Page 1 PROJECT INFORMATION DOCUMENT (PID) APPRAISAL STAGE Report No.: AB2042 Project Name SD - Emergency Transport and Infrastructure Development Project - MDTF Region AFRICA Sector Roads and highways (100%) Project ID P095081 Borrower(s) Implementing Agency Secretariat for Physical Infrastructure and Town Planning Dr. Daniel Wani Sudan Tel: 0733 684714 wanijuba@yahoo.co.uk Environment Category [X] A [ ] B [ ] C [ ] FI [ ] TBD (to be determined) Date PID Prepared January 24, 2006 Date of Appraisal Authorization October 19, 2005 Date of Board Approval December 12, 2005 1. Country and Sector Background With an area of 2.5 million square kilometers, Sudan is the largest country in Africa and the 9 th largest in the world, sharing borders with 9 o ther countries. However, Sudan’s transport network and other key infrastructure, both within the country and linkages with its neighboring countries for trade and transit, are highly inadequate for a country of its size. Similar is the condition of urban infrastructure almost in all the towns of Southern Sudan, affecting living conditions, security and governance. Juba and the other major towns that together form the national and state capitals do not have adequate administrative buildings and accommodation to support government administration. Further, even the available road network has deteriorated as a result of a long civil war, budgetary cuts imposed for economic stabilization, and limited access to foreign capital and technology. Whereas in Northern Sudan there is a huge backlog of existing infrastructure that is largely in a state of disrepair, the situation in Southern Sudan is worse and typified by absence of basic transport and urban infrastructure and services. Added to this situation is the near absence of required policy and institutional frameworks and implementation capacity. 2. Objectives The project development objective is to rehabilitate and develop critical national and rural feeder roads and transport infrastructure, improve critical urban infrastructure in the major towns that form the national and state capitals of Southern Sudan (i.e. Juba, Wau, Malakal, Rumbek, Aweil, Warap, Yei, Yambio, Torit, Bor and Bentiu) and build capacity for planning, construction and sustainable operation, maintenance and management of the infrastructure in Southern Sudan. 3. Rationale for Bank Involvement 1. The MDTF for the South was established to help finance the reconstruction and development of Southern Sudan. It is a collaborative framework which brings together several of Sudan’s key development partners and provides a one stop point of contact and information on the reconstruction and Page 2 development effort for those of its partners providing assistance outside of the MDTF framework. It is therefore an efficient way for Sudan to ensure good coordination of the development assistance it receives. 2. Implementation of a project such as that proposed requires experience in the identification, preparation and provision of implementation support to major development projects. It also requires an ability to undertake necessary policy dialogue to gain consensus on key policy issues within government and its development partners and to assist in defining the necessary implementation strategies and programs. Crucially, it also requires an institutional framework that facilitates coordination of donor efforts and provides access to lessons of experience in emergency development operations. The MDTF through its organizational and operational processes provides a framework that should lead to efficient coordination of policy dialogue and the reaching of consensus on priorities thus facilitating effective use of resources. Through selection by GOSS of the World Bank as the Administrator of the MDTF, a wealth of experience in large scale infrastructure operations and available relevant lessons of experience are brought into the operations of the MDTF. The Bank is also used to working with other donors and thus should be able to effectively link MDTF activities with those of other development partners of GOSS such as the United Nation Development program (UNDP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Food program (WFP) who have been active in Southern Sudan for some time mainly on activities related to humanitarian assistance and implementation of the Emergency Road Repairs Program (ERRP). Moreover, through its programs in Sudan’s neighboring countries, the World Bank and thus MDTF would be able to take fully into account and respond to the regional inter-linkages of Sudan. The World Bank is already involved in the road sector in Sudan’s several neighboring countries with policy advice, institutional development, reform assistance and road construction. It would, therefore, be in a position to coordinate this assistance, as needed, with the proposed project. Likewise in the implementation of follow on projects relating to Phase 2 of the JAM INAR recommendations, especially with the leveraging of needed resources. 4. Description The proposed project has three components implemented in three phases: Component 1: Roads and Transport Development. This component provides for the phased repair, rehabilitation, reconstruction and maintenance of high priority national and rural feeder roads to all weather gravel or paved standard. Phase1: Activities under this phase consist of: (i) emergency accessibility improvements of about 100 Km of tracks and seasonal roads to provide all weather road access, the maintenance of about 820 km of already improved roads and de-mining of the roads to be improved, all activities being part of Phase 3 of the ERRP, (ii) road upgrading to all weather gravel standard - about 250 km of roads under a ‘turnkey’ contract within which the contractor will carry out works relating to right of way clearance, de-mining, road building and road maintenance, the latter for a period of about 4 years. Phase 2: This phase will consist of: (i) emergency accessibility improvements of about 253 Km of tracks and seasonal roads to provide all weather road access, the maintenance of about 1000 km of already improved roads, and de-mining of the roads to be improved, all activities being part of Phase 3 of the ERRP; (ii) road upgrading to all weather gravel standard - about 875 km of roads under an OPBRC contract within which the contractor will carry out works relating to right of way clearance, de-mining, road building and road maintenance, the latter for a period of about 4 years; and (iii) road upgrading to paved standard - about 272 Km of gravel roads to paved surfaced road. Page 3 Phase 3: Activities under this phase will include (i) road upgrading to paved road standard - the upgrading of 325 Km of roads from gravel to paved surfaced road; and (ii) construction of priority feeder roads. Component 2: Basic Urban Infrastructure Improvements. This component will provide for rehabilitation of basic urban infrastructure and services (priority government/public administrative buildings and houses, water supply, sanitation, urban roads and drainage and power supply) in the 11 towns that form the national and state capitals of Southern Sudan, namely, Juba, Wau, Malakal, Rumbek, Aweil, Warap, Yei, Yambio, Torit, Bor and Bentiu; and establishment of a town planning and land administration institute in Juba phased as follows: Phase 1: Juba immediate infrastructure rehabilitation. This phase will consist of immediate rehabilitation of basic infrastructure and services in Juba to allow it function involving: (i) rehabilitation of priority Government/Public Administrative Buildings and Houses, Hospital Infrastructure and provision of prefabricated Accommodation; (ii) rehabilitation of water supply system of Juba including installation of distribution network and installation of packaged water treatment plants in strategic locations; (iii) rehabilitation/installation of liquid and solid waste management systems (collection, treatment and disposal); (iv) rehabilitation and improvement to the network of 60 km of urban roads in Juba to asphalt standard including the drainage system and street lighting; and (v) augmentation of power supply for Juba by 5 MW, and improvement to the distribution system. Phase 2: I mmediate infrastructure rehabilitation in the remaining Ten State Capitals (US$60.0million). This cost includes those needed for design and works supervision. Activities under this phase include implementation of immediate rehabilitation of basic infrastructure and services in the ten state capitals (Wau, Malakal, Rumbek, Aweil, Warap, Yei, Yambio, Torit, Bor and Bentiu) on the basis of the scoping and designs to be carried out under Phase 1 and establishment of a town planning and land administration institute. Phase 3: I mmediate infrastructure rehabilitation in the remaining ten State Capitals (US$49,572,000 million). It includes cost of works design and supervision. Under this Phase, continued rehabilitation and expansion of basic infrastructure and services in the GOSS capital Juba and the state capitals will be carried out focussing on consolidation of the immediate rehabilitation works undertaken and preparation of sector investment programs to address the short and medium term needs in urban infrastructure and service expansion. Component 3: Institutional Development and Capacity Building : This component provides for institutional capacity building (Technical Assistance and policy studies) and program implementation, including costs associated with oversight and management of program implementation (including Technical Assistance support team and supervision of works), monitoring and evaluation and the preparation of activities for implementation in the different phases of SETIDP. Phase 1: Activities under this component during this phase includes (i) supervision of the roads to be constructed under Component 1; (ii) provision of TA & policy support to the MTR and MLHPU; (iii) conduct of baseline survey for the establishment of a monitoring and evaluation framework; (iv) formulation of an Information, Education, & Communication (IEC) strategy; (v) provision of consultancy services to carry out feasibility, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and Social Impact Assessment (SIA) studies, as well as, detailed design and/or design review for road works to be included under Phases 2 and 3; (vi) formulation of feeder roads development strategy and plan; (vii) preparatory activities for scoping of the infrastructure rehabilitation in the remaining State capitals as was done for Juba; (viii) study for housing development and financing; and (ix) preparation of a regional development plan. Page 4 Phase 2: This phase includes (i) provision of TA & policy support to the MTR and MLHPU; (ii) supervision of the roads to be constructed under Component 1; (iii) provisions for monitoring and evaluation; and (iii) the provision of needed consultancy services including that to carry out a river crossing studies. Phase 3: Under this phase, provision is made for financing of activities relating to (i) supervision of road to be constructed under Component 1; (ii) road maintenance and development and detail preparation of projects to be implemented under non-emergency procedures; and (iii) preparation of sector policies and investment programs to address the short and medium term needs in urban infrastructure and service expansion. 5. Financing Source: ($m.) BORROWER 340 SPECIAL FINANCING 130 Total 470 6. Implementation The project will be implemented over the period January 2006 to December 2010 with the phases running in parallel. The projected duration of each phase is as follows: Phase 1 – January 2006 to June 30, 2007; Phase 2 – April 2006 to December 2008; and Phase 3 – January 2007 to December 2010. The mid term review is planned for before December 2007 . 7. Sustainability The project faces several risks including exogenous risks. At the project level the first major risk is the lack of capacity and experience in managing large scale projects. This risk is being mitigated in two ways. First are the institutional and capacity building activities on-going under the USAID supported capacity building program which will help develop complementary systems, procedures, standards and policy guidelines for road administration and the implementation of road projects. The second approach is by the establishment of an empowered PMT staffed by experienced competitively selected specialists who will take charge of project implementation, while mentoring the local staff for capacity building. This concern is further addressed by the fact that the PMT would outsource civil works design and construction activities to the private sector available locally, regionally or internationally, and to the existing implementers already in place such as the WFP. Another limiting factor is the very weak presence and capacity of local private sector in Southern Sudan. Under the capacity building program supported by USAID, measures have been included to support the growth and capacity building of the private sector consulting and construction firms in Southern Sudan. Within SETIDP, a strategy will also be developed and implemented to attract and retain consultants and construction firms from within the region and beyond 8. Lessons Learned from Past Operations in the Country/Sector 9. Safeguard Policies (including public consultation) The three components of the first two phases of the project involve road maintenance and upgrading, improvement of urban services covering roads, water and sanitation, solid waste, power supply and capacity building for project planning and management. Based upon available information, potential environmental and social impacts of these phases are likely to be moderate in scale, local in extent, easily identified, and readily mitigated and monitored. The third phase of the project involves the development of new roads as well as support to ancillary services as cited above. Accordingly, the program is expected Page 5 to trigger safeguards policies on environmental assessment (OP 4.01), cultural properties (OPN 11.03, being revised as OP 4.11) and Involuntary Resettlement (OP4.12) and is classified as environmental impact category A. An Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) will be prepared which, in accordance emergency operations processed under OP 8.50, will be completed by the Borrower, reviewed by the Bank and disclosed in the country and Infoshop within 6 months of effectiveness. The Framework will incorporate policies, regulations and guidelines for the selection and design of sub- projects and the planning and management of mitigation measures, monitoring and institutional responsibilities. Land acquisition for physical works will need to be undertaken under this Project. In order to ensure fair and transparent compensation, a Resettlement Policy Framework will be prepared to articulate the principles and procedures for land acquisition. As necessary, individual Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs) will be prepared, particularly for the new roads proposed under the third phase. To assist in this process, draft environmental guidelines have been prepared for the road sector and are currently under review by the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife Conservation and Tourism and USAID who are undertaking a Programmatic Environmental Assessment for the Road Rehabilitation Activities in Southern Sudan. 10. List of Factual Technical Documents 11. Contact point Contact: George A. Banjo Title : Senior Transport. Spec. Tel: (202) 473-6070 Fax: Email: Gbanjo@worldbank.org Location: Washington, DC (IBRD) 12. For more information contact: The InfoShop The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20433 Telephone: (202) 458-5454 Fax: (202) 522-1500 Web: http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop