the Executive Directors on 10 April operations and 1997. Credit was maintenance equipment; signed on 28 April 1997. Environmental (b) support a WUO on a pilot Assessment basis, to invest Category B. PID: TJPA44202. in modernization of their irrigation system while paying the major part of US$ 8.7 (IDA). Consultants will be required. the cost; and (c) finance thl required technical assistance, training, Excc:utiveDirector, Tajikistan Social Fund, office equipment and 17 Bokthar field vehicles. Project preparation Street, Goskomstat, Ilthfloor, 734025 is under way. Dushanbe, Environmental Assessment Tajikistan, Fax: (7-3772) 510-042 Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Some consultants will be required. The Tajikistan majority of consultants will be hired locally. Devlet Su Isleri, Ankara, Turkey, Tel/Fax: (90-312) Structural Adjustment 425- 4614 Economic Reform Support: The credit will support the balance-of-payments Turkey and the budget. The project consists of two components: (a) privatization of public enterprises and Education/Training (b) farm restructuring and cotton sector reform. Project (R) Basic Education: preparation is under way. The project will support the Environmental Assessment expansion Category C. of basic schooling to improve system coverage and relieve overcrowded schools, with US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. particular effort on raising the attendance of girls. Office of the Prime Minister, 80 Rudaki Project preparation has St., Dushanbe been postponed untilfiscal 734025, Tajikistan, Tel: (7-3772) year 1999. Environmental 23-32-43, Fax: (7-3772) Assessment Category 23-32-43, Contact: Gulyam C. Babaev About US$ 120.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry Turkey of National Education, Ataturk Bulvari, Ankara, Turkey, Fax: (90-312) 413-1620, Tel: (90-312) Agriculture 417-7105 (N) Sanliurfa and Harran Plains oki-Farmand Village Development: The project will include (a) land 66 Europe and Central Asia Region June 1997

Turkey Turkey Finance Public Sector Management (R) Guarantees for Development Banks: The project will Technology Development II: The project will support (a) consist of a partial-risk guarantee intended primarily to the second phase of development of the National Metrology extend the current available maximum borrowing term from Institute; (b) the establishment of the Turkish Patent international markets to private Turkish development Institute; and (c) the establishment of an independent financial institutions to a period between seven to ten years. accreditation body. Project preparation is under way. Technical assistance will be provided to help improve the Environmental Assessment Category B. organizational efficiency and effectiveness of the Industrial US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required. Investment Credit Bank and the Industrial Development National Institute of Metrology, PO Box 21, 41470, Gebze- Bank of Turkey. This project is no longer in the current Kocaeli, Turkey, Tlx: 34123, Tel: (90-41) 2300, Fax: (90- lending program andfurther reporting will be discontinued. 41) 2309; Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Institute, PO Box 21, 41470, Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey, Tlx: -Turkey 34123, Tel: (90-41) 1678, Fax: (90-41) 7260; Ministry of Infrastructure Industry and Trade, G.M.K. Bulvari 128, 06100 Maltepe, Housing:ThrjcilfnncosnAnkara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 231-5980, Fax: (90-312) Housing: The project will finance housing for lower-' ''i income households in southeastern Turkey and assist in the 230-8685 development of a policy framework for a well-functioning Turkey housing market. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: TRPA9070. Telecommunications US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected to Communications Liberalization: The project will provide conduct feasibility and policy studies. the Ministry of Transport with (a) equipment and services Housing Development Administration, Bilkent Plaza, B I for installing a modern radio Frequency Spectrum Blok, Bilkent 06530, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 266- Management System and (b) technical assistance for 7680, Fax: (90-312) 266-7723, Contact: Mr. Hamdi institutional development and establishment of modern Karadas, President methods of frequency allocation (including auctions). Turkey Appraisal report is being prepared. Environmental Turkey Assessment Category C. PID: TRPA09038. Private Sector Development US$ 45.0 (IBRD). Consuldng services will be required for Bursa Gas Distribution: The project will (a) promote preparation and implementation. private sector investments in the natural gas distribution Ministry of Transport, Ulastirma Bakanligi, 91, Sok Emek, system in Bursa by creating an autonomous private sector Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 212-4416. Fax: (90312) gas distribution company and (b) establish legal and 2124900 regulatory framework for natural gas distribution by the Turkey private sector. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. Urban Development US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been appointed and are (N) Bursa Urban Transport: The project will focus on working on feasibility study. Consultants will be required to urban transport and related issues. Components include (al support the legal and regulatory framework component. urban traffic and public transport improvements; (b) Municipality of Bursa, Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, strategic road development, (c) urban infrastructure; and (d) Buisa, Turkey, Tel: (90-224) 233-9883, Fax: (90-224) 221- technical assistance for long-range land use, transport 9158 planning and policy design and implementation of public Turkey transport regulation. Project preparation is under way. PID: TRPA43365. Environmental Assessment Category B. Public Sector Management US$ 51.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required to prepare Social Insurance Reform: The project will support the (a) detailed feasibility studies and (b) engineering and restructuring of the pension and health insurance systems. design studies Project preparation is under way. Environmental Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, 16190 Acemler, Bursa. Assessment Category C. Turkey, Tel: (90-224) 233-9885, Fax: (90-224) 234-3749, About US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Contact: Mr. Turgut Yalki, Deputy Secretary General determined. Ministry of Labor 67 June 1997 Europeand CentralAsia Region Turkey sectors to improve financialand technicalsustainability. Water Supply/Sanitation Board presentation was scheduled for 27 May 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: (R) Antalya TMPA8867. Solid WasteManagement: The project will PPF of US$ supportimprovement 430,000 has been approvedto financethe of solid wastecollection and disposal servicesof and land project managementand procurement managementand pollutionmonitoring. Issues specialists, facing local staff trainingand equipment. the acquisitionof the landfill site have beenresolved. US$ Feasibility 30.3 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. studiesare being updated.Environmental Ministry Assessment of Water Resources, 1 Seijdi St., Ashgabat, CategoryA. PID: TRPA40865. Turkmenistan US$ 15.0 74400, Tel: (7-363) 225-3032,Fax: (7-363) (IBRD).Consultants will be required. 235-1512 Infrastructure Management and Consultancy Inc. (ALDAS), Antalya Buyuksehir, Belediyesi, Bahcelievler Mah, Pamir Ukraine Cad No. 5/8 07050, Antalya,Turkey, Tel: (90-242)242- Agriculture 1609,Fax: (90-242)247-0328 AgribusinessDevelopment: The projectwill improve Turkmenistan the standardof agribusinessmanagement through: (a) Population,Health agribusinesseducation at the UkrainianNational and Nutrition AgriculturalUniversity; Health: (b) agribusinesscenters which will The projectaims to: (a) achieveimprovements in provide the quality consulting servicesand trainingto agribusiness of care and in the efficiencyof healthcare companies delivery and restructuredfarms; (c) establishmentof in the pilot district,Tejen, sufficientto make agricultural decisions marketinginformation system; and (d) about nationaladoption of tested reforms;and (b) upgrading build the policy research unit at the Instituteof sufficientcapacity in the Ministryof Healthand Agricultural Medical Economics.Project preparation is underway. Industryto prepare,evaluate, and replicate tested Environmental reforms AssessmentCategory B. throughoutthe country.Project preparation is under US$ way. 20.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: Ministry TMPA43330. of Agriculture,24, KreshchatikSt., Kiev, Ukraine, Tel: (380-44)229-8756, Fax: (380-44)226-3466 US$10.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Healthand MedicalIndustry, 95 Magtumguly, Ukraine Ashgabat, Turkmenistan744000, Tel: (7-3632)251-063, Education/Training Fax- (7-3632)253-250, Contact: Mr. C.T. Kuliev, Minister Education:Tro cu l Turkmenistan Education:The project includes(a) curriculumand instructionalmaterials development; (b) textbooks, Transport assessmentand evaluation;(c) trainingof teachersat secondaryeducation level: and (d) institutional (R) UrbanTransport: The project will rehabilitate key development.Project processingis currently parts of the country's urbanpassenger transport on hold. system in EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: Ashgabat,Mary and Charjewand implement UAPA34586. key US$ 18.3(IBRD). Consulting services will improvementsin sectorpolicies and institutions. be required. Board Ministryof Education,37 PeremogyProspect, presentation was scheduledfor 27 Kiev 252056, May 1997. Ukraine, Tel: (7-044) 229-6664 EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: TMPA34083. US$ 34.2 (IBRD).Consulting services will be requiredfor Ukraine urban transportmanagement services, procurement and Environment urbantransport policy advice. AshgabatPassenger Autotransport ProductionAssociation, Phaseout of Ozone Depleting 2 B AnnanovaSt., Ashgabat,Turkmenistan Substances:The project 744025, Tel: will focus on phase-outof ozonedepleting (7-3632)479-529, Fax: (7-3632)479-881 substances includingenterprise technology conversion subprojects and Turkmenistan institutionalstrengthening. Project preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 22.0 (GEF). Consultingservices for ongoingproject preparationare being financed (R) Water Supplyand Sanitation: under a Bank-implemented The project will: (a) GEF project preparationadvance. improvethe water supply and sanitation in Etrap centers Ministryof EnvironmentalProtection and selectedcollective farms; and Nuclear Secunty, and (b) initiateinstitutional 11/1Observa Tornaya St., and policychanges in the water Kiev, Ukraine,Tel: (380-44) supply and sanitation 226-2428,Fax: (380-44)228-0644 68 Europe and CentralAsia Region June I997

Ukraine reducingunemployment in municipalitiesaffected by coal miningrestructuring; and (d) improvingthe managementof viable mines.The project will includemine safetyand SouthernEnvironment: The projectwill (a) reduce health improvement,environmental improvements, social pollutionand protect areas with abundantnatural resources; mitigationand technicalassistance and training.Project (b) improvethe deliveryof essentialurban resource preparationis underway. EnvironmentalAssessment recoveryprograms in industry;and (c) improve CategoryB. environmentalmanagement and related regulatory US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. infrastructureat local and nationallevels. Project Ministryof Coal Industry,4, B KhmelnitskySt., Kiev, preparationis under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Ukraine252008, Tel: (380-44)226-2847, Fax: (380-44) CategoryB. 228-2131 US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined Ministryof EnvironmentalProtection and Nuclear Security, Ukraine 11/1 ObservaTomaya St., Kiev,Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) power 226-2428,Fax: (380-44)228-0644 (R) DniesterHydropower Pump Storage: The project will Ukraine include(a) completionof three units of the Dniester HydropowerPump Storageproject; (b) strengtheningof the Finance transmissionsystem (includingswitch yard (R) FinancialServices (formerly Financial Institutions construction/improvement);and (c) address further priority Development):The project will include(a) a line of credit upgradesof the dispatchcontrol and communications of about US$ 100.0 to 150.0million to be channeled systemsneeded to improvecontrol of systemfrequency, through qualifying participating banks andfinancial system voltages, power interchange and power dispatch. leasing companies to private and privatized enterprises; (b) Project preparation is under way. Environmental technical assistance to support problem bank resolution Assessment Category A. PID: UAPA40565. A general and bad loan workoutfor selected banks; (c) technical procurement noticefor this project was published in assistance to support the creation of a credit rating agency; Development Business issue no. 457, dated 28 February and (d) automation financing for selected banks. Project 1997. Prequalification will be requiredfor goods and preparationis under way. EnvironmentalAssessment works.Cofinancing is being sought. CategoryB. US$ 260.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. About US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be Ministryof Powerand Electrification,30 KreshschatikSt., determined. Kiev 2052, Ukraine,Tel: (380-44)226-2025, Fax: (380 44) Implementingagency is to be determined. 224-4021,Contact: Deputy Minister S. Kuzmenko Ukraine Ukraine Finance Power AgriculturePre-Export Guarantee (BI 10-UA): This (R) Heat Supplyand EnergyEfficiency: The project will guaranteefacility will offer coverageto suppliersof pre- (a) rehabilitateand introducetechnologies and materialsto exportfinance for agriculturaland friodproducts against the heatingsystems in Kiev and Sevastopol;(b) improvethe politicalrisks associatedwith import/exportpolicy changes, energy efficiencyof priority public buildingsin Kiev; ano as well as governmentperformance risks related to internal (c) support the commercializationand strengtheningof trade barriers.Approved by the Executive Directorson 18 project district heatingcompanies. The Kiev district heating March 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. component has been appraised. The Sevastopol district US$ 120.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. heating component and the Kiev energy efficiency Ukraine State Corporation for Credit and Investment 73, component are under preparation and will become separate Artema St., Kiev 254053,Tel/Fax: (380-44) 293-21-78 projects.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Ukraine UAPA44832. US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selectedfor Industry projectpreparation. Coal MiningImprovement: The objectiveof the projectis State Committeefor EnergyConservation, 1, Gonty St., to support the developmentof viable coal miningcompanies Kiev252112, Tel: (380-44)446-8183, Fax: (380-44)442- by (a) improvingthe workingconditions and motivationof 5271, Contact:Dr. N. Raptsoun,Deputy Chairman; staff; (b) reducingenvironmental impact of miningand Kievenergo,F.252001, Kieva, Franko Sq. 5. Tel: (380-44) improvingthe living conditionsin coal miningareas; (c) 293-6261;Fax: (380-44)224-1461, Contact: Mr. Ivan 69 June 1997 Europeand CentralAsia Region Plachkov,President; Kiev Municipal DistrictHeating Co., Departmentas well as associatedsystems 252057,Kiev, 0. DovzhenkoSt. and procedures, 2, Tel: (380-44)446-8262, and implementa fully functionalautomated Mr. A. Rafalsky,General Manager; treasurysystem Sevteploenergo,3, L. that will serveas an effectiveinstrument PavlitchenkoSt., Sevastopol for budget 335000,Tel: (380-690)52-58- execution and cash management. 96, Fax: (380-690)52-07-20 Projectpreparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: Ukraine UAPE491 74. US$ 15.7 (IBRD).Consultants will Power be required. Treasury,Ministry of Finance,6 BastionnayaSt., Kiev Gas DistributionRehabilitation: The project will (a) 252014, Ukraine,Tel: (380-44)295-2105, Fax: (380-44) supportconservation of gas use by upgradingand 295-9461 increasingthe use of customermetering; (b) reducegas Ukraine distributionoperating costs throughthe rehabilitationof gas distributionsystems; and (c) supportthe commercialization Public SectorManagement of gas distributioncompanies. Project preparationis under Export Development(Ln. 4107-UA):The way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category project will B. provide (a) export developmenttechnical assistance US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consulting services completed. to private exporters;(b) technicalassistance for the UkrainianGas Corporation,3a Gonty St., Kiev 254112, institutionaldevelopment of the State Export-ImportBank; Ukraine,Tel: (7-044)446-1834, Fax: (7-044)446-7143 and (c) credit financeto private exporters.Approved by the Ukraine ExecutiveDirectors on 21 November1996. Environmental AssessmentCategory B. PID: UAPA44851. Power US$ 70.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredto provide KrivoyRog Power Rehabilitation: The project includes technical assistanceto expon rehabilitationof several enterprises. units in a major coal-firedthermal State Export Import Bank powerplant to extendservice life, increaseefficiency and to of Ukraine.8, KreshchatikStr., pattexedsrcelf,mraeefcecanto 44)Kiev-I, 229-8082, 2001, Ukraine, Tel: (380-44)226-2745, Fax: (380- reduce environmental Contact:Dr. Ildar Usmanov,Head of Project impact.Appraisal report is being Managemet nit prepared.Environmental AssessmentCategory B. PID: ManagementUmt UAPA9109. Ukraine USS 170.0(IBRD). Consulting services may be required. Ministryof Power, Kiev Municipality,30 KreshschatikSt., Public Sector Management Kiev 252052,Ukraine, Tel: (7-044)226-2025, Fax: (7-044) LegalReform: 224-4021 Theproject will (a) supportthe creation of an independent,effective judiciary system; (b) upgradeand Ukraine expandexisting sourcesof legal information;(c) upgrade the quality of legal education;and (d) rationalizethe PrivateSector Development process of legislativedrafting. Project preparation is under (R) SecondEnterprise Development AdJustment:The way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category project will support:(a) the completion C. of the mass US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. privatizationprogram and implementation of case-by-case Ministry of Justice, 13 Karl Marx privatizationof strategic St., Kiev,Ukraine, enterprises;(b) continuereforms of Tel/Fax: (380-44)229-5401 the institutionaland legal infrastructurefor the capital Ukraine markets;and (c) secondgeneration enterprise reforms such as improvingthe bankruptcylegislation, international Public Sector Management accounting standardsand further deregulationof the Pension Reform: businessenvironment. The project is a sector adjustment Appraisal mission is tentatively operationin supportof comprehensive scheduledfor July 1997. pensionreform. EnvironmentalAssessment Projectpreparation is CategoryC. under way. Environmental AssessmentCategory U. US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consultants will not be required. US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consulting services Implementingagency is to be determined. to be determined. Implementingagency is to be determined. Ukraine Ukraine PublicSector Management Public Sector Management (R) TreasurySystem: The objectivesof the project are to Public AdministrationReform: The project wouldsupport supportongoing government efforts to establisha Treasury the governmentin increasingthe efficiencyof public 70 Europeand CentralAsia Region June 1997 administration,reforming: (a) the structureof central Ukraine government;(b) policy-makingprocess; and (c) relations between centraland local government.Project preparation Transport is under way.Environmental Assessment Category U. HighwayRehabilitation: The project will include(a) US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. expansionof periodicroad maintenance;(b) technical Implementingagency is to be determined. upgradingthrough introduction of improvedstandards and quality control;(c) improvementof road management;(d) Ukraine institutionalimprovements through technical servicesand Public Sector Management trainingto Ukravtoddorand one oblast road organization; (e) a road safetyprogram; (f) assistance in developinga Public ResourceManagement: The project wouldsupport competitiveroad constructionand engineeringindustry. the government'sPublic SectorReform Program, with an Projectpreparation is under way.Environmental emphasison taxation and budgetaryreform. Project AssessmentCategory B. Cofinancingis being sought.The preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment KuwaitFund has expressedinterest. PID: UAPA9110. CategoryU. US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor project US$ 200.0 (IBRD). peaain ImplementingConsultingservices agervicys to tobe be determined, determined. UKRAVTODOR,preparation. 9 FitzkulturaStr., Kiev, Ukraine, Implementingagency is to be determined. Tel/Fax:(380-44) 220-1034 Ukraine Ukraine StructuralAdjustmnent Water Supply/Sanitation FinancialSector Adjustment:The objectiveof the loan is (R) MunicipalWater and Wastewater:The project will to support a variety of reform measuresto strengthenthe focus on institutionalreorganization and strengtheningof Ukrainianbanking sector. Specifically,this will include(a) water and wastewaterenterprises in Odessa and Lviv, measuresto enhancethe regulatoryauthority and investmentsin water and wastewaterinfrastructure, effectivenessof the NationalBank's supervisionfunction; engineeringservices and environmentalactivities. (b) strengthening the accounting and reporting capability of Appraisal mission was scheduled for May 1997. banks; and (c) measures to strengthenkey laws and EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. regulations.Project preparation is underway. US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. MunicipalWater and WastewaterEnterprise of Lviv, City US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredduring of Lviv Council,I Rynoksq., 290008 Lviv, Ukraine,Fax: projectpreparation. (380) 482-664-093;Municipal Water and Wastewater NationalBank of Ukraine,9 InstitutskayaSt., 252007Kiev, Enterpriseof Odessa,City of Odessa,5 BasseynovayaS., Ukraine,Tel: (380-44)293-0187, Fax: (380-44)293-1698 Odessa,Ukraine Ukraine Uzbekistan Transport Agriculture (R) UrbanTransport: The projectwill benefit up to three (R) FarmPrivatization: The project will (a) help createthe citicsselected on the basis of their commitmentto key enabling conditionsfor farm privatizationand sectorreforms. It will have two components:(a) an restructuring,including the legal framework,land institutionalsupport programto assist in the reformulation registrationand training of farmers: and (b) initiate the and implementationof policy reforms,efficiency process of farm privatizationby providingthe necessary improvementsand regulatoryinstitution building and (b) support to farmerswho choose to participatein the process. conditional upon reforms, financing of new and used This project is no longer in the lending program and further vehicles,vehicle rehabilitation,spare parts, and other reportingwill be discontinued equipment.Board presentationis tentativelyscheduled for late June 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Uzbekistan PID: UAPA0911. US$ 77.4 (IBRD).Consultants for projectimplementation Population,Health and Nutrition will be required and financed throughgrants. Health:The projectwill support the Ministryof Health in State Committeefor Housingand MunicipalEconomy, 3a implementingpolicy reform.Support will also be provided SadovayaSt., 252008 Kiev, Ukraine to three oblasts to strengthenhealth servicecost- effectiveness, financing and management. Project 71 June 1997 Europeand CentralAsia Region [ preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment Uzbekistan CategoryC. PID: UZPA9125. US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selectedfor Water Supply/Sanitation project preparation. (R) Water Supply, Sanitation,and Health:The project Ministryof Health, 12 Navoi St., Tashkent, Uzbekistan, will assist in the rehabilitationand developmentof water Tel: (7-371)411-813, Fax: (7-371)241-1641 supplyand sanitation in the populatedareas most affected Uzbekistan by the Aral Sea environmentalcrisis, including improvementsin related institutionsand policies.Board Public Sector Management presentation is scheduled for 17 July 1997. Environmental Enterprnse AssessmentCategory B. PID: UZPA9121. Reform:This project will supportthe US$ 75.0 (IBRD). implementation Selectionof consultantsis underway. of an enterprisepolicy adjustmentprogram. Goskomprognostat,45 Board presentation A UzbekistanskayaSt.. Tashkent is scheduledfor mid-July 1997. 700066,Tel: (3-712) 391-091 EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 180.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministryof Finance,Tashkent 70007, Uzbekistan, Tel: (3712) 337-073,Fax: (3712)445-643 Uzbekistan Water Supply/Sanitation (N) TashkentSolid Waste: Theproject's overallobjectives are to: (a) return the existing municipalsolid waste management(MSWM) system collection and disposal systemto a satisfactorylevel of service;and (b) provide the technical,economic and institutiona!basis for its future operationand development.The specificobjectives are to: (a) ensure that adequatecollection infrastructure in the form of collectionbins and vehiclesexist to provide basic MSWMservices to the residential,commercial, institutional and industrialsectors; (b) improvethe accessibilityand sanitaryconditions at publicand residentialcollection points; (c) upgradeexisting landfillpractices and operations to improveefficiency, reduce environmental impact and rmitigateadjacent land use conflicts;(d) create environmentalevaluation and monitoringcapacity for existing MSWMdisposal facilities; (e) initiate actionsto ultimatelyplace the systemon a stable financial footingin termsof full cost recoveryand abilityto financeongoing operationsand equipmentreplacement; (f) upgrade institutionalcapacity to managethe system as an independent,self-financing utility permitting privatization in the mediumterm; (g) investigateviability of high impact wasterecovery and recycleoptions; and (h) developa strategicplan for the system's futuredevelopment, includingidentification of majorcapital facility requirementsand businessstructure options for the system's financingand operation.Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US $40 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Homimiyatof Tashkent,Public Service Bd., 11 MovaroumahrSt. Tashkent700000, Tel: (3712) 33-18-14, Fax: (3-712)47-94-95, Contact: Gafur D. Rustannov, DeputyDirector

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Argentina project will support expansion and diversification of the National System of Protected Areas to include several of the Agriculture country's most globally significant but inadequately (R) Provincial Agriculture Development (Ln. 4150-AR): protected eco-regions and create the conditions for their The project will strengthen provincial capacity in sustainable management through investments in agricultural sector planning, investment appraisal, and institutional strengthening, refined mechanisms of evaluation. Key components would be (a) institutional consultation and participation and improved biodiversity way. development, (b) technical assistance, (c) complementary information management. Project preparation is under financing for small-scale rural infrastructure, and (d) Environmental Assessment Category B. strengthening provincial support services. Approved by the US$ 10.1 (GEF). Consulting services to be determined. Executive Directors on 22 April 1997. Environmental Secretariat of Natural Resources and Sustainable Assessment Category A. PID: ARPOA60O10. Development, San Martin 459, Buenos Aires 1004, US$ 125.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Argentina, Tel: (54-1) 348-8285, Fax: (54-1) 348-8355 Secretariat of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, Ave. Paseo Colon 962, ler Piso, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-1) Argentina 362-5091, 5946, 2365, 8944, Fax: (54-1) 362-1581 Environment Argentina Pollution Management: The project includes three pilot capacity and Agriculture sub projects which will strengthen institutional Agriculture finance investments to address pollution priorities. The (R) Small Farm Development: The project will strengthen project will apply integrated pollution management small farmers' organizational capacity and finance techniques in selected municipalities and provinces. Project participatory community productive investments. Japanese preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment grant approved for project preparation. Appraisal report is Category B. A GEF associated project on Coastal being prepared. Environmental Assessment Category B. Contamination has been identified. PID: ARPA6041. US$ 18.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be requiredfor Secretarfa de Recursos Naturales y Desarrollo Sustentable, (54- training and studies during project implementation. San Martin 459, Piso 1, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Food, 1) 348-8306, Fax: (54-1) 348-8312 Ave. Paseo Colon 922, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-1) 362-9933, 362-4530, Fax: (54-1) 362-1845; Federal Argentina Investment Council Environment Argentina World Bank-GEF Patagonia Coastal Contamination Control and Prevention Project: The main objective of the of the Environment GEF project is to ensure the sustainable management (R) Native Forests and Protected Areas (Ln. 4085-AR): Patagonia coastal zone through the prevention and of The project will strengthen the policy, institutional, and mitigation of coastal pollution and the sustainable use regulatory framework affecting native forests and protected fisheries and marine resources. The GEF project will areas: areas. It will also carry out research and generate finance technical assistance and investments in three information, as well as invest in national parks. Approved (a) plans, institutional strengthening, equipment and by the Executive Directors on 5 September 1996. Loan facilities to abate and prevent land-based and water-based signed on 17 April 1997. Environmental Assessment contamination; (b) the development of an integrated and Category B. PID: ARPA06040. fisheries management program to prevent over-fishing resources, US$ 19.5 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. protect the long-term, harvest capacity of marine Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Desarrollo Sustentable focusing on regulatory enforcement and policy reforms (SRNyDS) y Administraci6n de Parques Nacionales (APN), particularly vis-a-vis private operators, in order to San Martin 459, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-1) 348- rationalize econormicincentives and promote sustainable 8484, Fax: (54-1) 348-8486 mechanisms for cost recovery; and (c) the implementation of an electronic marine information infrastructure system, Argentina where justified as a cost-effective measure to implement the Environment policy reforms related to fisheries management and coastal Biodiversity Conservation: The objective of the project is contamination (e.g., by reducing coastal shipping accidents to conserve biodiversity of global importance. As such, the involving oil contaminants). Project preparation is under 73 June 1997 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion_ way with supportfrom a GEF Grant. Environmental strengthenhealth institutionsso as to facilitate CategoryB. decentralizationof health servicesat the municipal US$ 5.0 (GEF).Consulting and Serviceswill be requiredfor provinciallevels. Approved by the Executive projectpreparation. Directorson 15 May 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: Secretarfade RecursosNaturales y DesarrolloSustentable ARPE6059. (SRNyDS),San Martfn459 - Primer Piso, 1004Buenos US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultant services will be soughtfor Aires,Argentina, Tel: (54-1) 811-7835Fax: (54-1)348- developmentof managementtools, diagnosisof 8312, Contact:Dra. Mabel Behal and Lic. Ana Corbi managementand serviceneeds, developmentof managementtraining programs,and assessmentof training Argentina needs. Infrastructure Ministry of Health and Social Welfare,Buenos Aires, (R)Flood Protection:The projectwill implementa flood- Argentina,Tel: (54-1) 383-3166,Fax: (54-1) 382-9366 protectionprogram in provincesthat are threatenedby Argentina flooding from the Parana, Paraguay and Uruguay Rivers.! Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 11 December1996. Public Sector Management Loan was signedon 17April 1997. Environmental (R) NationalPension Administration Technical AssessmentCategory A. PID: ARPA06052.Cofinancing of Assistance(Ln. 4131-AR): The project will strengthen US$ 120.0million is expected the from J-EXIM. NationalSocial Security Administrationto administer US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consultant the servicesfor preparationhave nationalpension system in an efficient and sustainable been retainedunder Japanese grant financing. matter.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors Ministryof Interior, on 21 January HipolitoYrigoyen #340, Oficina 5076, 1997. Loan was signed on 17April 1997. BuenosAires, Environmental Argentina,Tel: (54-1) 342-1030,Fax: (54-1) AssessmentCategory C. PID: ARPA46821. 342-7395 US$ 20.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Argentina National SocialSecurity Administration,Ave. Leandro Alem 650, 8 piso, BuenosAires, Tel: (54-1) 315-0340,Fax: Population,Health and Nutrition (54-1) 313-6194 (R) AIDSPrevention and SexuallyTransmitted Disease Argentina (STD)Control: The projectwill: (a) reducethe rate of growthof the incidenceof HIV infection;and (b) irnprove Public Sector Management the qualityand efficiencyof care provided to AIDS patients. (R) SecondProvincial Reform: The loan will supportthe The projectwill financemostly HIV/AIDS and STD-related structuraladjustment program of four Argentineprovinces. health promotionand disease prevention activitiesin the The reform programwill focus on fiscal adjustment,civil FederalCapital and in the Provincesof BuenosAires, service reform,tax administrationand reforms Cordobaand Santa Fe. The in education project will also strengthen and health to improveefficiency in servicedelivery existingdiagnostic, treatment, within counselingand care services; budgetaryconstraints. Negotiations were tentatively and will supportHIV and STD related researchand scheduledfor early June 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment development. Board presentation was scheduled for late Category C. May 1997.Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: US$ 260.0 (IBRD).Consultants ARPA43418. will be required. Ministryof Economy,Hipolito Yrigoyen 250, 1310Buenos US$15.0(IBRD). Consulting services will be requiredfor Aires, Argentina,Tel: (54-1) 349-5760,Fax: (54-1) 349- projectimplementation. 5763 Ministryof Healthand SocialAction, Ave. 9 de Julio 1925 (1332),Capital Federal BuenosAires, Argentina,Tel: (54- Argentina 1) 381-8911/49 SocialSector Argentina (R) EmploymentSupport: The project will provide Population,Health temporaryfinancial assistance to poor workers through and Nutrition expandedfinancing for TRABAJAR,an ongoing (R) Maternaland ChildHealth and NutritionIJ (Ln. employmentprogram managed by the Ministry of Labor. 4164-AR):The project has three main objectives: (a) to Subprojectsunder TRABAJAR will be proposedmainly by strengthenmaternal and child health services;(b) to municipalitiesand privateorganizations, and will be improvethe managementof public health institutions evaluatedaccording to specifiedcriteria. Theseprojects will involved in the delivery of these services; and (c) to be small, quickly implemenited, labor-intensive investments 74 June 1997 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion in the areas of economicand social infrastructure. Argentina Negotiations completed. Board presentation is scheduled for 19 June 1997.Environmental Assessment Category B. Water Supply/Sanitation Reform:The project will (a) support the PID:ARPA49268. (R) Water Sector of the governmentto transfer water and US$ 200.0 (IBRD). reform strategy operationsto the private sector; and (b) Consultingservices to be determined. sanitationsector regulatoryfunction of the government. Ministryof Laborand Social Security,Ave. LeandroN. will strengthenthe under way.Environmental Assessment Alem 650, 1001 Capital Federal, Buenos Aires,Argentina; Projectpreparation Tel: (54-1)311-0719, Fax: (54-1)312-7860 CategoryB. US$ 180.0(IBRD). Consulting services will be requiredfor Argentina project implementation. Hidricasy Saneamiento Transport Ente Nacionalde Obras 4163-AR):The (ENOHSA),Tel: (54-1) 349-7701,Fax: (54-1)349- (R) Buenos AiresUrban Transport (Ln. 7701/7703,Contact: Dr. Jorge Rais, Subsecratariode project will (a) develop an integratedurban transportsystem RecursosHidricos for the BuenosAires MetropolitanArea; (b) improvethe servicequality and coverageof mass transit; (c) help in Belize shapinga regulatoryand financialenvironment within transportinvestments and servicesare providedby Education/Training which The majorcomponents of this the private sector;and (d) contributeto the financial Secondary Education: to develop an institutionalframework for the obligationswhich the governmenthas assumedunder the project are (a) Resourcesthat will improveits capacity concessionagreements with the privatesector. A PPF Ministryof Human programs,as well as a new programth.;t advancein the amount of US$ 1.5 million has been to sustainexisting underHuman Resources Development approvedto finance the technicalassistance for project will be implemented the Ministry of Educationin developing preparation.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 15 I; (b) to support a secondaryschool reform programthat May 1997.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: and implementing accessto and the quality of education ARPA39584. would increase teacher trainingand modificationto the US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. through improved school curriculum, including a more relevant Ministry of Economy and Public Works and Services, secondary education curriculum; and (c) to assist the Public Works and Transport Secretariat, Hipolito Yrigoyen general technical in the design of appropriate policies and levels 250, Oficina 1201, 1310 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54- government support for continuity of key programs. Project 1) 349-7424, Fax: (54-1) 349-7418, Contact: Nora Turco of budget preparationis currentlyon hold pending implementationof financingmechanisms. Argentina revised educationsector EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Transport 8.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. lR) ProvincialRoads: (Ln. 4093-AR)The projectwill help US$ Belmopan,Belize, Tel: (501) 823- (R)Provincial Roads: (Ln. 4093-AR)The projectwill help Ministryof Education, strengthenprovincial government's road maintenance 342, Fax: (501) 231-762 planningand managementcapabilities, and finance provincialroad rehabilitationand periodicmaintenance Belize and, where appropriate,high-priority upgrading and new constructionprograms. Approved by the Executive SocialSector Fund (Ln. 4142-BEL):The project Directorson 12 September1996. Loan was signed on 17 (R) Social Investment in establishingan efficient, April 1997.Cofinancing of US$ 150.0million is expected will assist the government participatorymechanism for channeling fromJ-EXIM. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: demand-driven assistance,basic infrastructureand ARPA05980. resourcesto social activitiesthrough the financingof US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be requiredfor small-scaleproductive projectwill also finance institutional engineering,environmental assessments, work supervision, sub-projects.The SocialInvestment Fund, including technicalassistance, and training. supportfor the personnel,operating expenses, vehicles, equipment, and training.Approved by the Ministryof Interior, Programade SaneamientoFinanciero y technicalassistance on 18 March 1997.Loan was signed on DesarrolloEcon6mico de las ProvinciasArgentinas, ExecutiveDirectors EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: HipolitoYrigoyen 340, 5 piso oficina 5100, 1086Buenos 14 May 1997. Aires, Argentina,Tel: (54-1) 342-1030;331-884, Fax: (54- BZPA39292. US$ 7.0 (IBRD). Conslultingservices are tn longer nee(ded. 1) 342-7395 75 June 1997 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion

Social Investment Fund, 31/33 Tonca Ave., Belmopan, Ministry of Finance and Comptroller General, Ministerio de Belize, Fax: (501) 820279, Tel: (501) 820239 Hacienda, Palacio de Comunicaci6nes, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: Bolivia (591-2) 374-505, Fax: (591-2) 317-408 Agriculture Bolivia (R) Agricultural Research and Extension: The aim of the Public Sector Management project is to strengthen the agricultural knowledge system in (R) Bolivia Civil Service and Administrative Reform: order to increase the productivity of Bolivian agriculture by The project aims to create a modern civil service by generating and extending technologies that are upgrading salaries, downsizing through attrition and job economically and environmentally sustainable. Appraisal grading, and upgrading recruitment and training policies. mission is scheduledfor July 1997. Environmental Board presentation is tentatively scheduledfor early July Assessment Category C. 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consulting services are no longer needed. BOPA06207. Implementing agency is to be determined. US$ 18.7 (IDA). Consulting services are no longer needed. Bolivia Ministry of Finance and Econormic Development, Calle Bolivar No. 688, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 32-5336, Education/Training Fax: (591-2) 39-2008 (R) Primary Education: The project will support a plan to Bolivia rationalize and expand infrastructure at the primary level in peri-urban and rural areas. Where necessary, existing Transport schools will be remodeled and expanded in areas (R) Road Maintenance m: The project will support the undergoing rapid population growth. Equipment to be maintenance and rehabilitation plans of Servicio Nacional provided: blackboards, furniture, and lighting. The project de Caminos for 1999-2003. Specific objectives are to reduce will also: (a) complement ongoing efforts to improve quality vehicle operating costs, improve access to markets and and equity; (b) develop a pilot project to expand girls strengthen the road institutions. This project has been participation in primary and secondary education; and (c) reinstated in the current lending program. Identification reinforce decentralization of the educational system.. mission is scheduledfor June 1998. Environmental Appraisal mission is scheduledfor 28 July 1997. Assessment Category to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$50.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be requiredfor Servicio Nacional de Caminos, Edificio Palacio de project implementation. Comunicaci6nes, Piso 9, Ave. Mariscal Santa Cruz, Casila National Secretariat of Education and Social Investment 1485, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel.: (591-2) 351-746, Fax: (591-2) Fund, Ave. Arce, No. 2408, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 391-764 371-311, Fax: (591-2) 378-756 Bolivia Bolivia Urban Development Finance (R) Municipal Sector II: The project will provide (R) Public Finance Decentralization and Accounting: financing for investments in municipal services as well as The project will finance implementation of financial technical assistance to improve the institutional capacity of management systems (budget, treasury, cash management, local governments and FNDR. This project has been debt and accounting) in the newly decentralized sector reinstated in the current lending program. Project institutions. The project will also fund the institutional preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment strengthening of the comptroller general's office. Category C. Negotiations were tentatively scheduled for mid-June 1997. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: BOPE401 10. FNDR, Edificio FONCOMIN, Piso 8, Ave. 20 de Octubre US$ 13.5 (IDA). Consultants will be - required in the areas of no. 2038, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 315-311, Fax: (591- integrated financial management systems under an 2) 392-123, Contact. Ing. Oscar Arrien Sandoval information technology and telecommunications platform. Brazil Audit oversight and regulatory expertise will also be A required. Agriculture (R) Land ReformPilots (Ln. 4147-BR):The projectwill follow-upon the Northeastregion land tenure improvement 76 June 997 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion resourcedevelopment, research capacity project and expansionto other regions.Approved by the projects in human F in specific areas and institutional reform. The Executive Directors on 22 April 1997. Environmental strengthening seeks to improvethe managementof Brazil's AssessmentCategory B. projectalso technologysector and the policyenvironment US$ 90.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be deterrnined. scienceand innovationin the private sector.Appraisal Ministerio Extraordinario de Politica Fundiaria, Setor for technological EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Bancario Norte, Palacio do Desenvolvimento,18 andar, mission in thefield. Consultingservices to be determined. 70.057-900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 321-7201, US$ 150.0 (IBRD). and Technology,Esplanada dos 225-3849, Contact: Dr. Marcos Correia Lins, Head of Ministryof Science Bloco E, Sala 316, 70067-900Brasilia DF, Tel: SpecialAdvisory Unit to the Ministerof Land Policy Ministerios (55-61) 226-5949,Fax:(55-61) 317-7881, Contact: Mr. Luis Brazil A. Barreto de Castro Agriculture Brazil AgriculturalTechnology Development: The project will support further decentralizationof the Brazilianagricultural Environment Power: The projectwill includecommercial researchsystem to states and universitiesand will increase BiomassPilot technologyfor generationof electricity, private sectorparticipation. It will support the development scale demonstration gasificationof woodchips or sugar cane of applied and adaptiveresearch in the areas of natural basedon the feasibilityis well advancedunder resourcemanagement, small-farmer agriculture, bagasse.Project technicalassistance funding. Appraisal mission biotechnologyand other areas.Board presentationwas GEF/UNDP for June 1997.Environmental Assessment scheduledfor 22 May 1997.Environmental Assessment was scheduled PID: BRPA37048. CategoryC. CategoryB. US$ 23.0 (GEF). Consultingservices to US$ 60.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. US$ 22.0 (IBRD); BrazilianEnterprise for AgriculturalResearch be determined. of Science and Technology; Companhia Hidro (EMBRAPA), SAIN - Parque Rural - W3 Norte - Final Ministry Sao Francisco(CHESF), Divisao de Projetode Caixa Postal 040315 - CEP 70770-901,Brasilia, DF, Tel: Electricado (FEFA),Rua DelmiroGouveia, 333, (55-61) 274-5000 FontesAlternatives B. Sala 3, 50761-901,Bonji, Recife, PE Fax: (55-61) 272-4656,Contact: Mr. Francisco Anexso 1,Bloco 251-0011/228-2605, Fax: (55-81) 251-2785, Reifschneider,Head of InternationalCooperation Tel: (55-81) Contact:Mr. Eduardo Carpentieri,Manager Brazil Agriculture Brazil Health and Nutrition CearaWater ResourceManagement: The projectwill Population, Health Sector Project(PROSUS): The support the implementationof the State of Ceara's (R) MinasGerais (a) increasecoverage, equity, quality and IntegratedWater ResourceManagement Plan. The project projectwould: through strengtheningof inter-municipal will includethe developmentof the institutionalframework, client satisfaction of a health family programand the managementmethodologies and the infrastructureto consortia,creation of emergencycare programs,and (b) improve achievethe integratedmanagement of the state's water strengthening System(SUS). This projectis no longer resourcebasins and to improvethe efficiencyof use and the UnifiedHealth current lending program; further reporting will be stabilize the water supply. Project preparation is currently in the on hold pending the preparationof a pilot project. discontinued. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 150.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be detennined. Brazil Management Unidadde Preparacaodo Proagua,Secretarfa de Recursos Public Sector Hidricos,SGAN, Quadra 601, Lote 1, Ed. Sededa Bank TechnicalAssistance: The project will CODEVASF,4 andar, BrasiliaDF 70068-900,Tel: (55-61) (R) Central assist in strengtheningbanking supervision and 224-7020 enforcement,disposition of residual assets and institutional strengtheningof the Central Bank. Negotiationswere Brazil tentatively scheduledfor late May 1997. Environmental Category:C. Education/Training Assessment Consultingservices to be determined. (R) Science and TechnologyIII: The project will followup US$ 25.0 (IBRD). of Brazil, SBS,Quadra 3, Bloco B, 70074- the ScienceResearch and Training Project,whose main CentralBank Brazil, Tel: (S5-61)414-3405, Fax: (55- objectiveis to consolidateLhe gains made underearlier 900, Brasilia-DF, 77 June 1997 Latin America and the Caribbean Region

61) 226-3098, Contact: Ms. Celina Arraes, Head of US$200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for Department technical assistance in the water, sewerage, gas, and pension Brazil sectors. Terms of reference have been developed. Secretaria de Estado do Planejamento e Coordenacao Geral Public Sector Management (SEPLAN-MG), Rua da Balma 1600-lOo Andar, (30160- 907) Belo Horizonte, (R) Mato Grosso State Reform: The project will Minas Gerais, Tel: (55-31) 273-5733 support Fax: (55-31) 339-3109 : reforms of the state's fiscal accounts. Negotiations are under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Brazil BRPE48870. US$40.0 (IBRD). The project will include studies on utility Social Sector regulation, plus the concessioning of water and sanitation. (R) Natural Resources Management and Rural Poverty Other studies will encompass the privatization of the state Alleviation (RGS) (formerly Rio Grande do Sul Land power company and banks. Consulting services will be Management) (Ln. 4148-BR): The project will focus on required. alleviating rural poverty and promoting natural resource Secretarfa de Estado de Planejamento e Coordena9ao Geral, management in Rio Grande do Sul. Approved by the Palacio Paraguas, Bloco de SEPLAN, Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, Executive Directors on 22 April 1997. Environmental 78050-970, Tel: 65644-2160, Fax: 65644-2248, Contact: Assessment Category B. Mr. Edison Garcia. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determiined. Brazil Secretariat of Agriculture. Ave. Borges de Medeiros 1501, 20 andar, Port Alegre 90068, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Public Sector Management Tel./Fax: (55-51) 211-3198, Contact: Jose Luis Atambuja, Project Coordinator (Pro-Rural 2000) (R) Rio de Janeiro State Privatization: The project will P support reform of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Board Brazil presentation was tentatively scheduledfor 12 June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: BRPA39197. Social Sector US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. (R) Pernambuco Rural Poverty Alleviation (Ln. 4122- Secretariat of Planning, Guanabara Palace, Rio de Janeiro, BR): The project will assist the State of Pernambuco in Brazil, Tel: (55-21) 553-5836, 522-5044, (55-21) 552-9141 alleviating rural poverty and its consequences by financin - small-scale investments, selected Brazil and subsequently operated and maintained by the beneficiaries. Approved by the Public Sector Management Executive Directors on 12 December 1996. Loan signing lp(R)Rio Grande do was tentatively scheduledfor 15 June 1997. Environmental Sul State Reform (Ln. 4139-BR): The Assessment Category to be determined. PID: BRPA42566. loan will support sector adjustment reforms for the State of US$ 39.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Rio Grande do Sul. Approved by the Executive Directors on Secretarfa de Planejamento, lMarch 1997. Loan Rua da Moeda, No. 46, Barrio signingis tentativelyscheduledfor de Recife, 50.030-040 Recife PE, Brazil, Tel: (55-81) late June 1997. Environmental 224- Assessment Category B. 4509, Fax: (55-81) 224-5263, Contact: Mr. Barbosa PID: BRPA39196 US$ 125.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Brazil Secretarfa de Estado de Coordena,ao e Planejamento, Ave. Borges de Medeiros 1501, 5 andar, 90068 Porto Alegre, Rio Social Sector Grande so Sul, Brazil (R) Piaui Rural Poverty Alleviation (Ln. 4121-BR): The project will assist the State of Piaui in alleviating Brazil rural poverty by financing small-scale investments selected and Public Sector Management subsequently maintained by the beneficiaries. Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on Minas Gerais State Privatization: The project will support the Execu tive scheember12December 1996neLo971996. Loan the reform of the states' fiscal and financialaccounts and signing was tentatively scheduled for 15 June 1997. itirfronal devlopenstates'.fiscaNeianfinancl w ntsativey Environmental institutional development. Assessment Category B. PID: BRPA43871. Negotiations were tentatively US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be scheduled for late May 1997. determined. Environmental Assessment Secretarfa de Planejamento (SEPLAN), Ave. Miguel Rose, Category C. 3190 Sul, 64.026-300, Teresina, Piaui, Brazil, Tel: (55-86) 222-4052

78 1997 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion June Brazil Brazil, Telex 1356, Tel: (55-61)224-8073, Fax: (55-61) I 223-2925 SocialSector (R) Rio Grandedo NorteRural PovertyAlleviation (Ln. Brazil 4120-BR):The projectwill assist the State of Rio in Transport alleviatingrural povertyfinancing small-scale investments, TRansport selectedand subsequentlyoperated and maintainedby the (R) Rio de JaneiroMass Transit: The project will finance beneficiaries.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 12 rehabilitationof infrastructureand equipmentand assist in commission. December1996. Loan signingwas tentativelyscheduledfor settingup a regionaltransport coordination 30 May 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be The commissionwill introducepredictable financing determined.PID: BRPA38896. mechanismsand prepare bids for concession/saleof main US$24.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined, urban transportagencies to the private sector.Appraisal Secretarfade Trabahoe Acao Social,Centro report is beingprepared. Environmental Assessment Administrativo,Lagoa Nova - BR1O1,Km. 0, 059050 CategoryB. PID: BRPA43421. Natal, RN, Brazil, Tel: (55-81) 271-2111,Contact: Tulio US$ 186.5 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Barbosa FLUMITRENS,Pca. CristianoOttoni s/n, EdificioDom Pedro II, Sala 445, 20.221-250Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, Tel: Brazil (55-21)233-8594, Fax: (55-21) 253-3089 SocialSector Brazil Rural Povertyand NaturalResources Management Transport (Parana)(Ln. 4060-BR): The projectwill focus on alleviatingrural povertyand promoting naturalresource (R) SaoPaulo IntegratedUrban Transport:Project will managementin the State of Parana.Approved by the integratethe rail-basedtransportation modes in the Sao ExecutiveDirectors on 27 June 1996.Date of loan signing Paulo Metropolitanregion and the Sao Paulo Municipalbus is pendinggovernment approval. Environmental systemso as to reducethe numberof buses on the streets, AssessmentCategory to be determined. reducetravel times, and improvethe environment. US$ 175.0(IBRD). Consultants will be requiredto provide Negotiationsare currentlyon hold at the request of the technical assistanceto beneficiariesand institutions, government.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: conduct studiesand evaluationsand implementadaptive BRPA06559.Cofinancing of US$ 435.0 million will be research and trainingprograms. required. Secretariade Agriculturae Abastecimiento(SEAB) , Rua US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. dos Funcionarios1559 - Cabral, Curitiba,Parana, Brazil - Transport Secretariatof Sao Paulo, Rua ButantaNo. 285, 5° CEP 80035-050,Tel: (55-41)252-1712/352-1010, Fax: (55- Andar, CEP 05424Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tel: (55- 41) 252-8711,Contacts: Dr. HermasBrandao, Secretarfo de 11) 815-0255(Ext. 265), Fax: (55-11) 212-4478 Estado; Dr. HumbertoMalucelli Neto, Project Coordinator Brazil (Tel: 55-41-352-1640);Dr. OsmarZardo, Project Admninistrator Transport (R) State HighwayManagement - Rio Grandedo Sul Brazil (Ln. 4165-BR):The rehabilitationand maintenanceof the road Transport state highway networkand strengtheningof state and (R) FederalHighway Decentralization: The projectwill maintenancecapacities will be supported.Approved by the support decentralizationof highwayadministration and ExecutiveDirectors on 15 May 1997. Environmental private sectorinvolvement in highway construction, AssessmentCategory B. operation,and maintenance,as well as help finance federal US$ 70.0 (IBRD).Consu;tants will be requiredfor highwayrehabilitation and maintenanceprograms. engineering,construction supervision, and technical Negotiations are under way. Environmental Assessment assistance. CategoryB. PID: BRPA6532.Cofinancing of US$ 500.0 is DepartamentoAutonomo de Estradasde Rodagem,Ave. expectedfrom IDB. Borgesde Medeiros,1555, Porto Alegre, RS, CEP 90.060 US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor Brazil, Tclex:51-1185, Tel: (55-51) 226-8086,Fax: (55-51) Pinto, engineering and work supervision, concessions, institutional 228-8094, Conitact:Mr. LtuizFernando de Lavra strengthening,and projectmanagement. CoordenadorPMU, DAER/RS DepartamentoNacional de Estradasde Rodagem(DNER), EdificioNucleo de Transportes,San Q3, Lote A, Brasilia, 79 June 1997 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion [ Brazil West Regions;(b) assist these utilitiesto improvetheir operationaland managerialefficiency; (c) assist states and Urban Development municipalitiesto study and implementinstitutional and (R) Bahia MunicipalDevelopment (Ln. 4140-BR):The regulatoryreforms of their watersector, includingprivate project will strengthenmunicipal management and regional sectorparticipation. Appraisal mission in thefield. cooperationand invest in key basic infrastructurein the Cofinancingof US$ 105.0million is expectedfrom OECF. municipalitiesof the state. Approvedby the Executive EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: BRPA43420. Directorson 4 March 1997.Loan was signed on 28 April US$ 150.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. 1997.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Secretaryof UrbanPolicy, SectorBancario Sul, Ed. BRPA06562. BNDES,4 andar,Brasilia, DF CEP70076-900,Tel: (55-61) US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consulting services will be required. 322-7170,Fax: (55-61) 322-7223 Companfade Desenvolvimentoe Acao Regional,Ave. Luiz Viana Filho, 250, ConjuntoSEPLANTEC, 41.745-000, Brazil Salvador,Brazil, Tel: (55-71) 371-0589,Fax: (55-71) 371- WaterSupply/Sanitation FederalWater Management:The main focus of the Brazil projectis to developthe institutionaland legal frameworkto promotethe integratedmanagement of water resourcesin WaterSupply/Sanitation the semi-aridzone in the northeast.The investment (R) Bahia Water Resources:The project includes(a) componentwill finance the completionand/or rehabilitation developmentof a statemaster-plan for integratedwater of water infrastructure.Project preparation is under way. resourcesmanagement; (b) institutionalstrengthening; (c) EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. revisionof the legal and regulatoryframework for water US$ 160.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. resourcesmanagement; (d) a hydrologicmonitoring and Unidadede Prepara,ao de PROAGUA,Secretarfa de databasesystem; (e) implementationof the State's RecursosHidricos, SGAN - Quadra601, Lote 1. Ed. Sede constructionof flowregulating structures; and (f) river da CODEVASF4 andar, BrasiliaDF 70068-900,Brazil, perenization. Appraisal mission was scheduledfor late May Tel: (55-61) 224-7020 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. Brazil US$ 55.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Water Supply/Sanitation Implementingagency is to be determnined. ProsanearII: The projectwill extendlow-cost, simplified Brazil technologywater and seweragesystems to low-income populationin peripheral urbanareas, extendingthe pilot Water Supply/Sanitation ProsanearI to a larger nationalprogram. Project (R) Ceara Water ResourcesPilot: The project will preparationunder way. EnvironmentalAssessment providethe State of Ceara with the basic framneworkand Categoryto be determined. experienceto effectivelyimplement the State's Water US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consulting services will be required. ResourceMaster Plan to alleviateits vulnerabilityto SEPURB/CEFEsplanada dos MinisteriosBloco A - Sala drought.This is a pilot projectto test a conceptfor fast- 305, Tel: (55-61) 315-1770,Fax: (55-61) 322-2024, track lendingfor the preparationof a major projectto test Contact:Dilma Seli Pena Pereira, Directorade Saneamiento and evaluatekey concepts,methodologies and institutional relationships.Board presentation was scheduledfor 12 CaribbeanRegion June 1997.Environmental Assessment Category B. Public SectorManagement US$ 12.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. PRi Seconom ent Secretariatof Water Resources,State of Ceara,Rua Antonio (R) OECS Economic Diversification:The project will Augusto555, Fortaleza,Ceara, Brazil CEP 60.110-370, assist governmentsin encouragingand supportingprivate Tel: (55-85) 231-9420 sectorfirms competitivenessand/or entry into new product areas and markets. Appraisal mission is scheduledfor late Brazil June 1997. PID: LIPA35730. EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryC. WaterSupply/Sanitation US$ 3.5 (IBRD);US$ 2.5 (IDA). Consultingservices are (R) WaterSector ModernizationII: The project will: (a) no longer needed. financewater and sewerageinvestments of utilitiesin poor Organizationof Eastern CaribbeanStates Secretariat,PO states or municipalitiesof the North, Northeastand Center- Box 179, The Morne,Castries, St. Lucia, Tel: (758) 452- 80 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion June 1997

2537,Fax: (758) 453-1628,Contact: Mr. Swinburne mission is scheduledfor late June 1997. Environmental Lestrade,Director General AssessmentCategory C. US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Caribbean Region Secretarfade Educaci6nde Antioquia,Calle 42-B, No. 52- Public Sector Management 106,Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia, Tel: (57-4) 381-1395, Fax: (57-4) 381-1180 CaribbeanRegion Disaster Reinsurance: The project will (a) financetechnical assistance for regulatoryreform and Colombia institutionaldevelopment in the areas of insuranceindustry regulation,building code enforcementand natural hazard Education/Training mappingand (b) providecontingent funding to ensure (R) Pasto EducationQuality Improvement:The projectwill liquidityof natural catastropheinsurance or reinsurance (a) establishschool networks to improvecommunication and funds to mitigatelosses and reduce the fiscal impactof shareof resourcesamong schools; (b) improveminimum levels reinsurancepremium fluctuations. Project preparation is ofquality of education setting, teach training and curriculum; underway. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. and (c)support management improvement efforts in the US$ 120.0 (IBRD/IDA).Technical assistance will be MunicipalSecretariat of Educationand in schools.Appraisal required in the areas of insurance regulatory reform, hazard mission is tentatively scheduledfor late June 1997. mitigationtechniques, and financial managementof EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. reinsurancepools. US$ 10.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. CaribbeanDevelopment Bank, PO Box 408, Wildey,St. Secretarfade Educaci6nde Pasto, Calle 19 Carrera25 Michael,Barbados, West Indies,Tel: (809) 431-1600 Esquina,Pasto, Narifio, Colombia, Tel: (57-27) 233-880, Caribbean Region 222-864,Fax: (57-27) 223-717 Water Supply/Sanitation Colombia OECSSewerage: The project will assist eligible OECS Education/Training memberstates in addressingkey deficienciesin the existing Child/YouthDevelopment: The project will strengthen wastewater sector.The project will also assist in the and consolidatethe government'shome-based child care establishmentof an appropriateinstitutional framework for programand fund selectedyouth developmentinitiatives. the systemand identifycost recoverymechanisms to Projectpreparation is under way.Environmental achievelong-term sustainability of the project.Project is AssessmentCategory to be determined. being identified.Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 55.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required in the areas US$ 12.5 (IBRD);US$ 7.5 (IDA).Consulting services to be of early childhoodand youthdevelopment. determined. ICBFand Vice Ministry of Youth;Ministry of Education Implementingagency is to be determined. Colombia Colombia Finance Agriculture (R) FinancialMarkets Development Technical LandReform: The project will support the restructuringof Assistance:The projectwill supportsector reformsto the land reform agencyand facilitatethe transferof land to improvethe structure,efficiency, and competitivenessof the the rural poor. Projectpreparation is under way. financialsystem and to remove existing constraintsto EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: COPA41642. capitalmarkets development.Negotiations are underway. US$ 80.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor social EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: COPA06884. assessmentof studieson farm size/efficiencyrelationships US$ 15.0(IBRD). Consulting services will be requiredfor and cost/benefit analysis. technical assistance. Ministryof Agricultureand ColombianLand Reform Ministryof Finance,Carrera 7-A, N. 6-45, 3rd Floor, Institute Bogota,Colombia, Tel: (57-1) 284-5400,Fax: (57-1)284- Colombia 5396 EducationlTraining Colombia (R) AntioquiaEducation: The project will support Power improvementof educationquality and strengthenthe (R) Power Sector Adjustment: The projectwill support managementcapacity in the educationsector. Appraisal powersector reform by promotingprivate sector 81 June 1997 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion participationin the distributionof electricity.The project Colombia will be a key componentof the comprehensivepower sector restructuringthat is beingput in place through institutional Transport reforrns. This project has been reinstated in the current El Vino-Tobiagrande-Pto. Salgar Toll Road: The project lenzdingprogram. Appraisal mission was scheduledfor June will financeconstruction of a 74 km. two-laneroad and 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. operationof a 560 km road corridor,under a private US$ 200.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. concessionagreement. Project preparation is under way. Implementingagency is to be determined. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: COPA39082. US$ 70.0 (IBRD)Consultants have been selected. Colombia InstitutoNacional de Vfas, CAN-Ave.,El Dorado. BogotA, PrivateSector Development Colombia (R) Technologyand SkillsDevelopment: The aim of the Colombia project is to upgradepublic technology policy and developmentinstitutional mechanisms to strengthen UrbanDevelopment technologyadaptation and skillsdevelopment by the private (R) MunicipalDevelopment II: Theproject will (a) sector. This project has been reinstated in the current consolidate and expand the municipalcredit market; (b) lending program. Appraisal mission is scheduled for strengthen the financial capacity of the municipalitiesthrough September1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. commercialborrowing; and (c) financetechnical assistance to US$45.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. help FINDETERaccelerate its decentralizationand Implementingagency is to be determined privatizationefforts. This project has been reinstatedin the current lendingprogram. Project preparation is wider way.I Colombia EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID:COPA6861. Private Sector Development US$ 75.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredin the areas of banking and municipalinstitutional development. PrivateSector Infrastructure Finance: The project will FINDETER,Calle 103 No. 21-20 Piso 6, Bogota,DC, (a) supportthe developmentof new instrumentsand FINDETER,Te 10 21-0 Piso 623-0270 marketsand (b) provide supportfor technicalassistance for Colombia,Tel: (57-1) 623-0262,Fax: (57-1) 623-0270 regulatoryreform. The projectwill also facilitate Colombia infrastructureproject finance.Appraisal mission was scheduledfor mid-June 1997.Environmental Assessment Water Supply/Sanitation CategoryC. PID: COPA35739. (R) CartagenaWater and Sewerage:The projectwill US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. financewater supply and wastewatertreatment works Ministryof Financeand PublicCredit, Carrera 7A, No. 6- including(a) rehabilitationof a deterioratedwater supply 45, Bogota,Colombia, Tel: (571-284) 5400, Fax: (571-284) system; (b) developmentof an additionalwater supply 5396 source; (c) expansionof seweragenetworks and main collectors;(d) constructionof municipalwaste water Colombia treatmentand disposalinstallations; and (e) technical RuralDevelopment assistanceand partialfunding of industrial wastewater treatment facilities. This project has been reinstated in the MagdalenaMedio: The projectwill supportdevelopment current lending program. Project preparation is under way. and peacein one of the most violent and poor areas of EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. Colombia.The project is beingdeveloped in a participatory US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. manner with the central and local governments,the state- Municipalityof Cartagenain Partnershipwith Aguasde ownedoil company,the private sector,the Catholicchurch, Barcelona,Manga 3ra, Ave. 21-62,Cartagena de India, NGOsand communityorganizations. The overall objective Colombia of the project is to improvethe well-beingof the population with priorityfor the poorest.It will focus on building up Costa Rica civil society,improving the region's productiveand social capital, and environmentalproblems. Project preparation is Environment under way.Environmental Assessment Category to be BiodiversityResource Development: The project will: (a) determined. supportthe developmentof a frameworkfor undertakinga US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. biodiversityinventory; (b) completean inventoryof four Implementingagency is to be determined. taxa; (c) develop human capacityin systematicbiology; (d) develop revenueand non-revenuegenerating activities 82 1997 Latin America and the Caribbean Region June related to the inventory; and (e) strengthen the institutional could be applied to private financing of the plant. PID: capacity at the National Biodiversity Institute. Submission DOPA07011. to to the GEF council took place in January 1997. Appraisal US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consultant services will be required mission is scheduled for late May 1997. Environmental assist CDE in the privatization of its distribution system. de Assessment Category B. Corporaci6n Dominica de Electricidad (CDE), Centro US$ 7.0 (GEF). Consulting services to be determined. los Heroes, Apartado Postal 142 J, Santo Domingo, 532-0123 National Biodiversity Institute, Apartado Postal 22-3100, Dominican Republic, Tlx: 346-4195, Fax: (809) Santo Domingo, Herediray, Costa Rica, Tel: (506) 244- 0690, Fax: (506) 236-2816 Ecuador DominicanRepublic Agriculture (R) Agricultural Census and Information System: The Population, Health and Nutrition project will improve the database for sector decision-making (R) Health Services and Financing: The project will assist and planning. This project has been reinstated in the the government in carrying out sector reforms to improve current lending program. Negotiations are scheduledfor B. health service coverage and effectiveness. It will strengthen mid-July 1997. Environmental Assessment Category the Health Secretariat's capacity to oversee health service US $16.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required. y delivery, improve health care financing arrangements, Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Pesca, Ely Alfaro Fax: develop institutional capacity to formulate health policy and Ave. Amazonas, Quito, Ecuador. Tel: (5932) 540-741, to regulate the sector and foster innovative arrangements for (5932) 546-080 delivering basic health services. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. A PHRD Ecuador grant was signed in September 1995. A PPF advance was Indutr approved in October 1996.PID: DOPA7015. Exportry to help US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for (R) Export Development: The project will seek (a) finalizing project preparation. accelerate investment in export capacity through trade Secretarfa de Estado de Salud Pdblica y Asistencia Social, expanding the public sector expertise to manage regulation Ave. Gustavo Mejia Ricart No. 141, Tercera Planta, Santo policy and administration and adjusting trade Domingo,Dominican Republic, Tel: (809) 547-2509,Fax: and practices;(b) supportingincreased export market (809) 565-2768 penetration; and (c) expanding export finance. This project has been reinstated in the current lending program. Dominican Republic Preappraisalmission is scheduledfor late June 1997. Power Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Power II: The project includes: (a) technical assistance to Implementing agency is to be determined. the government of the Dominican Republic and Corporaci6n Dominica de Electricidad (CDE) for the Ecuador incorporation of its generation and transmnissionfacilities, Population, Health and Nutrition for the privatization of CDEs distribution systems, three strengthening of the policy and regulatory institutions of the Health Sector Reform: The project will include and reform; (b) sector, and addressing the environmental problems caused components (a) institutional modernization and by existing power stations; (b) expansion of the strengthening hospital ambulatory care management; the financing of transmission system and professional services for the (c) upgrading of health facilities, including and management of the new transmission company and the rehabilitation and upgrading of selected hospitals of dispatch center; and (c) installation and operation of human resources development based on the establishment is under way. generating units totaling 250 MW, by independent power a demand-driven fund. Project preparation producers. The physical components are part of a least-cost Environmental Assessment Category C. generation and transmission expansion plan prepared by US$ 30.0 (IlRD). Consultants have been selected. Quito, CDEs consultants. This project will be reformulated in line Ministry of Health, Juan Larreta 444, 4 Citeca, 569-786 with the new government's reform and privatization Ecuador, Tel: (593-2) 529-016, Fax: (593-2) objectives. Re-appraisal of the project is tentatively scheduled for mid-August 1997. Final schedule is pending results of ongoing discussions with the government currently undergoing a power restructuring. Retroactive financing will most likely be included. A bank guarantee 83 June 1997 LatinAmerica and the CaribbeanRegion

Ecuador Ecuador PublicSector Management Water Supply/Sanitation (R) HydrocarbonTechnical Assistance: The projectwill (R) GuayaquilWater III: The project will support assistthe governmentin preparingand implementinga institutionalconsolidation of Empresa Cantonalde Agua y reformedlegal/regulatory framework, especially in regardto (a) Alcantarilladode Guayaqail(ECAPAG), rehabilitation of liberalizationof downstreamoperations; (b) strengtheningof critical waterand seweragenetworks, and extensionof the sectorinstitutions; and (c) corporatizationof PetroEcuador water networkto low incomeneighborhoods. This project group. Thisproject has been reinstated in the current lending has been reinstated in the current lending program. Project program. Preappraisal nission scheduledfor June 1997. is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category B. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. US$ 9.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required. Implementingagency is to be determined. ConsejoNacional de Modernizaciondel Estado (CONAM), Juan LeonMera y Ave. Patria,Quito, Ecuador,Tel. (593) El Salvador 222-8449,Fax: (593) 250-9437 Education/Training Ecuador SecondaryEducation: The project will supportthe government'seffort to improvethe qualityand coverageof RuralDevelopment secondaryeducation and further the institutionalreform (N) Ruraland Small City Water:The project will (a) process initiatedunder the Basic EducationModernization finance waterand sanitationprojects in about 55 small Project.Project preparation is under way. A PHRD Grant townsand 500 rural communities;(b) providecapacity was signed in October 1996. EnvironmentalAssessment buildingfor nationaland provincialgovernments to assist CategoryC. small townsand rural communities;and (c) provide US$ 60.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. technicalassistance for institutionalstrengthening of Ministryof Education,Intersection Calle Guadalupey beneficiarytowns and communities.Appraisal mission is AlamedaJuan PabloII, EdificioPlan Maestro,Nueva San scheduledfor March 1998.Environmental Assessment Salvador,El Salvador,Tel: (503) 281-0299,Fax: (503) 281- CategoryC. 0305 US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices will be required. El Salvador Ministeriode Vivienday DesarrolloUrbano (MIDUVI), SocialSector Toledo684 y Lerida,Ecuador, Tel: (593) 554-400,Fax: (593) 560-338,Contact: Sigifredo Aldaz SocialInvestment Fund for Local Development:The project will provide financialand technical assistanceto the Ecuador SocialInvestment Fund for Local Development(FIS), which will financesmall-scale community-based projects SocialSector for social and economicinfrastructure, strengthen local (R) IndigenousPeoples Development: This projectwould productivecapacity, and foster the creationof productive help indigenouscommunities to participateactively in, and employmentopportunities. Project identification is under ultimatelydefine independently, the developmentprocess of way.Environmental Assessment Category B. theircommunities. The projectwill also strengthen the US$ 60.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. capacityof indigenousgroups to prepare,submit and SocialInvestment Fund for Local Development(FIS), 55 implementsubprojects financed by the various national Ave. Sur, EdificioA, Centro Roosevelt,San Salvador,El funds that exist. Projectpreparation is under way. Salvador,Tel: (503) 298-1757,Fax: (503) 298-1754 EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 15.0(IBRD). No consultantsare required. Guatemala ConsejoPlanificaci6n de DesarrolloIndigeno, Casilla Agriculture Postal, 17-03-865,Tel: (593-2) 569-120,569-121, Fax: re iAgricult (593-2) 528-303,Contact: Ampan Karaknus,Director Land Administration:The project will (a) establish Ejecutivo cadastral informationand regularize land registry in priority areas; (b) strengthenthe public land registryand selectedmunicipalities; (c) strengthenbeneficiary groups to allow more informedparticipation in land regularization; and (d) establisha project managementunit to carry out the

84 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion June 1997 project and requiredstudies. Projectpreparation is under restructuring,staff developmentand improvedinformation way.Environmental Assessment Category B. technology.Project preparation is under way. US$ 35.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: GTPA48654. GeneralProperty Registry, 9A Ave. 14-25,Zona 1, Ciudad US$ 15.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. de Guatemala,Guatemala, Tel: (502) 253-9548,Fax: (502) Ministryof Finance,8a Ave. y 21 Calle ZI, Nivel 18, 232-6739 Edificiode FinanzasPuiblica, Guatemala. Tel: (502-2) 251- Guatemala 3782, Fax: (502-2) 230-2766 Guatemala Education/Training (R) Basic Education m (Ln 4167-GU): The project Public SectorManagement includesthree componentsto: (a) improvethe coverage, Public Sector Modernization Technical Assistance:Thc equity and efficiencyof primaryeducation in rural areas by project will providesupport in the detailed design and expandingthe "ProgramaNacional de Autogestionpara el implementationof the modernizationof core public DesarrolloEducativo-PRONADE,"; (b) strengthen administrationincluding: (a) reform of civil servicelaws educationquality by providingteacher trainingon issues and regulations,incentives and compensation,labor related to multi-gradeclasses, bilingual education and girls relations,training and sector institutions;(b) institutional education,and providingtextbooks, school librariesand restructuringof selectedpriority ministries;(c) design and pedagogicmaterials mainly to rural schools;and (c) executionof a social communicationcampaign to promote strengthenthe Ministryof Education's organizationand understandingand supportfor public sector reform managerialcapacity. Approved by the Executive Directors initiatives;and (d) oversightof broader public sector on 20 May 1997. A PHRD grant was signed in 1993 and reform. Projectpreparation is under way. Environmental has been extendeduntil December1996. Environmental AssessmentCategory C. AssessmentCategory C. PID: GTPA7223. US$ 10.0(IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. US$ 33.0 (IBRD).Consultant services will be required. Commissionfor the Modernizationof the Executive Ministryof Education,Palacio Nacional, Ciudad de Branch,Office of the Vice-Presidentof the Republicof Guatemala,Guatemala, Tel: (502-2) 251-7019,Fax: (502- Guatemala,Ciudad de Guatemala,Guatemala, Tel: (502) 2) 251-7018 253-9276,Fax: (505) 253-0801,Contact: Ms. Carolina Guatemala Roca, NationalDirector Private Sector Development Guatemala (R) Private Participation in Infras.ructure (formerly SocialSector Infrastructure Privatization Technical Assistance) (Ln. CommunityDevelopment for Peace: The project'soverall 4149-GU):The project will prepare privatizationstrategies objectivewill be to contributeto the reconstructionof the and assist, as appropriate,with the selling,concessioning social fabric and economicopportunities of poor and/or restructuringof enterprisesin the power,transport, communitiesin selectedmunicipalities located in telecommunicationsand postal sectors.Approved by the departmentsof the former conflict area (ZONAPAZ).The Executive Directors on 22 April 1997. Environmental projectwill finance:(a) social infrastructure(such as AssessmentCategory B. PID: GTPA48756. education,health, water and sanitation)and services, US$ 13.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be requiredto includingprotection of cultural heritageof indigenous carry out assessments,prepare documentsand advise peoples;(b) productiveprojects and servicesincluding clients. economicinfrastructure, microcredit, non-financial Oficina del ComisionadoPresidencial para la services;and (c) technicalassistance for capacitybuilding Modernizaci6ndel OrganismoEjecutivo y de la for communities,municipalities, and FONAPAZ.Project Administraci6nPublica (OCMEB),14 Calle 3-51, Zona 10, preparationhas startedwith support from a PHRD grant. Edificio MuranoCenter, Oficina 12-02,01010, Guatemala, EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Tel: (502) 366-5809,Fax: (502) 366-5830 US$ 25.0(IEBRD). Consulting services will be requiredfor projectpreparation. Guatemala FondoNacional para la Paz (FONAPAZ),5A Ave. 8-50, Public Sector Management Zona 9, GuatemalaC.A., 01009, Tel. (505-2) 362-6834, (R) Tax and CustomsAdministration Technical Fax. (505-2) 332-3394,Contact: Ing. Alvaro Colom, Assistance:The project will assist in the strengtheningof DirectorEjecutvo tax and customsadministration through organizational 85 June1997 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion

Guatemala developmentof urban and rural infrastructurefacilities and inter-urbanroads in the project area, and (c) strengthening of the institutional,managerial, financial, and technical SecondSocial Investment Fund: The project will continue to capabilitiesof the concernedtowns to operate and maintain provideassistance aimed at small-scalesocial and economic these facilitieseffectively. Project preparation is underway. infrastructure(schools, health centers, water supply and EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: GYPA35723. sanitationfacilities), as wellas at disadvantagedgroups and US$ 15.0(IDA). Consultantshave been selectedto prepare micro-entrepreneurs.In addition,the operationof the Fondode studies in the areas of urbantransportation, development. Inversi6nSocial would be furtherstrengthened. Project and environment. preparationis underway with supportfrom a PHRDgrant. Ministryof PublicWorks, Communications,and Regional EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Development,Fort St., Kingston,Georgetown, Guyana, Tel: US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be requiredfor (592-2) 59868,Fax: (592-2) 59865 projectpreparation. Fondode Inversi6nSocial, 1I Calle 1-23, Zona 9, Ciudad Haiti de Guatemala,Guatemala, Tel: (502-2) 326-663,Fax: (502- Agriculture 2) 326-736,E-mail: [email protected]@INTERNET, g Contact:Dr. RodolfoPaiz-Andrade, Presidente Ejecutivo SustainableIntensification of Agriculture:The objectives of the project are to (a) enhancethe capacityof public Guatemala agriculturalagencies and of the farmingcommunity for moreeffective decentralized rural development;(b) enhance Transport food securityby increasingand diversifyingfood supply; (c) (R) RuralRoads: Theproject will support (a) the long- reducerural povertyby raising the living standardsof poor term process of building up the country's institutional small farmers through improvement and restoration of the capacity to administer and maintain rural roads; (b) rural productive potential of their resource base; and (d) enhance road improvements in the ZONAPAZ region of the country; environmental quality by improving land and water and (c) continued improvements on the main and secondary management in a more sustainable way. Project preparation road networks. Project preparation is under way and is is under way. Environmental Assessment B. being supportedby a PHRDgrant. Environmental US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultingservices will be required. AssessmentCategory B. Ministryof Agriculture,Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Contact:Mr. US$ 50.0(IBRD). Consultant services will be requiredto Gerald Mathurin,Tel: (509) 223-599,Fax: (509) 225-221 strengthenthe government'scapacity to administerthe rural road systemand to prepare engineeringdesigns. Haiti Ministryof Communications,Transport and PublicWorks, StructuralAdjustment PalacioNacional, Zona I, Ciudadde Guatemala, Guatemala,Tel: (502-2) 81613,Fax: (502-2) 28033 (R) EconomicRecovery II: The project will supportpolicy reformsin the areas of public finances,public sectorreform, Guyana privatization,financial sectorreforms, and trade liberalization. Board presentation is tentatively scheduled Environment for 22 July 1997.Environmental Assessment Category C. NationalProtected Area System: The project will enable US$ 55.0 (IDA). Consultingservices will be required. the governmentto establisha nationalsystem of protected Ministryof Finance,Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Fax: (509) 231- areas whichwould conserveglobally important biodiversity 247 as an essentialstep toward the sustainablemanagement of the country's naturalresources, and the maintenanceof Honduras accessto internationalmarkets for these resources.Project Agriculture preparationis under way. EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryB. (R) RuralLand Management(Cr. 2940-HO):The project US$ 7.5 (GEF). Consultingservices to be determined. will provide institutionalstrengthening and investment Officeof the President support in the following areas: (a) land administration,and (b) natural resourcesmanagement, including forest Guyana management,research and extensionservices to upland farmers,and protected areas management.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 20 March 1997.Loan signingis SecondaryTowns InfrastructureDevelopment: The tentativelyscheduled for 20 June 1997. Environmental projectwill support(a) policy reform support;(b) AssessmentCategory B. PID: HNPA7398. 86 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion June 1997

US$ 34.0 (IDA).US$ 5.0 (GEF). Consulting services will US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Recruitment of consultantsfor project not be required. preparation is under way. Ministry of Natural Resources,Blvd. Miraflores S/N, Ministryof Agriculture,Hope Gardens, Kingston6, Apartado Postal 309, Tegucigalpa,Honduras, Tel: (504) 2- Jamaica,Tel: (809) 927-1731 619-3132,Fax: (504) 32-78-48 Honduras Industry Population,Health and Nutrition MicrobusinessDevelopment The project will focus on (a) HealthSector Reform: The objectivesof the projectare to (a) reducingbarriers to formalbusiness establishment; (b) improvethe institutionalcapacity and managementsystems of increasingprovision of technicaland managementskills needed the Ministryof Healthand the healthfund of the socialsecurity for successfulentrepreneurship; and (c) increasingaccess to system(IHSS); (b) increasethe qualityof servicedelivery; (c) financingfor microbusinesses. Project preparation is under strengthenthe financingmechanisms of the healthsector; and way.Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. (d) providesupport to institutionalizeexisting rural water US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consuiting services to be determined. supplyand nutritioninitiatives. Project is beingidentified. A Ministry of Industry,Investments and Commerce,PCJ PHRDGrant has beenapproved for project preparation. Building,2nd Fir., 36 TrafalgarRd., Kingston.Jamaica, EnvironmentalAssessment Category to bedetermnined. Tel: (809) 929-8990,Fax: (809) 929-1623 US$ 35.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. Ministry of Healthand IHSS, Contiguoal CorreoNacional, Jamaica Tegucigalpa,Honduras, Tel: (504) 228-518,Fax: (504) Infrastructure 384-141 (R)Parish Infrastructure: The projectwill concentrate on (a) Honduras supportinglocal government reforms, (b) institutionalreforms to improvethe capabilitiesof parishand localorganizations to Social Sector providebetter services, and (c)the restructuring,maintenance, (R) FourthSocial Investment Fund: The projectwill rehabilitation,and developmentof parishinfrastructure. continue to assist the government,through its Fondo Negotiationsnot yet completed.Environmental Assessment Hondurenode Inversi6nSocial (FHIS), with the Categoryto be determined.PID: JMPA35729. constructionand rehabilitationof high-priority,small-scale US$ 48.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been hired under a social and economicinfrastructure and social services, JapaneseGrant. aimed at the poorestcommunities and groups. It may also Ministryof Local Governmentand Works, 140 Maxfield include supportfor micro-creditand communitybanks. Ave., Kingston10, Jamaica,Tel: (809) 926-3110 Project is being identified. A PHRD grant has been approved for project preparation. Environmental Jamaica AssessmentCategory B. Power US$ 30.0 (IDA).Consulting services will be requiredfor project preparation. Power Sector Infrastructure:The project will supportthe Fondo Hondurenode Inversi6nSocial (FHIS),Edificio developmentof infrastructurefacilities and a greenfieldsite AHPROCAFE,Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tel: (504) 366-447, for locatingelectric generatingIndependent Power Plants Fax: (504) 366-254,Contact: Ir. ManuelZelaya, Ministro (IPPS)to be developedby the privatesector. A PHRDGrant has been signed and an environmentalimpact assessment Jamaica for the selectionof the site is expectedto begin shortly. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Agriculture US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required. (R) AgricultureSupport Services:The project aims to (a) Ministryof Public Utilitit;sand Transport, 1st Floor, PCJ reduce rural povertyby raising the living standardsof poor Building,36 Trafalgar Rd., Kingston10, Jamaica,Tel: hillside farmers and (b) to improvenatural resource (809) 929-9170/9,Fax: (809) 929-6616,Contact: managementthrough enhancement of agriculturalsupport PermanentSecretary services for small farmers,promotion of sustainablenatural resource managementtechniques, and institutional Jamaica strengtheningof the Ministry of Agricultureand or rural Public Sector Management communities. Appraisal mission is scheduledfor July 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: JMPA34615. (R) RegulatoryReform and PrivateInvestment Finance Facility:The project will provide further rationalizationof

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supportingthe restructuringof the power sector.Appraisal Nicaragua missionwas scheduledfor May 1997.Environmental P AssessmentCategory AssessmentB. Category ~~PublicSector Management! US$ 400.0 (IBRD).Consultants were hired and theirwork (R) EconomicManagement: The project consistsof three has been completed. components:(a) strengtheningthe government'scapacity to Comisi6nFederal de Electricidad,Rio Rodano 14, Col. formulateand manageeconomic policies with emphasison Cuauhtemoc,06598, M6xico, DF, Mexico,Tlx: 01775706 public expendituresand debt management;(b) establishing CFEMN,Tel: (52-5) 553-6400,Fax: (52-5) 553-6424 the institutionalframework for the developmentof rural financialmarkets with reducedgovernment direct Mexico participation;and (c) developingand implementinga set of Public SectorManagement policiesto strengthenthe country'scompetitiveness, in HoPublingSectanagemIH henproject will supportinstitutional particularto improvethe businessenvironment, promote HousingFinance III: The project will supportinstitutional private sectorprovision of infrastructureand increasethe developmentin the housing sector,and the expansionof productivityof the labor force.Project identification will be low-incomehousing finance.Project preparation is under initiatedshortly. A PHRDgrant has been approved way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. MXPA7640.A JapanesePHRD grant has been approved. US$ 10.0(IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. US$ 450.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Ministryof Finance,Frente a la AsambleaNacional, Ave. Fondode Operaci6ny Financiamiento(FOVI), Ejercito Bolivar, Managua,Nicaragua, Tel: (505-2) 227-061,Fax: NaFional180, Piso 11, ColoniaAnzures, 11590Mexico. (505-2) 222-934,Contact: Esteban Dugue Estrada,Minister DF, Mexico,Tel: (52-5) 255-3644 of Finance Mexico Nicaragua Transport Social Sector (R) FederalRoads Modernization: The project will (a) Third SocialInvestment Fund: The project will continue assist with increasingthe capacity and level of servicesof to assist the governmentmainly throughits Fondode the federalhighway network;(b) strengthenthe Secretarfa InversionSocial de Emergencia(FISE), with the de" Comunicacionesand selectedstate highway constructionand rehabilitationof high priority, small-scale organizations;and (c) furher supportimprovements on social and economic infrastructureand social services, road safety,vehicle weight control,and environmental impact mitigation.Board presentation is scheduledfor 19 preparationtargtin thewill poorestunies includestudies on anemployment gops.Poectissues and ,-June1997. PID:MXPA43 163. other social safety net programsin Nicaraguabesides the US$ 400.0 (IBRD).Consultant services will be required. FISE, to develop a strategicframework for IDA and other * Secretarfade Comunicaci6nesy Transportes,Ave. donor support.Project preparation is under way with Universitaria,Esquina Zola, Piso 9, Mexico DF, Mexico, supportfrom a PHRD grant. EnvironmentalAssessment Tel: (52-5)519-8805, Fax: (52-5)559-8708 CategoryB. Nicaragua US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consultantservices are required for project preparation. Environment Fondo de Inversi6nSocial de Emergencia(FISE), APDO, AtlanticBiodiversity Corridor: The project will support 849, Managua,Nicaragua, Tel: (505-2) 781-664/8,Fax: cornservationof biodiversityin the Atlanticcoastal area. The (505-2)781-664/8, Contact: Lic. Carlos Noguera,Director projectincludes (a) involvementof communitiesin Ejecutivo biodiversityconservation; (b) a biodiversityfund to finance Nicaragua subprojectsin protectedareas, sustainableuse of biodiversityand demarcationof indigenousterritories; and Water Supply/Sanitation (c) a monitoringand evaluationsystem for threats to (R) Water and Sanitation:The project will supportthe biodiversity. Project preparation is under way. rehabilitation and expansion of water supply and sanitation Environmental Assessment Category B. services in Managua particularly in low-income areas, and US$ 7.0 (GEF). Consultants will be required. the strengthening of the water supply company (INAA). Ministeriodel Ambientey RecursosNaturales Projectpreparation is under way with supportfrom a PHRD grant. EnvironmentalAss. ssmentCategory B. PID: NIPA31846. US$ 20.0 (IDA). Conisultants will be required. 90 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion June 1997

InstitutoNacional de Aguasy Alcantarillados(INAA), Km. for 17 June 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. 5 1/2 CarreteraSur, Contiguoal HospitalPsiquiatrico. PID: PAPA7837. Managua,Nicaragua, Tlx: (505) 302-2144,Tel: (505-2)66- US$ 28.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor 7869, Fax: (505-2) 66-7872 institutionalstrengthening during implementation. Fondode EmergencfaSocial, Apartado. 87-1479, Panam. Panama City, Panama,Tel: (507) 264-5566,Fax: (507) 264-5882, Agriculture Contact:Lic. GerardoSolis, Director Ejecutivo (R) RuralPoverty and NaturalResources (Ln. 4158- Paraguay PAN):The objectivesof the project are to combatpoverty in depressedrural areas,reduce resource deterioration Environment resultingfrom migrationof poorrural populationsfrom SustainableRural Investment: The project will support central provincesto agriculturalfrontier areas and to small agro-industryinvestments targeted to rural poor strengthenthe country'sprotected area system.Approved by communitieswithin the frameworkof sound natural the ExecutiveDirectors on 8 May 1997.Environmental resourcesmanagement practices. Project preparation is AssessmentCategory B. PID: PAPA7847. under way.Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 22.5 (IBRD).Consultants have been selectedfor US$ 20.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selected. projectpreparation. Ministeriode Agriculturay Ganaderfa,Pts. Franco entre Ministeriode DesarolloAgropecuario, Curundu, Area O'Leary y Ayolas- EdificioAyfra, Asunci6n, Paraguay, Tel: Revertida,Edificio No. 576, PanamaCity, Panama,Tel: (595-21)449-614, Fax: (595-21)449-951 (507) 325-041,Fax: (507) 325-044;Instituto de Recursos NaturalesRenovables (INRENARE), Apartado 2016, Altos Paraguay de Curundu,Ciudad de Panama,Panama, Tel: (507) 232- WaeSupyantio Fax: (507) 231 6612 Water Supply/Sanitation 6601/6643, (R) Rural Sanitation:The projectwill assist in the Panama expansionof water and sanitationservices to rural communities.Appraisal mission is tentativelyscheduled for Population, Health and Nutrition June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. Health Modernization:The project wouldsupport the Cofinancingof US$ 30.0 million is expectedfrom OECF. governmentin pilotingnew forns of provision, US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selected. managementand financingof health services in the San SENASA,Mcal. Estigarribia 796 y Tacuary,Asunci6n, MiguelitoHealth Region. Project preparation is underway Paraguay,Tel: (595-21)493-995, Fax: (595-21)494-399 with supportfrom a PHRD grant. Environmental AssessmentCategory to be determined. Peru US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Environment Implementingagency is to be determined. (R)Sierra Natural Resources and CommunityDevelopment Panama (Ln.4130-PE): The aimof the projectis to (a) reducepoverty throughsmall-scale investments in productiveinfrastructure Power and off-farmcollective projects and (b) strengthencommunity (R) PowerInfrastructure Guarantee: The projectincludes participationand publicinstitutions in orderto focuseffective the installationof a 100 MW thermalpower plant on a infrastructuredevelopment on low-incomepopulations. build, own and operatebasis. Projecthas been moved out of Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 16 January1997. Loan the current lending program. Further reporting will be signed on 11 April 1997. Environmental AssessmentCategory discontinued. B. PID: PEPA42442. US$ 44.0 (IBRD).Consultant services no longerrequired. Panama ProyectoNacional de Manejode Cuencas SocialSector (PRONAMACHS),Ministerio de Agricultura,Ave. .R)Investment Social Fund: The projectwill provide Salaverrys/n -Jesus Maria,Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-14)713- (R) SocialInvestment Fund: The projectwill provide 164,Fax: (51-14) 713-182, Contact:Ing. Carlos Torres assistanceaimed at small-scalesocial sectorinvestments, micro-enterprisedevelopment and institutional strengtheningof the Fondode EmergenciaSocial. Negotiations completed. Board presentation is scheduled

91 June 1997 Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion Peru Peru Power Transport (R) Private Power Generation Market Expansion: The Lima Urban Transport: The project will focus on project will support the development, financing and improving public transport and other mobility needs of the operation of a 300-350 MW thermal power plant to house low-income population. Project preparation is under way. the central-northern interconnected systems. All Environmental Assessment Category A. complementary facilities, such as storage and handling, US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selectedfor terminal substation and transmission lines will be financed project preparation. by the private sector. The IDB will provide a guarantee. Ministry of Transport, Communications, Housing and This project has been reinstated in the current lending Construction, Ave. 28 de Julio, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 433- program. The government has requested that the project be 2968, Contact: Mr. Luis Gutierrez postponed until the outcome of the Camisea SHELL contractis known. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. Peru US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required for Urban Development projectpreparation.UraDelomn Ministry of Energy and Mines, Ave. Las Artes 260, San (R) Urban Rehabilitation and Management: The project Borja, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 475-0135 will strengthen institutional and policy reform in selected municipalities, including the metropolitan region of Lima, Peru and improve services in selected urban subsectors. This project has been reinstated in the current lending programL Public Sector Management Project preparation is under way. Environmental Category (R) Judicial Reform (formerly Administration of Justice): C. Project components include (a) assistance to improve the US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Local and foreign consultants for project administrative apparatus of the judicial branch and preparation have been hired and are being financed by a courtroom administration; (b) information systems; (c) legal Japanese PHRD Grant. education; (d) monitoring of judicial performance; (e) Ministry of Transport, Communication, Housing and strengthening alternative dispute resolution mechanisms; Construction, Ave. 28 de Julio, 800 Lima, Tel: (51-1) 432- and (f) physical construction. Board presentation scheduled 1277, Fax: (51-1) 433-6622, Contact: Betty Alvarado isfor I July 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: PEPA40107. Peru US$ 23.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for administration and management services; information Urban Propent systms;spervsion onstucton fiancil maagemnt- Urban Property Rights: The project will formalize (title systems; construction supervision; financial management; and register) the property of dwellers in urban settlement and legal educationservices and training.anprmtthusofrpeyinakttascin. Consejo Ejecutivo, Poder Judicial, Palacio de Justicia, Ave. and promote the use of property in market transactions. Pase de la Republica, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 427-1033, Project preparation is under way. Environmental Fax: (51-1)428-0778 AssessmentCategory C. US$ 88.0 (IBRD). Consultant services will be required. Peru Comisi6n de Formalizaci6n de la Propriedad, Ave. 28 de Transport Julio, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 433-2388 (R) Transport Rehabilitation II: The project will (a) Peru improve the access markets in previously remote areas of Water Supply/Sanitation the country through rehabilitation of roads; (b) improve transportation safety; and (c) support introduction of key Water Sector Strategy and Technical Assistance: The management and financial policies in the roads sector. This project will include (a) the preparation of a water strategy project has been reinstated in the current lending program. plan includingthe regulatoryand administrativeframework Project preparation will begin in fiscal year 1998. requiredto operatethe next water law; (b) waterresources iEnvironmental Category to be deterrnined, development and management, water rights and US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined, concessions, water charge, cost recovery and water Ministry of Transport, Communication, Housing and management; (c) institutional development, technology Construction, Ave. 28 de Julio, 800 Lima, Peru, Tel: (5 1-1) support and training; (d) water quality and quantity 432-1277, Fax: (51-1) 433-6622, Contact: Betty Alvarado monitoring improvement and assessment; and (e) control

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River basin works; (c) construction of the Vistabella and measuring structure operation. Project preparation is Caroni Marbella River basin works; (d) and construction of the under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. and Caparo River basin works. Project preparation is US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Local preparation group for project short-term way. Environmental Assessment Category B. preparation has been hired and is being financed by a under 15.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been hired. Japanese PHRD grant. US$ of Works and Transport, Level 5, Salvatori The General Directorate of Water under the Instituto Ministry Frederick Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Nacional de Recursos Naturales (IRENA) of the Ministry of Building, Tel: (809) 625-4512 Agriculture, Ave. Salaverry s/n, Jesus Maria, Lima, Peru, Tobago. (51-14) 327-998, Contact: Dr. Tel: (51-14) 337-899, Fax: Tobago Enrique Moncada Trinidad and and Tobago Water Supply/Sanitation Trinidad Water and Sewerage Rehabilitation: The project will a high-priority emergency investment program to Environment address water losses including metering, replacement of (R) National Parks and Watershed Management: The reduce mains and rehabilitation of pumping stations, project will address renewable natural resource water wells, water treatment plants, and water management issues, including protection of groundwater Project preparation is under way. Environmental environmentally sensitive areas in upper watersheds and reservoirs. Category B. PID: TTPA8107. installing a system of protected areas including a National Assessment 65.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected. Parks Authority. This project has been reinstated in the US$ and Sewerage Authority (WASA), Farm Rd., St. current lending program. Project preparation is under way. Water Trinidad and Tobago, Tel: (809) 662-2301-7. Fax: Environmental Assessment Category C. Joseph, 662-3584 US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services are being financed by (809) the PHRD Trust Fund. Limited opportunities exist for international consultants in areas of specialization where no Uruguay local skills are available. Transport parks and Transport Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, National will (a) Claire, Port of Spain, (R) Transport of Forest Products: The project Marine Resources, St. Clair Circle, St. from 622-1221 facilitatethe cost-effectivetransport of forestproducts Trinidad and Tobago, Tel (809) forest to port through the rehabilitation of transport and eliminate Trinidad and Tobago infrastructure; and (b) increase productivity subsidies to the national rail carrier (AFE). Negotiations way. Environmental Assessment Category B. Public Sector Management are under (IBRD). Consultants will be required for (a) road (R) Public Services Strengthening: The project will (a) US$ 76.0 study and (b) railways restructuring. support restructuring, institutional strengthening, and user charges of Public Works, Ituzaingo 1414, esq Rincon 561. capital investment in the postal service; (b) provide Ministry Uruguay, Fax: (598-2) 963-753, 962-823 technical assistance to improve transportation licensing Montevideo, performance; and (c) provide technical assistance to develop management strengthening strategies in other key sectors, Uruguay Supply/Sanitation such as justice administration. This project has been Water reinstated in the current lending program. Appraisal Supply:The project would improvepublic health mission was scheduledfor late May 1997. Environmental Water through extension of watr and sewerage Assessment Category C. and environment and increase sector efficiency through greater US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. facilities of the private sector and eventual restructuring Ministry of Public Administration, Eric Williams Plaza participation sector. Project preparation is under way. Central Bank, Bldg. Independence Square, Port of Spain, of the Assessment Category to be determined. PID: Trinidad and Tobago, Tel: (809) 623-3653, Fax: (809) 625- Environmental UP814 8061 US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultant services will be required. del Estado, Carlos Trinidad and Tobago Administraci6n de las Obras Sanitarias Roxlo 1275, Montevideo, Uruguay. Tel: (598-2) 406-574, (598-2) 488-069 Water Supply/Sanitation Fax: Drainage and Flood Control: The project includes (a) rehabilitation of selected existing irrigation and flood control infrastructure installations; (h) construction of the 93 June 1997 Latin America and the Caribbean Region

Venezuela Venezuela Environment Water Supply/Sanitation Environment Management: The project will include: (a) (R) Caracas Water Sector Rehabilitation: The project strengthening of the Ministry of the Environment and will assist HIDROCAPITAL with (a) emergency Natural Resources and (b) the local government rehabilitation works; (b) improvement of commercial and environmental management component. Project preparation institutional aspects; and (c) preparation for private sector is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: participation. This project has been reinstated in the VEPA35743. current lending program. Project preparation is under way. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category C. MARNR, Edificio Centro Simon Bolivar, Torre Sur, Piso US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultant services will be required. 18, Caracas, Venezuela HIDROVEN, Ave. Principal de Mariperez, 9a Transversal, Edificio Hidroven, Caracas, Venezuela, Tel: (58-2-) 793- Venezuela 1275, Fax: (58-2) 793-0238 Public Sector Management Venezuela Public Sector Modernization and Decentralization: The project will restructure and strengthen public institutions in Water Supply/Sanitation the national and state governments. PID: VEPA41807. Water Sector: The project will support the decentralization Appraisal mission is scheduled for late June 1997. of water supply and sanitation services in selected states. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project preparation is under way. Environmental US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Assessment Category C. Oficina Central de Coordinaci6n y Planificaci6n US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. (CORDIPLAN), Parque Central, Torre Oeste, Piso 26, HIDROVEN, States and Municipalities, Ave. Principal de Caracas, Venezuela, Tel: (58-2) 507-7900, Fax: (58-2) 573- Mariperez con. 9a. Transversal, Edificio Hidroven, Caracas, 2834, Contact: Dr. Theodore Petkoff Venezuela, Tel: (58-2) 793-1275, Fax: (58-2) 793-0238 Venezuela Public Sector Management Supreme Court Strengthening: The project will support (a) modernization of the administrative and case management system and (b) development of a legal database and dissemination program. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Supreme Court of Justice, Supreme Court Building, Caracas, Venezuela Venezuela Urban Development Low-Income Barrios I: The project includes (a) institutional development for both the central government on decentralization issues, and local-level govemments and (b) investment for barrio upgrading, focusing on water and sanitation, power distribution, paving, titling, and urbanization. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be determnined. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. FUNDACOMUN, Ministerio Famflia, Ave. Abrahma Lincoln, final Blvd. de Sabana Grandes, Edificio FUNDACOMUN, Chacaito, Apdo. 50.218, Caracas, Venezuela, Fax: (58-2) 952-0947

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Algeria and (b) technical assistancefor developingand implementinga blueprint for sector restructuring,including in electricity generation. Agriculture the entry of privateoperators underway. Environmental (R) RuralEmployment (Ln. 4143-AL):The aim of the Projectpreparation is PID: DZPE4920. project is to promoterural employmentthrough a program AssessmentCategory B. servicesto be determined. of civil worksand agriculturaldevelopment for the US$ 180.0(IBRD). Consultant Bouakouir,Algiers, Algeria, rehabilitation,maintenance and repairs of the agricultural SONELGAZ,2 blvd. Salah (213-2) 68-36-04 infrastructure,emphasizing environmental protection and Tel: (213-2) 74-82-60,Fax: privatesector competition of local contractors.Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 25 March 1997,Environmental Algeria AssessmentCategory B. PID: DZPE43724. PrivateSector Development and Small and Mid-size US$ 89.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor project Public EnterpriseRestrcturing will and the implementationand training. Enterppme thectring project will support the Ministry of Agricultureand Fisheries,General Directorate Enterprise Development:The enterprisecontrol in Forestry,12, blvd.Amirouche, Algiers, Algeria, Tel: privatizationof activitiesunder public of process and (b) (213-2) 61-48-51,Fax: (213-2)74 80 14,74-80-19, orderto (a) promotethe privatization Ghebalou,Director General restructurepublic enterprisesto make them more efficient Contact:Mr. Abdallah and conduciveto privatization.Project preparationis under Algeria way.Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determnined. et de la Infrastructure Ministerede la RestructurationIndustrielle El Mouradia,Algiers, HousingInfrastructure: The project includes (a) trunk Participation,rue Shakespeare, 69-31-59,Fax: (213-2) 69- infrastructurefor urban expansionareas in the cities of Algeria,Tel: (213-2) 69-31-57, Algiers, Oran, Constantineand Annaba; (b) financingof 32-35 constructionmaterial; and (c) technicalassistance to improve the institutionalframework, land market Algeria operationalenvironment and infrastructurecost recovery. SocialSector is underway. Environmental Project preparation projectis an expansionof Social AssessmentCategory to be determined.PID: DZPE04973. SocialSafety Net II: The temporaryemployment US$ 100.0(IBRD). Feasibility studies are underway. SafetyNet I and will support private firms for developing Ministry of Housing,135 rue DidoucheMourad, Algiers, schemesmanaged by small as well as assist in Algeria, Tel: (213-2) 74-76-38,Fax: (213-2) 74-75-43 community-basedsocial infrastructure targetingof social assistanceprograms. Preappraisal Contact: Mr. Zakour missionwas tentativelyscheduled for June 1997. Algeria EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor project Population,Health and Nutrition preparation. rue BD Belouizdad, Sector:The project will support the government's Ministryof Labor and SocialAffairs, Health (213-2) 66-65-25,Fax: effort to improvethe efficiencyand organizationin the Belourt, Algiers,Algeria, Telephone Contact:Mr. Ahmed public healthsystem and to initiate major sectorreforms. (213-2)66-28-11, 65-85-34, Project preparationis underway. Environmental Berrahmoune AssessmentCategory C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredin hospital Algeria management,human resources,information systems, UrbanDevelopment and health financingstrategy. pharmaceuticals The aim of the loan is to Ministry of Health, 125,Chemin Abderrahmane, Laala, (R) Housing Sector Adjustment: housingby enlarging Algeria, Tlx: 65339,Tel: (213-2) 66-33-15,Fax: (a) enhanceefficiency of the supplyof Algiers, industry;(b) 66-24-13 the role of the private sector in the construction (213-2) improvethe targetingof social housing; and (c) pursue the is Algeria reform of the housingfinance system.Board presentation tentatively scheduled for mid-September 1997. CategoryC. PID: DZPE36081. Power EnvironmentalAssessment servicesto be determnined. (R) Power SectorIV: The projectwill include(a) US$ 200.0 (IBRD).Consultant expansion/reinforcementof the distributionand transmissioninetworks and regionaldispatching ccnters, 95 June 1997 MiddleEast and North Africa Region

ConseilNational de la Planification(CNP), Ministere de US$ 110.0 (IBRD).Consultant services will be requiredfor I'Habitat,Ministere des Finances,Tel: (213-2)92-59-82, constructionsupervision. Fax: (213-2) 79-94-72,Contact: Mr. M. Elias (CNP) Ministerede l'Equipementet de l'Amrnagementdu Territoire,3, rue MohamedAllilet, Algiers,Algeria, Tlx: Algeria 62650,Tel: (213-2) 589-500,Fax: (213-2) 588-974 UrbanDevelopment Urban Development ~~Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia Low IncomeHousing: The projectwill address urban povertyconcentrated in urban settlementsin Algeria'slarge Environment cities. Land servicingand housingimprovements will be RegionalOil PollutionControl II: Theproject will focus financedin areas coveringabout 3000ha. and involving on enhancingthe national and regionalinstitutional 40,000dwellings.. Project preparation is under way. capabilityto deal with waterpollution, improve quality of EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: DZPE42940. coastal water and ecosystemsand strengthenregional US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultants have been selectedfor capacityfor cooperationthrough joint training, construction projectpreparation and have starteda feasibilitystudy. of controlcenters for monitoringpollution and compliance. Consultantswill be requiredfor carryingout studies Projectpreparation under way.Environmental Assessment (technicaland financialcomponents and environmental CategoryC. PDF Block B grant of US$ 331,000approved assessment),training and assistance in project in August 1996 to financepreparation study; final report implementation. due July 1997. Ministryof Housing,Algiers, Algeria, Tel: (213-2) 74-73- US$ 30.0 (GEF).Consultant services to be determined. 72, Fax: (213-2) 74-75-43,Contact: Mr. Bouchenak, Ministerede l'Environnement,Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-7) Directeurdes Etudes 68-07-40,Fax: (212-7) 85-00-79, Contact: Mme. Bani Layac:ii. Directeurde l'Observationdes Etudeset de la Coordination; Algeria NMinistryof Transport, 6 Placeel Qods,Immeuble El Jamila WaterSupply/Sanitation Hydra,Algiers, Algeria, Tel: (213-2)69-29-24, Contact: Mr. AlgiersUrban Renewal: The project. seeks to improveand NemchiMessaoud, Direction General de l'Environnement; UrbanluAlgiersRenewal: The projectseeks to improveand TechnicalCenter for EnvironmentalProtection, PO Box83618, expandpublic servicessuch asurban water supply, city Tripoli,Libya, Tel: (218-21) 444-5795,444-8452, Fax: (218- t sewerage refuse collectionandand disposal, all in the city 21) 333-8098,Contact: Dr. BechirMohamed Fares, Director; dofAlgiers. It includesthe rehabilita of thetion water ANPE,15 rue Ali Ibu AbiTaleb, Cite Jardin le Belvedere,1002 distributionn sewerageetwork, faciltes and an existingtr Tunis,Tunisia, Contact: M. HacenHannachi, Directeur du sanitaryl andfi.It also p rovidesfor the supply P of trucks, contr6leet de pollution,Tel: (216-1)84-72-34, Fax: (216-1) h ospitalincinerators and trash containers.Project 797349; EgyptianEnvironmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), 17 preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment. TibaSt., El Mouhandissine,Dokki, Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Tel: CategoryA. PID: DZPE4957...... (20fi2)334-88909, Fax: (20-2)36-10764; Contact: Dr. US$ 110.0(IBRD). Consultants will be requiredto locate Ad0 amn Fawz0,Had ofEnv0ronmental Mam and designa new sanitarylandfill, and for construction AbderrahmaSector supervision. AlgeriaWilaya, Algiers, Algeria, Tel: (213-2) 64-63-29, Egypt Fax: (213-2) 61-85-51 Agriculture Algeria (R) AgriculturalExtension and Marketing:The aim of WaterSupply/Sanitation the project is to modernizethe domestic productionand marketingsystem and the exportof fruits and vegetables. UrbanWater Supply Restructuring: Thepr oject willt Specifically,the project will(a) improve farmersknow-h.1 Ar promotefurther involvementof the private sectorin the by improvedmarketing extension/adaptive research focused maeagementof urban watersupply servicesby settinga . on..... productionand marketingof produce;(b) support partnershipcontract between the water utility in Oran City paon o itionand developen ort and an internationalprivate operator. Its physical works, a information/marketingchannels a the producert and new transmissionpipeline, together with necessary wholesale/retailme levels. gotiation s are tentatively treatmentplants and pumpingstations, would be built to wscheduled/forlate June 1997. Environmentalassessment providean additionalwater supplyto Oran City. sc ategoryB. PID: EGPE34018. Negotiationsare tentativelyscheduled for August 1997. cayUS$17.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be required. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: DZPE35709...... Ministry of Agricultureand Land Reclamation,Dokki, Cairo, Egypt,Fax: (20-2) 712-937 96 June 1997 MiddleEast and NorthAfrica Region

Egypt Egypt Development Agriculture PrivateSector Sector ExportDevelopment: The project (R) East DeltaAgricultural Services: The project will (N) Private (a) export financeto providetrade investment financeagricultural support services, on-farm includes: firms on market terms;(b) exporter support infrastructure,drinking water, financialservices and project financeto to help firms to identify,adapt to and penetratenew managementand evaluationservices on about 130,000 services markets; and (c) trade facilitationto help reducethe feddansof newly reclaimedland in the East Delta. export costs of exporting and to improve exporters' Negotiations are scheduled for late June 1997. transaction to raw materialsand intermediateinputs at world EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: EGPE49166. access Project preparationis under way. 15.0(IDA). Local technicalassistance will be required marketprices. US$ AssessmentCategory C. PID: EGPE49580. for projectmanagement, procurement, disbursement, Environmental (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined communitydevelopment, research/extension coordination US$ 50.0 agencyis to be determined. and monitoringand evaluation. Implementing GeneralAuthority for RehabilitationProjects and AgriculturalDevelopment (GARPAD), Cairo, Egypt, Tel: Egypt (20-2) 337-4873,Fax: (20-2) 361-1319,Contact: Dr. Nabil SocialSector Development:The project will:(a) Mowelhi,Chairman, GARPAD (R) SohagRural strengthenlocal institutionscapacity in planningand Egypt managingnatural resources;(b) providebetter agricultural servicesand rural infrastructure;and (c) provide Agriculture and social credit servicesto the poor and women.Appraisal PumpingStation Rehabilitation III: The projectwill rural is scheduledfor late June 1997.Environmental support the third phase of a program for rehabilitationof 62 mission CategoryB. Cofinancingconfirmed with IFAD. pumpingstations in the Nile Valley and Delta and provide Assessment support for institutionalreforms in the Mechanicaland PID: EGPE40858. (IDA). Consultantservices to be determined ElectricalDepartment of the Ministryof PublicWorks and US$ 30.0 of Local Administration,Contact: Dr. Ibrahim Water Resources.Appraisal mission is tentativelyscheduled Ministry Chairman,Fax: (20-2)337-4734; Ministry of for October1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. Moharam, Dokki, Cairo,Egypt, Tel: (20-2) 337-2242, PID: EGPE41410. Agriculture, 337-4873,Contact: Dr. Saad Nassar, Advisorto US$ 120.0(IBRD). Consultant services will be required. Fax: (20-2) and Supervisorof Economicand Statistic Mechanicaland ElectricalDepartment of MPPWR,Shari the Ministry Tafteesh El Ray - Shibr El Mazalat,Cairo, Egypt,Tel: (20- Affairs 2) 203-9266,Fax: (20-2) 203-9270 Egypt Egypt WaterSupply/Sanitation Water,Wastewater and Solid WasteUtility Education/Training El-Sharkia Demonstration:The project will provide (R)Education Enhancement Program (ITF -N008-EGT) Management in (a) the expansion,rehabilitation and improved The projectwill supportthe government'sprogram to (a) assistance and operationsfor water supply, wastewater improveaccess and equity to basic education,(b) improve maintenance wasteservices in the governorate;(b) the the professionalstandards of teachersand school and solid of the managementof these serviceson the administratorsand (c) promotethe use of technology.The restructuring level; (c) the entry of private operatorsin the projectwas approved,following ITF procedures,on 24 governorate and operationof water and wastewater December1996. Credit was signed on 9 May 1997. management Zagazig,the capitalof the governorate,and El EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: EGPE5169. servicesin water districtand the solid waste disposaland Cofinancingis confirmedwith the EuropeanUnion. Abassa in Zagazig;and (d) the institutionalreforms US$ 75.0 (ITF). Consultantswill be required. collection assistance,training and capacitybuilding. Ministryof Educationand HigherEducation, Silver throughtechnical preparationis under way.Environmental Building,Al-Alfy St., Cairo,Egypt, Tel: (20-2) 354-1089, Project CategoryB. PID: EGPE5172. Fax: (20-2) 356-2952 Assessmcnt US$ 22.3 (IDA). Consultantservices to be determined El SharkiaPotable Water and SanitaryDrainage Authority, Housingand Public UtilitiesDirectorate Building, 4th Floor, Zagazig,El Sharkia,Egypt, Tel: (20 55) 574 322n, 97 June 1997 Middle East and North Africa Region Fax: (20-55) 324-555,Contact: Eng. MohammnedHammad, payment and managementmethods; and (d) reformingthe Chairman pharmaceuticalsector. Preappraisal mission is scheduledfor July 1997.Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: Jordan JOPE39749. Infrastructure US$ 45.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined Implementing agency is to be deterrnined. (R) CommunityInfrastructure Development: The project m will finance infrastructure,including water, sewerage,street Jordan lighting,safer roads and walkways,community centers and, on a pilot basis,infrastructure needed to stimulate Transport productive investments.The project will finance (R) TransportSector Restructuring: The project aims to improvements in both the refugee camps and squatter restructure transport sector operations and improve urban settlements and poor local communities. The project will transport in the greater Amman area. It includes: (a) also include a social survey unit to monitor poverty and the financing for thefirst phase (35 km) of the Amman Ring performance of the public agencies implementing the Road; (b) assistance in the establishment of a regulatory project. Appraisal is completed. Environmental Assessment authority to replace the Public Transport Corporation Category B. PID: JOPE49581. which will be privatized; (c) concessioning of the Aqaba US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Railway Corporation; and (d) establishment of a Road Housingand UrbanDevelopment Corp., PO Box 2110- MaintenanceFund. Projectprocessing is continuing. 11181, Amman,Jordan, Tel: (962-6) 634-594,Fax: (962-6) EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. 618-109, Contact:Eng. Yousef Hiasat, DirectorGeneral, US$ 35.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be deternined. Cities and VillagesDevelopment Bank, PO Box 1572, Ministryof PublicWorks and Housing,PO Box 1220, Amman, Jordan,Fax: (962-6) 883-197;Ministry of Amman,Jordan, (962-6) 668-481,668-488, Fax: (962-6) Planning, PO Box 555, Amman, Jordan, Tel: (962-6) 644- 684-759,Contact: Eng. Abdul-MajidKabariti, Asst. Sec. 466, Fax: (962-6) 649-341, Contact: Mr. Yousef Batshon, General for Road Sector; Ministry of Transport, PO Box Director, InfrastructureDeptartment 35214,Amman, Jordan, T'el: (962-6) 642-039,Fax: (962-6) Jordan 607-233,Contact: Eng. Izza Ayub, SecretaryGeneral Infrastructure Jordan (R) SecondTourism Development: The projectaims to WaterSupply/Sanitation create the conditionsfor an increasein sustainableand AmmanWater and environmentallysound SanitationManagement: The project tourism in Petra, Wadi Rum, Jerash will: (a) finance a private sector companyto managethe and Karak and provide the opportunityfor tourism-related water and wastewaterservices in Greater Amman;(b) employmentand income generationat project sites. finance rehabilitation,upgrades and extensionsof water and Negotiations were tentatively scheduledfor early June wastewater services; and (c) provide technical assistance for 1997. Environmental AssessmentCategory B. PID: institutionaldevelopment and restructuringof the Water JOPE35997. Authorityof Jordan.Appraisal mission is scheduledfor US$ 32.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices will be required in October 1997.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: sectormanagement, environmental protection, and tourism JOPE48521. site development. US$ 55.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined. Ministryof Tourism, PO Box 224, Amman,Jordan, Tlx: Water Authorityof Jordan;Jabel Hussein,Nablus St., PO 21741, Tel: (962-6) 642-311,Fax: (962-6) 648-465, Box 2412, Amman,Jordan, Tel: (962-6) 666-111,Fax: Contact:Mr. AkramMassarweh, Secretary General (962-6) 679-143 Jordan Lebanon Population,Health and Nutrition Education/Training (N) HealthSector Reform:The project is expectedto (R) Vocationaland TechnicalEducation: The project increasethe efficiency,quality and long-runfinancial aims to: (a) improvethe managementstructure and sustainability of health services in Jordanthrough the efficiencyof the Vocationaland TechnicalEducation (VTE) followingcomponents: (a) rationalizingJordan's health system;(b) improvethe relevance,responsiveness and infrastructureinvestment program; (b) developingand qualityof training;and (c) modernizethe physical implementinga nationaland facilitylevel health infrastructureand selectivelyexpand access to VTE. inforrnationsystem; (c) implementingmodern facility 98 June 1997 Middle East and North Africa Region

US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultant services to be determined. Appraisal mission is scheduledfor July 1997. Administrationdes Eaux et Forets et de la Conservationdes EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: LBPE38687. Sols (AEFCS),Ministry of Agricultureand Agricultural US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be required. Development,CitM Administrative, Rabat, Morocco, Tlx: Ministryof Technicaland VocationalEducation, STARCO 36932,Tel: (212-7)76-31-66, Fax: (212-7)76-44-46, Building,Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 371477-8,371689, Contact:Mr. A. Hanan, Director-General,AEFCS 371694,Fax: (961-1) 863477,Contact: Dr. Ali Zakaret, DirectorGeneral Morocco Lebanon Education/Training Reform:The project will implementreforms in PrivateSector Development Education generaland higher education.Project preparation is under (R) Awali-BeirutWater Conveyor:The project would way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. provideprivate sectorinvestment for a tunneled aqueductto US$ 60.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined. conveywater from existinghydroelectric water intake at Ministryof NationalEducation, Rabat, Morocco,Tel: (212- Joun to a treatmentplant at El Ouardaniya,and a tunnel to 7) 773-016,Fax: (212-7) 772-048;Ministry of Higher transporttreated water from Ouardaniyato Knaldeandto Education the south of Beirut.Treated waterwould be stored at a reservoirat Hedath for distributionto Beirut.Project processingis continuing.Environmental Assessment Morocco Finance Category A. PID: LBEC4S101. ContractualSavings Development: The loan will support US$ 50.0(Partial Risk Guarantee).Consultant services are reformsin the financialsector and will focus on contractual neededto prepare request for proposalsfor the Build- contract under a PHRD grant; contractis Operate-Transfer savings(insurance, pension funds) and capitalmarkets being finalized, is underway. Reconstruction(CDR), Tallet development.Project preparation Councilfor Developmentand CategoryC. Tel: (96c1-1)643-980, Fax: EnvironmentalAssessment El-Serail,Beirut, Lebanon, servicesto be determined. Mr. Nabil A. Jisr, President US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultant (961-1) 647-947 Contact: Ministeredes Financeset des InvestissementsExterieurs, Cit6 Administrative,11 rue Sebou,Agbal, Rabat,Morocco, Lebanon Tel: (212-7)76-54-52, Fax: (212-7) 76-49-50 Water Supply/Sanitation CoastalPollution Control and WaterSupply (Ln. 4136- Morocco LE'r The projectaims at (a) rehabilitationof water supply Industry (b) constructionof new and wastewatersystems and The projectwill strengthen and disposaland treatmentfacilities. Enterprise Compedtiveness: wastewaternetworks for qualitymanagement by EIB and OECF. Approved the institutionsand mechanisms Cofinancingwill be provided in order to enhancethe Directorson 18 February 1997. and technologydissemination by the Executive of industrialenterprises. AssessmentCategory A PID: LBPE05342. internationalcompetitiveness Environmental underway. Environmental Consultantservices will be requiredfor Project preparationis US$ 53.1 (IBRD). C. PID: MAPE43723. supervisionand technicalassistance. AssessmentCategory construction 60.0(IBRD). Consultant services to be determiined. Councilfor Developmentand Reconstruction(CDR), Tabet US$ Ministryof Commerceand Industry,Ave. MohamedV, El-Sareil,Beirut, Lebanon Rabat,Morocco, Tel: (212-7) 76-18-78,Fax: (212-7) 76-89- Morocco 33 Agriculture Morocco Infrastructure NationalWatershed Management: The project will land use and natural resourcesmanagement in improve Infrastructure:The objectiveof the projectis to areas and reducesiltation in reservoirsand (R) Rural mountain satisfactorybasic infrastructureservices (water associatedhydraulic infrastructures. Main components provide supply,electricity and accessroads) to the rural population include(a) natural resourcesconservation; (b) agricultural six priority provinces.Project preparation is under way. development;(c) infrastructuredevelopment; (d) institution in AssessmentCategory B. PID: MAPE43723. building;(e) research; and (f) technicalassistance and Environmental US$ 25.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined. training.Project preparationis under way. Environmental A ,ssessmentCategory B. PID: MAPE05476. 99 June 1997 Middle East and North Africa Region

Office Nationale de l'Eau Potable, 6 bis, rue Patrice Moroccan Municipal Bank. It will mainly include funds to Lumumba, BP Rabat Chellah, Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-7) finance local infrastructure sub-projects, technical 72-12-81, Fax: (212-7) 73-13-55 assistance and training. Negotiations were tentatively scheduledfor June 1997. Environmental Assessment Morocco Category B. PID: MAPE05523. Population, Health and Nutrition US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required to (R) Health Management: help prepare some project components. The project will include: (a) new Fonds d'Equipement Communal (FEC), 1, rue Oued Baht, financing mechanisms, mainly health insurance; (b) Agdal-Rabat, Morocco, Tlx: 933 36581, Tel: (2O12- 770- hospital management reforms; and (c) priority rehabilitation 574, Fax: (2 12-7) 778-095 of health infrastructure. Preappraisal mission is scheduled for July 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. Morocco US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consultant services to be determined. Ministry of Health, 335, ave. Mohamed V, BP 812, Social Sector Mechanar, Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-7) 69-15-09, Fax: Social Priorities II: The project will continue to deepen (212-7) 76-38-95 and complement the support of Bank assistance to the Morocco government's social strategy. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be determin^d. Power US$ 120.0 (IBRD). Consultant services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be deterrnined. (R) Power Sector Reform (PSD II): The project includes (a) the establishment of an electricity code and regulatory Morocco agency; (b) contracting independent power producers for power generation; and (c) the implementation of LRMC Transport tariffs and the reorganization of Office Nationale de (R) Railway Restructuring and Privaffzation (Ln. 4128- I'Electricite. The loan will finance investment in MOR): The project will finance (a) consulting services for transmission and distribution, as well as technical the formulation and implementation of the restructuring assistance. Negotiations are tentatively scheduledfor process; (b) rail infrastructure rehabilitation to make the August 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. concession supportable by private investors; and (c) US$ 90.0 (IBRD). Consulting services are being financed restructuring costs for the Office National des chemins de through existing loans for sector reform. fer (ONCF) including severance payments. Approved by the Office National de l'Electricite, 65, rue Aspirant Lafuente, Executive Directors on 19 December 1996. Loan was signed 21000 Casablanca (street address), BP 13493, 21040 on 30 April 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. Casablanca (mail address), Morocco, Tel: (212-2) 279-343, PID: MAPE43725. Fax: (212-2) 220-038, 295-076 US$ 85.0 (IBRD). Consultant services are required for the formulation Morocco of restructuring process. ONCF/Ministry of Privatization, 14, rue Ab. Fadila Private Sector Development Quartier Industriel, Rabat-Chellah, Morocco, Tel: (212-7) 79-77-19,Fax: (212-7) 79-78-50 Privatization Support: The project will support reforms to accelerate the privatization prograrmwith focus on opening Morocco key infrastructure sectors. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. Urban Development US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultant services to be determined (R) Fez Historic City Rehabilitation: The project will Ministere des Finances et des Investissements Exterieurs, assist in revitalizing the Medina through (a) environmental Cite Administrative, 11 rue Sebou, Agbal, Rabat, Morocco, upgrading; (b) provision of urban infrastructure and Tel: (212-7) 76-54-52; Fax: (212-7) 76-49-50; Contact: Mr. community facilities; ana (c) implementation of a heritage Abdelwahed Kabbaj, Director of Public Enterprises conservation strategy fitting with the city's social, economic Morocco and cultural dimension. Negotiations were tentatively scheduledfor early June 1997. Environmental assessment Public Sector Management Category B. PID: MAPE5524. US$ (R) Second Municipal 18.5 (IBRD). Consultant services to be determined. Finance: The project aims to ADER-FES, 4, ave. Zaid Ibn Harita, Fes, Morocco, Tel: increase the provision of basic infrastructure tax services for (212-5) 65-34-69, Fax: (212-5) 65-34-69 small and medium sized municipalities and strengthen the 100 June 1997 Middle East and NorthAfrica Region

Morocco Tunisia Urban Development Environment Management(Ln. 4162-TUN):The Housing:The projectaims to upgradehousing (R) NaturalResources Social in three provincesto (a) conditionsto low-incomehouseholds, reduce housingcosts, project will be implemented approachto managementof soil. and containthe cost of urbangrowth, mainly by improving promotea participatory resourcesand (b) strengthen the operationof land markets and reducingthe rangeland,and other capacityto provide supportservices to govemment'srole in land development.Project preparation administrative Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors is under way.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: resourcemanagement. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. MAPE05479. on 13 May 1997. US$ 70.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined. PID: TNPE5736. Consultantswill be requiredfor Cr6ditImmobilier Hotelier (CIH), 187,ave. HassanII, US$ 27.0 (IBRD). Casablanca,Morocco, Tlx: 23854,24854, 23039,24894, implementation. 30, rue Alain Savary,Tunis, Tel: (212-2) 02480,03033; SNEC,Angle rue YoussefIbn Ministry of Agriculture, 80-26-43,Fax: (216-1) 78-44-47, Tachfineet MoulayAli Cherif,Rabat, Morocco,Tel: (212- Tunisia,Tel: (216-1) Chakroun 7) 76-14-59/60,Fax: (212-7) 76-76-73 Contact: Mr. Larbi Morocco Tunisia WaterSupply/Sanitation Finance Reform:The project will supportreforms (R) Water ResourceManagement: The project will assist FinancialSector and institutionalframework of the the governmentin defining and implementinga in the regulatory including strengtheningthe Central Bank comprehensivewater resourcemanagement strategy. financial sector, of state banks. Projectis being identified. Negotiationswere scheduledfor May 1997. Environmental and privatization AssessmentCategory C. AssessmentCategory B. PID: MAPE05521. Environmental Consultantservices to be determined. US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consultant services will be required. US$ 75.0 (IBRD). de Tunisie, rue de la Monnaie, Tunis, Ministry of PublicWorks, Administration de l'Hydraulique, Banque Centrale 25-40-00,Fax: (216-1) 34-06-15 Rabat, Morocco,Tel: (212-7)77-90-08, Fax: (212-7)77-86- Tunisia,Tel: (216-1) 96 Tunisia Morocco Infrastructure Management:The objectiveof the Water Supply/Sanitation CulturalHeritage conserveand promoteTunisia's cultural Rural Water Supply:The projectwill providesafe project is to updatingthe nationwideinventory of sites and drinking water to rural populationsin ten of the poorest heritage,by contributionof this heritageto the local and provinces.Board presentationis tentativelyscheduled for 26 increasingthe The project will identifya clear strategy June 1997.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: nationaleconomy. managementfor the Ministriesof MAPE40566. on culturalheritage and RegionalDevelopment, NGOs and US$ 40.0 (IMRD).Consultant services to be determined. Culture, Tourism The projectwill select appropriate Ministeredes Travaux,BP 6226, Rabat-Instituts,Rabat, the privatesector. the long-termstrategy to conservekey sites, Morocco,Tel: (212-7) 76-48-25,Fax: (212-7)76-94-69, measuresfrom protectionpolicy and promotethem based on Contact:M. Jellali,Directeur Hydralique set up a legal an assessmentof their significanceand economic Tunisia justification.Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Education/Training 50.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined. US$ Patrimoine,4 place du Chateau, Tunis, (R) Higher EducationI: Theproject will support InstitutNational du 26-16-22,26-12-59, Fax: (216-1) 56- increasedefficiency in the highereducation system. Tunisia, Tel: (216-1) Preappraisal mission was scheduled for May 1997. 24-52 EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 70.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined. Tunisia of Higher Education Ministry Population,Health and Nutrition (R) HealthSector: The aim of the project is to improve the efficiencyand organizationof the Tunisianhealth sector by 101 June 1997 MiddleEast and NorthAfrica Region strengtheningthe health authority's analytical,decision Tunisia makingand managementskills at all operationallevels and by encouraginggreater private sectorparticipation in the WaterSupply/Sanitation provisionof health services.Preappraisal mission is (R) Greater Tunis Sewerage: The project includes scheduledfor July 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment expansionof seweragesystems in the greaterTunis area CategoryC. and institutionalstrengthening of OfficeNational US$ 100.0(IBRD). Consultants will be required in the d'Assainissement(ONAS). Board presentation was areas of health finance,health economicsand hospital scheduledfor 29 May 1997.Environmental Assessment administration. CategoryA. PID:TNPE5731. Ministryof Health, Ave. Bab Saadoun,Tunis, Tunisia,Tel: US$ 60.0 (IBRD).Consultants have completedfeasibility (216-1)57-16-17, Fax: (216-1)56-71-00, 56-62-26 studiesand an environmentalassessment. Final studiesto be carriedout in 1997. Tunisia OfficeNational de l'Assainissement(ONAS), 32 rue de la Population,Health and Nutrition Monnaie,Tunis, Tunisia, Tel: (216-1) 343-200,Fax: (216- SocialSector: The project will supportinterventions in 1) 350-411 nutrition,education and health to enhanceearly childhood Tunisia development,including the learningcapacity of disadvantagedchildren. Project preparation is underway. WaterSupply/Sanitation EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Water Sector: The project will promoteintegrated US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined. developmentand managementof surfacewater, Implementingagency is to be determined. groundwater,and wastewaterto meet the demandfor urban water supplyand irrigation.It will includephysical works Tunisia for water storage,wastewater treatment and reuse, Transport rehabilitationand installationof meters,studies, and technicalassistance. Project preparation is under way. TransportSector Investment:The objectivesof the project EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. are to lowertransport costs and increasecontrol on delivery US$ 80.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor technical schedulesby promotingprivate sector participation.The assistancein water management. projectwill include(a) a quick disbursingcomponent; (b) Ministryof Agriculture,30, rue Alain Savary,Tunis, an investment componentto finance the rehabilitationof Tunisia l infrastructure;(c) technical assistance;and (d) a partial Bankguarantee for private investmentsin ports and WestBank and Gaza railways.Project preparation is under way.Environmental AssessmentCategory C. PID: TNPE43700. Agriculture US$ 70.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined. AgricultureSector Rehabilitation:The objectivesof the Ministryof Transport,8006 rue Montplaisir,1004 Tunis, project are to improvethe competitivenessof the agriculture Tunisia,Tel: (216-1) 780-404,Fax: (216-1) 790-149 sector, improvenatural resources and increaseemployment. Project preparationis under way. Environmental Tunisia AssessmentCategory to be determined. UrbanDevelopment US$ 15. 0 (IDA).Consultants will be required. (R) MunicipalDevelopment II: The project will support Implementingagency is to be determined. municipaland regionaldevelopment by (a) enhancing WestBank and Gaza infrastructureand modernizingservices in mediumand large cities;and (b) increasingaccess to basic facilitiesin Finance poor local governmentsand rural councils to reduce (R) Microenterprises: The projectis a joint IFClBank disparitiesamong regions.Board presentation was project. It willprovide a line of credit to three participating scheduledfor 19 June 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment banks as well as technical assistanceto the banks and to the CategoryC. PID: TNPE46832. beneficiaries(microenterprises). Approved by the Executive US$ 80.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined. Directorson 10 October 1996.Credit was signed on 14 CPSCL,8 rue de Mddine, 1002Tunis-Belveddre, Tunisia, April 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. Tel: (216-1) 79-70-97,Fax: (216-1) 79-74-67 US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be required. Jordan NationalBank; Arab Bank; CommercialBank of Palestine 102 June 1997 Middle East and NorthAfrica Region

short-listhas West Bank and Gaza new distributionutilities in the West Bank. A been made. PO Box 3591, Al-Burah Finance PalestinianEnergy Authority, Tel: (972-2)998-6190, InvestmentGuarantee Fund: The projectwill provide Office, Ramallah,Gaza City, Gaza, financing for a guaranteescheme instrumentto mitigate Fax: (972-2) 998-6191 politicalrisk for foreigninvestment. Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 8 April 1997.Environmental WestBank and Gaza AssessmentCategory C. PrivateSector Development US$ 10.0(IDA). Consultantservices to be determined. Agency (R) Financialand PrivateSector Development:Thc MultilateralInvestment Guarantee project will provide long-term finance instruments, WestBank and Gaza programs and training to support the financial sector and funding for private sector development. Project a feasibility study for the banking Infrastructure preparation, including EnvironmentalAssessment (R) Gaza IndustrialEstate: The project will finance sector services,is under way. infrastructureand technical assistancefor the first industrial CategoryC. PID: XOPE43340. will be required. estate zone at Al-Muntarto catalyzeindustrial development. US$ 15.0 (IDA).Consultants (PMA), Omar Mukhtar The governmentof Israel and the PalestinianAuthority are PalestinianMonetary Authority Palestine,Gaza Strip, Tel: developinga detailedenabling framework governing the Street,El Rimal, PO Box 4026, (972-7) 8-116, 824-817, regulationand operationof the industrialestate. Appraisal (972-7) 8-713,8-292, Fax: Governor mission was scheduled for early June 1997. Environmental Contact: Dr. Fouad Beseiso, AssessmentCategory to be determined.PID: GZPE40503. US$ 10.0(IDA). Consultantswill be required. WestBank and Gaza Ministry of IndustryPalestinian Authority, Contact: Mr. Public SectorManagement AdnanSamara, DeputyMinister, Head of ProjectSteering project will supportthe Committee,PO Box 1629,Ramallah, West Bank, Tel: (972- (R) Legal Development:The Fax: (972-2)998-7648 developmentof the Palestinianlegal systemthrough 2) 998-7641, technical assistance,training and equipment.Board WestBank and Gaza presentation was scheduledfor 5 June 1997. Environmental AssessmentCategory C. PID: XOPE47111. required. Infrastructure US $ 5.5 (IDA).Consultants will be Box 1021,Governmental (R) Housing:The project seeks to generateaffordable Ministryof Law and Justice, PO Khadra Building,Gaza, Tel: housing for the poorand to developa demand-based DepartmentsComplex, Abu 867109 housing market for middle incomefamilies through the (972-7) 829-118,Fax: (972-7) creationof a mortgagesystem. Approvedby the Executive Directorson 8 April 1997. Credit was signed on 13 April WestBank and Gaza 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Public Sector Management US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be required. Palestinian atement Professional Fund: The project Ministry of Housing,The PalestinianAuthority, Al Rimal, (R) Palestinian Expatriate 829-260,Fax: (972-7) 824-090 will bring severalhundred qualified Palestinian expatriates Gaza, Tel: (972-7) to the West Bank and Gaza on an annual basis over three WestBank and Gaza years to fill top managerialand senior technicalpositions in PalestinianAuthority ministries and agencies.Negotiations Environmental Assessment Power are under way in thefield. (R) ElectricityDistribution and Management:The CategoryC. servicesto be determined. project includes (a) upgradingand rehabilitationof the US$ 2.0 (IDA). Consultant be determined. West Bank distributionnetwork; (b) a privatedistribution Implementingagency is to utility managementcontract; and (c) technicalassistance for power sectorinstitutions. Appraisal rnissionwas scheduled WestBank and Gaza for mid-May1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to SocialSector PID: XOPE40506. be determined. will providefunding to Amount to be determined(IDA). Consultantswill be (R) PalestinianNGO: The project to the poor and required. Advanceprocurement activities are underway to sustainableNGO projectstargeted scheduledfor late June recruit a managementcontractor to develop and operate disadvantaged.Negotiations are

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1997. Environmental Assessment Category to be Social Fund for Development, PO Box 15485, Sana'a, determined. Republic of Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 240-417, 243-173, US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Selection of Contact: Abdelkarim Al-Arhabi, Managing Director an NGO for project management is under way following ICB procedures. Yemen, Republic of The NGO Project Manager, once selected, will implement Transport the project. (R) Aden Container Terminal and Free Zone: The Yemen,Republic of project would provide assistance in re-establishing Aden as a regional center for trade and shipping through ,Agriculture development of a trans-shipment hub for international (R) Seeds and Agricultural Services: The loan will container shipping and by assisting in the financing of a improve agricultural productivity of rainfed and irrigated privately sponsored deep water container terminal and an crops by developing sustainable systems for the supply and associated industrial free zone. The provision of an IBRD use of quality seeds, fertilizers and other inputs. The project guarantee for the project will be subject to the project will: (a) promote quality control and private sector meeting the Bank's requirements for IBRD guarantees for participation in seeds and fertilizer supply; (b) finance the enclave projects in IDA countries. Project preparation is restructuring of seed centers and the testing and under way. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: devulopment of seed of superior varieties; and (c) expand RYPE36002. the input supply market by financing the procurement of US$ 25.0 (IDA); US$ 53.0 (IBRD partial risk guarantee). fertilizers and spare parts. Negotiations completed. Consultant services to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: YEPE39171. Free Zone of Aden, Aden, Republic of Yemen, Tel: (9672) US$ 12.5 (ITF). Consultants will be required. 221-237, Fax: (9672) 232-314, Contact: Mr. Dirham Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Sana'a, Noman, President Republic of Yemen, Fax: (967-1) 289-509 Yemen,Republic of

Yemen, Republic of Water Supply/Sanitation Agriculture Sana'a Water Supply and Sanitation: The project will Southern Governorates Agricultural Privatization: The finance (a) an extension of water production and project will raise income in poor rural areas of Yemen's distribution facilities and (b) wastewater collection and southern governorates, through land and water disposal works. Preparation for and implementation of development, agricultural services and support to non-farm sector reforms with the establishment of a Sana'a Regional rural enterprises. Appraisal report is being prepared. Water and Sanitation Company. A PPF advance has been Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: YEPE5902. approved and signed. Project processing is continuing. US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consultants have been selected. About US$ 20.3 (IDA). Consultants have been selected. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, PO Box National Water and Sanitation Authority, PO Box 104, 1185, Sana'a, Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 725-674, Fax: (967-1) Sana'a, Republic of Yemen, Tlx: 2346, Tel: (967-1) 231- 209-509 254, Fax: (967-1) 251-536 Yemen, Republic of Social Sector (R) Social Fund for Development: The project will channel resources supporting (a) basic social and economic infrastructure projects at grass-roots levels; (b) temporary and permanent employment in conjunction with the provision of technical assistance leading to sustainable microenterprise programs; and (c) build up local capacity by involving NGOs and community organizations in the design and implementation of projects. Board presentation was scheduledfor 22 May 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: YEPE41199. US$ 30.0 (IDA). International consultants will be financed through bilateral assistance. 104 June 1997 SouthAsia Region

Bangladesh Bangladesh Agriculture Agriculture project seeks to increasefish (R) Water SectorImprovement: The projectwill support FourthFisheries: The manner and to alleviatepoverty (a) improvementin sectorpolicies; (b) rehabilitationof productionin a sustainable status among poor fisher- deterioratedprojects; (c) improvementsin existingprojects and improvethe nutritional (a) stockingselected flood to reduce damageto fisheriesor improvedrainage; and (d) families.The project includes with fingerlings;(b) desilting the introductionof sustainablemaintenance systems. This plains and fish sanctuaries fish passes to allow fish migration to project is no longer in the lending program and further canals and providing aquaculture;(d) pilot reportingwill be discontinued breedinggrounds; (c) developing smallholdershrimp farm rehabilitation;(e) motivationand of Bangladesh formationof beneficiarygroups to take advantage increasedvalue of inland fisheries;(f) providingcredits to Agriculture groups throughNGOs; and (g) strengthening fishing to plan fisheries (R) Silk Development:The projectis the first phaseof a fisheriesinstitutions to enable them fisherieslaws and long-termprogram to assist in increasingthe incomesof developmenteffectively and to enforce about to start. small-scalesilk producers,most of whomare poor women, regulations.Project preparation is B. by introducingimproved technology and creating EnvironmentalAssessment Category required during project institutionaland policy improvementsdesigned to US$ 50.0(IDA). Consultantswill be encouragesustainable development of the silk sector.The preparation. Dept.of Fisheries, project will likely include(a) facilitiesand equipmentfor Ministryof Fisheriesand Livestock, Secretariat,Dhaka, silkwormbreeding and distribution;(b) trainingfacilities; Bhaban6, Room 507,Bangladesh 415-005.Contact: Mr. (c) expansionof NGO extensionfor sericulture;(d) Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2) 834-699, improvedsericulture research; and (e) establishinga new LiaqutAli, DirectorGeneral autonomoussilk developmentfoundation. Appraisal missionis in thefield. EnvironmentalAssessment Category Bangladesh B. PID: BDPA40713. AboutUS$ 11.0 (IDA).A JapanesePHRD Grant and Dutch Education/Training The projectwill Trust Funds are being used to financeconsultant services. (R) PrimaryEducation Development: educationprogram which Silk Foundation,c/o Ministryof Textiles,Building 6, Room supportthe nationalprimary completionand learning 1111,Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: gives priority to raising school the project will (a) improve (880-2) 867-266,Fax: (880-2) 860-600,Contact: Mr. K.M. achievements.Specifically, (b) strengtheninstitutional EzajulHuq, Secretary,Ministry of Textiles schoolquality and efficiency; capacityat the school,district and nationallevels; and (c) Bangladesh targetunder-served areas. Negotiations were tentatively Assessment Agriculture scheduledfor June 1997. Environmental CategoryC. PID: BDPE9550.Cofinancing expected from Crop Sector Investment:The project aims to (a) establish multilateraland bilateralsources. to be determined.A a more favorablepolicy and insttutional environmentfor US$ 120.0(ITF). Consultingservices work. and poverty alleviation;(b) improvethe Japanese PHRD grant isfinancing preparation growth I11 efficiencyand budgetng proceduresfor public Primaryand MassEducation Division, Bhaban 6, Room coxposituon, Tel: (880-2) expenditures,including directly financing a time-sliceof BangladeshSecretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, high priority sector expenditures;and (c) create a better 414 055 environmentfor privatesector development. Project preparationis under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Bangladesh CategoryB. US$ 75.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. Environment The project will Ministry of Agriculture,Bhaban 4, Room 508, Bangladesh National Environmental Management: institutions,promote links Secretariat,Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 864-513, strengthencentral environmental and line ministries, Contact: Mr. A. WaheedKhan, DeputyChief, Policy betweenenvironmental agencies funds for priority Planning and Coordination establisha sourceof investment environmentalwork to be performedby governmententities and NGOs. Projectis being identified.Project preparation will commenceupon completionof ongoingwork on environmentalprioritv settingand an im)plementationx 105 June 1997 South Asia Region strategy. Environmental Assessment Category B. Japanese (c) rationalize distribution supply areas between existing PHRD Grant was approved to assist with project utilities and rehabilitate networks to be handed over to the preparation. Rural Electrification Cooperatives (PBS); (d) strengthen the US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for project performance of the Rural Electrification Board and the preparation and implementation. PBSs; (e) expand rural electrification coverage by selective Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Bhaban 6, Rm. use of both renewable options and grid extensions; and (f) 1322, 13th Floor, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, establish a regulatory body to provide a framework for the Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 406-238, 248-847, Fax: (880-2) reformed sector operations. Project is being identified. 869-210 Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 150.0 (IDA). A Japanese PHRD grant has been Bangladesh approved to undertake the preparatory work. Finance Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR), Bhaban 6, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: Commercial Banking Reform: The project will focus on (880-2) 235-111/-20, Fax: (880-2) 414-060; Power Grid Co. the banking sector with particular emphasis on (a) of Bangladesh Ltd., WAPDA Building, Motijheel improving governance; (b) restructuring and Commercial Area Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 955- recapitalization of domestic commercial banks; (c) 4209, Fax: (880-2) 866-956; Rural Electrification Board privatizing nationalized commercial banks; and (d) 4209, Fax: 2 6,IOA Dhanmond i Board improving the environment for debt recovery. A technical (REB), House 26, Rd. 3iA,Dhanmondi R(A, Dhaka, assistance component will also be included to strengthen the Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 327-828, Fax: (880-2) 815-804 central bank and upgrade technology and human resource Bangladesh base. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. Private Sector Development US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. (R) Private Sector Infrastructure Development: The Implementing agency is to be determined. project will include two components: (a) provision of up to US$ 140 million forfunding and operating a development Bangladesh facility which will onlend long-termfor infrastructure Population, Health and Nutrition projects supported by the private sector, (this government- Fifth Heltadoultin:Teroecwlspprtsupportedfacility will work in combination with private FifthPopulation: Healthand The project will support a sector debt and equity; (b) a technical assistance sector program which gives priority to a basic health component of about US$ 18 million to promote private services package, primarily for maternal, reproductive and participation in infrastructure and build institutional child health and family planning services. The project seeks caracitp to ireiarefevaluate and nebotilatestecific t rtvat to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the sector subcontracts. Project appraisal was scheduled to country's health and family planning strategies while begin in June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category A. continuing to reduce fertility and lower maternal and child ODA and CIDA have expressed an interest in cofinancing. morbidity and mortality. Project preparation is under way. US$ 150.0 (IDA). The Infrastructure Development Environmental Assessment Category C. Cofinancing Company (IDC) will recruit an investment advisor to expected from multilateral and bilateral sources. appraise sub-project proposalsfrom sponsors and to advise US$ 200.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for project IDC on loan decisions. Consultants will also be required to preparation. A Japanese PHRD grant has been approved for advise the government and its various agencies on project preparation. preparing, promoting and finalizing infrastructure sub- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bhaban 3, Room projects for private sectorfinancing and implementation. 311, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880- Implementing agency is to be determined. 2) 832-079,Fax: (880-2) 416-057 Bangladesh Bangladesh Power Telecommunications Telecommunications Sector Reform: The project will Power Development: The project will seek to (a) hand over support the government in implementing a comprehensive the transmissionsystem of the country to the PowerGrid telecommunicationssector reform programdesigned to Corporation and provide SCADA facilities for optimizing tel privatinvesents, operat detito dispatch and operational control; (b) develop a market The project includes the following components: (a) environment in the sector by establishing profit centers and technical assistance for the regulatory agency to build up its facilitate private sector participation in utility operations; regulatory capabilities and undertake selected studies; (b) a 106 South Asia Region June 1997 frequency management and monitoring system; (c) US$ 200.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for project financing necessary facilities in the Bangladesh Telegraph supervision. and Telephone Board (BTTB) network to satisfy future Roads and Highways Department, Sarak Bhavan, Ramna, interconnection needs of private operators; and (d) a study Dhaka, Bangladesh, Fax: (880-2) 865-168 to identify measures to make BTTB more efficient and competitive. Project preparation is under way. Bhutan Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: BDPA44788. Education/Training Amount to be determined. (IDA). Consultants will be required for preparation and implementation. Education II: The project will support (a) the expansion of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Bhaban 7, Rm. primary and secondary school facilities, including teacher 411, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880- education, curriculum and instructional material 2) 831-480, Contact: Secretary; BTTB, Telejogajog Bhaban, development, educational assessment and examination 37/E, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh, Tel: improvements and provision of support services to primary (880-2) 407-800, 831-500, Fax: (880-2) 832-577, Contact: and secondary schools; and (b) strengthening of the Chairman decentralized school management system. Preappraisal has been completed. Environmental Assessment Category C. Bangladesh The project will be cofinanced with the government of Switzerland. Transport US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. (R) Dhaka Urban Transport: The project will include (a) Education Division, Ministry of Health and Education, support for capacity building, including technical assistance Thimpu, Bhutan, Tel: (975-2) 22252, 22724, Fax: (975-2) for addressing institutional policy and regulatory 22724 framework, enhancing the private sector role, increasing implementation capacity and developing an environmental India improvement action plan; (b) support measures for Agriculture will improving the public transport system with a focus on (R) National Agricultural Technology: The project efficient private sector managed bus systems, (c) training increase the efficiency and relevance of the agricultural for transport agencies and others, including public technology development and dissemination system through education on road safety; (d) civil works, materiaNs, (a) institutional and policy adjustments; (b) support for equipment and project support for better traffic prioritutional develjument management; (e) improving facilities for buses, non- priority research in accordance with national development motorized transport and pedestrians; and (f) preparation of objectives, needs of farmers, and sustainable use of the a long-term urban transport plan for the capital area. Project natural resource base; and (c) strengthen research- preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment extension-farmer linkages. Preappraisal has been Category B. PID: BDPE9524. completed. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: US$ 112.0(IDA). Consultants have been selected to INPA10561. conduct preparatory engineering and economic studies. US$ 100.0 (IDA). FAO/CP is assisting with the preparatinn Consultants will be required to provide supervision and work. Consultants will be financed under a Japanese grant. project related technical assistancefor training and Ministry of Agriculture, Indian Council of Agricultural institutional strengthening. Research, 105 Krishi Bhavan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, Allenbury, Old New Delhi 110 001, India Airport Rd., Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 315-544 India Bangladesh Agriculture Transport (R) Third Andhra Pradesh Irrigation (Ln. 4166-IN), (Cr. Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance III: The project 2952): The project will support the completion of the includes (a) improvement of about 500-600 kilometers of Srisailem Right Bank Scheme and the rehabilitation of the feeder roads; (b) construction of a new road between Nalka Sriramasagar Project. Other components include and Bonpara; (c) rehabilitation and improvement of the agricultural support services, a regional environmental Dhaka - Sylhet road; and (d) technical assistance for management plan and assistance to persons affected by land financial and institutional strengthening of the Roads and acquisition under a previous project. Both the loan and Highways Department and for project implementation. credit were approved by the Executive Directors on 20 May Project preparation is under way. Environmental 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Assessment Category B. PID: BDPA37294. INPA35158. 107 June 1997 SouthAsia Region

US$ 150.0(IDA); US$ 150.0(IBRD). Consulting services India will be requiredduring implementationonly. Irrigationand CommandArea DevelopmentDepartment, Enviromment AP Secretariat,Hyderabad 500022, India, Tel: (91-40) 232- (R) HazardousWaste Management: The project will 529, Fax: (91-40) 233-511 assist in the implementationof the government'spolicy on hazardousmaterials and hazardous-wastemanagement and India implementa cost-effectiveand sustainablehazardous waste Agriculture managementsystem. Specific goals are to (a) strengthen institutionsinvolved in hazardouswaste management;(b) UttarPradesh Diversified Agricultural Support: The supportthe developmentof a networkof properlydesigned project will support:(a) agriculturalintensification and and manageddisposal and containmentsites for hazardous diversificationthrough modernization of agricultural waste;and (c) supporttraining and information services,especially research and extension,with NGOsand requirementsfor implementationof this hazardouswaste private sectorparticipation and (b) rural roads and markets system.Appraisal mission is scheduled for July 1997. A development.Appraisal mission is scheduledfor July 1997. PHRDgrant and a DANIDATrust Fund have been EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: INPA35824. approved.An environmentalimpact assessmentfor a US$ 150.0(IDA). Individuallocal and international potentialsite was finalizedin September1996. consultantsin selectedareas have been identifiedand in EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID:6 A41178. most caseshave commencedthe work.FAO/Cooperative US$ 80.0 (ITF); US$ 100.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been Programis also supportingpreparation work. selected. Governmentof Uttar Pradesh(GOUP), GOUP Secretariat, Ministryof Environmentand Forests (MOEF),1023 P Lucknow226001, India ParyaBhavan, Lodi Road, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) India 436-0783,Fax: (91-11)436-0678; State Secretaries of Environment Agriculture Uttar PradeshForestry: This projectwill cover the state of India Uttar Pradesh.The project,which is sector-wide,covers all Environment aspectsof forestry,including sector policy reforms. The Solar ThermalPower: The project will focus on main thrustis onjoint forest managementwith forest constructionof a solar thermal/fossilfuel hybrid power villagesand tribal people.Appraisal mission has returned plant of about 140 MW, incorporatinga parabolictrough from the field. A PPF advancehas been approved. solar thermalfield of 35 to 40 MW. It will also includea EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: INPA35169. technicalassistance package to supportcommercialization US$ 50.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. of solar thermaltechnology. Project preparationis under Uttar Pradesh ForestDepartment, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, way. GEF approveda US$ 750,000 advancefor project Tel: (91-522)283-871, Fax: (91-522)283-322 (Project preparation.Environmental Assessment Category A. Office) US$ 49.0 (GEF). Consultantswill be required. India RajasthanEnergy DevelopmentAgency Education/Training India (R) Third DistrictPrimary Education: The project will Industry assist the government of Bihar to build and strengthen (R) CoalSector Rehabilitation:The projectwill support state, district and sub-district institutional capacity to the implementation of a reform program for the coal sector. ensure that more children from socially disadvantaged The project will focus on the commercialization of the coal groups complete the five year primary education cycle in industry and finance equipment for the expansion of low literacy districts. Appraisal mission is scheduled for existing mines. Negotiations were scheduled for early June August 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: UNICEFhas expressedan interestin cofinancingthe INPA9979. project.PID: INPA38021. US$ 330.0 (IBRD);US$ 2.0 (IDA). Foreign and local US$ 141.6 (IDA).Consultants will be required. consultantswill be required. DPEP Bureau,Department of Education,Ministry of Coal India Ltd., World Bank ProjectDivision, 10 Netaji HumanResources Development, Shastri Bhavan, New Subhas Road, Calcutta700 001, India, Tel: (91-33) 248- Delhi 110 001, Tel: (91-11)338-2298, Fax: (91-11)338- 7309, Fax: (91-33) 248-3373,248-5616 1355, Contact:Mr. R.S. Pandey,Joint Secretary 108 June 1997 South Asia Region

India India Industry Population, Health and Nutrition of the (R) Industrial Safety and Disaster Prevention: The (R) Reproductive and Child Health: The objectives of the family objectives of the project are to (a) assist in the project are to (a) improve the performance (b) implementation of the government's policy on industrial welfare system in implementing policy change; safety; (b) promote the adoption of cost-effective safety strengthen the quality and effectiveness of a defined health services; measures by industry; and (c) to provide technical essential package of reproductive and child and assistance on safety to specialized government agencies and (c) expand access to the essential package of services; application industry. Preappraisal mission is scheduledfor July 1997 (d) improve project implementation through the funding. The Environmental Assessment Category B. Dutch Trust Fund of performance-based criteria for continued approval, agreement for US$ 150,000 was signed. project was scheduled to be presented for Environmental US$ 120.0 (IBRD/IDA). Letters of invitation have been following ITF procedures, in late May 1997. issued to short-listed firms. Assessment Category C. PID: INPA10531. for capacity Ministry of Environment and Forests, Paryavaran Bhavan, US$ 200.0 (ITF). Consultants will be required - CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003, India, building, procurement support, training, Information surveys. Tel: (91-11) 436-1341, Contact: J. C. Kala, Joint Secretary; Education - Communication (IEC) and community No. 346, A Ministry of Labor, Shram Shakti Bhawan, Rafi Marg, New Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Room (91-11) 378- Delhi 110001, India Wing, Gate No. 5, New Delhi, India, Tel: India 2443, Fax: (91-11) 301-4252 Population, Health and Nutrition India (R) Capacity Building for Food and Drug Quality Power The project Control: The project will strengthen essential public health (R) Haryana Power Sector Restructuring: power functions focusing on consumer protection and quality will support the process of reforming the Haryana power under control for food and drugs. Main components include (a) sector with the goals of (a) supplying electric and cost to quality control of drugs and biologicals; (b) food quality the most efficient conditions in terms of quality and (b) enabling control and safety; and (c) supportfor institutional capacity support economic development of the state; a net building. Technical mission is scheduledfor the state's power industry to eventually become consultant's October/November 1997. Environmental Assessment generator of financial resources. Based on package Category C. PID: INPA 10560. report the government approved a reform w,vas US$ 170.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. privatizing power distribution. Appraisal mission Environrnental Ministry of Public Health and Family Welfare, A Wing, tentatively scheduled for late May 1997. Gate No. 5, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi 110 001, India, Assessment Category A. completed Tel. (91-11) 301-7481, Fax: (91-11) 301-4252, Contact: US$ 350.0 (IBRD). Consulting firms have Mrs. Shailaja Chandra, Additional Secretary studies and submitted reports for the investment components. India State of Haryana, Chandigarh, India, Tel: (91-172) 540- Population, Health and Nutrition 774, Fax: (91-172) 540-774 (R) Malaria Control: The project will improve the balance India of interventions in the National Malaria Eradication Program toward a more effective malaria control strategy. Power project will Comnponentsinclude (a) integrated early detection and Power Grid System Development II: The for the Eastern prompt treatment; (b) vector control and diversification; (c) finance (a) coordination and control systems system epidemic planning and rapid response; and (d) institutional and Western regions and (b) transmission is deferred to strengthening. Board presentation was scheduled for 12 improvements and interconnection. Project toward June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: fiscal year 1998 because of insufficient progress A. INPA10511 appraisal. Environmental Assessment Category to help US$ 16S.0 (IDA). Consultant services to be determined US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required system projects. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), implement the Eastern and Western region National Malaria Eradication Program (NMEP), 22, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., HEMKUNT Delhi 110 019, Shamnath Marg, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 291-8576, Chambers, 10th floor, 89 Nehra Place, New Fax: (9 1-1bI 647- Fax: (91-11) 251-8329 India, Tcl: (91-11) 647-1259, 643-2933. 109 June 1997 South Asia Region

2044, Contact:Mr. S. Majumdar,General Manager, Ministryof Finance,Gate 2, North Block,New Delhi, CorporatePlanning India, Tel: (91-11) 301-1558 India India Power SocialSector RajasthanPower SectorRestructuring: The project will (R) Womanand Child Development:The objectiveof the include (a) an investmentcomponent to finance expansion project is to improvethe nutritional,health and educational and upgradingof transmissionand distributionfacilities status of youngchildren and the health of pregnant and and (b) a technicalassistance package to assist the nursingmothers in the poorest populationsin selected areas governmentof Rajasthanin implementingthe sector reform of fivestates. Preappraisal mission has been completed. program.Project preparation is under way.A PPF advance EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: INPA35827. of US$ 2.0 millionwas extendedfor project preparation. Parallelcofinancing is expectedfrom UNICEF. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 200.0(IDA). Consultingservices to be determined. US$ 350.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor Departmentof Women and Child Development,Ministry of implementationof the reformprogram. HumanResources Development, Room #615, A Wing, Departmentof Energy,Government of Rajasthan,First ShastriBhavan, New Delhi 110001, India, Tel: (91-Il ) Floor, SSO BuildingSecretariat, Jaipur 302005, India, Tel: 338-6227,Fax: (91-11) 338-1800 (91-141)380635, Fax: (91-141)45279 India India SocialSector Power BombayRehabilitation and Resettlement:The project Uttar PradeshState PowerSector Restructuring:The aims to (a) assist in the actual resettlementand project will include(a) an investmentcomponent for the rehabilitationof persons affectedby the SecondBombay reh4bilitationof generatingstations; (b) upgradingand UrbanTransport Project and (b) build institutionalcapacity expansionof transmissionand distributionfacilities; (c) in the Bombaymetropolitan region to managefuture urban systems and retail consumermeters; (d) implementationof rehabilitationand resettlementdemand. The project has demand-sidemanagement and other efficiency three components:(a) investments(shelter for up to 45,000 improvementmeasures; and (e) technicalassistance and project affectedfamilies); (b) capacitybuilding; and (c) a trainingfor implementingthe reform programand social developmentfund. Preappraisalhas been completed. institutionalstrengthening to the power sectorcorporations. EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. A PPF (US$ 2.0 Projectprocessing is currentlyon hold.Environmental million)was approved,as well as a PHRDGrant (US$ AssessmentCategory A. 860,000).PID: INPA39665. US$ 350.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be requiredfor US$ 100.0million (IDA). Consultantshave been selectedto implementationof the reform programand various conductinstitutional studies. investmentcomponents. BombayMetropolitan Regional Development Agency, Departmentof Energy,Government of Uttar Pradesh, Bombay,India, Tel: (91-22) 640-0306,Fax: (91-22) 642- Lucknow226001, India, Tel: (91-522)211-119, Fax: (91- 9751, Contact:Mr. Phatak 522) 215-279 India

India SocialSector SocialSector Rural Women'sDevelopment and Empowerment(Cr. (R) DistrictPoverty Initiatives: The project will finance 2942-IN):The aim of the project is to improvewomen's investmentsto alleviatepoverty in selectedpoor districts in economic and social status through:(a) establishmentand four states. It will emphasizearea development,a social capacity buildingof women's self-reliantgroups with the fund for community-basedprojects, capacity building, help of NGOsand other line agencies;(b) supportfor ! decentralizationand participationin project developmentto women-managedincome generatingactivities; (c) ensure sustainability.Project preparation is under way. improvingwomen's access to social servicesand leveraging EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: INPA10505. funds for communityassets; and (d) projectmanagement US$ 250.0 (IDA). Consultantshave been selectedfor and processmonitoring and evaluation.Approved by the projectpreparation. Additional consultants will be ExecutiveDirectors on 27 March 1997. Environmental appointedas the need emerges. AssessmentCategory B. PID: INPA44449.IFAD will provide cofinancingin the amountof US$ 19.3million. 110 SouthAsia Region June 1997

US$ 19.5(IDA). No consultantsare required. for projectmonitoring and institutionalstrengthening of the CentralNodal Agency, Departmentof Women and Child PublicHealth Engineering Department; and (d) promote Development,Jeevan Deep Building,Sanad Marg, New hygieneeducation. Negotiations are delayedto assess the Delhi 110 001, India, Tel: (91-11) 334-8994,Fax: (91-11) implicationsof the new govemment's policyfor free water 334-8521 and powerto agricultureand its implementation. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: INPA44206. India US$ 80.0 (IBRD);US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be Transport requiredfor (a) feasibilitystudies and designs of rural water supply andsanitation schemes; (b) computerized (R) Andhra Pradesh State Highways: The projectwill ManagementInformation System; (c) state water include(a) the wideningand rehabilitationof about 1,200 managementplan; and (d) other studies and technical km of statehighways; (b) updatingand expandingthe assistancein water management,water pricing, and exi.,dngroad managementsystem; (c) technicalassistance environmentaland health impact assessments. for institutionalreform and strengthening;and (d) Iron and her impact atessmes. consultingservices for projectdesign and coordinationand Irrigationand PowerDepartment, Water Resources for supervisionof civil works.Board presentation was (9r1-175)548-046, Contact: Mr. ManmohanSingh, Chief scheduledfor 17 June 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment EngineerWater ResourcesOrganization; Public Health CategoryB. PID: INPA09995. Department,Government of Punjab,Patiala, Fax: (91-175) US$ 300.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredfor 212 022, Contact:Mr. B.R. Bansal, Chief EngineerWater supervisionof civil works. 212 andContation Roads and BuildingsDepartment, Erranmanzil, Supplyand Sanitation Hyderabad,500482, Andhra Pradesh,India, Tel: (91-40) India 393-180,Fax: (91-40) 393-197,Contact: Mr. V. Murahari Reddy,Engineer in Chief Water Supply/Sanitation Third Madras Water Supplyand Environmental India Sanitation: The project will finance (a) the rehabilitation Transport and expansionof water distributionin Madras and adjacent urbanareas and (b) sewerage systemimprovements and (R) State HighwaysII (Haryana):The projectincludes (a) environmentalsanitation including low-cost sanitation and the wideningand reconstructionof about 800 km of state solidwaste disposal. Project concept review is scheduledfor highways;(b) establishmnentand initial operationof a road- December1997. Environmnental Assessment Category A. managementsystem for state highways;and (c) associated US$ 200.0million (IBRD).Consulting services to be institutionalstrengthening reforms. Preappraisalmission is determined. scheduledfor November1997. EnvironmentalAssessment MadrasMetro water,No. I PumpingStation Road, Madras CategoryB. 600M002,India, Tel: (91-44) 835-998,Fax (91-44)831-243 US$ 140.0(IBRD). Consultants have been selected. PublicWorks Department, Government of Haryana, Nepal Chandigarh160 019, India, Tlx: 953 01725403,Tel: (91- 172)45570, Fax: (91-172) 24548,Contact: Mrs. Jain Agriculture Singh,Secretary (R) Agricultural Research and Extension: Theobjecdve of the projectis to strengthenthe nationalcapacity and India efficiencyof agriculturalresearch and technologytransfer WaterSupply/Sanitation for agriculturalproductivity. Project componentsinclude (a) agriculturaltechnology generation, acquisition and testing; (a)assistPunjabWater R evesourment:aThe projectn and (b) agricultural technology transfer. Appraisal mission (a) assist Punjab indeveloping environmnentally sound is completed. Conditions for negotiations not yet met. policyand institutionalreformns to improve the efficiencyof EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: NPPA48026. water resourcesmanagement; (b) support the upgradeand A PHRDgrant of US$ 0.45 mnillionwas approvedfor constructionof water supplyand sanitationschemes preparationassistance. coveringabout 600 villages, while promotingand piloting US$ 30.5 (IDA).Research and extensionspecialists will be changes in currentpractices in the state, including required. beneficiaryparticipation in the design and implementation Ministryof Agriculture,Singh Durbar, Kathmandu,Nepal, of projects,full responsibilityfor operationand Tel: (977-1)225-108 managementof the schemesby communitiesand beneficiarycontribution to capitalcosts; (c) providesupport

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Nepal Departmentof Irrigation,Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 537-136,535-383, 527-442, Agriculture 526-768,Fax: (977-1) 537-169 (R) Land Resources Management: The project will aim to Nepal supportthe conservationand managementof land Power resources,through the integrationof forest management Power Development:The objectivesof the project are to with soil conservationand biodiversityprotection and owerDev useof Nepal's owe potent an management,as set out in the forest SectorMaster Plan. (a) optimizethe use of Nepal's hydropowerpotential in an Projectcomponents may include:(a) institutional environmentallysustainable and sociallyacceptable way; development;(b) policy and market analysis;(c) program and (b) supplementprivate and other public financingfor implementationto supportan integratedapproach to land the developmentof Nepal's power sectorto meet the resourcemanagement; (d) assistance for prioritized domesticdemand for electricityand to exportpower where research,technology and extensionprograms; and (e) possible.Project components include (a) the Power developmentof a sustainablefinancing mechanism to DevelopmentFund, which wouldfunction as a catalyst and supportbiodiversity conservation programs. Project lenderof last resort, for private and other public funding preparation is scheduled to begin during fiscal year /998. available for the development of the power sector; (b) pre- EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. identifiedtransmission and distributioninvestments and US$ 30.0(IDA), US$4.0 (GEF). Recruitmentof local institutionalstrengthening measures to be implementedby consultantsis underway. the Nepal ElectricityAuthority; and (c) technical assistance Ministryof Forestsand Soil Conservation,Singa Darbar, for capacity buildingat the Ministryof Populationand Kathmandu,Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 223-862,Fax: (977-1) Environment.Appraisal has been substantiallycompletee. 226-099,Contact: Mr. AmritL. Joshi EnvironmentalAssessment Category A. PID: NPPA43311. US$ 175.0(IDA). Consultantswill be required. Nepal Ministryof Water Resources,Singha Durbar, Kathmandu. Tel: (977-1) 228923,Fax: (977-1)227536, Contact:Mr. D. Agriculture N. Dhungel,Secretary IrrigationSector: The project will financea time-sliceof the overallirrigation investment program consisting of: (a) Nepal rehabilitationof small-and medium-scalefarmer-owned Transport and managed(FMIS) surface schemesin three western s regions;t (b) constructionOf new PMISgroundwater (R) Multimodal Transit and Trade Facilitation Project irrigationschemes in the Terai; (c) turnoverof small- and (MTTFP): The project will improveand modernizeNepal's medium-scalepublic surface and groundwaterirrigation transit trade throughIndia's ports and road/railnetwork. Its schemesto water-userassociations (WHAS) after componentsare: (a) constructionof three modern inland rehabilitation,for operationsand maintenance;(d) joint freightterminal (IFT) one at Birgunj with rail/roadfacilities participatorymanagement of large-scalesurface public and two others in Bhairahwaand Biratnagar,close to the irrigation schemessuch as SunsariMorang, (e) institutional Indianborder, for road traffic; (b) constructionof a 7-km developmentto strengthenthe Departmentof Irrigation's broadgauge rail siding to Birgunj from the Indian border; (DOI) central,regional and district offices,hydrological and (c) technicalassistance and trainingfor improvedtrade data collectionby Departmentof Hydrologyand facilitationi,computerization of documents,management of Meteorology(DOHM) and WHAS;and (t) completionof IFT, and design and supervision.Board presenttation is the central government'swater resources strategy scheduledfor early September 1997.Environmental formulationand preparationof Nepal's water resources AssessmentCategory B. PID: NPPA10509. policies.Beneficiary involvement in construction, US$ 24.0 (IDA). Consultantshave completedfeasibility operations and maintenance improvement in irrigation will studies and engineering and institutional recommendations. be thefundamental objective of all irrigation development Pre-qualification for civil works is underway. under the project. Appraisalmission is scheduledfor late Ministry of Commerce(in associationwith Ministryof June 1997.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Works and Transport(MOWT), Kathmandu,Nepal, NPPA10530. Contact:Secretary, Tel: (977-1)215-347, 215-324 US$ 80.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required for detailed design, supervisionof sub-projectsduring implementation, institutionalstrengthening of DOI, DOHMand WHAS and formulationof Nepal's water resourcesstrategy.

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Nepal cofinancingfrom ODA UK. Retroactivefinancing is expected. PID: PKPA10500. Transport US$ 285.0 (IDA). Consultants are required for pre- Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance II: The project implementation and implementation activities. contents are to be determined. Project is being identified. Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. WAPDA House, Lahore, Pakistan, Tel: (92-42) 211-954, US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for feasibility Fax: (92-42) 636-0154, Contact: NDP Program Coordinator studies, design and supervision of road works. Ministry of Works and Transport, Babar Mahal, Pakistan Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 231-510, Fax: (977-1) Agriculture 225-993 Agricultural Sector Investment: The project will support Pakistan continued agricultural growth through agricultural price Agriculture and market policy reforms, restructuring of agricultural l Agriculture public enterprises and private sector development. Project (R) Lower Bar! Doab Canal Command (formerly preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment National Irrigation Program): The project will (a) Category B. PHRD Grant for project preparation was decentralize irrigation management; (b) support policy and signed. institutional reforms for participatory irrigation US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. management (PIM); (c) establish public utilities and farmer Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Islamabad, organizations on selected major canal commands; and (d) Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 210-351, Fax: (92-51) 221-246 improve the operational efficiency of the irrigation system. Project preparation is delayed while the government and the Pakistan Bank finalize proposed changes in irrigation institutions. A Education/Training PHRD grant for project preparation was signed in December 1995. Environmental Assessment Category B. (R) Education Sector Institutional Reform: The project US$ 70.0 (IBRD); US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consulting services to will support: (a) institutional development of the agencies in be determined. the education sector responsible for policy analysis; and (b) Ministry of Water and Power, Office of Chief Engineering upgrading the assessment and examination systems. The Adviser, 16-D East Safdar-Mansi, Blue Area, Islamabad, project will operate through twinning relationship between Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 826-589 Pakistan and overseas education institutions; the government is in the process of identifying potential Pakistan partners.This project is no longer in the current lending Agriculture program and further reporting will be discontinued. (R) National Drainage Program: The project includes Pakistan three components. The irrigation and drainage institutional Education/Training reform component is aimed at reducing the quantity of excess water and salts to be drained in the longer term, (R) Northern Education: The project is aimed at through policies and incentives for better operation and improving the quality of education, improving access and maintenance, improved water allocation and use, and the participation of the community, and strengthening the control of over-irrigation. The drainage investments institutional capacity in Northern Areas (NA) and Azad component is aimed at evacuating excess water and salts Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) areas. Negotiations were from the Indus Basin. The drainage research component is tentatively scheduled for June 1997. Environmental aimed at enhancing the technical foundations of drainage. Assessment Category C. PID: PKPA37834. The private sector beneficiaries and NGOs will have critical US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be required and design and implementation roles. Board presentation is will be financed through a PHRD grant. tentatively scheduled for late June 1997. Environmental Directorate of Education (NA), Gilgit, Pakistan, Tel: (92- Assessment Category B. An IDA PPF advance of US$ 3 572) 2388; Department of Education (AJK), Muzaffarabad, million has been approved for pre-implementation activities Pakistan, Tel: (92-58) 2409 and preparation of investment projects. ADB has signed a parallel loan of US$ 140 million equivalent. OECF has signed a parallel loan of about US$ 100.0 million equivalent. Discussions are under wayfor £12.0 million in

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Pakistan Pakistan Environment Transport (R) Protected Area Management: The project will (R) Karachi Port Development (formerly Karachi Port include:(a) strengtheningof protected area system; (b) Privatizationand Development):The project will include: improvingparticipatory management of three priority (a) improvementof the navigationchannel and protectedareas of globalbiodiversity significance; (c) rehabilitationand extensionof the breakwater;(b) human resourcesand institutionaldevelopment; and (d) provisionsfor pollutioncontrol equipmentand hazardous improvingbiodiversity information. Appraisal mission is cargo terminal;(c) regulatingthe flow of port traffic; (d) scheduledfor September1997. EnvironmentalAssessment developmentof an off-dock terminal;(e) enhancementof CategoryB. privatizationinitiatives; (f) improvementof the regulatory US$ 10.0(GEF). An internationalNGO has been selected framework;(g) rationalizationof the labor force; and (h) for projectpreparation. the procurementof equipmentand technicalassistance. Ministryof Environment,Local Governmentand Rural Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment Development CategoryA. PID: PKPA41886. PaisanUS$100.0 (IBRD).Consultants will be requiredto: (a) PakIstan review the existingregulatory framework; (b) prepare Power implementationplans and bidding documentsfor works on the channeland breakwater;(c) upgrade the Indus PowerTransmission Grid Guarantee:The project computerizationinitiative; (d) enhanceprivate sector willprovide for constructionof transmissionlines, totaling comp*rticiation;(as projects uperivisio 1,4ss01,400~kmikm on ~ a build-own,bul-w,admitanbssb'rvtand maintain basis by private participation;KarachiPort Trust,(e) assist PO inBox project No. 4725,supervision. Karachi74000, sponsors,including National Grid Co. and Midlands Pakistan.Tel: (92-21) 231-1132;Fax: (92-21) 231-1567, Electricity.This is a Bank partial risk guaranteefor Contact:General Manager approximatelyUS$ 80 millionof commercialdebt financing,in supportof a limitedrecourse project financing Pakistan of aboutUS$ 702 million.Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Cofinancinghas Transport beenconfirmed with ADB and Export CreditsGuarantee FreightTransport Improvement and Facilitation:The Department(UK). project will assist with the formationand operationof a US$ 80.0(IBRD). No consultantsare required. private railwayfreight companythrough introducing PrivatePower and InfrastructureBoard, 50 NizimuddinRd. moderncustoms and other facilitationprocedures. Project F7/4, Islamabad,Pakistan, Fax: (92-51) 921-7735 preparationis underway. EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryB.l Pakistan US$ 130.0(IBRD). Consultants have been selected. SocialSector Ministryof Railways,Government Secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan,Tlx: 5714 MINRAIL,Fax: (92-51) 828-846; (R) SocialAction Program II: The projectwill focus on Pakistan ShippersCouncil, ST-28, Block 5, Shahre improvingbasic education,health and family planning Firdousi, Kehkashan,Main Clifton, Karachi 75600, servicesby supportingimprovements in servicequality, Pakistan,Fax: (92-21) 587-4332 managementand financingand by encouragingthe participationof NGOsand the private sector. Cofinancing Pakistan from ADB is confirmed. Cofinancing is also expected from ODA, the Netherlands, EU and OECF. Preappraisal Water Supply/Sanitation mis ion was completedin December1996. Environmental (R) LahoreWaste-to-Energy: The primary goal of this Assessment Category C. pilot demonstration project is to mitigate the emission of US$ 250.0 (IDA). Consultants for project preparation are greenhouse gases from municipal solid waste in Lahore. It being financed through PHRD grants. will include the construction and operation of a landfill by Planningand DevelopmentDivision, Secretariat Block P, the private sector. The project will also includea small Governmentof Pakistan,Islamabad, Tel: (92-51) 212-831 technical assistancecomponent will support (a) the enhancementof the MunicipalCorporation of Lahore's capacityto managethe private sector concession/leaseand contractout wastecollection services; and (b) the disseminationof findingspertaining to best practicesin

114 South Asia Region June 1997 solid waste management. Project preparation is under way. Sri Lanka Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 12.0 (IDA/GEF). Consulting services to be determined. Education/Training Municipal Corporation of Lahore, Tel: (92-42) 735-3159, (R) General Education I: The project will support the Fax: (92-42) 732-5494; Planning and Development implementation of policy reforms and investment programs Department, Government of Punjab, Tel: (92-42) 732-1050 to improve educational quality, increase equity in access, and strengthen education administration in conjunction Pakistan with the current project on Teacher Education and Teacher Water Supply/Sanitation Deployment (Cr. 2881 -CE). It will focus on improving the quality of schools, increased access and education quality, Karachi Water Loss Reduction and System through upgrading of textbooks and educational materials, Strengthening: The project will (a) increase utilization updating and rationalization of curriculum, provision of through rehabilitation of existing systems to reduce water necessary classrooms, laboratories and sanitary facilities, losses and allow increased system pressure; (b) strengthen and strengthening the management and financial capacity the distribution systems to accommodate increased volumes of the education sector. Appraisal mission is scheduled for resulting from ongoing investment programs to increase the June 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: water supply to the city; (c) enhance system operation LKPA10525. capabilities through training; and (d) improve financial US$ 60.0 (IDA). Consultants are currently preparing operations and promote contracting out of maintenance project documentation. activities to the private sector. Preappraisal is currently on Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE), hold. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Isrupaya, Sri Jayawardhanapura Kotte, Battaramulla, PKPE10519. Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-1) 865803, Fax: (94-1) 865- US$ 35.0 (IBRD); US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consultants have been 803, 865-182, Contact: Mr. M. A. Ariyadasa, Project appointed. Coordinator, MEHE Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, Water House, M.R. Kayani Road, Karachi-I, Pakistan, Tel: (92-21) 219-671, Sri Lanka Fax: (92-21) 213-393, Contact: Mr. Badar Ul Hasan Environment Sri Lanka (R) Conservation of Medicinal Plants: The project will Agriculture provide financing for in-situ and ex-situ conservation and research, and development investments for medicinal (R) Agriculture Sector Investment: The project will focus plants. Appraisal mission is scheduledfor June 1997. on constraints to growth and poverty alleviation. Environmental Assessment Category B. Components will address food marketing, land tenure and US$ 6.0 (GEF). An international NGO was selected for subsistence agriculture. This project is no longer in the project preparation. lending program andfurther reporting will be discontinued. Ministry of Cooperatives, Provincial Councils, Local Sri Lanka Government and Indigenous Medicine Agriculture Sri Lanka (R) Mahaweli Restructuring and Rehabilitation: The Environment project includes restructuring of the Mahaweli Authority, (R) Environmental Action I: The project is a first phase of including (a) commercialization of business units; (b) a long-term effort to assist the government in environmental transfer of infrastructure to line agencies; (c) handing over planning and management. The project will (a) support the of responsibility for operation and maintenance of government's strategy for restructuring the Ministry of distributory and field canals to farmers' organizations; and Transport, Environment and Women's' Affairs (d) rehabilitation and improvement of irrigation facilities. Environmental Division and strengthening the Central Negotiations are tentatively scheduled for July 1997. Environmental Authority to carry out its analytical as well Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: LKPE34212. as enforcement and monitoring responsibilities; (b) support US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. an ongoing effort to internalize environmental Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka (MASL), PO Box 2201, considerations into the overall development planning Colombo 10, Sri Lanka, Tlx: 21338, Tel: (94-1) 687-238, process; and (c) help the government take immediate Fax: (94-1) 545-053, Cable: MAHANGA, Colombo remedial measures to reverse the trend of environmental degradation through pilot programs of participatory approaches to environmental management. The project was 115 Juine1997 SouthAsia Region approved,following ITF procedures,on 27 March 1997. ChittampalamGardiner Mawatha, PO Box 540, Colombo 2. Creditwas signed on 22 April 1997. Environmental Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-1) 329-108,Fax: (94-1)449-572 AssessmentCategory B. PID: LKPA10513. US$ 14.8(ITF). Consultantswill be requiredfor project Sri Lanka implementation. Social Sector Ministryof Transport,Environment and Women's Affairs, oc etor 6th floor,Unity Plaza Building,Bahbalaitiya, Colombo, Sri Poverty Alleviation/EmploymentII: The projectwill Lanka,Tel: (94-1) 588-274,Fax: (94-1) 502-566 facilitateaccess to resourcesand social servicesto promote self employmentand entry into the labor marketfor the Sri Lanka poor. Projecthas not yet been identified.Environmental AssessmentCategory to be determined. Power US$ 40.1 (IDA).Consultant serviceswill be required. (R) Energy Services Delivery:The project willpromote Ministry of Finance PolicyPlanning, Ethnic Affairs and privatesector development of cost-effectivegrid and off- NationalIntegration, Sethsiripaya, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka. grid alternativeenergy servicedelivery options, including Tel: (94-1)562-485 solar photovoltaichome systems,mini/micro-hydro installations,and demand-sidemanagement applications. A Sri Lanka wind powerdemonstration component is also included. UrbanDevelopment Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 18 March 1997. Creditwas signed on 22 April 1997. Environmental Clean Settlements:The project will support the AssessmentCategory B. A PPF of US$ 340,000was government'sefforts to improvethe living conditionsof approvedto developthe privatesector ESD projectpipeline, low-incomesettlements in the Colombometropolitan area. prepare the detaileddesign of a pilot wind farm, support Projectcomponents include: (a) regularizationof insecure start-upof CEB Pre-ElectrificationUnit and prepare DSM tenure to enhanceprivate savings and provideaccess to component.Retroactive financing of US$ 2.1 millionfor housing financeby the urbanpoor; and (b) provisionof off-gridsubprojects has been approved.PID: LKPE10498. sustainablebasic infrastructureservices to low-income US$ 24.2 (IDA),US$ 5.9 (GEF).Consultant services are settlementsthrough effective partnerships among key requiredfor implementation. stakeholders.Project preparation is under way.A PPF of Ministryof Finance,Galle Face Secretariat,Colombo 1, Sri US$300,000 was approvedfor consultantservices, pilot Lanka,r- Tel: (94-1) 549-823,Fax: (94-1)449-823; Ceylon schemesand training. EnvironmentalAssessment Category PID: LKPE41885. ElectricityBoard, 50 Sir ChittampalamA. Gardiner, B. Mawatha,Colombo 2, Sri Lanka,Tel: (94-1) 329-904,Fax: US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultantswill be requiredfor (94-1)449-572 preparationand implementation. Clean SettlementProject Unit, Ministryof Housing, Sri Lanka Construction,and Public Utilities,Colombo, Sri Lanka,Tel: Power (94-1) 872170, Fax: (94-1) 872167 (R) Power Sector Restructuring: Thepolicy component will (a) support restructuring and corporatization of the Ceylon Electricity Board, and initiate a gradual decentralization of the power sector; (b) create an enabling environment for private sector pariLipation; and (c) establish a power sector regulatory framework. The technicalassistance component will finance(a) various studies; (b) an MIS system; (c) project consultancy;and (d) other institutionalcapacity building measuresincluding training. Projectpreparation is under way. Environmental AssessmentCategory B. PID: LKPE44795. US$ 30.0 (IDA).Consultants will be required for preparationof bidding documents,bid evaluationand supervision. Ministryof Irrigation,Power and Energy,600 TB Jayah Mawatha,Colombo 10, Sri Lanka,Tel: (94-1) 687-370, Fax: (94-1)694-968; CeylonElectricity Board, 50 Sir

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East Asia and Pacific Region Europe and Central Asia Region

Indonesia Azerbaijan Agriculture Reconstruction/RehabOitation Kalimantan Area Development:The project will reduce Azerbai,an Pilot Reconstruction:The project's overall rural poverty in agricultural upland areas by: (a) raising objectives are to: (a) pilot a program to assist in the return agriculturalproductivity and diversifying sources of income, of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) to their land and in supporting community-basedforest managementand resuming a normal economic life, as the security situation community development initiatives; (b) providing evolves; and (b) develop a domesticinstitutional capacity to infrastructure for production and market linkages; and (c) manage reconstruction activities, including the clearance of facilitating flow of credit and strengthening farmer self-help - land mines. The Project's specificobjectives are: (a) groups, NGOs, research institutes, local and regional reconstruct and rehabilitate the most essential basic physical governments and technical agencies. and social infrastructure and housing needed for the Project Concept Document (PCD) has been issued. Further resumption of normal economic life in the war-torn areas project actions will be determined following the PCD that are now under civilian rule; (b) assist in the clearance review. Environmental AssessmentCategory B. of land-mines; (c) provide the most essential institutional US$ 22.5 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. support services for carrying out agricultural activities in BANGDA, JI. Kalibata Raya 20, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: the project areas; (d) develop income generating activities (62-21) 744-2631, Fax: (62-21) 794-2637;BAPPENAS for the IDPs temporarily settled in project areas; and (e) develop the institutional capacity to manage reconstruction Indonesia activities, including de-mining, in the liberated areas. Education/Trainlng Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category: B. Sumatra Basic Education: The project will support US$ 23.1 (IDA). Consulting services will be required to improvements in the quality and managementof basic support (a) the clearance of land-mines, (b) the activities of education in North Sumatra, Riau and Bengkulu. Project the Azerbaijan Resettlement and ReconstructionAgency; preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment (c) income generating activities; and (d) afforestation. Category to be determined. Azerbaijan Resettlement and Reconstruction Agency US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. (ARRA), 69 Fizuli St., Baku, Azerbaijan, Tel: (99-412) 93- Ministry of Education and Culture, JI. Jend. Sudirman, 78-38, Contact: AlUMamedov, Director ARRA Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 573-2594, Fax: (62-21) 573-1436 Bosnia and Herzegovina Thailand Power Agriculture SecondElectric Power Reconstruction:The project will finance rehabilitation of hydro and thermal power stations Community Irrigation: The project, through active and transmission and distribution networks. Total project community participation, would support a program for cost is US$ 285.0 million. improved water resources management, irrigation systems Preappraisal is currently under way. Environmental improvement, crop diversification and on-farm activides. AssessmentCategory B. Project Concept Review scheduled for late May 1997. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for Environmental Assessment Category C. engineering services and project management. US$ 20.0 (IEBRD).Consultants will be required. PHRD ElektroprivredaBiH, Vilsonoro setaliste 20, 71000 funds will finance consulting services. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-71) 652-056. Royal Irrigation Department Fax: (387-71) 525-236, Contact: Mr. Sabaheta Sodikovic, Manager, Project ImplementationUnit; Elektroprivreda Mostar, Tel: (387-88) 800-259, Fax: (387-88) 801-079, Contact: Mr. Mate Jurkovic, General Manager; Elektroprivreda Republika Sprska, Petro 1, Karadordevica 11, Banja Luka, Tel: (381-78) 44015, Fax: (381-78) 41224, Contact: Mr. Nikola Erceg, General Director

117 June 1997 New Projects Added in This Issue

Bulgaria Russian Federation Structural Adjustmnent Finance Critical Imports Rehabilitation(Ln. 4157-BUL):The loan Non-Bank FinancialInstitutions: The project will support will finance the import of essential commoditiescurrently a program to develop institutional investors, primarily in short supply. The loan will be disbursed in a single insurance companies and private pension funds. Project is tranche upon effectivenessbased on measuresalready taken being identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. by the government.Approved by the Executive Directors on US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deterrnined. 8 May 1997. Environmental Assessment Category C. Implementing agency is to be determined. USS 40.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, 102 Rakovski St., 1000 Sofia, Russian Federation Bulgaria, Tel: (359-2) 869-222, Fax: (359-2) 870-581 Power Georgia Power Sector Reform Support:The project would finance foreign and Russian advisors to work with the various sector Urban Development entities and government agencies on implementation of the Municipal Developmentand Decentralization:The reform agenda. Assistancewould fall into three broad project's primary objectives are (a) to promote an enabling categories: (a) assistance to the government in further environment at the central and local level; (b) support refining and developing its concept for reform and capacity building in overall municipal management;(c) to elaborating a detailed implementation plan including improve revenue mobilization; and (d) to improve analyzing technical and institutional barriers to meeting the municipal investment programmning.Project preparation is objectives and identifying alternative solutions; (b) under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. assistance in carrying out the activities necessary to US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. implement the plan, and (c) support for the development of IndependentAgency for Development of Municipal electricity sector entities, including corporatization and Services, AgmashenebeliAve. 89/24, Tbilisi, Georgia, Tel: commercialization of operating companies and institutional (995-32) 986-950, Fax: (995-32) 951-003, Michael Ardia, strengthening of the regulators. Negotiations under way. Director Environmental Assessment Category C. US $40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Kazakstan Electricity Reform ImplementationUnit Population,Health and Nutntion Russian Federation Health: The project will include two components:(a) a program at the oblast level which would include primary Private Sector Development health care, facility reorganization and rationalization and Enterprise Support H: The loan will provide term finance financial and management strengthening; and (b) a to private enterprises through private commercial banks program at the national level supporting health promotion (line of credit). Project is being identified. Environmental and health program evaluation. Project preparation is under Assessment Category B. way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. US$ $25.0 (IEBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. Ministry of Health, 63 Ablai Khan Avenue, Almaty, Kazakstan, Tel: (7-3272) 3346-11, Fax: (7-3272) 33-17-19 Turkey Romania Agriculture Sanliurfa and Harran Plains on-Farm and Village StructuralAdjustment Development:The project will include (a) land Social ProjectionAdjustment: The loan will provide development, consisting of land consolidation and land use financial resources that will permit the government to planning, farm access roads and land leveling; (b) improved implement its social protection program. The loan will be land management consisting of cadastral management, disbursed in a single tranche. Board presentation was farner training and extension services, pest management scheduled for 3 June 1997. Environmental Assessment and soil restoration; and (c) village infrastructure Category C. improvements such as improved drinking water and village US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. roads. Project preparation is under way. A PHRD Grant Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, 2 Demetru I, will be used for technical assistance. Environmental Dobrescu St., Bucharest, Romania, Tel: (40-1) 615-0200, Assessment Category B. A request for expressions of Fax: (40-1) 613-8764, Contact: Mihai Seitan, Counsellor to interest from consulting firms to provide preparation the Minister

118 New Projects Added in This Issue June 1997 assistance was published in Development Business issue no. requirements and business structure options for the system's 462, dated 16 May 1997. financing and operation. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project Project preparation is under way. Environmental preparation. Assessment Category B. SoutheasternAnatolia Project, Regional Development US $40 (MBRD).Consulting services to be determrined. Administration,Ugur Mumcu'nun Sokagi No. 59, Gazi Hokimiyat of Tashkent, Public Service Bd., 11 Osman Pasa 06700, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 445- Movaroumahr St. Tashkent 700000, Tel: (3712) 33-18-14, 0215 - 18, Fax: (90-312) 437-6777, Contact: Sahin Cengiz, Fax: (3-712) 47-94-95, Contact: Gafur D. Rustannov, Deputy Director Deputy Director Turkey Urban Development Latin America and the Bursa Urban Transport:The project will focus on urban Caribbean Region transport and related issues. Components include (a) urban traffic and public transport improvements; (b) strategic road development; (c) urban infrastructure; and (d) technical Ecuador assistance for long-range land use, transport planning and policy design and implementation of public transport Rural Development regulation. Project preparation is under way. PID: Rural and Small City Water: The project will (a) finance TRPA43365.Environmental Assessment Category B. water and sanitation projects in about 55 small towns ana US$ 51.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required to prepare 500 rural communities;(b) provide capacity building for (a) detailed feasibility studies and (b) engineeringand national and provincial governments to assist small towns design studies. and rural communities; and (c) provide technical assistance Bursa MetropolitanMunicipality, 16190 Acemler, Bursa, for institutional strengthening of beneficiary towns and Turkey, Tel: (90-224) 233-9885, Fax: (90-224) 234-3749, communities. Appraisal mission is scheduled for March Contact: Mr. Turgut Yalki, Deputy Secretary General 1998. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required. Uzbekistan Ministerio de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano (MIDUVI), WaterSupply/Sanitation Toledo 684 y Lerida, Ecuador, Tel: (593) 554-400, Fax: Tashkent Solid Waste: The project's overall objectivesare (593) 560-338, Contact: Sigifredo Aldaz to: (a) return the existing municipal solid waste Mexico management(MSWM) system collection and disposal system to a satisfactory level of service; and (b) provide the Finance technical, economic and institutional basis for its future Financial Infrastructure: The loan will support reforms in operation and development.The specific objectivesare to: regulation and law in the areas of secured transactions, (a) ensure that adequate collection infrastructure in the form bankruptcy, asset securitization and capital markets. It will of collectionbins and vehicles exist to provide basic also support improvements in the institutional infrastructure MSWM services to the residential, commercial, institutional for lending and capital markets transactions. Project and industrialsectors; (b) improve the accessibility and preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment sanitary conditions at public and residential collection Category U. points; (c) upgrade existing landfill practices and operations US$ 150.0(IBRD). Consultantswill be required for sever-l to improve efficiency, reduce environmental impact and components. mitigate adjacent land use conflicts; (d) create Secretarfa de Hacienda y Credito Publico (SHCP) Jose environmental evaluation and monitoring capacity for Marfa Ibarraran No. 33, Segundo Piso, Colonia Jose Maria existing MSWM disposal facilities; (e) initiate actions to Insurgentes, Mexico, Tel: (525) 651-7284 ultimatelyplace the system on a stable financial footing in terms of full cost recovery and ability to finance ongoing operations and equipment replacement; (f) upgrade institutional capacity to manage the system as an independent, self-financing utility permitting privatizadon in the medium term; (g) investigate viability of high impact waste recovery and recycle options; and (h) develop a strategic plan for the system's future development, including identificationof major capital facility

119 New Projects Added In This Issue June 1997

Middle East and North Africa Region

? Egypt Private SectorDevelopment Private SectorExport Development:The project includes: (a) export finance to provide trade investment finance to firms on market terms; (b) exporter support services to help firms to identify, adapt to and penetrate new export markets; and (c) trade facilitation to help reduce the transaction costs of exporting and to improve exporters' access to raw materials and intermediate inputs at world market prices. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: EGPE49580. US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined Implementing agency is to be determined. Jordan Population, Health and Nutrition Health Sector Reform: The project is expected to increase the efficiency, quality and long-run financial sustainability of health services in Jordan through the following components: (a) rationalizing Jordan's health infrastructure investment program; (b) developing and implementing a national and facility level health information system; (c) implementingmodem facility payment and management methods; and (d) reforming the pharmaceuticalsector. Preappraisal mission is scheduled for July 1997. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: JOPE39749. US$ 45.0 (IBRD).Consultant services to be determined Implementingagency is to be determnined.

120 Projects Deleted from This Issue

Africa Region

Djibouti: Technical Assistance for Economic Reform (Cr. 2934-DJI) Ghana: Trade and Investment Promotion Kenya: National Agricultural Research II (Cr. 2953-KE) Kenya: Mombasa Water III Mozambique: Rural Action Uganda: Institutional and Engineering Support for Road Sector

East Asia and Pacific Region

Cambodia: Disease Control and Health Development (ITF N005-KH) China: Renewable Energy China: Financial Sector Technical Assistance II China: Pushihe Pumped Storage Indonesia: Solar Home Systems (Ln. 4132-IND)

South Asia Region

India: Environmental Management Capacity Building Technical Assistance (Cr. 2930-IN) India: Tuberculosis Control (Cr. 2936-IN) India: Bombay Urban Transport II

Middle East and North Africa Region

West Bank and Gaza: Community Development

Latin Americaand the CaribbeanRegion

Ecuador:Agricultural Research (Ln. 4075-EC) Guyana:Public SectorManagement II Guyana: Primary Health Services Development Haiti: Water Supply and Sanitation Peru: Mining Development and Environment Peru: Coastal Pollution Control Peru: Public Sector Reform Technical Assistance Uruguay: Power Transmission and Distribution (Ln. 3949-UR)

121 ANNEXI (Page 1 of 2) World Bank Guarantee Operations

PROJECT BANK GUARANTEE SCHEDULE

SOUTH ASIA

Pakistan: Freight Transport Project The need for and size of a partial risk guarantee of Board: FY98 (Private Sector) Establishment of a freight operatingcompany govemment sovereignpayment obligations will be determined by private sector sponsors to transport fuel to new private upon selection of sponsors. The bidding process is under power projects. Total project cost: US$80 million, review by the Govemment.

LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

Bolivia/Brazil: Bolivia -Brazil Gas Pipeline A partial credit guarantee of about US$15U million is being Board: FY98 (Public/Private Sector) The construction of an approximately considered for the project company in Brazil. 3,000 km pipeline to transport natural gas from Rio Grande in Bolivia to Pono Alegre in Brazil via Sao Paulo. Total project cost: US$2 billion.

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Panama: Power Guarantee Partial risk guarantee by Bank to back govemment Board: FY99 (Private Sector) Developmnentof country's first private power obligations. The Bank guarantee will be offered in a bid project to be bid competitively. document to potential sponsors as a financing option.

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

Lebanon: Awali-Beirut Water Conveyer Project Partial risk guarantee of at least US$50 million against Board: FY98 (Private Sector) Construction of a water conveyer to tunnel governmentobligations to the projeCt water from Juan for a distance of 24 kiiometers, with a treatment plant and reservoir, to supply water to south Beirut. Total project cost: US$150 million.

Morocco: Industrial Infrastructure Partial risk guarantee of up to US$50 million to suppon Board: FY98 (Private Sector) Development,on a concession basis [BOT or commercial bank financing is being considered as an option. BOO], of two expon oriented industrial parks. Total project Bid opening postponed to end of May and June 1997. cost: US$100 million.

Morocco: Jorl Lasjar Power Partial risk guarantee to back Govemment of Morocco's Board: FY97 (Private Sector) Construction of a 660MW coal fired power payment obligations to the project to mobilize private debt generation plant by private sponsors, ABB and CMS Energy, financingon a limited recourse basis. The Bank is also which were selected through a competitive process. Total financinga related transmission project with the electric project cost: US$2.1 billion (including lease of existing utility ONE (under a separate project). installed capacity of 660MW).

Yemen: Aden Container Terninal and Free Zone Partialrisk -enclaveguarantee of about US$50 million in Board: FY98 (Private Sector) Consists of developing a privately sponsored support of comnercial financing in conjunction with an IDA regional container transshipment hub and industrial free zone credit of US$25 million. in Aden. Total project cost is approximately: US$300 million.

EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA ANNEX I (Page 2 of 2) for up to Board: FY98 IBRD loanand partial credit guarantee Provide from Power Station Rehabilitation Projects The balanceof fundingto come Poland: retrofitting US$250million. Sector) Rehabilitatingand environmental generationand the NationalFund. (Public plantsselected from the intemal two high-prioritypower generating of studyfor thePolish recentlycompleted least-cost investment thetwo plants:US$515 powerindustry. The projectcost for million. in Russiaand Board:FY97 risk guaranteefor up to US$100 million Partial politicalrisks Russia/Ukraine: SeaLaunch Project million in Ukraineto cover limited launcheanh-orbiting US$100 of launchvehicles (PnvateSector) A joint ventureto with theproduction and export from a mobilelaunch associated commercialcommunication satellites Russiaand Ukraine. Ocean.Enterprises in from platformnear the equatorin thePacific thelaunch vehicles and be Russiaand Ukraine will produce alongwith Boeingof the US shareholdersin thejoint venture andKvaemer of Norway. FY98 exchangetransfer. Board: Partialrisk guaranteeto coverforeign Banks risks. Turkey: Guaranteefor Development andwar/civil disturbance to long term commercial expropriation (PrivateSector) Facilitatingaccess to onlendto exportoriented financingfor developmentbanks projects. FY98 risk guaranteeto support Board: Partial creditguarantee or partial Motorway loansof thefirst stage Croatia: Zagreb-Gorican commercialrefinancing of construction atoll roadto be operatedby (Private Sector) Constructionof projectcost: US$700 (59km). Croatia'shighway authority. Total million.