THE WORLD BANK MONTHLY OPERATIONAL SUMMARY

CONTENTS

User’s Guide 3

Public Disclosure Authorized Global Environment Facility 4

Projects in the Pipeline New Projects 5 Projects Deleted 6 Africa Region 7 East Asia and Pacific Region 27 South Asia Region 37 Europe and Central Asia Region 45 Middle East and North Africa Region 57 Latin America and the Caribbean Region 62 Other 71

Public Disclosure Authorized Guarantee Operations 71 List of Acronyms 72

Entries for Projects in the Pipeline are organized by region, country and economic sector. Entries preceded by (N) denote new listings; (R) indicates a revision or update from the previous month’s listing. The portions of the entry that differ appear in italic type. A sample entry is included in the User’s Guide, which begins on the next page.

SECTOR DEFINITIONS

Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Public Disclosure Authorized Education Energy and Mining Finance Health and Other Social Services Industry and Trade Information and Communications Public Administration, Law, and Justice Transportation Water, Sanitation, and Flood Protection Public Disclosure Authorized

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GUIDE TO THE WORLD BANK MONTHLY OPERATIONAL SUMMARY

The World Bank Monthly Operational Summary reports on the hiring consultants and procuring goods and works. Contractors status of projects in the World Bank’s pipeline from the time the and suppliers, therefore, should contact appropriate officials operation is identified to the signing of the Loan, Credit, or Grant of the implementing agency to express their interest in specific Agreement. It is a detailed accounting of the projects included in projects and obtain information on what goods and services will the country lending programs that are actively being prepared be needed and when and how to submit bids and proposals. for implementation. The lending programs reflect the Bank’s During implementation, consultants are often used to provide strategy for each member country as set out in the Country As- technical assistance and other project implementation sup- sistance Strategy (CAS) papers and notes presented to the Board port. Unlike contracts for goods and works, those for consulting of Executive Directors of the World Bank. On average, it takes services are not usually advertised. Therefore, consultants in about 13 months for the Bank to process a project from concept particular should contact the responsible implementing agency document to approval. After a financing agreement is signed or a early in the project preparation period to express their interest. project removed from the program, the project entry is dropped Contracts for consulting services, as well as some for goods and from this Summary. works, may also be procured prior to loan/credit/grant approval. Each issue of the Summary contains a list of projects being re- This is known as advance contracting. ported for the first time and a list of projects for which financing agreements have been signed or that have been dropped from The information contained in The World Bank Monthly Opera- the current program. tional Summary is intended to enable companies to assess their interest in supplying Bank-financed projects. Further informa- By becoming familiar with the Bank’s project cycle, which is sum- tion should be requested from the country’s project implement- marized in the following paragraphs, consultants or suppliers of ing agency. The likelihood of a timely response is greater if the goods and works can gauge when the timing is right to pursue queries are brief and to the point. When possible, travel to the business opportunities with Bank borrowers. Each entry in the country and direct contact with relevant agency officials is recom­ Monthly Operational Summary shows what point in the cycle a mended. particular project has reached. Firms should contact the World Bank only if they are unable Project Cycle to obtain a response to their queries from the implementing During IDENTIFICATION, the client government and the agency. General information about business opportunities un- Bank identify a specific operation as being likely to support the der Bank loans, credits, and grants may be obtained from the country’s development strategy and the Bank’s CAS. World Bank’s Procurement Policy and Services Group’s website During PREPARATION, the client government identifies and at http://www.worldbank.org/procure (click on bidding and discusses the technical and institutional alternatives for achieving consulting opportunities). the objectives of a project. Preparation usually requires feasibility studies followed by more detailed studies of the alternatives that Business opportunities arising from World Bank projects af- promise to yield the most satisfactory results. An environmental ter they have been approved, including invitations to bid and assessment is usually carried out during this phase. (See below to submit proposals on Bank projects and notices of contract for more information on environmental assessment.) awards, appear twice a month in UN Development Business and are available via the internet at UN Development Business In the preparation stage of the project cycle, clients often supple- Online at . ment their own efforts by hiring consultants to carry out a major part of the work. Contractors and suppliers of equipment and Environmental Categories goods need to start making contacts with country officials dur- The type, timing, and scope of environmental analysis to be ing this stage. performed by Bank clients are confirmed when a given project During APPRAISAL, the Bank conducts a comprehensive re- is identified. Projects are assigned one of the following catego- view of all aspects of the project (technical, institutional, eco- ries, depending on the nature, magnitude, and sensitivity of nomic, and financial), laying the foundation for implementing environmental issues: the project and evaluating it when completed. Conducted by Category A: The project may have adverse and significant envi- Bank staff, project appraisal may be supplemented by individual ronmental impacts. Full environmental assessment is normally experts. The preparation of the Project Appraisal Document required. concludes this stage. During NEGOTIATIONS, discussions are held with the client Category B: The project may have specific environmental is- government, and the agreements reached are written into the sues. Partial environmental assessment is normally required. loan documents. Upon completion of negotiations, the project is Category C: Likely to have minimal or no adverse environmental presented to the Executive Directors for approval. After approval, impacts. Beyond screening, no further EA action is required. the financing agreement is signed. Category FI: Involves investment of Bank funds through a finan­ Project IMPLEMENTATION normally starts within a few cial intermediary, in subprojects that have adverse environmental months after the project financing agreement is signed. Coun- impacts. An environmental framework may be required. tries, through their implementing agencies, have full responsi- bility for executing of World Bank-financed projects, including Category U: No category given. 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A typical summary entry looks like this:

Viet Nam •Name of borrowing country (R) = revised; (N) = new entry (R) Payment Systems and Bank Modernization: • The project will establish a computerized payments Project description system in order to improve efficiency and modernize the • banking sector. Technical assistance to strengthen the institutional capacity of participating commercial banks will also be provided. Preappraisal mission completed. •Italics indicate change from last month’s listing Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P123456. •PID = Project identification number. Amount of financing in US$ millions (source) US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for project • management and commercial bank institutional studies. Project Management Unit, Payment System and Bank Name/address of implementing agency Modernization Project, State Bank of Viet Nam, 49 Ly • Thai To, Viet Nam, Fax: (84-4) 258-385, Contact Mr. Nguyen Van Binh

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY

In addition to projects financed by the World Bank, the World The GEF is striving for universal participation, and currently Bank Monthly Operational Summary reports on projects fi- 168 countries are participants. Countries may be eligible nanced by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The GEF for GEF funds if (a) they are eligible for financial assistance provides grants and concessional funding to recipient coun- through the financial mechanism of either the Climate Change tries for projects and programs that protect the global environ- Convention or the Convention on Biological Diversity; or (b) ment and promote sustainable economic growth. they are eligible to borrow from the World Bank (IBRD and/or The facility, set up as a pilot program in 1991, was restruc- IDA) or receive technical assistance grants from UNDP through tured and replenished with over US$ 2 billion in 1994, and a Country Programme. A country must be a party to the Climate replenished with another US$ 4 billion in 1998, to cover the Change Convention or the Convention of Biological Diversity agreed incremental costs of activities that benefit the global to receive funds from the GEF in the relevant focal area. environment in four focal areas: climate change, biological GEF projects must be country-driven, incorporate consulta- diversity, international waters, and stratospheric ozone. Ac- tion with local communities, and, where appropriate, involve tivities concerning land degradation, primarily desertification nongovernmental organizations in project implementation. and deforestation, as they relate to the four focal areas, are For additional information on the GEF, contact the GEF sec- also eligible for funding. Both the Framework Convention on retariat or visit its website: www.gefweb.org Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity have designated the GEF as their funding mechanism on an The GEF Secretariat interim basis. 1818 H St. NW GEF projects and programs are managed through three imple- Washington DC 20433, USA menting agencies: the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Tel: (1-202) 473-0508 the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ,and the World Fax: (1-202) 522-3240, 522-3245 Bank. The GEF Secretariat, which is functionally independent E-mail: [email protected] from the three implementing agencies, reports to and services the Council and Assembly of the GEF. DECEMBER 2014 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE 

New Projects Added in This Issue

Africa Region Kiribati Cote d’Ivoire Transportation: Kiribati Road Rehabilitation Additional Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Public Investments Financing 31 and Service Delivery 10 Lao People’s Democratic Republic Kenya Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Second Lao Environment Energy and Mining: Kenya Electricity Expansion Project: and Social (Additional Financing to PAW) 31 Additional Financing 12 Philippines Liberia Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Inclusive Partnerships Energy and Mining: Liberia LACEEP Additional Financing 13 for Agricultural Competitiveness 33 Health and Other Social Services: Cross-Sectoral Public Malawi Health Enhancement 33 Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Malawi Fiscal Health and Other Social Services: Philippines Social Management DPO 14 Welfare Development and Reform Project II 33 Niger Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Metro Manila Energy and Mining: Niger - Electricity Access Expansion Flood Management-Phase 1 34 Project (NELACEP) 16 Regional - South East Asia and Mongolia Nigeria Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: South East Asia Energy and Mining: Nigeria Power Sector Guarantees Project Disaster Risk Management 34 Additional Financing 17 Vietnam Regional - Africa Transportation: Can Tho Urban Resilience Project 37 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: GLR Resilience Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Mekong Delta and Cohesion of Displaced 18 Integrated Climate Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods 37 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Second South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO) Fisheries Governance and Shared South Asia Region Growth Project 18 Bhutan Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: LVEMP APL-1 Additional Public Administration, Law, and Justice: BT Second Financing 18 Development Policy Credit (DPC) Series 40 Education: Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence India Project Additional Financing 19 Industry and Trade: Madhya Pradesh Rural Enterprise Health and Other Social Services: 3A EA PH Laboratory and Economic Empowerment Project 41 Networking Project Additional Financing 20 Maldives Regional - Central Africa Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Maldives Health and Other Social Services: Health System Support Environmental Management Project Additional Financing 42 Project Additional Financing 20 Pakistan Regional - Western Africa Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Disaster Resilience Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Senegal River Improvement Project 44 Basin Environmental Management Project 21 Sierra Leone Europe and Central Asia Region Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Smallholder Belarus Commercialization and Agribusiness Development Project 22 Agriculture, Fishing, & Forestry: Forestry Development Energy and Mining: Western Area Power Generation Project 22 Project 46 Somalia Kazakhstan Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Public Financial Education: Education Modernization Project 48 Management Reform Program 22 Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Climate Adaptation Tanzania and Mitigation Program for Central Asia (CAMP4CA) - Education: Education and Skills for Productive Jobs Additional Financing 49 Program (ESPJ) 24 Transportation: Center South Astana-Almaty Regional Energy and Mining: Add. Financing for Tanzania Energy Development Corridor 49 Development and Access Expansion Project 24 Transportation: Center West Regional Development Corridor 49 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Kazakhstan Solid East Asia and Pacific Region Waste Management Project 49 Cambodia Kyrgyz Republic Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Voice and Action: Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Integrated Forest Social Accountability for Improved Service Delivery 27 Ecosystem Management 50 China Tajikistan Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Hunan Environmental Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Environmental Land Cleanup of Contaminated Agricultural Soil 27 Management and Rural Livelihoods - Additional Financing 54 Health and Other Social Services: Lushan Earthquake Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: FVWRMP - Phase II 54 Reconstruction and Risk Reduction 28 Uzbekistan Industry and Trade: Red./phase-out of PFOS in Priority Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry: Livestock Sector Sector 28 Development Project 56 Transportation: Three Gorges Modern Logistics Center Infrastructure Project 29 Middle East and North Africa Region Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Poyang Lake Arab Republic of Egypt Basin Water Environment Management 30 Finance: PBDAC Restructuring Program 57 PAGE  Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Equal Access and Latin America and Caribbean Region Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt 57 Guatemala Morocco Public Administration, Law, and Justice: Revenue Finance: Leveraging Finance for Inclusive Growth 59 Administration Modernization Project 67 Republic of Yemen Mexico Finance: RY-Financial Inclusion for Yemen 62 Finance: MX Expanding Finance for Productive Purposes 69

Projects Deleted from This Issue

Africa Region Third Power Sector Reform DPO Africa Regional: AUC Institutional Transformation and Capacity Programmatic Urban Development in Northern Mountains Building Program Support (Cr. H9390-3A) South Asia Region Benin: Ninth Poverty Reduction Support Credit (Cr. 53890-BJ) Afghanistan: Kabul Urban Road Improvement Stage 2 Burkina Faso: Agricultural Productivity and Food Security Project India: Enhancing the Global Competitiveness of Micro, Small and Additional Financing Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) (Ln. 83300-IN) Agricultural Diversification and Market Development Project Mizoram State Roads II_Regional Transport Connectivity Project Burundi: Jiji and Mulembwe Hydropower (Cr. H9350-BI) (Cr. 54250-IN) Cameroon: Health Sector Support Investment Nepal: Kabeli “A” Hydroelectric (Cr. 53380-NP, Cr. H9000-NP) Democratic Republic of Congo: Forest Investment Program Pakistan: Enhanced Nutrition for Mothers and Children Republic of Congo: Water, Electricity and Urban Development SIL (Cr. 55360-PK) Additional Financing Sri Lanka: Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (DDO) Guinea: Emergency Macroeconomic and Fiscal Support Grant Europe and Central Asia Region Guinea-Bissau: Agribusiness Development and Private Sector Albania: Environmental Services--GEF Rehabilitation (Cr. 54640-GW) Armenia: Trade Promotion and Quality Infrastructure Kenya: Petroleum Technical Assistance Project (KEPTAP) (Ln. 83900-AM) (Cr. 55260-KE) Belarus: Water Supply and Sanitation Additional Financing Urban Water and Sanitation OBA Fund for Low Income Areas Georgia: Competitiveness and Growth DPO3 (Ln. 83940-GE, Liberia: Urban Sanitation 2 Additional Financing Cr. 55110-GE, Cr. 55120-GE) Emegency Monrovia Urban Sanitation 2 Additional Financing Kosovo: Danish Support for Rural Development Grant Program Malawi: Second Economic Recovery Development Policy Kyrgyz Republic: National Water Resources Management Operation Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 3 Agricultural Sector Wide Approach Second Additional Financing Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Second Macedonia Mali: Seventh Mali DPO (Cr. 54620-ML, Cr. H9540-ML) Competitiveness Development Policy Loan (Ln. 83430-MK) Mozambique: Development Policy Operation Montenegro: Industrial Waste Management and Cleanup Financial Sector Development Policy Operation (Cr. 55200-MZ, (Ln. 84280-ME) Cr. H9750-MZ) Romania: First Public Sector Effectiveness and Growth Niger: Agro-sylvo-pastoral Exports and Markets Development Development Policy Loan (Ln. 83820-RO) Project Additional Financing Serbia: Floods Emergency Recovery (Ln. 84490-YF) Nigeria: Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria Project Public Expenditure Development Policy Loan (Cr. 55060-NG) Turkey: EU/IPA Energy Sector Technical Assistance Rwanda: Landscape Approach to Forest Restoration and Ukraine: Partnership for Market Readiness Conservation (LAFREC) Middle East and North Africa Region Public Sector Governance Program (Cr. 55470-RW) Algeria: Energy Efficiency Program--GEF Sao Tome and Principe: Third Governance and Competitiveness Djibouti: Governance for Private Sector Development Project Development Policy Operation (Cr. 55180-DJ) Seychelles: Third Sustainability and Competitiveness DPL Arab Republic of Egypt: Sustainable Persistent Organic Pollutants (Ln. 84370-SC) Management Disaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan with CAT Lebanon: Municipal Services Emergency Project DDO (Ln. 84390-SC) Middle East and North Africa: Private Sector Development (PSD) Somalia: Recurrent Cost and Reform Program Governance for Jobs Project South Sudan: STATCAP (Cr. 55370-SS) Tunisia: Urban Water Supply Additional Financing Southern Africa: Zambezi River Basin Development Project West Bank and Gaza: Water Sector Capacity-building Project Tanzania: Big Results Now in Education Program (Cr. 55270-TZ) Additional Financing Grant Ruhudji HPP Guarantee and SIL Latin America and the Caribbean Region Second Power and Gas Sector DPO (Cr. 53970-TZ) Brazil: Promotion of Low Carbon Agriculture in the Brazilian Basic Health Services Project (BHSP) RBF Additional Financing Cerrado Eleventh Poverty Reduction Support Credit Strengthening Fiscal and Water Resources Management Uganda: Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Teacher and Development Policy Loan School Effectiveness Project Grenada: Comprehensive Debt Framework Development Policy Zimbabwe: Hwange-Sanyati Biological Corridor Environmental Loan Resource Management and Conservation Resilience Building DPC 2 East Asia Region Other Region Vietnam: Third Climate Change Development Policy World: Oceans Financing Facility DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE  National AIDS Coordinating Agency, Private Bag 00463, Gaborone, Botswana, Tel: (267) 371-0314 Africa Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Water Sector Improvement Project:The objective is to increase Angola capacity and improve sustainability of water supply and sanitation Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry services in selected systems. Project Concept Review Meeting com- Angola Agriculture and Agribusiness Development Pro- pleted on 9 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. gram:The objective is to increase farmer incomes, agricultural pro- US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) ductivity, and value addition. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. B. US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Burkina Faso Industry and Trade Public Administration, Law, and Justice Mining Growth Pole:The objective is to create a growth pole in (R) AO Fiscal Management Programmatic DPL:The objec- the North/Sahel region that improves the economic situation of tive is to assist the Ministry of Finance in its fiscal management by mining communities. Project Concept Review Meeting completed supporting policy and institutional reforms on tax administratio and on 18 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ policy, public invetsment management and subsidy reforms. Project 113.2 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Concept Review Meeting completed on 15 December 2014. Environ- to be determined. mental Assessment Category U. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (R) Public Sector Modernization:The objective is to support the Government to: (a) mobilize resources and deliver services to the Provincial Capital Cities Water Supply Project:The objec- poor; and (b) strengthen civil services. Project Concept Review Meet- tives are to: (a) increase water service coverage in key cities; and ing completed on 19 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category (b) strengthen institutional capacity and regulatory frameworks B. Project: P132216. US$ 40.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services to for water supply services in the Provincial Water and Sanitation be determined. Ministry of Civil Service, Burkina Faso Utilities (PWSUs) serving the key cities. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 374.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- Transportation ing agency(ies) to be determined. BF Infrastructure, Urban Development and Mobility Proj- ect:The objectives are to contribute in removing infrastructure, con- Benin nectivity and mobility constraints for urban and rural communities Industry and Trade and promote regional capitals and their rural hinterlands economic Benin and Nigeria Cross-Border Invest Opportunities:The functions development. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ objective is to spur cross-border investments between Benin and 100.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Implementing Nigeria in dedicated value chains or industries where Benin retains agency(ies) to be determined. a clear competitive advantage. Environmental Assessment Category Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection C. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Urban Water Sector Project Additional Financing:The objec- agency(ies) to be determined. tive is to increase access to sustainable water and sanitation services Public Administration, Law, and Justice in selected urban areas. Negotiations completed on 15 September Benin Results Based Governance Project:The objective is to 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149556. strengthen public investment management effectiveness and en- US$ 80.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Office National hance public sector accountability in Benin. Project Concept Review de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement (ONEA), Avenue Bulmiougou, Rue Meeting completed on 8 December 2014. Environmental Assessment 17.555 Secteur 17 (Pissy), BP. 170 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso, Category C. Project: P147014. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Tel: (226) 5043-1900, Fax: (226) 5043-1911 services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Decentralized Community Driven Services Project Addi- Burundi tional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) support the scale up Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry to decentralized basic social services; and (b) mainstream the com- Burundi Coffee Sector Competitiveness Support Project: munity driven development approach for such services. Bank Ap- The objective is to increase the production of coffee in Burundi and proval completed on 27 February 2014. Environmental Assessment enhance its quality. This will contribute to: (a) improving the sector Category B. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. competitiveness and market access, and (b) the country’s strategic Secretariat for Decentralized Community Driven Services, Benin, Tel: goals of poverty reduction and enhanced exports revenues. Project (229) 9003-3601, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Germain Concept Review Meeting completed on 17 October 2014. Environ- Ouin Ouro mental Assessment Category B. US$ 55.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Tenth Poverty Reduction Support Credit:The objectives are a services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. continuation to: (a) promote good governance and high quality public financial management; and (b) strengthen private sector competitive- Health and Other Social Services ness. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 13 November Social Safety Nets:The objectives are to provide a regular and pre- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P146665. US$ dictable source of income to extreme poor households with children 20.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance in selected areas and to support the establishment of core building and Economy, Benin, Tel: (229) 2130-0217, E-mail: gadsoon@hot- blocks of a national social safety net system. Environmental Assess- mail.com, Contact: Mohamed Gado, Secretaire Technique ment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Botswana Public Administration, Law, and Justice Health and Other Social Services (R) Eight Economic Reform Support Grant:The objective National HIV/AIDS Prevention Support (BNAPS) Project is to support the Government in protecting and consolidatinge the Additional Financing:The objective is to assist the Government country’s transition from a post-conflict to a more stable economy of Botswana to increase access to prioritized prevention services that through: (i) strengthening Public Finance Management and Budget reduce the risk of HIV transmission. Environmental Assessment Transparency; (ii) promoting private sector development and eco- Category C. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. nomic diversification; and (iii) improving protection of vulnerable PAGE  Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 groups. Negotiations completed on 2 December 2014. Environmen- Energy and Mining tal Assessment Category U. Project: P150941. US$ 25.0 (IDA Grant). (R) CM Electricity Transmission and Reform:The objective No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance and Economic is to support electricity transmission network investments which are Development Planning, PO Box 1830, Bujumbura, Burundi, Tel: unlikely to be financed under private financing. The project will also (257-22) 222-022, Fax: (257-22) 223-827, E-mail: reforme_mpbdi@ support the ongoing electricity sector reform which aims at creating yahoo.fr, Contact: , a state owned Transmission Company. Environmental Assessment Strenghtening Institutional Capacity for Service Delivery Category A. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- Project:The objective is to support the Government’s efforts to ing agency(ies) to be determined. strengthen institutional capacity within the public sector to deliver Kribi Gas Power Project Additional Financing:The objective services and promote growth-enchancing policies. Project Concept is a continuation to assist Cameroon’s first IPP with a production Review Meeting completed on 21 October 2014. Environmental As- capacity, which will be operated by Kribi Power Development Cor- sessment Category C. Project: P149176. US$ 18.0/6.0 (IDA Credit/ poration (KPDC). Project Concept Review Meeting completed on GBEL). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be 20 October 2014. This project is no longer in the lending program. determined. Further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 29.0/10.0/17.0/10.0/60.0 (AFDB/DBCA/FMO/ Transportation FRDE/GUID). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project:The objec- to be determined. tive is to respond to emergency repairs works on National roads and Public Administration, Law, and Justice drainage due to damages caused Floods and institutional support. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 19 November 2014. Governance and Accountability Project:The objective is to Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 18.0 (IDA Credit). Con- improve revenues collection, public investment management, and sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. public procurement systems as to achieve effectiveness of public policies. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Cabo Verde determined. Industry and Trade Innovation and Competitiveness Project:The objective will Central African Republic be to improve competitiveness and encourage innovation in Cabo Energy and Mining Verde. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 December CAR Rehabilitation and Reinforcement of the Electricity 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0/10.0 (IBRD/ Sector:The objectives are to: (a) increase efficiency and quality of IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to electricity services in the power sector; and (b) suppport ENERCA’s be determined. improvements in governance and operational performances. Envi- ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 17.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. CV Technical Assistant Project for SOEs:The objectives are Health and Other Social Services to: (a) provide technical support to the Ministry of Finance and (R) CF Local Reconstruction Initiatives:The objective is to Planning and the Directorate of State Participations (DSPE); and (b) provide temporary employment to vulnerable people for local re- strengthen the institutional design governing the relations between construction purposes throughout the entire territory of the country. the SOEs and their controller, and improve the supervisory and own- Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 31 October 2014. ership functions of the DSPE. Environmental Assessment Category Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IDA Grant). Con- U. US$ 4.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. agency(ies) to be determined. Cape Verde Ninth Poverty Reduction Support Credit:This is Chad the second of a series of 3 programmatic DPOs to Cape Verde. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 3 July 2014. Environmental Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Assessment Category U. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services (R) Emergency Livestock and Food Crisis Response Proj- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ect (Cr. H9930-TD):The objective is to improve the availability and access to food and livestock productive capacity for targeted beneficiaries affected by the conflict in the Central African Republic Cameroon (CAR) on the Recipient’s territory. The grant was signed on 15 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P151215. US$ 18.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. World Agriculture Investment and Market Development Project: Food Program (WFP), B.P. 906, Rue Saint Martin 3252, N’Djamena, The objective is to increase productivity and competitiveness of cas- Chad, Tel: (39-066) 513-2885, Fax: (235) 515-605, E-mail: Manoj. sava, maize and sorghum value chains led by target beneficiaries [email protected], Contact:. United Nations Food and Agricultural Producer Organizations in order to meet the market demand (buy- Organization (FAO), Rue 2058, Avenue Félix Eboué, N’Djamena, ers), especially that of private Agribusinesses. Bank Approval com- Chad, Tel: (235-22) 523-617, Fax: (235-22) 518-850, E-mail: Domi- pleted on 25 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category [email protected] B. Project: P143417. US$ 100.0/2.7/40.6 (IDA Credit/JPN/ZPCI). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural De- Public Administration, Law, and Justice velopment (MINADER), Cameroon, Tel: (237) 2223-1190, E-mail: Public Financial Management (PFM) CB Additional Financ- [email protected], Contact: Essimi Menye, Minister ing:The objective is to scale-up some existing activities (technical Community Development Program Support Project-Phase assistance to the computerisation of the public financial management III:The objectives are to: (a) support the Community Development system), while supporting new ones (implementation of the organic Program to enhance the opportunities and livelihoods of rural people finance law, debt management). Bank Approval completed on 12 in Cameroon by improving the delivery of specified basic social May 2014. This amount includes SDR 2.5 million from cancelled services (health, education, water and sanitation); and (b) enhance project P108368. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 10.2 economic opportunities. Preparation completed on 7 October 2014. (IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry of Economy Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144637. US$ 40.0 and Finance, B.P. 144, N’Djamena, Chad, Tel: (235-22) 520-452, (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Fax: (235-22) 520-451, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Malanie be determined. Gamage, Permanent Secretary DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE  will support the planned National Statistical Development Strategy, Comoros which will provide quality data for DRC’s PRSP, MDG, and sector Health and Other Social Services strategy monitoring. Bank Approval completed on 31 March 2014. Comoros Social Safety Net Project:The objective is to provide Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P125509. US$ 11.8 a safety net and improved nutrition for poor families in selected (SRTF). Consultants will be required. Institut National de la Statis- communities, including as disaster response. Project Concept Review tique (INS), Batiment de la Fonction publique, Aile droite, rez de Meeting completed on 29 September 2014. Environmental Assess- chausse, Democratic Republic of Congo ment Category B. Project: P150754. US$ 6.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting Second Governance:The objectives are to: (a) enhance transpar- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ency and efficiency in central and sub-national public finance and human resource management; and (b) establish and consolidate an Public Administration, Law, and Justice equitable resource sharing mechanism between central and sub- Economic Governance Technical Assistance Additional national government. Bank Approval completed on 9 May 2013. Financing:The objectives are to: (a) stabilize the economy and es- Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P126115. US$ 67.0 tablish a strong and equitable growth; (b) strengthen key sectors; (c) (IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry of Interior, Boule- strengthen governance and social cohesion; (d) improve the general vard Colonel Tshatshi, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tel: public health status; (e) promote education and vocational training (243-99) 290-5743, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Popaul while developing human capital; and (f) promote environmental Kizungu Chihiza, Project Coordinator sustainability and civilian security. Bank Approval completed on 12 November 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 3.5 Statistics Development Project:The objectives are to: (a) im- (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Economic and Gover- prove the quality and the timeliness of statistical information; (b) nance Project (ABGE), Tel: (263) 773-9900, E-mail: moinacharani@ make data accessible to users; and (c) promote the demand for yahoo.fr, Contact: Moinafatima Charani, Coordinator, ABGE statistics. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Second Economic Governance Reform Grant:The objective is determined. to improve economic governance and transparency, and competition and management of the electricity and ICT sectors. Project Concept Transportation Review Meeting completed on 2 September 2014. Environmental DRC Air Transport Project:The objective is to improve the safety, Assessment Category U. Project: P150924. US$ 2.5 (IDA Grant). Con- security, and operations of Goma International Airport. Environ- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. mental Assessment Category B. US$ 35.0/15.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Democratic Republic of Congo determined. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Forest Dependent Communities Support Project:The objec- Republic of Congo tives are to: (a) strengthen the capacity of the targeted indigenous Education peoples and local communities to engage in the FIP and REDD+ activities; and (b) promote local development in favor of sustainable Education Sector Support Project:The objective is to support forest management. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on access, quality and relevance of basic, secondary and tertiary educa- 14 January 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: tion in the Republic of Congo. Environmental Assessment Category P149049. US$ 6.0 (CSCF). No consultants are required. Implement- B. US$ 30.0/10.7 (IDA Credit/EFAF). Consulting services and imple- ing agency(ies) to be determined. menting agency(ies) to be determined. Education Public Administration, Law, and Justice Education and Skills for Jobs and Inclusion:The objectives Statistics for Governance:The objective is to support the im- are to: (a) strengthen the relevance of the formal education and provement of statistics in the Republic of Congo to produce reliable training system to improve graduate employability; and (b) support and timely data for policy formulation and evaluation. Bank Approval informal skills development to address the needs of out-of-school completed on 9 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. youth. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 23 July 2014. Project: P133731. US$ 4.8 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149233. US$ 200.0 National Institute of Statistics, Republic of Congo, Tel: (242-05) (IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to 521-9264, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dominique be determined. Kimpouni, Coordinator Urban Development and Poor Neighborhood Upgrading Health and Other Social Services Project:The objective is to improve the lives of people in the pre- Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program carious neighborhoods of Brazzaville and Pointe Noire. Preparation (DDR) Phase III:The objective will support the third phase of completed on 13 January 2014. Environmental Assessment Category national DDRIII, which aim at contributing to the stabilization of B. US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Implementing eastern DRC through the demobilization and reintegration of the agency(ies) to be determined. remaining disarmed armed groups in Eastern DRC. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 21 October 2014. Environmental Cote d’Ivoire Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Health System Strengthening Project:The objectives are to: (a) (R) Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Pesticides Man- improve the utilization and quality of maternal and child health ser- agement:The objective is to reduce adverse health and environ- vices; and (b) strengthen the health sector. Negotiations completed mental impacts in Côte d’Ivoire of POPs pesticides by reducing or on 13 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Proj- eliminating their ongoing use and managing existing stockpiles. ect: P147555. US$ 130.0/90.0/6.5 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/HRBF). Signing completed on 12 December 2013. Environmental Assess- Consultants will be required. Ministry of Public Health, Democratic ment Category A. Project: P131778. US$ 7.0 (GEFU). Consulting Republic of Congo, Tel: (243-81) 800-0006, E-mail: felixkabange@ services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. yahoo.fr, Contact: S.E.M Drl Feliz Bakange, Minister Education Public Administration, Law, and Justice Youth Employment and Skills Development:The objective is Catalytic Project to Strengthen the Institut National de to improve access to temporary employment and skills development la Statistique (INS):The objective is to strengthen the capacity opportunities for young men and women in Cote d’Ivoire’ s territory. of INS to generate and disseminate statistical information. This Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 26 November 2014. PAGE 10 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Con- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Infrastructure Renewal Project:The objectives are to: (a) support the rehabilitation of basic infrastructure facilities; and (b) Health and Other Social Services enhance the access to social services in targeted urban areas. Environ- Productive Social Safety Net:The objective is to set the founda- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting tions of an effective and productive type of safety net system capable services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. of responding to the country’s needs both in normal times and dur- ing times of crisis. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on Ethiopia 10 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry P143332. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implement- ing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Second Phase Agricultural Growth Program:The objec- tive is to support sustainable and inclusive growth in productivity of Results Based Financing Project:The objective is to support the smallholder agriculture and enhance market access through linkages Government in developing and implementing a results-based financ- with value chains of selected livestock and crop products. Prepara- ing project with specific attention to reproductive and child health tion completed on 29 September 2014. Environmental Assessment and other high priority interventions. Bank Approval completed on Category B. US$ 350.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- 25 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: menting agency(ies) to be determined. P147740. US$ 35.0/35.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Public Health, [email protected], Cote Health and Other Social Services d’Ivoire, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. Mamadou Kone, Ethiopia Service Delivery for the Poor:The objectives are to Assistant Director of the Cabinet improve the higher-level objective of expanding access and the equity Youth Employment (2nd Generation):The objective is to of access to basic services. Project Concept Review Meeting com- support the second generation employment operation which will pleted on 25 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category consolidate lessons from ongoing operations. Environmental As- C. US$ 600.0/100.0/160.0/5.0/5.0 (IDA Credit/AFDB/DFID/ITAL/ sessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services OSTR). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. determined. Productive Safety Nets Program IV:The objective is to re- Industry and Trade duce household vulnerability, improved resilience to shocks and CI Integrated Growth and Competitiveness:The objective is sustainable community development in food insecure areas of to support structural transformation around priority value chains, rural Ethiopia. Bank Approval completed on 30 September 2014. through a complement of spatially targeted instruments facilitating Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146883. US$ 6 PME/PMI access to infrastructure and logistics, financial and non 00.0/550.0/25.0/412.0/130.0/115.0/68.0/68.0/23.0/25.0/100.0 financial support, and business environment reform. Environmental (IDA Credit/AID/DANI/DFID/ECEU/GCAN/GIRR/NEDA/SIDA/ Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services UNCF/WOFP). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Ethiopia, Contact: Abdullah Al Shatter, Deputy Minister for Projects Programming Public Administration, Law, and Justice Public Administration, Law, and Justice (N) Public Investments and Service Delivery:The objective is Ethiopia PFM Project:The objectives are to: (a) roll out the Oracle to contribute to more effective service delivery and public investment IFMIS; (b) support ERCA and the regional revenue authorities; management in Cote d’Ivoire. Environmental Assessment Category and (c) support the smaller activities relating to debt management, C. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing procurement, auditing and accounting and improving expenditure agency(ies) to be determined. management in Line Ministries. Project Concept Review Meeting (R) Second Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC-2) completed on 3 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category (Cr. 55580-CI):The objective is to support a balance reform pro- B. US$ 80.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing gram strengthening public-sector governance and administration, agency(ies) to be determined. and facilitating private sector led growth. Bank Approval completed Urban Productive Safety Net Project (UPSNP):The objec- on 4 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ tive is to reduce urban vulnerability through targeted productive 70.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Ministry of Economy safety nets and livelihood interventions. Environmental Assessment and Finance, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Tel: (225) 2020-0835, Fax: Category B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- (225) 2020-0850, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: menting agency(ies) to be determined. Abdoulaye Bakayoko Transportation Governance and Institution Development Additional Fi- nancing:The objective is to support the Government to improve: (a) (R) Expressway Development Support Project:The objective public financial management in the areas of internal controls, imple- is to facilitate the movement of goods and people along selected high mentation of the WAEMU guidelines, monitoring of state-owned trafficked corridors servicing areas with high potential for agriculture enterprises, and improvement of revenue authorities performance; based export production and tourism, whilst supporting initiatives and (b) capacity and performance of the Coffee-Cocoa Council. Bank promoting safety, efficiency and sustainability of the core road net- Approval completed on 9 June 2014. Environmental Assessment work. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 27 May 2014. Category C. Project: P147016. US$ 5.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P148850. US$ 355.0 be required. Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Tel: (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to (967-1) 250-118, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Abdullah Al be determined. Shatter, Deputy Minister for Projects Programming Ethiopia Addis Ababa Urban Land Use and Transport Sup- port Project:The objective is to improve safe, reliable and efficient Territorial Governance and Local Development:The ob- urban accessibility in select project areas in Addis Ababa. Environ- jectives are to contribute to rural/urban development and poverty mental Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting reduction through: (a) supporting provision of priority public goods services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. and services at the commune level; and (b) promoting good local governance through decentralized and deconcentrated participa- tory local governance systems at the commune and provincial/dis- Gabon trict levels. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IDA Education Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be (R) Skills Development Project:The objective is to improve determined. effectiveness of vocational training, short term skills development, DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE 11 and entrepreneurship programs in key growth sectors in Gabon. Ap- Assessment Category B. Project: P148183. US$ 29.5 (CSCF). Con- praisal completed on 9 December 2014. Environmental Assessment sultants will be required. Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- Ministries, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-24) 436-2510, E-mail: majua- ing agency(ies) to be determined. [email protected] Sustainable Land and Water Management Additional Fi- Energy and Mining nancing:The objectives are to: (a) improve sustainable land and Rural Electrification and Capacity Building Project:The ob- water management practices to reduce land degradation and enhance jectives are to: (a) increase access to modern energy services in rural maintenance of biodiversity in selected micro-watersheds; and (b) areas; (b) improve end-use energy efficiency; and (c) enable future strengthen spatial planning for identification of linked watershed investments in hydropower. Appraisal completed on 16 October investments in the Northern Savannah region of Ghana. Board 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144135. US$ Approval completed on 17 June 2014. Environmental Assessment 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Category B. Project: P132100. US$ 8.8 (GEFU). Consultants will be be determined. required. Ministry of Environment Science and Technology, Ghana, Information and Communications Contact: Nicholas Iddi, Project Coordinator CAB4 E-Government Applications Project:The objectives are Energy and Mining to: (a) scale-up the e-government strategy; and (b) create an action Ghana Power Distribution Improvement Project:The ob- plan to leverage the new connectivity. This E-gov Applications project jective is a continuation of ECG commercial performance improve- will support selected eGovernment and flagship ICT applications. ment program. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 17 Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 40.0 services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection be determined. Infrastructure and Local Development Program II:The Finance objective is to improve access of the population living in targeted low-income settlements to basic urban services. Project Concept Economic Management Strengthening:The objective is to Review Meeting completed on 18 November 2014. Environmental strengthen processes and systems necessary for effective fiscal man- Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and agement, and coordination between budget formulating, cash flow implementing agency(ies) to be determined. projecting, debt management. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing The Gambia agency(ies) to be determined. Energy and Mining Health and Other Social Services Gambia Electricity Sector Support Project:The objective is to Maternal and Child Health Improvement Project:The ob- increase the availability and reliability of electricity supply. Environ- jective is to improve utilization of community-based health and mental Assessment Category B. US$ 18.5 (IDA Credit). Consulting nutrition services by women of reproductive age, especially preg- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. nant women, and children under the age of 2 years. Bank Approval completed on 20 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Public Administration, Law, and Justice C. US$ 68.0/5.0 (IDA Credit/HRBF). Consultants will be required. Integrated Financial Management and Information Sys- Ministry of Health, PO Box M-44, Ghana, Tel: (233-020) 887-6172, tem (IFMIS) Project Additional Financing:The objective is E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Ms Salimata Abdul-Salam, a continuation to support the Government of The Gambia to: (a) Chief Director expand the existing IFMIS system and automate the National Re- Social Opportunities Project Additional Financing:The ob- cords Service; (b) to strengthen national statistical capacity; and (c) jective is to improve targeting of social protection programs and to support an energy sector strategy. Bank Approval completed on provide income support to poor households through LEAP grants and 20 September 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ LIPW infrastructure in targeted districts. Bank Approval completed 5.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance on 27 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: and Economic Affairs, Quadrangle, Banjul, POB. 3296, The Gambia, P146923. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Min- Tel: (220) 422-5713, Fax: (220) 422-7954, Contact: Juan Bosco Marti istry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ministries, Ghana, Ascencio, Titular de la Unidad de Asuntos Internacionales Contact: Abdullah Al Shatter, Deputy Minister for Projects Program- Second Economic Governance Reform Grant:The objectives ming. Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Ghana, are to: (a) strengthen the government’s capacity in public financial Tel: (233-302) 818-1782, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: management; and (b) improve public sector management in the Robert Austin, National Coordinator agriculture, energy and telecommunications sectors. Project Concept Youth Employment:The objective is to enhance the employ- Review Meeting completed on 5 December 2013. Environmental ment and entrepreneurship opportunities for youth, especially dis- Assessment Category U. US$ 5.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services advantaged youth, through intermediary services for job training and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. and start up schemes provided by the private and public sector. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 16 November 2012. Ghana Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P132248. US$ 60.0 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Local Communities:The be determined. objective is to enhance the capacity and support specific initiatives of local communities in Ghana to strengthen their participation Public Administration, Law, and Justice in the Forest Investment Program and other REDD+ processes at (R) Public Financial Management Reform and Improve- the local national, and global levels. Project Concept Review Meet- ment Project:The objective is to support the Government of Ghana ing completed on 5 September 2013. Environmental Assessment to reform its public financial management systems, processes, and Category B. US$ 5.5 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing practices, and thus improve Public Financial management (PFM) agency(ies) to be determined. outcomes in support of strengthened service delivery. Environmental Forest Investment Program Reducing Pressure on Natural Assessment Category C. US$ 45.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Forests:The objective is to reduce forest loss and land degradation and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. and contribute to sustainable livelihoods through participatory plan- Macro Stability for Competitivess and Growth:The objec- ning, improved practices and incentives in Ghana’s high forest zone. tives are to support: (a) the need for macroeconomic stabilization Decision Meeting completed on 27 October 2014. Environmental and greater executive efficiency; and (b) transparency and account- PAGE 12 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 ability to provide adequate funding for the reduction of poverty by mental Assessment Category B. US$ 7.0 (GFCR). Consulting services improving resource allocation efficiency and setting an environment to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, more supportive of a competitive economy. Decision Meeting com- Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Tel: (245) 205-904, E-mail: Rdjata@gmail. pleted on 28 October 2013. Environmental Assessment Category U. com, Contact: Rui Nene Djata, Director. World Food Programme, Project: P133664. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and Guinea-Bissau, Tel: (245) 545-5363, E-mail: Ussama.Osman@wfp. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. org, Contact: Ussama Osman, [email protected] Oil and Gas Capacity Building Project Additional Financ- ing:The objectives are to: (a) improve public management and regu- Education latory capacity while enhancing transparency; and (b) strengthen Rural Community-Driven Development Project Additional local technical skills in Ghana’s emerging oil and gas sector. Bank Financing:The objective is to increase access to priority basic social Approval completed on 27 June 2014. Environmental Assessment and economic infrastructures and services in participating com- Category C. Project: P148224. US$ 19.8 (IDA Credit). Consultants munities in at least two regions of Guinea-Bissau. Bank Approval will be required. Contact: , completed on 7 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146746. US$ 15.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be re- Transportation quired. Project Coordination Unit, C.P. N.955, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, GH Roads Investment Support Program:The objective is not Tel: (245) 320-7407, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: defined yet, but should focus on assisting the government of Ghana João S. Handem Jr. Project Coordinator with modernizing the transport Sector institutions and operations. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 250.0 (IDA Grant). Energy and Mining Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Roads and High- Emergency Electricity and Water Rehabilitation Additional ways, Ghana, Tel: (233-21) 671-445, E-mail: aboretum@hotmail. Financing:The objective is to assist the Government of Guinea- com; Ministry of Transport, Ghana, Tel: (233-244) 298-818 Bissau in the rapid restoration and improvement of electricity and water services in the capital city of Bissau. Bank Approval completed Transport Sector Project Additional Financing:The objec- on 17 May 2011. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: tive is to improve mobility of goods and passengers on selected P125374. US$ 2.2 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Min- roads through reductions in travel time, vehicle operating cost, and istry of Economy, Planning, and Regional Integration, 37 Ave. Ami- enhanced road safety awareness. Bank Approval completed on 4 lar Cabral, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Tel: (245) 320-7286, Fax: (245) November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: 320-4846, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Luis Alberto P149444. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Min- Gomes, Coordinator istry of Roads and Highways and Ministry of Transport, Ghana, Tel: (233-302) 661-575, Fax: NA, E-mail: [email protected], Health and Other Social Services Contact: Dr. D. D. Darku Social safety Net Project:The objectives are to: (a) increase access to basic social services; (b) provide income to vulnerable groups; Guinea and (c) lay the foundations of a safety net strategy. Project Concept Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Review Meeting completed on 1 October 2014. Environmental As- Agricultural Support Project:The objective is to support the sessment Category B. US$ 15.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services and diversification of activities beyond traditional rice farming, and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. contribute to the rebuilding of Guinea’s agricultural research and Public Administration, Law, and Justice technology transfer capabilities. Bank Approval completed on 30 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0 (R) Emergency Public Sector Reinforcement:The objective (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Guinea, Contact: , is to establish basic systems for more transparent and accountable collection, management and use of public resources. Project Concept Education Review Meeting completed on 7 October 2014. Environmental As- Global Partnership for Education (GPE):The objective is to sessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services and improve equity in access to quality basic education and learning implementing agency(ies) to be determined. outcomes in the project areas. Decision Meeting completed on 25 Au- gust 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148127. Kenya US$ 37.8/14.9/1.0 (EFAS/GFRC/UNCF). Consulting services and Education implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Education Sec- tor Support Project:The objectives are to improve early grade Energy and Mining mathematics competency and to strengthen management systems at Emergency Macroeconomic and Fiscal Support Grant: schooland national levels. Appraisal completed on 29 August 2014. The operation will be the stand-alone singe tranche operation to Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P146797. US$ 88.4 address the financing gap of the Government to address the Ebola (EFAS). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education, epidemic. Signing completed on 25 November 2014. Environmental Jogoo House, Harambee Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-20) 240- Assessment Category U. US$ 40.0/10.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). 089, Fax: (254-20) 214-287, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Consultants will be required. Ministry of Economy and Finance, P0 Belio Kipsang, Principal Secretary Box 579, Conakry, Guinea, Tel: (224-30) 451-795, Fax: (224-30) 422-102, Contact: , Energy and Mining (N) Kenya Electricity Expansion Project Additional Financ- Health and Other Social Services ing:The objectives are to: (a) increase the capacity, efficiency, and (R) Health System Strengthening:The objective is to initiate quality of electricity supply; and (b) expand access to electricity a results based financing approach in the Guinea Health system in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas. Environmental Assessment that will strengthen the health system. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- Category B. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- menting agency(ies) to be determined. menting agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Power System Development:The objective is to ensure that access to reliable, cost effective, and high quality supply of electricity Guinea-Bissau is sustained to business enterprises and households. Project Con- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry cept Review Meeting completed on 11 March 2013. Environmental Second Emergency Food Security Support Project:The objec- Assessment Category B. Project: P120014. US$ 200.0/7.5/500.0 tive is to improve food security by supporting the most vulnerable (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/GUID). Consultants will be required. Kenya population including children, and increasing rice production in proj- Power and Lighting Co. Ltd. Stima Plaza, Kolobot Road, PO Box ect areas. Bank Approval completed on 10 October 2014. Environ- 30099, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-20) 243-366, Fax: (254-20) 310- DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE 13

336, Contact: John Njoroge, Managing Director and Chief Executive Kenya Water Security and Climate Resilience Project Ad- Officer. Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, Nyayo House, PO Box ditional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) increase availability 30582, Nairobi, Tel: (254-20) 255-0680, Fax: (254-20) 222-8314, and productivity of irrigation water for project beneficiaries; and E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Patrick Nyoike, Permanent (b) enhance the institutional framework and strengthen capacity for Secretary water security and climate resilience for the country. Project Concept Electricity Modernization Project:The objective is to improve Review Meeting completed on 24 November 2014. Environmental the risk profile of Kenya Power and Lighting Company Ltd. (KPLC) Assessment Category A. US$ 54.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services for commercial lenders and support KPLC obtain commercial loans and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. for longer tenors at competitive interest rates. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 11 March 2013. Environmental Assessment Lesotho Category B. US$ 50.0 (GUID). Consulting services and implementing Education agency(ies) to be determined. Education and Skills for Growth:The objective is to support Menengai Geothermal:The objectives are to: (a) develop geo- post-basic education and acquiring skills for growth. Environmental thermal resources in the Menengai field and make them available for Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services electricity generation; and (b) establish transmission lines to connect and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Menengai to the national grid. Project Concept Review Meeting com- pleted on 17 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ Public Administration, Law, and Justice 115.0/170.0/120.0/40.0/36.0 (IDA Credit/AFD/AFDB/CIF/EUIB). (R) Social Safety Net Modernization:The objective is to increase Consulting services to be determined. Geothermal Development the efficiency and effectiveness of the social protection system in Company (GDC), Taj Tower, Upper Hill PO Box 100746-00101, reaching the poor with adequate and timely assistance. Project Con- Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-20) 242-7516, E-mail: [email protected], cept Review Meeting completed on 15 December 2014. Environmen- Contact: Dr. Silas M. Simiyu tal Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Social Development, Lesotho, Tel: (266-2) Finance 222-6080, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Rapelang Financial Sector Support Project:The objective is to strengthen J. Ramoea the legal and regulatory environment for access to affordable and long Public Sector Strengthening Project:The objective is to ad- term financing. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 10 dress the modernization of the public institutions and improving November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 their performance through key public sector reforms and capacity (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to building. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 10.0 (IDA be determined. Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Health and Other Social Services determined. Second Growth and Competitiveness Development Policy Cash Transfers for Orphans and Vulnerable Children Credit (DPC):The objective is to support Government’s reforms to (OVC) Additional Financing:The objective is to increase social improve: (a) private sector competitiveness; (b) sustainability and safety net access for extremely poor OVC households, through an efficiency of public spending; and (c) social protection and moni- effective and efficient expansion of the CT-OVC program and build- toring systems. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 14 ing the capacity of the National Safety Net Program (NSNP). Bank November 2013. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 15.2 Approval completed on 31 October 2013. Environmental Assessment (IDA Grant). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Fi- Category C. Project: P146161. US$ 10.0/56.4 (IDA Credit/DFID). nance and Development Planning, Maseru, Lesotho, Tel: (266-22) Consultants will be required. Ministry of Labour, Social Security and 310-826, Fax: (266-22) 310-157 Services, Tel: NA, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Winnie Mwasiaji, Social Protection Secretariat Coordinator Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Kenya Health Sector Support Program for Results:The ob- Lesotho Water Sector Improvement Project, Phase 2: High- jectives are to: (i) increase the delivery and the use of quality maternal lands Water Project 2 Kobong Pump Storage Additional and newborn health services in targeted counties with high burden Financing:The objective is to support the Government to: (a) de- of maternal and new born mortality; and (ii) improve Universal velop and sustain an environmentally sound, socially responsible and Health Coverage with focus on equity and country health systems financially viable MDWSP framework; (b) increase a quantity of safe development. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 bulk water supply to Teyateyaneng; (c) strengthen institutions and (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to related instruments in the water sector; and (d) advance Kobong be determined. Pump Storage Scheme preparation. Bank Approval completed on 20 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 9.1/6.4 (IDA Information and Communications Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Lesotho Highlands Transparency and Infrastructure Project Additional Fi- Development Authority, Maseru 100, Lesotho, Tel: (266-22) 311-281, nancing 2:The objective is to further reforms in the ICT sector by Fax: (266-22) 310-060, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: , deploying elements of Nairobi City County Plan for improvements in infrastructure and basic services. Bank Approval completed on Liberia 26 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149019. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be deter- Energy and Mining mined. ICT Authority, Tel: (254-20) 208-9061, Fax: (254-20) 221- (N) Liberia LACEEP Additional Financing:The objectives are 1962, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Victor Kyalo, vkyalo@ to increase access to electricity and strengthen institutional capacity ict.go.ke in the electricity sector. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection to be determined. (R) Second Kenya Water Security and Climate Resilience Renewable Energy Project:The objective is to meet the electric- Project (KWSCRP-2) (Cr. 55430-KE):The objective is to im- ity needs of a part of the population outside Montserrado County. prove water security and build climate resilience in the Coastal Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (CSCF). Consulting Region. Bank Approval completed on 16 December 2014. Environ- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. mental Assessment Category A. Project: P145559. US$ 200.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment, Wa- Health and Other Social Services ter and Natural Resources, Kenya, Tel: (254-20) 271-6103, E-mail: Youth Employment Social Safety Net:The objective is to sup- [email protected], Contact: Robinson K. Gaita, Director, Irrigation, port the development of social protection programming focused Drainage and Water Storage on increasing resilience among poor and vulnerable households, PAGE 14 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 particularly through improved employment opportunities. Project Social Safety Net Project:The objective is to scale up condi- Concept Review Meeting completed on 26 June 2014. Environ- tional cash transfer (CCT) pilot that is presently designed under mental Assessment Category B. Project: P146827. US$ 10.0 (IDA the Madagascar Food Security and Social Protection project which Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be provides some funding for emergency response to natural disasters. determined. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 28 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149323. US$ 35.0 Public Administration, Law, and Justice (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Liberia Land Administration Project:The objective is to im- be determined. prove the efficiency in the provision of land administration and management services. Project Concept Review Meeting completed Industry and Trade on 11 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Growth and Infrastructure:The objectives are to: (a) consolidate 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) and deepen the impacts in the three existing sub-regions (growth to be determined. poles); and (b) extend the interventions to adjacent sub-regions with Poverty Reduction Support Credit III:The objectives of the op- high growth potential to establish growth corridors. Negotiations eration are to sustain and deepen the government’s efforts to reform completed on 22 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category governance and civil service and to support the broadening of re- B. Project: P113971. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be forms to include economic transformation and human development. required. National Project Secretariat, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). No Tel: (261) 2022-36777, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Eric Rakoto consultants are required. Minister of Finance and Development Plan- Andriantsilavo, Secretaire Nationale ning, Broad Street, Monrovia, Liberia, Tel: (231-886) 578-921 Public Administration, Law, and Justice Second Poverty Reduction Support Credit:The objectives Madagascar Public Sector Performance Loan:The objective are to: (a) sustain and deepen government-owned efforts to reform is to strengthen public sector performance in Madagascar in selected governance and civil service; and (b) support the broadening of re- high impact areas through strengthening technical, organizational forms to include economic transformation and human development. and institutional capacity for improved fiscal management and Bank Approval completed on 12 November 2014. Environmental service-delivery. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 Assessment Category U. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are (IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to required. Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Broad be determined. Street, Monrovia, Liberia, Tel: (231-886) 578-921, Contact: Fred Fakari’i, Secretary of Finance Malawi Transportation Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry South Eastern Corridor Road Asset Management Proj- Agricultural Commercialization and Rural Growth Proj- ect:The objectives are to support the recipient’s effort to reduce ect:The objective is to support the modernization of the Malawi transport costs along the South Eastern Ganta-Zwedru corridor smallholder agriculture by promoting agricultural diversification and and to improve institutional arrangements and capacity in the road commercialization and by supporting rural growth. Environmental sector. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 29 October Assessment Category B. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149279. US$ required. Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, PO Box 30134, 100.0/40.0 (IDA Credit/LRTF). Consulting services and implement- Lilongwe 3, Malawi, Tel: (265-1) 788-817, Fax: (265-1) 789-218, E- ing agency(ies) to be determined. mail: [email protected], Contact: Jeffrey Luhanga, Principal Secretary Madagascar Shire Valley Irrigation Support:The objectives are to: (a) raise agricultural productivity and profitability for agricultural produc- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry ers, including small-holders, in the Lower Shire Valley; and (b) Madagascar Agriculture Rural Growth and Land Manage- broaden Malawi’s export base by establishing market-driven pro- ment Project:The objective is to increase farmer’s incomes, ag- ductive ventures and providing efficient and sustainable irrigation ricultural productivity, and value addition through the facilitation services. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 27 June of linkages between the private sector and rural communities and 2013. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P125473. US$ through improved land tenure security. Environmental Assessment 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry Category B. US$ 120.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- of Agriculture and Food Security (MOAFS), PO Box 30134, Capital menting agency(ies) to be determined. City, Malawi, Tel: (265-1) 789-033, Fax: (265-1) 789-218, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Sandram Maweru, Principal Energy and Mining Secretary Electricity Sector Operations and Governance Improve- ment Project (ESOGIP):The objective is to improve performance Health and Other Social Services and governance of the power sector of Madagascar by simultane- (R) MASAF IV Strengthening of Safety Nets Systems Ad- ously addressing three key areas for sustainable development: (i) ditional Finance:The objective is a continuation to strengthen planning (including access) and implementation of outcomes; and Malawi’s social safety net delivery systems and coordination across (ii) operations for electric service provision; (iii) financial viability. programs. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 16 De- Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 12 August 2014. cember 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 75.0 Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P151785. US$ 65.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. be determined. Industry and Trade Health and Other Social Services Business Enabling Environment Project:The objective is to Emergency Support for Critical Education Health and Nu- improve the business enabling environment in Malawi. Environ- trition Services Additional Financing:The objective is a con- mental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.2 (AFRF). Consulting services tinuation to preserve critical education, health and nutrition service and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. delivery in targeted vulnerable areas in the recipient’s territory. Bank Approval completed on 27 February 2014. Environmental Assess- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ment Category B. Project: P148749. US$ 9.8/0.2 (IDA Credit/IDA (N) Malawi Fiscal Management DPO:The objective is to sup- Grant). Consultants will be required. PNNC, Madagascar, Contact: port reforms necessary for the maintenance of macroeconomic sta- , bility and improved fiscal management. Environmental Assessment DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE 15

Category U. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- Education menting agency(ies) to be determined. Skills Development Project Additional Financing:The ob- jectives are to: (a) improve the quality and efficiency of training Mali institutions; and (b) create an enabling environment for a more Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry market-driven Technical and Vocational Education Training Sys- Obsolete Pesticides Disposal and Prevention Project:The ob- tem. Bank Approval completed on 30 April 2014. Environmental jective is to assist the Government to: (a) eliminate and/or safeguard Assessment Category B. Project: P144575. Consultants will be re- inventoried Publicly-Held Obsolete Pesticide stocks and Associated quired. Contact: Amadou Harouna, Haut Commissaire. Ministère Waste; and (b) implement measures to reduce future accumulations des Affaires Economiques et du Développement, BP 238, Nouak- of pesticides. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 15 April chott, Mauritania, Tel: (222) 525-2063, E-mail: [email protected], 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 3.2 (GEFU). Con- Contact: Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Chrif Mamed, Directeur des sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Projets Education Education Energy and Mining Higher Education support Project:The objective is to improve Gas to Power:The objective is to use natural gas discovered offshore the relevance of selected higher education programs and the steward- for a power station to be built near Nouackchott. Board Approval ship of the higher education system in Mali. Project Concept Review completed on 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Meeting completed on 10 September 2014. Environmental Assess- Project: P107940. US$ 130.0 (GUID). Consultants will be required. ment Category B. Project: P151318. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- Ministry of Energy, BP 199, Rond-Point Sebkha, Nouakchott, Mauri- ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. tania, Tel: (222-46) 431-537, Fax: (222-44) 297-456, E-mail: kane@ Social Service Delivery Project:The objective is to support acces.mr, [email protected], Contact: Mamadou Amadou higher accountability, effectiveness and utilization of education and Kane, Directeur General de l’Electricite health services through a results-based approach. Environmental Health and Other Social Services Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Mauritania Social Safety Net System:The objectives are to and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. support the establishment of building blocks for the social safety Energy and Mining net system and to provide targeted cash transfers to poor and vul- Banda Gas to Power Guarantee:The objective is to enable pro- nerable households. Project Concept Review Meeting completed duction of natural gas to increase reliable, competitive and environ- on 21 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ mentally sustainable electricity supply for Mauritanian, Senegalese 25.0/4.0 (IDA Credit/AFRH). Consulting services and implementing and Malian households and industry. Board Approval completed agency(ies) to be determined. on 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: Industry and Trade P145664. US$ 32.0 (GUID). Consulting services and implementing (R) Mauritania Competitiveness and Zone Project:The ob- agency(ies) to be determined. jectives are to: (a) improve the investment climate and regulatory Kenie Hydropower Project:The objective is to expand renewable framework; (b) catalyze infrastructure development in the Nouadhi- generation to better serve domestic power demand. Environmental bou zone and build project management capacity for PPPs; and (c) Assessment Category U. US$ 30.0/70.0 (GUID/ZPCO). Consulting support private sector competitiveness in selected industries with a services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. focus on SMEs, youth and women entrepreneurs. Project Concept Rural Electrification Hybrid System Project GPOBA:The ob- Review Meeting completed on 25 November 2014. Environmental jective is to increase access to modern energy for 13,800 low income Assessment Category A. US$ 30.0/20.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consult- rural households (150,000 individuals) in rural areas in Mali. First ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Grant Funding Request Approval completed on 11 December 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (GPBA). Consulting Public Administration, Law, and Justice services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Mauritania Governance Enhancement Project:The objective is to: support the implementation of the Government of Mauritania’s Industry and Trade public sector reforms for improved forecasting, management, over- Competitiveness and Growth Poles:The objective is to sup- sight and control of public assets and natural resources for inclu- port the design and implementation of a growth pole pilot under an sive and poverty-oriented growth. Project Concept Review Meeting innovative public private partnership model. The project will foster completed on 24 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category competitiveness and job creation in sectors including agropoles and C. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing mining. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA agency(ies) to be determined. Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Mauritius Transportation Finance (R) Mali - Niger River Economic and Environmental Re- Finance and Private Sector Competitiveness Development habilitation Project:The preliminary objective of the project is to Policy Lending:The objective is to support the development of contribute to the rehabilitation of the economic and environmental financial sector competitiveness that will help Mauritius in fostering functions of the Niger river in Mali. Project Concept Review Meet- the resilience and competitiveness of its economy as enablers for the ing completed on 11 December 2014. Environmental Assessment implementation of its Africa strategy. Decision Meeting completed on Category A. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be deter- 17 January 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 20.0 mined. Agence de Bassin du Fleuve Niger - Mali (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Government House, Port Louis, Mau- Mauritania ritius, Tel: (230) 201-1146, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Gerard Bussier, Deputy Director Sustainable Land Management under SAWAP:The objec- tive is to expand sustainable land, forest and water management Mozambique practices in targeted productiveecosystems in Mauritania using a Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry value chain approach. Project Concept Review Meeting completed (R) Second Agriculture Development Policy Operation on 31 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 4.8 (DPO):The objective, the second in a series of three DPO, is to sup- (GEFU). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be port the Mozambique agriculture sector investment plan (PNISA). determined. Negotiations completed on 17 December 2014. Environmental As- PAGE 16 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 sessment Category U. Project: P146930. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). No stability, increasing access to finance by households and firms, and consultants are required. Ministry of Planning and Development, enhancing the development of long-term financial markets. Environ- Av. Ahmed S. Toure, 21, 4th floor, Mozambique, Fax: (258-21) 492- mental Assessment Category U. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting 625 services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Conservation Areas for Biodiversity and Development: The objective is to support the development and management of Public Administration, Law, and Justice Mozambique’s Conservation Areas system in order to improve bio- Tenth Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC X):The diversity conservation, economic growth and sustainable livelihoods. objective is to assist the Government to: (a) improve the business Bank Approval completed on 18 November 2014. Environmental climate and to increase transparency in extractive industries; (b) Assessment Category B. Project: P131965. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). strengthen social protection; and (c) strengthen public financial Consultants will be required. Tourism Ministry of Mozambique (MI- management by enhancing effectiveness of internal audits, develop- TUR), Av. 10 de Novembro, N° 40, Maputo, Mozambique, E-mail: ing a public investment management process, and improving public [email protected], Contact: Afonso Madope, Coordinator. debt management. Negotiations completed on 4 November 2014. Biofund, Mozambique, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 110.0 (IDA Credit). Luis Honwana, Director Consultants will be required. Ministry of Planning and Development, Conservation Areas for Biodiversity and Development- Mozambique, Contact: , GEF:The objective is to support the development and management Transportation of Mozambique conservation areas’ system in order to improve bio- diversity conservation, economic growth and sustainable livelihoods. MZ Third Additional Financing for the Roads and Bridges Board Approval completed on 18 November 2014. Environmental Management and Maintenance Program--Phase 2:The ob- Assessment Category B. Project: P132597. US$ 6.3 (GEFU). Con- jective is a continuation of the Mozambique Roads and Bridges sultants will be required. Management and Maintenance Program, Phase 2. Project Concept Mozambique Agriculture Commercialization Project:The Review Meeting completed on 24 October 2014. Environmental objective is to increase farmer incomes, agricultural productivity, and Assessment Category B. US$ 73.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services value addition through the facilitation of linkages between the private and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. sector and rural communities. Environmental Assessment Category Roads and Bridges Management and Maintenance Pro- B. US$ 80.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing gram Phase III:The objective is to improve access of the population agency(ies) to be determined. to all-season roads through maintenance, rehabilitation and upgrad- Third Agriculture Development Policy Operation AgDPO- ing of the classified road network. Project Concept Review Meeting 3:The objective is to increase production and enhance productivity completed on 26 February 2013. Environmental Assessment Cat- in the agriculture sector through the implementation of a medium- egory B. US$ 200.0/16.0/5.0 (IDA Credit/CIF/NDF). Consultants term sector policy and institutional reform agenda. Environmental will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Assessment Category U. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Cities and Climate Change Pilot Project for Climate Resil- Education ience (PPCR) Additional Financing:The objective is to reduce (R) Higher Education Science and Technology Project Ad- current and future weather induced impacts on poor population and ditional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) increase the num- on Mozambique’s fragile economy. Specifically, supporting the green ber and raise the quality of graduates at the undergraduate and infrastructure investments in the City of Beira, aiming at protecting graduate levels; and (b) strengthen the national research capacities existing natural drainages courses to increase the city resilience to to produce research outputs of relevance to the Country’s strategic floods. Bank Approval completed on 23 October 2014. Environmen- economic sectors. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on tal Assessment Category B. Project: P146059. US$ 6.5/9.3 (CSCC/ 27 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 45.0 CSCF). Consulting services to be determined. Administration for (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure (AIAS), Mozambique be determined. Mozambique Enhancing Spatial Data for Flood Risk Man- Early Child Development and Nutrition:The objective is to agement Project:The objective is to increase the capacity of Mo- assist the Government to: (a) pilot various types of community-based zambique to prepare for and manage flood events in the Limpopo ECD interventions; (b) include provision of nutrition services for and Zambezi River basins. Bank Approval completed on 5 June 2014. pregnant mothers and young children; and (c) create an ECD unit Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P149629. US$ 6.5 within the Ministry of Education. Bank Approval completed on 1 (GFDR). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be May 2012. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P124729. determined. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Government Water Service and Institutional Support II:The objectives are: of Mozambique, Mozambique, Tel: (258-21) 480-700, Fax: (258-21) (a) increase water service coverage for residents in the project Cities 490-979, Contact: HE Said Baragoita, Minister of Nacala, Tete, Moatize, Beira, Dondo, Pemba; and (b) strengthen Mozambique Additional Financing to Education Sector the institutional and regulatory framework for the Regional Water Support Project:The objective is to improve access to and, quality Utilities Supply in the country. Project Concept Review Meeting and equity of education. Project Concept Review Meeting completed completed on 12 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. on 24 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Project: P149377. US$ 186.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be 70.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) determined. Water Supply Investment Fund (FIPAG), Rua Pereira to be determined. d’Eca, Nr. 241, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-21) 491-529, Fax: (258-21) 498-881; Water Regulatory Council (CRA), Mozambique, Energy and Mining Tel: (258-21) 312-825, Fax: (258-21) 312-826 Second Climate Change DPO:The objective is to support the Government to cross-cutting reforms and sector reforms in agri- Niger culture, social protection, health, water, roads and energy. Negotia- tions completed on 14 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Energy and Mining Category U. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. (N) Niger - Electricity Access Expansion Project (NELA- Contact: , CEP):The objective of the project is to increase electricity access to 60,000 additional clients in 7 major urban areas in Niger by investing Finance in extension and reinforcement of the existing grid. Environmental Mozambique Financial Sector DPO II:This is the second in Assessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services a series of DPOS. The objective is to continue reinforcing financial and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE 17

Health and Other Social Services E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mansuru A. Ganiyu, Population and Health Support Project:The objective is to Project Manager strengthen the health services delivery and the improvement of Power Sector Guarantees:The objective is to increase the supply the reproductive health in Niger. Project Concept Review Meeting of electricity to the Nigerian consumers. Board Approval completed completed on 22 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category on 1 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: B. Project: P147638. US$ 96.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be P120207. US$ 150.0/395.0 (GUAM/GUAR). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, Niamey, Niger, Tel: (227-20) 722-782, required. Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Company Ltd, Nigeria, Fax: (227-20) 733-570, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mou- Tel: (234-803) 685-6383, E-mail: [email protected]. mouni Belkissa, Adviser Project Coordinator. MP/WP/CP (Ministry ng, Contact: Rumundaka Wonodi, Managing Director / CEO of Population Woman Promotion and Child Protection), Niamey, Niger, Tel: (227-20) 722-330, Contact: , Finance Development Finance Project:The objective is to increase the Industry and Trade availability and access to finance for micro-, small, and medium Agro-sylvo-pastoral Exports and Markets Development enterprises through eligible financial intermediaries with the support Project Additional Financing:The objective is to support the of a new wholesale development finance institution. Bank Approval consolidation of project activities and kick start the implementation completed on 25 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- of the country’s Agricultural Risk Management Plan (ARMP). Sign- egory F. Project: P146319. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be ing completed on 19 September 2014. Environmental Assessment required. Office of the Accountant General of Nigeria, Garki, Abuja, Category B. US$ 13.8 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Nigeria, Tel: (234-9) 234-0949, Fax: (234-9) 234-443, E-mail: ksar- Ministry of Agricultural/PRODEX, B.P 507, Niamey, Niger, Tel: [email protected], Contact: Kadiri Sarjius, Accountant (227-20) 350-068, Fax: (227-20) 356-293, E-mail: niger_prodex@ yahoo.fr, Contact: M. Bola Moussa Health and Other Social Services Community and Social Development Additional Financ- Nigeria ing:The objective is to increase access by the poor to improved Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry social and natural resource infrastructure services in a sustainable manner throughout Nigeria. Bank Approval completed on 26 March Nigeria Second Agriculture Sector Development Policy 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148215. US$ Operation:The objectives are to: (a) strengthen the policy environ- 140.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Federal Ministry ment and institutional capacity to enhance agricultural productivity of Finance, Nigeria, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. and market access among farmers; and (b) improve agriculture sec- Chudi Onuoha, National Coordinator, FPSU, CSDP tor management. Decision Meeting completed on 10 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Program to Support Saving One Million Lives:The objective Consulting services to be determined. Federal Ministry of Agriculture is to support the Government’s “Saving One Million Lives” (SOML) and Rural Development, Nigeria initiative, which focuses on saving the lives of mothers and children. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 3 June 2014. Envi- Education ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146583. US$ 300.0 Global Partnership for Education Fund Grant:The objective is (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to to improve access to and quality of basic education in selected States be determined. with particular attention to girls’ participation. Decision Meeting Social Protection Project:The objective is to reduce extreme completed on 29 August 2013. Environmental Assessment Category poverty in line with the Transformation Agenda of the Government B. US$ 100.0 (EFAS). Consultants will be required. Federal Min- of Nigeria and the World Bank Group. Environmental Assessment istry of Education, c/o STEP-B Project, Plot 245, Samuel Adesujo Category B. US$ 500.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- Adeulegun St. Nigeria, Tel: (234-803) 385-4351, E-mail: stepbfme@ menting agency(ies) to be determined. yahoo.com; Universal Basic Education Commission, Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, Nigeria, Tel: (234-806) 565-9090, E-mail: kagarabello@ Industry and Trade yahoo.com Staple Crop Processing Zones Support Project:The objective NG Post-Basic Education and Skills Development Project: is to support the operational launch of selected staple crop processing The objective is for post basic education and skills development zones, aimed at mobilizing private sector investments, generating institutions to produce more relevant and better quality graduates. employment, and creating value-addition in Nigerian agriculture Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Preparation completed on 4 February 2014. Environmental As- Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be deter- sessment Category A. Project: P148616. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). mined. Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria Energy and Mining (N) Nigeria Power Sector Guarantees Project Additional Public Administration, Law, and Justice Financing:The objective is to support the implementation of the (R) Nigeria Second Edo State Growth and Employment Roadmap for Power Sector Reforms. Environmental Assessment Support Credit:The objective is to support Edo State’s critical Category A. US$ 100.0/300.0 (CCTF/GUAR). Consulting services reforms for improving the management of its public resources and and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. creating a better environment for growth and employment creation Electricity Transmission and Access Project:The objective is in a socially accountable manner. Project Concept Review Meeting to support the Government to increase the capacity of the Nigerian completed on 28 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Grid and reduce the system losses. Project Concept Review Meeting U. Project: P151480. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be completed on 16 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category determined. Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja, Nigeria, Tel: (234- A. Project: P146330. US$ 700.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and 805) 579-8172, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Haruna implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Mohammed, Director, International Economic Relation Electricity and Gas Improvement Additional Financing-- (R) Third Lagos State Development Policy Operation:The GUID:The objective is a continuation to support the Nigeria Elec- objective is to support the Lagos State Government in its endeavor tricity and Gas Improvement project to power three of the NIPP to improve public finances and sustain rapid growth and poverty re- plants in Sapele, Olorunsogo and Alaoji. Board Approval completed duction in a fiscally sustainable manner. The four pillars of this DPO on 19 June 2012. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: are (a) Fiscal Sustainability, (b) Budget Planning and Preparation P126190. US$ 200.0 (GUID). Consulting services to be determined. (c) Budget Execution, and (d) Investment Climate. Project Concept Power Holding Company of Nigeria, Plot 441 Zambezi Crescent, Mai- Review Meeting completed on 1 December 2014. Environmental tama, Abuja, Nigeria, Tel: (234-9) 413-6684, Fax: (234-9) 413-6685, Assessment Category U. Project: P151947. US$ 200.0 (IDA Credit). PAGE 18 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Consulting services to be determined. Lagos State Government, The Category A. US$ 20.0/2.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consulting ser- Secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja, Block 12, Lagos, Nigeria, Tel: (234) 709- vices and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 881, E-mail: [email protected] (N) Second South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO) Fisheries Nigeria Public Financial Management Reform and Per- Governance and Shared Growth Project:The objective is to formance Project:The objective is to support the Government focus on the fishery sector’s contribution to the national economy, in of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to reform its public financial alignment with the national strategy and related plans. Environmen- management systems, processes, and practices, and thus improve tal Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0/10.0 (IDA Credit/GFCO). Con- PFM outcomes in support of strengthened service delivery across sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. key sectors of the economy. Environmental Assessment Category (R) Sahel Regional Pastoralism Support:The objective is to C. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing develop and implement regional approaches to enhancing pastoral agency(ies) to be determined. communities’ resilience to weather shocks and long term climate State Employment and Expenditure for Results Project: change in drought prone areas in selected countries in the Sahel. The objectives are to enhance opportunities for employment and ac- Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 20 February 2014. cess to socio-economic services, while improving public expenditure Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147674. US$ 250.0 management systems in the participating states. First Grant Fund- (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to ing Request Approval completed on 31 July 2014. Environmental be determined. Assessment Category B. Project: P133071. US$ 100.0 (ECD). No Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in consultants are required. Federal Ministry of Finance, Central Area, East and Central Africa (ECA) Multi Donor Trust Fund:The Garki, Abuja, Nigeria, Tel: (234-9) 8336-6661, E-mail: turakibatta@ objective is to enhance access and utilization of agricultural research hotmail.com; National Planning Commission, Plot 421 Constitution technologies and innovations in the regional agricultural systems Avenue, Central Business District, Abuja, Nigeria of ECA. This project is on hold until further notice. Environmental State and Local Governance Reform Project:The objective Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (CDP4). Consulting services and is to improve transparency, accountability and quality in public implementing agency(ies) to be determined. financial management in the participating states Bank Approval Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa MDTF Addi- completed on 17 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- tional Financing:The objective is to align African agricultural egory B. Project: P133045. US$ 73.1 (ECD). Consulting services institutions at the national, regional and continental levels with to be determined. Federal Ministry of Finance, Nigeria, E-mail: CAADP Pillar IV FAAP Principles for effective research, extension, [email protected] and training and education. Decision Meeting completed on 13 De- cember 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (CDP4). Consulting services to be determined. Forum for Agricultural (R) Third National Urban Water Sector Reform Project (Cr. Research in Africa (FARA), No 12, Off Anmeda Street, Roman Ridge, 54160-NG):The objectives are to: (a) increase access to improved Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-302) 772-823, Fax: (233-302) 773-676, E- water supply service in Selected States of Nigeria and improve the mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. Yemi Akinbamijo, financial viability of existing water utilities in those States; and (b) Executive Director increase the investment planning capacity of Participating States. Fourth Comprehensive Agricultural Development:The ob- The credit was signed on 7 November 2014. Environmental As- jective is to support the creation of a regional institution for Southern sessment Category B. Project: P123513. US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Africa with the mandate to support and coordinate regional programs Consultants will be required. Federal Ministry of Water Resources, in agricultural research, agricultural extension, and agricultural train- Nigeria, Tel: (234-0803) 373-8149, E-mail: [email protected], ing and education. First Grant Funding Request Approval completed Contact: Benson Ajisegiri, Head of PPP Unit (FMWR) on 28 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Enhancing Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change:The P113629. US$ 26.0 (CDP4). Consulting services to be determined. objective is to strengthen the ability of federal and state governments FARA Secretariat, PMB CT 173, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana, Tel: to respond to current climate related disasters, and to build resilience (233) 2177-2823/9421, Fax: (233) 2177-3676, E-mail: mjones@ to future climate change. Environmental Assessment Category A. fara-africa.org, Contact: Dr. Monty P. Jones, Executive Secretariat. US$ 400.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Southern Africa Development Community, Private Bag 0095, SADC agency(ies) to be determined. House, Khama Crescent, Gaborone, Botswana, Tel: (267) 395-1863, Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project:The objective is to Fax: (267) 397-2848, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. improve the city of Ibadan’s flood resilience by: (a) strengthening Patrick Tawonezvi, Coordinator preparedness and response; and (b) undertaking flood risk mitigation Kivu-Tanganyka Growth Poles Support Project:The objec- and urban drainage improvements in priority and targeted project tive is to support the recovery and reintegration of communities and sites Bank Approval completed on 17 June 2014. Environmental As- reestablishment of sustainable livelihoods in the conflict affected sessment Category A. US$ 200.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be areas. Preparation completed on 13 May 2014. Environmental As- required. Oyo State Government, Office Of the Governor, Secretariat, sessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Ibadan, Nigeria, Tel: (234-70) 5973-9604, E-mail: dayo1ayorinde@ and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. yahoo.com, Contact: Mr. Dayo Ayorinde, Project Coordinator Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience:The objective is to enhance livelihood resilience of pastoral and agro-pastoral com- Regional munities in cross-border drought prone areas of selected countries Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry and to improve the capacity of the selected countries’ governments to (N) GLR Resilience and Cohesion of Displaced:The objective respond promptly and effectively to an eligible crisis or emergency. will support sustainable integration and self-reliance for refugees, Bank Approval completed on 21 October 2014. Environmental As- internally displaced persons, returnees across the Great Lakes Re- sessment Category B. Project: P150006. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). gion, as well as promoting cohesion with their host communities. Consultants will be required. Federal Ministry of Finance and Eco- Environmental Assessment Category B. Consulting services and nomic, Ethiopia, Tel: (251-9) 2771-8854, E-mail: faberra@mofed. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. gov.et, Contact: Fisseha Aberra, Director of International Financial (N) LVEMP APL-1 Additional Financing:The objectives are Institutions to: (i) improve the collaborative management of the trans-bound- Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience - South-Sudan: arynatural resources of the LVB among the Partner States; and (ii) The objective is to enhance livelihood resilience of pastoral and improve environmental management of targeted pollution hotspots agro-pastoral communities in cross-border drought prone areas of and selected degraded sub-catchments for the benefit of communities selected countries and improve the capacity of the selected countries’ who depend on the natural resources of LVB. Project Concept Review governments to respond promptly and effectively to an eligible crisis Meeting completed on 9 December 2014. Environmental Assessment or emergency. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0 DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE 19 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: be determined. P149714. US$ 7.5 (CIWA). Consulting services and implementing South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and agency(ies) to be determined. Shared Growth:The objective is to increase the shared benefits (R) OMVS Hydropower and Energy Infrastructure Devel- from economic growth based on sustainable fisheries and coastal opment Project:The objective is to contribute to sustaining and marine resources. Negotiations completed on 22 September 2014. expanding the exploitation of OMVS regional hydropower potential Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132123. US$ and furthering regional integration through the rehabilitation and re- 42.7/32.8/15.5 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/GFCO). Consultants will newal of Manantali hydropower plant and transmission facilities for be required. Ministry of Fisheries, Tel: (258-82) 316-0078, E-mail: the evacuation of the power generated by the plant. Project Concept [email protected], Contact: Mrs. Angelica Dengo, Head of Review Meeting completed on 11 November 2014. Environmental International Cooperation Department. DGRH, Contact: Youssouf Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Mohamed Ali, Deputy Director and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and Shared (R) Organisation de Mise en Valeur du fleuve Gambie Growth -- GEF:The objective is to increase the shared benefits from (OMVG) Energy Project: West African Power Pool (WAPP) economic growth based on sustainable fisheries and coastal marine APL 4 - Phase 2:The objective is to increase access to electric- resources. Negotiations completed on 22 September 2014. Environ- ity supply to Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal through mental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.5 (GEFU). Consultants will expanding regional transmission infrastructure that will enable to be required. DGRH, Moroni, Comoros, Contact: Youssouf Mohamed exchange renewable generation resources in the region. Decision Ali, Deputy Director. Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Zanzibar, Meeting completed on 15 December 2014. Environmental Assess- Contact: Mr. Mussa Jumbe, Director of Fisheries. Ministry of Fish- ment Category B. Project: P146830. US$ 200.0/145.0/114.0/50.0 eries, Tel: (258-82) 316-0078, E-mail: [email protected], /125.0/34.0/80.0 (IDA Credit/AFDB/EUIB/GFRC/ISDB/KFW/ Contact: Mrs. Angelica Dengo, Head of International Cooperation WADB). Consultants will be required. OMVG - Gambia River Basin Department. Indian Ocean Commission, E-mail: harijhons.razaka@ Development Organisation, Tel: (221-33) 822-3159, Fax: (221-33) coi-ioc.org, Contact: Mr. Leon Martial Razaka, Officer in Charge. 822-5926, E-mail: [email protected] Deep Sea Fishing Authority, Contact: Mr. Zahor El Kharousy (R) Southern Africa Power Pool and Regional Electricity Volta River Basin Strategic Action Programme Implemen- Regulators Association of Southern Africa Regional En- tation--GEF:The objective is to strengthen transboundary water ergy (Cr. H9890-3A):The objectives are to: (a) promote regional resources management in the Volta River Basin through institutional trading through lending operations for several major transmission development and implementation of priority actions of the Strategic and generation projects; and (b) provide assistance to create and Action Programme. Project Concept Review Meeting completed enforce the technical, economic and regulatory “rules of the road” on 13 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Proj- for the regional interconnected grid. Bank Approval completed on ect: P149969. US$ 3.0/7.2 (CIWA/GEFU). Consulting services and 11 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Proj- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ect: P126661. US$ 20.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. West Africa Mauritania Fish APL:The objective is to sustain- Southern Africa Power Pool Coordination Centre, Zimbabwe, Tel: ably increase the overall wealth generated by the exploitation of the (263-4) 335-468, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. Law- marine fisheries resources of West Africa and the proportion of that rence Musaba, Manager wealth captured by West African countries. Project Concept Review 3A Ruzizi Hydropower Project:The objective is to contruct a Meeting completed on 19 June 2014. Environmental Assessment dam, tunnel, power station and a transmission line to a switchyard. Category B. Project: P131327. US$ 7.0 (GEFU). Consulting services The project will be developed in the form of a public-private part- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. nership supported by donors including the World Bank, AfDB, and DBSA. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA Education Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be (N) Africa Hgher Education Centers of Excellence Project determined. Additional Financing:The objective is to support the recipients 3A-Ruzizi Hydropower Partial Risk Guarantee:The objec- to promote regional specialization among participating universities tive is to provide a Partial Risk Guarantee to support private sector in areas that address regional challenges by strengthening the ca- investors to develop the Ruzizi hydropower project. Environmental pacities of these universities to deliver quality training and applied Assessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (GUID). Consulting services and research. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 12.0 (IDA implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Adjarala Hydroelectric West Africa Power Pool APL Phase Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence Project:The 3:The objectives are to: (a) establish a well-functioning, cooperative, objective is to launch a regional ACE initiative for Ethiopia, Kenya, power pooling mechanism for West Africa; and (b) increase access for Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia to the citizens of ECOWAS to reliable and stable electricity at affordable support the promotion of regional collaboration and specialization costs. Decision Meeting completed on 21 March 2014. Environmental among participating universities. Environmental Assessment Cat- Assessment Category A. Project: P115063. US$ 120.0/100.0/78.0/ egory B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implement- 40.0/52.0 (IDA Credit/AFDB/FRDE/WADB/WAEM). Consultants ing agency(ies) to be determined. will be required. Communaute Electrique du Benin (CEB), Rue de la Kozah, BP 1368, Lome, United States, Tel: (228) 221-6132, Fax: Energy and Mining (228) 221-3764, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Djibril Salifou, (R) Kariba Dam Rehabilitation Project (Cr. 55630-ZM):The Managing Director objective is to assist the Zambezi River Authority in securing the long- Mozambique-Malawi Transmission Interconnection:The term safety and reliability of the Kariba Dam Hydro-Electric Scheme. objective is to interconnect the Malawi power system with the South- Bank Approval completed on 9 December 2014. Environmental As- ern African Power Pool via Mozambique. Project Concept Review sessment Category A. Project: P146515. US$ 75.0/75.0/100.0/25.0 Meeting completed on 30 April 2014. Environmental Assessment (IDA Credit/AFDB/ECDF/FSSP). Consultants will be required. Category B. US$ 120.0/4.5 (IDA Credit/AFRS). Consultants will be Zambezi River Authority, Zambia, Tel: (260-211) 228-401/02, Fax: required. Electricidade de Mozambique (EdM), Ave Agostinho Neto (260-211) 227-498, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mun- 70 - 8 Andar, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-21) 353-632; ESCOM, yaradzi Munodawafa, Engineer PO Box 2047, Blantyre, Malawi, Tel: (265-1) 822-000, 824-274, Fax: (R) Niger River Basin Management Project:The objective is (265-1) 823-560 to enhance the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) capacity, systems and Regional Transmission Development Adaptable Program tools for facilitating improved water resources management and Loan:The objective is to support the development of the transmis- development in the Niger River Basin. Appraisal completed on 7 sion backbone linking Tete Province with the south of Mozambique. PAGE 20 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Decision Meeting completed on 15 February 2015. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 20.0/20.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Con- Assessment Category A. Project: P108934. US$ 150.0/50.0 (IDA sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Credit/GUID). Consulting services to be determined. Electricid- (R) Great Lakes Trade Facilitation:The objective is to facilitate ade de Mozambique (Electricity of Mozambique), Av. Zedequias trade of goods and services accross borders. Project Concept Review Manganhela, N-267, Predio Zat, 4th Floor, PO Box 938, Maputo, Meeting completed on 24 November 2014. Environmental Assess- Mozambique, Tel: (258-21) 304-407, Fax: (258-21) 328-233, E- ment Category B. Project: P151083. US$ 86.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Carlos Yum, Director ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. and Project Coordinator West Africa Road Transport:The objective is to provide a re- Tanzania-Kenya Interconnector:The objectives are to con- gional budget support to those West African countries that jointly nect Tanzania’s electrical grid with Kenya’s and later Zambia, create agree to common road transport reforms. Project Concept Review power- sharing between the two countries, reduce energy costs, Meeting completed on 9 April 2014. Environmental Assessment promote sustainable and renewable power generation, protect the Category U. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- region’s environment and pave the way for dynamic regional coop- menting agency(ies) to be determined. eration between the countries of East Africa. Environmental Assess- ment Category A. Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Information and Communications to be determined. Fifth Regional Communications Infrastructure Program APL:The objectives are to: (a) lower prices for international capac- Health and Other Social Services ity and extend the geographic reach of broadband networks; and (N) 3A EA PH Laboratory Networking Project Additional (b) improve the Government’s efficiency and transparency through Financing:The objective is to establish a network of efficient, high eGovernment applications. Preparation completed on 22 Janu- quality, accessible public health laboratories for the diagnosis and ary 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 70.0 (IDA surveillance of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases. Envi- Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 94.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- determined. ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. West Africa Regional Communications Infrastructure APL (N) Health System Support Project Additional Financing: 3:The objectives are to: (a) increase the geographical reach of broad- The objectives are to: (a) increase utilization and improve the quality band networks; and (b) reduce costs of communications services in of maternal and child health services in targeted rural areas in the the territories of Guinea Bissau and Niger. Project Concept Review recipient’s territory; and (b) provide emergency health services to Meeting completed on 10 December 2012. Environmental Assess- the general population. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ ment Category B. Project: P132845. US$ 33.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- 6.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Controlling Diseases of Poverty in the Sahel: NTDs and (R) West Africa Regional Fisheries Program APL C1:The SMC:The objective is to assist countries in the African Sahel control objective is to sustainably increase the overall wealth generated and begin to eliminate the diseases of extreme poverty and seasonal by the exploitation of the marine fisheries resources of West Af- malaria transmission. Project Concept Review Meeting completed rica, and the proportion of that wealth captured by West African on 18 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ countries to include the coastal nations from Mauritania through 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. African Pro- Ghana. Preparation completed on 22 September 2014. Environmen- gramme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), Director, APOC, Oua- tal Assessment Category B. Project: P126773. US$ 22.0/4.0 (IDA gadougou 01, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tel: (226-50) 342-959, Credit/ACGF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Fax: (226-50) 343-647; WHO/AFRO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to be determined. (R) Ebola Emergency Response Project Additional Financ- Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in ing:The objective is to contribute in the short term to the control East and Central Africa Multi-Donor Trust Fund:The ob- of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and the availability of jective is to enhance access and utilization of agricultural research selected essential health services, and mitigate the socio-economic technologies and innovations in the regional agricultural systems of impact of EVD in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Signing com- Eastern and Central Africa. Environmental Assessment Category B. pleted on 20 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category US$ 5.6 (CDP4). Consulting services to be determined. Association B. Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health (MoH), Libe- for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Af- ria, Contact: , Ministry of Health Guinea, Guinea, Contact: S.E.M. rica (ASARECA), Plot 15 John Babijha Road, PO Box 765, Entebbe, Colonel Remy Lamah, Ministre de la Sante et de l’Hygiene Publique. Uganda, Contact: Seyfu Ketema, Executive Director Ministry of Health Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone, Tel: (232) 240-427, Contact: , Transportation (R) Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographics (Cr. (R) Regional Dakar-Bamako Railway Improvement 55690-NE, Cr. D0190-MR, Cr. D0180-CI, Cr. 55700-ML, Project:(formerly Dakar-Bamako Railway Improvement Project) Cr. D0200-TD, Cr. D0240-3A, Cr. 55710-CI):The objective The objective is to assist the Governments of Mali and Senegal in is to increase women and adolescent girls’ empowerment and their the restructuring of the existing concession and rehabilitation of the access to quality reproductive, child and maternal health services in Dakar-Bamako railway line. Project Concept Review Meeting com- selected areas of the participating countries, including the Recipients’ pleted on 1 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. territory, and to impr ove regional knowledge generation and sharing US$ 200.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Implementing as well as regional capacity and coordination. Bank Approval com- agency(ies) to be determined. pleted on 18 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category (R) Southern Africa Trade and Transport Facilitation Pro- C. Project: P150080. US$ 170.2 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be gram APL 2:The objectives are to: (a) improve the road infrastruc- required. Ministere de la Population et de l’Action sociale, Niger, ture; (b) mitigate the social costs of increased transport; and (c) Tel: (227) 739-399, Fax: (227) 739-403, Contact: , improve trade facilitation together with necessary implementation assistance and institutional support. Preparation completed on 18 Industry and Trade November 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: (R) Accelerated Program for Economic Integration (APEI) P145566. US$ 58.0/2.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consulting services Regional Development Policy Operation:The objective is to and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. support the governments of the five countries to implement reforms Lake Victoria Transport Project:The objective of the Lake Vic- that will: (a) remove barriers to trade in goods, (b) promote trade toria Transport Project is to facilitate the sustainable movement of in services, (c) further facilitate trade, and (d) improve the business goods and people across Lake Victoria, whilst supporting improve- environment. Appraisal completed on 26 June 2014. Environmental ment in the services for navigation and maritime safety. Environmen- DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE 21 tal Assessment Category A. Consulting services and implementing Industry and Trade agency(ies) to be determined. Competitiveness and Growth Project:The objective is to in- South Sudan-Eastern Africa Regional Transport, Trade and crease productivity and improve competitiveness of the private Development Facilitation Program-Phase Two:The objective sector through improved access to finance and business develop- is to enhance regional connectivity of South Sudan with its Eastern ment services. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 1.0 (IDA Africa neighboring countries and access to sea ports. Project Concept Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Review Meeting completed on 18 September 2014. Environmental determined. Assessment Category B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Economic Governance and Competitiveness II:The objective Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection is to support macroeconomic and competitiveness reform. Environ- (N) Senegal River Basin Environmental Management Proj- mental Assessment Category U. US$ 4.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting ect:The objective of the Senegal River Basin Environmental Manage- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ment Project is to contribute to the food security of the population in the Senegal River basin by increasing access to water and preserving the hydrological functions of the Senegal River and its tributaries. Senegal Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.1 (AFW1). Consulting Education services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Skills for Jobs and Competiveness (Cr. 55620-SN): Nel Transboundary River Basin Management and Develop- The objective is to revamp the Technical and Vocational Education ment Project:The objective is to strengthen participatory trans- Training (TVET) system and better align it to the needs of youth to boundary river basin planning, management and development for effectively enter the labor market, and also to respond to the needs improved water and food security in the NEL region. Environmental of enterprises. The credit was signed on 19 December 2014. Envi- Assessment Category B. US$ 13.0 (CIWA). Consulting services and ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145585. US$ 35.0/16.5 implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (IDA Credit/GFRC). Consultants will be required. Ministere de la Sahel Disaster Risk Management and Hydro-Meteorologi- Formation Professionnelle, Cite Keur Gorgui face Ministère Elevage, cal Services:The objectives are to: (a) increase resilience to extreme Dakar, Senegal, Tel: (33_8) 657-003, E-mail: mformationprofession- weather and climate events in the Sahel region through fostered [email protected], Contact: Mamadou Talla, Minister regional and national collaboration for disaster risk management; and (b) improve delivery of national hydrological and meteorologi- Energy and Mining cal information and services. Preparation completed on 9 Decem- MR Gas To Power Project (Senegal PRG):The objective is ber 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA to enable production of natural gas for generation of electricity to Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be reduce the cost and increase the supply for Mauritanian households determined. and industry, and enable regional integration through exports of electric power from Mauritania to Senegal and Mali. Board Approval Rwanda approved on 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P145657. US$ 99.0 (GUID). Consulting services and imple- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry menting agency(ies) to be determined. Agriculture Growth Corridors Program:The objective is to Taiba Ndiaye Independent Power Producer Project:The increase the productivity and commercialization of marshland and objective is to increase electricity generation at a lower marginal cost hillside agriculture in Rwanda. Bank Approval completed on 31 Octo- through Independent Power Producer investments in Senegal. Board ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148927. Approval completed on 19 December 2013. Environmental Assess- US$ 100.0/150.0/50.0 (IDA Credit/GAFS/ZBIL). Consultants will be ment Category A. Project: P143605. US$ 40.0/92.0/28.0 (GUID/ required. MINAGRI, PO Box 621, Rwanda, Tel: (250-788) 301-751, ZMUL/ZPCI). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) E-mail: [email protected] to be determined.

Energy and Mining Industry and Trade Electricity Sector Strengthening Project:The objective is to Senegal Growth and Export Development:The objective is to increase access to quality and reliable electricity services. Project support the creation of MSMEs and their access to export markets, Concept Review Meeting completed on 11 November 2014. Environ- improve tourism development and improve selected components of mental Assessment Category B. US$ 80.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Senegal’s investment climate. Project Concept Review Meeting com- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. pleted on 29 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Public Administration, Law, and Justice A. Project: P146469. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. RW Urban Development Project:The objective is to support ur- ban management for the delivery of basic services and to promote lo- Public Administration, Law, and Justice cal economic development in selected urban centers. Project Concept Public Resource Management Strengthening:The objective is Review Meeting completed on 15 December 2014. Environmental to further strengthen the Government of Senegal’s capacity in public Assessment Category B. US$ 85.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services resource management to enhance the credibility, transparency, and and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. accountability in the management and use of central government finances. Bank Approval completed on 31 July 2014. Environmental Sao Tome and Principe Assessment Category C. Project: P146859. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Education Consultants will be required. PFM Reform Secretary, Senegal, Tel: STP Quality Education for All Additional Financing:The (221) 821-4587, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Cheikh Tidi- objective is to improve the system of in-service teacher training and ane Diop, Coordinator to strengthen the management of human resources in the educa- Senegal Third Governance and Growth Support Credit: tion sector in São Tomé and Príncipe. Bank Approval completed The objective is to improve economic governance by strengthening on 27 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: government accountability, public sector performance, and promot- P150828. US$ 3.5 (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Min- ing growth through private sector development. Decision Meeting istry of Education, Culture and Training, Sao Tome and Principe, completed on 31 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Tel: (239) 222-5205, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: H.E. U. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Jorge Bom Jesus, Minister agency(ies) to be determined. PAGE 22 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

Transportation reduce fiscal risks heightened by Ebola; and (b) improve transpar- Transport and Urban Mobility Additional Financing:The ency and accountability for public resources. Signing completed on objectives are to: (a) improve effective road management, mainte- 17 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ nance and safety, both at national level and in urban areas; and (b) 20.0/10.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). No consultants are required.. help improve safety, efficiency and environmental quality of public Contact: , transport in the GDA. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Transportation 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Freetown Integrated Urban Development Project:The objective is to increase access to and improve the quality and sus- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection tainability of urban infrastructure and services (Urban planning, Additional Financing Stormwater Management and Cli- transport, water, and sanitation) for residents of Freetown. Project mate Change Adaptation Project:The objective is to improve Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 December 2014. Environ- stormwater drainage and flood prevention in peri-urban Dakar for mental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting the benefit of local residents. Project Concept Review Meeting com- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. pleted on 28 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Somalia agency(ies) to be determined. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Urban Water and Sanitation Project:The objective is to increase Strengthening Pastoral and Agropastoral Resilience:The access to sustainable water and sanitation services in selected urban objective is to enhance the resilience of pastoral and agro-pastoral areas. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 December communities in drought prone areas of Somalia. Project Concept 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P150351. US$ Review Meeting completed on 29 July 2014. Environmental Assess- 70.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. PEPAM, ment Category B. Project: P148943. US$ 30.0 (MSC1). Consultants Dakar, Senegal, Tel: (221-33) 859-0499, Fax: (221-33) 832 1434, will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. E-mail: [email protected] Information and Communications Sierra Leone ICT Sector Support in Somalia Phase II:The objective is to Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry support the ICT sector in Somalia by contributing to the enabling (N) Smallholder Commercialization and Agribusiness De- environment and by encouraging efficiency and equity in access velopment Project:The objective is to improve agricultural pro- to connectivity. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 30 duction and access to markets among beneficiary farmers and small September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 14.0 and medium scale agribusinesses in Sierra Leone. Environmental (SOMP). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Assessment Category B. US$ 45.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services determined. and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Education (N) Public Financial Management Reform Program:The Tertiary Education Support Project:The objective is to objective is to establish and strengthen institutional capacity for strengthen Sierra Leone’s higher education system, focusing on im- the management of public funds in Central Finance Agencies and proved service delivery, quality, governance, and access. Environ- targeted sectors. Decision Meeting completed on 11 December 2014. mental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P151492. US$ 20.0 services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (SOMP). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Energy and Mining Somalia Capacity Injection:The objective is to fill key strategic (N) Western Area Power Generation Project:The Western and critical positions in the civil service and strengthen capacity of Area Power Generation Project (WAPGP) is to be developed as an selected line ministries and central agencies to perform core state independent power producer selling to electricity the Electricity Dis- functions. Appraisal completed on 11 November 2014. Environmen- tribution and Supply Authority (EDSA). Environmental Assessment tal Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (SOMP). Consulting services Category B. US$ 20.0 (GUID). Consulting services and implementing and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation Industry and Trade Urban Development Project:The objective is to improve urban Growth Poles Support Project:The objective is to structure a infrastructure and urban financing systems in South-Central So- program that will enable Sierra Leone to better manage its extractive malia, Puntland and Somaliland. Project Concept Review Meeting boom and consequently derive broader economic benefits from the completed on 16 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category development of its growth poles. Project Concept Review Meeting B. Project: P149306. US$ 71.5 (SOMP). Consulting services and completed on 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category implementing agency(ies) to be determined. A. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. South Africa Information and Communications Education Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Botswana Secondary Education and Skills Development: Transformation Project:The objectives are to: (a) capitalize The objective is to support the government to increase access, im- on improving communications infrastructure, focusing on ICT to prove quality and develop practical skills at the secondary level of improve basic service delivery and accountability, in particular be- education and training. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ yond the urban centers; and (b) support selected e-government ap- 80.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to plications that improve government’s efficiency, transparency and be determined. accountability. Appraisal completed on 27 September 2013. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Energy and Mining services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Technical Assistance Project for Development Carbon Cap- ture and Storage in SA:The objective is to facilitate technology Public Administration, Law, and Justice transfer for transitioning the power sector of the Republic of South (R) Sierra Leone Governance Reform and Natural Re- Africa to low-carbon development. Environmental Assessment Cat- source Management Credit I (Cr. D0260-SL, Cr. D0270- egory B. US$ 27.0 (CARB). Consulting services and implementing SL):The objectives are to: (a) strengthen budget management and agency(ies) to be determined. DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE 23

Finance Transportation Land Bank Financial Intermediation Loan:The objective is to South Sudan Rural Road Project First Additional Finance: increase access to financing for agriculture in South Africa through The objective is to enhance all season road connectivity to agricul- Land Bank and to strengthen Land Bank’s institutional capacity in tural services for rural communities in high agricultural potential agricultural financing. Project Concept Review Meeting completed areas. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 21 October on 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA P150008. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Trans- Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa, EcoPark, port, Roads and Bridges, Juba, South Sudan, Tel: (249-957) 102- Centurion, South Africa, Tel: (27-86) 211-4745, E-mail: lserithi@ 093, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: James Alam, Chief landbank.co.za, Contact: Mr. Lebogang Serithi Engineer Roads South Sudan Sudan Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Health and Other Social Services Agriculture and Rural Development:The objective is to en- Social Safety Net Project:The objective is to improve the living hance the production of major staple crops and increase farmer’s conditions of selected extreme poor and vulnerable families through income. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 22 May 2014. income support and work opportunities with a special focus on Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Con- children and women. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 5.0 (MDNS). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Education South Sudan Higher Education Project:The objective is to sup- Swaziland port the development of the higher education system in South Sudan. Industry and Trade Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Con- SZ Private Sector Competitiveness:The objectives are to: (a) sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. increase private investments and exports; and (b) increase jobs in the agribusiness and tourism sectors. Project Concept Review Meeting Energy and Mining completed on 23 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Energy Sector Technical Assistance Project:The objective is to egory B. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing support the Government to facilitate the development of: (a) energy agency(ies) to be determined. sector planning capabilities, (b) electrical distribution efficiency, and (c) off-grid electrification programs. Negotiations completed on 25 Tanzania November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145581. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Min- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry istry of Electricity, Dams, Irrigation and Water Resources, South (R) Sustaining Climate-Reslient Growth:The objective is to Sudan, Tel: (211-95) 720-0111, E-mail: [email protected], provide a comprehensive assessment of the links between climate Contact: H.E Jemma Nunu Kumba, Minister change, anthropogenic impacts and hydropower generation poten- tial in Tanzania and quantify the economic tradeoffs of different Health and Other Social Services scenarios. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 15 De- Health Rapid Results Additional Financing:The objectives cember 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 are to: (a) improve the delivery of high impact primary health care (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to services in the states of Jonglei and Upper Nile; and (b) strengthen be determined. coordination and monitoring and evaluation capacities of the Min- Agricultural Sector Development:The objectives are to: (a) istry of Health. Bank Approval completed on 13 March 2014. Envi- enable farmers to have better access to and use of agricultural knowl- ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146413. US$ 10.0/25.0 edge, technologies, marketing systems and infrastructure; and (b) (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Contact: , promote agricultural private investment based on an improved regu- latory and policy environment. Project Concept Review Meeting Public Administration, Law, and Justice completed on 25 June 2013. Environmental Assessment Category A. Institutional Development and Capacity Building Project: US$ 220.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Implementing The objectives are to: (a) support targeted institutional development; agency(ies) to be determined. and (b) enhance capacity for economic governance and human re- Expanding Rice Production:The objective is to strengthen farm- source management and development. Negotiations completed on ers’ access and adoption of improved rice production technologies in 30 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: Tanzania and Zanzibar. Decision Meeting completed on 19 Septem- P143975. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Min- ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144497. istry of Labour, Public Service and HRD, Ministries Complex, Juba, US$ 22.9 (GAFS). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of South Sudan, Tel: (249-121) 817-202, E-mail: angethdedut@yahoo. Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives (Lead Agency), PO Box co.uk, Contact: Ms. Angeth Acol de Dut, Undersecretary, Public 9192, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 286-2064, Fax: (255-22) 286-2077 Service. South Sudan Audit Chamber, Juba, South Sudan, E-mail: Private Sector Competitiveness Project Additional Financ- [email protected], Contact: Stephen Wondu, Auditor General. ing:The objective is to create sustainable conditions for enterprise Ministry of Transport, Roads and Bridges, Juba, South Sudan, Tel: creation and growth. Bank Approval completed on 27 December (249-957) 102-093, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Eg Ga- 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 60.2 (IDA Credit). briel Makur Amuor, Undersecretary. Office of the President, South Consultants will be required. Regional Administration and Local Sudan, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Joseph Mor- Government (PMO-RALG), Office of the Prime Minister, Govern- row, Director. National Legislative Assembly, South Sudan, E-mail: ment of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 724-951, [email protected], Contact: Paul Logale Jumi, Hon Prof. Fax: (255-22) 121-981, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Malanie Chairman, Development and Finance Committee Gamage, Permanent Secretary Review Development Policy Operations (DPO):The objectives Southern Agriculture Growth Corridor Investment Project: are to: (a) improve macroeconomic management, and increase the The objective is to support increased access to finance for SMEs in efficiency of PFM and procurement systems; and (b) enhance the the SACGOT area and explore innovative financing instruments to transparency and accountability of public finances. Project Concept finance SMEs in agribusiness, which could include venture capital Review Meeting completed on 7 November 2013. Environmental support, collateralization through warehouse receipts, and charter Assessment Category U. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services banks. Decision Meeting completed on 2 July 2014. Environmental and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Assessment Category A. Project: P125728. US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). PAGE 24 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Dar es Finance Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 211-1174, Fax: (255-22) 211-0326, Tanzania First Pension Reform Policy Credit:The objective is Contact: Ramadhani M. Khijjah, Permanent Secretary to reform the social security funds to place them on a robust financial and governance basis, thereby providing secure and adequate pen- Education sions, while at the same time preserving fiscal sustainability of the (N) Education and Skills for Productive Jobs Program system. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 9 October (ESPJ):The objective will focus on building critical in-demand skills 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P152529. US$ for productive jobs in growth sectors of the economy. Environmental 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Assessment Category B. US$ 120.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Tanzania Housing Finance Additional Financing:The objec- Zanzibar Education Project:The objective is to improve quality tive is to the development of the housing finance market through the of basic education and facilitate market-relevant skills development provision of medium and long-term liquidity to lenders. Appraisal Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Con- completed on 8 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. egory B. US$ 45.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implement- ing agency(ies) to be determined. Energy and Mining (N) Tanzania Energy Development and Access Expansion Health and Other Social Services Project - Additional Financing:The objective is to improve the (R) Big Results Now for Health:The objective is to improve the quality and efficiency of the electricity service provision in the three quality of health services particularly focussed on maternal and child main growth centers of Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Kilimanjaro health. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 11 December and to establish a sustainable basis for energy access expansion and 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0/15.0 (IDA renewable energy development in Tanzania. Environmental Assess- Credit/HRBF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) ment Category B. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and to be determined. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Partial Risk Guarantees in Energy Sector:The objective is to Industry and Trade enable the development and expansion of natural gas fields by private Private Sector Competitiveness Project:The objective is to developers in several locations, and independent power generation support the development of private sector enterprises in Tanzania, activities. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 February to build on the results of the current Private Sector Development 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (GUID). project. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IDA Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Dar Es Credit). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 211-9190, Fax: (255-22) 212-4016, be determined. E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. Servacius B. Likwelile, Private Sector DPO:The objective is to support policy interven- Executive Director tions to remove obstacles to the development of the private sector Renewable Energy for Rural Electrification (RERE):The in Tanzania. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 50.0 (IDA objective is to expand rural access to modern energy services and Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be to increase renewable generation in rural electricity supply. Envi- determined. ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0/20.3 (IDA Credit/ Public Administration, Law, and Justice CSCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Open Government Partnership Transparency and Pub- lic Financial Management Credit:The objective is to support the Ruhudji Hydropower Project SIL:The objective is to support Open Government Partnership strategy implementation of the gov- the construction and operation of the hydropower station and the ernment of Tanzania. Decision Meeting completed on 22 September implementation of transmission line, linking the power station with 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P133798. US$ the main national grid in Southern Tanzania. Project Concept Review 85.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Meeting completed on 9 June 2011. Environmental Assessment Cat- to be determined. egory A. US$ 100.0/200.0/1000.0 (IDA Credit/GUID/ZPCI). Con- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Eleventh Poverty Reduction Support Credit:The objective is to support the country’s policy reform agenda by improving: (a) Singida Wind Power:The objective is to improve the environ- regional and global competitiveness of the economy; and (b) the ment for private sector investment in this project, thereby increasing poor’s income opportunities. Signing completed on 10 April 2014. investment in Tanzanian climate-friendly wind generation capacity. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 85.0 (IDA Credit). No Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 9 June 2011. Environ- consultants are required. Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, mental Assessment Category B. Project: P126432. US$ 100.0/200.0 PO Box 9111, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 211-2856/1025, (GUID/ZPCI). Consultants will be required. Wind EA, Contact: Mark Fax: (255-22) 211-7790, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Ngosha S. Gammons Magonya, Commissioner External Finance Sustainable Management of Mineral Resources:The objective is to strengthen the Government’s capacity to manage the mineral Transportation sector to improve the socioeconomic impacts of large and small-scale (R) Dar es Salaam Metropolitan Development:The objectives mining for Tanzania and Tanzanians and enhance private local and are to: (a) improve municipal and metropolitan management; and foreign investment. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on (b) deliver urban services in the three Municipal Councils that make 23 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 up Dar es Salaam. Decision Meeting completed on 25 November (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P123134. US$ be determined. 300.0/5.0 (IDA Credit/NDF). Consulting services to be determined. Third Power and Gas Sector DPO:The objective is to: (a) DAR City Council, PO Box 9084, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: strengthen the country’s ability to bridge the financial gap in its (255-22) 212-3346, Fax: (255-22) 212-5589, Contact: Mr. Bakari power sector; (b) reduce the cost of power supply and promote Kingobi, Director private sector participation in the power sector; and (c) strengthen Dar es Salaam Maritime Gateway Project:The objective is the policy and institutional framework for the management of the to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Port of Dar es country’s natural gas resources. Environmental Assessment Category Salaam and the access and egress of port traffic, for the benefit of U. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. all public and private stakeholders. Project Concept Review Meeting Ministry of Finance, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 211-9190, Fax: (255-22) completed on 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. 212-4016, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. Servacius B. Project: P150496. US$ 350.0/100.0 (IBRD/DFID). Consultants will Likwelile, Executive Director be required. Tanzania Ports Authority, One Bandari Road, Dar es DECEMBER 2014 Africa Region PAGE 25

Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) 211-0401, Fax: (255-22) 213-0390, Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection E-mail: [email protected] Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Energy Ad- Strategic Cities Project Additional Financing:The objective is ditional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) increase access to to improve the quality of and access to basic urban services in par- infrastructure and urban services in Lome; and (b) support the ticipating Local Government Authorities. Bank Approval completed Government’s efforts to demonstrate concrete improvements in on 29 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: the lives of its citizens, a critical step for sustaining social and po- P148974. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Prime litical stability in the country. Bank Approval completed on 4 June Minister’s Office - Regional Administration and Local Government, 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 14.0 (IDA Grant). PO Box 1923, Dodoma, Tanzania, Tel: (255-26) 232-1908/2848, Consultants will be required. Agence deExecution des Travaux Ur- Fax: (255-26) 232-4966, E-mail: NA, Contact: Malanie Gamage, bains (AGETUR), 01 BP 2780, Recette Principale, Cotonou, Togo, Permanent Secretary Tel: (229) 313-645, Fax: (229) 612-166, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Yuba Raj Pandey, Vice Chairman Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Second Water Sector Support Project:The objective is to sup- Uganda port investment in sub projects the design of which is supported Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry under the WSSP I, including Water and Sewerage Services Improve- ment in the Dar es Salaam. Environmental Assessment Category (R) Multi sectoral Food Security and Nutrition Project: A. US$ 225.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing The objective is to increase production and consumption of diver- agency(ies) to be determined. sified and nutrient-dense foods and improve child and maternal care behaviors to contribute to improving the nutritional status of Water Sector Support Project Additional Financing:The vulnerable groups. Pre-appraisal completed on 16 December 2014. objective is to support the Government’s poverty alleviation strategy Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 27.6 (GAFS). Consulting through improvements in the governance of water resources man- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. agement and the sustainable delivery of water supply and sanitation services. Bank Approval completed on 16 June 2014. Environmental Agriculture Cluster Development Project:The objective is Assessment Category A. Project: P146700. US$ 44.9/13.0/15.0 (IDA to increase agricultural exports to the East Africa Community and Credit/DFID/KFW). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Water, COMESA markets over the next five years. Project Concept Review Maji Ubungo PO Box 9153, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-22) Meeting completed on 17 June 2013. Environmental Assessment 245-1530, Fax: (255-22) 245-1542, E-mail: [email protected], Category B. Project: P145037. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting Contact: EgR. Bashir J. Mrindoko, Permanent Secretary services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Education Togo Post Primary Education and Training Program 2:The ob- Education jectives are to: (a) improve access to post-primary education; (b) Global Partnership For Education Program:The objectives improve the quality of post-primary education and training; and (c) are to: (a) increase access and equity in basic education; (b) improve improve efficiency in the delivery of post- primary education. Envi- teaching and learning conditions; and (c) strengthen institutional ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- and community capacity to deliver quality basic education Donor ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Approval completed on 27 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Skilling Uganda:The objective is to improve the capacity of in- Category B. US$ 27.8 (EFAF). Consulting services and implementing stitutions to deliver quality and relevant skills training programs in agency(ies) to be determined. the agriculture and small and medium scale manufacturing/con- struction sectors. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 2 Energy and Mining December 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 Mining Governance and Development Project Prepara- (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to tion-Phase I:The objectives are to: (a) strengthen the capacity be determined. of key institutions to manage the minerals sector; (b) improve the conditions for increased investments in and revenues from min- Energy and Mining ing; and (c) facilitate an effective and efficient spending of mining (R) Third Energy for Rural Transformation APL:The objec- revenues. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 11 March tive, of the third and final phase of the APL program, is to build on 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149277. US$ the implementation experience of the ERT-II and will be based on 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) the reform measures that are being developed under the Uganda to be determined. Accelerated Rural Electrification project (UAREP). Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 4 October 2013. Environmental As- Health and Other Social Services sessment Category B. Project: P133312. US$ 120.0 (IDA Credit). Community Development and Safety Nets Project Addi- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Energy and Mineral tional Financing:The objective is to provide poor communities Development, Kampala Road, PO Box 7270, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: with greater access to basic socio-economic infrastructures and social (256-41) 434-9342, E-mail: [email protected] safety nets. Bank Approval completed on 7 March 2014. Environmen- (R) Third Energy for Rural Transformation-GEF:The objec- tal Assessment Category B. Project: P146598. US$ 12.1 (IDA Credit). tive is to build on the implementation experience of the ERT-2 and Consultants will be required. Technical Secretariat of the Community on the reform measures that are being developed under the Uganda Development and Safety Nets Project, Projet de Developpement Accelerated Rural Electrification Project (UAREP). Project Concept Communautaire, Rez-de-chaussee de l’lmmeuble CENETI, Togo, Review Meeting completed on 4 October 2013. Environmental As- Tel: (228) 220-7597, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Yawavi sessment Category B. US$ 8.9 (GEFU). Consulting services and Agboka-Abalo, Coordonatrice du Secretariat Technique implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Northern Power Transmission Project:The objective is to Public Administration, Law, and Justice support the construction of a transmission line between Lira-Gulu- Seventh Economic Growth and Governance Credit:The Nebi-Arua in the Northern part of the country. Project Concept objectives are to support the: (a) policy reforms to strengthen gov- Review Meeting completed on 10 November 2014. Environmental ernance and transparency in public financial management; and (b) Assessment Category A. Project: P133305. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). key sectors of the economy (cotton, energy, infrastructure, telecom- Consultants will be required. Ministry of Energy and Mineral Devel- munications and phosphates). Environmental Assessment Category opment, Amber House, Room B202, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256- U. US$ 14.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing 41) 423-3331, Fax: (256-41) 423-0220, E-mail: baanabe@energy. agency(ies) to be determined. go.ug PAGE 26 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Partial Risk Guarantee for Renewable Energy Develop- will be required. Uganda National Road Authority (UNRA), Plot 11, ment Program:The objective will provide support for counterpart Yusuf Lule Road, PO Box 28487, Uganda, Tel: (256-31) 223-3100, risk guarantee to cover the payment risk from Uganda Electricity Fax: (256-41) 423-2807, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: B. Transmission Company. Bank Approval completed on 18 March Ssebbugga-Kimeze, Ag. Executive Director, UNRA 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133318. Second Kampala Institutional and Infrastructure Devel- US$ 160.0 (GUID). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Energy opment Project:The objectives are to: (a) extend coverage and and Mineral Development, Kampala Road, PO Box 7270, Kampala, quality of service delivery; and (b) deepen institutional reform. Bank Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 434-9342, E-mail: [email protected] Approval completed on 20 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Health and Other Social Services Category B. Project: P133590. US$ 175.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Kampala Capital City Authority, Sir Apollo Road, (R) Health Systems Strengthening Additional Financing: Plot 1-3, PO Box 7010, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-71) 744-0348, The objective is to increase utilization of the Uganda National Mini- E-mail: [email protected], Contact: J. Semakula Musisi, Execu- mum Health Care Package (UNMHCP) with a focus on maternal tive Director health and family planning. This project is no longer in the lending program. Further reporting will be discontinued. Environmen- tal Assessment Category B. Project: P145280. US$ 58.7/31.3 (IDA Zambia Credit/IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry of Health, Health and Other Social Services PO Box 7272, Lourdel Road, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-414) 340- Health Systems Strengthening for Results:The objective is 872, Fax: (256-414) 231-584, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: to strengthen the health systems by: (a) supply chain management, Malanie Gamage, Permanent Secretary human resources for health and health care financing; (b) MCH Reproductive Health Voucher Project:The objectives are to: (a) outcomes which includes malaria and nutrition; and (c) the current provide subsidized vouchers to vulnerable and poor pregnant women RBF program could possibly expand before the IE results come in to access a package of safe delivery services; and (b) support project mid-2014. Bank Approval completed on 21 March 2014. Environ- management functions and build national capacity to mainstream; mental Assessment Category B. Project: P145335. US$ 52.0/15.0 and (c) scale-up implementation of the safe delivery voucher scheme (IDA Credit/HRBF). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, in the health sector. Bank Approval completed on 3 October 2014. Ndeke House, Haille Selassie Ave. Lusaka, Zambia, Tel: (260-211) Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144102. US$ 13.3 252-989, Fax: (260-211) 253-344, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: (GPBA). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, PO Box Dr. Peter Mwaba 7272, Lourdel Road, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-414) 340-872, Fax: (256-414) 231-584, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. Asuman Public Administration, Law, and Justice Lukwago, Permanent Secretary Budget Support:The objective is to strengthen economic manage- Uganda Safety Net Program for Productivity and Inclusion: ment and public sector governance in Zambia which strengthens the The objective is to support the Government of Uganda to expand national budget process and statutory functions including economic income-earning opportunities for poor and vulnerable households, management. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 13 livelihood support, and put in place the building blocks for a social June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 50.0 (IDA protection system. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on Credit). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance and Na- 21 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 130.0 tional Planning (MoFNP), Government of Zambia, Zambia (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Financial Management Reform Program-Phase I: The objective is to improve fiscal discipline and public account- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ability of the Recipient’s finances, which will be assessed through Governance and Accountability:The objective is to integrate impact on public financial management processes in relevant PEFA and complement ongoing supply-side governance programs with performance indicators. Bank Approval completed on 6 May 2014. Demand for Good Governance (DFGG) interventions. Environmental Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P147343. US$ 30.0 Assessment Category A. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services (ZPFM). Consultants will be required for budgeting, revenue admin- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. istration and monitoring, internal audit, procurement reforms and integrated financial management information systeam (IFMIS). Second Financial Sector Development Policy Loan:The Ministry of Finance, Zambia, Contact: Mumba Chanda, Project Coor- objective is to support the development of the market for term fi- dinator. Zambia Institute of Purchasing and Supply; Zambia Revenue nance, with a focus on the reform of the public pension system Authority; Zambia Procurement Authority and deepen the access to financial services. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 29 January 2014. Environmental Assessment Zambia Rural Women Empowerement:The objective is to Category U. Project: P143635. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). No consul- increase income levels of extremely poor households. Project Con- tants are required. Bank of Uganda, Plot 37/43 Kampala Road, PO cept Review Meeting completed on 24 November 2014. Environ- Box 7120, Kampala, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 230-051, Fax: mental Assessment Category C. Project: P151451. US$ 50.0 (IDA (256-41) 258-515, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Justine Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Bagyenda determined. Transportation Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Albertine Region Sustainable Development Project:The Lusaka Sanitation Project:The objective is to improve sanita- objective is to facilitate the development and competitiveness of tion services and the performance of Lusaka Water and Sanitation the Lake Albert region of Uganda. Bank Approval completed on Corporation. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 April 26 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149091. US$ P145101. US$ 145.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Min- 50.0/40.0/137.0/55.0 (IDA Credit/AFDB/EUIB/KFW). Consulting istry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, Finance services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Building, Nile Ave. PO Box 8147, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 232-095, Fax: (256-41) 343-023, E-mail: NA, Contact: Malanie Gam- Zimbabwe age, Permanent Secretary North-Eastern Corridor Road Asset Management Project: Finance The objective is to support the Government with urban transport Public Financial Mgt Enhancement Project:The objective is to and rehabilitation of national roads on critical road corridors. Bank improve public financial management. Environmental Assessment Approval completed on 30 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (ZIMR). Consulting services and implementing Category B. Project: P125590. US$ 243.8 (IDA Credit). Consultants agency(ies) to be determined. DECEMBER 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 27

Health and Other Social Services Transportation Expansion of Public Work Program/Productive Safety Net Road Asset Management II:The objective is to support road Project:The objective is to provide temporary income support to preservation works on priority national roads selected to maximize poor non-labor constrained rural households through their participa- economic benefits, and to strengthen MPWT road maintenance plan- tion in labor-intensive community works, while putting in place the ning, contracting and management. Project Concept Review Meeting building blocks of a National Productive Safety Net system. Project completed on 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Concept Review Meeting completed on 28 June 2013. Environmental US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required for project Assessment Category B. Project: P145518. US$ 25.0 (AFRH). Con- preparation related consultants. Ministry of Public Works and Trans- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. port, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 427-845, Fax: (855-23) 214-907, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Sovicheano Pheng, Under Secretary of State Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Mekong Integrated Water Resources Management_Phase East Asia and Pacific III:The objective is to support the improvement of fisheries man- agement and establish river basin management in areas of regional importance Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 25 No- Cambodia vember 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 13.5 (IDA Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Credit). Consultants will be required. Cambodia National Mekong Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Committee (CNMC), Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 216-514, Fax: (855-23) Project II:The objective is to establish sustainable, agriculture- 218-506, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Botkosal Watt, based livelihoods for land recipients. Project Concept Review Meeting Deputy Secretary General completed on 17 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P150631. US$ 23.4 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and China implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (N) Hunan Environmental Cleanup of Contaminated Ag- Health and Other Social Services ricultural Soil:The objective aims to support the Department of Second Health Sector Support Program Additional Fi- Agriculture of Hunan Province to improve agricultural production nancing:The objective is to support the implementation of the base safety and quality through better management of crop pro- Government’s Health Strategic Plan 2008-2015 in order to improve duction environment (soil, water, and other agricultural inputs), health outcomes through strengthening institutional capacity and technology demonstration, and institutional and rural community mechanisms by which the Government and Program Partners can capacity building. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 achieve more effective and efficient sector performance. Project (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Concept Review Meeting completed on 6 January 2014. Environ- determined. mental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0/20.0 (IDA Credit/KHFS). (R) Guizhou Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, 151-153 Kampuchea (Ln. 84340-CN):The objective is to support an integrated partici- Krom Street, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 722-873, Fax: patory approach to rural development and improve rural incomes (855-23) 880-260, E-mail: [email protected], enghuot@ through agriculture development in selected poverty stricken areas online.com.kh, Contact: H.E.Prof. Eng Huot, Prgram Director of Guizhou Province. The loan was signed on 4 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133261. US$ 100.0 Public Administration, Law, and Justice (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Guizhou Poverty Alleviation (N) Voice and Action: Social Accountability for Improved Office, Room 222, 2nd Floor, No. 5 Building, 242, Zhonghua North Service Delivery:The objective is to improve service delivery in Road, Guizhou, Guiyang Province, China, Tel: (86-851) 683-2615, schools, health centers and communes, for rural households in se- E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Zhou Shibin, Deputy Divi- lected districts. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 2 sion Director December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (R) Poverty Alleviation and Agriculture Development Dem- (JSDF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be onstration in Poor Areas:The objective is to improve rural in- determined. comes and living standards in poor mountain areas through piloting (R) Cambodia PFMMP Additional Financing:The objective the development of agricultural enterprises and farmers cooperatives is to enhance public financial management by strengthening: (a) that are based on modern technology, operate in environmentally revenue mobilization; and (b) budget execution processes through friendly and economically sustainable ways, and can be scaled up the implementation of a Financial Management Information System for effective rural poverty reduction. Appraisal completed on 3 (FMIS). Decision Meeting completed on 27 October 2014. Environ- November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: mental Assessment Category C. Project: P151984. US$ 7.5 (KHFM). P133326. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. No consultants are required. Ministry of Economy and Finance, St. State Council’s Leading Group for Poverty Reduction, 25/F,Tower 92 Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, A, Disan Zhiye Building, Jia 1, Shuguang Xili, Chaoyang District, Tel: (855-23) 1286-1355, Fax: (855-23) 428-7798, E-mail: ferp-mef- Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 8261-7152, E-mail: [email protected]. [email protected], Contact: Dr. Sok Saravuth, Under Secretary cn, Contact: Qingping Ou, Director General of State and Manager of GSC Climate Smart Grassland Ecological Construction:The ob- Local Governance and Development Program:The objective jective is to demonstrate climate smart and sustainable grassland is to assist the Royal Government of Cambodia in its implementation management practices in selected counties of Qinghai and Gansu of the National Program for Sub National Democratic Development Provinces. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 19 August in both local governance and local development objectives. Prepa- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 7.1 (GEFU). Con- ration completed on 24 January 2011. Environmental Assessment sultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture, Room 218, No.1 Category B. Project: P096505. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants building, Yong’an Hotel, Jia 5, Nongzhanguan North Road, Chaoyang will be required. NCDD Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, 275 Noro- District, China, Tel: (86-10) 5919-6365, E-mail: huangbo1114@126. dom Boulevard, Sangkat Tonle Bassa, Khan Chamcar Mon, Phnom com Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 362-175, 720-038, Fax: (855-23) Jiangxi Farm Produce Distribution System Development: 726-092, E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]. The objective is to promote upgrading and standardizing of farm kh, Contact: HE Ngan Chamroeun, Project Manager and Deputy produce wholesale markets in Jiangxi Province to tackle the “diffi- Director General cult to sell” problem. The proposed project intends to uplift market PAGE 28 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 service, expand the distribution channel, regulate the distribution Concentrated Solar Power (CSP):The objective is to construct a and lower the logistic cost of farm produce. Project Concept Review 50 MW CSP power plant in Inner Mongolia that will include a solar Meeting completed on 16 May 2014. Environmental Assessment field, thermal energy storage, and a power plant. Appraisal completed Category B. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. on 15 April 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Finance Department of Jiangxi Province, Xinyuan Building, No. P129657. US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. China 47, Ruzi Road, Nanchang, China, Tel: (86-791) 8728-7699, E-mail: Datang Corporation Renewable Power Co. Ltd. A-1002, Building [email protected] No. 6, Fenghua Haojing, Guanganmennei Street, Xicheng District, Mainstreaming Integrated Water and Environment Man- Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 8351-1372 Ext. 810, Fax: (86-10) 8351- agement-GEF:The objective is to mainstream the integrated water 1372 Ext. 888, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Yan Changhui, and environment management approach to achieve sustainable social Deputy Director General and economic development and ecological environment protection, and the large-scale beneficial outcomes in the international Bohai Health and Other Social Services Sea. GEF Council Approval completed on 27 May 2014. Environ- (N) Lushan Earthquake Reconstruction and Risk Reduc- mental Assessment Category B. Project: P145897. US$ 17.0 (GEFU). tion:The objective is to finance activities to restore public facilities Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environmental Protection, (such as schools, hospitals and shelters); low-income housing, and Houyingfang Hutong No.5, Xicheng District, Beijing, China, Tel: critical infrastructure such as roads, bridges, water supply, etc., and (86-10) 8857-5203, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Pei Li, reduce the vulnerability of this infrastructure and these facilities Deputy Director of PMO to natural hazards (earthquake in particular), in selected counties. Tiger Habitat Conservation:The objective is to restore tiger Environmental Assessment Category A. Consulting services and habitat in selected areas of northeastern China for the benefit of the implementing agency(ies) to be determined. tiger population, the local inhabitants and the environment. Project Industry and Trade Concept Review Meeting completed on 18 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P122383. US$ 3.0 (GEFU). Con- (N) Red./phase-out of PFOS in Priority Sector:The objective sulting services to be determined. State Forestry Administration, is to assist China to fulfill its obligations under the Stockholm Con- 18 East Street, Hepingli, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 8423-9030, vention to minimize releases of PFOS into the environment by: (i) Fax: (86-10) 6421-7796, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: eliminating PFOS for exempted purposes; and (ii) applying BAT/BEP Weisheng Wang, Director for acceptable purposes. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (GEFU). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Education be determined. Xinjiang Technical Vocational Education and Training:The (R) Contaminated Site Cleanup:The objective is to support the objective is to improve the quality and relevance of project schools Chinese government’s capacity of identifying and reducing contami- to produce skills that respond to the labor market demand, contrib- nation of natural resources and public health risks of exposure to this uting to Xinjiang’s economic and social development. Preparation contamination associated with sites contaminated with POPs and/or completed on 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. other hazardous chemicals. Appraisal completed on 16 October 2014. Project: P147367. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and imple- Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P145533. US$ 15.0 menting agency(ies) to be determined. (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Foreign Economic Coopera- Yunnan Early Childhood Education Innovation:The objective tion Office of Ministry of Environment Protection, 5 Houyingfang is to facilitate monitoring and/or evaluation of gender impacts. En- Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 8226-8801, vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting Fax: (86-10) 8220-0510, E-mail: [email protected], Con- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. tact: Ms. Qiong Ding, Director Zhuzhou Brownfield Development:The objective is the reme- Energy and Mining diation of around 7.5 square km of land; the cleanup and rehabilita- (R) Establish M&V System for Energy Efficiency in China: tion of river banks; and environmental monitoring stations for soil, The objective is to establish Measurement and Verification (M&V) water and ambient air quality at the industrial Qingshuitang area system and pilot market-based mechanism, to support the govern- in Zhuzhou’s district of Shifeng adjacent to the Xiangjiang River in ment to achieve 12th Five-Year Plan energy saving targets in a cost- China. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 April 2014. effective way. Decision Meeting completed on 11 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P147381. US$ 150.0 Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P132748. US$ 18.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, No. 3, determined. San Li He Lu, Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 6855-1129, Fax: (86-10) 6855-1125, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Zhongjing Wang, Public Administration, Law, and Justice Deputy Director General Development of Mercury National Implementation Plan: (R) Hebei Clean Heating:The objective is to improve energy ef- The objective is to support the Ministry of Environmental Protection ficiency and environmental performance of heating supply in selected to develop a National Implementation Plan on Mercury under the cities of Hebei Province. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ newly established Miamata Convention on Mercury. Environmental 91.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Assessment Category C. US$ 6.0 (GEFU). Consulting services and be determined. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Hebei New Energy Development in Rural Areas:The Partnership for Market Readiness:The objective is to enable objective is to generate rural energy for local farmer households/ China to design a national carbon emissions trading system that communities by: (a) developing large-scale bio-gas facilities and (b) supports the Government’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions by efficiently using local straw and other wastes in rural areas. Appraisal using market mechanisms. Bank Approval completed on 16 June completed on 15 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P145586. US$ Project: P132873. US$ 71.5 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. 8.0 (PMR). Consultants will be required. Department of Climate Hebei Provincial Rural New Energy Office, No. 88, Yuhua East Street, Change, NDRC, Yuetan Nan Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, China, Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang, China, Tel: (86) 1533-331-0209, E- Tel: (86-10) 6850-1553, Fax: (86-10) 6850-2360, E-mail: wangshu@ mail: [email protected], Contact: Xiangxue Wang, Director ndrc.gov.cn, Contact: Shu Wang, Deputy Director Clean Cooking and Heating:The objective is to help scale up Second Gansu Cultural and Natural Heritage Protection access to clean and efficient cooking and heating solutions in China and Development:The objective is to support the investment for through capacity building, policy development and supporting pilot the protection and development of prioritized sites with cultural programs. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 10.0 (GEFU). and natural heritage significance in Gansu province. Environmen- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, tal Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be China, Tel: (861-05) 919-3208, E-mail: [email protected] required. Project Management Office, Room 806, 8 floor, 3 Build- DECEMBER 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 29 ing, No. 13, ChengGuanQu Guangchang Nan Lu, Lanzhou, Gansu, Henan Xinxiang New Urbanized Community Development: China, Tel: (86-931) 883-9676, Fax: (86-931) 888-3664, E-mail: The objective is to upgrade the living quality of farmers through dem- [email protected], Contact: Mr. Ning Xiaoki, Deputy Director onstration and urbanized community development and to provide an of the PMO applicable urbanization model for the middle part of China. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 19 June 2014. Environmental Transportation Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and (N) Three Gorges Modern Logistics Center Infrastructure implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Project:The objective is to support the development of a modern Hubei Xiaogan Logistic Infrastructure:The objective is to logistics center downstream of the Three Gorges Dam in the Yichang support the development of logistic infrastructure in Hubei Prov- Municipality of China’s Hubei Province. Environmental Assessment ince, advance the development of a modern logistic industry and Category A. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- facilitate the formation of a new logistic terminal for central China, ing agency(ies) to be determined. potentially of national significance. Project Concept Review Meeting (R) Gansu Rural-Urban Integration Infrastructure:The completed on 29 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category objective is to provide targeted residents of Wuwei Municipality A. Project: P132562. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be and Linxia County with improved and safe transport access to eco- determined. Xiaogan Urban Construction Investment Corporation, nomic opportunities and social services. Appraisal completed on 15 Jiaotong Da Dao 391, Xiaogan, China, Tel: (86-712) 232-8319, E- September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: mail: [email protected], Contact: Xiong Jianping, Director P132775. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Gansu Sichuan Chonqqing Cooperation: Guangan Demonstration Finance Department, West Dongguang Road, Lanzhou, China, Tel: Area Infrastructure Development:The objective is to support (86-931) 889-1038, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Lei Xin, Linshui Town and Qianfeng District to provide adequate infrastruc- Deputy Director ture services to support current needs and projected growth. Ap- (R) Hubei Jingzhou Ancient City Restoration and Protec- praisal completed on 22 September 2014. Environmental Assessment tion:The objective is to promote the cultural carry-on and sustain- Category A. Project: P133456. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will able development of Jingzhou Ancient Town through protecting be required. Sichuan Province Guang’an Municipal DRC, No. 227 of and rehabilitating the ancient town and its structures and improv- Chengnan Xing’an Street, Guang’an City, Guang’an, China, Tel: (86- ing/cleaning up the town’s environment. Environmental Assessment 0286) 234-5653, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Jinling Category A. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- Luo, PMO Deputy Director ing agency(ies) to be determined. Tianjin Transport Improvement:The objective is to improve (R) Urumqi Urban Transport Project II:The objectives are to: safe and affordable access to areas located in the Tianjin Outer ring (a) improve traffic congestion; (b) reduce energy consumption; and road, in all weather conditions, through a combination of mass tran- (c) emissions from transport sector through improvement in public sit, regular buses and non-motorized transport. Project Concept transport services, providing better public transport-supporting in- Review Meeting completed on 19 June 2014. Environmental As- frastructure, and introducing intelligent transportation system and sessment Category B. Project: P148129. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consul- traffic management. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on tants will be required. Tianjin Project Management Office, No. 209, 15 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Xinhualu, Heping District, Tianjin, China, Tel: (86-22) 2319 1560, 140.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Fax: (86-22) 2312 0978, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: to be determined. Qi Wenjie, Director (R) Yunnan Highway Asset Management:The objectives are Tongren Rural Transport:The objective is to provide all-season to: (a) enhance Yunnan Government’s highway asset management; road access in Dejiang and Sinan counties in a sustainable manner. and (b) introduce good asset management practices in highway main- Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 25 February 2014. tenance planning and budgeting process. Appraisal completed on Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148071. US$ 150.0 1 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Tongren Municipal P132621. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Transport Bureau, No. 459, Dongtaidadao, Tongren 554300, Gui- Transport Department, No. 1, Huancheng Xi Lu, Kunming, China, zhou Province, China, Tel: (86-856) 520-2505, E-mail: trpmo@ Tel: (86-871) 312-6954, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Xu Caijian, vip.163.com, Contact: Yan Xunguang, Director Deputy Director Wuhan Integrated Transport Development:The objective is (R) Zhengzhou Urban Rail (Ln. 84570-CN):The objective is to improve mobility and accessibility in Wuhan Metropolitan Area. to improve urban mobility for the population of Zhengzhou located Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 16 April 2014. En- along the catchment area of Line 3 from Xin Liu Lu Station to Hang vironmental Assessment Category A. Project: P148294. US$ 120.0 Hai Dong Lu Station. Negotiations completed on 4 November 2014. (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Wuhan Urban Con- Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P128919. US$ 250.0 struction Utilization of Foreign Investment Project Management, (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Zhengzhou Finance Bureau, No. 40, Changqinglu, Hanhou, Wuhan 430030, China, Tel: (86-27) No. 39, Xinghua South St. Erqi District, Zhengzhou Municipality, 858-4312, Fax: (86-27) 6565-5354, E-mail: [email protected], China, Fax: (86) 0370-67181314, E-mail: [email protected], Con- Contact: Dai Ke Jun, Director tact: Eryong Ding, Deputy Director Xiangshan County Sustainable Development:The objective is Anhui Road Maintenance Innovation and Demonstration: to pilot innovative finance mechanisms to promote sustainable devel- The objective is to enhance the scientific decision-making capacity on opment in Xiangshan County, Ningbo Municipality. Environmental road maintenance, promote application of innovative maintenance Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to technologies, establish road emergency response and safeguard sys- be determined. Ningbo Project Management Office, 1506/R F15 tem, and upgrade road asset management capacity. Environmental Tianning Tower, 138 West Zhongshan Road, Ningbo, China, Tel: Assessment Category B. Consultants will be required. ANHUI PMO, (86-574) 8728-0430, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Floor 12, Ports and Shipping Investment B, 98 Wanghu South Road, Yu Haifeng, Executive Deputy Director Baohe District, Hefei, China, Tel: 86-551-63656197, Fax: 86-551- YinXi Railway:The objective is to improve direct rail connectiv- 63756190, E-mail: [email protected] ity for passengers and businesses located along the corridor be- Hainan Fishing Ports:The objective is to promote small town tween Yinchuan in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xi’an in development by supporting the structural transformation of the Shaanxi Province, through Gansu Province. Preparation completed fishery sector in Hainan. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 10 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: on 3 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 140.0 P127869. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Zheng- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Hainan Provincial zhou Finance Bureau, No. 39, Xinghua South St. Erqi District, Finance Bureau, China, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Zhengzhou Municipality, China, Fax: (86) 0370-67181314, E-mail: Guangqun Wang [email protected], Contact: Eryong Ding, Deputy Director PAGE 30 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Fiji (N) Poyang Lake Basin Water Environment Management: The objective is to reduce pollutants inflow to Poyang Lake. Envi- Transportation ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting (R) Transport Infrastructure Investment:The objective is to services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. improve the resilience and safety of land and maritime infrastruc- (R) Chongqing Small Towns Water Environment Man- ture for users of project roads, bridges and jetties. Project Concept agement (Ln. 84560-CN):The objective is to is to reduce flood Review Meeting completed on 23 July 2014. Environmental Assess- risks and improve wastewater services in selected counties of the ment Category B. Project: P150028. US$ 50.0/100.7 (IBRD/ASDB). Chongqing Municipality. Negotiations completed on 10 November Consulting services to be determined. Fiji Roads Authority, Fiji, Tel: 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P133117. US$ (679) 310-0114, E-mail: [email protected] 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Project Management Office, No. 248, Reminlu, Yuzhong District, Chongqing City, China, Indonesia Tel: (86-23) 6389-7423, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Zhou Linjun, PMO Director Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM) for Indigenous People: (R) Guilin Integrated Environment Management:The ob- The objective is to support the building of technical, institutional and jective is to improve the water and sanitation services in Guilin. communication capacities of indigenous peoples and local communi- Negotiations completed on 11 November 2014. Environmental As- ties in order for them to participate in REDD+ policy dialogue, im- sessment Category A. Project: P133017. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Con- prove their livelihoods and improve management of their traditional sultants will be required. Project Management Unit, No 8, Diecai lands. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 12 May 2014. Lu, Diecai District, Guilin, China, Tel: (86-773) 282-5859, Contact: Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 6.5 (CSCF). Consulting Liang Gao, PMO Director services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Municipal Solid Waste Management-GEF:The objec- tive is to strengthen the legislative and institutional framework and Forest Investment Program: Forest Management Unit demonstrate in three municipalities the application of best available Development:The objectives are to: (a) pilot the strengthening techniques to reduce the release of unintended persistent organic pol- of decentralized forest management units; and (b) increase local lutants from municipal solid waste disposal areas and incinerators. capacity for sustainable forest management. Project Concept Review Bank Approval completed on 14 November 2014. Environmental Meeting completed on 10 April 2013. Environmental Assessment Assessment Category A. Project: P126832. US$ 12.0 (GEFU). Consul- Category B. Project: P144269. US$ 17.0 (CSCF). Consulting services tants will be required. Ministry of Environmental Protection, Beijing, and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. China, Tel: (86-10) 8226-8807, Fax: (86-10) 8220-0506, E-mail: Energy and Mining [email protected], Contact: Ding Qiong, Department Head Geothermal Energy Upstream Development:The objective (R) Qinghai Xining Environment Management (Ln. 84230- is to increase the utilization of clean geothermal-based electricity CN):The objective is to improve the environment of Xining Munici- in order to reduce pollution and improve the environment. Envi- pality by: (a) constructing wastewater treatment plants; (b) improving ronmental Assessment Category A. US$ 200.0/75.0 (IBRD/ZBIL). watershed management; and (c) improving capacity building. Bank Consulting services to be determined. Pertamina Geothermal Energy Approval completed on 25 September 2014. Environmental Assess- (PGE), Menara Cakrawala Lantai, 15th Floor, Jl. MH Thamrin No. 9, ment Category A. Project: P133116. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 3983-3222, Fax: (62-21) 3983-3230, E-mail: will be required. Qinghai Xining Project Management Office, No. 215 [email protected], Contact: Narendra Widjajanto, Finance of Xiadu Avenue, Huangshui River Integrated Mgmt Committe, Xin- Director CFO ing, China, Tel: (86-971) 628-9266, Fax: (86-971) 627-0168, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Jin Xu, PMO Director Large Enterprises Energy Efficiency:The objective is to re- Huainan Coal Mining Subsidence Area Rehabilitation:The move barriers to and stimulate energy efficiency investments in objective is to support environmental remediation and utilization of large industrial enterprises in Indonesia. Project Concept Review JiuDa Coal-Minig subsidence area in Huainan City. Decision Meet- Meeting completed on 11 March 2014. Environmental Assessment ing completed on 15 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148620. US$ 5.5 (GEFU). Consulting services Category A. Project: P133000. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. be required. Huainan PMO, 8th Floor of Jinhai Building, Chen Dong Matenggeng Pumped Storage Hydro-Electrical:The objec- Zhong Lu Rd, Huainan FB, Huainan, China, Tel: (86-554) 666-7335, tives are to: (a) increase the peaking capacity of the power generation Fax: (86-554) 666-7849, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Ji- system in Java- Bali in an environmentally and socially sustainable awen Chen, Contact Person way; and (b) strengthen the institutional capacity of the project Shanxi Internet of Things for Environmental Protection: implementing entity (PLN) in hydropower planning, development, The objective is to implement “Total Life Cycle Environment Man- and operation. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 500.0 agement” of major pollution sources, build a new and integrated (IBRD). No consultants are required. PLN (Persero), Jl. Trunojoyo environment protection management system, and enable more Block M1/135, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 722- scientific, timely, and accurate decision making regarding environ- 1332, Fax: (62-21) 726-3119, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: ment management for China’s central and western regions. Project Murtaqi Syamsuddin, Director Concept Review Meeting completed on 13 May 2014. Environmental Partnership for Market Readiness:The objective is to create Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to and/or improve the conditions in Indonesia for use of carbon mar- be determined. Department of Environmental Protection of Shanxi ket instruments in the regulation and mitigation of GHG emission. Province, No. 21 Binhe West Road, Taiyuan City, China, Tel: (86-351) Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.7 (PMR). Consultants 637-1083, E-mail: [email protected] will be required. National Climate Change Council, Jalan Medan Zhejiang Rural Water Supply and Sanitation:The objective Merdeka Selatan No. 13, Lantai 18, Jakarta, Indonesia, E-mail: info@ is to improve the quality of the environment in Anji County, Fuyang dnpi.go.id, Contact: Dicky Edwin Hindarto, Head City, Tiantai County and Longquan City of Zhejiang Province through Poko Hydropower:The objective is to supply electricity from construction of rural domestic wastewater treatment systems. Bank renewable energy resources for economic development and rural Approval completed on 25 September 2014. Environmental Assess- electrification expansion in South and West Sulawesi in a least-cost ment Category B. Project: P133018. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants and environmentally and socially sustainable way. Environmental will be required. Project Management Office, No. 5, Huan cheng Xi Assessment Category A. US$ 360.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to Lu, West Lake Distr, Hangzhou, China, Tel: (86-571) 8705-5538, be determined. PLN (Persero), Jl. Trunojoyo Block M1/135, Kebay- Fax: (86-571) 8705-4151, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: He Cai, oran Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 722-1332, Fax: (62-21) Director of PMO 726-3119, E-mail: [email protected] DECEMBER 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 31 Renewable Energy for Electrification:The objective is to sup- Public Works, Jl. Pattimura No. 20, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, Tel: port the Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) to prepare, finance, and (62-21) 7279-6158, Fax: (62-21) 7279-6155, E-mail: di_bpck@yahoo. implement the 1,000 islands electrification program. Specifically, com, Contact: Iman Emawi, Director General of Human Settlements. this would focus on grid connected renewable energy development Indonesia Investment Agency, Graha Mandiri, 5th Floor, Jl Imam and electricity access scale-up. Preparation completed on 16 March Bonjol, No. 61, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 3983-2091/94, Fax: 2012. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P128568. (62-21) 3983-2095, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Sori- US$ 150.0/150.0 (IBRD/KFW). Consultants will be required. PT taon Siregar, CEO Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Jl, Trunojoyo Blok M 1/135, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 725-1234, E-mail: murtaqi@ Kiribati pln.co.id, Contact: Mr. Murtaqi Syamsuddin, Director, Planning Public Administration, Law, and Justice Health and Other Social Services (R) Second Economic Reform Development Policy Op- PNPM Generasi Program Additional Financing:The objec- eration (Cr. D0060-KI):The objective is to support the Gov- tive is to empower local communities in poor, rural sub-districts ernment of Kiribati in a range of key economic and fiscal reforms. in project provinces to increase utilization of health and education Bank Approval completed on 14 November 2014. Environmental services and foster accountability in local service delivery. Bank Assessment Category U. US$ 3.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be Approval completed on 25 June 2014. Environmental Assessment required. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, PO Box Category B. Project: P147658. US$ 151.7 (IDPN). Consultants will be 647, Bairiki, Tarawa, Kiribati, Tel: 686-21-806, E-mail: jreynolds@ required. Directorate General of Village Community Empowerment mfep.gov.ki, Contact: Jason Reynolds, Director National Economic (PMD) Ministry of Home Affairs, Jl. Medan Merdeka Utara No. 7, Planning Unit Jakarta 10110, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 794-2373, E-mail: ppkpmd@ Transportation yahoo.com, Contact: Tarmizi Karim, Director General Village and Community Empowerment (N) Kiribati Road Rehabilitation Additional Financing: The objective is to improve the condition of South Tarawa’s main Industry and Trade road network and help strengthen road financing and maintenance Lombok Regional Economic Development:The objective is to capacity. Decision Meeting completed on 13 June 2013. Environ- promote private sector development in the tourism industry in In- mental Assessment Category B. Project: P154012. US$ 6.0/7.0 (IDA donesia and at the same time contribute to sustainable preservation, Grant/PRIF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to development, and management of Indonesia’s prime tourism assets. be determined. Preparation completed on 28 May 2013. Environmental Assessment Kiribati Aviation Investment Additional Financing:The Category A. Project: P131001. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services objective is to improve operational safety and oversight of inter- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. national air transport infrastructure. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 4.0/5.0 (IDA Grant/PRIF). Consulting services to Public Administration, Law, and Justice be determined. Ministry of Communication, Transport, and Tourism Local Government and Decentralization Additional Financ- Development, Kiribati, Tel: 686-26-004, E-mail: tmwemwenikeaki@ ing:The objective is to support the Government to promote greater gmail.com, Contact: Terieta Mwemwenikeaki, Secretary transparency and quality in the delivery of outputs in the infrastruc- Kiribati Road Rehabilitation - Additional Financing:The ture sectors by: disbursing results and policy actions specified in objective is to improve the condition of South Tarawa’s main road the DLIs that will be structured around the Government’s regula- network and help strengthen road financing and maintenance capac- tions on DAK transfers. Bank Approval completed on 30 September ity. Decision Meeting completed on 14 June 2013. Environmental 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P123940. US$ Assessment Category B. Project: P144099. US$ 7.0 (PRIF). Consul- 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Jl. tants will be required for technical assistance studies in the areas of Dr. Wahidin No. 1, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 384-1067, Fax: road safety, and micro-enterprises for road management. Ministry of (62-21) 386-6120, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: T. Finance and Economic Development, PO Box 487, Tarawa, Kiribati, Lumban Tobing, Deputy Director for Funds Tel: (686) 21-806, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Eliot Ali, Metropolitan and Urban Development:The objective is to im- Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance and Economic Dev prove planning and investment in participating cities in projects that will be economically and ecologically sustainable. Project Concept Lao People’s Democratic Republic Review Meeting completed on 3 May 2012. Environmental Assess- ment Category A. Project: P129406. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry services to be determined. Bappenas, Jl. Taman Surapati No. 2, (N) Second Lao Environment and Social (Additional Fi- Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 392-3462, Fax: (62-21) 3193-4731, nancing to PAW):The objective is to help strengthen selected envi- E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. Max Pohan, Deputy ronmental protection management systems, specifically for protected Minister. City Government of Makassar, Jl. Jend. Ahmad Yani No. areas conservation, enforcement of wildlife laws and environmental 9, Makassar, Indonesia, Tel: (62-411) 317-007, Fax: (62-411) 317-720, assessment management. Project Concept Review Meeting com- E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Ilham Arief Sirajud- pleted on 29 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category din, Mayor of Makassar. City Government of Balikpapan, Jl. Jend. B. US$ 7.5/7.5 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consulting services and Sudirman No. 1, Balikpapan, Indonesia, Tel: (62-542) 421-420, Fax: implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (62-542) 422-941, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Natural Resources and Environment Management:The ob- Rizal Effendi, Mayor of Balikpapan. City Government of Surabaya, jective is to support the Government of Lao PDR’s development goals Jl. Taman Surya No. 1, Surabaya, Indonesia, Tel: (62-31) 534-5689, in sustainable natural resource and environmental management Fax: (62-31) 531-2144, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: including climate change. Preparation completed on 16 September Ms. Tri Rismaharini, Mayor of Surabaya 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 7.5/7.5/8.5 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/AUSL). Consultants will be required. Ministry Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection of Natural Resources and Environment, Lao People’s Democratic Water and Sanitation Investment Facility:The objectives are Republic, Tel: (856-20) 5569-9461, E-mail: phanthavong2020@ to: (a) increase access to water supply and sanitation services by hotmail.com, Contact: Virana Sonnasinh, Deputy Director supporting the central government programs of capital, output- based grants and loans through program partner facilities; and (b) Education supporting central and local government capacity strengthening. Second Global Partnership for Education:The objective is to Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 19 November 2012. improve school effectiveness at the pre-primary and primary levels Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P129002. US$ through strengthening school-level management capacity and im- 100.0/30.0 (IBRD/ZBIL). Consultants will be required. Ministry of proving early grade reading. Appraisal completed on 3 September PAGE 32 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149130. US$ 16.8 (EFAF). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Educa- Mongolia tion and Sports, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Tel: Education (856-21) 243-572, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Madame Khampseuth Kitignavon, Project Director Education Quality Reform:The objective is to improve the qual- ity of education for primary school children in Mongolia by im- Energy and Mining proving learning outcomes and increasing instructional time. Bank (R) Power Grid Improvement:The objective is to help improve Approval completed on 6 June 2014. Environmental Assessment efficiency and reliability of power distribution in selected areas served Category B. Project: P148110. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants by Electricite du Laos (EdL). Environmental Assessment Category B. will be required. Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Gov- Project: P149599. US$ 30.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services and ernment Building 111, Baga Toiruu 44, Mongolia, Tel: (976-11) 260- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 816, Fax: (976-11) 323-158, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Ts Bayarkhuu, Head of Finance and Investment, MES Health and Other Social Services Maternal/Child Health and Nutrition Improvement:The Energy and Mining objective is to assist the Government of Lao PDR in improving ma- Mongolia Second Energy Sector:The objective is to rehabilitate ternal and child health and nutritional status of children under five and expand of electricity distribution facilities in aimag utilities years old and improving coverage of effective multi-sectoral inter- in order to improve service, accommodate new connections and ventions with a focus on the poor and marginalized in poor villages. reduce losses. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 45.0 Preparation completed on 21 July 2014. Environmental Assessment (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Category B. US$ 25.0/25.0 (IDA Credit/ASDB). Consulting services determined. and implementing agency(ies) to be determined.

Public Administration, Law, and Justice Finance Tenth Poverty Reduction Support Operation:The objective is Export Development:The objective is to support diversification to support policies and institutional reforms enabling the sustainable and expansion of Mongolian exports by: (a) improving access of management of increasing revenues going to and generated from Mongolian exporters to export finance products and services; and natural resource sectors to deliver improved public services. Envi- (b) strengthening competitiveness of Mongolian exports through ronmental Assessment Category U. US$ 10.0/10.0 (IDA Credit/IDA capacity building of exporters and quality improvements in export Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance, 23 Singha products. Appraisal completed on 5 March 2014. Environmental Road, PO Box 46, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Tel: Assessment Category F. Project: P147438. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). (856-21) 911-611, Fax: (856-21) 412-142, E-mail: chanthavongsa.t@ Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Economic Devel- gmail.com, Contact: Mrs. Thipphakone Chanthavongsa, Director opment, Government Building-2, Unitd Nations Street 5/1, Ulaan- General Baatar, Mongolia, Tel: (976-51) 264-181/82, Fax: (976-11) 327-914, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Ms. B. Zoltuya, Senior Of- Marshall Islands ficer, Economic Cooperation Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Health and Other Social Services (R) Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program - Repub- lic of the Marshall Islands (Cr. D0170-MH):The objective is to E-Health:The objective is to improve integration and utilization sustainably increase the economic benefits captured by Pacific Island of health information and e-health solutions for better health ser- Countries from the ecosystem services provided by the Western vice delivery in selected sites. Bank Approval completed on 6 June Pacific Ocean. Negotiations completed on 7 November 2014. Envi- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P131290. ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P151760. US$ 6.8 (IDA US$ 19.5 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Credit). Consultants will be required. Marshall Islands Maritime Health, Government Building 8, Olympic Street 2 Sukhbaatar District Authority, Marshall Islands, Tel: (692) 625-8262, Contact: Mr. Sam 142, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tel: (976-11) 5126-0474, Fax: (976-11) Lanwi, Jr. Deputy Director 320-916, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Tsolmongerel Tsilajaav, Director Information and Communications Second ICT Sector Development Policy Operation:The ob- Public Administration, Law, and Justice jective is to increase access to telecommunications in the Marshall Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent Government Islands, which will increase the availability of telecommunications (SMART):The objective is to focus on leveraging Mongolia’s well infrastructure and enable the more widespread application of ICT developed ICT infrastructure for accountable, responsive, and trans- services supporting improvements in economic and social develop- parent government through the implementation of e-Government ment. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 4 March 2014. and m-Government applications and open government data initia- Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P146201. US$ 3.0 tives. Bank Approval completed on 6 June 2014. Environmental (IDA Grant). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Fi- Assessment Category C. Project: P130891. US$ 19.4 (IDA Credit). nance, Marshall Islands, Tel: (692) 625-3445 Consultants will be required. Information, Communications Technol- ogy and Post Authority, Sq. Sukhbaatar-1, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Micronesia, Federated States of Tel: (976-11) 330-790, Fax: (976-11) 330-780, E-mail: info@ictpa. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry gov.mn, Contact: Ch. Davaajamts, Chief Technology Officer (R) Federated States of Micronesia Pacific Islands re- Third Sustainable Livelihoods:The objective is to institution- gional Oceanscpe Program (Cr. D0140-FM):The objective is alize appropriate mechanisms utilized in phase I and II of the Sus- to strengthen the management of selected Pacific Island oceanic and tainable Livelihoods Program to reduce the vulnerability of rural coastal fisheries, and the critical habitats upon which they depend. communities throughout Mongolia. Bank Approval completed on 6 Negotiations completed on 3 November 2014. Environmental As- June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P125232. sessment Category B. Project: P151754. US$ 5.5 (IDA Credit). Con- US$ 24.8/11.4 (IDA Credit/SWTZ). Consultants will be required. sultants will be required. National Oceanic Resource Management Ministry of Finance, Khuvisgalchdiin Avenue 38, State Building Authority (NORMA), Palikir, Pohnpei, Micronesia, Federated States No 7, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Tel: (976-11) 322-465, Fax: (976-11) of, Tel: 6913202700, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Eugene Pan- 328-107, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: A. Khashtsetseg, gelian, Deputy Director Project Director DECEMBER 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 33 17 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Myanmar 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry to be determined. (R) Smallholder Agriculture Development:The objective is to increase crop yields and farm incomes from crop production in Rural Development Program:The objective is to increase rural selected sites served by the project. Decision Meeting completed on incomes and enhance farm and fishery productivity in targeted areas. 11 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Bank Approval completed on 29 August 2014. Environmental Assess- P147629. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. ment Category B. Project: P132424. US$ 7.0 (GEFU). Consultants Ministry of Finance and Revenue, Building No. 26, Naypyi Taw, will be required. Department of Agriculture, 2/F Department of Myanmar, Tel: (95-67) 410-322, E-mail: nwenwewin1957@gmail. Agriculture, Elliptical Road, Quezon City, Philippines, Tel: (632) com, Contact: Nwe New Win, Budget Director 920-4369, Fax: (632) 929-8183, E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], Contact: Hon. Proceso J. Alcala, Secretary Energy and Mining of Agriculture (R) National Electrification:The objective is to help increase ac- cess to electricity in Myanmar. Project Concept Review Meeting com- Energy and Mining pleted on 12 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. (R) Renewable Energy Development:The objective is to in- Project: P152936. US$ 300.0/200.0 (IDA Credit/ZPCO). Consulting crease renewable energy generation in all parts of the Philippines, services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. including in off-grid areas, and to bolster private sector lending to Myingyan Power Generation:The objective to facilitate the de- electric cooperatives that are focused on operational and financial velopment of new power generation capacity by the private sector efficiency. Appraisal completed on 10 November 2014. Environ- by offering an IDA guarantee to mitigate selected risks facing private mental Assessment Category F. Project: P147646. US$ 44.0 (CCTF). sector lenders and investors to Myanmar, and help reduce the cost of Consultants will be required. LGU Guarantee Corporation, 121 Valero electricity supplied by independent power producers (IPP). Project Street, Antel Corporate Center, Makati City, Philippines, Tel: (63- Concept Review Meeting completed on 19 June 2014. Environmental 2) 751-8764, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Lydia Orial, Assessment Category A. Project: P151366. US$ 100.0 (GUID). Con- President and CEO sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Access to Sustainable Energy:The objective is to assist the Phil- Health and Other Social Services ippines in increasing access to electricity in a sustainable manner. Strengthening Myanmar’s Health System for Universal Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 September 2014. Health Coverage:The objective is to increase access to essential Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ 36.7 (PHFS). Consulting health services, with a focus on accelerating progress towards achiev- services to be determined. Department of Energy, Energy Center, ing the millennium development goals (MDGs) related to maternal, Rizal Drive, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) newborn and child health. Bank Approval completed on 14 October 840-2134, Fax: (63-2) 840-2173, E-mail: [email protected], 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149960. US$ Contact: Irma Exconde, Assistant Director. LGU Guarantee Cor- 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, poration, 121 Valero St. Antel Corporate Center, Philippines, Tel: Office Building #4, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Tel: (95-67) 411-353, (63-2) 751-8764, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Lydia Orial, Fax: (95-67) 411-355, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: President and CEO Dr. Kyaw Khaing, Director Health and Other Social Services Public Administration, Law, and Justice Myanmar Development Policy Operation:The objective is to (N) Cross-Sectoral Public Health Enhancement:The objec- support the Government of Myanmar’s policy reform framework tive is to help the Government of the Philippines to scale up national for improved and decentralized delivery of social services. Environ- and sub-national level cross-sectoral activities for more effective mental Assessment Category U. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting health promotion and disease prevention. Environmental Assess- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ment Category B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation National Community Driven Development:The objective is to (N) Philippines Social Welfare Development and Reform enable poor rural communities to benefit from improved access to Project II:The objectives are to: (a) support the delivery of the and use of basic infrastructure and services through a people-cen- existing conditional cash transfer (CCT) program - the Pantawid tered approach and to enhance the government’s capacity to respond Pamiliyang - program to poor households with children; and (b) ex- promptly and effectively to an eligible crisis or emergency. Environ- pand the menu and coverage and strengthen the delivery of Govern- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting ment programs aimed at increasing productive capacity of poor and services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. vulnerable households. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection be determined. (R) Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management (Cr. Multi Donor Facility-Mindanao Reconstruction and Devel- 55590-MM):The objective is to support the Government of Myan- opment:The objective is to improve social and economic recovery in mar in developing and managing the Ayeyarwady Basin and national conflict-affected communities of Mindanao through activities which water resources in a sustainable and integrated manner. Negotiations promote confidence-building, peace and demand-driven governance. completed on 24 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category First Grant Funding Request Approval completed on 26 June 2014. A. Project: P146482. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147008. US$ 6.6 required. Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River (PHMF). Consultants will be required. Mindanao Land Foundation, Systems, Ministy of Transport, Office No. 5, Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Inc. Reyes Bldg, Jade St. Saniel Subd, Kidapawan City, Cotabato, Phil- Tel: (95-6) 741-1030, Fax: (95-6) 741-1165, E-mail: dgdwir@mptmail. ippines, Tel: (63-64) 278-3077, E-mail: [email protected], com.mm, Contact: Htun Lwin Oo, Director General Contact: Damaso Vertido, Executive Director. International Labour Organization, 19th Floor, Yuchengco Tower, RCBC Plaza, 6819 Ayala Philippines Avenue, Metro Manila, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 580-9900, Fax: (63- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry 2) 856-7597, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Lawrence Jeff (N) Inclusive Partnerships for Agricultural Competitive- Johnson, Director. Community and Family Services International, ness:The objective is to contribute to poverty reduction, em- 2/F Torres Building, 2442 Park Avenue, Pasay City, Metro Manila, ployment generation, and increased households’ incomes in the Philippines, Tel: (63-91) 7812-8523, E-mail: [email protected], targeted clusters. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on Contact: Vladimir Hernandez, Director, Philippine Programs PAGE 34 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

Industry and Trade mental assessments, including detailed social surveys. Department Hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) Phase-out:The objective is of Public Works and Highways, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila, to assist the Philippines in meeting its HCFC phase-out obligations to Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 304-3000, Fax: (63-2) 304-3487, E-mail: the Montreal Protocol. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ [email protected], Contact: Mr. Patrick Gatan, Director 40.0 (MPIN). Consultants will be required. Department of Environ- PMO - Flood Control ment and Natural Resources, 4/F DENR Main Building, Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, Tel: (63-2) 926-2672, Fax: (63-2) 924-2540, Regional E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Jose Atienza, Jr. Secretary Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program (Cr. Public Administration, Law, and Justice D0230-4P):The objective is to sustainably increase the economic Manila Bay Integrated Water Quality Management:The benefits captured by Pacific Island Countries from the ecosystem ser- objective is to improve the quality of water in the Manila Bay, Pasig vices provided by the Western Pacific Ocean. This abundant oceans- River and Laguna Lake system, through institutional mechanisms cape, and the ecosystem services it provides, is a shared natural enabling integrated and comprehensive support for public and pri- capital asset for the entire region. Appraisal completed on 23 October vate initiatives, to address sources of pollution, sedimentation and 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131655. US$ flooding in key pollution hotspots. Project Concept Review Meeting 33.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Natural completed on 12 March 2013. Environmental Assessment Category Resources, Vaiaku, Funafuti, Tuvalu, Tel: (688)20-827, Contact: B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. De- Mr. Solomua Ionatana, Principal Fisheries Officer. Forum Fisheries partment of Environment and Natural Resources, Visayas Avenue, Agency, Tel: (677) 21-124, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, Tel: (632) 929-6626, Fax: (632) Mr. Timothy Adams, Director of Fisheries Management. National 926-8074, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Analiza R. Teh, Oceanic Resource Management Authority, Tel: (691) 320-2700, Undersecretary E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Eugene Pangelinan, Deputy Third Development Policy Loan:The objective is to support Director. Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority, Tel: (692) specific efforts by the government to help shift the Philippines into a 625-8262, Contact: Mr. Sam Lanwi, Jr. Deputy Director new inclusive growth trajectory. The operation’s five pillars all serve Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program - Pacific to tackle binding constraints to promoting the sustained reduction in Islands Forum Fisheries Agency:The objective is to support extreme poverty reduction and improved livelihoods for notably the the countries of FSM, RMI, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu to poorest 40% of Filipinos. Bank Approval completed on 26 September strengthen the management of selected Pacific Island oceanic and 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P147803. US$ coastal fisheries. Decision Meeting completed on 7 October 2014. 300.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Department of Finance, Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P151783. US$ 4.0 5/F DOF Building, BSP Complex Roxas Boulevard, Manila, Philip- (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Forum Fisheries Agency, pines, Tel: (632) 525-4194, 496-6571, Fax: (632) 523-9216, E-mail: Pacific Islands, Tel: 67721124, Contact: Timothy Adams, Director of [email protected], Contact: Rosalia V. de Leon, Under Secretary Fisheries Management Transportation Pacific Regional Program-Identifying and Implementing practical CCA and Related DRR Knowledge and Experi- (R) Metro Manila Corridor Improvement:The objective is to ence:The objective is to support and facilitate the dissemination improve the overall performance of the urban passenger transport and better utilization of local, national and regional knowledge and system along a few corridors in Metro Manila in terms of quality and information on climate change adaptation (CCA) and related disaster level of service, affordability, safety, and environmental efficiency. risk reduction (DRR) to build and strengthen the capacity of Pacific Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 October 2014. Island countries to manage climate change risks to food security and Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 53.0/25.0 (IBRD/CIF). critical infrastructure. Project Concept Review Meeting completed Consulting services to be determined. Department of Transportation on 30 January 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ and Communications, Ortigas Ave, Brgy. Wack-Wack, Mandaluyong 6.1 (CSCF). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) City, Metro Manila, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 723-1507, 727-7960, Fax: to be determined. (63-2) 726-7128, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Rene Limcaoco, Under Secretary Information and Communications Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (R) Federated States of Micronesia/Palau Connectivity (Cr. D0040-FM):The objective is to reduce the cost and increase the (N) Metro Manila Flood Management-Phase 1:The objective availability of international bandwidth for participating countries by: is to reduce the vulnerability to flooding and improve the living condi- (a) facilitating a wide range of ICT applications to support social and tions of several tens of thousands in the Greater Metro Manila Area economic development in the Pacific region; and (b) enhancing the waterways/drainage channels by modernizing all pumping stations. participation of these countries in the global economy. Negotiations Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consult- completed on 31 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. B. Project: P130592. US$ 47.5/25.0 (IDA Grant/ASDB). Consultants Manila Bay Integrated Water Quality Management-GEFU: will be required. Department of Transportation, Communication and The objective is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of Infrastructure, PO Box PS-2, Palikir, Pohnpei, Micronesia, Feder- water in Manila Bay, Pasig River and Laguna Lake system through ated States of, Tel: (691) 320-2865, Fax: (691) 320-5853, E-mail: the establishment of institutional mechanisms and implementa- [email protected], Contact: Francis Itimai, Department Secretary. tion of investments in priority pollution hotspots through public Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Industries and Commerce, PO Box and private actions. Project Concept Review Meeting completed 1471, Ngerulmud, Palau, Tel: (680) 767-2111, Fax: (680) 767-3207, on 12 March 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Takkon Chin, Chief Divi- 7.4 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Department of Environ- sion of Communications ment and Natural Resources, Quezon City, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 929-6626/27/28/29, Fax: (63-2) 926-8074, E-mail: tehanna08@ Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection gmail.com, [email protected], Contact: Analiza Teh, Under- (N) South East Asia Disaster Risk Management:The objec- secretary tive is to reduce the vulnerability of people and assets to natural Studies for Sustainable Flood Management:The objective hazards in targeted disaster-prone areas of Lao PDR, Cambodia is to prepare priority projects that aim to improve flood manage- and Myanmar. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 ment and resilience in the Greater Metro Manila Area. Appraisal (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to completed on 31 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category be determined. A. Project: P145391. US$ 7.0 (PHFS). Consultants will be required Pacific Resilience Program:The objective is to strengthen di- for technical studies (dam and land raising), social and environ- saster and climate resilience and improve post disaster financial DECEMBER 2014 East Asia and Pacific Region PAGE 35 response capacity of participating countries. Project Concept Review Fax: (677) 25-811, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Rene Sore, Meeting completed on 1 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Permanent Secretary egory B. US$ 32.0/15.0 (IDA Credit/ZBIL). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Health and Other Social Services (R) Solomon Islands Rapid Employment Additional Fi- Samoa nancing:The objective is to finance the rehabilitation and upgrading of tertiary roads in the capital city of Honiara, which were affected Information and Communications by the floods in April 2014, as well as continue providing short-term Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase II Samoa employment generation and training. Project Concept Review Meet- Connectivity:The objective is to reduce the cost and increase the ing completed on 27 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- availability of international bandwidth for participating countries, egory B. US$ 3.7 (IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing and thereby facilitate the development of a wide range of ICT applica- agency(ies) to be determined. tions to support social and economic development in the Pacific re- Rural Development Program II:The objective is to reduce rural gion, and to enhance the participation of these countries in the global poverty by increasing incomes from agriculture and access to basic economy. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 October social and economic infrastructure and services. Negotiations com- 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P128904. pleted on 17 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category US$ 15.5/18.5 (IDA Grant/ASDB). Consulting services to be deter- B. Project: P149282. US$ 2.5/5.0/13.3/4.6 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/ mined. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, AUSL/IFAD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Development 1st Floor Chan Mow Plaza, Savalalo, Apia, Samoa, Tel: 6857771133, Planning and Aid Coordination, Kukum Highway, Honiara, Solomon E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Tua’imáló Asamu Ah Sam, Islands, Tel: (677) 38-256, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Chief Executive Officer. Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Samoa, Daniel Rove, Director Social Services Division Matafele, Samoa, Tel: (685) 34-331, Fax: (685) 21-312, Contact: Tupa’imatuna Iulai Lavea, Chief Executive Officer Public Administration, Law, and Justice E-Government Support:The objective is to establish the basic Solomon Islands foundations of e-Government to support public sector modernization. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 3.0 (IDA Credit). Con- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Solomon Islands Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Solomon Islands Recovery Financing Development Policy Program (Cr. 55670-SB, Cr. D0150-SB):The objective is to Operation:The objective is to support Solomon Islands in maintain- strengthen the management of selected Pacific Island oceanic and ing progress against its economic and financial reform agenda while coastal fisheries, and the critical habitats upon which they depend. meeting the fiscal costs of reconstruction following recent major Negotiations completed on 4 November 2014. Environmental As- flooding. Negotiations completed on 26 September 2014. Environ- sessment Category B. Project: P151777. US$ 9.9 (IDA Credit). Con- mental Assessment Category U. US$ 5.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants sultants will be required. Solomon Islands Ministry of Fisheries will be required. Ministry of Finance and Treasury, PO Box 26, and Marine Resources, Solomon Islands, Tel: 67728601, Contact: Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tel: (677) 27-413, Fax: (677) 763-4188, E- Ronelle Panda, Deputy Director - Policy, Planning, and Project Man- mail: [email protected], Contact: Fred Fakari’i, Secretary of Finance agement

Energy and Mining Thailand Electricity Access Expansion:The objective is to increase access Industry and Trade of low income households to electricity services in peri-urban and (R) Hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) Phase-out Phase I: rural areas of Solomon Islands. Project Concept Review Meeting The objective is to assist the Government to meet its obligations to completed on 24 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- HCFC consumption phase-out: (a) a freeze of HCFC consumption at egory B. US$ 6.4/4.7/3.0 (CIF/GPBA/ZPCO). Consulting services the baseline level by 2013; and (b) 10% reductions from the baseline and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. level by 2015 as per the Montreal Protocol through adoption of low- Tina River Hydropower Development:The objectives are to: (a) carbon alternative technologies, where possible, as replacement to improve the affordability of electricity on Guadalcanal by switching HCFCs. The loan was signed on 13 November 2014. Environmental energy production from very expensive, imported, diesel power to Assessment Category B. Project: P115761. US$ 23.8 (MPIN). Consul- hydropower, a sustainable, lower cost, and renewable alternative; tants will be required. Ministry of Industry, Department of Industrial and (b) mobilize private financing for power generation to supple- Works, 75/6 Rama VI Road, Ratchthewi, Bangkok, Thailand, Tel: ment limited public resources. Project Concept Review Meeting (66-2) 202-4101, Fax: (66-2) 354-3390, E-mail: [email protected]. completed on 24 June 2009. Environmental Assessment Category go.th, Contact: Mr. Arthit Wuthikaro, Director General A. Project: P114317. US$ 12.0/8.0 (EUIB/GUID). Consultants will be required for various preparatory studies (environmental and social Tonga impact assessment, market and pricing, geological, feasibility) and for Public Administration, Law, and Justice dam safety advisory and environmental and social panel of experts. Second Economic Reform Support Operation:The objective Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification, PO Box G37, is to improve the mobilization and use of public resources, while ad- Lengakiki Ridge, Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tel: (677) 28-609/25- dressing constraints in the private sector. Bank Approval completed 937, Fax: (677) 25-811, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Rene on 29 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Proj- Sore, Permanent Secretary ect: P149963. US$ 5.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Tina River Hydropower Development:The objectives are to: (a) Ministry of Finance and National Planning, PO Box 87, Nuku’alofa, improve the affordability of electricity on Guadalcanal by switching Tonga, Tel: (676) 24-463, Fax: (676) 26-011, E-mail: nlatu@finance. energy production from very expensive, imported, diesel power to gov.to, Contact: Fred Fakari’i, Secretary of Finance hydropower, a sustainable, lower cost, and renewable alternative; and (b) mobilize private financing for power generation to supplement Transportation limited public resources. Environmental Assessment Category A. (R) Transport Sector Consolidation Additional Financing: Project: P152779. US$ 119.0 (GUID). Consultants will be required The objective is to focus on completing the change management for various preparatory studies (environmental and social impact program of the Ministry of Infrastructure (MOI) and safety initiatives assessment, market and pricing, geological, feasibility) and for dam in the transport sector. Project Concept Review Meeting completed safety advisory and environmental and social panel of experts. Min- on 26 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. istry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification, PO Box G37, Len- US$ 7.0/3.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. gakiki Ridge, Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tel: (677) 28-609/25-937, Ministry of Infrastructure, 2nd Floor, O.G. Sanft Building, Corner PAGE 36 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Taufa’ahau Rd. and Wellington Rd, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, Tel: (67-6) Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be 23-100, Fax: (67-6) 25-440, E-mail: [email protected] determined. Tuvalu Education (R) Coherent Curriculum and Assessment for Improved Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Teaching Outcomes (CAITO):The objective is to improve the (R) Tuvalu Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program Vietnamese K-12 School Curriculum in order to improve learning (Cr. D0160-TV):The objective is to strengthen the management outcomes. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 29 April of selected Pacific Island oceanic and coastal fisheries, and the criti- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P150058. cal habitats upon which they depend. Negotiations completed on 6 US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Education and Training, 49 Dai Co Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam, P151780. US$ 7.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Tuvalu Tel: (84-4) 3623-0748, Fax: (84-4) 3869-4085, E-mail: tdhai@ Fisheries Department, Tuvalu, Tel: 68820202, E-mail: secfin@tu- moet.edu.vn valu.tv, Contact: Solomua Ionatana, Principal Fisheries Officer Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness:The objective is to improve Energy and Mining the pre-service and in-service training of teachers and ancillary activities that contribute to more effective classroom practices by Energy Sector Development:The objective is to support Tuvalu teachers. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IDA enhance its energy security by diversifyiny the electricity generation Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education mix and improving the efficieny of the system. Decision Meeting and Training, 49 Dai Co Viet Street, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) completed on 22 May 2013. Environmental Assessment Category 3868-4667, Fax: (84-4) 3869-4085, E-mail: [email protected]. B. Project: P144573. US$ 7.0/2.1 (IDA Grant/ESMP). Consultants vn, Contact: Mr. Hoang Duc Minh, Director General will be required. Tuvalu Electricity Corporaton, Funafuti, Tuvalu, Tel: (688) 20-350, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mafalu Energy and Mining Lotolua, General Manager (R) Vietnam Industry Energy Efficiency Financing (VIEEF): Public Administration, Law, and Justice The objective is to improve energy efficiency of selected energy end- users in key energy-consuming sectors, thereby supporting the gov- (R) Second Development Policy Operation:The objective is ernment to achieve its energy efficiency targets. Project Concept to support reforms that strengthen public financial management Review Meeting completed on 12 November 2014. Environmental and improve the delivery of social services, while providing critical Assessment Category F. US$ 200.0/5.0 (IBRD/ZBIL). Consulting financing to enable the rebuilding of fiscal buffers. Decision Meeting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. completed on 30 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- egory U. Project: P150194. US$ 1.5 (IDA Grant). No consultants are Third Climate Change Development Policy:The objective is to required. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Vaiaku, support the Government in its efforts to address climate change by: Tuvalu, Tel: (688) 20-202 Ext. 3068, Fax: (688) 20-210, E-mail: (a) adopting policies; and (b) strengthening institutional capacity to [email protected], Contact: Ms. Limasene Teatu, Permanent Secretary promote climate resilient and lower carbon intensity development. of Finance Signing completed on 17 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Cate- gory U. US$ 70.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry Vietnam of Natural Resources and Environment, 83 Nguyen Chi Thanh Street, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3259-5505, E-mail: lcthanh@monre. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry gov.vn, Contact: Dr. L. C. Thanh, Deputy Director General (R) Market Led Agricultural Modernization:The objective is Third Power Sector Reform DPO:The objective is to support to accelerate the pace of agricultural restructuring and the realiza- the implementation of a market for electricity generation, restruc- tion of sectoral goals related to the triple bottom line of sustainable turing of the power sector and reform of electricity tariffs that will development. Decision Meeting completed on 11 November 2014. facilitate effective competition, transparency and predictability to Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145055. US$ 275.0 encourage generation investment, and implement programs and (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to incentives for efficient use of electricity. Signing completed on 17 July be determined. 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). (R) Second Northern Mountain Poverty Reduction Project Consultants will be required. Electricity Regulatory Authority of (NMPRP) Additional Financing:The objectives are a continua- Vietnam (ERAV), D11 Khuat Duy Tien, Thanh Xuan, Dong Da, Hanoi, tion to: (a) consolidate the achievements; and (b) prepare the institu- Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3554-3049, Fax: (84-4) 3554-3223, E-mail: tionalization of the key features of the project into the overall poverty [email protected], Contact: Mr. Dang Huy Cuong, efforts in the target Provinces. Appraisal completed on 28 October General Director 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148733. Transmission Efficiency (TEP):The objective is to improve the US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing technical and operational performance of NPT in providing reliable agency(ies) to be determined. and energy efficient electricity transmission services in Vietnam. Livestock Competitiveness and Food Safety Additional Fi- Bank Approval completed on 7 August 2014. Environmental Assess- nancing:The objectives are to improve the effectiveness of house- ment Category B. Project: P131558. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants hold-based livestock producers, reduce environmental impact of will be required. National Power Transmission Corporation, No. 4, livestock production, processing and marketing of livestock and en- Nguyen Khac Nhu Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: hance food safety hygiene in livestock product supply chains, mainly (84-4) 3554-3049, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Manh in meat products in selected provinces. Project Concept Review Hung Nguyen, President and CEO Meeting completed on 8 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 45.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Industry and Trade Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, No.2, Ngoc Ha (R) Vietnam Regional Industry Competitiveness:The objec- Street, Hanoi, No.16, Thuy Khue Street, Hanoi (APMB), Vietnam, tive is to improve competitiveness of the Thanh Hoa Province which Tel: (84-4) 3792-1099, Fax: (84-4) 3792-1052, E-mail: [email protected], is one of the poorest provinces in Vietnam. Preparation completed Contact: Mr. Ton That Son Phong, Director, Livestock Competitive- on 2 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ 96.0 ness and Food Safety Project (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Government of Vietnam, Vietnam Dam Safety Management:The objective is to increase Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 2221-8345, Fax: (84-4) 2221-8383, E- protection to people and improve socio-economic infrastructure mail: [email protected], Contact: Nguyen Van Luyen, Division downstream of dams facing high risk of failure and improve dam Head, Local Industry and Trade Department safety management at the national and scheme levels. Environ- Vietnam HCFC Phaseout Project Phase II:The objective is to mental Assessment Category A. Project: P152309. US$ 500.0 (IDA reduce HCFC consumption in order to contribute to the Government DECEMBER 2014 South Asia Region PAGE 37 of Vietnam’s efforts to comply with its Montreal Protocol phaseout Second Ho Chi Minh City Environmental Sanitation:The obligations for HCFCs to be met by January 1, 2020. Environmental objectives are to collect and treat waste water from Nhieu Loc-Thi Assessment Category B. US$ 8.0 (MPIN). Consulting services and Nghe Basin and District 2 in Ho Chi Minh City in an environmen- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. tally and financially sustainable manner by constructing wastewater interceptor with its corresponding sewer system and wastewater Public Administration, Law, and Justice treatment plant. Appraisal completed on 3 September 2014. Environ- Service Delivery Reform:The objectives are to strengthen the mental Assessment Category A. Project: P127978. US$ 250.0/200.0 Ministry of Health and other health sector governance institutions’ (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Steering Center of capacity and management systems in areas of policy making, imple- Urban Flood Control Program, 10 Tran Nhat Duat Street, Tan Dinh mentation of key policies, monitoring and evaluation, supervision, Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Tel: (84-8) 3526-7498, E-mail: and policy inspection. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ [email protected], Contact: Pham Van Chin, Director 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, Vietnam Scaling Up Sanitation:The objective is to achieve open 138 Giang Vo Street, Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3846-4914, Fax: defecation free (ODF) status in rural areas in selected provinces in (84-4) 3846-4051, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Vietnam. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Dr. Pham Le Tuan, Director Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation (N) Can Tho Urban Resilience Project:The project will enhance urban resilience in Can Tho by supporting improved institutional co- ordination and priority infrastructure development. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 125.0/125.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Con- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. South Asia Dau Giay-Phan Thiet Expressway Pilot PPP:The objective is to support the Government to attract private sector expertise and Afghanistan capital for the construction and operation of the Dau Giay-Phan Thiet Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Expressway. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 Janu- Additional Financing for Afghanistan On Farm Water ary 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P149484. Management Project:The objective is a continuation to improve US$ 348.0/277.0/152.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit/ZPCO). Consultants will agricultural productivity in project areas by enhancing the efficiency be required. Ministry of Transport, Vietnam, 308 Minh Khai, Hanoi, of water used. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 37.0 Vietnam, Tel: (84-4) 3862-8983, Fax: (84-4) 3862-8984, E-mail: (ARTF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be [email protected], Contact: Mr. Hoang Dinh Phuc, Director General determined. Ho Chi Minh City Green Transport:The objectives are to: (a) ad- Irrigation Restoration and Development Additional Fi- dress urgent urban mobility demands (BRT and Bus Modernization); nancing:The objective is a continuation to increase agriculture pro- (b) maximize the impacts of major metro and road investments; duction and productivity to broaden the project focus on the WRM and (c) strengthen institutions for HCMC’s future modern transport to improve water resources management for agriculture and socio- system. Preparation completed on 1 October 2012. Environmental economic development. Environmental Assessment Category A. Assessment Category B. Project: P126507. US$ 142.3 (IBRD). Con- US$ 7.0 (ARTF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) sultants will be required. UCCI - Urban-Civil Works Construction to be determined. Investment Management Authority of HCMC, 3 Nguyen Thi Dieu, Physical and Institutional Infrastructure for Strategic Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, Tel: (84-8) 3930-2462, Grain Reserves:The objective is to improve food security for the Fax: (84-8) 3930-6638, E-mail: [email protected], haquo- poor and other food-insecure people in Afghanistan by creating the [email protected], Contact: Luong Minh Phuc, General Director physical and institutional infrastructure required for the establish- ment and efficient functioning of a Strategic Grain Reserves (SGR) Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection for emergency relief and limited price stabilization. Decision Meeting (N) Mekong Delta Integrated Climate Resilience and Sus- completed on 8 September 2011. Environmental Assessment Cat- tainable Livelihoods:The objective is to enhance the information egory B. Project: P126288. US$ 12.0/12.0 (ARTF/JSDF). Consulting systems, and strengthen the institutional arrangements for adaptive services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and management of the Mekong Delta, and scope out longer term devel- Livestock, Jamal Mena, Karte Sakhi, Afghanistan opment options to be financed under future projects. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Education and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Higher Education Expansion and Systems Improvement (R) Vinh Phuc Flood Risk and Water Management:The Project:The objective is to expand and orient the higher educa- objective is to alleviate flooding, water pollution and improve the tion system to the economic needs of the country. Project Concept water environment in the Vinh Phuc province. Environmental As- Review Meeting completed on 10 June 2014. Environmental As- sessment Category A. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and sessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (ARTF). Consulting services to be implementing agency(ies) to be determined. determined. Ministry of Higher Education, Main Road, Kar-e-char, Afghanistan Ho Chi Minh City Flood Risk Management:The objective is Non-formal Approach to Training Education and Jobs to reduce the risk of flooding in selected areas of Ho Chi Minh City Project:The objective is to increase the potential for employment through a combination of structural and non-structural measures. and higher earnings of targeted young Afghan women and men in Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consult- rural and semi-urban areas through non-formal skills training. Bank ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Approval completed on 24 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Programmatic Urban Development in Northern Moun- Category B. Project: P146015. US$ 15.0 (ARTF). Consulting services tains:The objective is to enable participating Northern Mountains to be determined. Ministry of Labor Social Affairs, Martyr and Dis- cities to effectively plan, deliver and sustain priority infrastructure abled, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-794) 455-309, E-mail: e.mayel@nsdp. services through strengthened systems and capacity, with the support gov.af, Contact: Dr. Enayatullah Mayel, Executive Director National of the Ministry of Construction. Signing completed on 17 July 2014. Skills Development Program Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Constructions, 37 Le Dai Energy and Mining Hanh Str. Hai Ba Trung Dist. Hanoi, Vietnam, Tel: (84-98) 302-5527, Afghanistan Power System Development Project Addi- E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Tran Quoc Thai, tional Financing:The objective is to increase the number of elec- Deputy General Director tricity connections for the urban centers of Charikar, Gulbahar and PAGE 38 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Jabul-es-Seraj and Pul-e-Khumri in an institutionally efficient way. Baghlan (Dushi) Bamyan:The objectives are to improve: (a) Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 27 October 2014. connectivity between central and north and north east Afghanistan Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 16.0 (ARTF). Consulting via rehabiliation of baghlan to Bamyan road; and (b) accessibility services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. along the corridor. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ DABS Planning and Capacity Support:The objective is to plan 100.0/180.0 (IDA Grant/ARTF). Consulting services and implement- the operations and improve the safety standards. Project Concept ing agency(ies) to be determined. Review Meeting completed on 22 April 2013. Environmental As- Rural Access Project Additional Financing:The objective is sessment Category B. Project: P131228. US$ 7.5 (ARTF). Consulting to enable rural communities to benefit from road access to basic services to be determined. DABS, Afghanistan services and facilities. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Naghlu Hydropower Rehabilitation Project:The objective is 10.0/130.0 (IDA Grant/ARTF). Consulting services and implement- to increase the supply of least cost electricity to the Afghan power ing agency(ies) to be determined. system in a safe and environmentally and socially sustainable way. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 22 April 2013. En- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection vironmental Assessment Category A. Project: P132944. US$ 85.0 (R) Kabul Urban Road Improvement Stage 2:The objective is (ARTF). Consulting services to be determined. Da Afghanistan to improve transport service efficiency on selected corridors. Signing Breshna Sherkat, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-7) 0029-4722, E-mail: she- completed on 11 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category [email protected], Contact: Eng. Shekeeb Nessar, Chief Opera- B. US$ 90.5 (ARTF). Consulting services to be determined. Kabul tions Officer. Ministry of Energy and Water, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-7) Municipality, Kabul Municipality Building, Kabul, Afghanistan, Tel: 5200-4998, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Eng. Ghulam (93-20) 7002-85259, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: M.Y Faruq Qazizada, Deputy Minister Nawandish, Engineer (R) Urban Policy Development Project:The objective is to Finance support the Ministry of Urban Development strengthen it’s analytic Financial Sector Rapid Response Project Additional Fi- and advocacy skills to be the premier strategic thinker on urban nancing:The objective is to assist DAB to develop action plans issues on Afghanistan. Project Concept Review Meeting completed for improved banking supervision and to establish key building on 17 June 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 blocks of financial sector infrastructure. Bank Approval completed (IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to on 26 November 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ be determined. 6.7 (IDA Grant). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance, Pashtoonistan Square, Kabul, Afghanistan, E-mail: maqa2005@ Bangladesh yahoo.com, Contact: Adris Walli, Aide Coordination Specialist. Da Afghanistan Bank, Ibni Sena Watt Kabul Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Tel: (93-79) 722-3340, E-mail: [email protected], (R) Nuton Jibon Livelihood Improvement and Empower- Contact: Zalmie Sherzad, Project Director ment Project II:The objective is to improve the livelihoods of the extreme poor in rural areas of Bangladesh. The proposed target group Health and Other Social Services would be the extreme poor and poor in the 26 poorest districts (16 SEHAT Additional Financing:The objective is to expand the under SIPP-II + 10 under SIPP-III). Appraisal completed on 18 scope, quality and coverage of health services provided to the popula- December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: tion, particularly to the poor in the project areas, and to enhance the P149605. US$ 200.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- stewardship functions of the Ministry of Public Health. Environmen- menting agency(ies) to be determined. tal Assessment Category B. US$ 227.6 (ARTF). Consulting services Bangladesh National Agricultural and Food Technology and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Program (NAFTEC):The objective is to increase the agricultural Industry and Trade productivity of smallholder farms and improve smallholders’ access to markets in selected districts. Decision Meeting completed on 25 Rural Enterprise Development Project II:The objective is to November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: improve employment opportunities and incomes of rural men and P149553. US$ 160.0/23.7/23.9 (IDA Credit/AID/IFAD). Consulting women in Afghanistan. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 100.3 (ARTF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. National Agricultural Technology Project Additional Fi- nancing:The objective is to improve the effectivesness of the na- Public Administration, Law, and Justice tional agricultural technology system as measured by increase in Municipal Development Project (MDP):The objectives are agricultural productivity and farm incomes in the selected districts. to: (a) strengthen MUDA’s capacity for granting legitimacy through Bank Approval completed on 4 March 2014. The AF has been shifted inclusive planning to existing development; and (b) test the viability to NATP-2 under prep. for FY15 delivery. Environmental Assess- of a municipal development support model in Afghanistan through ment Category B. Project: P133251. US$ 23.7 (FSCO). Consultants IDLG. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 17 June 2014. will be required. Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). Con- 717-1602 sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Education Second Public Financial Management Reform:The objec- tive is to strengthen public financial management through effective (R) Additional Financing Bangladesh Primary Education procurement, treasury and audit structures and systems in line with Development Program III:The objectives are a continuation to: sound financial management standards of monitoring, reporting (i) increase participation and reduce social disparities in primary and control. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 129.0 education; (ii) increase the number of children completing primary (ARTF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be education and improve the quality of the learning environment and determined. measurement of student learning; and (iii) improve effectiveness of resource use for primary education. Bank Approval completed on Transportation 16 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: (R) Flood Disaster Project Additional Financing:The ob- P150669. US$ 400.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. jective is to quickly restore road network connectivity which was Directorate of Primary Education, Bangladesh, Contact: , damaged by the serious flood in the early months of the year 2014. Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project Additional Decision Meeting completed on 15 December 2014. Environmental Financing:The objective is to improve the quality and relevance of Assessment Category B. US$ 9.8 (ARTF). Consulting services to be teaching and the research environment in higher educational institu- determined. MPW and MRRD, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-79) 930-6173, tion through encouraging both innovation and accountability within E-mail: [email protected] the universities and by enhancing the technical and institutional DECEMBER 2014 South Asia Region PAGE 39 capacity of the higher education sector. Bank Approval completed (880-171) 189-4017, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: on 3 December 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Proj- Mr. Md. Akram al Hossain, Joint Secretary ect: P145749. US$ 125.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Emergency 2007 Cyclone Recovery and Restoration Proj- University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, 29/1. Agargaon. Sher- ect Additional Financing II:The objectives are to: (a) meet the e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (88-02) 818-1631, E-mail: financing gap that existed since the inception of project and also a [email protected], Contact: University Grants Commission, gap created due to exchange rate fluctuation; and (b) scale up con- Chairman struction and rehabilitation of disaster shelters in the coastal areas Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement and carry out necessary repairs/improvement to about ten polders. Project Additional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) improve Bank Approval completed on 30 December 2013. Environmental the quality of secondary education, systematically monitor learning Assessment Category B. Project: P146500. US$ 140.0 (IDA Credit). outcomes; and (b) increase access and equity in project upazilas. Consultants will be required. Ministry of Disaster and Relief, 92-93 Bank Approval completed on 3 December 2013. Environmental Mohakhali C/A, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-18) 1911-7754, Assessment Category B. US$ 265.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Syed Ashraful Islam, Commu- be required. Ministry of Education, Bangladesh, E-mail: seqaep@ nication Media Specialist bdcom.net, Contact: Ministry of Education, Project Director, SE- Health Sector Development Project (HSDP) Additional QAEP Project Finance:The objective is to enable the Government of Bangladesh Skills and Training Enhancement Project Additional Fi- to strengthen the health systems and improve health services, par- nancing:The objective is to strengthen selected public and private ticularly for the poor. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ training institutions to improve training quality and employability of 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry trainees, including those from disadvantaged socioeconomic back- of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh grounds. First Grant Funding Request Approval completed on 26 Public Administration, Law, and Justice September 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 16.7 (FSSA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education, (R) Urban Resilience Project:The objective is to increase the Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (88-02) 911-0664, E-mail: techedu09@ effectiveness of disaster management and response in Dhaka and Syl- gmail.com, Contact: Directorate of Technical Education, Director het, to address existing and emergent risks in the built environment General in Dhaka and Sylhet, and to improve the cities’ capacity to respond promptly and effectively to an eligible crisis or emergency. Decision Energy and Mining Meeting completed on 11 December 2014. Environmental Assess- ment Category B. Project: P149493. US$ 173.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- Power Station Rehabilitation and Upgrade:The objective ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. is to improve the generation efficiency of targeted public sector power stations and also establish performance-oriented operation Community Empowerment and Development Fund:The and maintenance practices within the Bangladesh Power Develop- objective is to pilot a housing fund for slums to develop and empower ment Board. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 18 June the community to counter the problem of squatting, insecure tenure 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P128012. US$ arrangements and uncontrolled growth of slums in Dhaka. Quality 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Bangla- Enhancement Review completed on 28 May 2014. Environmental desh Power Development Board, WAPDA Building, Motijeel C/A, Assessment Category B. Project: P130710. US$ 80.0 (IDA Credit). Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 956-2154, Fax: (880-2) 956-4765 Consultants will be required. National Housing Authority, Bangla- desh, Tel: (880-02) 951-1029, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development Kamal Uddin Talukder, Project Director II (RERED II) Additional Financing:The objective is to increase Enabling Open Government:The objectives are to: (a) support access to clean energy in rural areas through renewable energy. Bank improved transparency and responsiveness in public sector man- Approval completed on 19 June 2014. Environmental Assessment agement; and (b) enhanced financial resource mobilization to help Category B. Project: P150001. US$ 48.4/30.0/15.0 (IDA Credit/ ensure the delivery of quality services to people. Bank Approval IDA Grant/GPBA). Consultants will be required. Power Cell, Level completed on 9 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. 10, Biddut Bhaban, 1 Abdul Ghani Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: Project: P129770. US$ 60.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be re- (880-2) 955-6040, Fax: (880-2) 957-2097, 955-4664, E-mail: dg@ quired. Cabinet Division, Paribahan Pool Bhaban, Room 802, Dhaka, powercell.gov.bd, Contact: Mr. Mohammad Hossain, Director Gen- Bangladesh, Tel: (88-02) 836-0635, Fax: (88-02) 831-6143, E-mail: eral. Infrastructure Development Company Limited, UTC Building, [email protected], Contact: Mr. Nazrul Islam, Secretariat 16th Floor, 8 Panthapath, Kawran Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 910-2171, Fax: (880-2) 811-6663, E-mail: [email protected], Transportation Contact: Mr. Mahmood Malik, Executive Director and CEO Dhaka Transport Development Project:The objective is to improve the urban passenger transport system in Dhaka, especially Finance in terms of quality of service, affordability, safety, and environmen- Financial Sector Support Project:The objective of the project tal impact. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 July is to improve financial sector infrastructure, regulatory capacity 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 250.0 (IDA of Bangladesh Bank and access to long term financing for firms in Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Bangladesh. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 6 August determined. 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P150938. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Bangadesh Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Bank, Bangladesh Bank Head Office, Motijheel C/A, Dhaka, Bangla- (R) Multipurpose Disaster Shelter Phase II (Cr. 55610-BD): desh, Tel: (880-2) 712-6101, Fax: (880-2) 955-0452, E-mail: ahsan. The objective is to reduce the vulnerability of the coastal population [email protected]; [email protected] to natural disasters across selected coastal districts of Bangladesh. Bank Approval completed on 16 December 2014. Environmental Health and Other Social Services Assessment Category B. Project: P146464. US$ 375.0 (IDA Credit). Conditional Cash Transfer Project:The objective is to provide Consultants will be required. Local Government Engineering De- income support to the poorest mothers in selected Upazilas, while partment (LGED), Agargaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 811- (i) increasing the mothers’ use of child nutrition and cognitive devel- 6817, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Md. Rafiqul Islam, opment services, and (ii) enhancing local level government capacity Project Director to deliver safety nets. Negotiations completed on 30 October 2014. Community Climate Change:The objective is to enhance the Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P146520. US$ 300.0 capacity of selected communities to increase their resilience to the (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Local Government Divi- impacts of climate change. First Grant Funding Request Approval sion, Bangadesh Secretariat, Abdul Gani Road, Bangladesh, Tel: completed on 31 December 2012. Environmental Assessment Cat- PAGE 40 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 egory B. Project: P125447. US$ 12.5 (BDCC). Consulting services to 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132623. be determined. Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), E-4/B, US$ 8.0 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Rural Agargaon Administrative Area, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangla- Development, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2338-2313, E-mail: desh, Tel: (880-2) 914-0056, Fax: (880-2) 912-6244, E-mail: pksf@ [email protected], Contact: T. Vijay Kumar, Additional Secretary pksf-bd.org, Contact: Dr. Quazi Mesbahuddin Ahmed, Managing and Mission Director Director Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth:The objective is River Bank Improvement Program:The objective is to reduce to enable the existing institutional platforms to achieve inclusive the erosion of riparian land at selected locations on the bank of the growth by: (a) expanding and diversifying livelihood opportunities; Brahmaputra River by the construction and maintenance of im- (b) improving livelihood development; and (c) promoting human proved river-bank protection works. Project Concept Review Meet- development with focus on health and nutrition services and entitle- ing completed on 12 November 2014. Environmental Assessment ments for the poorest households. Negotiations completed on 19 Category A. Project: P149734. US$ 500.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. P143608. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. SERP, Hyderabad, India, Tel: (91-40) 2329-8469, Fax: (91-40) 2321-1848, Bhutan E-mail: [email protected], Contact: B. Rajsekhar, CEO Public Administration, Law, and Justice National Agricultural Higher Education Project:The objec- (N) BT Second Development Policy Credit (DPC) Series:The tives are to: (a) achieve excellence and enhance development and objectives are to promote fiscal discipline and private sector growth efficiency in the agriculture education system; and (b) strengthen the in Bhutan. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 27 June capacity of agricultural universities to benefit farmers, rural women 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P147806. US$ and other stakeholders. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) 82.5 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. to be determined. Neeranchal National Watershed:The objective is to improve India the incremental conservation outcomes and agricultural yields for communities in selected project areas, and adoption of improved Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry processes and technologies into the broader IWMP in participating (R) Himachal Pradesh Horticulture Development Project: project states. Bank Approval completed on 17 July 2014. Environ- The objective is to focus on high value horticulture crops with specific mental Assessment Category B. Project: P132739. US$ 178.5 (IDA emphasis on productivity improvement, establishing market link- Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Rural Development, ages and value addition through efficient post-harvest management New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2306-2454, Fax: (91-11) 2306-3568, and processing. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 19 Contact: Dr. Sandeep Dave, Joint Secretary IWMP and Project Di- December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: rector (Neeranchal) P151744. US$ 135.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be deter- Second Development Policy Loan to Support Inclusive mined. Himachal Pradesh HPMC, India, Tel: (91-177) 262 3835, Green Growth and Sustainable Development in Himachal E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Jagdish Sharma Pradesh:The objectives are to: (a) support Himachal Pradesh in (R) IN Integrated Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Man- the improved management of its natural resources across growth agement Approaches:The objective is to invest in preventing engines of the economy; and (b) promote inclusive green growth land degradation and desertification by addressing the key sector and sustainable development. Bank Approval completed on 16 May challenges of low capacity in monitoring land degradation, difficulty 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P143032. US$ in scaling up Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Management (SLEM). 100.0 (CCTF). Consultants will be required. Government of Himachal Decision Meeting completed on 18 November 2014. Environmental Pradesh, Room No. E-201B, Armsdale HP Secretariat, Shimla, India, Assessment Category B. US$ 4.6 (GEFU). Consultants will be re- Tel: (91-177) 262-1022, 288-0714, Fax: (91-177) 262-1813, E-mail: quired. Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Indira [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Parayavaran Bhawan, Aliganj, Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi, India, Tel: UP Sodic Lands Reclamation III Project Additional Financ- (91-11) 2436-1727; ICFRE, Ministry of Environment and Forests, PO ing:The objective is to sustainably reclaim additional ravine lands New Forest, Dehradun, India Tel/Fax: (91-135) 275-0693, E-mail: within the umbrella on the on-going UPSLRPIII project. This will [email protected], Contact: Mr. Saibal Dasgupta enable the sustainable reclamation of ravine lands leading to an (R) India Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project increase in agricultural productivity for a majority of who are likely (Cr. 55760-IN):The objective is to enable selected poor house- to be small and marginal farmers. Decision Meeting completed on 14 holds to enhance agricultural incomes and secure increased access November 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 84.0 to human development services and social entitlements. Bank Ap- (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to proval completed on 19 December 2014. Environmental Assessment be determined. Category B. Project: P152210. US$ 75.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty, 4th floor, Education Hermitage office complex, Hill Fort Road, Hyderabad, India, Tel: Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness through ICT in Bihar: (91-04) 2329-8469, Fax: (91-020) 2321-1848, E-mail: brajsekhar@ The objective is to increase access to quality teacher education and gmail.com, Contact: B. Rajsekhar, CEO continuous professional development for improved teacher perfor- (R) Integrated Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem mance and accountability. Negotiations completed on 1 December Services Improvement:The objectives are to: (a) strengthen 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132665. institutional capacities for conservation of globally significant bio- US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Department diversity; and (b) enhanced carbon sequestration and sustainable of Education, Government of Bihar, Tel: (91-612) 221-7016, E-mail: flow of ecosystem services in production forests of central Indian [email protected], Contact: R.K. Mahajan, Principal Secretary highlands and Western Ghats hotspot. Decision Meeting completed Madhya Pradesh Higher Education Reforms Project:The on 18 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ objective is to improve the effectiveness of higher education in order 24.6 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment, to improve quality, access and equity. Project Concept Review Meet- Forests and Climate Change, Indira Parayavaran Bhawan, Aliganj, ing completed on 20 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2436-1727, Contact: B. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Dr. B.M.S. Rathore agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to Climate Change:The objective is improve adaptive capacity of the rural Energy and Mining poor engaged in farm based livelihoods to cope with climate vari- (R) Establish Pilots for Access through Renewable Energy: ability and change. Board Approval completed on 9 December The objective is to demonstrate renewable energy based decentralised DECEMBER 2014 South Asia Region PAGE 41 models of improving energy access in target states of UP and Bihar Health and Other Social Services area. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 26 February (R) Nagaland Multisectoral Health Initiative:The objective is 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144678. US$ to improve the supply, utilization and quality of health and nutrition 14.0/14.0 (GEFU/ZPCO). Consulting services and implementing services in Nagaland through investments in several sectors. Ap- agency(ies) to be determined. praisal completed on 15 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Jharkhand Power Sector:The objectives are to: (a) green the Category B. Project: P149340. US$ 48.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting energy mix of DVC through increase in grid connected solar energy services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. generation; and (b) improve power system reliability and efficiency Enhancing Socioeconomic Empowerment of Adolescent by modernizing and improving operation of DVC’s grid network. Girls:The objective is to improve education, empowerment and Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 15 May 2014. En- employment of targeted adolescent girls and young women (age 11- vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147818. US$ 243.0 24 years) in Jharkhand, and to test models for promoting their socio (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Damodar Valley Cor- - economic empowerment. Environmental Assessment Category poration (DVC), DVC Towers, VIP Road, Kolkata, India, Tel: (91-33) B. US$ 62.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing 2355-7935, Fax: (91-33) 2355-1252, E-mail: debabrata.pattanayak@ agency(ies) to be determined. dvc.gov.in, Contact: Debabrata Pattanayak Uttarakhand Health Systems Development Project Phase North Eastern Region Power System Improvement:The II:The objectives are to assist the state of Uttarakhand operational- objective is to improve the availability and reliability of electricity ize the State Health and Population Policy and attain health-related supply through expansion and reinforcement of power systems in goals laid down by the central and state government. Appraisal com- the participating states in the North Eastern Region. Project Concept pleted on 2 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Review Meeting completed on 12 June 2012. Environmental Assess- Project: P148531. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and ment Category A. Project: P127974. US$ 425.0 (IBRD). Consulting implementing agency(ies) to be determined. services to be determined. Meghalaya Energy Corporation Limited (MeECL), Lumjingshai, Short Round Road, Shillong, India, Tel: (91- Industry and Trade 364) 259-0289, Fax: (91-364) 259-1174, E-mail: cdsaio@rediffmail. (N) Madhya Pradesh Rural Enterprise and Economic Em- com, Contact: C D Saio, Director (Distribution). Electricity Depart- powerment Project:The objectives are to increase the produc- ment, Manipur, Keisampat, Imphal, India, Tel: (91-385) 245-0050, tivity, profitability and market excess of the rural poor producers Fax: (91-385) 245-1172, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: N by consolidating the gains and capitalize on the current achieve- Dwijen Singh, Superintending Engineer. Assam State Electricity ments. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 108.0 (IDA Board, Bijulee Bhawan, Paltan Bazar, Guwahati, India, Tel: (91-361) Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be 273-9520, Fax: (91-361) 223-7062, E-mail: pmu_aseb@rediffmail. determined. com, Contact: Bikash Paul Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL), Bidyut Bhavan, Banamalipur, Agartala, India, Tel: Information and Communications (91-381) 231-8001, Fax: (91-381) 231-9427, E-mail: cmd.tsecl@redif- (R) India Hydrology III Project:The objective is to improve fmail.com, Contact: K. Chakrabarti, Director (Technical). Power and the data, information and knowledge systems to strengthen water Electricity Department, Mizoram, Ngur-Eng House, Tuikhuahtlang, resources planning, operation and management across India. Project Aizawl, India, Tel: (91-389) 231-1025, Fax: (91-389) 231-1070, E- Concept Review Meeting completed on 20 December 2014. Envi- mail: [email protected], Contact: L. Pachuau, Chief Engineer ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P152698. US$ 370.0 (Distribution) (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Partial Risk Sharing Facility in Energy Efficiency:The objec- be determined. tive is to achieve energy savings by mobilizing the private sector in energy efficiency industries of India. Decision Meeting completed Public Administration, Law, and Justice on 7 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: (R) Strengthening Lok Seva Kendras in Madhya Pradesh: P132620. US$ 25.0 (CIF). Consulting services to be determined. The objective is to improve access to PSGA services by citizens of Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Government of India, Ministry of Power, Madhya Pradesh, and in particular by historically excluded groups. 4th Floor, Sewa Bhawan, R.K, Puram 110-066, India, Tel: (91-11) Appraisal completed on 8 December 2014. Environmental Assess- 2617-8316, Fax: (91-11) 2617-9699 ment Category C. Project: P149182. US$ 35.0 (IBRD). Consultants Partial Risk Sharing Facility in Energy Efficiency and Re- will be required. MP Public Service Management Department newables:The objective is to develop a performance contracting IN Citizen-centric Service Delivery Reform in the North- industry in energy efficiency and renewable industry in India, using east:The objective is to create of a citizen-centric service delivery innovative financial product. Negotiations completed on 13 Novem- system in the states of Assam and Mizoram to improve efficiency, ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P128921. accountability, and access for targeted services in underserved ar- US$ 18.0 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Bureau of Energy eas. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 8 May 2014. Efficiency, Government of India, Ministry of Power, 4th Floor, Sewa Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P150308. US$ 48.8 Bhawan, R.K. Puram 110-066, India, Tel: (91-11) 2617-8316, Fax: (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to (91-11) 2617-9699, Contact: , be determined. Program for Grid-based Solar Sector (PROGRESS) in In- Karnataka Panchayat Strengthening II:The objective is to dia:The objective is to support large-scale solar power generation in improve the effectiveness, responsiveness and accountability of the India. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 15 September rural local governments, in particular, Gram Panchayats, in deliv- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147820. US$ ering public services prioritized by rural people. Project Concept 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Review Meeting completed on 13 May 2014. Environmental Assess- be determined. ment Category B. Project: P150288. US$ 220.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Finance Uttar Pradesh Pro-poor Tourism Development Project:The MSME Growth Innovation and Inclusive Finance Project: objective is to improve living standards and increase income oppor- The objective is to support the growth of micro-small and medium tunities for the poor population living in/and close to the primary enterprises (MSMEs) through innovative financial products and tourism attractions of the Buddhist Circuit and the Braj-Agra Cor- capacity building. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on ridor. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 17 September 31 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: 2013. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P146936. US$ P151544. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing 210.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to agency(ies) to be determined. be determined. PAGE 42 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

Transportation B. Project: P130544. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and (R) Efficient and Sustainable City Bus Services:The objec- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. tive is to promote a shift to sustainable modes of transport through Kosi Flood Rehabilitation Program Phase II:The objectives a more comprehensive focus on city bus transport. Board Approval are to: (a) increase the State’s agricultural productivity; and (b) en- completed 9 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category hance access to markets and agriculture services in targeted areas B. Project: P132418. US$ 9.2 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. by increasing resilience to floods and droughts and supporting the Ministry of Urban Development, Ground Floor, NBO Building, G- development of rural infrastructure. Environmental Assessment Wing, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2306-2615, Category A. Project: P127725. US$ 250.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting E-mail: [email protected], Contact: I C Sharma, National services to be determined. Government of Bihar, Patna, India, Tel: Project Manager (91-612) 221-7016, Fax: (91-612) 222-3983, E-mail: amarjeetsinha@ (R) IN Second Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (Ln. hotmail.com, Contact: Dr. Amarjeet Sinha 83180-IN):The objectives are to: (a) provide additional rail trans- National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project Additional Fi- port capacity, improved service quality and higher freight throughput nancing:The objective is to reduce the vulnerability of coastal com- on the 393 km Kanpur to Mughal Sarai section of the Eastern rail munities to cyclone and other hydro meteorological hazards. Bank corridor; and (b) develop the institutional capacity of DFCCIL to Approval completed on 8 April 2014. Environmental Assessment build and maintain the DFC infrastructure network. The loan was Category A. Project: P148870. US$ 104.0 (IDA Grant). Consultants signed on 11 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. will be required. Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OS- Project: P131765. US$ 1100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. DMA), Rajiv Bhawan, Unit -5, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751001, India, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited, Metro Tel: (91-0674) 239-5398, Fax: (91-0674) 239-1871, E-mail: mdos- Station Building Complex, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 2345-4601, [email protected], Contact: Rajiv Bhawan E-mail: [email protected], Contact: R.K. Gupta, Managing Director, National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project Second:The objec- DFCCIL tive is to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities in project (R) Second Tamil Nadu Road Sector Project:The objective is states to cyclone and other hydro meteorological hazards. Appraisal to increase road capacity, enhance quality of maintenance, improve completed on 29 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- safety and support institutional development of the Tamil Nadu’s egory A. Project: P144726. US$ 290.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting core road network (CRN) of state highways. Appraisal completed on services to be determined. Department of Relief and Rehabilita- 15 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: tion, Government of Maharashtra, Maharashtra, India, Tel: (91-22) P143751. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. 2202-5274; Kerala Department of Revenue, Tel: (91-471) 232-2330; Government of Tamil Nadu, TNHB Complex, 2nd Floor, 48, Dr. Gujarat State Disaster Management Agency, Ahmedabad, Tel: (92- Muthulakshmi Salai, Adyar, Chennai, India, Tel: (91-44) 2495-4360, 79) 2325-9220; Department of Disaster Management, Government Fax: (91-44) 2446-4414, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. P. of West Bengal, Tel: (92-33) 221-43678 Umanath, Project Director Punjab Rural Water and Sanitation Sector Improvement Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor-3:The objectives are to: (a) Program:The objective is to improve access to quality and sustain- provide additional rail transport capacity, improved service quality able services and improve the capacity of GoP’s sector institutions in and higher freight throughout on sections of the Eastern Rail Cor- planning, implementation and monitoring of its rural water supply ridor; and (b) develop further institutional capacity of DFCCIL to and sanitation program in partnership with communities. Prepara- build and maintain the DFC infrastructure network. Project Concept tion completed on 15 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Review Meeting completed on 16 October 2014. Environmental As- B. Project: P150520. US$ 248.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and sessment Category A. US$ 728.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be implementing agency(ies) to be determined. determined. DFCCIL, India, Tel: 23370602, E-mail: ajaykumar@ Tamil Nadu Sustainable Urban Development Program:The dfcc.co.in, Contact: RK Gupta, Managing Director objectives to: (a) pilot urban management reforms in Tamil Nadu; National Waterways Development Project:The objective is and (b) improve urban services in participating Urban Local Bodies to facilitate all weather navigability in selected section of National (ULBs) in a financially sustainable manner. Project Concept Review Waterway 1 and to undertake market development and technical Meeting completed on 21 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- feasibility studies to explore the transport development potential for egory A. Project: P150395. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services National Waterway 5. Awaiting request from the Government of In- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. dia. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Con- Uttar Pradesh Urban Solid Waste Management Project:The sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. objective is to improve solid waste management in Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Core Road Network Development Program: by: (a) investments in efficient and effective waste collection; and The objectives are to: (a) improve quality, safety and sustainability of (b) cost recovery systems and sustainable outsourcing for waste targeted state highway corridors; and (b) introduce better asset man- transfer, processing, and disposal facilities. Environmental Assess- agement practices. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on ment Category A. US$ 280.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. 21 November 2013. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. P147864. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Maldives Energy and Mining Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Accelerating Sustainable Private Investment in Renew- (R) IN Swachh Bharat Mission Support Program:The objec- able Energy (ASPIRE) Project:The objective is to scale-up re- tive is to support the National Rural Sanitation Program (Swachh newable energy investments by encouraging and facilitating private Bharat Mission - Gramin) in achieving universal access and sus- investments in the sector through the introduction of risk mitigation taining ODF status in rural areas of selected states; and strengthen facilities and other incentive programs. Board Approval approval systems and institutions to deliver the Swachh Bharat Mission’s completed on 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category goals. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 18 Decem- B. Project: P145482. US$ 11.7/16.0 (CSCF/GUID). Consulting ser- ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 500.0 (IDA vices to be determined. Ministry of Environment Energy and Water Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be (Environment Research Center), Maldives determined. IN Karnataka Urban Water Supply Modernization:The ob- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection jective is to improve service quality to 24/7 across the project cities of (N) Maldives Environmental Management Project Addi- Belgaum, Gulbarga and Hubli-Dharwad through the establishment of tional Financing:The objective is to provide the Republic of Mal- sustainable service delivery arrangements at ULB level. Preparation dives with the capacity to effectively manage environmental risks and completed on 9 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category threats to fragile coral reefs as well as marine habitats resulting from DECEMBER 2014 South Asia Region PAGE 43 tourism development, increased solid waste disposal, fisheries and towards Universal Health Coverage and improving efficiency of key global climate change. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ health functions at the Ministry of Health and Population. Project 3.3 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Concept Review Meeting completed on 3 October 2014. Environ- to be determined. mental Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0/30.0/80.0/800.0 (IDA Credit/AUSL/DFID/ZBIL). Consulting services to be determined. Nepal Ministry of Health and Population, Ramshah Path, Nepal, Tel: (977- Education 1) 426-2862, Fax: (977-1) 426-2896 (R) Higher Education Reforms Project:The objectives are to: Transportation (a) support reforms in selected institutions for improving quality, Road Safety Support Project:The objective is to reduce the risk relevance, and efficiency of higher education; and (b) assist under- of vehicles exiting the road surface in selected sections of RSDP roads privileged students for equitable access. Appraisal completed on 30 and to strengthen the Government of Nepal’s capacity for improving September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: road safety. First Grant Funding Request Approval compelted on 10 P147010. US$ 65.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: menting agency(ies) to be determined. P149606. US$ 7.5 (GRSP). Consulting services and implementing School Sector Reform Program Additional Financing:The agency(ies) to be determined. objective is to increase access to and improve quality of school educa- tion, particularly basic education (grade 1 - 8), especially for children Pakistan from marginalized groups. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 59.3 (EFAF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry to be determined. (R) Sindh Water Sector Improvement Additional Financ- ing:The objective is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Energy and Mining irrigation water distribution in three AWBs (Ghotki, Nara and Left (R) Grid-Connected Solar and Energy Efficiency (Cr. Bank canals), particularly the measures of reliability, equity and user 55660-NP):The objectives are to: (a) increase electricity supply to satisfaction. Bank Approval completed on 16 December 2014. Envi- users connected to NEA’s grid; and (b) reduce NEA’s distribution ronmental Assessment Category A. Project: P131325. US$ 138.0 (IDA system losses in pilot project areas. Bank Approval completed on Credit). Consultants will be required. Sindh Irrigation and Drainage 22 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Authority (SIDA), Hyderabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-301) 837-8787, E- P146344. US$ 130.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. mail: [email protected], Contact: Junejo Zahid Hussain Nepal Electricity Authority, Durbar Marg, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: Sindh Barrages Improvement Phase I Project:The objective (977-1) 415 3007, Fax: (977-1) 415-3067, E-mail: [email protected]. is to help secure Gudu barrage, one of the major water diversion np, Contact: Arjun Karki, Managing Director structures in Sindh. Project Concept Note completed on 24 January (R) Hydropower Development Project (HDP):The objective 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P131324. US$ is to support capacity development and analytical work in order to 160.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Govern- ensure the Nepal energy sector is adequately prepared to deliver the ment of Punjab, Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, Tel: (92-42) 910-003, upcoming large-scale private and public hydropower investments in Fax: (92-42) 921-2116 an environmentally, socially, economically and financially sustain- Sindh On-Farm Water and Agriculture Productivity En- able manner. Decision Meeting completed on 15 December 2014. hancement Program:The objective is to improve water productiv- Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Con- ity in irrigated agriculture resulting in increased agricultural output sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. per unit of water used. Appraisal completed on 14 August 2014. (R) Scaling-up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 199.3 (IDA Credit). Con- Countries (SREP) Supported Extended Biogas Project:The sulting services to be determined. Agriculture Department, Ground objective is to promote market-led approaches to commercially vi- Floor, Tughlaq House, Karachi, Pakistan, Tel: (92-219) 921-1462 able off-grid biogas energy generation from organic waste, through better management of waste, and public-private partnership. Sign- Education ing completed on 24 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Global Partnership for Education Balochistan Education Category B. Project: P131592. US$ 7.9 (CSCF). Consulting services Project:The objective is to increase school enrollment and retention to be determined. Alternative Energy Promotion Center, Khumaltar in project supported schools, witha special focus on girls’ participa- Heights, Lalitpur Sub Metropol, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) tion, and to develop mechanisms for information collection and use 425-9820, Fax: (977-1) 553-9392, E-mail: goving.pokharel@aepc. for improved management of education. Appraisal completed on gov.np, Contact: Mr. Samir Thapa, Assistant Director 26 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144454. US$ 34.0 (EFAS). Consulting services to be determined. Business Models for Private Sector-Led Off-Grid Energy Secondary Education Department of Balochistan, Civil Secretariat, Access Project:The objective is to support the development of a Pakistan, Tel: (92-81) 920-1622, E-mail: [email protected], Con- local market for private-sector led off-grid energy provision using the tact: Ghulam Ali Baloch, Secretary Education innovative and renewable energy based ‘Anchor-Business-Commu- nity (A-B-C)’ business model. Environmental Assessment Category B. Punjab Skills Development:The objective is to support the US$ 8.0 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Government of Punjab in improving their training programs. En- to be determined. vironmental Assessment Category C. Project: P130193. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Finance be determined. Financial sector stability DPC2:The objective is a continuation Sindh Global Partnership for Education Project:The objec- to support the Government of Nepal’s medium terms program to en- tive is to improve access to quality education through strengthening sure the stability of the financial sector and to address the short and the capacity for evidence-based planning and accountability. Ap- medium term vulnerabilities in the sector. Project Concept Review praisal completed on 10 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Meeting completed on 24 February 2014. Environmental Assess- Category C. Project: P146451. US$ 66.0 (EFAS). Consulting services ment Category U. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and to be determined. Education and Literacy Department, Government implementing agency(ies) to be determined. of Sindh, 1st Floor, Tughlaq House, Civil Secretariat, Karachi, Paki- stan, Tel: (92-21) 9921-1227, Fax: (92-21) 9921-1240, E-mail: sec. Public Administration, Law, and Justice [email protected] Health Sector Support: Towards Universal Health Cover- age (UHC):The objective is to enhance the availability of quality Energy and Mining health services and financial protection to the poorest 40 percent of IDA Partial Credit Guarantee for Dasu Hydropower Phase- the population by supporting the Government of Nepal in moving I Project:The objectives are to (a) facilitate the expansion of elec- PAGE 44 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 tricity supply of hydro-power in Pakistan; (b) improve access to from year round improved access and mobility through reconstruc- socio-economic services for local communities in the project area; tion of priority damaged roads and bridges in the conflict hit areas. and (c) build Water and Power Development Authority’s (WAPDA) Bank Approval completed on 21 April 2014. Environmental As- capacity to develop Pakistan’s vast hydropower potential. Board sessment Category B. Project: P149311. US$ 9.0 (PKNF). Consult- Approval completed on 10 June 2014. Environmental Assessment ing services to be determined. Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority Category A. US$ 460.0 (GUID). Consulting services and implement- (PkHA), Peshawar, Pakistan, Tel: (92-91) 921-3927, Fax: (92-91) ing agency(ies) to be determined. 921-1657, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Aslam Khan, Power Sector Reform: Second Development Policy Credit: Project Director The objectives are to: (a) reduce subsidies and improving tariff policy; (b) improve sector performance and open the market to private par- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection ticipation; and (c) ensure accountability and transparency. Environ- (N) Disaster Resilience Improvement Project:The objective mental Assessment Category U. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting is to build resilience in Punjab to natural disasters, as well as support services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. the Government in responding to the floods of 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 125.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services Health and Other Social Services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. CASA: 100 Community Support Program:The objective is to support local development through improved access to social Regional services and infrastructure forcommunities living in the Corridor of Energy and Mining Impact of CASA 1000 Transmission Line, thereby generating local Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade support for the construction and long term operation of CASA 1000 Project (CASA-1000):The objective is to create the conditions for Transmission Line Project. Environmental Assessment Category sustainable electricity trade between the Central Asian countries of B. US$ 10.0 (CASA). Consultants will be required. Implementing Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Republic and the South Asian countries of agency(ies) to be determined. Afghanistan and Pakistan. Bank Approval completed on 27 March Immunization Support:The objective is to improve the coverage, 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P145054. efficiency and quality of immunization services in Pakistan. Project US$ 158.3/368.3/40.0/15.0/250.0/31.0 (IDA Credit/IDA Grant/ Concept Review Meeting completed on 14 November 2012. Environ- ARTF/GUSA/ISDB/ZBIL). Consultants will be required. National mental Assessment Category B. Project: P132308. US$ 50.0 (IDA Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC), WAPDA House, Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Expanded Program Room 414, Lahore, Pakistan, Tel: (92-42) 9920-2229, Fax: (92-42) on Immunization, Ministry of Interprovincial Coordination, Cabinet 9920-2053, Contact: Mr. Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Managing Division, PM Secretariat, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 920-3248, Fax: (92- Director. Barki Tajik, 64, I.Somoni Street, 734026, Dushanbe, Ta- 51) 920-7760, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Anisul jikistan, Tel: (992-372) 358-766, Fax: (992-372) 358-694, E-mail: Hasnain Musavi, Secretary [email protected], Contact: Mr. Ali Nazarov, Chairman. National Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Federally Administered Electric Grid of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996-31) 266-1001, Tribal Areas (FATA) Emergency Recovery Credit:The objec- E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Medetbek Aitkulov, nesk@elcat. tive is to assist the Government of Pakistan/KP/FATA restore social kg. Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, Afghanistan, Tel: (93-700) protection through income transfers and cash for work opportunities 294-722, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Eng. Shekeeb to the most affected households and vulnerable groups in the areas Nessar, Chief Operations Officer affected by military operation against militants and floods. This project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment Public Administration, Law, and Justice Category C. Project: P121394. US$ 250.0/35.0 (IDA Credit/PKNF). (R) Governance Support Project for KP FATA and Balo- Consultants will be required. Provincial Relief Rehabilitation and chistan:The objective is to strengthen the capacity of government Settlement Authority (PaRRSA), Pakistan, Tel: (92-91) 921-3855, departments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), FATA and Balochistan Fax: (92-91) 921-4025, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: to help support efficient delivery of the PCNA program in KP and Shakee Qadir Khan, Director General FATA and related development programs in Balochistan. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 16 December 2014. Environ- Industry and Trade mental Assessment Category C. US$ 4.0 (TF). Consulting services Punjab Agricultural Competitiveness:The objective is to im- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. prove agriculture productivity, value addition and marketing. This project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Category C. US$ 155.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- South Asia Disaster Preparedness and Resilience Project: menting agency(ies) to be determined. The objective is to strengthen disaster related early warning systems and climate services. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Public Administration, Law, and Justice 55.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) PK Fiscally Sustainable and Inclusive Growth DPCII:The to be determined. objective is to support Pakistan’s fiscally sustainable and inclusive growth enhancing reforms. Environmental Assessment Category Sri Lanka U. US$ 300.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Education Sindh Governance Project:The objective is to support the Gov- (R) Laying the Foundation for ECD:The objective is to enhance ernment to improve efficiency and expansion of public resources equitable access to and quality of early childhood development (ECD) through the enhancement of tax administration and compliance, services in Sri Lanka. Project Concept Review Meeting completed budget credibility, transparency, and budget execution. Negotia- on 10 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ tions completed on 25 November 2014. Environmental Assessment 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Category C. Project: P145617. US$ 50.0/12.0 (IDA Credit/ECEU). to be determined. Consultants will be required. Finance Department, Government Skills Development Project:The objective is to support the Gov- of Sindh, Sindh Secretariat No. 1, Karachi, Pakistan, Tel: (92-21) ernment of Sri Lanka to improve the quality and relevance of the 9922-2102, Fax: (92-21) 9922-2105, E-mail: rajputsohail@yahoo. skills development sector. Bank Approval completed on 20 June com, Contact: Sohail Rajput 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132698. US$ 101.5/100.0/26.0/17.0 (IDA Credit/ASDB/GKOR/GTZ). Consultants Transportation will be required. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development, MDTF KP Emergency Roads Recovery Project:The objective Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tel: (941-12) 597-803, E-mail: sec@youthskills- is to enable the population along the MDTF KP corridor to benefit min.gov.lk, Contact: Mr. B. Wijayaratne, Secretary DECEMBER 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 45

Public Administration, Law, and Justice land degradation and sediment runoff, while increasing carbon se- Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option (DDO):The objec- questration and biodiversity benefits. Signing completed on 25 July tive is to enhance the Government’s capacity to quickly mobilize 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 2.9 (GEFU). resources in the event of a natural disaster on the condition of an Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment, Forestry adequate ex-ante macroeconomic environment and the maintenance and Water Administration, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355-4) 222-4537, of a satisfactory disaster risk management framework. Signing com- Fax: (355-4) 227-0627, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr pleted on 10 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ Lefter Koka, Minister 102.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance and Health and Other Social Services Planning, The Secretariat, Colomobo, Sri Lanka, Tel: 94112484510, Fax: 94112433349, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Malanie Health System Improvement:The objective is to improve the Gamage, Permanent Secretary efficiency of care in selected hospitals in Albania, improving the management of information in the health system, and increasing North East Local Services Improvement Project Additional financial access to health services. Appraisal completed on 10 Novem- Financing:The objective is to support local authorities in the North- ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144688. ern and Eastern Provinces and Adjoining Provinces to deliver services US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry and local infrastructure in a responsive and accountable manner. of Health, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355-42) 364-622, Contact: Milva Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 17 November 2014. Ekonomi, Deputy Minister Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Con- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Transportation (R) Citizen-centered public services:The objective is to support Transport Connectivity:The objective is to provide lower costs of the Government of Albania under take a comprehensive reform to transport by: (a) reducing congestion and improving road condition; improve the efficiency of public sector services through moderniza- and (b) providing better connectivity of inter-urban transport. The tion and innovation. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ project supports the overall strategy of developing public transport 32.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to and managing motorization. Project Concept Review Meeting com- be determined. pleted on 4 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Integrated Land Management:The objectives include: (a) US$ 125.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry completing property registration and enhancing data quality; (b) of Irrigation and Water Resources Management, 11 Jawatte Road, engaging the government in National Land Policy dialogue; and (c) Colombo 05, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-11) 268 4710, Fax: (94-11) 2676846, integrating existing IT system with the government’s wider e-Gover- E-mail: [email protected] nance agenda and formulating a national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) strategy. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 45.0 Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to Dam Safety WRP Additional Financing:The objectives are to: be determined. (a) establish long-term sustainable arrangements for operation and maintenance (O&M) of large dams; and (b) improve water resources Transportation planning. Bank Approval completed on 5 May 2014. Environmental (R) Results-based Road Maintenance and Safety:The objec- Assessment Category B. Project: P148595. US$ 83.0 (IDA Credit). tive is to support the Government of Albania to improve safety of the No consultants are required. Ministry of Irrigation and Water Re- national road network through implementing the Albania National sources Management, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-11) 267-5315, Fax: (94-11) Transport Plan and Road Safety Action Plan by introducing and 269-1163, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Malanie Gamage, efficiently using a road asset management system and road safety Permanent Secretary principles and audits. Appraisal completed on 18 December 2014. Integrated Urban Rural Water Supply Project:The objective is Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132982. US$ 80.0 to increase access to sustainable piped water services and sanitation, (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Public and to improve hygiene behavior, in selected Districts in the coun- Works and Transport, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355-4) 225-6091 try. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147827. US$ 143.0 Armenia (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Energy and Mining be determined. (R) Armenia Geothermal Power:The objective is to confirm geothermal resource at the Karkar site. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 22 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 8.7 (CSCF). Consulting services to be determined. Renewable Resources and Energy Efficiency Fund, 32, Proshyan Europe and Central Asia Street 1 lane, Armenia, Tel: (374-10) 588-011, Fax: (37410) 541-732, E-mail: [email protected] Albania Electricity Transmission Network Improvement:The ob- jective is to rehabilitate critical substations and construct new Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry transmission line sections to improve electricity supply reliability. Environmental Services:The objective is to to support sustain- Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 29 October 2014. able land management practices and increase communities’ mon- Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146199. US$ 50.0 etary and non-monetary benefits, in targeted Project areas which (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. High Voltage Electric are mainly in erosion prone rural upland areas. First Grant Funding Networks; Yerevan TPP Request Approval completed on 6 May 2014. Environmental Assess- ment Category B. Project: P150450. US$ 10.6 (FSCO). Consulting Health and Other Social Services services to be determined. Ministry of Environment, Rr. Durresit, No. (R) Second Social Protection Administration Project (Cr. 27, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355-4) 225-9900, Fax: (355-4) 270-624, 53980-AM):The objectives are to: (a) improve social protection E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Ms. Adriana Sokoli, service delivery; and (b) strengthen analytical and monitoring and Director evaluation functions of the agencies delivering social protection Environmental Services--GEF:The objective is a continuation benefits and services. The credit was signed on 23 May 2014. En- to extend of environmentally, socially, economically and financially vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146318. US$ 21.2 sustainable community based natural resource management plan- (IDA Credit). No consultants are required. Ministry of Labor and ning and implementation, in erosion prone upland areas, reversing Social Issues, Government Building 3, Republic Square, Yerevan, Tel: PAGE 46 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

(374-10) 526-831, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Artem Asatryan, Education Minster of Labor and Social Issues Tertiary Education Project:The objectives are to: (a) improve (R) Social Investment and Local Development Project: the tertiary education system; (b) improve tertiary education institu- The objective is to improve quality and use of and access to com- tions; and (c) project management and monitoring and evaluation. munity and inter-community infrastructure. Appraisal completed on Decision Meeting completed on 21 November 2014. Environmental 3 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Assessment Category B. Project: P148539. US$ 33.0 (IBRD). Con- P148836. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing sultants will be required. Ministry of Education, 49 Khatai Prospekt, agency(ies) to be determined. Baku AZ1008, Azerbaijan, Tel: (994-12) 496-2242, Fax: (994-12) 496-9368, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Elvin Rustamov, Industry and Trade Director Third Development Policy Operation:Support more resilient growth and job creation through strengthening competitiveness and Health and Other Social Services enhancing fiscal, social, and environmental sustainability. Environ- Second Health Sector Reform Project:The objective is to im- mental Assessment Category U. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will prove quality and availability of health-care services and strengthen be required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. the capacity of the health authorities to manage the system (stew- ardship). Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Public Administration, Law, and Justice Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health, 4 Kicik (R) Education (Ln. 83420-AM, Cr. 53870-AM):The objec- Deniz St. Azerbaijan, Tel: (994-12) 493-2977, E-mail: sabdul- tives are to (a) improve school readiness of children entering pri- [email protected] mary education, improve physical conditions and the availability of educational resources in upper secondary schools; and (b) support Public Administration, Law, and Justice improved quality and relevance in higher education institutions in State Agency on Service to Citizens and Social Innovation: Armenia. The loan and credit were signed on 23 May 2014. Envi- The objective is to assist the Government to explore cooperation and ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P130182. US$ 15.0/15.0 pilot innovative approaches to delivery and finance of public services. (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Project Implemen- Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting tation Unit (PIU), 73 Vratsyan Street, 0070 Yerevan, Armenia, Tel: services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (374-10) 575-690, Fax: (374-10) 559-750, E-mail: cfep@arminco. com, Contact: Hasmik Ghazaryan, Director Transportation (R) Third Public Sector Modernization Project (PSMP): Fourth Highway:The objectives are to: (a) support the improve- The objective is a continuation to reinforce and expand the Govern- ment of the main road network to improve Azerbaijan competitive- ment of Armenia’s public sector reform agenda. Project Concept ness by strengthening the inter-country linkages; and (b) provide Review Meeting completed on 19 November 2014. Environmental greater export market access, and build Azerbaijan’s role as a re- Assessment Category C. US$ 21.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and gional transit corridor. Appraisal completed on 3 October 2014. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P122200. US$ 250.0 Second Development Policy Operation:The objective is to (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Azer Road Service, support more resilient growth and job creation through a re-orien- 72/4, Uzeyir Hajibeyov Street, AZ1010, Baku, Azerbaijan, Tel: (994- tation of the economy toward industry and exports. Bank Approval 12) 493-0045, Fax: (994-12) 493-4665, E-mail: [email protected], completed on 12 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Contact: Mr. Javid Gurbanov, Chief of AzerRoadService OJC egory U. Project: P143040. US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be Second Rural Investment Additional Financing:The objec- required. Contact: , tive is to improve access to and use of community-driven rural in- frastructure, expand economic activities for rural households, and Transportation improve the economic and social well-being of rural communities Lifeline Road Network Improvement Additional Financing: in selected areas through upgrading of local road networks. Bank The objective is to improve access of rural communities to markets Approval completed on 9 July 2014. Environmental Assessment and services through upgrading of selected lifeline roads, and to Category B. Project: P147861. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Transport and Communica- be required. AZRIP PMU in State Agency on Agricultural Credit, 40 tion to manage the lifeline road network. Environmental Assessment U. Hadjibekov Street, Government House, 8th Floor Room 801, AZ Category B. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. 1016 Baku, Azerbaijan Tel/Fax: (994-12) 493-4813, E-mail: subhan@ Ministry of Transportation and Communication, 28 Nalbandyan azrip.org, Contact: Soubhan Asgerov, Project Director Street, Yerevan 375010, Armenia, Tel: (374-10) 563-391, Fax: (374- 10) 560-528, E-mail: [email protected] Belarus Local Economy and Tourism Infrastructure Development: Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry The objective is to improve infrastructure services and institutional (N) Forestry Development Project:The objective is to enhance capacity to support increased contribution of tourism in the local silvicultural management and re/afforestation, increase the use of economy of the South Tourism Corridor Regions. Environmental felling residues and improve the public good contribution from for- Assessment Category B. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- ests in targeted forest areas. Appraisal completed on 24 November quired for cultural heritage; architectural design of tourism facilities 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 2.7 (GEFU). Con- and urban regeneration; detailed design, feasibility studies; and sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. environmental and social assessments. Foreign Financing Projects Management Center (FFPMC) at the Ministry of Finance, 1, Melik- (R) Forestry Development:The objective is to increase the con- Adamyan Street, Armenia Tel/Fax: (374-10) 523-471, E-mail: info@ tribution from the forest sector to GDP, whilst maintaining and ffpmc.am enhancing environmental and social services provided by the forest sector. Appraisal completed on 15 December 2014. Environmental Azerbaijan Assessment Category B. Project: P147760. US$ 40.7 (IBRD). Consult- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Forestry, 39 Myasnikov Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Str. Minsk, Belarus Water Users Association Development Support Additional Financing:The objective is to improve the effectiveness and finan- Education cial viability of on-farm irrigation water distribution and manage- Education Modernization Project:The objectives are to: (a) ment in the project area. Project Concept Review Meeting completed support the Government’s efficiency reforms by ensuring an ad- on 12 December 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ equate learning environment in general secondary education; and 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Amelioration (b) strengthen the use of information in education system manage- and Irrigation Open Joint Stock Company, Azerbaijan ment. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 16 June 2014. DECEMBER 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 47 Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148181. US$ 50.0 ing completed on 18 December 2014. Environmental Assessment (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing determined. agency(ies) to be determined. Bosnia and Herzegovina Management of Fiscal Resources Industry and Trade for Growth:The objective is to strengthen the efficiency and trans- Fostering Productive Innovations and Improving Com- parency of the management of fiscal resources for boosting growth petitiveness:The objective is to enhance business environment, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Environmental Assessment Category C. promote FDI as well as support innovation and entrepenureship. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consult- to be determined. ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation Transportation Road Improvement and Safety:The objective is to build on (R) Transit Corridor Improvement (Ln. 84590-BY):The ob- earlier bank activities in the road sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina jective is to finance the improvement of the M-6 International Transit by further strengthening the regional integration of the country corridor between Minsk and Grodno to facilitate improved transport through better and safer road access. Environmental Assessment connectivity domestically and on international routes. Negotiations Category A. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing completed on 18 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- agency(ies) to be determined. egory B. Project: P149697. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Ministry of Transport, Belarus, Contact: , Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Second Solid Waste Management Additional Financing: Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection The objective is to improve the availability, quality, environmental Water Supply and Sanitation Additional Financing:The soundness, and financial viability of solid waste management services objectives are to: (a) increase access to the water supply services; in participating utilities/regions. Bank Approval completed on 18 and (b) improve the quality of water supply and wastewater services December 2012. First Grant Funding Request Approval completed in selected urban areas.Signing completed on 8 April 2014. Envi- on 29 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 90.0 (IBRD). Consultants 6.0 (F7U4). Consulting services to be determined. FBiH Ministry will be required. Ministry of Housing and Utilities, Bersona Street, of Environment and Tourism, Marka Marulica 2, 71000 Sarajevo, 16, Minsk, Belarus, Tel: (375-17) 200-1545, Fax: (375-17) 200-8708, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-33) 726-374, Fax: (387-33) 726- E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Anatolyi Shagun, Deputy 747, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Anto Covic, Team Minister Leader. RS Ministry of Spatial Planning, Trg Republike Srpske 1, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-51) 339-504, Bosnia and Herzegovina Fax: (387 51) 339-592, E-mail: [email protected], swmp2@ Finance mgr.vladars.net, Contact: Mr. Sveto Cvijic, Team Leader SEEC Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility APL4:The objec- tive is to help increase access to financial protection from losses Croatia caused by climate change and geological hazards to homeowners, Finance farmers, and the enterprise sector and government agencies. Ap- Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development Partial praisal completed on 27 January 2012. Environmental Assessment Credit Guarantee:The objectives are to support: (a) HBOR’s move Category C. Project: P127788. US$ 2.5 (IBRD). Consultants will towards market-based funding through a Partial Credit Guarantee be required. Europa RE, Weinbergstrasse 56/58, Zurich, Switzer- (PCG); and (b) investment projects in Croatia by providing medium land, Tel: (41-44) 380-5090, Fax: (41-44) 380-5091, E-mail: heinz. and long-term funding. Board Approval completed on 27 June 2013. [email protected], Contact: Mr. Heinz Vollenweider, Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P133471. US$ 256.4 Chairman of the Board (GUAR). Consulting services to be determined. Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Strossmayerov trg 9, 10000 Za- Health and Other Social Services greb, Croatia, Tel: (385-1) 459-1586, Fax: (385-1) 459-1705, E-mail: Bosnia and Herzegovina Health Project:The objective is to [email protected], Contact: B. Berkovic improve the quality and efficiency of secondary and tertiary care. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 22.0 (IBRD). Consulting Health and Other Social Services services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Social System Modernization Project:The objective is to sup- port the Government: (a) rationalize and harmonize the current Industry and Trade system of cash benefits; (b) improve the administration of social Business Environment PforR:The objective is to support the assistance; and (c) support the de-institutionalization of children implementation of key reforms (e.g. in the construction sector and without parental care and of the disabled. Bank Approval com- inspections) as well as supporting a number of critical next steps to pleted on 19 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category help Bosnia’s lagging export sectors (especially agriculture) Envi- B. Project: P145171. US$ 95.6 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting Ministry of Social Protection and Youth, Croatia, Tel: (385-1) 230- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 8746, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Hrvoje Sadaric, Development Policy Loan I:The objective is to support the gov- Assistant Minister ernment in implementing the business climate reforms agenda. Bank Approval completed on 3 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Industry and Trade Category U. Project: P146740. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will Croatia Innovation and Entrepreneurship VC:The objective be required. RS Ministry of Finance, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: is to help foster innovation, entrepreneurship, and private sector (387-51) 339-768, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Abdullah Al growth by increasing the supply of risk capital financing for young Shatter, Deputy Minister for Projects Programming. Federation BiH knowledge intensive SMEs (including start-ups). Project Concept Ministry of Finance, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Contact: Abdullah Al Review Meeting completed on 3 December 2014. Environmental As- Shatter, Deputy Minister for Projects Programming sessment Category F. Project: P152130. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Bosnia and Herzegovina Employment Support Pro- Public Administration, Law, and Justice gram:The project will support active labor market interventions Croatia Excessive Deficit Procedure DPL:The objective is to to expand the coverage and scope and support public employment support structural policy measures to promote fiscal sustainability services and centers for social work to improve their functions to and restore growth after a prolonged recession and Croatia’s entry facilitate entry to the labor market. Project Concept Review Meet- into the EC Excessive Deficit Procedure. Environmental Assessment PAGE 48 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Category U. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- Tel: (995-32) 381-633, Fax: (995-32) 313-052, E-mail: roaddepdal- ing agency(ies) to be determined. [email protected] Transportation Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Railways Sector Improvement:The objective is to support the Supporting Sustainable Wastewater Management:The ob- railway sector improvement through: (a) Sector restructuring; (b) jectives are to: (a) promote sustainable wastewater management capacity building of the administration to oversee the sector; and in Georgia; and (b) pilot implementation of wastewater treatment (c) Select investment in infrastructure Preparation completed on plants, aligned with World Bank safeguards policies and in har- 10 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: monization with the EU legislation. Appraisal completed on 30 P147499. US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure, Prisavlje P145040. US$ 11.5 (SGWM). Consulting services to be determined. 14, Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: (385-) 616-9080, Fax: (385-1) 619-6477, Municipal Development Fund of Georgia, 150 David Agmashenebeli E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Danijel Krakic Ave. Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 243-7001, Fax: (995-32) 243-7077, E- mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Elguja Khokrishvili, Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Executive Director EU Coastal Waters Compliance:The objectives are to: (a) im- Third Regional Development:The objective is to improve infra- prove the quality of water on Croatia’s Adriatic coasts; and (b) fulfill structure services and institutional capacity to support increased con- the EU environmental requirements in a financially and operation- tribution of tourism in the local economy of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti ally sustainable manner. Environmental Assessment Category F. and Samtskhe-Javakheti Regions. Project Concept Review Meeting US$ 205.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Croatian Waters, completed on 20 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Croatia B. Project: P150696. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Georgia Municipal Development Fund, 7b Yetim Gurjy Georgia St. Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 943240, Fax: (995-32) 940439, E-mail: Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry [email protected] (R) Irrigation and Land Market Development (Cr. 54560- GE):The objective is to stimulate private sector investment in agri- Kazakhstan culture by investing in: (a) irrigation and drainage improvement; and Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (b) land market development. The credit was signed on 21 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133828. (R) North Central Water Supply Program:The objectives US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of are to: (a) increase availability of bulk water for productive uses; Agriculture, 6 Marshal Gelovani Street, Tbilisi, 0159, Georgia, Tel: (b) improve the quality of investment planning and preparation (995-32) 237-6689, Fax: (995-32) 237-8013, E-mail: infomoa@moa. for water supply and water security; and (c) enhance institutional gov.ge, Contact: Mr. Ilia Kvitiashvili, Deputy Minister capacity of key institutions responsible for bulk water supply. This project is no longer in the lending program. Further reporting Industry and Trade will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ Innovation and ICT:The objective is to support the Ministry of 800.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Economy and Sustainable Development to further develop innova- to be determined. tion and ICT in the country. Environmental Assessment Category C. Education US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (N) Education Modernization Project:The objective is to improve the quality of teaching and learning in primary and sec- Private Sector Development and Diversification DPL1:The ondary schools. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 objective is to accelerate private sector development and economic (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be diversification in Georgia by: (a) strengthening competition in key determined. product markets; (b) improving the protection of property rights; (c) expanding access to finance; and (d) strengthening firms’ capacity Kazakhstan Skills and Jobs:The objective is to enhance skills to innovate and export. Project Concept Review Meeting completed to meet the needs of a modernizing economy and improve employ- on 8 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: ment outcomes. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 4 P149998. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: agency(ies) to be determined. P150183. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Youth Corps Program:The objective is to promote positive youth Inclusive Growth DPO:The objective is to support inclusive development through service learning opportunities that serve the growth by improving macroeconomic stability and public service community and foster constructive engagement between youth and delivery. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 19 No- society at large. First Grant Funding Request Approval completed vember 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 50.0 on 26 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be P127966. US$ 21.8 (TF). Consulting services to be determined. Min- determined. istry of Education and Science of RK, Tel: (7-7172) 742-335, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Madiyar Kozhakhmet, Direc- Transportation tor of the Youth Policy Department East-West Highway Corridor Improvement:The objective is to reduce transport costs along the East West highway corridor. Energy and Mining Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 5 October 2014. En- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy:The objectives are vironmental Assessment Category A. US$ 140.0 (IBRD). Consulting to: (a) raise awareness about the energy efficiency potential in Ka- services to be determined. Roads Department, 29a Gagarin Street, zakhstan by designing and implementing some sustainable projects Tbilisi, Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 381-633, Fax: (995-32) 313-052, E- for demonstration and awareness of the EE/RE potential; and (b) mail: [email protected] support capacity building of Kazakh counterparts in developing a Secondary and Local Roads II Additional Financing:The sustainable EE/RE framework, design and implementation capacity. objective is to improve local connectivity and travel time for selected First Grant Funding Request completed on 22 May 2013. Environ- secondary and local roads, and to strengthen the capacity of the mental Assessment Category B. Project: P130013. US$ 21.8 (F7VP). Roads Department to manage the road network. Environmental Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Industry and New Assessment Category A. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Technologies, 47 Kabanbai Batyr Avenue, Astana, Kazakhstan, Tel: determined. Roads Department, 29a Gagarin Street, Tbilisi, Georgia, (7-3272) 299-010, Fax: (7-3272) 290-853, E-mail: ta.mukanov@ DECEMBER 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 49 mint.gov.kz. Contact: Mr. Talgat Mukanov, Head of Energy Efficiency (R) Syr Darya Control and Northern Aral Sea Project, Phase Department 2:The objectives are to (a) control flooding, (b) achieve bulk-water savings, and (c) improve water provision for developing aquaculture Finance in the project areas along the Lower Syr Darya. Decision Meeting Kazakhstan: Southeast Europe and Central Asia Catastro- completed on 10 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- phe Risk Insurance Facility:The objective is to assist Kazakhstan egory B. Project: P152001. US$ 107.0 (IBRD). Consulting services with developing modern catastrophe insurance market infrastructure to be determined. CWR, Committee for Water Resources, MOA, that will support the launch of innovative catastrophe insurance Kazakhstan products covering the risks of extreme weather variability. Project Hazardous and POPs Waste Management-GEF:The objective Concept Review Meeting completed on 6 August 2014. Environmen- is to create hazardous waste treatment capacity in compliance with tal Assessment Category C. Project: P152230. US$ 5.5 (GEFU). Con- international environmental standards and to reduce contamination sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. of Kazakhstan’s natural resources and public health risks of exposure Health and Other Social Services to this contamination from selected PCB contaminated sites. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 July 2014. Environmental (R) Support to Social Modernization:Health Insurance:The Assessment Category A. US$ 10.4 (GEFU). Consulting services and objective is to support the introduction of a Public Health Insurance implementing agency(ies) to be determined. System and support further develpment and implementation of criti- cal areas in the health system including: quality control mechanisms, Second Elimination of POP Wastes:The objective is to sup- Health technology assessments and IT support. Project Concept port the development of environmentally sound management of Review Meeting completed on 3 December 2014. Environmental persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with the country’s obligations Assessment Category B. Project: P152625. US$ 90.0 (IBRD). Con- under the Stockholm Convention. Project Concept Review Meeting sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. completed on 24 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 34.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry Industry and Trade of Environmental Protection, 31 Pobedy Ave. Astana, Kazakhstan, Competitiveness and Access to Finance:The objective is to Tel: (7-3172) 591-972, Fax: (7-3172) 591-973, E-mail: a_braliev@ enhance the competitiveness and capacity of targeted small and me- nature.kz dium sized enterprises in Kazakhstan. Decision Meeting completed on 31 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: Kosovo P147705. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry agency(ies) to be determined. Danish Support for Rural Development Grant Program: Fostering Productive Innovation Project:The objective is to The objective is to promote competitiveness and growth in the live- promote high-quality, nationally relevant research and commercial- stock and horticulture sub-sectors over the next decade through ization of technologies. Negotiations completed on 7 November 2014. implementation of selected measures of its agricultural strategy and Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P150402. US$ 88.0 institutional development. Signing completed on 18 March 2014. (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Education and Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 9.2 (FSSP). Consulting Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Dom Ministerstvo, Entrance services to be determined. Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and 11, Astana, Kazakhstan, Tel: (7-7172) 741-580, Fax: (7-7172) 742-175, Rural Development, Street Mother Tereza 35, Kosovo, Tel: (381-38) E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Takir Balykbayev 211-131, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Belrand Public Administration, Law, and Justice Stavileci, Minister (N) Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for Cen- Water Supply and Canal Protection:The objective is to improve tral Asia (CAMP4CA) - Additional Financing:The objective the reliability and quality of water supply to Central Kosovo, home to of the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for Central the commercial and administrative center of the country, by under- Asia (CAMP4CA) is to support the integrated development of cli- taking the investment measures needed to secure uninterrupted and mate-smart information, institutions, and investment capacities good-quality water supply from the Iber-Lepenc Canal. Project Con- throughout the countries of Central Asia. Environmental Assessment cept Review Meeting completed on 11 December 2013. Environmen- Category B. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing tal Assessment Category B. Project: P133829. US$ 17.0 (IDA Credit). agency(ies) to be determined. Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, Pristina, Kosovo, Tel: (381-38) 2003-2307, E-mail: Transportation [email protected], Contact: Mr. Arben Citaku (N) Center South Astana-Almaty Regional Development Corridor:The objective is to improve the Center South road corridor Education between Astana and Almaty connecting the major cities of the coun- Education Improvement Project:The objectives are to: (a) sup- try, providing a critical link for network integration, job creation and port improvements in the quality and efficiency of the education regional development. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ sector of pre-university education; (b) build on the achievements 2183.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) of a predecessor project, and based on Kosovo’s education strategy; to be determined. (c) improve allocation and efficiency of resources; and (d) provide (N) Center West Regional Development Corridor:The objec- quality assurance mechanisms. Project Concept Review Meeting tive of the Center West Corridor, which is a road corridor improve- completed on 20 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category ment project expected to generally follow existing road alignments C. Project: P149005. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and starting in Astana to Aktobe, will link the port of Aktau in the Caspian implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Sea, connecting two identified “urban agglomerations” as well as two “second-tier” towns, i.e. Kostanay and Aktau. Environmental Energy and Mining Assessment Category A. US$ 1000.0 (IBRD). Consulting services Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy:The objective is and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. to assist the Government of Kosovo with the implementation of a low carbon growth strategy by contributing to increase: (a) energy Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection efficiency in public and residential buildings; and (b) investment in (N) Kazakhstan Solid Waste Management Project:The ob- renewable energy projects. Bank Approval completed on 18 June jective is to assist the government to modernize and improve SWM 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P143055. US$ systems in selected municipalities in Kazakhstan namely Almaty 31.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Economic and Astana as suggested in the PFA. Environmental Assessment Development, Nena Tereza Square, 10000 Pristina, Kosovo, Tel: Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing (381-38) 2002-1505, Fax: (381-38) 2002-1302, E-mail: agron.dida@ agency(ies) to be determined. ks-gov.net, Contact: Mr. Bedri Dragusha, Chief Executive Officer PAGE 50 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Lignite Power:The objective is to support a private sector in- conditions for improving its quality. Signing completed on 10 May dependent power producer and lignite mining company. Project 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132490. Concept Review Meeting completed on 27 July 2011. Environmental US$ 12.7 (EFAS). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Assessment Category A. Project: P118287. US$ 40.0/725.0/725.0 Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, Tunustanova Street, (GUID/ZBIL/ZEXP). No consultants are required. Ministry of Eco- 257, Ap. 410, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996-312) 662-442, E- nomic Development, Nena Tereza Square, 10000 Pristina, Kosovo, mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Sadykov Kanat, Minister Tel: (381-38) 2002-1505, Fax: (381-38) 2002-1302, E-mail: agron. of Education [email protected], Contact: Mr. Besim Beqaj, Minister Energy and Mining Health and Other Social Services (R) Energy Sector Development Policy Operation:The ob- Health Project:The objective is to improve financial protection jective is to support the Kyrgyz Republic in addressing the recur- from health spending for the poor and quality of care for priority ring winter energy shortages so as to minimize the hardship for its maternal and child health and non communicable disease services. population and negative economic consequences for its economy Bank Approval completed on 13 May 2014. Environmental Assess- in a sustainable manner. Negotiations completed on 18 December ment Category C. Project: P147402. US$ 25.5 (IDA Credit). Consul- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P152440. tants will be required. Health Care Commissioning Agency, Kosovo, US$ 24.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Tel: (381-38) 212-223, E-mail: [email protected], Energy and Industry of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ahunbaeva St. 119, Contact: Arsim Qavdarbasha, Director Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996-312) 561-822, Fax: (996-312) 562-028, Contact: , Kyrgyz Republic Electricity Supply Accountability and Reliability Improve- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry ment:The objective is to establish a transparent accountability (N) Integrated Forest Ecosystem Management:The objec- framework for the power and financial flows in OJSC Severelectro, tive is to strengthen the institutional capacity for sustainable forest the distribution company serving capital city of Bishkek and a few ecosystem management. Project Concept Review Meeting completed surrounding towns. Bank Approval completed on 15 July 2014. Envi- on 18 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133446. US$ 25.0/0.5 4.1 (GEFU). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to (IDA Credit/F7VP). Consultants will be required. JSC Severelectro, 3 be determined. Chkalova Street, Lebedinovka Village, Alamudunski District, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996-312) 631-685, E-mail: [email protected], Con- (R) Pasture and Livestock Management Improvement (Cr. tact: Mr. Kubanychbek Turdubaev, General Director H9760-KG, Cr. 55210-KG):The objectives are to: (a) ensure fair access to pastures; (b) raise livestock owners’ incomes; and (c) arrest Public Administration, Law, and Justice long term pasture degradation, which will contribute to improved Fiscal Management and Governance Programmatic DPO: food security, agricultural competitiveness, environmental sustain- The objective is a continuation with an emphasis on accountability, ability and social stability. The credit was signed on 10 December anti-corruption and transparency, including structural reforms in 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145162. US$ the judiciary, public financial management and the business climate. 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agricul- Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 13.2/10.8 (IDA Credit/ ture and Melioration of Kyrgyz Republic, 96 Kievskaya Street, Bish- IDA Grant). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to kek, Kyrgyz Republic Tel/Fax: (996-312) 664-648, E-mail: mtairov@ be determined. apiu.elcat.kg, Contact: Mr Mairambek Tairov, Director Third Village Investment:The objective is to finance small- (R) Sustainable Forests and Land Management:The objec- scale physical community infrastructure and services investments tive is to diversify economic opportunities and improve social well jointly identified and subsequently implemented by local authori- being in forest-reliant communities by increasing the communities’ ties and communities. Project Concept Review Meeting completed role in forest management. Project Concept Review Meeting com- on 17 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: pleted on 18 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category P146970. US$ 12.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be deter- B. Project: P151102. US$ 12.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be mined. Community Development and Investment Agency (ARIS), required. State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996-312) 301-805, Fax: (996-312) (SAEPF), 228, Toktogul Street, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996- 624-748, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr Ismailov Kubanychbek 312) 610-016, Fax: (996-312) 611-396, E-mail: [email protected], Iskakovich, Executive Director [email protected] Urban Development Project (UDP):The objective is to improve Agriculture Productivity and Nutrition Improvements:The the access to and quality of urban infrastructure and services in objective is to increase agricultural productivity and food security selected urban areas. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ of rural households in selected areas nationwide. Project Concept 12.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Review Meeting completed on 20 March 2013. Environmental As- to be determined. sessment Category B. Project: P132754. US$ 38.0 (GAFS). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Processing Industry (MAWRPI), 96A Kievskaya St. Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996-312) 665-625, Fax: (996-312) 661-572, Energy and Mining E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Mirlan Baigoncho- (R) Energy Efficiency Fund for Public Buildings:The objec- kov, Deputy Minister tive is to develop and capitalize a revolving fund to finance energy National Water Resources Management:The objectives are to efficiency improvements in public buildlings. Environmental As- improve: (a) the river basin water management capacity in Kyrgyz- sessment Category B. US$ 20.0/10.0 (IBRD/ECSE). Consulting stan; (b) irrigation system and on-farm level to increase water and services to be determined. Ministry of Economy, Jurij Gagarin 15, food security; and (c) livelihoods and raise socio-economic indica- Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tel: (389-2) 309- tors particularly in rural areas. Signing completed on 29 August 3489, Fax: (389-2) 309-3440, E-mail: neriman.dzeladini@economy. 2014 Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144336. US$ gov.mk 7.8 (F7U8). Consulting services to be determined. Department of Lukovo Pole Water Regulation and Renewable Energy:The Water Resources, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Tel: (996-312) 541- objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the national and 174, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Nurbek Sharshekeev, regional power systems. Project Concept Review Meeting completed Project Director on 3 June 2011. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P112730. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Education ELEM Macedonian Power Plants, 11 Oktomvri 9, 1000 Skopje, For- Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 3:The objective is mer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tel: (389-23) 149-166, Fax: to increase equitable access to pre-school education and establish (389-23) 149-176, E-mail: [email protected]. DECEMBER 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 51 mk, Contact: Nevenka Jakimova Filipovska, Head of Development heating/CHP company to improve the sustainability of its operations Division and financial viability. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 3 December 2012. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: Industry and Trade P143870. US$ 80.0/138.0 (GUAR/ZPCO). Consulting services to be Third Programmatic Competitiveness DPL:The objective is determined. Ministry of Economy, Moldova, Tel: (373-22) 250-554, to support the Government to strengthen the competitiveness of E-mail: [email protected] fYR Macedonia’s economy by incentivizing productive investment and technological upgrading in the manufacturing, agribusiness and Health and Other Social Services trade logistics sectors, and establishing enabling conditions to pro- (R) Health Transformation Operation (Cr. 54700-MD, gressively increase labor market flexibility and innovation capacity. Cr. 54690-MD):The objective is to reduce key risks for non-com- Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 67.5 (IBRD). Consulting municable diseases and improving efficiency of health services in services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Moldova. The credit was signed on 11 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P144892. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Information and Communications Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, Moldova, Tel: (373- (R) Digital fYR Macedonia:The objectives are to: (a) support 2) 226-8885, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Andrei Usatii, the government of fYR Macedonia in its transformation of public service Minister. National Health Insurance Company (CNAM), Moldova, delivery through a shared public sector infrastructure platform and Tel: 373-2-222-3166, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mircea innovative applications with particular focus on poor communities in Buga, Director General targeted areas; and (b) increase fYR Macedonia’s competitiveness and support income generation and poverty reduction. Environmental Public Administration, Law, and Justice Assessment Category B. US$ 12.5 (IBRD). Consulting services and (R) Disaster and Climate Risk Management Additional Fi- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. nancing:The objective is to strengthen the State Hydrometeorologi- cal Service’s ability to forecast severe weather and improve Moldova’s Public Administration, Law, and Justice capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters. Decision (R) Municipal Services IP (EU-IPA) Additional Financing: Meeting completed on 23 December 2014. Environmental Assess- The objective is to improve transparency, financial sustainability and ment Category B. Project: P148125. US$ 2.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting delivery of targeted municipal services in the participating munici- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. palities. Signing completed on 24 December 2014. Environmental Second Development Policy Operation:The objectives to: (a) Assessment Category B. Project: P150342. US$ 21.4 (F7U4). Consult- improve the business climate; (b) promote financial sector stabil- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Mito Hadzivasilev, ity and development; and (c) improve the equity and efficiency of 50, Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tel: (389-75) public expenditure. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 232-791, Fax: (389-2) 310-6779, E-mail: suzana.stoimceva@finance. 5 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 30.0 gov.mk (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to fYR Macedonia Fiscal and Public Financial Management (PFM) be determined. Development Policy Loan (DPL):The objective is to improve Strengthening Public Financial Management (PFM) and fiscal sustainability and the efficiency of public spending by strength- Tax Administration:The objective is to strengthen institutions ening public financial management. Environmental Assessment and systems for public finance management and tax administration Category U. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. in Moldova. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 15 May Ministry of Finance, Dame Gruev 7, Skopje, Former Yugoslav Repub- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P127734. lic of Macedonia, Tel: (389-2) 310-6454, E-mail: suzana.stoimceva@ US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Main finance.gov.mk State Tax Inspectorate, Str. Cosmonautilor 9, MD 2005, Chisinau, Transportation Moldova, Tel: 0037322823353, Fax: (+373 22) 240005, E-mail: (R) Second National and Regional Roads Rehabilitation: [email protected], Contact: Irina Lupascu, Chief of Section for Strategic The objective is to improve transport efficiency and traffic safety on Development and Implementatio a sections of Corridor VIII, and improve road management and road Strengthening Public Sector Management:The objective safety in the country. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ is to support the implementation of the Government Strategy for 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Strengthening Public Sector Management with the focus on strength- to be determined. ening capacity for policy coordination and enhancing public sector performance. Environmental Assessment Category C. Consulting Moldova services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Transportation Forest and Sustainable Land Management:The objective is Local Roads Improvement:The objectives are to: (a) improve ac- to contribute to the improvement of forest management in state cess to basic social services (education, health and access to markets); and local public authority owned forest, and establish and manage (b) increase road safety; (c) improve the management of routine shelterbelts to reduce land degradation and improve agricultural maintenance on the selected local roads; and (d) enhance the capacity productivity. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IDA of national and local authorities to manage the local road network. Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Environ- Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 4 September 2014. ment, Moldova Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0/25.0 (IBRD/IDA Energy and Mining Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be (R) District Heating Efficiency Improvement (Ln. 84510- determined. MD):The objective is to assist the newly merged district heating/ CHP company to improve the sustainability of its operations and Montenegro financial viability by: (a) improving the efficiency of its operations; Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry and (b) supporting the resolution of the historical debt stock. Bank (R) Agriculture and Rural Development Institution Build- Approval completed on 21 November 2014. Environmental Assess- ing:The objective is to support the Government to: (a) gain experi- ment Category B. Project: P132443. US$ 40.5 (IBRD). Consultants ence in implementing rural development; and (b) strengthen the will be required. Ministry of Economy, Moldova, Tel: (373-22) 250- competitiveness of agricultural production and processing (farms/ 554, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr Vadim Ceban, processing companies) while building-up the capacity of operating Director structure until its accreditation for conferral of management. Signing District Heating Efficiency Improvement Partial Credit completed on 31 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Guarantee:The objective is to assist the newly merged district B. US$ 4.5 (TF). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry PAGE 52 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 of Agriculture and Rural Development, Rimski trg 46, Podgorica, Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Montenegro, Tel: (382-20) 482-109, Fax: (382-20) 234-306, E- (R) Vistula Basin Flood Protection:The objectives are to mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Velizar Vojinovic, strengthen the institutional administrative capacity and technical Minister expertise of the government to address summer, winter, and flash- Finance floods more effectively; and develop such flood protection to selected (R) Montenegro SEEC Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility areas of the Odra and the Upper Vistula river basins. Project Concept APL3:The objective is to help increase access to financial protec- Review Meeting completed on 9 July 2014. Environmental Assess- tion from losses caused by climate change and geological hazards to ment Category B. Project: P147460. US$ 598.0/260.0/455.0/130.0 homeowners, farmers enterprise sector and government agencies. (IBRD/ECEU/EUIB/POLF). Consulting services to be determined. This project is no longer in the lending program. Further report- Ministry of Environment, Wawelska Str. 52/54, Warsaw, Poland, ing will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category C. Tel: (48-22) 579-2205, Fax: (48-22) 579-2347, Contact: Beata Jac- Project: P127044. US$ 2.5 (IBRD). No consultants are required. zewska Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Regional Health and Other Social Services Second Montenegro Health Project:The objective is to support Public Administration, Law, and Justice continuation of health sector reforms in order to improve efficiency, Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for Central governance and quality of health care in Montenegro. Environmental Asia (CAMP4CA):The objective is to better manage the challenges Assessment Category B. US$ 12.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and and opportunities of climate change, through strengthened coordina- implementing agency(ies) to be determined. tion mechanisms, improved information sharing, and the incubation Industry and Trade of innovations for potential scale up. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Montenegro Competitiveness and Job Creation:The objec- Project: P151363. US$ 47.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and tive is to support Competitiveness and Job Creation in Montenegro. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category C. Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation Public Administration, Law, and Justice Central Asia Road Links:The objectives are to: (a) rehabili- Fiscal and Debt Managament:The objective is to strengthen the tate priority road sections in Sugd Oblast (along the Osh-Khujand institutional capacity of the government of Montenegro in order to road corridor); and (b) improve road operations and maintenance enhance the efficiency of using fiscal resources and to improve the practices along the core road network. Appraisal completed on 29 management of public debt. Environmental Assessment Category C. September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: US$ 34.5 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) P145634. US$ 45.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be deter- to be determined. mined. Ministry of Transport, Tel: (992-37) 221-1713 Revenue Administration Reform:The objective is to support the Government of Montenegro in reforming and modernizing their Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection revenue administration institutions and processes. Project Concept (R) Danube Water Program Additional Financing:The De- Review Meeting completed on 7 July 2014. Environmental Assess- velopment Objective of the proposed Danube Region Water Supply ment Category C. Project: P149743. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting and Wastewater Sector Capacity Building Program would be to sup- services to be determined. Montenegro Tax Administration, _arla port institutional capacity building and the development of regulatory De Gola 2. 20000 Podgorica, Montenegro, Tel: +382 206 58 063, and policy instruments in the water supply and wastewater sector Fax: +382 204 48 211, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: in participating countries in the Danube Region. Decision Meet- Milan Lakicevic, Director ing completed on 16 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 6.4 (F7VP). Consultants will be required. Interna- Poland tional Association of Water Supply Companies in the Danube River Health and Other Social Services Catchment Area (IAWD), Grabnergasse 4-6, Vienna, Austria, Tel: Health Service Delivery Project:The objective is to support the 431-59959-31002, Fax: 431-59959-7311, E-mail: [email protected] Government of Poland in initiating the transformation of service Central Asia Water Recources Development:The objective delivery to respond more effectively to the new demographic and is to modernize the knowledge platform and institutions for water epidemiological profile of the population. Environmental Assessment resources management in the Central Asia region. Environmental As- Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- sessment Category B. US$ 25.0/30.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consulting ing agency(ies) to be determined. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice West Balkans Drina River Basin Management:The objec- Resiliance and Growth Development Policy Loan:The ob- tive is to enhance more sustainable management of the Drina River jective, for the first of two series, is to support the Goverment to basin, balancing interests in hydropower, environmental develop- strengthen institutional resilience to promote economic growth, ment and conservation, agriculture, and flood protection. Project which is key to fostering shared prosperity and particularly income Concept Review Meeting completed on 22 August 2013. Environ- growth for the bottom forty percent of the population. Bank Approval mental Assessment Category B. Project: P145048. US$ 5.0/5.0 completed on 1 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. (GEFU/SCCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Project: P146243. US$ 966.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. to be determined. Ministry of Finance, ul. Swietokrzyska 12, Warszawa, Poland, Tel: (48-22) 694-5555, Fax: (48-22) 694-4177, E-mail: tomasz.skurze- Romania [email protected], Contact: Michal Baj, Director Second Growth and Resilience DPL:The objective is to support Education the government of Poland’s goal of accelerating economic growth, (R) Education Quality and Inclusion Project:The objectives while strengthening public finances. Environmental Assessment are to improve the transition from upper secondary into tertiary edu- Category U. US$ 800.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Min- cation and increasethe retention in the first year of tertiary education istry of Finance, ul. Swietokrzyska 12, Warszawa, Poland, Tel: (48- in project-supported education institutions. Appraisal completed on 22) 694-5555, Fax: (48-22) 694-4177, E-mail: tomasz.skurzewski@ 15 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: mofnet.gov.pl, Contact: Tomasz Skurzewski, Director, International P148585. US$ 244.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing Finance agency(ies) to be determined. DECEMBER 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 53

Health and Other Social Services Health and Other Social Services Roma Inclusion and Basic Services Project:The objective Regional Health System Modernization:The objective is to im- is to strengthen integrated social service delivery for marginalized prove the efficiency and quality of health services of Tyumen Oblast. communities and households with a focus on those with children. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consult- Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 5 December 2014. ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 126.7 (IBRD). Consult- Social Inclusion through Sports:The objectives are to: (a) de- ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. velop an integrated system to provide conditions for regular physical training and sports activities for socially disadvantaged groups; and Public Administration, Law, and Justice (b) create pilot test for the municipalities of the Russian Federation (R) Second Fiscal Effectiveness and Growth DPL:The objec- with a view to further replication throughout the Russian Federa- tive is to support the Government to improve its fiscal effectiveness tion. Negotiations completed on 16 December 2013. Environmental and enhance the functioning of property, energy and capital markets. Assessment Category B. Project: P126283. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Con- Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 1000.0 (IBRD). Con- sultants will be required. Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Policy, Kazakova Street, 18, 105064, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) 601-9440, Fax: (7-495) 604-6209, E-mail: varaksin@ minstm.gov.ru, Contact: Mr. Pavel Varaksin, Lead Expert Russian Federation Industry and Trade Education Special Economic Zones Enhancement Project:The objec- Innovative Development of Preschool Education of Sakha tive is to attract investors to, and increase investment in, select pilot (Yakutia):The objective is to improve the access and quality of zones in the Russian SEZ program. Project Concept Review Meeting the early childhood care and education services in the Republic of completed on 19 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Sakha (Yakutia). Negotiations completed on 8 July 2014. Environ- egory B. Project: P147011. US$ 132.0 (IBRD). Consulting services mental Assessment Category B. Project: P127405. US$ 117.7 (IBRD). and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Consultants will be required for an architect’s assistant, permafrost St. Petersburg Economic Development Additional Financ- engineer, ECD specialists’ assistant with background in Russia and ing:The objective is to support the reconstruction of the State Mari- CIS. Ministry of Education of Sakha (Yakutia), 30 Lenina Avenue, insky Theater and two inner courtyards of the Mikhailovsky Palace Yakutsk city, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-4112) 422-921, Fax: (7-4112) of the State Russian Museum. Negotiations completed on 15 July 424-929, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Natalia Sitnikova, Head 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146463. US$ of General Education Department 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Culture of Vocational Education System Development:The objective is the Russian Federation, Maly Gnezdnikovsky Pereulok, 7/6, Street to support the modernization of Vocational Education and Training 1-2, Moscow, Russian Federation Tel/Fax: (7-495) 623-8444, E-mail: (VET) systems in selected Russian regions to foster their links with [email protected], Contact: Mr. Artem Novikov, Deputy Director national and regional socio-economic development strategies and to pilot innovative ways of engaging the private sector to enhance Public Administration, Law, and Justice the labor market relevance of VET systems. Negotiations completed Integrated Environmental Monitoring:The objective is to im- on 13 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: prove institutional efficiency of state environmental monitoring au- P144167. US$ 330.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry thorities and support investments to fill in main gaps of the existing of Education and Science, Tverskaya Street 11, Russian Federation, environmental monitoring infrastructure. Negotiations completed Tel: (7-495) 629-2425, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: on 22 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: Alexander Klimov, Deputy Minister P143159. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-499) Energy and Mining 254-1560, Fax: (7-499) 943-0018, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Semyon Romanovich Levi, Deputy Minister Energy Efficiency:The objective is to support the Government in reducing the energy intensity of the economy by 40%, by the year Russian Federation Historic Towns:The objective is to support 2020. Appraisal completed on 22 September 2011. Environmental cultural heritage restoration and tourism development in selected Assessment Category F. Project: P122492. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Con- small historic towns. It is expected that these efforts will, in the sulting services to be determined. Gazprombank and Ministry of medium-term, contribute to increased tourism and, therefore, to Energy, Russian Energy Agency, Nikitskiy per. 5, Moscow, Russian the economic development of the selected historic towns and settle- Federation, Tel: (7-495) 789-9292, E-mail: [email protected]. ments. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 16 January ru, Contact: Ms. Tatiana Yurlova, First Vice President 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Culture, Maliy Energy Efficiency-GEF:The objective is to support the institu- Gnezdnikovsky proezd, bld. 7/6, Stroenie 1,2, Moscow, Russian tional, regulatory and market barriers facing commercial financing Federation, Tel: (7-495) 629-2008, Fax: (7-495) 629-7269, E-mail: of Energy Efficiency projects across Russia. Appraisal completed on [email protected] 22 September 2011. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P123692. US$ 22.7 (GEFU). Consulting services to be determined. Transportation Gazprombank and Ministry of Energy, Russian Energy Agency, Ni- National Urban Transport Improvement:The objectives are kitskiy per. 5, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) 789-9292, to: (a) improve the quality and condition of urban transport; and E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Ms. Tatiana Yurlova, (b) reduce adverse environmental impacts of transport in selected First Vice President Russian cities. Appraisal completed on 13 June 2014. Environmen- tal Assessment Category B. Project: P145582. US$ 9.1 (GEFU). Finance Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Transport, 1/1, Microfinance:The objective is to assist the Government to develop Rozhdestvenka Street, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) a sustainable, safe and sound national financial cooperative, and mi- 626-1088, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Nikolay A. crofinance system that will enhance access to financial services by the Asaul, Deputy Minister poorer and underserved segments of the population, especially in the National Urban Transport Improvement:The objectives are rural areas. This project is on hold until further notice. Environmen- to: (a) improve the quality and condition of urban transport; and tal Assessment Category C. Project: P095554. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). No (b) reduce adverse environmental impacts of transport in selected consultants are required. Ministry of Finance, Iljinka street, 9, Mos- Russian cities through: (i) physical investments, (ii) operational cow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) 648-3541, E-mail: p0530_ka@ and technological improvements, (iii) legal reforms, and (iv) insti- minfin.ru, Contact: Alexey Savatyugin, Deputy Minister tutional development. Appraisal completed on 13 June 2014. En- PAGE 54 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133201. US$ 117.5 Industry and Trade (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Transport, 1/1, (R) Serbia Competitiveness and Jobs:The objective is to im- Rozhdestvenka Street, Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-495) prove the investment climate, foster innovation, and enhance the 626-1088, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Nikolay A. job opportunities of registered unemployed. Project Concept Re- Asaul, Deputy Minister view Meeting completed on 29 December 2014. Environmental Russian Development Bank (VEB) Infrastructure:The objec- Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and tive is to enable VEB to provide long-term infrastructure financing implementing agency(ies) to be determined. while also increasing its capacity to identify, appraise, and supervise investment projects. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ Second Public Enterprise Restructuring Development 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Vnesheconom- Policy Loan:The objective is a continuation to provide the insti- bank (Russian Development Bank), 9 Akademik Sakharov Avenue, tutional framework and first actions to complete Serbia’s transition Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-903)798-0107, Fax: (7-495) to fully functioning market economy. Environmental Assessment 975-2069, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Alexander Pav- Category U. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- lov, Deputy Director ing agency(ies) to be determined. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Public Administration, Law, and Justice Arctic Environment:The objective is to strengthen Russia’s envi- (R) Real Estate Management:The objective is to support the ronmental management systems to deal with growing environmental government in improving the efficiency, transparency and reliability concerns in the Arctic Zone caused by climate change and increasing of the real estate management system. Appraisal completed on 4 human activities. GEF Council Approval completed on 7 June 2012. December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.5 (GEFU). Consulting P147050. US$ 44.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Republic Geodetic Authority, Bulevar Vojvode Misica 39, 11000, Arctic Program:The objective is to improve Russia’s environ- Belgrade, Serbia, Tel: (381-11) 265-2408, Fax: (381-11) 265-2222, mental management systems to deal with growing pollution and E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr Dragan Pavlovic, Project environmental risks in the Arctic Zone caused by climate change and Manager increasing human activities. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Eco- Tajikistan nomic Development, Tel: (7-495) 694-0353, E-mail: mineconom@ economy.gov.ru Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (N) Environmental Land Management and Rural Liveli- Serbia hoods - Additional Financing:The objective is to enable rural Education people to increase their productive assets in ways that improve natu- ral resource management and resilience to climate change in selected Technology Transfer Project:The objective is to enhance the climate vulnerable sites. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ competitiveness of Serbia’s innovation system by promoting com- 8.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) mercialization of public R&D in Serbia and facilitating strategic plan- to be determined. ning in its research sector. Decision Meeting completed on 1 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 3.5 (F7PF). Con- (N) FVWRMP - Phase II:The objective is to improve the quality of sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. irrigation service delivery by (a) rehabilitating irrigation and drain- age infrastructure, (ii) strengthening the institutional framework for Finance irrigation and drainage management, and (c) supporting water sector Deposit Insurance:The objective is to strengthen the financial reforms to improve the financial viability of irrigation. Environmental and institutional capacity of the Deposit Insurance Agency, so as to Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services enable it to meet its deposit insurance and bank resolution obliga- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. tions and serve as a core part of financial sector safety net. Bank Ap- proval completed on 25 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Education Category C. Project: P146248. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will First Development Policy Operation:The objective is to as- be required. Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), Belgrade, Serbia, Tel: sist the Government to maintain high growth within a sustainable (381-11) 207-5100, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Zoran macroeconomic framework. Environmental Assessment Category Obradovic, Director U. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Finance and Private Results Based Investment Project Fi- agency(ies) to be determined. nancing (IPF):The objective is to strengthen the banking sector, Higher Education Project:The objective is to strengthen the ca- improve access to finance and improve export competitiveness. En- pacity of the higher education system and its education institutions to vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 125.0 (IBRD). Consulting provide high quality and relevant education to its graduates. Project services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Concept Review Meeting completed on 11 June 2014. Environmental Non-Private Enterprise Restructuring Development Policy Assessment Category B. Project: P148291. US$ 7.5/7.5 (IDA Credit/ Loan:The objective is to enhance the contribution of the public IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) enterprise sector to the competitiveness of the Serbian economy. to be determined. Decision Meeting completed on 19 December 2013. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P127408. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Con- Second Development Policy Operation:The objective is to as- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. sist the Government to maintain high growth within a sustainable macroeconomic framework. Environmental Assessment Category Health and Other Social Services U. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Second Health:The objective is to improve the efficiency and qual- agency(ies) to be determined. ity of the public health system of the Republic of Serbia through the strengthening of: (i) health financing, purchasing, and maintenance Energy and Mining systems; and (ii) quality improvement systems and management of Winter Energy:The objective is to mitigate the impact of winter selected priority non-communicable diseases. Bank Approval com- energy shortages on inhabitants of select urban and rural settlements pleted on 25 February 2014. Environmental Assessment Category of Tajikistan by supporting development and implementation of B. Project: P129539. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. heat supply options for and energy efficiency demand side measures Ministry of Health, Nemanjina 22-26, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, Tel: in housing stock and public buildings. Environmental Assessment (381-11) 361-4890, Fax: (381-11) 265-6548, E-mail: ep@zdravlje. Category B. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be deter- gov.rs, Contact: Elizabet Paunovic, State Secretary mined. Project Implementation Unit, Tajikistan DECEMBER 2014 Europe and Central Asia Region PAGE 55

Public Administration, Law, and Justice Finance Communal Services Development Fund:The objective is to Long Term Finance Guarantee:The objective is to enhance ac- help establish a sustainable financing mechanism to improve com- cess to medium and long term finance for exporters and small and munal services in Tajikistan such as water supply and sanitation. medium enterprises. Appraisal completed on 12 November 2014. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 11 June 2013. Envi- Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P148858. US$ 400.0 ronmental Assessment Category F. Project: P133449. US$ 30.0/15.0 (GUAR). Consulting services to be determined. Halk Bank, 1.Levent (IDA Credit/EBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Khochagii 34330, Istanbul, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 289-1780, Fax: (90-312) 289- Manziliu Komunali, 56 N Karabaev Street, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tel: 4785, E-mail: [email protected] (992-372) 217-798, E-mail: [email protected] Health and Other Social Services Second Public Finance Management Modernization Project APL:The objectives are a continuation to: (a) address the capacity (R) Health Sector Reform Support Project:The objectives weaknesses; (b) support streamlining procedures on budget prepara- are to: (i) sustain the achievements of the Health Transformation tion and execution; (c) improve transparency and communications; Program (HTP) and (ii) supporting the post HTP health sector re- and (d) support incremental automation of financial operations in the forms in Turkey. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on Ministry of Finance. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 23 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 11 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: 102.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) P150381. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be deter- to be determined. mined. MINISTRY OF FINANCE, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tel: (992 Sustaining Shared Growth Development Policy Loan:The 37) 221-14-17, Fax: (992 37) 221-33-29, E-mail: Min_fin@tqjikiston. objectives are to: (a) improve the business climate and enhancing com, Contact: Abdusolom Kurbanov, Minister transparency; (b) boost labor force participation and widening ac- cess to finance; and (c) deepen the Turkey’s infrastructure reforms. Turkey Bank Approval completed on 24 July 2014. Environmental Assess- ment Category U. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Undersecretariat of Treasury, Inonu Bulvari, Eskisehir Yolu, Emek, Basin Management:The objective is to support the implementa- Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 204-6000, Fax: (90-312) 212-8550, E-mail: tion of the NBMS and the new water sector reforms. Project Concept [email protected], Contact: Gokben Yener, Undersecretary Review Meeting completed on 11 November 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection determined. Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, Ankara, Turkey, Sustainable Cities:The objective is to shift municipal planning Tel: (90-312) 207-5696, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. visions several years into the future for cities that are striving to Hanifi Avci be sustainable. It encourages cities to avoid the “lock-in” effect of unplanned development and investments that will have high energy Energy and Mining and green house gas emission costs over time. Preparation completed (R) EU/IPA Energy Sector Technical Assistance Program on 10 May 2013. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ 300.0 - Phase 2 Project:The objective is to develop the administrative (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Iller Bank, Yeni Ziraat and technical capacity of relevant institutions to achieve an increas- Mahali, 14 Sokak, Diskapi, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 384-6126, ing alignment with the EU acquis and the Europe 2020 targets in Fax: (90-312) 341-2071, E-mail: [email protected] the areas of (1) energy efficiency (EE), (2) internal energy market, and (3) long-term energy planning and modelling. Decision Meet- Ukraine ing completed on 24 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Energy and Mining Category B. Project: P151934. US$ 15.8 (F7U6). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Inonu (R) Second Power Transmission (Ln. 84620-UA):The objec- Bulvari No. 27, Bahcelievler, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 213-1124, tive is to support the implementation policy to assure security and Fax: (90-312) 213-2049, E-mail: [email protected] reliability of power supply in Ukraine. Bank Approval completed on 22 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Proj- (R) Turkey Geothermal Development Project:The objective is ect: P146788. US$ 330.0/48.4 (IBRD/CCTF). Consultants will be to expand geothermal exploration capacity in Turkey by addressing required. Ukrenergo, Kominternu str, 25, Kyiv, 0103, Ukraine, Tel: specific barriers to geothermal development and financing. Prepara- (380-44)238-301, Fax: 380-44)249-1928, E-mail: [email protected]. tion completed on 12 November 2014. Environmental Assessment gov.ua, Contact: Mr Konstantin Ushchapovskiy, Director Category F. US$ 250.0/40.0 (IBRD/CCTF). Consulting services and Partnership for Market Readiness:The objectives are to: (a) implementing agency(ies) to be determined. support building the market readiness components; (b) pilot, test EU/IPA Energy Sector Technical Assistance:The objective is and sequence new concepts for market instruments; (c) support to support and accelerate the implementation of the Government of Ukraine’s participation in the PMR platform that enables policy Turkey’s strategy to reform Turkey’s energy sector in line with the EU makers to share experiences and information regarding elements of energy strategies and priorities. Signing completed on 31 July 2014. market readiness; and (d) share lessons learned. Signing completed Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131921. US$ 14.3 on 19 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.4 (F7SD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Energy and (PMR). Consulting services to be determined. State Environmental Natural Resources (MENR), Inonu Bulvari 27, Bahcelievler, Ankara, Investment Agency, 35 Urytskogo St. Kyiv, Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 213-1124, E-mail: [email protected], 594-9111, Fax: (380-44) 594-9115, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Ali Murat Becerikli, Department Head Contact: Mr. Koval Mikhail Ivanovich, Head of International Rela- Gas Sector Development Additional Financing:The objec- tions Department tive is to increase the reliability and stability of gas supply in Tur- key by: (a) implementing critically needed gas storage and network Finance infrastructure; and (b) support BOTA_ in developing a gas trading (R) Programmatic Financial Sector DPL 1 (Ln. 84220-UA): platform and strengthening its operations as a financially stable The objective is to support the Ukrainian authorities in restoring and commercially managed corporation. Bank Approval completed stability in the banking sector, making the system more resilient on 2 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: to future shocks, and creating conditions for resumed financial in- P133565. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. BO- termediation on a sustainable and affordable basis. The loan was TAS Turkish Pipeline Company, Bilkent Plaza A, II Blok, Bilkent, signed on 8 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. 06800 ANKARA, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 297-2018, Fax: (90-312) Project: P150677. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. 266-0733, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Mehmet Ministry of Finance, Kiev, Ukraine, Contact: Abdullah Al Shatter, Gazi Dulger, Project Director Deputy Minister for Projects Programming PAGE 56 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Second Programmatic Financial Sector Development Fergana Valley Water Resources Management (WRM)_ Policy Loan:The objectives are to: (a) strengthen the operational, Phase II:The objective is to improve water management and financial and regulatory capacity of the Deposit Guarantee Fund agricultural production in the Fergana Valley. Environmental As- (DGF) for insolvent banks; (b) improve the solvency of the banking sessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services system; and (c) strengthen the legal and institutional framework to to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, improve resiliency and efficiency of the banking system. Environ- 4 Navoy Street, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-711) 412-92, Fax: (998-711) mental Assessment Category U. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will 412-574/413-292 be required. Ministry of Finance, 11, Mezhigirska Str. Kyiv, Ukraine Tel/Fax: (380-44) 277-5333, E-mail: [email protected] Education Early Childhood Education:The objectives are to: (a) to increase Health and Other Social Services access to higher education services; (b) enhance the quality and (R) Oblast Health Sector Reform Project:The objective is relevance of higher education; and (c) strengthen the institutional ca- to improve the quality of health services in selected Oblasts, with pacity of Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education Coun- special focus on primary and secondary prevention of NCDs, and terparts. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 14 March to enhance the efficiency and governance of the health care system. 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 40.0 (IDA Credit). Appraisal completed on 11 November 2014. Environmental Assess- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Public Education, ment Category B. Project: P144893. US$ 215.0 (IBRD). Consulting 5 Mustaqillik Maydoni Street, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 239-1310, Fax: (998-71) 239-1934, E-mail: [email protected] Community Social Support Project:The objective is to improve Education Support Project:The objectives are to increase ac- standards of living and social inclusion of vulnerable population cess of children aged 3-6 to quality early childhood care and educa- groups in underdeveloped and conflict-affected communities through tion in rural pre-primary institutions and to improve conditions for better social and basic services. Environmental Assessment Category better learning outcomes of students of rural general educational F. Consultants will be required. Social Investment Fund, Ukraine; secondary schools. Bank Approval completed on 23 October 2014. Ministry of Social Policy, 8/10 Esplanade Blvd. Ukraine, Tel: (380- Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P144856. US$ 49.9 44) 289-5448, Fax: (380-44) 289-0098 (EFAS). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) Second Development Policy Loan (DPL):The objectives Energy and Mining of the DPL series are to: (i) promote good governance, transparency, District Heating Rehabilitation and Energy Efficiency:The and accountability in the public sector; (ii) strengthen the regulatory objectives are to support: (a) the reconstruction of heat production framework and reduce costs of doing business; and (iii) reform inef- facilities; (b) networks; and (c) in-house heating systemsin Andijan ficient and inequitable utility subsidies while protecting the poor. and Chirchik. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 29 Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 1 August 2014. En- April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 188.0 (IDA vironmental Assessment Category U. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting Credit). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Economy, services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Uzbekistan Electricity Distribution Rehabilitation:The objective is to Transportation rehabilitate electricity distribution substation systems in selected Road Sector Development:The objective is to extend the upgrade areas of Uzbekistan to improve their efficiency and reduce losses. of the M-03 road from Poltava to Kharkiv with four standard lanes Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Con- to include bypasses and bridges. Project Concept Review Meeting sulting services to be determined. UzbekEnergo, 6, Khorezm Street, completed on 29 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) 233-9821/9889, Fax: (998-71) US$ 800.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. UKRAVT- 236-2700, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Batirjan Teshabaev, ODOR, Kiev, Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 287-2449, Fax: (380-44) 278- Chairman 2449, E-mail: [email protected] Health and Other Social Services Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Health System Improvement Project Additional Financing: (R) Second Urban Infrastructure (Ln. 83910-UA):The objec- The objectives are to: (a) help finance the costs associated with the tives are to support: (a) municipal investments in water and sewerage scaling-up of activities initiated under the original credit; and (b) fully in selected municipalities in Ukraine; (b) pilot solid waste investment cover the seven remaining regions in the country which could not be project; and (c) increase energy efficiency of utilities’ operations. included in the original project due to insufficient IDA allocation in The loan was signed on 26 May 2014. Environmental Assessment 2010. Bank Approval completed on 7 March 2013. Environmental Category B. Project: P132386. US$ 300.0/50.0 (IBRD/CCTF). Con- Assessment Category B. Project: P133187. US$ 93.0 (IDA Credit). sultants will be required. Ministry of Construction, Architecture No consultants are required. Ministry of Health, 12 Navoi Street, and Housing and Communal Services, Grushevskovo 12/2, Kiev, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) 239-4808, E-mail: office@jpib. Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 293-6307, Fax: (380-44) 234-9718, E-mail: uz, Contact: Djamshed Djabriyev, Executive Director [email protected], Contact: Mr. Oleksandr Alipov, Firat Deputy Minister Industry and Trade Horticulture Development Pilot:The objective is to realize the Uzbekistan potential for greater economic returns from the fruit and vegetable value chain through improving: (a) policy enabling environment; Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (b) access to credit; (c) post harvest handling and processing; (d) (N) Livestock Sector Development Project:The objective is research and outreach; and (e) quality and food safety to penetrate to improve the provision of infrastructure, services and finance to new, higher value markets. Bank Approval completed on 12 June the livestock sector in the project area. Environmental Assessment 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133703. US$ Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture menting agency(ies) to be determined. and Water Resources, 4 Navoy Street, Tashkent 700004, Uzbekistan, (R) Karshi Pumping Cascade Rehabilitation:The objective is Tel: (998-71) 141-2692, Fax: (998-71) 141-2574, E-mail: info@agro. to increase the reliability, efficiency and sustainability of the pumped uz, Contact: Mr Shukhrat Teshaev, Minister water supply from the Amu Darya to the Karshi irrigation command area in the Kashkadarya Oblast. This project is no longer in the lend- Information and Communications ing program. Further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental Modernization of Real Property Registration and Cadastre: Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA Credit). No consultants are The objective is to establish a computerized and unified real property required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. registration and cadastre system in Uzbekistan as part of the national DECEMBER 2014 Middle East and North Africa Region PAGE 57 e-government structure and services. Environmental Assessment opportunities in community-based labor-intensive works for the Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be deter- poor and vulnerable; and (b) support the improvement of nutrition mined. State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography practices among participating households focusing on pre-school and State Cadastre, E-mail: [email protected] children and pregnant/lactating women. Bank Approval completed on 28 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Transportation P149621. US$ 5.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Agence (R) Pap-Angren Railway:The objective is to support the construc- Djiboutienne de Développement Social (ADDS), rue Mohamed Djama tion of a new single track railway line between Pap and Angreen to Elabeh, plateau du Serpent, B.P. 4298, Djibouti, Tel: (253-21) 358- enhance the economic importance of the Ferghana valley and its 655, Fax: (253-21) 357-184, E-mail: mahdi.mohamed.djama@gmail. connectivity with other main economic development areas within Uz- com, Contact: Mahdi Mohamed Djama, Directeur Général bekistan and other potential regions of economic importance outside DJ HRITF Health Additional Financing:The objective is to Uzbekistan. Negotiations completed on 15 December 2014. Environ- improve the utilization of quality health care services for mater- mental Assessment Category A. Project: P146328. US$ 195.0/350.0 nal and child health and communicable disease control programs (IBRD/EXCN). Consultants will be required. Uzbekistan Temir (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria). Environmental Assessment Yo’allari, 7, Shevchenko Street, Tashkent, 700060, Uzbekistan, Tel: Category B. US$ 7.0 (HRBF). Consulting services and implementing (998-71) 237-9028, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Achilbay agency(ies) to be determined. Ramatov, Chair Regional Roads and Development:The objective is to support Information and Communications the Government to enhance the efficiency of the administration and Telecom Sector Opening:The objective is to rincrease the geo- service to road users and the local communities. Project Concept Re- graphical reach and usage of regional broadband network services view Meeting completed on 29 January 2014. Environmental Assess- and reduce their prices. Project Concept Review Meeting completed ment Category B. Project: P146334. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting on 28 January 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: services to be determined. Republican Road Fund, Uzbekistan, Tel: P146219. US$ 2.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and implement- (998-71) 239-1112, E-mail: [email protected] ing agency(ies) to be determined. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Arab Republic of Egypt (R) Water Supply and Sanitation Adjustable Program Loan:The objective is to support the Government’s urban and ru- Energy and Mining ral WSS infrastructure projects and sector strategy infrastructure, Egypt Energy Efficiency:The objective is to help increase power while supporting sector policy-making and planning, capacity build- system efficiency in Egypt. The project proposes to convert an existing ing and institutional reform. Environmental Assessment Category 600 MW simple cycle power plant into a CCGT plant by adding 300 B. US$ 130.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services to be determined. MW generation capacity. It will also install smart meters for 700,000 Uzkommunhizmat, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-7165) 224-3833, customers in the industrial, commercial and residential segments. E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Uktur Khalmu- Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 600.0 (IBRD). Consult- hamedov, General Director ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Bukhara and Samarkand Sewerage - Additional financ- Finance ing:The objective is to mitigate the environmental impact from (N) PBDAC Restructuring Program:The objective is to enhance wastewater pollution and improve the efficiency and sustainability access to financial services to farmers through the transformation of wastewater management in Bukhara and Samarkand. Other ob- of PBDAC into a viable rural bank, and fostering competition in the jectives of the AF are to lay the foundation for a sustainable policy financial sector. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 18 framework for the water sector and continue the programs of capac- August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 500.0 ity building. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 70.0 (IDA (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Grant). Consulting services to be determined. Uzkommunkhizmat, 1 determined. Niyozbek Yuli, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-712) 354-497, Fax: (998-712) 358-290, E-mail: [email protected] Affordable Housing Transformational Program:The objec- tives are to: (a) prepare a national housing policy, strategies and plans; and (b) bdevelop new programs, comprehensive targeting criteria and implementation guidelines. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 14 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- Middle East ing agency(ies) to be determined. Health and Other Social Services and North Africa (R) Emergency Cash Transfer Project:The objective is to provide targeted cash transfers to the poorest and most vulnerable Algeria households, while layingthe foundation for an efficient social safety Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry net system in Egypt. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 23 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ Improving Desert Ecosystems for Livelihoods (ALG-DELP): 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to The objective is to improve livelihoods of oasis communities through: be determined. (a) piloting a combined approach of desert ecosystem conservation; (b) agricultural development; and (c) adaptation to climate change Hospital Reform Project:The objective is to contribute to expand- impacts at a network of intervention sites. Negotiations completed ing access of family healthcare services to the poorest 40 percent of on 4 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: the population in targeted governorates. Environmental Assessment P128082. US$ 7.4 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministere Category C. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- de l Amenagement du Territoire et de l Environment, Avenue des 4 ing agency(ies) to be determined. Canons, Algiers, Algeria Tel/Fax: (213) 432-804, E-mail: cadastre- Public Administration, Law, and Justice [email protected], Contact: Nadia Chenouf, Deputy Director (N) Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Invest- ment (EASE) in Egypt:The objective is to improve the efficiency, Djibouti accessibility, and transparency of key investment services by re- Health and Other Social Services forming industrial licensing and land allocation processes, and en- (R) Social Safety Net Project Additional Financing:The ob- hancing the capabilities of one-stop shops through which investor jectives are to: (a) support the provision of short-term employment services are provided. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ PAGE 58 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

6.0 (MNIS). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to 464-2247, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: H.E Ibrahim Saif, be determined. Minister Transportation Lebanon (R) Urban Transport Infrastructure Development:The ob- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry jective is to improve the efficiency and environmental sustainability of the bus urban transport system in the Greater Cairo Region by: (i) Sustainable Agricultural Livelihoods in Marginal Areas improving service provision to citizens; (ii) supporting modal shift, (SALMA):The objective is to increase the growth and stability of thus reducing traffic congestion, greenhouse gas emission, and air incomes of small farmers in ecologically vulnerable remote hilly areas pollution; and (iii) reducing the high accident rate. Preparation com- through increased access to reliable sources for supplementary ir- pleted on 1 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category rigation using sustainable land and water development approaches, B. Project: P149704. US$ 200.0/50.0 (IBRD/CCTF). Consulting and reforestation. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 20 services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. September 2012. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 7.2 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection be determined. Municipal Solid Waste Management Project:The objective is Sustainable Agriculture Livelihoods in Marginal Areas:The to support the improvement of Municipal Solid Waste Management objective is to expand access of small farmers to supplementary irri- Services in the targeted areas. Environmental Assessment Category gation and increase protection of agricultural lands from soil erosion A. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants services will be required to prepare in targeted remote hilly areas. Project Concept Review Meeting com- the project economic feasibility study, preliminary design, prepara- pleted on 20 September 2012. Environmental Assessment Category tion of bidding documents for a Design-Build-Operate scheme for B. Project: P131431. US$ 24.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. the new sanitary waste management facilities; and the preparation Ministry of Agriculture, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 821-900, Fax: (961-1) of the environmental and social impact assessment. Implementing 823-900, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Moham- agency(ies) to be determined. mad Khansa, Advisor to H.E. the Minister of Agriculture Iraq Education (R) Emergency Education System Stabilization:The objective Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry is to support access to the Lebanese public education system and Irrigation and Drainage Improvement Project:The objectives to improve the learning environment in response to the continued are to enable farmers in targeted irrigated areas to increase their influx of Syrian refugee children. Pre-appraisal completed on 4 agricultural productivity and to improve management of water re- December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: sources in selected areas. Project Concept Review Meeting completed P152898. US$ 32.0 (LSCT). Consulting services and implementing on 26 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: agency(ies) to be determined. P149803. US$ 140.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Water Resources, Iraq Energy and Mining PCB Management in the Power Sector:The objective is to Energy and Mining dispose of high risk Polychlorinated Biphenyles (PCB) and improve Electricity Distribution Reform and Investment Project the inventory management of transformers in the power sector in (EDRIP):The objectives are to: (a) improve the reliability of electric- an environmentally sound manner. Board Approval completed on ity distribution infrastructure and thereby improve electricity service 21 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: delivery; (b) reduce system losses; and (c) improve the management P122540. US$ 2.5 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of of the electricity distribution sector operations and capital investment Environment, Downtown Beirut, Lazarieh Center, Black A4 New, 8th programs. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 26 June Floor, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 976-517, Fax: (961-1) 976-534, 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 750.0 (IBRD). E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Manal Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Electricity, Bagh- Moussallem, Minister of Environment dad, Iraq, Tel: (964-790) 192-1982, E-mail: nafaaabdelsada@yahoo. Partial Riskl Guarantee (PRG) for Floating Regasification com, Contact: Eng. Nafaa Abdelsada Ali and Storage Unit (FRSU):The objective is to provide a credit enhancement mechanism to address the low credit worthiness of Transportation the power sector, to support the development of a FRSU to enable Railway Safety Improvement Project:The objectives are to the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Lebanon. Project improve the safety, capacity and reliability for passengers and freight Concept Review Meeting completed on 11 July 2013. Environmental on the railway line between Um Qasr seaport and Baghdad. Project Assessment Category A. US$ 60.0 (GUAR). Consulting services and Concept Review Meeting completed on 10 June 2014. Environmental implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Assessment Category B. Project: P150441. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Con- sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Health and Other Social Services (R) Emergency Health Care Project:The objective is to pro- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection vide primary health care coverage to poor Lebanese affected by the (R) Baghdad Water and Sewerage Improvement Project: Syrian crisis. Decision Meeting completed on 9 December 2014. The objective is to improve the quality and efficiency of water and Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P152646. US$ 15.0 sewerage services in Baghdad. Project Concept Review Meeting (LSCT). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be completed on 12 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- determined. egory B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing (R) Emergency National Poverty Targeting Project:The agency(ies) to be determined. objective is to expand the coverage of the National Poverty Target- ing Program (NPTP) and enhance the social assistance (benefit) Jordan to extremely poor Lebanese households and those affected by the Health and Other Social Services Syrian crisis. Signing completed on 18 August 2014. Environmen- National Unified Registry and Outreach Worker Program: tal Assessment Category C. Project: P149242. US$ 8.2/3.0 (LSCT/ The objective is to improve the targeting of social safety net programs UNHC). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be and developing an efficient outreach mechanism. First Grant Fund- determined. ing Request Approval completed on 22 October 2013. Environmental Social Promotion and Protection:The objectives are to support: Assessment Category C. US$ 9.5 (MNIS). Consulting services to (a) community-led social development projects based on a demand- be determined. Ministry of Planning and International Coopera- driven process; (b) National Poverty Targeting Program (NPTP); tion, Amman 11118, Jordan, Tel: (962-6) 464-4466, Fax: (962-6) and (c) other social reforms of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Bank DECEMBER 2014 Middle East and North Africa Region PAGE 59

Approval completed on 17 May 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P124761. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). No consultants are Morocco required. Ministry of Social Affairs, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry 611-242, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Roberto (R) Modernization of Irrigated Agriculture in the Oum Albino Mito, Director Er Rbia Basin Additional Financing:The objectives are for Industry and Trade participating farmers to: (a) receive a good quality irrigation wa- ter service delivery; and (b) adopt drip irrigation. Project Concept Environmental Pollution Abatement Project:The objective Review Meeting completed on 18 December 2014. Environmental is to reduce pollution generated by point-source/industrial entities, Assessment Category B. US$ 180.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and to limit the impact on public health as well as on ecological systems implementing agency(ies) to be determined. by increasing environmental performance in point sources/indus- trial plants and the introduction of cleaner production and green Energy and Mining investments. Bank Approval completed on 1 August 2014. Environ- mental Assessment Category F. Project: P143594. US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Clean and Efficient Energy:The objective is to develop a power Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment, Downtown system that is efficient and capable of integrating a high level of Beirut, Lazarieh Center, Black A4 New, 8th Floor, Beirut, Lebanon, renewable energy, which will reduce peak load demand on the Tel: (961-1) 981-854, Fax: (961-1) 976-534, E-mail: manal.moussal- grid through demand-oriented initiatives. Project Concept Review [email protected], Contact: Manal Moussallem, Advisor to Meeting completed on 15 August 2013. Environmental Assessment the Minister. Central Bank, Lebanon, Tel: (961) 1743-469, E-mail: Category B. Project: P143689. US$ 125.0/24.0 (IBRD/CCTF). Con- [email protected], Contact: Wael Hamdan, Senior Director. sultants will be required. Office National de l’Electricite, 65, Rue Head of Financing Unit Othman Ben Affan, Morocco, Tel: (212-52) 266-8005, Fax: (212-52) 243-3152, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Mohamed Fait, Information and Communications Chef de la Division Financement Mobile Internet Ecosystem Project (MIEP):The objective is to Noor II and III Concentrated Solar Power:The objectives strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship in the Lebanese Mobile are to: (a) develop the 500 Megawatt Ouarzazate solar power plant Internet Ecosystem. Bank Approval completed on 31 July 2014. by financing the second phase through a public private partnership Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P131202. US$ 6.4 (PPP); and (b) increase power generation from solar power and (IBRD). No consultants are required. Ministry of Telecommunica- mitigate greenhousegas emissions and local environmental impact. tions, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-71) 611-611, E-mail: rami.majzoub@ Bank Approval completed on 30 September 2014. Environmental gmail.com, Contact: Rami Majzoub, Advisor to the Minister Assessment Category A. Project: P131256. US$ 400.0/135.0/238.0/ Public Administration, Law, and Justice 122.0/473.0/68.0/884.0 (IBRD/AFDB/CCTF/ECEU/EUIB/FRDE/ KFW). Consultants will be required. Moroccan Agency for Solar En- Second Fiscal Management Reform:The objective is to support ergy (MASEN), Station Traitement Av. Mohamed Bel Hassan, Rabat, the Ministry of Finance’s efforts in tightening the control environ- Morocco, Tel: (212-53) 7574-657, Fax: (212-53) 7571-475, E-mail: ment, improve the allocation of public financial resources, and en- [email protected], Contact: Mustapha Bakkoury, CEO hance the efficiency and transparency of the government financial management system. Bank Approval completed on 14 April 2014. Second Inclusive Green Growth DPL:The objective is to sup- Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P133226. US$ 5.2 port reform actions in the areas of better management of natural (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Riad El assets; low carbon growth; and diversification of rural revenues Solh Square, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 642-722, E-mail: alainb@ through investments in new green sectors. Environmental Assess- finance.gov.lb, Contact: Alain Bifani, Director General ment Category U. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and imple- menting agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation (R) Greater Beirut Urban Transport:The objective is to im- Finance prove transport connectivity and mobility between Tabarja and (N) Leveraging Finance for Inclusive Growth:This objective Beirut through: (a) the construction of a new BRT or LRT; and (b) is to support the implementation of the GOM’s and CCG’s three year establishing appropriate institutional arrangements for the manage- strategic plan and aims to further strengthen the effectiveness and ment, operation and maintenance of the new mass transit system. outreach of the Moroccan Partial Guarantee Program in Support of Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consult- Micro-, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and low income ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. housing finance. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection determined. (R) Municipal Services Emergency Project:The objective is to support relevant Lebanese central and local authorities in improv- Seed and Early Stage Equity Financing:The objective is to ing basic municipal services in cities and towns and the communi- support the Government of Morocco address a market failure in ties most affected by the influx of Syrian refugees. Bank Approval financing for new and growth oriented SMEs who contribute sub- completed on 20 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. stantially to job creation. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P149724. US$ 10.0 (LSCT). Consulting services and imple- US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) menting agency(ies) to be determined. to be determined. Lake Qaraoun Pollution Prevention Project:The objectives are Health and Other Social Services to: (a) reduce the quantity of untreated municipal sewage discharged into the Litani; and (b) improve the quality of agricultural runoff Health Sector Support:The objective is to support the implemen- flowing into the river in order to reduce the pollution of the Qaraoun tation of the 2012-2016 Health Action Plan in: (a) health Manage- Lake. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 26 November ment Information System); (b) human resource for health; (c) access 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147854. to pharmaceuticals; and (d) non communicable diseases prevention. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Council Appraisal completed on 25 September 2014. Environmental Assess- for Development and Reconstruction, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) ment Category C. Project: P148017. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting 981-432, Fax: (961-1) 981-252, E-mail: [email protected] services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Water Augmentation Project:The objective is to augment the Investing in Opportunities for Youth:The objective is to water supply of the Greater Beirut Region in a sustainable manner. support the implementation of priority measures of the Morocco Bank Approval completed on 30 September 2014. Environmental Integrated National Youth Strategy. Environmental Assessment Assessment Category A. Project: P125184. US$ 474.0/128.0 (IBRD/ Category B. Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to ISDB). Consultants will be required. Contact: , be determined. PAGE 60 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

Industry and Trade Sylvo-Pastoral Ecosystems Co-Management:The objective (R) Second Competitiveness Development Policy Loan:The is to promote an inclusive and integrated participative approach to objective is to support the economic governance reform agenda of co-manage sylvo-pastoral resources in Tunisia. Environmental As- the Government, in view of fostering greater competition and more sessment Category B. US$ 120.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and effective policies to spur competitiveness. Appraisal completed on implementing agency(ies) to be determined. 3 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ Education 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of General Affairs and Governance (MAGG), Morocco, Tel: (212-53) Tertiary Education for Employability:The objective is to fur- 768-7316, Fax: (212-53) 777-4776, E-mail: benchekroun@affaires- ther modernize tertiary education in Tunisia, increase employability generales.gov.ma of graduates and support tertiary education to work transition. En- vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting Public Administration, Law, and Justice services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Municipal Support Program:The objective is to support the strengthening of Morocco’s municipalities in terms of managerial Energy and Mining and financial capacities. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ (R) Societe Tunisienne de l’Electricite et du Gaz Concen- 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to trated Solar Power Plant:The objective is to support Tunisia in be determined. the development of the 50 MW STEG CSP power plant, toincrease Partnership for Market Readiness:The objective is to assist power generation from solar energy and mitigate greenhouse gas the Government of Morocco in developing a monitoring, reporting emissions and local environment impact. This project is no longer and verification system and a GHG crediting mechanism in one or in the lending program. Further reporting will be discontinued. more targeted sectors. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on Environmental Assessment Category A. Project: P122029. US$ 27 February 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: 35.0/35.0/36.0/54.0 (IBRD/AFDB/CCTF/ZBIL). No consultants P128654. US$ 3.0 (PMR). Consulting services to be determined. are required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Ministry of Energy, Water, Mining and Environment, Rue Abou Information and Communications Marouane Essaadi, Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-5) 3756-4018, Fax: Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access in Tunisia:The (212-37) 688-863, E-mail: [email protected] objective is to contribute to expanding and developing Tunisia’s Transportation broadband services by accelerating ultra fast broadband (UFB) de- Second Rural Roads Additional Financing II:The objective ployment in appropriate geographical locations with the involvement is a continuation to increase rural populations’ access to all-weather of the private sector and by furthering competition in the sector. En- roads in support of the Guarantor’s Program. Bank Approval com- vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting pleted on 9 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Proj- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ect: P148003. US$ 96.6 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Caisse Public Administration, Law, and Justice pour le financement routier, Morocco, Tel: (212-53) 771-3241, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Ahmed Imzel, Director (R) Third Governance, Opportunities, and Jobs DPL:The objective is to support Tunisia establish the policy foundations for Urban Transport Project (P4R):The objective is to improve co- a more competitive business environment, a strengthened financial ordination, performance and accessibility of urban transport in select sector, more inclusive and accountable social services, and more cities. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 24 June 2014. transparent public governance. Appraisal completed on 17 No- Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consult- vember 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 500.0 ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection determined. (R) Solid Waste Sector DPL4:The objective is to support the (R) Urban Development and Local Governance (Ln. 84130- Government’s efforts to improve the economic, environmental and TN):The objectives are to: (a) improve the municipal infrastructure social performance of the solid waste sector. Negotiations completed and service delivery; (b) reduce inter-regional and intra-urbandispar- on 11 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ ities in access to municipal services with a focus on lagging regions; 130.0 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Ministry of Interior, (c) develop municipal capacity; and (d) support the operationaliza- Morocco, Contact: , Ministry of Environment, Morocco, Contact: , tion of the decentralization agenda and enhance local governance. Ministry of Economy and Finance, Morocco, Contact: , The loan was signed on 8 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Integrated Risk Management Project:The objective is to sup- Category C. Project: P130637. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consultants will port the development of integrated risk management in Morocco be required. Caisse de Pret et de Soutien aux collectivites locales, 9 through a variety of interventions including in Disaster Risk Man- rue 8451, 1003 cite Khadra, Tunis, Tunisia, Tel: (216-71) 354-500, agement (DRM), agricultural and commodity risk management. E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Kalthoum Hamzaoui, Gen- Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 6 August 2013. En- eral Director vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministère des Affaires Générale et de la Transportation Gouvernance, Quartier Administratif, Rabat- Agdal, Morocco, Tel: Road Transport Corridor:The objective is to support rural roads (212-53) 768-7316, Fax: (212-53) 768-774287, E-mail: benchek- improvement and technical assistance to the Road Administration [email protected], Contact: Mlle Sabah Benchekroun, within the Ministry of Equipment. Project Concept Review Meeting Chargée de Mission auprès du Chef du Gouvernement completed on 12 December 2013. Environmental Assessment Cat- Non-Revenue Water Improvement:The objective is to secure egory B. Project: P146502. US$ 195.0 (IBRD). Consulting services sustainable access to safe and reliable drinking water supply for urban and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. communities in targeted water-scarce areas in the Project provinces. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consult- Urban Water Supply Additional Financing:The objective is to ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ensure the continuity of water service to the population in Greater Tu- nis and other targeted cities, and improve the financial performance Tunisia of SONEDE. Signing completed on 19 August 2014. Environmental Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Assessment Category B. US$ 26.2 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- Irrigation Modernization:The objective is to support the Govern- quired. Societe Nationale d’Exploitation et de Distribution des Eaux ment of Tunisia concerning water use in agriculture. Environmental (SONEDE), Av. Slimane Ben Slimane, Manar II, Tunisia, Tel: (216) Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and 71-887-000, Fax: (216) 71-871-000, E-mail: [email protected]. implementing agency(ies) to be determined. tn, Contact: Hedi Belhaj, President Directeur General DECEMBER 2014 Middle East and North Africa Region PAGE 61

Integrated Housing and Urban Development Project:The West Bank and Gaza objective is to support the PA and selected local authorities in de- Energy and Mining signing, financing and implementing integrated housing and urban (R) Gaza Emergency Response for Electricity Network Re- development pilot projects in partnership with the private sector. habilitation (AF):The objective is to restore and improve basic Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (SPF). Consulting electricity services in Gaza. Bank Approval completed on 30 Octo- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P152411. Palestinian National Development Plan Sixth Development US$ 15.0 (SPF). Consultants will be required. Palestinian Energy Policy Loan:The objective, a continuation, is to support the reform and Natural Resources Authority (PENRA), West Bank and Gaza, efforts by the Palestinian Authority (PA) aim to fiscal strengthen- Tel: 97097222986192, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Fred ing, enhancement of the public finance management systems and Fakari’i, Secretary of Finance the delivery of public services. Board Approval completed on 20 Electricity Sector Performance Improvement Project:The may 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 40.0 (SPF). objective is to improve payment for electricity, support the effi- Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Ramallah, West cient use of electricity, and improve energy security and control of Bank and Gaza, Tel: (972-2) 297-8830, E-mail: [email protected], electricity supply by supporting renewable energy implementation. [email protected], Contact: Laila Sbaih, Acting Director Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 10.0 (SPF). Consulting services to be determined. Palestine Energy and Natural Resources Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Authority, West Bank and Gaza (R) Water Supply and Sewage Systems Improvement Ad- Health and Other Social Services ditional Financing:The objective is to improve the quality and ef- (R) GZ Emergency Budget Support Supplemental:The ob- ficiency of water supply and wastewater service provision in Gaza and jective is to provide budget support to the Palestinian Authority in assist in restoration of basic water supply and wastewater services support of its emergency expenditure program the objective of which Signing completed on 7 December 2014. Environmental Assessment is to alleviate the economic, humantiarian, and poverty impact of the Category B. US$ 12.0/3.0 (PWUD/SPF). No consultants are required. summer 2014 war in Gaza. The loan was signed on 24 November Palestinian Water Authority, West Bank and Gaza, Contact: Project 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P152527. US$ Management Unit 41.0 (SPF). No consultants are required. Ministry of Finance, Ramal- Hebron Wastewater Management:The objective is to reduce the lah, West Bank and Gaza, Tel: (972-2) 297-8830, E-mail: lsbaih@ environmental pollution from wastewater produced in the Hebron yahoo.com, [email protected], Contact: , Municipality. Appraisal completed on 29 August 2014. Environmen- (R) Health System Quality and Efficiency Improvement: tal Assessment Category A. Project: P117449. US$ 4.8/18.7/13.9/4.5 The objective is to increase efficiency of public health expenditures (AID/ECEU/GFRC/SPF). Consultants will be required. Palestinian with a view to ensuring fiscal and financial sustainability of universal Water Authority, Al-Beireh, Nablus, Jerusalem St. Ramallah, West health coverage. More specifically, support the Ministry of Health in Bank and Gaza, Tel: (972-2) 240-9022, Fax: (972-2) 240-9341, E- improving the equity and efficiency of outside treatment referrals and mail: [email protected], Contact: Fred Fakari’i, Secretary of providing institutional capacity-building. Negotiations completed on Finance 17 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: North Gaza Emergency Sewage Treatment Project-Third P150481. US$ 8.5 (SPF). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Additional Financing:The objective is to complete construction of Health, West Bank and Gaza, Tel: 059-894-9104, E-mail: alaqra@ the North Gaza wastewater treatment plant, complete the first phase yahoo.com, Contact: Maria Al-Aqra, Director of International Rela- of the effluent recovery and reuse scheme, and ensure the sustain- tions ability of the waste water services by financing capacity building and Local Governance and Services Improvement Program: operation and maintenance costs on a declining basis over three The objectives are to: (a) support locally planned small scale infra- years. Bank Approval completed on 14 April 2014. Environmen- structure projects to improve service delivery; and (b) strengthen tal Assessment Category A. US$ 2.6/5.0/3.0 (BELG/PWUD/SPF). the governance and financing structure for accountable and finan- Consultants will be required. Palestine Water Authority, Al-Wedha cially sustainable local services. Project Concept Review Meeting Street, Shaath Building, Gaza City, West Bank and Gaza, Tel: (970-8) completed on 13 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category 283-3609, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Malanie Gamage, B. Project: P148896. US$ 5.0 (SPF). Consulting services to be de- Permanent Secretary termined. Ministry of Local Government, Ramallah, West Bank and Gaza, Tel: (972-2) 240-1455, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Dr. Saed Al Koni Republic of Yemen Industry and Trade Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) GZ Enterprise and Job Opportunities Initiative:The Climate Resilient ICZM (PPCR/LDC):The objective is to assist objective is to mobilize private investment financing in high potential the country in adapting to the impact of climate change in the coastal sectors that generate job opportunities and economic growth for the zone of the Gulf of Aden, Hodeida and the Arabian Gulf. Project West Bank and Gaza. Project Concept Review Meeting completed Concept Review Meeting completed on 10 June 2013. Environmental on 16 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Assessment Category B. Project: P144813. US$ 20.0 (CSCF). Consult- 5.0 (SPF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. determined. Resilience of Rural Communities to Climate Change Pilot: Public Administration, Law, and Justice The objective is to increase the adoption of climate-resilient measures in targeted rural communities of rainfed areas. Project Concept GZ Second Municipal Development Project Emergency Review Meeting completed on 12 June 2013. Environmental Assess- Additional Financing:The objective is to improve the Recipient’s ment Category B. Project: P144764. US$ 18.6 (CSCF). Consulting municipal management practices for better municipal transparency services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. and service delivery, and to restore priority municipal services follow- ing the conflict in Gaza. Board Approval completed on 30 October Smallholder Agricultural Productivity Enhancement Proj- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P152523. ect (SAPEP):The objective is to increase the adoption and use of US$ 12.0/3.0 (PWUD/SPF). Consultants will be required. Municipal productivity-enhancing crop and livestock practices by smallholders Development and Lending Fund, Al Bireh, Al Rashmawi Building, in targeted project areas. Project Concept Review Meeting completed 3rd Floor, West Bank and Gaza, Tel: (970-2) 296-6610, Fax: (970-2) on 7 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 36.0 295-0685, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Fred Fakari’i, (GAFS). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Secretary of Finance determined. PAGE 62 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Education Argentina Higher Education Quality Improvement Project Additional Financing:The objective is to create enabling conditions for the Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry enhancement of the quality of university programs and graduate (R) Forests and Communities:The objective is to improve For- employability. Bank Approval completed on 15 September 2014. est Livelihoods through: (a) adoption of sustainable multiple-use Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P150129. US$ 3.0 forestry; (b) sustain/increase political commitment, and public re- (IDA Grant). Consultants will be required. Contact: , sources for native forests conservation; (c) improve Regional/Local Capacities and undertake Applied Research; and (d) strengthen Finance the National Native Forest Information and Monitoring System. (N) RY-Financial Inclusion for Yemen:The objective is to Preparation completed on 15 September 2014. Environmental As- expand access to finance for micro and small enterprises in Yemen, sessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. aiming to create jobs. The main target group is women and youth, Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. with a particular focus on rural areas. Environmental Assessment Rural Corridors and Biodiversity:The objectives are to: (a) in- Category C. US$ 20.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- crease the protection of vulnerable natural areas and the conservation menting agency(ies) to be determined. of biological diversity in both the Argentine Patagonian Steppe and the Argentine Chaco; and (b) bolster the technical capacity and out- Information and Communications reach of federal and provincial organizations working in natural re- Broadband Governance and Competitiveness Project:The source issues. Negotiations completed on 8 August 2011. This project objectives are to: (a) develop the broadband market; (b) improve the is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category legal and regulatory framework for the telecommunications sector; B. Project: P114294. US$ 6.3/2.3 (GEFU/MSC1). Consultants will be and (c) develop a medium-to-long term telecommunications sector required. Administacion de Parques Nacionales, Av. Santa Fe 690, liberalization plan. Decision Meeting completed on 25 February C1059ABN, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4774-5357, Fax: 2013. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 3.0 (MNAF). Con- NA, E-mail: NA, Contact: Dra. Patricia Gandini, President sulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Socio-Economic Inclusion in Rural Areas:The objective is to Public Administration, Law, and Justice support the Government’s strategy to raise incomes and improve live- (R) Emergency Support to Social Protection Project (Cr. lihoods among the rural poor of Argentina. Negotiations completed D0120-RY):The objective is to assist the Government in provid- on 8 July 2011. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: ing cash transfers to Social Welfare Fund beneficiaries. Bank Ap- P106685. US$ 52.5 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministe- proval completed on 9 December 2014. Environmental Assessment rio de Agricultura, Ganaderia y Pesca (MAGyP formerly SAGPyA), Category C. Project: P151923. US$ 90.0/28.5 (IDA Grant/GUSA). Avda. Belgrano 450, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4349- Consultants will be required. Social Welfare Fund, Nogum, Sana’a, 1300, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Lic. Jorge Republic of Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 544-012, Fax: (967-1) 544-011, E- Neme, Coordinador Ejecutivo, Ing Sandro Sassatelli, Coordinador mail: [email protected], Contact: Mr. Mansour Al-Faiadi, Executive Tecnico Director Third Provincial Agricultural Development (PROSAP):The Accountability Enhancement Project:The objective is to en- objective is to increase the productivity, competitiveness and market hance capacity of targeted accountability institutions to provide access of small and medium agricultural producers by providing access to information and to improve enforcement of the anti-cor- technical assistance, capacity building, and direct investments. This ruption law. First Grant Funding Request Approval completed on 12 project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P148288. Category B. Project: P132416. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consultants will US$ 6.0 (MNIS). Consultants will be required. Supreme National be required. Ministry of Economy and Production, Hipolito Yrigoyen Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC), AlTahreer Square, 250, Piso 8, Of. 828, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (5411-4) 349- PO Box 3454, Sana’a, Republic of Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 490-400, Fax: 6200, Fax: (5411-4) 349-5516 (967-1) 299-422, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Afrah Baduwailan, Chairman Education (R) Second Rural Education Improvement Project Transportation (PROMER) (Ln. 84520-AR):The objective is to support Gov- Decentralization and Local Service Delivery Project (DLSD) ernment of Argentina in extending and improving rural education. or (TAMAN):The objective is to strengthen targeted regional and Bank Approval completed on 2 December 2014. Environmental As- local governments in Yemen become more accountable and respon- sessment Category B. Project: P133195. US$ 250.5 (IBRD). No con- sive, and improve their capacity to deliver services. Environmental sultants are required. Ministry of Education, Argentina, Tel: (54-4) Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IDA Grant). Consulting services 959-2320, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Lic. Alejandro Pe- and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. nillas, Director General Unidad de Financiamiento Internacional Energy and Mining (R) Renewable Energy Project for Rural Areas:The objective is a continuation of the PERMER project and its additional financing, to emphasize access to modern energy services in rural schools and Latin America rural health centers, and to provide electricity, solar water heaters, and cooking and heating solutions when needed. Appraisal com- and Caribbean pleted on 18 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133288. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and Antigua and Barbuda implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Information and Communications Health and Other Social Services Caribbean Communications Infrastructure Program (Car- (R) Non Communicable Diseases (NCD):The objective is to CIP):The objectives are to: (a) increase access and affordability of support the Government to reduce premature mortality and mor- broadband communications networks; (b) contribute to the develop- bidity due to chronic NCDs by: (a) strengthening MOH’s capacity ment of regional IT industry; and (c) contribute to improved govern- to monitor, and prevent, control NCDs; (b) improving quality of ment efficiency and transparency through regionally harmonized NCD preventive, diagnosis and control health services; (c) promot- e-government applications. Environmental Assessment Category C. ing healthy lifestyles; and (d) strengthening surveillance. Project US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) Concept Review Meeting completed on 14 November 2012. Envi- to be determined. ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P133193. US$ 350.0 DECEMBER 2014 Latin America and the Caribbean Region PAGE 63

(IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health, Buenos energy sector; (b) develop and implement a comprehensive set of Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4379-9002, E-mail: jlazovski@msal. measures to increase the resilience of the energy sector; (c) revise gov.ar, Contact: Dr. Jaime Lazovski, Secretario de Promocion de energy policy to support mainstreaming energy resiliency; and, (d) Programas Sanitarios build institutional capacity building. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P149522. US$ 8.0 (SCCF). Consulting services Public Administration, Law, and Justice and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Youth Employment Support:The objective is to support improvement of the employability of poor low-skilled unemployed Transportation youth at risk between the ages of 18 and 24 by providing training, building their experience and improving employment services. Ne- Climate Resilient Infrastructure:The objectives are to: (a) en- gotiations completed on 25 November 2014. Environmental Assess- hance resilience of critical road infrastructure against flood risk and ment Category C. Project: P133129. US$ 425.0 (IBRD). Consultants impacts of climate change; and (b) improve Borrower’s capacity will be required. Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security, to respond promptly and effectively in an Eligible Crisis or Emer- L.N.Alem No.638-Piso 8, Buejnos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, gency, as required. Bank Approval completed on 27 August 2014. Tel: (54-11) 4310-5618, E-mail: [email protected], Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P127338. US$ 30.0 Contact: , (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Belize Social Investment Fund, Delivering Progressive Tax Policies:The objective is to provide Constitution Drive, Belize, Tel: (501-8) 220-239/0508, Fax: (501-8) the Provincial Government with a more stable source of revenue 220-279, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Daniel Cano, to fund equitable social spending and reduce poverty, through the Executive Director support of Tax Administration (ARBA)’s efforts to establish a more progressive tax system. This project is on hold until further notice. Bolivia Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 53.0 (IBRD). Consul- tants will be required. Ministerio de Economia de la Provincia de Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Buenos Aires, Calle 8, entre 45 y 46, Codigo Postal 1900, La Plata, Sustainable Development of Ancestral Andean Products: Argentina, Tel: (54-221) 429-4576, E-mail: agustinapereira@yahoo. The objective is to promote the sustainable production, among small com, Contact: Maria Agustina Pereira, Directora Provincial de Or- scale producers, of selected ancestral Andean products and enhance ganismos Multilaterales their commercialization and domestic consumption. Project Concept Subnational Strengthening of Public Management through Review Meeting completed on 23 September 2013. Environmental Information and Communication Technologies:The objec- Assessment Category B. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to tive is to improve service delivery, transparency and accountability be determined. Ministry of Rural Development and Land (MDRT), of subnational governments in Argentina through the use of Infor- entre calles Bueno y Loayza, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 211-1103, mation and Communication Technologies. This project is on hold Fax: (591-2) 211-4332, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ Ana Guzman, Director of Rural Development. EMPODERAR, Plaza 80.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Interior, 25 Adela Zamudio, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 211-2794, Fax: (591-2) de Mayo 145, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4339-0800, E- 214-533, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Jhonny Delga- mail: [email protected], Contact: Carlos Diaz, Coordinador dillo, Coordinator Ejecutivo Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Transportation Vega Flood Prevention and Drainage Project:The objective National Road Sector Management Program:The objective is to increase the City of Buenos Aires resilience to flooding through is to support the maintenance and rehabilitation of the county’s structured and non structured measures. Project Concept Review primary road network. Project Concept Review Meeting completed Meeting completed on 9 October 2013. Environmental Assessment on 3 October 2013. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Category A. Project: P145686. US$ 138.0 (IBRD). Consulting services 225.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Administradora to be determined. Ministry of Finance of the Ba City, Argentina Boliviana de Carreteras (ABC), Edif. Centro de Comunicaciones, Piso 8, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 235-7220, Fax: (591-2) 239- Belize 1764, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Antonio Mullisaca, Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Presidente Ejecutivo (R) Marine Conservation and Climate Adaptation:The objec- tive is to implement the priority ecosystem-based marine conserva- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection tion and climate adaptation measures to strengthen the climate (R) Disaster Risk Managment DPL:This DPC will support the resilience of the Belize Barrier Reef System. Appraisal completed on implementation of reforms in 3 key areas: (i) institutional and legal 25 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: framework for strengthening DRR and CCA; (ii) improving institu- P131408. US$ 6.0 (ADPT). Consultants will be required. Ministry of tional coordination for a better recovery and emergency response Forestry, Fisheries, and Sustainable Development, Sir Edney Cain systems; and (iii) creating a framework to reduce impact and improve Building, Belmopan, Belize, Tel: (501) 822-2526, Fax: (501) 822- capacity of Bolivia to financially respond to disasters Pre-appraisal 3673, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Wendel Parham, Chief completed on 19 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Executive Officer egory U. Project: P150751. US$ 100.0/100.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Management and Protection of Key Biodiversity Areas: Consultants will be required. Implementing agency(ies) to be de- The objective is to strengthen natural resource management and termined. biodiversity conservation through the mitigation of threats to Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in Belize. Board Approval completed on Climate Resilience Integrated Basin Management:The ob- 29 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: jective is to strengthen the national capacity to integrate climate P130474. US$ 6.1 (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministry of resilience in planning, management, and investment through the Forestry, Fisheries, and Sustainable Development, Sir Edney Cain adoption of a river basin management approach that will be piloted Building, Belmopan, Belize, Tel: (501) 822-2526, Fax: (501) 822- in the Rio Grande River Basin. First Grant Funding Request Approval 3673, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Natalie Rosado, As- completed on 17 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- sociate Director - Grants egory B. Project: P129640. US$ 36.0/9.5 (CSCC/CSCF). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Environment and Water, Calle Energy and Mining Mercado, Edif. Mariscal Ballivian, Mezzanine, Bolivia Tel/Fax: (591- Energy Resilience for Climate Adaptation:The objectives are 2) 211-5582, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Carlos to: (a) undertake a climate change adaptation assessment for the Ortuno, Vice Minister Water Resources and Irrigation PAGE 64 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 implementation of its policies and programs to achieve higher rates Brazil of inclusive green growth. This project is on hold until further no- Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry tice. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 120.0 (IBRD). (R) Paraiba Sustainable Rural Development:The objective Consultants will be required. State of Piaui Secretariat of Planning, is to support the economic inclusion of family farmers and acces to Av. Miguel Rosa, 3190, Centro Sul, Teresina, Brazil, Tel: (55-86) water for rural inhabitants to move from a traditional community- 3221-3145/4575, Fax: (55-86) 3221-1660, E-mail: secretario@se- driven development strategy to more selective support of economic plan.pi.gov.br opportunities of the rural poor. Project Concept Review Meeting Salvador Social Sector:The objectives are (a) economic inclusion completed on 12 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- and improvement in health and education services; and (b) improve egory B. Project: P147158. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and living conditions in informal areas of the Salvador City which would implementing agency(ies) to be determined. include: (i) education, health and social assistance; (ii) housing and Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM) for Indigenous People: basic infrastructure; and (iii) economic inclusion and employability. The objective is to enhance the capacity and support specific initia- Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consult- tives of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Brazil in order ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. to strengthen their participation in FIP and other REDD+ processes at the local, national and global levels. Decision Meeting completed Health and Other Social Services on 27 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: Sergipe Development Policy Loan II:The objective is a continu- P143492. US$ 6.5 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing ation to support the Government of Sergipe in improving public sec- agency(ies) to be determined. tor management and expanding access to quality public services and Development of Systems to Prevent Forest Fires and Moni- economic opportunities for the extremely poor. Appraisal completed tor Vegetation in Brazilian Cerrado:The objectives are to: (a) on 4 April 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: generate and disseminate geospatial and on-time information about P148145. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. deforestation, forest degradation and land use in the Cerrado, Caat- Sergipe State Secretary of Planning, Budget and Management, Brazil, inga and Pantanal biomes; and (b) develop an early-warning system Tel: (55-79) 3226-2202, Fax: (55-79) 3226-2246, E-mail: gab.secre- to prevent forest fires at national scale. Project Concept Review [email protected], Contact: Jeferson Passos, State Secretary of Meeting completed on 13 June 2013. Environmental Assessment Planning, Budget and Management Category C. Project: P143185. US$ 9.2 (CSCF). No consultants are required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Environmental Regularization of Rural Lands in the Cer- (R) Manaus Service Delivery and Fiscal Management:The rado:The objectives are to: (a) support the Ministry of Environ- Objective is to improve service delivery and fiscal management in the ment to help reduce deforestation and forest degradation on rural municipality of Manous. The priority sectors likely to be covered will landholdings; and (b) reduce emissions and to increase carbon se- be Public Adminstration (resultsbased management), including man- questration by ensuring the environmental compliance by owner or agement of procurement and the payroll, health,urban development, occupiers of private landholdings in the 11 states in Brazil, within and active policies to develop economic opportunities for women. the Cerrado biome. Decision Meeting completed on 23 May 2014. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 11 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P143334. US$ 32.5 Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consult- (CSCC). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Environment, ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Esplanada dos Ministerios, Bloco B 7o Andar, Brasilia, Brazil, Tel: BR Rural Environmental Cadastre in Bahia:The objective is (55-61) 2028-1413, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: to promote the reduction of climate change impacts in the Cerrado of Allan Milhomens, Coordinator the west of the Bahia State. Signing completed on 12 September 2014. Promotion of Low Carbon Agriculture in the Brazilian Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 4.4 (DCTF). No consul- Cerrado:The objective is to increase the adoption of Low Car- tants are required. Implementing agency(ies) to be determined. bon Agriculture Plan in key areas of the Cerrado region. Signing Gender and Social Inclusion:The objective is to design an in- completed on 1 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category novative model for addressing a comprehensive approach to gender B. Project: P143184. US$ 10.6 (CSCF). Consulting services to be and social inclusion that builds on recent research that focuses on determined. SENAR - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural, the WDR 2012 framework for gender equality by exploring issues SGAN 601 Módulo K, 1º andar, Brazilia, Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 2109- of endowments, economic opportunities and agency. Environmental 1300/1301, E-mail: [email protected] Assessment Category C. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Education determined. Secretaria de Estado de Planejamento - BA, 2 Avenida, (R) Pernambuco Education Results and Accounting SWAP: 250, Centro Administrativo, da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, Tel: (55-71) The objectives are to improve: (a) school performance and equity of 3115-3550, Fax: (55-71) 3115-3945, E-mail: Sergio.gabrielli@seplan. state secondary education; (b) attitudes towards gender norms and ba.gov.br, Contact: Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, Secretario de based violence among state secondary students, and develop soft and Estado technical skills among women participating in women satellite cen- Recife Municipal Development Policy Loan:The objective is to ters; and (c) increase efficiency in the use of Government resources. strengthen conditions for inclusive growth through support to policy Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 13 February 2014. reforms aimed at strengthening public sector management. Envi- Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 170.0 (IBRD). Consult- ronmental Assessment Category U. US$ 220.0 (IBRD). Consulting ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. services to be determined. Secretary of Planning and Management, Alagoas Extreme Poverty Eradication:The objective is to sup- Municipality of Recife, Rua da Aurora, 1377, Recife, Brazil, Tel: (55- port the efforts of the State of Alagoas to eradicate extreme poverty, 81) 3355-8839, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: as part of the Brazilian Federal Government’s program to achieve the Virginia Lacerda, Project Manager same goal nationwide. Appraisal completed on 25 January 2013. This Second Piaui Green Growth and Inclusion Development project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment Policy Loan:The objective is to support the Government of Piauí Category B. Project: P126620. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be in the implementation of its efforts to achieve higher rates of inclu- required. State Secretariat of Planning and Economic Development sive green growth by: (a) improving land tenure administration, (SEPLANDE), Rua Dr. Cincinato Pinto, 503, Centro, Maceio, Brazil, (b) promoting sustainable agricultural practices, (c) improve water Tel: (55-82) 3315-1511, Fax: (55-82) 3315-1711, E-mail: secretario@ resource management and (d) ensuring environmental sustain- seplande.al.gov.br, Contact: Luis Otavio Gomes, State Secretary of ability. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 12 February Planning and Economic Development 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P146981. US$ Piaui Integrated Green Growth Sustainability and Inclu- 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. State of Piaui sion:The objective is to support the Government of Piauí in the Secretariat of Planning, Av. Miguel Rosa, 3190, Centro Sul, Teresina, DECEMBER 2014 Latin America and the Caribbean Region PAGE 65

Brazil, Tel: (55-86) 3221-3145/4575, Fax: (55-86) 3221-1660, E-mail: Sete de, Setembro, No. 362 8o Andar, Centro Vitória, Brazil, Tel: [email protected] (55-27) 3636-1190, Fax: (55-27) 3321-3889, E-mail: www.es.gov. Strengthening Fiscal and Water Resources Management br, Contact: Regina Curitiba, Subsecretaria Development Policy Loan:The objective is to strengthen fiscal management and to support government’s effort towards integrated Colombia water resources management Signing completed on 20 August 2014. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 280.0 (IBRD). Consul- Conservation for Peace in the Heart of the Colombian Ama- tants will be required. Secretariat of Finance, Av. Maua, 1155-5o An- zon:The objective is to consolidate a protected area’s system in the dar, Brazil, Tel: (55-51) 3214-5104, Fax: NA, E-mail: odir.tonollier@ heart of the Colombian Amazon through an integrated landscape sefaz.rs.gov.br, Contact: Odir Tonollier, Secretary of Finance approach, improved forest governance and sustainable land man- Transportation agement practices. Board Approval completed on 8 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P144271. US$ 10.4 Bahia State Logistics for Regional Development:The objec- (GEFU). Consultants will be required. Ministerio del Ambiente y tive is to contribute to enhancing the condition and the safety of state Desarrollo Sostenible, Calle 37 No 8-40, Bogota, Colombia, Tel: highways and feeder roads in selected regions. This objective seeks (57-1) 332-3415, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: to underpin the broader goal of spurring sustainable development in Olga Lucia Bautista those regions. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 13 May Mainstreaming Sustainable Cattle Ranching Additional 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147272. US$ Financing:The objectives are to: (a) promote adoption of environ- 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to ment-friendly Silvopastoral Production Systems (SPS) for cattle be determined. ranching in Colombia´s project areas; (b) improve natural resource Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection management and enhance the provision of environmental services (R) Fortaleza Sustainable Urban Development Project:The (biodiversity, land, carbon, and water); and (c) raise the productiv- objective is to support Fortaleza’s Urban and Environmental Devel- ity in participating farms. Bank Approval completed on 4 August opment Program by: (a) restore urban environment; (b) strengthen 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145732. municipal management capacity in areas related to urban plan- US$ 20.7 (SPTF). Consulting services to be determined. Colombian ning and financing, DRM, and environmental management; and (c) Cattle Ranching Organization-FEDEGAN, Calle 37 No. 14-31, Bogota, project management. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Colombia, Tel: (571) 578-2020, E-mail: [email protected], 73.3 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to Contact: Carlos Osorio, Subgerente Tecnico be determined. Programmatic Development Policy Loan for Sustainable (R) Teresina Enhancing Municipal Governance and Quality Development:The objectives are to: (a) improve the effectiveness of Life Additional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) modern- and efficiency of the National Environmental System (SINA); and ize and improve the management capacity of the Teresina Municipal (b) integrate principles of sustainable development into key sectors, Government in the financial, urban, environmental, service-delivery with a particular emphasis on protecting the most vulnerable groups. and economic development fields; and (b) improve the quality of Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consult- life of the low-income population of the Lagoas do Norte Region of ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. the city. Appraisal completed on 9 December 2014. Environmental Education Assessment Category A. US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and Third Student Loan Support Project-Series of Projects implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (SOP)-Phase II:The objective is to increase coverage, gradua- Acre Social and Economic Inclusion and Sustainable Devel- tion and equity in the higher education system, prioritizing quality opment Additional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) develop higher education institutions. Bank Approval completed on 1 April and implement water supply and sanitation urban service delivery in 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P145782. US$ five municipalities; and (b) expand and deepen the range of activities 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Instituto Colombiano in education, health and sustainable development to scale up the de Crédito Educativo y Estudios Técnicos en El Exterior (ICETEX), project’s impact and development effectiveness. Bank Approval com- Colombia, Tel: (571) 382-1670, E-mail: [email protected], pleted on 29 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category Contact: Fernando Rodriguez Carrizosa A. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. State Secretary of Planning, Government of the State of Acre, Palácio das Secretarias, Public Administration, Law, and Justice 232, Quuarto, Andar, Centro, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, Tel: (55-68) (R) Government-wide Administrative and Financial Man- 3224-0481, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Marcio agement Systems:The objective is to extend functionalities and Verissimo, Secretary of Planning coverage of existing public financial magement systems in the country Alto Solimões Basic Services and Sustainable Development and government-wide administrative and financial management sys- Project Additional Financing:The objectives are to: (a) support tems. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 21 November the Zona Franca Verde Program (PRODERAM, P083977) to address 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P150468. US$ the financing gap of the original project (APL1); and (b) continue to 65.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministerio de Hacienda y support the assessment of existing urban development policies. This Credito Publico, Carrera 7 No 6-45, Bogotá, DC, Colombia, Tel: (57- project is on hold until further notice. Environmental Assessment 1) 381-1700, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Carolina Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing Soto, Viceminister agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Growth and Productivity Multi-sector DPL (Ln. 84540- Espirito Santo Integrated Sustainable Development:The CO):The objectives are to increase economic growth and productivity objective is to improve efficiency of the State of Espírito Santo in by supporting structural reforms that will foster physical and hu- managing water resources and infrastructure in a sustainable, resil- man capital investment, innovation, and facilitate access to external ient and integrated manner. Bank Approval completed on 28 March markets. The loan was signed on 15 December 2014. Environmental 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P130682. US$ Assessment Category U. Project: P149609. US$ 700.0 (IBRD). No 225.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. CESAN, Av. Governador consultants are required. Ministerio de Hacienda y Cred Publico, Bley, 186, Brazil, Tel: (55-27) 3132-8200, Fax: (55-27) 3222-4369, Carrera 7 No. 6-40, Bogota, Colombia, Tel: (57-1) 381-1700, E-mail: E-mail: www.cesan.com.br, Contact: Paulo Ruy, Diretor-Presidente. [email protected], Contact: Monica Almonacid, Sub- Instituto Estadual do Meio Ambiente (IEMA), Rod. BR 262 Km directora de Financiamiento Organismos Multilaterales 0, Patio Porto Velho, Brazil, Tel: (55-27) 3136-3437, Fax: (55-27) Facilitating Access to Justice in the Peace Consolidation 3136-3441, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Amadou Process:The objective is to support the expansion of selected mecha- Harouna, Haut Commissaire. Secretaria de Estado de Projetos Es- nisms to provide access to justice for victims of Colombia’s armed peciais e Articulação Metropolitana, Palácio da Fonte Grande, Rua conflict. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). PAGE 66 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

Consultants will be required. Ministerio de Jusiticia, Carrera 9 No Health and Other Social Services 12C-10, Bogota, Colombia, Tel: (57-1) 444-3100, E-mail: piedad. (R) Health Sector (HS) Reform:The objectives are to: (a) [email protected] strengthen the Regional HS to deliver quality services with em- Transportation phasis to improve health of mothers and children; and (b) enhance the institutional capacity of public sector health organizations to (R) Second Programmatic Productive and Sustainable Cit- conduct strategic purchasing of health care services and goods, and ies Development Policy Loan (Ln. 84550-CO):The objectives strengthen sector stewardship and knowledge management. Project are to support the implementation of: (a) sustainable and inclusive Concept Review Meeting completed on 2 December 2014. Envi- cities; (b) access to affordable housing; (c) institutional strength- ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting ening and regional coordination; and (d) connectivity across the services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. urban system and regional infrastructure financing. Bank Approval completed on 12 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- Flexible Active Labor Market Programs:The objective is to egory U. Project: P145766. US$ 700.0 (IBRD). No consultants are support the Ministry of Labor in improving the employability of: (a) required. Ministerio de Hacienda y Credito Publico, Carrera 8, No. poor, low-skilled, long-term unemployed people between the ages of 6-64, Bogota, Colombia Tel/Fax: (57-1) 381-5000, E-mail: malmo- 18 and 65; and (b) poor at-risk youth by building their work experi- [email protected], Contact: Monica Almonacid, Subdirectora ence and life skills. Appraisal completed on 15 May 2014. Environ- de Financiamiento Organismos Multilaterales mental Assessment Category B. Project: P131109. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Labor, Av. Jimenez Moya, Urban Transport Clean Technology Fund:The objective is to Centro de Los Heroes, Dominican Republic, Tel: (809) 535-4404, support the Government in developing the urban transport project Ext. 2306, Fax: (809) 533-1548, E-mail: [email protected], for Bogota identified under the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) In- Contact: Jose Luis Polanco de Leon, Coordinator vestment Plan, to improve public transit service provision. The CTF for Bogota envisions a comprehensive mobility and climate change Integrated Social Protection and Promotion project:The agenda for Bogota’s Carrera 7 corridor. Environmental Assessment objective is to improve access of poor Dominican citizens to an in- Category B. US$ 40.0 (CCTF). Consultants will be required. Minis- tegrated package of social protection and promotion opportunities, terio de Transporte, Av. El Dorado CAN, Bogota, Colombia, Tel: (57- including in particular human capital, enhanced employability, and 1) 324-0800, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: housing improvements in selected provinces. Appraisal completed Felipe Targa, Viceministro de Transporte on 11 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P147213. US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Social Cabinet, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Tel: (809) National Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Phase 2:The ob- 534-2105, E-mail: [email protected] jective is to further strengthen Colombia’s disaster risk management Information and Communications framework through: (a) the application of disaster risk analysis and management in policy making at the sectoral and territorial levels, Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Pro- and (b) strengthening of risk reduction at subnational levels. Project gram:The objectives are to: (a) increase access and affordability of Concept Review Meeting completed on 27 June 2012. Environmental broadband communications networks; (b) contribute to the devel- Assessment Category B. Project: P130456. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Con- opment of the regional IT industry; and (c) contribute to improved sultants will be required. Ministry of Housing, Cities, and Territory, Government efficiency and transparency through regionally harmo- Bogota, Colombia, Tel: (571) 288-6020, Fax: NA, E-mail: NA nized e-government applications. Bank Approval completed on 25 September 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147483. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Contact: Costa Rica Abdullah Al Shatter, Deputy Minister for Projects Programming Health and Other Social Services National Health Insurance System:The objective is to support Public Administration, Law, and Justice the Government of Costa Rica to strengthen the National Health Public Sector Modernization:The objective is to strengthen cen- Insurance System Efficiency and Performance. Environmental As- tral and subnational management capacities to improve the quality sessment Category B. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and of public spending and to provide better and more efficient public implementing agency(ies) to be determined. services. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministerio de Hacienda, Av. Mexico Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Nio. 45, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Tel: (809) 687-5131, (R) Sewage and Drainage for Limon:The objective is sustain- Fax: (809) 682-0498, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: able improvement of sewerage and drainage services in Limon to Ramon Sarante, Director del Programa de Administración Finan- cover about two thirds of the city. Environmental Assessment Cat- ciera (PAFI) egory B. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Ecuador Dominican Republic Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Sustainable Family Farming Modernization:The objective is Education to enhance the diversification and competitiveness of small and me- Education Quality Project:The objectives are to develop and dium farmers by improving productivity, facilitating market access implement new key policies and programs in fundamental areas of for farmers, and introducing climate-smart on farm technologies. the Dominican Republic education sector strategy, including teacher Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 14 October 2014. quality and student learning. Appraisal completed on 18 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P151963. US$ 60.0 Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P146831. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. determined. Education Energy and Mining Education:The objective is to support the Government of Ecuador’s Distribution Networks Rehabilitation:The objectives are to: (a) existing “Millenium Schools Program” in the education sector. Envi- increase the Cash Recovery Index of the three electricity distribution ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting companies in selected areas; and, (b) improve the quality of electric- services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. ity service. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 21 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147277. US$ Transportation 120.0/100.0 (IBRD/EUIB). Consulting services and implementing (R) Ibarra Road Infrastructure Improvement Project:The agency(ies) to be determined. objective is to improve acess and inclusion of communities in the DECEMBER 2014 Latin America and the Caribbean Region PAGE 67 municipality of Ibarra through the provision of road infrastructure the Guatemalan Government in creating fiscal space and expanding and institutional strengthening activities. Project Concept Review opportunities for the most vulnerable segments of society. Bank Meeting completed on 5 November 2013. Environmental Assess- Approval completed on 17 June 2014. Environmental Assessment ment Category B. Project: P147280. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting Category U. Project: P133738. US$ 340.0 (IBRD). Consultants will services to be determined. Municipality of Ibarra, y Calle Simon be required. Directorate of Public Credit, Ministry of Public Finance, Bolivar, Ibarra, Ecuador, Tel: (593-06) 264-1677, Fax: (593-06) 295- 8a. Avenida 20-65 Zona 1, Centro Civico, Guatemala City, Gua- 4997, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Jorge Martinez, temala, Tel: (502) 2322-8888 Ext. 11538, Fax: NA, E-mail: NA, Mayor of Ibarra Contact: Mynor Argueta, Head of Department, Management and Negotiation Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Urban Infrastructure:The objectives are to: (a) support increased (R) Guayaquil Wastewater Treatment Project:The objec- access to infrastructure; and (b) reduce crime and violence in low- tives are to enhance: (a) the quality of life of the rapidly increasing income and precarious urban settlements in the country. Appraisal urban population of the City of Guayaquil by improving health and completed on 15 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. environmental conditions; and (b) economic competitiveness and Project: P143495. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- growth prospects by reducing the degradation of water resources mined. Instituto de Fomento Municipal (INFOM), 8a Calle 1-66 Zona and improving the quality of the urban environment. Project Con- 9, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, Tel: (502) 336-8100, Contact: cept Review Meeting completed on 10 December 2014. Environ- Edin Roberto Casasola, Coordinator de Cooperacion Internacional mental Assessment Category A. Project: P151439. US$ 102.5/102.5 (IBRD/EUIB). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Guyana Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection El Salvador (R) Disaster Risk Management (Cr. 54740-GY):The objective Public Administration, Law, and Justice is to reduce the vulnerability of Guyana’s low-lying coastal area to DPL I:The objective is to improve performance and maintain a flooding by implementing key strategic infrastructure investments. sustainable fiscal framework by: (i) enhancing revenue policy and The credit was signed on 10 October 2014. Environmental Assess- increasing tax revenue; and (ii) improving efficiency and transpar- ment Category B. Project: P147250. US$ 11.9 (IDA Credit). Consul- ency in the allocation of public resources. Environmental Assessment tants will be required. Agriculture Sector Development Unit (ASDU), Category U. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implement- Ministry of Agriculture, Guyana, Tel: (592) 227-2978, E-mail: psmo- ing agency(ies) to be determined. [email protected], Contact: Mr. George Jervis, Permanent Secretary Grenada Haiti Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Education Regional Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project Addi- (R) Second Global Partnership Education for Education tional Finance:The objective is to reduce vulnerability to natural for All Program Grant:The objective is to support the Ministry hazards and climate change impacts in the Eastern Caribbean. This of Education in the development of a three-year sector Transitional project will aim to scale up project activities in Grenada. Project Con- Action Plan which will prioritize areas for engagement in the educa- cept Review Meeting completed on 21 October 2014. Environmental tion sector from 2013-2015. The loan was signed on 7 November Assessment Category B. US$ 3.8/5.0 (CSCC/CSCF). Consulting ser- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P132756. vices and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. US$ 24.1 (EFAS). Consultants will be required. Ministry of National Education and Profesional Training (MENFP), 5 rue D’Audain, Port- Industry and Trade au-Prince, Haiti, Tel: (509) 3754-5106, Fax: (509) 527-1135, E-mail: (R) Resilience Building DPC 2:The objective of this second [email protected], Contact: Creutzer Mathurin, Directeur de programmatic DPL is to: (i) create sustainable conditions for private la Cellule de Pilotage investment; (ii) support improved public sector management and targetted social safety net programs; (iii) enhance resilience against HRF Grant for Strengthening Governance in Education and natural disasters; and (iv) facilitate debt portfolio restructuring and Water Sectors:The objective is to enhance transparency and ef- enhance debt management. Project Concept Review Meeting com- ficiency of public resources management in support of reconstruction pleted on 4 December 2014. Environmental Assessment Category and institutional consolidation for long term growth through improv- U. Project: P151821. US$ 10.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and ing governance, oversight and public resource use in (i) the Education implementing agency(ies) to be determined. sector, and (ii) the Water and Sanitation sector. First Grant Funding Request Approval completed on 30 June 2014. Environmental As- Comprehensive Debt Framework Development Policy sessment Category U. Project: P147166. US$ 17.6 (HRTF). Consulting Loan:The objective is to support the Government to create fiscal services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. space, improve resilience to natural disasters, and strengthen com- petitiveness in order to achieve debt sustainability. Signing com- Transportation pleted on 2 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 15.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, (R) Disaster Risk Management and Reconstruction--Pilot Planning, Economy, Energy and Cooperatives, Financial Complex, Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) Additional Financ- the Carenage, St. George’s, Grenada, Tel: (473) 440-2928, Fax: (473) ing:The objective is to increase resilience in disaster planning and 440-4115, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Abdullah Al response in vulnerable cities in coastal areas of the Gulf de la Gonâve Shatter, Deputy Minister for Projects Programming by: (i) adopting an integrated coastal management approach land use planning; (ii) infrastructure protection; and (iii) encouraging involvement and accountability of stakeholders. Project Concept Guatemala Review Meeting completed on 19 November 2014. Environmental Public Administration, Law, and Justice Assessment Category B. US$ 7.0 (CSCF). Consulting services and (N) Revenue Administration Modernization Project:The implementing agency(ies) to be determined. objective is to support the Government of Guatemala’s efforts to increase fiscal space through tax administration and customs mod- Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection ernization and strengthening trade facilitation. Environmental As- Strengthening Hydro-Met Services:The objective is to sessment Category C. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and strengthen capacity of select institutions in delivering reliable and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. timely hydrological and meteorological information services to in- Second Programmatic Fiscal Space for Expanding Oppor- form policy dialogue and decision making. Project Concept Review tunities Development Policy Loan:The objective is to support Meeting completed on 22 April 2014. Environmental Assessment PAGE 68 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 Category B. Project: P148259. US$ 5.5 (CSCF). Consulting services and institutional reforms to improve the investment climate, increase and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. competitiveness, and strengthen fiscal management. Decision Meet- Sustainable Rural Water and Sanitation:The objective is to ing completed on 16 December 2014. Environmental Assessment increase access to water and sanitation services as well as consolidate Category U. Project: P151448. US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and scale up the professional management model in rural areas and and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. small towns in Haiti. Project Concept Review Meeting completed Improving Climate Data and Information Management: on 5 May 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: The objective is to improve the quality of climate information for P148970. US$ 50.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and imple- effective planning and action at local and national levels in Jamaica. menting agency(ies) to be determined. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 30 May 2012. Envi- ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 6.8 (CSCF). Consultants will Honduras be required. Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), PIOJ Building 16 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Oxford Road Kingston 5, PO Box 634, Jamaica, Tel: (876) 935-5059, Fax: (876) 906-2214, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Corredor Seco Food Security Project:The objective is to en- Hopeton Peterson, Manager hance food and nutritional security of vulnerable households in selected geographical locations of the Corredor Seco. Donor Approval Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection completed on 16 July 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. (R) Disaster Vulnerability Reduction:The objective is to mea- Project: P148737. US$ 30.0 (GAFS). Consulting services to be de- surably reduce vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change termined. Ministry of the Presidential Office, Honduras, Tel: (504) impacts. Decision Meeting completed on 17 December 2014. En- 9495-2299, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Mariano vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P146965. US$ 42.0 Jimenez, Executive Director, UTSAN (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Jamaica Social In- Energy and Mining vestment fund, 1c-1f Pawsey Road, Jamaica, Tel: (876) 968-4545, Contact: Loy Malcolm, General Manager, Project Management Sustainable Rural Energy Services:The objective is to scale-up the provision of sustainable energy services (off-grid) and advanced biomass cookstoves for rural and periurban areas in Honduras. Mexico Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P131602. US$ 10.0 Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (CSCF). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Bo. El Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples (IP) Jazmin 5ta. Ave. 3ra Ave, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tel: (504) 2220- and Local Communities (LC):The objective is to strengthen the 1538, Fax: (504) 2222-6120, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) in the FIP Leonardo Matute, Coordinador and other REDD+ programs at local, national and global levels by supporting capacity building and demand-driven initiatives of IPLCs. Health and Other Social Services Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 6.0 (CSCF). Consulting (R) Social Protection Additional Financing:The objective is to services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. scale up the national conditional cash transfer program to new target areas and broaden the country’s social protection strategy. Project Education Concept Review Meeting completed on 3 December 2014. Environ- Compensatory Education Additional Financing:The objec- mental Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting tive is to improve the coverage and education performance of high services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. marginalization students in 162 of the poorest municipalities of Social Protection and Labor:The objective is to support the Mexico, through innovative interventions and the participation of implementation and reform of the national conditional cash transfer parents and other members of the school community. Bank Ap- program and broaden the country’s social protection strategy. It will proval completed on 24 October 2014. Environmental Assessment also support the capacity to design and evaluation of employment Category C. Project: P149858. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants will programs. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IDA be required. CONAFE, R, Col. Cuauht, Mexico City, Mexico, Tel: Credit). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be (52-5) 5241-7443, Fax: (52-5) 5553-3357, E-mail: anavarretez@ determined. conafe.gob.mx, Contact: , School Based Management:The objective is to improve the qual- Public Administration, Law, and Justice ity of education as measured by coverage, social participation, and (R) Economic Stabilization DPL1 (Cr. 55770-HN):The ob- educational outcomes. Bank Approval completed on 24 October jective is to support the Government of Honduras promote macro- 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P147185. US$ economic stability and enhance the management of social policies. 350.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Secretaria de Educacion Signing completed on 10 December 2014. Environmental Assess- Publica (SEP), Brasil 31, Piso 2, oficina 318, Colonia Centro Historico, ment Category U. US$ 55.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants will be re- Mexico City, Mexico, Tel: (52-5) 3601-1000, Fax: NA, E-mail: NA, quired. Ministry of Finance, Honduras, Honduras, Tel: (504-2) Contact: Pedro Velasco Sodi, General Director for DGDGIE 222-1278, Fax: NA, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: W. Cerrato, Minister of Finance Energy and Mining (R) Municipal Energy Efficiency:The objective is to support the Jamaica development of an urban energy efficiency program by: (a) stren- Health and Other Social Services thening the capacity of the municipalities and the Ministry of En- (R) Youth Employment in Digital and Creative Industries ergy (SENER) to design and implement energy efficiency measures; (Ln. 84050-JM):The objective is to create an enabling environ- and (b) implementing energy efficiency measures in municipalities. ment in the digital and animation industries for: (a) youth employ- Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 4 June 2014. Envi- ment in the virtual Global Economy; and (b) youth employment ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting and entrepreneurship through new startups or expansion of existing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. companies. The loan was signed on 3 September 2014. Environ- Sustainable Energy Technologies Development for Climate mental Assessment Category C. Project: P148013. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Change:The objective is to improve the functioning of Mexico’s Consultants will be required. Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy Sustainable Energy Fund which generates around US$100 mil- and Mining, Jamaica, Tel: (876) 929-8990, E-mail: ksmith@mstem. lion per year for developing clean energy technologies. Appraisal gov.jm, Contact: Kaydian Smith, Principal Director completed on 20 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P145618. US$ 16.9 (GEFU). Consulting services to be Public Administration, Law, and Justice determined. SENER, Col. del Valle, Mexico, Mexico, Tel: (52-5) (R) Jamaica Foundations for Growth:The objective is to sup- 5000-6047, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Carlos Ortiz, port the Government of Jamaica’s implementation of a set of policy Director General DECEMBER 2014 Latin America and the Caribbean Region PAGE 69

Finance Please check with the task team. Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente, (N) MX Expanding Finance for Productive Purposes:The Avenida Ascanio Villalaz, Edificio 500, Panama, Panama, Tel: (507) objective is to develop the rural financial sector. In part this will be 232-9600, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Ivan Valdespino, through developing FND itself and in part by developing the partici- Manager, CBMAP II pating intermediaries (PI) with which FND works. Environmental Assessment Category F. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and Public Administration, Law, and Justice implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Panama DPL:The objective of the DPL series is to support the Government of Panama in increasing efficiency of public poli- Health and Other Social Services cies and strengthening social transfer programs. Project Concept (R) Social Protection System (Ln. 84470-MX):The objectives Review Meeting completed on 15 December 2014. Environmental are to support the Government’s effort to: (a) increase access of Assessment Category U. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and PROSPERA beneficiaries to social and productive programs, and (b) implementing agency(ies) to be determined. develop instruments for an integrated social protection system. The loan was signed on 19 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Paraguay Category C. Project: P147212. US$ 350.0 (IBRD). Consultants will Public Administration, Law, and Justice be required. Sedesol/Oportunidades, Mexico, Mexico, Tel: (52-55) Development Policy Lending Deferred Drawdown Option 5482-0700, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: (DPL-DDO):The objective is to support the Government of Para- Barajas Gonzalez Luis, Director, International Affairs guay to: (a) strengthen its public financial management system, Public Administration, Law, and Justice (b) make the tax system more equitable, and (c) promote financial inclusion. Negotiations completed on 10 November 2014. Environ- Fiscal Risk Management Development Policy Loan:The mental Assessment Category U. Project: P151007. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). objective is to support policies for enhanced fiscal sustainability, Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Chile 128, Asun- predictability and transparency of public expenditure to support cion, Paraguay, Tel: 59521447049, Contact: Daniel Correa, Under stable economic growth and development. This project is on hold Secretary of Economy until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category U. Proj- ect: P123505. US$ 300.8 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Transportation Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico SHCP, Av. Constituyentes Rural Connectivity:The objectives are to improve the efficiency 1001, Edificio B, 6to Piso, Col. Belen de las Flores, CP, Mexico DF, in the management of the country’s national road transport net- Mexico, Tel: (52-55) 3688-1486, Fax: (52-55) 3688-4962, E-mail: work, and contribute to improved road safety outcomes. Project [email protected], Contact: Guillermo Bernal, Concept Review Meeting completed on 3 November 2014. Envi- Coordinator ronmental Assessment Category B. Project: P147278. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Nicaragua determined. Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry (R) Caribbean Coast Food Security Project:The objective is Peru to improve food and nutritional security in selected food insecure Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry communities of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. Grant Request Dedicated Grant Mechanism:The objective is to support ef- completed on 10 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Cat- forts by Indigenous peoples to ensure the sustainable management egory B. Project: P148809. US$ 33.9 (GAFS). Consultants will be of their forest resources by strengthening native land tenure, food required. Ministerio de Economía Familiar Comunitaria, Km. 8 1/2 security and income generation in targeted regions in the Amazon. Carretera a Masaya, Frente al MAGFOR, Managua, Nicaragua, Tel: Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 28 April 2014. En- (505-2) 255-8777, E-mail: [email protected], vironmental Assessment Category B. Project: P148499. US$ 5.5 Contact: Maria Antonieta Machado (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Health and Other Social Services determined. (R) Community and Family Quality Health Care:The objec- Sustainable Forest Management in Atalaya:The objective is tive is to strengthen the quality of health care of the Family and to strengthen and implement forest landscape management in or- Community Health Care Model (MOSAFC). Project Concept Review der to reduce GHG emissions produced by deforestation and forest Meeting completed on 18 December 2014. Environmental Assess- degradation and increase carbon reserves. Project Concept Review ment Category B. Project: P152136. US$ 30.0 (IDA Credit). Consult- Meeting completed on 28 May 2014. Environmental Assessment ing services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Category B. Project: P148932. US$ 12.6 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice (R) PFM Modernization Additional Financing:The objective Health and Other Social Services is to enhance the efficiency, performance orientation, and transpar- Second Social Inclusion Development Policy Lending ency of the Recipient s public expenditures management. Bank Ap- (DPL):The objectives are to: (a) support the institutionalized lead- proval completed on 8 December 2014. Environmental Assessment ership and stewardship of the social inclusion agenda; (b) lay out the Category C. Project: P150743. US$ 25.0 (IDA Credit). Consultants foundations to improve the inclusiveness and effectiveness of key will be required. Please check with Task Team. Ministerio de Haci- social programs executed by MIDIS; (c) develop adequate systems enda y Credito Publico, Nicaragua, Contact: Sr. Uriel Perez, Director for targeting; (d) provide monitoring and evaluation; and (e) execute General of Public Credit the overall coordination. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 23 June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: Panama P147216. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministerio de Economia y Finanzas, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 311-5958, Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Contact: Rosario Cáceres Ruiz, Director Biodiversity-Friendly Sustainable Productive Systems and Conservation of Protected Areas:The objective is to mainstream Industry and Trade biodiversity-friendly sustainable systems in productive landscapes Regional Development Project:The objectives are to: (i) improve and improve selected protected areas management within the Pana- solid waste management, disaster risk management, and transpor- manian Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Negotiations completed tation infrastructure; (ii) protect and enhance key historic sites; on 24 October 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: and (iii) create new capacity and instruments for tourism develop- P145621. US$ 9.6/8.5 (GEFU/ZPCI). Consultants will be required. ment planning. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 50.0 PAGE 70 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be Financial Sector Strengthening:The objective is to strengthen determined. the financial sector in the OECS countries. Environmental Assess- ment Category C. US$ 80.0 (IDA Credit). Consulting services and Transportation implementing agency(ies) to be determined. (R) Rural and Regional Decentralization:The objective is to contribute to sustainable economic development and rural pov- Industry and Trade erty reduction in Peru through the improvement of accessibility OECS Competitiveness Project:The objective is to lay the of departmental and rural roads that are managed by the regional foundation to improve the competitiveness of the tourism sector and local governments. Project Concept Review Meeting completed in the OECS region. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ on 5 November 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. 15.0/10.0 (IBRD/IDA Credit). Consulting services and implementing Project: P132515. US$ 50.0/50.0 (IBRD/IADB). Consultants will agency(ies) to be determined. be required. PROVIAS Descentralizado, Jr Camana 678, Piso 10, Skills Upgrading for Incubator Managers and Resources Cercado de Lima, Lima, Peru Tel/Fax: (51-1) 614-5300, E-mail: for Policymakers:The objective is to ensure the sustainability [email protected], Contact: Jose Rodriguez, Executive and impact of incubation in the region by addressing the significant Director skills gaps among incubator managers in the region and providing Lima Metro Line 2:The objective is to enhance the mobility of policymakers with the knowledge and tools to effectively support travelers and accessibility of socioeconomic opportunities in a key incubators in their countries. Environmental Assessment Category corridor of Metropolitan Lima. Project Concept Review Meeting C. US$ 2.0 (INFO). No consultants are required. Implementing completed on 28 August 2014. Environmental Assessment Category agency(ies) to be determined. A. Project: P145610. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) to be determined. Transportation (R) Santa Cruz Road Corridor Project:The objective is to sup- Sustainable Development Investments SENACE:The objec- port the Government of Bolivia in upgrading an approximately 200 tive is to establish the foundations for long term sustainability in the km road corridor between San Igancio de Velasco to San Jose de investments of key economic sectors and achieve progressive reduc- Chiquitos in the Department of Santa Cruz. Project Concept Re- tions in the costs of environmental degradation. Project Concept view Meeting completed on 18 December 2014. Environmental Review Meeting completed on 8 May 2014. Environmental Assess- Assessment Category B. US$ 130.0 (IBRD). Consulting services and ment Category B. Project: P147342. US$ 35.0 (IBRD). Consulting implementing agency(ies) to be determined. services to be determined. Ministerio del Ambiente, Av. Javier Prado Oeste 1440, San Isidro, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 611-6000, E-mail: (R) Second Phase Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Adapt- [email protected], Contact: Cuba Amalia, Directora de Políticas, able Lending Program (Cr. 54930-LC):The objectives are to Normas e Instrumentos support: (a) structural investments in selected critical public build- ings and infrastructure; and (b) technical assistance activities to Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection measurably reduce Saint Lucia’s vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change impacts. The credit was signed on 16 July (R) Lima Norte II Additional Finance:The objective is to 2014. Environmental Assessment Category B. Project: P127226. improve efficiency, continuity and reliability of water supply and US$ 41.0/15.0/12.0 (IDA Credit/CSCC/CSCF). Consultants will be sanitation services in the Northern Service Area of Lima. Negotia- required. Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs and National Devel- tions completed on 11 November 2014. Environmental Assessment opment, Financial Center, Bridge St. 3rd Floor, Castries, Saint Lucia, Category B. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. SEDA- Tel: (1-758) 468-5500, Fax: (1-758) 452-6700, E-mail: ianthony@ PAL, Autopista R. Priale 210, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 317-3095, E-mail: gosl.gov.lc, Contact: Isaac Anthony, Permanent Secretary [email protected], Contact: Marco Vargas Medina, General Manager (a.i.) Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection Integrated Water Resources Management:The objective is Andes Adaptation to the Impact of Climate Change in Wa- to contribute with the improvement of the water resources man- ter Resources:The objective is to support countries in developing agement in the hydrographic watersheds of Peru. Environmental strategies, policies and on-the-ground interventions to manage their Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to scarce water resources in an integrated fashion, prioritizing criti- be determined. ANA -National Water Authority, Joaquin Madrid cally threatened ecosystems and economies. GEF Council Approval 384 San Borja, Peru, Tel: (511) 713-0019, E-mail: [email protected]. completed on 20 June 2013. Environmental Assessment Category pe, Contact: Cromwell Alva, Executive Director B. Project: P145345. US$ 9.7 (GEFU). Consulting services to be de- Second Catastrophe Deferred Draw Down Option (CAT termined. Secretaria General de la Comunidad Andina, Paseo de la DDO):The objective is to increase the Government’s capacity to República 3895, San Isidro, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 710-6400, Fax: mobilize resources in the event of a disaster and to promote risk (51-1) 221-3329, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: reduction. Project Concept Review Meeting completed on 30 Octo- Tomas Ursula, Coordinator ber 2014. Environmental Assessment Category U. Project: P149831. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry St. Vincent and the Grenadines of Economy and Finance, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 311-5938, Fax: (51-1) Water, Sanitation and Flood Protection 311-9900, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Rosario Caceres (R) Regional Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project Ad- Ruiz, Head of Unit ditional Finance:The objective is to reduce vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change impacts in the Eastern Caribbean Sub- Regional region. Bank Approval completed on 9 May 2014. Environmen- Finance tal Assessment Category B. Project: P146768. US$ 35.6/5.0 (IDA Credit/CSCF). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance and Central America and Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insur- Economic Planning, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, ance:The objective is to increase the fiscal resilience of the Central Tel: (784) 457-1746, E-mail: [email protected], Contact:, Public American countries, the Dominican Republic, and CARICOM mem- Sector Investment Program Management Unit ber countries to catastrophic events resulting from tropical cyclones, earthquakes, and excess rainfall. Decision Meeting completed on 10 March 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: Uruguay P149670. US$ 14.6 (FSSP). Consulting services to be determined. Public Administration, Law, and Justice Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, Saint Lucia, Tel: (R) Public Sector Management and Social Inclusion De- (758) 285-6397, E-mail: [email protected], Contact: Isaac An- velopment Policy Loan (Ln. 84530-UY):The objectives are thony, Chief Executive Officer to: (a) strengthen public sector administration; (b) improve com- DECEMBER 2014 Other PAGE 71 petitiveness; and (c) improve social inclusion through measures seeking to enhance the equity and efficiency of health, education and social protection systems. Bank Approval completed on 2 December Africa 2014. Environmental Assessment Category C. Project: P149069. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Corporacion Nacional de Desarrollo (CND), Uruguay, Contact: Alfonso Margenat, Gerente Cote d’Ivoire de Operaciones Energy and Mining Foxtrot Gas Field Expansion (Private Sector): The objective is to improve the availability of natural gas for power generation in an environmentally sound manner. IDA PRG US$ 60 million. Board Other Approval completed on 18 June 2013. Mauritania Regional Energy and Mining Agriculture, Fishing, and Forestry Gas to Power PRG (Private Sector): The objective is to increase Forest Investment Program (FIP) Grant Mechanism for the electricity supply through development of gas infrastructure. IDA Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities:The objective is PRG US$ 80 million. The Board Approval scheduled for FY14. to organize and facilitate knowledge exchange, learning and capacity building for IPLCsat regional and global levels, and to strengthen Nigeria the networks and alliances of IPLC organizations within and across Energy and Mining regions with a view to enhancing their representation and voice in regional and global policy fora. Decision Meeting completed on 2 Nigeria Power Sector IPP Guarantees Project (Private Sec- June 2014. Environmental Assessment Category F. Project: P128748. tor): The objective is to support power sector development and US$ 5.0 (CSCF). Consulting services and implementing agency(ies) privatization of distribution and power generation companies. A to be determined. series of IDA PRGs US$ 1 billion. Board Approval scheduled for FY14. Tanzania Energy and Mining Guarantee Operations Singida Wind power (Private Sector): The objective is to im- By covering some of the risks that the market is not able to bear or prove the environment for private sector investments in climate- adequately evaluate, the Bank’s guarantee can attract new sources of friendly wind generation capacity. IDA PRG of US$ 100 million. finance, reduce financing costs, and extend maturities. The guarantee Board Approval scheduled for FY14. can be especially valuable for countries with limited market access Ruhudji Hydropower Project (Private Sector): The objective and where activities traditionally undertaken and financed by the is to improve the environment for private sector investment in power government are being shifted to the private sector but where the sector, thereby increasing electricity supply. IDA PRG of US$ 200 government remains as a regulator or provider of inputs and a buyer million. Board Approval scheduled for FY15. of outputs. The Bank’s participation as guarantor can also facilitate the transparency of these transactions. Since the guarantee is intended to be a catalytic instrument, the Bank offers only partial guarantees, and risks are clearly shared between the Bank and private lenders. The Bank’s objective is to cover risks Europe and Central Asia that it is well-positioned to bear given its credit, its experience with developing countries, and its special relationships with governments. Croatia The risk-sharing may be for specific risks (the partial risk guarantee) or for part of the financing (the partial credit guarantee). Financial Sector Croatia PCG (Private Sector): The objective is to support the A partial risk guarantee covers risks arising from nonperformance of Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (HBOR) to sovereign contractual obligations or from force majeure aspects in a improve long-term financing terms. PCG EU€ 200 million. Board project. A partial credit guarantee and a policy-based guarantee typi- Approval completed on 27 June 2013. cally extend maturities beyond what private creditors could otherwise provide, for example, by guaranteeing late-dated repayments. Kosovo For more information on the Bank’s guarantee program and to obtain a copy of the pamphlet “The World Bank Guarantees: Leveraging Energy and Mining Private Finance for Emerging Markets” (available in English, French, New Kosovo Power Plant (NKPP) IPP (Private Sector): The Portuguese and Spanish), please contact the Finance Economics and objective is to support a private sector independent power producer Urban Department (FEU) Tel: (202) 458-8111; Fax: (202) 522-0761, and lignite mine development company. IDA PRG of US$ 54 million. or visit www.worldbank.org/guarantees. Board Approval scheduled for FY15. PAGE 72 Monthly Operational Summary DECEMBER 2014

LIST OF ACRONYMS

AUSAID Australian Agency for International IDB Inter-American Development Bank Development IFAD International Fund for Agricultural ADB Asian Development Bank Development ADF African Development Fund IsDB Islamic Development Bank AfDB African Development Bank JBIC Japan Bank for International Cooperation APL Adaptable Program Loan ITF Interim Trust Fund BADEA Banque Arabe de Développement KfW Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau Économique en Afrique (Germany) BOAD Banque Ouest Africaine LIL Learning and Innovation Loan de Développement NCB National Competitive Bidding CDB Caribbean Development Bank NGO Nongovernmental Organization CFD Caisse Française de Développement NORAD Norwegian Agency for Development CIDA Canadian International Development Cooperation Agency OECF Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund DANIDA Danish International Development Agency (Japan) DFID Department for International OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Development (UK) Countries EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction PAD Project Appraisal Document and Development PCD Project Concept Document EDF European Development Fund PCF Prototype Carbon Fund EIB European Investment Bank PCN Project Concept Note EU European Union PHRD Policy and Human Resources FAC Fonds d’Aide et de Coopération (France) Development (Japan) FAO Food and Agricultural Organization PID Project Identification (Number) of the United Nations PPF Project Preparation Facility FAO/CP FAO Cooperative Program (with the World Bank) QCBS Quality and Cost-Based Selection FINNIDA Finland International Development SDC Swiss Agency for Development Agency Cooperation GEF Global Environment Facility SIDA Swedish International Development Authority GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit UNDP United Nations Development Programme IAPSO Inter-Agency Procurement Service Office UNFPA United Nations Population Fund IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund and Development USAID United States Agency for International ICB International Competitive Bidding Development IDA International Development Association WHO World Health Organization