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The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Anhui Rural Road Resilience Program for Results (P158733)

Anhui Rural Road Resilience Program for Results (P158733)

Seq No: 4 | ARCHIVED on 30-Mar-2021 | ISR46009 | Created by: Limei Sun on 17-Mar-2021 | Modified by: Limei Sun on 23-Mar-2021

Program Development Objectives

PDO Table Program Development Objective (from Program Appraisal Document) Objective to be Determined. The Program Development Objective (PDO) is to improve the rural road network connectivity, safety and quality in selected counties in Anhui Province.

Overall Ratings

Name Previous Rating Current Rating

Public Disclosure Authorized Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory

Implementation Status and Key Decisions

The Loan Agreement and Program Agreement were signed on December 29, 2018. The project was declared as Effectiveness on February 26, 2019 upon successful completion of the effective process. It finances a portion of the government programs (10 counties out of total 56 counties, covering 12 million population of Anhui Province’s total population of 69 million). The ten participating counties in eight municipalities are: Lixin (Bozhou Municipality); Xiao and Si (Suzhou Municipality); Linquan and Funan (Fuyang Municipality); Shou (Huainan Municipality); Dingyuan (Chuzhou Municipality); Shucheng (Lu’an Municipality); Hanshan (Ma’anshan Municipality); and Yuexi (Anqing Municipality). The Program is on track to achieve its development objectives. It has achieved a good progress in implementing the programs, though Anhui experienced institutional reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic since last mission. The achievements of the Program exceeded the targets. To support the implementation of rural roads maintenance program, Anhui provincial government doubled its subsidies for rural roads rehabilitation/reconstruction and provided a subsidy of RMB15,000 per km for county roads, RMB7000 per km for township roads, and RMB2,000 per km for village roads. Periodical and rehabilitation maintenance works covered 7% of county and township roads last year. Anhui also piloted Public Disclosure Authorized commercial insurance for rural roads in 27 counties to mitigate the risk of natural disasters, which covers over 57,000 km of roads. In addition, Anhui promoted the Four Excellences in rural roads management and recognized 26 counties as demonstration counties of implementing the four excellences. Of which, 6 counties are on the list of national demonstration counties, including 4 participating counties (Shucheng, Lixin, Yuexi, and Linquan). The verification of achievements of the Program and the disbursement of the Loan are lagged. The first withdrawal application under the PforR for US$50 million advance payment was disbursed to the Designated Account as of January 2020. An Independent Verification Agent (IVA) was hired by the program management office to verify the achievements of the Program in November 2020. The verification report for achievements of prior results has been completed by the IVA. The verification for the programs implemented in 2019 and 2020 is ongoing.

Data on Financial Performance

Disbursements (by loan)

Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed Public Disclosure Authorized

P158733 IBRD-89050 Effective USD 200.00 200.00 0.00 50.00 150.00 25%

Key Dates (by loan)

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Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date

P158733 IBRD-89050 Effective 27-Sep-2018 29-Dec-2018 26-Feb-2019 30-Jun-2023 30-Jun-2023

DLI Disbursement

Achievement Disbursed amount in Disbursement % for DLI ID DLI Type Description Coc DLI Amount Status Coc DLI

Loan: IBRD89050-001

number of kilometers of Partially 1 Regular USD 79,722,600.00 0.00 rural roads impr Achieved Number of meters of 2.1 Regular USD 35,596,000.00 Not Achieved 0.00 bridge reinforced, d Number of kilometers of 2.2 Regular USD 74,681,400.00 Not Achieved 0.00 rural roads main Number of Participating 3 Regular USD 10,000,000.00 Not Achieved 0.00 Counties that ha

Program Action Plan

Theme 1: Improve resilience (a) use innovative and preventive maintenance technologies to make rural roads and Action Description bridges more resilient;