BANGLADESH ROAD SAFETY PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS REVIEW October 2024 CONTENT Project Key Data Expected Outcome at Mid-term Progress by Agencies and Expected Result to date Project Ratings Turn Around Action What should be done differently 2 KEY PROJECT DATA Project Development Objective To build road safety management capacity and achieve targeted reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries in Bangladesh. Bank Loan $358 mn Loan Approval March 28, 2022 Loan Effectiveness June 12, 2023 Loan Closing Date June 30, 2027 Project Age 2 years 7 months Disbursement US$(%) US$19 (5.5%) Commitment US$ (%) US$220k(0%) Time remaining until Closing Date 2 years 8 months 3 STATUS OF PROJECT LEVEL RESULTS Indicator Name Baseline Mid-project Target Mid-project Status End-target Reduction in fatal crashes per 0.00 15% Target not met 30% year on the highway pilot corridors and mass-action treatment roads (Percentage) National Road Safety Authority Not Draft Target not met Road Safety or equivalent is established established legislation/rules for authority or and operational with adequate the road safety lead equivalent resource provision agency developed agency fully operational 4 LOAN ALLOCATION BY AGENCIES TOTAL PROJECT 75.20% RHD COST US$ 358m 8.38% Police US$ 8.41% DGHS 358m 8.01% BRTA Note: All costs in the presentation are based on exchange rate at ECNEC approval in 2023 (~105 BDT/USD). Actual BDT amount available may be higher due to devaluation since. 5 ROADS AND HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT (RHD) ACTIVITIES Safety Intervention in pilot US$269 million Mass Action Program corridors (N4&N6) *Notes: Cost estimates include loan and GoB portion Current Status Areas Requiring Attention ❑ Only One Activity is ❑ iRAP survey to be completed by latest February 2025 being implemented: ❑ Consultancy Services for Engineering Design of N4/N6 and iRAP consultancy Mass-action (SP(RHD)-2 – US$5.7M to be signed by February services which is being 2025 paid by the World Bank ❑ Begin Tendering of N4/N6 and Mass Action Program – US$250M by June 15, 2025 ❑ Signed Contact of Project Assistance Consultancy (SP(RHD)-1) – US$3M by December 2024 6 STATUS OF AGENCY LEVEL TARGETS - RHD Indicator Name Baseline Mid-project Target Mid-project Status End-target Multi-sectoral Safe 0.00 Multi-sectoral interventions Only survey started, Regular monitoring on Corridor Pilot Program designed, necessary design not available, the demonstration on N4 and N6 highway procurement completed works procurement not corridor commenced section implemented and initiative launched started User satisfaction with Not Baseline survey for road Target not met Road user satisfaction road safety condition established user satisfaction rate increased by completed 50% compared to baseline results Portion of the surveyed 20% 30% Target not met 50% mass action program network implemented with safety recommendation (Percentage) 7 BANGLADESH POLICE (BP) ACTIVITIES National Crash Database System Integrated Traffic Management and Incident Detection System US$30 million patrol vehicles safety enhancement equipment Training Center *Notes: Cost estimates include loan and GoB portion Current Status Areas Requiring Attention ❑ No Activity has ❑ Integrated Traffic Management and incident Detection System (ITMIDS) started Consultancy ((SP(BP-01) – US$1M to be signed by January 2025 ❑ Design and Supervision of Training Centre (SP(BP)-2) – US$500k to be signed by December 2024 ❑ Launch Tender for Training Center (WP(BP)-01) – US$6M by June 2025 ❑ Police patrol Motorcycles (GP(BP)-02) – US$2M to be signed by February 2025 ❑ Crash data system roll out and support services (SP(BP)-03) – US$2M and Crash data system (GP(BP)-1) - US$9M – implementation timeline needs to be Agreed between BP and PIU ASAP 8 STATUS OF AGENCY LEVEL TARGETS - POLICE Indicator Name Baseline Mid-project Target Mid-project Status End-target Number of Police Stations 0 10 Target not met 20 recording and managing crash data using the developed system (Number) Gender-disaggregated data No - Target not met Yes collection on road crashes (Yes/No) Number of km with enhanced 0 50 Target not met 100 highway patrol capacity and surveillance equipment (Number) 9 DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF HEALTH SERVICES (DGHS) ACTIVITIES Emergency rooms in Hospitals Ambulances US$30 million call centers Basic life support Equipment *Notes: Cost estimates include loan and GoB portion Current Status Areas Requiring Attention ❑ No activity is ❑ BLS ambulance, Medicine and equipment supply (GP(DGHS)-01) – US$5.3 million currently under to be signed by April 2025 implementation ❑ Motorcycle and accessory supply for motorcycle ambulance services (GP(DGHS)- 02) -US240K to be signed by April 2025 ❑ Ambulance management, call center and other support (SP(DGHS)-03 & 04) Services – US$15 million –to be signed by February 2025 10 STATUS OF AGENCY LEVEL TARGETS - DGHS Indicator Name Baseline Mid-project Mid-project End-target Target Status Launch of the motorcycle No - Target not met Yes ambulance program in urban pilot areas (Yes/No) Roll-out of free ambulance Not Toll free number Target not met Ambulance services fully services accessible through a established fully operational operational in at least 2 district toll-free number (Text) hospitals and upazilla health complexes along pilot highways Improved incident response 30 - Ambulance 20 times on N4 and N6 highways procurement (Minutes) initiated Trauma registries and trauma 0 - Target not met 4 system improvement programs (TSIP) implemented in district hospitals (Number) 11 BANGLADESH ROAD TRANSPORT AUTHORITIES (BRTA) ACTIVITIES Commercial Driver Training Program US$28 million Public Awareness Establish National Road Safety Authority *Notes: Cost estimates include loan and GoB portion Current Status Areas Requiring Attention ❑ No activity is ❑ Commercial Driver Training Activities (SP(BRTA)-04) – US$32M to begin currently under by latest Dec 2024 implementation ❑ Awareness campaign (SP(BRTA)-06) – US$260K - RoEI to be published by end of Oct 2024 ❑ Technical manual preparation (SP(BRTA)-02 ) – US$780K: RoEI to be published by end of Oct 2024 ❑ Regulations Review ( SP(BRTA)-3&5) – US$3.7M: EOI to be floated by end October 12 STATUS OF AGENCY LEVEL TARGETS - BRTA Indicator Name Baseline Mid-project Target Mid-project Status End-target Share of trained bus employees 0 30% Target not met 50% reporting on intervening during an incident or taking action to improve female users’ safety (Percentage) National Road Safety Program No - Target not met Yes launched along with budget allocated for a multi-year investment plan (Yes/No) Gender Strategy and Action No - Target not met Yes Plan implemented (Yes/No) 13 PROJECT RATINGS Rating of Last Now Trend Achievement of PDO S MU  Implementation Progress MS MU  Component 1: Multi-sectoral Road Safety Pilot Projects S MU  Component 2: Priority Road Safety Investments S MU  Component 3: Technical Assistance S MU   Improving; ◄► Static;  Deteriorating PDO: The remaining timeline is insufficient to complete key activities needed to achieve PDO. There is a risk that the remaining time is insufficient to create and operationalize the road safety authority. RTHD needs to confirm if the creation of a road safety authority is still a priority. IP: No Progress at Mid-Term of the Implementation 14 WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO TURN AROUND THE PROJECT AND MEET OBJECTIVES BEFORE JUNE 2027 ❑ Cancellation of US$75 million – scale down mass- ❑ Begin Driver Training by End of action and cancellation of district level intervention November 2024 ❑ Launch Bidding documents of N4/N6 and all mass-action before June ❑ Spend minimum US$40 million on contract before 15,2025 June 10,2024 on advanced payments for ❑ Increase disbursement from 5.3% consulting services and goods (WB will share the currently to minimum 15% by end of list with PIU and agencies) June 2025 ❑ Get RHD view on the creation of road safety authority or equivalent lead agency and begin procurement of the preparation of the legal texts 15 WHAT NEED TO • APDs should have full ownership on the procurement BE DONE packages for their IA. Once cleared by APD, the PIU only coordinates and ensures the bidding formalities are DIFFERENTLY completed at the earliest. PD support is needed only to ensure minor deviations from DPP do not slows the GOING process. FORWARD • No expenditure incurred on non-procurement provisions in the loan (e.g., awareness campaign). This should be utilized as a priority seeking clearance from the Ministry. PD support is required to check properly on non-procurement activities and budgets given in the DPP before responding to IA and Bank • PIU Coordination role through bi-weekly meetings • Each IA should appoint a technical officer with agencies to solve implementation issues or to give who works closely and full-time with the PIU updates. A dedicated technical officer for each IA would procurement expert to expedite the resolution. be helpful. PD and APDs may come in only at the final • Monthly Progress meeting with world bank stages of clearances. • Project office should be immediately identified and set • Additional procurement specialist up so that by the time the PAC is on board, all agency assigned to each agencies is needed for at representatives as well as PAC can sit in the new office least 12 months. and work together seamlessly. 16 Annex: Implementation Road Map to be monitoring on a monthly basis EVERY MONTH WORLD BANK, PIU AND AGENCIES WILL GO OVER AGREED ACTIONS TO BE COMPLETED AND A COMPLETION SCORE WILL BE PROVIDED. ALERT WILL BE PROVIDED THROUGH MANAGEMENT LETTER TO SECRETARY IN CASE THE COMPLETION SCORE IS LESS THAN 75% 17 Thank you 18