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Consolidated Annual Report 2019 EGIS Eau / PECG Nuku’alofa Urban Development Sector Project Project Implementation Assistance Consultants ADB GRANT-0264 TON and GRANT-0265 TON CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL REPORT 2019 January 2020 Page i Consolidated Annual Report, Year-7, 2019 EGIS Eau / PECG Quality Information Project title Nuku’alofa Urban Development Sector Project Document title Consolidated Annual Report, Year 7, 2019 Date January 2020 Author(s) PMU & PIAC Reference n° EUR 11521M Quality control Version Date Written by: Check by: V1 31/01/2020 Jacinta FINAU/Sevenitini TOUMOUA John GILDEA Recipients: Name Company Sent on: Balwyn FA’OTUSIA Ministry of Finance – EA 31/01/2020 Rosamond BING Ministry of Lands & Natural Resources 31/01/2020 Tukua TONGA PUMA/NSPAO - IA 31/01/2020 ‘Atunaisa FETOKAI PUMA/NSPAO - IA 31/01/2020 Malakai SIKA Waste Authority Limited 31/01/2020 Sione FINAU Tonga Water Board 31/01/2020 With copy to: Masayuki TACHIRI ADB, Suva 31/01/2020 Grace KING ADB, Suva 31/01/2020 Lavenia URUVARU ADB, Suva 31/01/2020 Taniela FALETAU ADB, Suva 31/01/2020 Tatafu MOEAKI ADB Representative 31/01/2020 Madeline SCOTT DFAT 31/01/2020 Kilisitina BEST DFAT 31/01/2020 Quddus FIELEA TWB 31/01/2020 John GILDEA PIAC 31/01/2020 Laurent DENIAU PIAC 31/01/2020 Pisila ‘OTUNUKU Ministry of Finance – EA 31/01/2020 Elizabeth BAKER Ministry of Finance – EA 31/01/2020 Nuku’alo fa Urban Development Sector Project Page ii Consolidated Annual Report, Year-7, 2019 EGIS Eau / PECG Table of Contents Chapter A. Introduction and Basic Data .................................... 3 A.1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 3 Chapter B. Utilization of Funds .................................................. 9 B.1 Disbursements......................................................................................... 9 Chapter C. Project Purpose ...................................................... 10 C.1 Project Description .................................................................................10 C.2 Project Outputs .......................................................................................10 C.3 Compliance with Grant Covenants..........................................................11 C.4 Compliance with Financial Grant Covenants ..........................................11 C.5 Compliance with Project-Specific Grant Covenants ................................11 C.6 Compliance with Development Objectives ..............................................11 C.7 Sustainability of Project Activities ...........................................................11 C.8 Changes to Key Assumptions and Risks ................................................11 C.9 Project Development Impacts .................................................................12 C.9.1 Environmental ................................................................................................... 12 Chapter D. Implementation Progress....................................... 14 D.1 Project Implementation Arrangements ....................................................14 D.2 Project Implementation Assistance Consultant (PIAC) ............................14 D.3 Inventory of PIAC Support Equipment ....................................................15 D.4 Project Management Unit .......................................................................16 D.5 Project Progress by Components ...........................................................16 D.6 Gender Action Plan Implementation .......................................................22 D.7 Stakeholder Consultations and Community Awareness Activities ...........22 D.8 Land Acquisition and Resettlement.........................................................23 Chapter E. Project Time frame ................................................. 24 E.1 Project Time Frame ................................................................................24 Chapter F. Annexes .................................................................. 26 F.1 Updated Procurement Plan as end December 2018 ...............................26 F.2 Overall Project Implementation Plan .......................................................33 F.3 Status of achieving project outputs .........................................................34 F.4 Civil Works at Mataki’eua Photos ...........................................................39 F.5 Gender Action Plan (updated December 2018) ......................................41 Nuku’alofa Urban Development Sector Project Page ii Consolidated Annual Report, Year-7, 2019 EGIS Eau / PECG LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Project Summary ................................................................................................... 3 Table 3: Financial Summary ................................................................................................ 9 Table 4: Risk Assessment Matrix ...................................................................................... 11 Table 5: PIAC Team Member Inputs to end December 2018 ............................................ 15 Table 6: Inventory of PIAC support equipment procured ................................................... 15 Table 8: Project Progress for Phase 1 - January to December 2018 ................................ 17 Table 9: Project Progress for Implementation Phase 2 – for Year 2018 ............................ 17 Nuku’alofa Urban Development Sector Project Page iii Consolidated Annual Report, Year-7, 2019 EGIS Eau / PECG Acronyms and Abbreviations AB Affected Business National Spatial Planning NSPAO Aps Affected Persons Authority Office Nuku’alofa Urban ADB Asian Development Bank NUDSP Development Sector Project Benefit Monitoring and BME Operation and Maintenance Evaluation O&M Capacity Development Project Administration CDTA PAM Technical Assistance Manual Project Implementation CSS Country Safeguard System PIA Assistance DP Displaced Person Project Implementation Department of Foreign Affairs PIAC DFAT Assistance Consultants and Trade PIU Project Implementation Unit EA Executing Agency Project Management Unit (in Economic Internal Rate of PMU EIRR PUMA/NSPAO) Return Project Performance PPMS EMA External Monitoring Agency Management System ESU Environment and Social Unit Poverty and Socio-Economic PSA EU European Union Assessment Focus Group Discussions Program Steering FGD PSC Committee GAP Gender Action Plan Planning and Urban GDP Gross Domestic Product PUMA Management Agency (in GFP Grievance Focal Point MLSNR) Geographic Information GIS RP Resettlement Plan System Report and GoT Government of Tonga Recommendation of the RRP Grievance Redress President (to the Board of GRC Committee Directors) Ha Hectare SPS Safeguard Policy Statement HH Households SES Socio Economic Survey IA Implementing Agency SW Solid Waste ISA Initial Social Assessment SWM Solid Waste Management Integrated Urban IUDP TA Technical Assistance Development Project Tonga National Integrated Urban IUDSP TNIIP Infrastructure Investment Development Sector Project Plan Internal Monitoring Agency IMA TNA training needs assessment Kilometre Km TOR Terms of Reference Land Acquisition and Tonga Strategic LAR TSDF Resettlement Development Framework MIA Ministry of Internal Affairs Tonga Urban Infrastructure TUIDP MOH Ministry of Health Development Plan MOI Ministry of Infrastructure TWB Tonga Water Board Ministry of Lands, Survey and WAL Waste Authority Limited MLSNR Natural Resources WB World Bank Non-Government NGOs WS Water Supply Organizations National Spatial Planning NSPA Authority Nuku’a lofa Urban Development Sector Project Page ii Consolidated Annual Report, Year-7, 2019 EGIS Eau / PECG Chapter A. Introduction and Basic Data A.1 Introduction The project will provide high priority urban infrastructure identified in the Nuku'alofa Urban Infrastructure Development Plan (NUIDP 1). The project will expand upon infrastructure development currently being undertaken in Nuku'alofa through the Nuku'alofa Reconstruction Project (NRP) and the Integrated Urban Development Sector Project (IUDSP 2). A project summary is provided in Table 1. Table 1: Project Summary GRANT NUMBER ADB No. 0264-TON/ 0265-TON PROJECT TITLE Nuku’alofa Urban Development Sector Project (NUDSP) RECEIVER GOVERNMENT OF TONGA (GOT) EXECUTIVE AGENCY Ministry of Finance and National Planning (MFNP) IMPLEMENTING AGENCY PUMA/NSPAO ESTIMATED PROJECT Total: USD 16.61 million COST (USD 6.06 million from ADB) (USD 8.46million from DFAT Australia) (USD 2.09 million from counterpart funding GoT) PROJECT FINANCING Funds Received STATUS Total funds from the donors as of 31 st December 2019: 1. Total Received : $12,696,377.46 (ADB $5,945,889.01 - DFAT $6,750,488.45) Disbursements Total expenditure as of 31 st December 2019: 1. Total Expenditure: $12,472,583.23 (ADB$5,824,226.39 – DFAT$6,648,356.84) A Financial Summary of all the funds received and disbursed as at 31 st December 2019 is shown in Table 2 and 3. DATE OF APPROVAL BY September 2011 ADB DATE OF SIGNING 11 January 2012 AGREE MENT DATE OF EFFECTIVENESS 23 September 2012 1 UIDP was prepared under TA 7082-TON: Urban Planning and Management System (ADB, 2008 US$700,000) and provides an urban infrastructure investment plan for Nuku'alofa for the period 2010/11 to 2030/31 2 NRP is funded through a RMB400 million loan from China and was approved on 2007. An Asian Development Fund grant of $11 million for IUDSP (G0108-TON) was approved by ADB in March 2008 Nuku’alofa Urban Development Sector Project Page 3 Consolidated Annual Report, Year-7,
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