The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report SOUTH-WEST ROADS: WESTERN EUROPE-WESTERN CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT CORRIDOR (CAREC 1B & 6B) (P099270) SOUTH-WEST ROADS: WESTERN EUROPE-WESTERN CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT CORRIDOR (CAREC 1B & 6B) (P099270) EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA | Kazakhstan | Transport Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2009 | Seq No: 26 | ARCHIVED on 17-Feb-2022 | ISR50280 | Implementing Agencies: The Republic of Kazakhstan, Ministry of Investments and Development Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 30-Apr-2009 Effectiveness Date: 09-Dec-2009 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 03-Dec-2012 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 27-Nov-2012 Original Closing Date: 31-Dec-2013 Revised Closing Date: 31-Dec-2024 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The proposed Project aims to increase transport efficiency along the road sections between Aktobe/Kyzylorda Oblast border and Shymkent and to improve road management and traffic safety in Kazakhstan. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? Yes Board Approved Revised Project Development Objective (If project is formally restructured) The objective of the Project is to improve transport efficiency along road sections in Kyzylorda, South Kazakhstan and Almaty Oblasts, improve road management and increase traffic safety in Kazakhstan. Components Table Name Upgrade and reconstruction of road sections along the WE-WC Corridor within Kyzylorda oblast (excluding the bypass to Kyzylorda):(Cost $1260.00 M) Upgrade and reconstruction of road sections within South Kazakhstan oblast, including the bypass to Kyzylorda:(Cost $880.00 M) Project Management Consultants:(Cost $14.00 M) Institutional Development, Road Safety, Road Services and Road Asset Management System:(Cost $4.00 M) Supervision of civil works:(Cost $66.00 M) Upgrade and reconstruction of road sections within Almaty oblast:(Cost $276.00 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Moderate Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions 2/17/2022 Page 1 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report SOUTH-WEST ROADS: WESTERN EUROPE-WESTERN CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT CORRIDOR (CAREC 1B & 6B) (P099270) The project is on track towards the achievement of its PDO. One out of four PDO-level indicators has been fully met; the remaining three are nearly achieved at 95%. The project’s original scope has been completed, including the construction of 1,130 km of the Western China-Western Europe (WC-WE) transit corridor and the institutional component. At the Borrower's request the project closing date was extended until December 31, 2024. The following is a status of activities by component: Component 1 - Upgrade and reconstruction of road sections along the Western Europe -Western China (WE-WC) Corridor within Kyzylorda oblast (excluding the bypass to Kyzylorda): This component has been fully completed with upgrading of a 760 km road stretch (14 lots) in Kyzylorda oblast are completed and are currently under a defect liability period. Component 2 - Upgrade and reconstruction of road sections within South Kazakhstan oblast, including the bypass to Kyzylorda: The collapse in the tunnel in August 2019 and the change of the tunnel category have delayed the works, requiring several contract extensions, with current contract completion date of December 4, 2022. The damaged section of the tunnel is now fully reinstated, and 63.9% physical progress has been made on the tunneling works and 76.7% on the roads works as of December 2021. The Bank team visited the site several times during 2021, including a visit of technical experts in September 2021, to support the CR in addressing potential issues related to surface and groundwater drainage. The CR has already revised the tunnel's drainage system design in line with the Bank team's recommendations; however, further improvements are needed to fully mitigate potential negative impacts and improve sustainability of the tunnel. Component 3 – Project Management Consultants (PMC): The PMC financed under this component needs strengthening of its team's capacity to improve management of the ongoing civil works and enhance monitoring and reporting for the project to comply with the Bank's safeguards and fiduciary requirements. Component 4 – Institutional Development, Road Safety, Road Services and Road Asset Management System (RAMS): All the activities under this component have been completed, except for the RAMS. All major tasks for development of the RAMS have been completed, except for Certification of the system for IT security, which is currently awaiting approval of the Certification Authority (GTS). Handover of the system and the subsequent one-year technical support by the Consultant will be completed after the GTS approval. Component 5 – Supervision of civil works: This component is on track. Component 6 - Upgrade and reconstruction of road sections within Almaty oblast: Under this component, added during the third restructuring in 2017, progress is mixed:  Kurty-Togyz (Lot 1 and Lot 2): The contract with the previous contractor was terminated in November 2020, rebid, and awarded to new contractor in September 2021, with works expected to commence in March 2022;  Otar-Uzynagash (Lot 1 and Lot 3): On Lot 1, the contract was extended until April 30, 2022 and the works are currently on track to be completed by this date. Lot 3 has been completed;  Otar-Uzynagash (Lot 2): The contract with the previous contractor was terminated in April 2020, rebid, and awarded to new contractor in September 2021. The works are expected to commence in March 2022. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- Moderate Moderate Macroeconomic -- Moderate Moderate Sector Strategies and Policies -- Moderate Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program -- Low Low Institutional Capacity for Implementation and -- Moderate Moderate Sustainability Fiduciary -- Low Low Environment and Social -- Substantial Substantial Stakeholders -- Low Low Other -- Substantial -- Overall -- Moderate Moderate 2/17/2022 Page 2 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report SOUTH-WEST ROADS: WESTERN EUROPE-WESTERN CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT CORRIDOR (CAREC 1B & 6B) (P099270) Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Improve transport efficiency along road sections in Kyzylorda, South Kazakhstan and Almaty Oblasts IN01104033 ►Reduce, by the end of the Project, Road User Costs from US$0.26/veh-km to US$0.23/veh-km on Project road sections. (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.26 0.24 0.24 0.23 Date 09-Jun-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2023 IN01104034 ►Proportion of the Republican road network length that are in Good or Fair conditions (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 53% 81.00 81.00 86% Date 09-Jun-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2024 Massive construction is going on around the country, the end target of this indicator will be reached by the Comments: end of next year IN01104035 ►Reduce, by the end of the Project, the rate (per 100 million veh-km) of road crash fatalities along the Project road sections by atleast 10% (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 11.00 9.51 9.50 9.50 Date 01-Jun-2007 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2024 EuroRAP assessment is ongoing on one of the project sections as a pilot. After pilot the consulting company SweRoad will come up with the recommendations to improve road safety. Committee for Roads, National Center for the Quality of Road Assets, and KazDorNII JSC along with consulting company SweRoad are working hard to introduce EurRAP in Kazakhstan. It has been already surveyed 5,700 kilometers along the sections of the Western Europe - Western China corridor, as well as the Nur-Sultan - Petropavlovsk, Nur-Sultan - Atbasar, Kostanay-Karabutak, Shymkent - Saraygash, Comments: Almaty - Taldykorgan". A total of 6,200 km of Kazakh roads are estimated to be assessed. To obtain a complete and comprehensive picture of the state of road safety, the road network is encoded using more than 50 parameters every 100 meters. Once the coding process is completed, each road section will be assigned a five-point star rating in accordance with IRAP standards and guidelines, which will help improve safety parameters and help reduce road accidents. IN01104066 ►Implementation and Effective use of Road Management System by the Committee (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target RAMS activities RAMS activities framework completed. framework completed. Value No system in place Equipment tested. The Equipment tested. The System in place system was rolled out in system was rolled out 14 oblasts. However, in 14 oblasts. 2/17/2022 Page 3 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report SOUTH-WEST ROADS: WESTERN EUROPE-WESTERN CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT CORRIDOR (CAREC 1B & 6B) (P099270) additional 7 months However, additional 7 service agreement was months service signed in Dec. 2019 for agreement was signed capacity building and to in Dec. 2019 for complete some elements capacity building and of the system. to complete some elements of the system. Date 09-Jun-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2023 At present the training on the operation of RAMS and reporting system is going on. Comments: Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Upgrade and reconstruction of road sections along the WE-WC Corridor within Kyzylorda oblast (excluding the bypass to Kyzylorda) IN01104067 ►Number of kilometers of roads upgraded (cumulative km) (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 788.00 788.00 788.00 Date 09-Jun-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 01-Dec-2021 IN01104073 ►Updating of road data for Republican roads (% of total length per year) (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0% 88.00 88.00 100% Date 09-Jun-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2023 Upgrade and reconstruction of road sections within South Kazakhstan oblast, including the bypass to Kyzylorda IN01104068 ►Roads constructed (Kilometers, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 377.00 377.00 354.00 Date 02-Dec-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2022 Project Management Consultants IN01104069 ►Training received by the Committee staff from PMC (staff-hours) (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 2/17/2022 Page 4 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report SOUTH-WEST ROADS: WESTERN EUROPE-WESTERN CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT CORRIDOR (CAREC 1B & 6B) (P099270) Value 0.00 4,050.00 4,100.00 4,500.00 Date 09-Jun-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2024 Institutional Development, Road Safety, Road Services and Road Asset Management System IN01104070 ►Road asset management strategy, Rolling multiyearroad maintenance, and rehabilitation programestablished (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target system in place, system in place, tested, Value Not established tested, rolled out in 14 Established rolled out in 14 oblasts. oblasts. Date 09-Jun-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2023 IN01104074 ►Prepare road safety strategy and action plan (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value Not established Established Established Established Date 09-Jun-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2021 Supervision of civil works IN01104071 ►Works, Goods, and Consulting Services contracts processed and managed by the PMC (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0 (W); 0 (G); 0 (CS) 28(w), (1) G, 11(CS) 28(w), (1) G, 11(CS) 28(W);1(G);11(CS) Date 09-Jun-2009 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2021 Upgrade and reconstruction of road sections within Almaty oblast IN01104072 ►Roads constructed (Kilometers, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 52.00 52.00 288.00 Date 28-Nov-2018 21-Dec-2020 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2024 Roads are not yet completed Comments: IN01104075 ►Changes to Project activities as a result of citizen feedback (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 2/17/2022 Page 5 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report SOUTH-WEST ROADS: WESTERN EUROPE-WESTERN CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT CORRIDOR (CAREC 1B & 6B) (P099270) Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 30-Jun-2010 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2024 During the course of construction of the road, people living adjacent to the road, made requests to the Committee for Roads for some additional works, such as pedestrian crossing, cattle crossing, culverts, change of the location of the rest areas, construction of foot path, bus shelters, selling area for their local products, access roads to the village, labour payments, payments to the suppliers, site staff Comments: accommodation, canteen, food supply, etc., through the local authority (Akimat) and to the Employer. Upon checking and review of their requests, most of these requests were included in the project design and implemented under through the Variation Orders to the contract within the project completion period without changing the original scope of works. IN01104076 ►Feedback on Project activities received - Number of questions from citizens answered at the Project website (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 1.00 581.00 625.00 700.00 Date 18-Jun-2010 21-Dec-2020 31-Dec-2021 31-Dec-2024 The total number of feedbacks received from the citizens so far through the project website total 581. There were no new complaints received through the website during the last reporting period. Some of the feedbacks received from the citizen were directly responded to by the Committee for Roads, while others were included in the design and addressed through the project. The nature of the inquiries was mostly related to additional services such as including additional pedestrian crossings, cattle crossings, culverts, change in location of the rest areas, construction of foot Comments: paths, bus shelters, trading area for the citizens' products, access roads to the village, payments for labor, etc. Some other inquiries are related to the completion date of the road construction, reasons for closure of the road section, road traffic accidents, traffic control and safety during construction, etc. The CfR has already addressed most of these inquiries and continues addressing them in consultation with the local authorities, supervision engineers and contractors on site. Performance-Based Conditions Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P099270 IBRD-76810 Effective USD 2,125.00 2,125.00 0.00 1,936.21 188.79 91% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P099270 IBRD-76810 Effective 30-Apr-2009 13-Jun-2009 09-Dec-2009 31-Dec-2013 31-Dec-2024 Cumulative Disbursements 2/17/2022 Page 6 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report SOUTH-WEST ROADS: WESTERN EUROPE-WESTERN CHINA INTERNATIONAL TRANSIT CORRIDOR (CAREC 1B & 6B) (P099270) PBC Disbursement Achievement Disbursed amount in Disbursement % PBC ID PBC Type Description Coc PBC Amount Status Coc for PBC Restructuring History Level Approved on 25-Jun-2012 ,Level 1 Approved on 25-Jun-2015 ,Level 1 Approved on 16-Jun-2017 ,Level 2 Approved on 06-Dec-2021 Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 2/17/2022 Page 7 of 7