International Bank for Reconstruction and Development International Development Association 52585 SecM99-641 FROM: Vice President and Secretary September 16, 1999 MONTHLY OPERATIONALSUMMARYOF BANKANT) IDA PROPOSEDPROJECTS (as of August15, 1999) Distribution: Executive Directors and Altemates President Bank Group Senior Management Vice Presidents, Bank, IFC and MIGA Directors and Department Heads, Bank, IFC and M[GA THE WORLD OPERATIONAL BANKMONTHLY SUMMARY CONTENTS User's Guide 3 Global Environment Facility 4 Projects in the Pipeline New Projects/Deletions 5 Africa Region 7 East Asia and Pacific Region 19 South Asia Region 31 Europe and Central Asia Region 41 Middle East and North Africa Region 54 Latin America and the Caribbean Region 58 Guarantee Operations 74 List of Abbreviations 77 Entries for Projects in the Pipelineare organizedby region,country and economicsector. Entries preceded by (N) denote new listings; (R) indicates a revision or update from the previous month's listing-such changes appear in italictype.A sample entry is included in the User's Guide on the next page. SECTORDEFINITIONS Agriculture Public Sector Management (includestechnicaland man- (includes forestry and fisheries) agement assistance) Education/Training Reconstruction/Rehabilitation Environment (includes natural resources management Rural Development and pollutioncontrol) SocialSector (includeshuman resources development, Finance (includesdevelopmentfinance institutions) poverty reduction and womenin development) Industry (includesmining) StructuralAdjustment (includesimports) Infrastructure (multisector) Telecommunications Population,Health and Nutrition Transport (includesports, roads and railways) Power (includespetroleum and energy) Urban Development Private Sector Development Water Supply/Sanitation Copyright © 1999by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/TheWorld Bank, 1818 H St., NW, Washington, DC 20433. The material contained in 7he WorldBank MonthlyOperational Summary may not be reproduced, transmitted or photo- copied in any form, or by any means, without the prior written consent of the copyright holder. SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE 3 GUIDETO THE WORLDBANKMONTHLYOPERATIONAL SUMMARY The WorldBank Monthly OperationalSummary reports on the executionofWorld Bank-financed projects,includingthe hiring status ofprojects in the WorldBank'spipeline-from the point of of consultants and the procurement of goods and works. Con- identificationof investment opportunitiesto the signing of the tractors and suppliers, therefore, should contact borrowers to loan or credit. On average, it takes about 27 months for the Bank express their interest in specificprojects.They should obtainin- to process a projectfrom identificationto loan signing. Follow- formationon what goods and services will be needed and when ing the approvalof a projectby the Bank's Board of ExecutiveDi- and how to submit bids and proposals. rectors, a more detailed summary appears in the Approved During implementation,consultants are often used to provide Projects section of the summary. After loans or credits are technicalassistance and other project implementationsupport. signed, projectentries are dropped. Unlikecontracts for goods and works, those for consultingser- Eachissue of the summary containsa table of projects being list- vices are notusuallyadvertised.Therefore,consultantsin partic- ed for the first time as wellas a list of projects for which loans or ular should contactthe responsible implementingagency early credit agreements have been signed or that have been dropped in the projectpreparation period to express their interest. Con- from the current lending program. tracts for consulting services, as well as some for goods and By becoming familiar with the Bank's project cycle, which is works, may also be procured prior to loan/credit approval.This summarizedin the followingparagraphs, consultants or suppli- is knownas advancecontracting. ers of goods and works can gauge when the timing is right to The information containedin The World Bank MonthlyOperation- pursue business opportunitieswith Bankborrowers. Each entry al Summaryis intendedto enablecompaniesto assess their inter- in the Monthly Project Summary tells at what point in the cycle est in supplying Bank-financedprojects. Further information a particularproject resides. should be requested from the borrowingcountry's projectimple- mentingagency.The likelihoodof a timely response is greater if the queriesare briefand to the point.Whenpossible,travelto the Project Cycle borrower's country and direct contactwithrelevant agencyoffi- During IDENTIFICATION, both the borrowing government cials is recommended. and the Bank are involvedin analyzingdevelopmentstrategies Firms should contactthe WorldBank (preferably by fax) onlyif for the borrower's economy as a whole and in identifying they are unable to obtaina responseto their queries fromthe im- projects that support those strategies. plementing agency.General informationabout business oppor- PREPARATION,the secondstage of the cycle,is the responsi- tunities under Bank loans and credits may be obtainedfrom the bilityof the borrower. During preparation,the technical and in- World Bank Business AffairsAdviser,Procurement Policy and stitutional alternatives for achieving a project's objectives are CoordinationUnit, at faxnumber (1-202)522-3318. identifiedand discussed.Preparationusuallyrequires feasibility studies followedby more detailed studiesof the alternativesthat promiseto yieldthe most satisfactoryresults. An environmental Environmental Categories assessment is usually carried out during this phase. (Seebelow The type,timing, and scopeof environmentalanalysisto be per- for more informationon environmentalassessment.) formed by bank borrowers are to be confirmedwhen a given In the preparation stage of the project cycle, borrowers often project is identified.Projects are assigned one of the following supplementtheir own efforts by hiring consultantsto carry out categories based upon the nature, magnitude and sensitivityof a majorpart of the work.Contractors and suppliersof equipment environmentalissues: and goods need to start makingcontactswith borrowers during CategoryA. Environmental assessmentis normallyrequired,as this stage. the projectmay have adverse and significant environmentalim- ProjectAPPRAISALS the responsibilityof the Bank, provides a pacts. comprehensive reviewof allaspectsof the project(technical,insti- CategoryB: More lited environental analysisis appropriate, tutional,economicand financial) and laysthe foundationfor imple- as the projectmay havespecific environmentalissues. mentingthe projectand evaluatingit when completed. Conducted by Bank staff,projectappraisal maybe supplemented byindividual CategoryC: Environmental analysisis normallyunnecessary. experts.The preparationof the Staff AppraisalReportconcludes Projects added to the summary afterJuly 1994include the envi- this stage. ronmental category A, B or C, except in the case of structural During NEGOTIATION,discussions are held with the borrow- and sector adjustmentloans, which are designated "U." er, and the agreements reached are written into the loan docu- Business opportunitiesarising from World Bank projects after ments. Upon completionof negotiations,the project is presented they havebeen approved,includinginvitations to bid and to sub- to the ExecutiveDirectors for approval.After approval,the loan mit proposalson Bankprojectsand noticesof contractawards,ap- agreement is signed. pear twicea month in Development Businessand are alsoavailable Project IMPLEMENTATION normally starts within a few via the internet at UN Development Business Online at months of loan signing. Borrowingcountries, through their im- . plementingagencies, have full responsibilityfor the design and PAGE4 MonthlyOperational Summary SEPTEMBER 1999 A (ypical summary entry looks like this: Viet Nam < Name of borrowingcountry I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(R) = revised; (N)= newentry (R) Payment Systems and Bank Modernization:The project willestablish a computerizedpayments system in or- Project description der to improve efficiencyand modernizethe banking sector. Technicalassistanceto strengthen the institutional capacityof Italics indicate change from last participatingcommercialbanks will also be provided.Preap- -- month's listing praisal missioncompleted. EnvironmentalAssessment Catego- ry C. PID:VNMPA028. US$ 50.0 (IDA).Consultantswill be 4- Amountof loan (US$ millions); lender required for projectmanagementand commercialbank insti- tutional studies. Project ManagementUnit, Payment System and Bank ModernizationProject,State Bank of Viet Nam,49 < Name/address of implementing agency Ly Thai To, Viet Nam,Fax: (84-4)258-385, ContactMr.Nguy- en Van Binh GLOBAL FACILITY ENVIRONMENT In additionto projects financed by the World Bank, The World The GEF is strivingfor universalparticipationand currently 156 Bank Monthly Operational Summary reports on projects fi- countries are participants. Countries may be eligiblefor GEF nanced by the GlobalEnvironmentFacility(GEF).The GEF pro- funds in one of twoways:(1) ifthey are eligiblefor financialassis- vides grants and concessionalfunding to recipientcountries for tance through the financialmechanism of either the Climate projects and programs that protect the globalenvironment and ChangeConvention or the Conventionon Biological or Diversity-, promote sustainable economicgrowth. (2) if they are eligible to borrow from the World Bank (IBRD and/or IDA)or receivetechnicalassistancegrants from UNDP The Facility, originallyset up as a pilot programin 1991,was re- through a CountryProgramme.A country must be a party tothe structured and replenishedwithoverUS$2 billionin 1994, to cov- Climate Change Conventionor the Conventionof Biological Di- er the agreed incremental costs of activities that benefit the versityto receivefunds from the GEFin the relevantfocalarea. globalenvironmentinfour focalareas: climatechange,biological diversity,internationalwaters, and stratosphericozone.Activities GEF projects must be country-driven,incorporateconsultation concerning land degradation,primarilydesertificationand defor- withlocalcommunitiesand,where appropriate,involvenon-gov- estation, as they relate to the four focalareas, are also eligiblefor ernmentalorganizationsin projectimplementation. funding. Both the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Conventionon Biological Diversityhave designatedthe For additionalinformation on the GEF,contactthe GEFsecretar- GEF as their fundingmechanismon an interimbasis. iat or visittheir site on the WorldWideWebat http://www.world- bank.org/html/gef/gelgraph.htm GEF projects and programs are managed through three imple- menting agencies: the UN DevelopmentProgramme (UNDP), The GEFSecretariat the UN EnvironmentProgramme (UNEP)and the WorldBank. 1818H Street,NW The GEF Secretariat,which is functionally independentfrom the WashingtonDC 20433, USA three implementingagencies,reports to and services the Coun- 473-8324 Tel: (1-202) cil and Assemblyof the GEE. Fax: (1-202) 522-3245 522-3240, SEPTEMBER 1999 Summary MonthlyOperational 5 PAGE Infrastructure: Second MunicipalInfrastructure Development New Projects Added Projectp. 57 in ThisIssue Latin America and the CaribbeanRegion Honduras AfricaRegion SocialSector:FifthFondo Hondurefiode Inversi6nSocial(FHIS V) p. 67 Burundi Mexico PrivateSector Development:Regional Trade Facilitation(LIFI) Environment:Disaster Managementp. 68 p. 8 Population,Health and Nutrition: Programa de Ampliaci6nde RuralDevelopment:Rural EmploymentDevelopmentp. 8 Cobertura (PAC)III p. 69 Cameroon Nicaragua Environment EnvironmentOilTechnicalAssistancep. 8 Finance:Pensions ReformTechnicalAssistancep. 70 Power: Chad/Cameroon Pipelinep. 8 Peru Chad Agriculture:AgriculturalResearch and Extensionp. 71 Population,Health and Nutrition:Health Sector Support p. 9 Telecommunications: Post and Telecommunications p. 9 ProjectsDeletedfrom Gambia Urban Development:GambiaGatewayProgram p. 10 ThisIssue Rwanda Private Sector Development:Rwanda-Regional Trade Facilita- AfricaRegion tion (LIFT p. 15AfiaRgo Benin:JudicialReform EastAsiaand PacificRegion Benin: RegionalUrban Philippines Benin:RuralEnergy Power: RuralElectrificationp. 27 Burundi: Infrastructure Rehabilitation PublicSector Management:JudicialReformp. 27 Cameroon:PetroleumTechnicalAssistanceand Forestry/Envi- Thailand ronment SocialSector: SocialInvestment IIp. 29 Central AfricanRepublic:PolicySupport Chad: EducationSector InvestmentVI SouthAsia Region Chad:Structural AdjustmentIII (Cr.3200-CD) Chad:Third Transport Sector India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cote d'Ivoire:Higher Education Public Sector Management:Modernizationof the State Statisti- C6te d'Ivoire:Nional Envion cal System p. 35 Cote d'Ivoire:NationalEnvironmental Program Nepal C6te d'Ivoire:Privatizationand RegulatoryReform Education/Training:Higher Secondary Educationp. 37 Cote d'Ivoire:RuralCapacityBuildingSupport Cote d'Ivoire:Second Forestry Program Europeand CentralAsia Region Djibouti:PublicExpenditureReform Republic of Moldova Djibouti:PublicWorks/SocialDevelopment(Cr.3225-DJI) Population,Health and Nutrition:Health Reformp. 47 Djibouti:SchoolDevelopment Tajikistan Ghana:EducationSector Development Infrastructure:Rural Infrastructure Rehabilitationp. 50 Ghana:HighwaySector II Ukraine Ghana:PrivateSector AdjustmentCredit III Ghana:RegulatoryCapacityBuilding Public Sector Management:CommunityDevelopmentProgram Ghana: uranU pading p. 53 Ghana:Urban Upgrading Guinea:VillageSupport (Cr.3174-GUI) Middle Eastand North AfricaRegion Lesotho:EducationII (Cr.3192-LSO) West Bank and Gaza Madagascar:Microfinance Environment:Solid Waste and EnvironmentalManagement p. Madagascar:RegionalSocialFund 57 Madagascar:StructuralAdjustmentII PAGE6 Summary MonthlyOperational 1999 SEPTEMBER Madagascar:UrbanWater Sector Republicof Moldova:Structural Adjustment(Cr.3256-MD) Malawi:BlantyreWater Supply Romania:PrivateSector Adjustment(Ln.4489-RO) Malawi:Fiscal Restructuring and Deregulation Tajikistan:EducationReform (Cr.3214-TJ) Malawi:Health and Nutrition Tajikistan:Farm Privatization (Cr.3240-TJ) Malawi:Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance Tajikistan:Institution Buildingand TechnicalAssistanceII (Cr. Malawi:Road Safetyand Traffic Management 3249-TJ) Mali: AgriculturalServices and Farmers' Organizations Mauritania:Telecommunicationsand Postal Reform Technical MiddleEastandNorth AfricaRegion Assistance Jordan: Health Sector Reform (Ln.4449-JO) Mauritius:Transport Niger: AgriculturalExport Promotion Latin America and the CaribbeanRegion Niger: Community-Based Rural Development Abap6-Camiri Bolivia: Highway (Cr.3235-BO) Niger: Education Bolivia:Health Reform (Cr.3244-BO) Niger: FinancialSector Bolivia:InstitutionalReform (Cr.3245-BO) Nigeria:Fadama II Chile:MillenniumScienceInitiative(Ln.4466-CH) Rwanda:Education Honduras:PROFUTURO (Cr.3250-HN) Rwanda:Population,Health and Nutrition Peru: FinancialSector AdjustmentLoan II (Ln.4497-PE) Swaziland: Poverty Togo: FinancialSectorAdjustment Togo:RuralEnergy II Togo: RuralEnergy Uganda:Health Sector Reform Zimbabwe: Fourth FiscalRestructuring and Deregulation Zimbabwe: Private Power Development East Asia and Pacific Region China: ProvincialEducationand Training Reform Indonesia:Second Water Supplyand Sanitationfor Low-Income Communities Indonesia:MunicipalFinance Mongolia:Private Sector Development(Cr.3226-MOG) Papua NewGuinea:Socialand EconomicDevelopmentProgram South Asia Region India:RajasthanDistrictPrimary Education (ITF N044-IN) India:SecondTamil Nadu Urban Development(Ln.4478IN) India:Woman and Child Development(ITF N042-IN) Europe and Central Asia Region Azerbaijan: Education (Cr.3220-AZ) Bosniaand Herzegovina:CulturalHeritage Pilot Bosnia and Herzegovina:Public Finance Structural Adjustment II (Cr.3258-BOS) Bulgaria:AgricultureStructural Adjustment (Ln.4499-BUL) Georgia:Structural ReformSupport (Cr.3264-GE) Georgia:JudicialReform Georgia: Structural Adjustment III (Cr. 3265-GE);(formerly Structural Reform Support) Republicof Moldova:SocialProtection Management (formerly SocialInsuranceManagement); (Cr.3261-MD) SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary 7 PAGE Urban Development Africa Region (R) First Decentralization City Management (Cr. 3234- BEN): The project will support the implementation of the gov- ernment's urban development strategy, which is being prepared Benin under the ongoing Urban Rehabilitation and management Project (Cr. 2338-BEN). The project will most likely include ur- ban infrastructure rehabilitation and support to municipal devel- Agriculture opment. Approved by the Executive Directors on 3 June 1999. (R) Forestry: The project will build on the initial success of the Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 25.5 (IDA). Con- forestry activities piloted under the Natural Resources Manage- sulting services to be determined. Societe d'etudes regionales ment Project (Cr. 2344-BEN). The objective of the project is to d'habitat et d'amenagement urbain (SERHAU), 32-34 rue 390 establish a nation-wide framework for participatory, sustainable (route de Lome), BP 2338, Cotonou,Benin, Tel: (229) 30-02-09, and profitable management of gazetted forests. Appraisal mis- Fax: (229) 30-06-26, Contact: M. Bachir Oloude, E-mail: ser- sion is scheduled for February 2000. Environmental Assessment hau'syfed. bj.refer org;Agence d'executiondes travaux urbains, 01 CategoryB. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be required BP 2780, Recette Principale, Cotonou, Benin, Tel: (229) 31-36- for the environmental impact assessment. Directorate of Forests 45, 31-28-30, Fax: (229) 31-26-73, Contact: M. Lambert Koty, E- and Natural Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, Coto- mail: agetur@0intnet.bj nou, Benin Burkina Faso Environment (R) National Parks Conservation Managemente The project Education/Training will include (a) capacity building for the relevant government Basic Education: The project will support the development agencies to promote efficient management of protected areas; and implementation of a national strategy program for ptimary and (b) protection of priority parks and eco-development activi- and including program for prary ties in surrounding hunting reserves and buffer zones. Board education, including programs to promote functional literacy presentation is scheduled for October 1999. Environmental As- and girls' and women's educaion. Preappraisal mission was sessment Category B. US$ 6.0 (GEF). Consulting services to be scheduled for September 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- determined. Ministry of Rural Development, National PAs Of- egory C. PID: BFPA309. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants will be re- fice of the Forestry Administration quired. Ministry of Education, c/o World Bank Resident Mission, PO Box 622, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tel: (226) Power 31-31-85,Fax: (226) 31-36-42 Seme Oil Field Closure: Offshore Seme oil field has reached Infrastructure the end of its economic life. The project will help in the urgent, safe plug as well as dismantling of all equipment. Board presen- (R) Public Works and Employment Decentralization: The tation is scheduled for early October 1999. Environmental As- project will finance a program of small municipal works, pro- sessment Category A. US$ 18.0 (IDA). Consultants will be mote local contractors, create new employment and develop la- required. A request for expressions of interest was published in bor-intensive projects. This project is no longer in the lending Development Business No. 482, dated 16 March 1998. Ministere program; further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental des mines, de l'energie et de l'hydraulique, 04 BP 1412, Cotonou, Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA). Local consultants will Benin, Tel: (229) 31-41-19,Fax: (229) 31-35-46,Contact: Mr. Em- be required. Faso Baara, 01 BP 6633, Ouagadougou, Burkina manuel Golou Faso, Tel: (226) 31-31-85,Fax: (226) 31-36-42 Seventh Power: The project will support (a) institutional re- form measures, including privatization of the distribution utili- Rural Development ties and reinforcement and expansion of the transmission and (R) National Community-Based Rural Development The distribution systems; and (b) the creation of a business environ- ment for private sector power generation. Appraisal mission is ra l sunit a nabout pro vementsrin ru- scheduled for late October 1999. Environmental Assessment ral coneunities to bring about sustainable improvements in nat- Category A. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be re- ural resource management, rural producton and socioeconomic quired for (a) institutional reform and restructuring measures; infrastructure.Preappraisal mission was scheduledfor lateAugust and (b) engineering and preparation of the bidding documents. 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Societe beninoise d'6lectricit& et d'eau (SBEE), Direction Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is gen6rale, Carre No. 9, BP 123, Cotonou, Benin, Tel: (229) 31-21- to be determined. 62, Fax: (229) 31-50-28, Contact: M.C. Kohoue, Directeur generale Water Supply/Sanitation Private Sector Development Water Supply: The project will assist the government in im- proving the sector management and the rehabilitation and ex- (R) Private Sector Development: The project will support (a) pansion of the Ouagadougou water supply. Appraisal mission legal and judicial reform; (b) enterprise development; and (c) ex- was scheduled for September 1999. Environmental Assessment port promotion. Negotiations were scheduled for September 1999. Category A. PID: BFPE306. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consulting servic- Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: BJPE39882. US$ es will be required for supervision of works and technical assis- 12.0 (DA). Consulting services to be determined. Cellule d'ap- tance to ONEA. Office national de l'eau et de lassainissement pui technique (CAT), BP 363, Cotonou, Benin, Tel: (229) 31-01- (ONEA), BP 170, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tel: (226) 30-60- 01, 31-23-82,E-mail: cat@bow.internet.bj 73/4, Fax: (226) 30-33-79 8 PAGE MonthlyOperational Summary 1999 SEPTEMBER Burundi Power (N) Chad/Cameroon Pipeline: The project will support (a) Private Sector Development the transport of oil from Chad to the coast of Cameroon; (b) de- velopment of the Doba oil fields; and (c) construction of a pipe- (N) Regional Trade Facilitation (UF`I): The objective is to line to the coast of Cameroon. Appraisal is completed. jump-start private sector activity. The project consists of a politi- Negotiations were scheduled for late August 1999. Environmen- cal risk insurance facility in support of commercial financing for tal Assessment Category A. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consulting servic- productive transactions involving enterprises in participating es to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. countries and their foreign partners. Project preparation is un- der way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Transport Consulting services to be determined. African Insurance Agen- cy (R) Railway Concession: The project will assist the govern- ment in concessioning the railway company to the private sector. Reconstruction/Rehabilitation Boardpresentationwas scheduled for mid-September 1999. Envi- ronmental Assessment Category B. PID: CMPE54786. US$ 22.0 (R) Emergency Economic Rehabilitation: The credit will (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Infrastructure and support economic stabilization measures. This project is current- Equipment Rehabilitation and Informatics Components: CAM- ly on hold. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 RAIL, 51, Rue Louis Blanc, 92400 Courbevoie, France, Tel: (33- (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Fi- 1) 41-41-54-92,Fax: (33-1) 41-41-50-38, Contact: Mr. Monpert; nance, Bujumbura, Burundi Management Capacity Development Component: Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Public Rural Development Investment, Yaounde, Cameroon, Tel: (237) 23-97-50,Fax: (237) 25-51-08, Contact: Bassoro Amninou,President of the Privatiza- (N) Rural Employment Development The objectives of the tion Committee project are to (a) create a labor-intensive public works program; (b) build the capacity of communes in planning, implementing CapeVerde and monitoring cost-effective poverty alleviation interventions; (c) promote the participation of enterprises; and (d) reform the Education/Training public procurement system. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ Education and Training Consolidation and Modernization 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. AGEBUR, (Cr. 3223-CV): The objectives of the project are to consolidate Tel: (257) 21-11-06, Fax: (257) 22-36-53, Contact: Mr. Alphonse the first stages of education and training reform (basic education Niyongere, PCU Coordinator and demand-driven training and employment services) and help the government identify cost-effective program options for the Social Sector medium-term development of other levels of schooling. Ap proved by the Executive Directors on 25 May 1999. Environmen- BURSAP H: The project will promote sustainable recovery tal Assessment Category C. US$ 6.0 (IDA). Consulting services from poverty in selected communities. Board presentation was to be determined. Office of the Prime Minister, CP 30, Praia, scheduled for mid-September 1999. Environmental Assessment Cape Verde Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- mined. Twitzimbere, ASB1, BP 2415, Bujumbura, Burundi, Tel: Private Sector Development (257) 22-18-04,Fax: (257) 22-8451, Contact Mr. Pontien Bikeba- Energy/Water (Cr. 3205-CV): The project will assist the gov- ko, Directeur de l'unite de gestion du projet ement in increasing private participation in the power and wa- ter sectors to improve the efficiency of sector operation, Cameroon promote the development of renewable energy resources and foster the sound management of water resources. Specifically, Environment the project will support (a) the privatization of electric compa- nies and the creation of municipal water companies; (b) the ex- (N) Environment Oil Technical Assistance: The project will pansion and rehabilitation of water and sanitation systems in provide support to the government in implementing Environ- urban centers; (c) the expansion of wind power capacity; (d) the ment Mitigation Plan for the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline. Apprais- development of decentralized wind and photovoltaic energy sys- al is completed. Negotiations were scheduled for late August tems; and (e) institutional strengthening. Approved by the Exec- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 9.5 (IDA). utive Directors on 11 May 1999. Environmental Assessment Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is Category A. PID: CVPE40990. US$ 16.3 (IDA). Consultants will to be determined. be required. Ministry of Economic Coordination, CP 30 Praia, to be determined. Cape Verde, Tel: (238) 61-58-46, 61-03-27,Fax: (238) 61-38-97, Contact: Mr. Antao Fortes Population, HealthandNutrition (R) Health Sector Investnent. The project will support pri- Public Sector Management vate sector development, major reforms of health financing and (R) Public Sector Reform Support: The crediw will (a) deep- personnel policies and finance investments in the health sector. en the public sector reform accomplished under the first project furtherreporting Thisprojectis no longerin the lendingprogram; in the areas of economicsand financialman- (Credit 2566-CV) will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category to be agement, regulatory and legal reform; and (b) prepare the next determined. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- phase of public sector reform to achieve the government's vision mined. Ministry of Health, Yaounde, Cameroon, Tel: (237) 223- of an efficient and modern public sector. Negotiations are sched- 525 uledfor late September1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Cate- SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary 9 PAGE gory C. US$ 3.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. determined. Ministry of Mines, Energy, Hydraulics and Petro- Office of Prime Minister, Praia, Cape Verde leum, N'Djamena, Chad Sector Social Telecommunications Social Sector Development (Cr. 3224-CV): The project will (N) Post and Telecommunications: Project description is to decrease poverty and support quality improvements in child be determined. Project preparation is under way. Environmental health and nutrition. A Japanese grant of US$ 200,000 was ap- Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 8.0 (IDA). Consult- proved for project preparation. Approved by the Executive Di- ing services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be de- rectors on 25 May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. termined. PID: CVPE432. US$ 13.2 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- mined. Ministry of Economic Coordination, CP 30, Praia, Cape Comoros Verde, Tel: (238) 615-846,615-2605,Fax: (238) 613-897 Central African Republic Infrastructure Infrastructure, Water and Environment The project will Structural Adjustment help to improve living conditions and to speed up economic growth by (a) providing adequate water and sanitation services (R) Structural Adjustment Project components are to be de- and safe transport and (b) protecting and improving the environ- termined. Appraisal mission was scheduled for late July 1999. ment. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assess- Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 16.0 (IDA). Con- ment Category A. US$ 8.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be sultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Bangui, Central determined. Ministry of Public Works, PO Box 85, Moroni, Co- African Republic, Tel: (236) 61-70-55,61-53-60,Fax: (236) 61-63- moros, Tel: (269) 744514, Fax: (269) 732993 98, Contact: Anicet Georges Dologuele Coted7voire Chad Education/Training HealthandNutrition Population, Adult literacy: The project will support implementation of the (N) Health Sector Support The project will support imple- government's literacy strategy for out-of-school youths and mentation of a national health policy as defined by the Ministry young adults, particularly girls and women. The project was ap- of Public Health. Project preparation is under way. Environmen- proved, following LIL procedures, on 12July 1999. Environmen- tal Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 30.0 (IDA). tal Assessment Category C. US$ 5.5 (IDA). Consultants will be Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Public required. Ministere de l'education nationale et de la formation Health, N'Djamena, Chad, Tel/Fax: (235) 51-86-48,Tel: (235) 51- de base, BP 120, Abidjan, C6te d'Ivoire, Fax: (225) 226-908 92-04, Contact: Mr. Adoum Djibrine, Project Coordinator Environment Power Park Protection and Management The project will include (R) Electricity: The project would assist in the expansion of capacity building for national environment, tourism and forestry power generators to increase capacity. It will also support the re- agencies, research institutions and NGOs. It will also include habilitation and expansion of transmission and distribution facil- park management and establishment of buffer zones for priority ities. Negotiations were scheduled for late August 1999. protected areas. Appraisal mission is scheduled for mid-October Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 20.0 (IDA). Con- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (GEF). sulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture determined. and Natural Resources (R) Petroleum Development and Pipeline (Chad and Cam- eroon): The project involves (a) the development of Chad's oil Finance fields and (b) the construction of a petroleum export pipeline Financial Sector Development The project will finance tech- from the south of Chad to the Atlantic coast of Cameroon and re- nical assistance to support financial sector development, includ- lated marine installations.Negotiations were scheduled for late . . . .- f .. A ugust 1999.EnviroC nmentalAssessmentCategory A.A draften- ing improving efficiencyand outreach of the financialsystem vironmental assessment is being revised. PID: TDPE44305. US$ with particular emphasis on access to credit by small businesses 35.0 (IBeD). Consulting services to be determined. Project Ser- in rural areas and financing coffee/cocoa crop credit. Appraisal Consulting services tobe determined. ProjectSer- 35.0 (IBRD.. mission was scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental As- vices Manager, Esso Exploration and Production Chad, Inc., 800 sessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consultants will be re- Gessner, Suite 400, Houston, Texas, USA 77024, Fax: (1-713) ementatio ry of FInance, 973-5230; Ministry of Mines, Energy and Petroleum, BP 816 quired for preparation and implementation. Ministry of Finance, N'Djamena, Chad, Tel: (235) 51-21-88,Fax: (235) 51-25-65,51-30- Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire 43; Societe nationale de hydrocarbures, BP 955, Yaounde, Cam- eroon, Tel: (237) 20-19-10,Fax: (237) 20-46-51 Population, Health and Nutrition (R) Petroleum Technical Assistance/Oil Sector (formerly Poverty Reduction Program: The objective of the project is to Petroleum Sector Management): The project will provide support reinforce the capacity of government, NGOs and other partners to the government in implementing the Chad/Cameroon pipeline in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating poverty especiallywith respectto environmental issues and development of reduction actions. Appraisal mission is scheduled for November domestic oil resources.Negotiations were scheduledfor late August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Planning and TDPE48202. US$ 24.0 (IBRD/IDA). Consulting services to be Development Programming, Abidjan, C6te d'Ivoire PAGE10 Summary MonthlyOperational 1999 SEPTEMBER Power Tel: (220) 392-363, Fax: (220) 227-756, 223-252,Contact: Oumar Azito Partial Guarantee (BOO1-IVC): An IDA partial risk S. Sallah, Director of Energy guarantee will support the construction of a 450 MW gas-fired power plant at Azito, sponsored by ABB Energy Ventures. The Pubic Sector Management total estimated total project cost is US$ 215.0 million. Approved (R) Capacity Building for Economic Management: The by the Executive Directors on 10 December 1998. Environmen- overall development objective is to contribute to poverty allevia- tal Assessment Category A. US$ 35.0 (IDA Partial Credit Guar- tion through better management of public resources. The antee). No consultants are required. CINERGY S.A., 62 Blvd. project will focus on strengthening capacity and institutions to Victor Schoelcher, Abidjan, C6te d'Ivoire, Tel: (225) 48-80-91,48- (a) promote accountability and transparency by improving a 80-92, Fax: (225) 44-54-47,Contact: Mr. Eric Lecesne, President, weak management of public resources; (b) enforce fair and rapid E-mail:jumbopwr@africaonline.co.ci@internet administration of laws; and (c) ensure the soundness of the banking system in support of private sector development. The Structural Adjustment beneficiaries will be consumers of basic public services, the civil service and private sector operators. Appraisal mission is sched- (R) Structural Adjustment. The credit will support the gov- uledforDecember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. ernment's Economic Reform Program and support financial sec- US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Imple- tor reform. Board presentation was scheduledfor September 1999. menting agency is to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 315.0 (IDA). Con- sultants will be required for project preparation and supervision. Ministry of Economy and Finance, BP V 125, Abidjan, C6te Urban Development d'Ivoire, Tel: (225) 218-022,Fax: (225) 211-690, Contact: Mr. Em- (N) Gambia Gateway Program: The objective of the program manuel N. N'Goran is to improve the living conditions of the urban population through (a) the sustainable provision of adequate public infra- Eritrea structure and services; and (b) the development of an enabling environment for municipal investment financing and for employ- ment creation and income generation. Appraisal is tentatively Education/Training scheduled for December 1999. PID: GMPE57394. Environmen- Education: The project will (a) expand rural access and im- tal Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 16.0 (IDA). prove educational quality to support improvement of teaching fa- Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is cilities and increase availability of textbooks and other to be determined. educational materials; (b) improve the quality of vocational train- ing and build, furnish and equip two skills development centers; Ghana and (c) provide institutional strengthening to improve the orga- nization and management capacity within the education sector. Negotiations are delayed-awaiting government's response. En- Agriculture vironmental Assessment Category B. PID: ERPE34156. US$ Agricultural Services: The project is the major instrument for 15.2 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of implementing the government's strategy for accelerated agricul- Education, PO Box 1056, Asmara, Eritrea, Tel: (291-1) 11-38-79, tural growth and rural development. The government intends to Fax: (291-1) 12-19-13 increase the pace of the sector's growth with a strategy that is privately led and export-oriented. The public sector will create Ethiopia an enabling environment for the private sector boost to agricul- tural production, agro-processing and exports. The project ob- jectives are to (a) increase agricultural production; (b) promote Power farming systems and practices; (c) strengthen the technical, fi- Power Distribution: The project will rehabilitate electricity nancial and managerial capacities of the sector ministry, depart- and expand distribution in Addis Ababa. Project preparation is ments agencies and the district assemblies; and (d) promote under way. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 150.0 partnerships between the public and private sectors as well as (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Mines linkages with civil society. Preappraisal mission was scheduled and Energy, PO Box 486, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tel: (251-1) 150- for September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category to be 465, Fax: (251-1) 517-874 determined. US$ 75.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for statistics and information system; horticultural exports promo- tion; horticultural production; research management; ministeri- Gambia al organization and management; monitoring and evaluation systems; small scale irrigation systems; natural resources man- Power agement; trypanosomiasis and tsetse control; fisheries resourc- es management; aquaculture; and appropriate technology in (R) Energy Infiastructure: This technical assistance loan will agricultural production and processing. Ministry of Food and (a) provide the government with the basis for decisions on the Agriculture, PO Box M 37, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-21) 78-05-75, location of future energy infrastructure facilities within the Fax: (233-21) 66-82-45,Contact: Mr. PA. Bruce, Coordinator greater Banjul area; (b) rapidly improve the commercial man- agement and financial soundness of the electricity sector in or- Education/Training der to attract private investmnentcapital; and (c) prepare a plan for delivery of energy services to the mostly rural population in National Functional Literacy Program (Cr. 3246-GH): The the interior provinces. 7his project is no longer in the lending pro- project will help the government prepare the second phase of gram; further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental As- the adult literacy and functional skills program based on the eval- sessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consultants will be uation of and lessons learned from the first phase of the pro- required for project preparation and supervision. Department of gram. Approved by the Executive Directors on 17 June 1999. State, Trade, Industry and Employment, Banjul, The Gambia, Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: GHPE974. US$ SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE11 32.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Non-formal to carry out studies during project preparation. Community Wa- Education Division, Ministry of Education, Literacy House, Ac- ter and Sanitation Agency, Accra, Ghana, E-mail: ppt@gha- cra, Ghana, Tel: (233-21) 23-16-64,Fax: (233-21) 23-16-63 na.com Public Sector Management Water Restructuring: The project will improve efficiency and effectiveness of urban water services and provide safe and af- (R) Public Sector Management Program (Cr. 3199-GH): fordable water supply services to unserved, low-income urban The project will address several different areas which have been areas. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assess- identified as essential elements for the public sector reform ment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services are re- agenda. These areas include (a) improving systems and process- quired for project preparation. Ghana Water Corporation, PO es, such as human resources management systems, financial Box M194, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-21) 66-67-81, Fax: (233-21) management guidelines, records management guidelines, facili- 66-35-52,Contact: E.K.Y.Dovlo, Managing Director ties management, remuneration and incentive systems and man- agement information systems; (b) the national policy management process; (c) reviewing the mandates and responsi- Guinea bilities of public sector agencies; and (d) strengthening public- private partnerships. Approved by the Executive Directors on 4 Education/Training May 1999. Credit was signed on 30July 1999. Environmental As- sessment Category C. PID: GHPE50615. US$ 14.3 (IDA). Local Education for All: The objectives of the project are to attain full consultants will be required to support project preparation activ- primary attendance and improve the quality of education ities. NIRP Secretariat, Office of the President, PO Box 1618, Ac- through teacher training, supply of textbooks and improving stu- cra, Ghana, Tel: (233-21) 780-295,Fax: (233-21) 780-294,Contact: dent health. Appraisal mission is scheduled for December 1999. Dr. Appiah Koranteng, National Coordinator Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Con- sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education, Con- Social Sector akry, Guinea. Tel: (224) 41-34-41,Contact: Mr. Zoumanigi Kozo Community Development (Cr. 3237-GH): The project will pilot mechanisms and systems for designing, implementing and PublicSector Management monitoring community-based poverty reduction activities. The project was approved, following LIL procedures, on 9 June 1999. Capacity Building: The project will maintain the momentum of Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: GHPE40659. US$ the process of institutional reforms. The focus is on strengthen- 5.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for project preparation. ing institutional capacity in key areas of economic management. National Development Planning Commission, Flagstaff House, Appraisal mission is scheduled for late September 1999. Envi- PO Box C633, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-21) 77-30- ronmental Assessment Category C. PID: GNPE49716. US$ 20.0 55, Fax: (233-21) 77-30-11 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Plan- ning and Cooperation, Project Monitoring and Coordinating Structural Adjustment Unit, Conakry, Guinea (R) Economic Reform Support Operation II (Cr. 3228- GH): The credit will support the deepening of reforms in expen- Urban Development diture allocation, cocoa, energy and public sector management. (R) Urban III (Cr. 3196-GUI): The objective of the project is Approved by the Executive Directors on 27 May 1999. Credit was to improve the physical and economic environment of Conakry signed on 9 July 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. and strengthen its capand tonage uronmentvices.nakr US$ 178.2 (IDA). Consultants will not be required. Ministry of a its capacity to manage urban services. The Finance, PO Box M 40, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (233-21) 665-587,Fax: project includes maintenance of secondary infrastructure and (233-21) 667-069 solid waste management. Approved by the Executive Directors on 20 April 1999. Credit was signed on 19July 1999. Environmen- Urban Development tal Assessment Category B. PID: GNPA1074. US$ 18.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Urban Plan- Fifth Urban: The project will include basic infrastructure im- ning and Housing, Bid. du Commerce, Conakry, Guinea, Tel: provements in selected secondary towns and capacity building (224) 44-38-40, 41-46-87, Fax: (224) 41-46-88, Contact: Sory for district assemblies. Appraisal mission is scheduled for Octo- Kouyate. Conseiller charg6 de mission ber 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be required for preliminary en- gineering and environmental and economic analysis of selected Guinea-Bissau interventions. Ministry of Local Government and Rural Develop- ment, PO Box M50, Accra, Ghana, Tel: (223-21) 66-54-21, Fax: Private Sector Development (223-21) 66-10-16,Contact: Mr. Godfrey Ewool, Engineering Ad- visor (R) Private Sector Capacity Building: The project will sup- port the government's policy of encouraging private sector de- Water Supply/Sanitation velopment by (a) creating an enabling environment to facilitate ,R) Community Water II: The (R) CommunityWater projectwill The project .1:(a) will finance commu- (a) finance commu- increased levels of private th stt inpoutv investment; (b) reducing the role of etr;ad()ipoigteefcec nity development activities and the design and construction of the state In productive sectors; and (c) improving the efficiency improved water and sanitation facilities; and (b) provide support and competitiveness of private enterprise through technical as- to communities in planning, implementing and managing their sistance. This project is no longer in the lending program; further facilities through training, sector work and stakeholder consul- reporting will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Cate- tation. Negotiations completed. Board presentation was scheduled gory C. US$ 12.5 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. for late August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. Ministry of Economy and Finance, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Tel: PID: GHPE50616. US$ 80.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required (245) 20-16-26,Fax: (245) 20-10-55 PAGE 12 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 WaterSupply/Sanitation WaterSupply/Sanitation Water/Energy: The project will provide a reliable and potable (R) Mombasa Water and Sanitation: The project seeks to (a) water supply and electricity to the city of Bissau, and establish an develop ground water sources; (b) improve the transmission organization to manage, operate and maintain a water supply, line between Baricho Well Field and Mombasa; and (c) provide drainage and electric system. Board presentation is tentatively emergency measures to improve distribution systems and re- scheduled for December 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- duce unaccounted for water. This project is longer in the lending egory A. PID: GWPE01012. US$ 20.3 (ITF). Consultants will be program; further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental required. Ministry of Energy, Industry, and Natural Resources, Assessment Category A. US$ 40.0 (DA). Consulting services to Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Tel: (245) 21-26-18,Fax: (245) 22-18-25 be determined. National Water Conservation and Pipeline Cor- poration, Workshop Rd. and Commercial St., PO Box 30173, Kenya Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-2) 556-600,Fax: (254-2) 545-882 Agriculture Lesotho Agriculture Sector Investment- The project will support (a) . . . extension, animal health, disease control and other essential ser- Populaton,HealthandNutiton vices and regulatory activities; (b) continuation of policy and in- Health Systems Support The project will support health sec- stitutional initiatives begun under Agricultural Sector tor reforms. Appraisal mission was scheduled for September Adjustment II; (c) infrastructure to support private sector devel- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: LSPE53200. opment; and (d) pilot investment schemes to support small-scale US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry capital investments covering communities, NGOs and private of Health and Social Welfare, Maseru, Lesotho entrepreneurs. Negotiations have been postponed. Environmen- tal Assessment Category B. PID: KEPA1346. US$ 27.0 (IDA). Private Sector Development Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Development and Marketing, Kilimo House, PO Box Privatization and Regulatory Reform Technical Assis- 30028, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-2) 718-870,Fax: (254-2)720-586 tance: The project would help the government (a) reform and privatize key enterprises in the banking and telecommunications Education/Training sectors; and (b) reform and increase private sector participation in key enterprises in the electricity and water sectors. Project Strengthening Primary and Secondary Education: The preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category project will be a policy-based sector investment and maintenance B. US$ 14.0 (IDA). Consulting services are to be determined. loan. It will be an Adaptable Program Loan for strengthening pri- Ministry of Finance, PO Box A249, Maseru 100, Lesotho, Tel: mary and secondary education, and will support the first stage (266) 317-902, Fax: (266) 317-551, Contact: Mr. M. Mashologu, of the government's master plan for the education sector. Preap- Director, Privatization Unit praisal mission was scheduled for late June 1999. The govern- ment is preparing a master plan for the education sector. A Social Sector Japanese grant of up to US$ 556,000 for project preparation is be- ing used. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- (R) Community Development Support: This project will sup- mined. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Ministry of port a decentralized, village-based microinvestment program. Education, PO Box 30040, Nairobi, Kenya, Tlx: 963 25200, Fax: The project was scheduled to be approved, following LIL proce- (254-2)214-287 dures, in mid-September 1999. Environmental Assessment Cate- gory B. US$ 4.7 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Public Sector Management Ministry of Planning and Ministry of Local Government, Box 24, (R) Local Government Reform: The project will offer assis- Maseru, Lesotho, Tel: (266) 316-410, Fax: (266) 310-145 tance with capacity building and municipal infrastructure invest- ments in various local authorities. This project is no longer in the Madagascar lending program; further reporting will be discontinued. Environ- mental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 80.0 (IDA). Agriculture Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Local Govern- ment, PO Box 28251, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-2) 216-197, Fax: (R) Farmer Ownership Model: This learning and innovation (254-2) 216-756 credit will test an innovative approach of promoting profitable farmer-owned business in agriculture, agroprocessing and mar- Transport keting through the establishment and operation of limited com- panies. Appraisal mission is scheduled for October 1999. (R) Highway Sector III: The project will support road rehabil- Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 1.4 (IDA). Consult- itation and institutional reform. This project is no longer in the ing services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, P.O. Box lending program; further reporting will be discontinued. Environ- 301, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Contact: Mr. Maxime Andriam- mental Assessment Category A. US$ 140.0 (IDA). Consultants ifidimanantsoa, National Coordinator of Second Irrigation Reha- will be required. Ministry of Public Works and Housing, PO Box bilitation Project, Tel. (261-20) 22-247-10,Tel./Fax: (261-20) 22- 30260, Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-2)723-101, Fax: (254-2) 720-044 646-31,E-mail: ppicn@dts.mg District Rural Roads Network Rehabilitation-Roads (R) Rural Development: The project is the first phase of an ag- 2000: The project will support the implementation of the Roads ricultural sector investment program which will focus on (a) ca- 2000 program for district roads. Appraisal mission was sched- pacity building at both central and local levels for rural uled for September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category development; (b) improved agricultural technology develop- B. PID: KEPE54947. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants will be re- ment and transfer for both crops and livestock; (c) sustainable ir- quired Ministry of Public Works and Housing, PO Box 30260, rigation infrastructure rehabilitation and operation; (d) Nairobi, Kenya, Tel: (254-2) 723-101 sustainable rural road rehabilitation and operation; and (e) es- 1999 SEPTEMBER Summary MonthlyOperational PAGE13 tablishment of a modern national land administration system. eco-systems through a combination of community environmen- 7his project is no longer in the lending program;,further reporting tal awareness, sustainable use and alternative livelihood initia- will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category B. tives and targeted community conservation schemes. Appraisal US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Imple- mission was scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental As- menting agency is to be determined. sessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (GEF). Consultants may be re- quired. Ministry of Research and Environmental Affairs, Education/Training Mulanje Mountain Conservation Trust Second Manpower Development: The project will assist the government in implementing further reforms to the vocational HealthandNutrition Population, training systems aimed at improving relevance and efficiency of (R) AIDS: The objective of this Learning and Innovation Loan training programs to labor market needs. Appraisal mission is scheduled for December 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- is to produce the behavioral changes needed to reduce the egory C. PID: MGPE57383. US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consulting services spread of HIV infection, treat STDs and support care of people to be determined. Bureau du projet education charge du Projet with AIDS. The project includes (a) information, education and de renforcement de la formation technique et professionnelle, communication; (b) institutional support; and (c) treatment and (B.P.E. - PREFTEC), 3eme etage, Batiment ex-LTGC, Complexe care of people with AIDS. This project is currently on hold. Envi- scolaire Ampefflloha, BP 4196, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar, ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 4.0 (IDA). Consultants Tel: (261-20) 223-1438, Fax: (261-20) 223-1438, Contact: Mr. An- will be required. National Aids Control Program, PO Box 30622, dre Ralaitsizafy, Director Capital City, Lilongwe 3, Malawi, Tel: (265) 781-344, Fax: (265) 784-247 HealthandNutrition Population, Health II: The project will (a) support the process of decentral- Private Sector Development ization of the health delivery system currently under way; (b) re- (R) Private Sector: The project will provide support for the de- inforce the health care services at the district level; and (c) velopment of emerging enterprises. Components include a line strengthen public health programs and promote community- of credit for investment projects, support to remove infrastruc- managed cost recovery. Negotiations are scheduled for October ture constraints and technical assistance. This project is no longer 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: in the lending programnfurther reporting will be discontinued. En- MGPE51741. US$ 38.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required in the areas of public health, health economics, and health systems vironmental Assessment Category C. Cofinancing is required. management. Ministry of Health, Antananarivo, Madagascar, US$ 20.0 (IDA). No consultants are required. Ministry of Fi- Tel: (261) 236-97, 236-98, Fax: (261) 297-29, Contact: Dr. Justin nance, Capital Hill, PO Box 30049, Lilongwe 3, Malawi,Tel: (265) Ranjalahy 782-199,Fax: (265) 781-679 Privatization and Utility Reform: The project will support the Public Sector Management government in addressing liberalization, regulatory reform and (R) Knowledge Management: This learning and innovation privatization issues in key utility sectors. Appraisal mission was credit would assist the government in designing, testing and dis- scheduled for September 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- seminating tools, approaches and methodologies for regional egory C. PID: MWPE63095. US$ 10.0 (IDA). Consultants will be planning and municipal/urban management. It will include (a) required. Privatization Commission, PO Box 937, CDM House, regional planning and municipal urban management; (b) munic- Independent Drive, Blantyre, Malawi, Tel: (265) 623-655, Fax: ipal capacity building in small- and medium-size cities; and (c) in- (265) 621-248, Contact: Mr. Dye Mawindo, Executive Director formation systems and communication. Appraisal mission is scheduled for October 1999. Environmental Assessment Catego- Mali ry C. PID: MGPE62628. US$ 4.1 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Budget, BP 3378, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar, Tel: (261-2) 35613, Fax: (261-2)35617, Contact: Mr. Education/Training Herivelona Ramanantsoa-Ramarcal (R) Community-Based Schools: The objective of the project Transport is to develop a model of high-quality, community-based, public schooling. It will support the introduction of national languages Transport Sector: The project will support the restructuring of as a transition to French, the establishment of community in- road and transport sector; finance limited improvements to road volvement in school management and reinforced financial man- and transport infrastructure; and facilitate privatization of trans- agement. Negotiations were scheduled for late August 1999. port activities. Appraisal mission is scheduled for October 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 3.5 (IDA).Consult- Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Con- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Basic Education, c/o sultants have been appointed for restructuring the national rail- World Bank Resident Mission, BP 1864, Bamako, Mali, Tel: way company, restructuring of ports management and inland Contact:Mr. SalifSamake Fax: (223)22-66-82, (223)22-24-50, waterways improvements. Ministry of Transport, BP 1254, Ano- sy, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Tlx: 22301,Tel: (261-2) 24604 (R) Education Sector: The aim of the project is to expand pri- mary education, increase enrollment, restructure higher educa- Malawi tion and improve the quality, relevance and efficiency at all levels. 7his project is no longer in the lending program; further re- Environment porting will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Catego- ry C. PID: MLPE40650. Cofinancing of about US$ 30.0 million is (R) Mulanje Mountain Biodiversity Conservation: The expected. US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Minis- project will support the conservation of the biological diversity try of Basic Education, c/o World Bank Resident Mission, BP and environmental functions of the Mulanje mountain and its 1864, Bamako, Mali, Tel: (223) 22-22-83,Fax: (223) 22-66-82 PAGE14 Summary MonthlyOperational 1999 SEPTEMBER Finance Water Supply/Sanitation Financial Sector Development: The project will pursue re- Solid Waste Management: The project will address (a) the forms in the financial sector, strengthen the financial system and most appropriate institutional and legal framework, to be set up deepen financial intermediation. Appraisal mission is scheduled at the national level, to allow gradual introduction of the private for late September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category sector through operations and capital investment; and (b) the fi- to be determined. PID: MLPE1748. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consulting nancial sustainability of the sector as a whole. Preappraisal is services to be determined. Ministere des finances, BP 234, Ba- scheduled for January 2000. Environmental Assessment Catego- mako, Mali, Tel: (223) 22-57-26,22-58-58,Fax: (223) 22-88-53 ry A. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Environment, Ken Lee Tower, Barracks St., Port Rural Development Louis, Mauritius, Tel: (230) 212-6080,Fax: (230) 212-6671 Rural Infrastructure: The objective of the project is to provide Mozambique basic rural infrastructure on a sustainable basis to help increase agricultural production, reduce poverty and improve the liveli- hood of the beneficiaries. Specifically, the project will (a) Environment strengthen local capacity in infrastructure planning, design, con- struction, operation and maintenance; (b) support the rehabilita- (R) Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Management: The tion and construction of large irrigation perimeters; (c) support project aims to strengthen the conservation and management of rehabilitation and construction of main rural roads; and (d) pro- globally significant coastal and marine biodiversity by support- vide water to rural communities. Appraisal mission is scheduled ing the National Forestry and Wildlife Strategy within the over for late September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category all framework of the national coastal zone program. Negotiations B. PID: MLPE41723. US$ 85.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be were scheduled for early September 1999. A GEF advance grant determined. Ministry of Rural Development, c/o Banque mondi- has been approved to support preparation activities. Additional ale, BP 1864, Bamako, Mali, Tel: (223) 22-87-85,Fax: (223) 22-02- cofinancing is being sought. Environmental Assessment Catego- 95 Contact: Mr. Paul Coulibaly Conseiller technique ry B. US$ 5.0 (GEF). Consulting services to be determined. Min- istry for Coordination of Environment Affairs, Ave. Acordos de Lusaka, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-1)465-848,Fax: (258-1) Telecommunications 465-849 (R) Telecommunications Sector Reform: The project aims to improve economic competitiveness through improved coverage Private Sector Development and quality and more competitive prices for telecommunications services. Negotiations were scheduled for mid-September 1999. Enterprise Development: The project will support private sec- Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: MLPE62908. US$ tor development. Specific project components are to be deter- 7.2 (IDA). Consultants have been selected for studies. Local con- mined. Negotiations were scheduled for late July 1999. sulting services will be required. Ministry of Communications Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: MZPE49874. US$ BP 116, Bamako, Mali, Tel: (223) 22-83-92, Fax: (223) 22-83-19, 29.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Contact: Mr. Dahirou Diallo, Conseiller technique Industry, Trade and Tourism, Praca 25 de junho, 37, CP 654, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-1) 427-204,Fax: (258-1)421-305 Mauritania Structural Adjustment Agriculture Fifth Economic Recovery: The operation will focus on struc- tural and policy reforms aimed at improving the sustainability Integrated Development Program for Irrigated Agricul- and efficiency of public sector operations, with a special focus on ture (Cr. 3272-MAU): The project aims to rehabilitate exist- fiscal reforms. Project preparation is under way. Environmental ing irrigation schemes and access roads, develop private Assessment Category U. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consulting services irrigation, promote crop diversification and integrated agricul- to be determined. Ministry of Planning and Finance, Pra,a da ture. Total program cost is estimated at US$ 46.0 million. Ap- Marinha Popular, CP 272, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-1)43- proved by the Executive Directors on 8 July 1999. 07-51,Contact: Manuel Chang, National Director of Treasury Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: MRPE44711. US$ 38.1 (IDA). Mainly short-term and local consultants will be re- quired (estimated at 100 staff weeks). Ministry of Rural Devel- Transport opment and Environment, c/o World Bank Resident Mission, (R) Railways and Port Restructuring: The project will sup- BP 667, Nouakchott, Mauritania, Tel: (222) 25-10-17,Fax: (222) port (a) the restructuring of the Mozambique Railways and Har- 25-13-34,Contact: Mr. Ahmed Youra, Tel: (222) 25-12-66 bours Company with a view to commercialization and at least partial privatization/leasing of core activities; and (b) upgrading Mauritius of some infrastructure. Board presentation was scheduledfor ear- ly September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: MZPE42039. US$ 100.00 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- Population, Health and Nutrition mined. Implementing agency is to be determined. (R) Health: The project will support the implementation of Roads and Bridges Management and Maintenance Pro- health sector reforms that aim to make health systems more ef- gram: The project will support the rehabilitation of rural infra- ficient and responsive to the increasing incidences of non-com- structure and bridges. Project preparation is under way. municable diseases. This project is no longer in the lending Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ program; further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental 100.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Authoridade Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Consulting services National das Estradas, Ministry of Public Works and Housing, to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Port Louis, Mauritius, Ave. Karl Marx 606, CP 268, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-1) Tel: (230) 201-1446,Fax: (230) 208-8622 430-028, Fax: (258-1) 421-369 SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE15 WaterSupply/Sanitation ja, Nigeria, Tel: (234-9)234-2891,Fax: (234-9)234-2895,Contact: (R) National Water II (Cr. 3247-MOZ): The project includes Eng. Mustapha Bukar, Director Special Duties (a) support for the private sector management of water compa- nies; (b) investments in urban water supply infrastructure; and Regional (c) institutional development support. Approved by the Execu- tive Directors on 17 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Cate- Finance gory B. US$ 75.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Ave. Karl Marx 606, CP Banque centrale Etats de l'Afrique de l'ouest (BCEAO): 268, Maputo, Mozambique, Tel: (258-1) 430-028, 420-543, Fax: The objectives of the project are to (a) strengthen and develop (258-1)421-369. Contact: His Excellency Roberto Costley-White, the financial sector within the Union economique et monetaire Minister of Public Works Housing ouest-africaine in order to promote private-sector led growth; (b) implement a more modern payments system in at least three pi- lot countries; (c) reduce transaction costs and delays for intra- Niger and inter-country payments; (d) achieve greater alignment of bank supervisory and regulatory framework on New Base Com- WaterSupply/Sanitation mission guidelines; and (e) assist in setting up adequate Region- al Securities Regulation. Appraisal mission was scheduled for Water Supply: The project will include (a) financing of invest- mid-August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ ments for the rehabilitation and expansion of urban water net- 10.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Banque cen- works in parallel with the involvement of a private operator; (b) trale Etats de l'Afrique de l!ouest (BCEAO),Ave. Abdoulaye Fa- support to capacity building in regulation and supervision of ur- diga BP 3997, Dakar, Senegal, Tel: (221-8) 39-05-00,Fax: (221-8) ban water operations; and (c) support to the elaboration and im- 23-93-35 plementation of new approaches to the development of basic services in rural areas. Project preparation is under way. Envi- ronmental Assessment Category B. PID: NEPE61558. US$ 30.0 Rwanda (IDA). Consultants will likely be required for detailed design for urban investments, assistance to regulatory and monitoring en- Agriculture tities, assistance to the preparation of a new rural water supply strategy and financial management assistance. Implementing Agriculture and Rural Market Development (Cr. 3270- agency is to be determined. RW): This learning and innovation credit will test different ap- proaches of promoting local rural marketing systems and en- couraging increased participation by the private sector, Nigeria including farmer cooperatives. The project was approved, follow- ing IHL procedures, on 1 July 1999. Environmental Assessment Education/Training Category B. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- mined. Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, BP 1263, Kigali, Primary Education II: The project will support improvements Rwanda, Tel: (250) 85063, 84644, Fax: (250) 85057, Contact: in the effectiveness of primary education in 550 focus schools, in Celestin Kabanda, Directeur de la planification, etudes et suivi approximately 800 schools benefiting from self-help initiatives and in the primary education subsector in general. Negotiations PrivateSectorDevelopment are scheduled for mid-October 1999. Environmental Assess- ment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be de- (N) Rwanda-Regional Trade Facilitation (IJFT1): The objec- termined. Ministry of Education - National Primary Education tive of the project is to jump-start private sector activity. The Commission (NPEC) project will consist of a political risk insurance facility in support of commercial financing for productive transactions involving Public SectorManagement enterprises in participating countries and their foreign partners. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment (R) Economic Management and Capacity Building: The Category B. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- project will finance technical assistance to support and prepare mined. African Insurance Agency projects for Bank financing, improve implementation of ongoing projects, implement public enterprise reforms and broader eco- Adjustment Structural nomic reforms and important studies in the areas of debt relief, budget expenditure monitoring and the financial sector. Negoti- Economic Recovery (Cr. 3182-RW): The credit will provide ations were scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental As- budget support and finance imports to support the govern- sessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consulting services to ment's policy reform program aimed at consolidating the eco- be determined. Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja, Nigeria, Tel: nomic recovery and stability, reducing rural poverty and (234-9) 234-0437, (234-9) 234-3609,Contact: Dr. Ramsey Mowoe developing human resources and the private sector. Approved by the Executive Directors on 30 March 1999. Environmental WaterSupply/Sanitation Assessment Category C. US$ 75.0 (IDA). Consultants will be re- quired. Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, PO Box 46, Small Towns Water Supply: This learning and innovation Kigali, Rwanda, Tel: (250) 74785, Fax: (250) 77581, Contact: The credit will finance a pilot project to test arrangements for a na- Secretary General tional Small Towns Water Supply Program. Negotiations com- pleted. Board presentation is scheduled for October 1999. Water Supply/Sanitation Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: NGPE64008. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required to assist the project agen- Rural Water: The project will provide (a) assistance to the cy with (a) project management; (b) provision of extension ser- privatization of the operation of urban water supply systems; (b) vices; (c) monitoring and evaluation; and (d) review of outcomes sanitation and storm drainage in Kigali; (c) strengthening of the and modifications to implementation manuals. Federal Ministry Directorate of Water and Sanitation; and (d) rehabilitation and of Water Resources and Rural Development, Area 1, Garki, Abu- expansion of rural water supply schemes throughout the coun- PAGE16 Summary MonthlyOperational 1999 SEPTEMBER try. Appraisal mission was scheduled for September 1999. Envi- ports urbains de Dakar, BP 2083, Tel: (221) 8324860, Fax: (221) ronmental Assessment Category B. PID: RWPA45182.US$ 15.0 832-4744,Contact: Mr. Ousman Thiam, President (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Public Works, Energy and Water, BP 24, Kigali, Rwanda, Fax: (250) 85- Water Supply/Sanitation 755, Contact: Mr. Emmanuel Nsanzumuganwa Long-Term Water Sector: The objective of the project is to Senegal achieve a sustainable improvement in the provision of water and sanitation services in unserved and low-income areas of Dakar and secondary cities. The project will support further institution- Agriculture al and regulatory reforms and policy enhancements in the water sector and, in parallel, remove its major physical constraints, us- Agricultural Services and Producers' Organizations (Cr. ing private sector project financing. Negotiations are scheduled 3219-SE): The project follows-up Agricultural Services I and for November 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A. Agricultural Research II. The project will support producers' or- PID: SNPE41528. US$ 85.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be de- ganizations. Approved by the Executive Directors on 20 May termined. Implementing agency is to be determined. 1999. Potential parallel financing will be provided from France and IFAD. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: SNPE02367. US$ 27.4 (IDA). Consultants have been selected. Sierra Leone Ministry of Agriculture, Senegalese Institute of Research (IS- RA), BP 3120, Dakar, Senegal, Tel: (221) 32-24-22,Fax: (221) 32- ReconstructionlRehabilitation 24-27; Programme national de vulgarisation agricole (PNVA), BP 10428, Dakar, Senegal, Tel: (221) 24-71-79,24-41-31 Reintegration and Community: 'Me project will support the 10428, Tel: 'PSenegal, (221) 24-71-79,21-31government's Dakar, resettlement, rehabilitation and reconstruction .program EducationITrain.g through support for post-discharge demobilization ac- Educafion/Tra,mng tivities, reintegration of returning soldiers and refugees and Quality for All: The project will support sector development at strengthening the coordination and monitoring capacity of the all levels of education. Appraisal mission was scheduled for Sep- Ministry of National Reconstruction, Resettlement and Rehabil- tember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 40.0 itation. Project is currently on hold due to country situation. (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Educa- Board presentation is tentatively scheduled for July 2000. Envi- tion, Senegal, Tel: (221) 823-71-80,Fax: (221) 821-89-30 ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of National Reconstruction, Private Sector Development Resettlement and Rehabilitation (MNRRR),39 Siaka Stevens St, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tel: (232-22) 22-60-32 Private Sector Development. This project is a follow up to the Industrial Sector Restructuring Project (Cr. 1866-SE) and the on- Structural Adjustment going Private Sector Capacity Building Project (Cr. 2759-SE). It will support (a) improvement of the policy, regulatory and legal Emergency Recovery: The credit will help the government environment of the private sector, particularly financial sector maintain the momentum of the ongoing structural adjustment operations; and (b) increased private investment through an program and provide balance of payments support until export Apex line of credit and assistance to develop new financial insti- capacity is restored. Project is currently on hold due to country tutions and instruments in favor of investment financing. Project situation. Board presentation is tentatively scheduled for July preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category 2000. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 35.0 (IDA). to be determined. US$ 35.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be fi- No consultants are required. Implementing agency is to be de- nanced through aJapanese grant. Ministry of Economy, Finance termined. and Planning, Immeuble Pitavin, Dakar, Senegal Tanzania RuralDevelopment National Infrastructure Program: The project seeks to im- Finance prove the living conditions of rural population by improving their (R) Second Financial Institutions Development. The access to basic infrastructure and services and by creating en- project will provide support for the continued restructuring and abling conditions for rural development. It will support the de- privatization of the state-owned National Bank of Commerce in- centralization of responsibilities for managing local affairs and cluding (a) a performance-based management contract; (b) sys- rural development to the rural communities. The project will in- tems improvement; (c) training; and (d) the implementation of clude (a) capacity building at the central and local levels; (b) cre- some pilot microfinance credit schemes. It also aims to strength- ation of a demand-driven rural investment fund; and (c) en banking supervision and capital market development. Board maintenance and rehabilitation of rural roads. Appraisal mission presentation was scheduledfor late August 1999. Environmental was scheduled for September 1999. Environmental Assessment Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consulting services to Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. mined. Implementing agency is to be determined. HealthandNutrition Population, Transport (R) Health Sector Program: The project will support the gov- Urban Mobility Development. The objectives of the project ernment's efforts to combat the major sources of Tanzania's bur- are to (a) promote the use of safer, efficient, affordable and envi- den of disease through community and preventive health ronmentally friendly public transport services in the metropoli- interventions. It will assist in reforming and restructuring the tan area of Dakar; and (b) ensure the safe mobility of health sector including support for decentralization and greater pedestrians. Appraisal mission is scheduled for January 2000. local control over community interventions. Appraisal mission Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Con- was scheduledfor late August 1999. Parts of the proposed project sulting services to be determined. Conseil executif des trans- are being pre-tested under an existing credit. Environmental As- SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE17 sessment Category C. PID:TZPE2814. US$15.0 (IDA).Consult- WaterSupply/Sanitation ants will be required for assistance with public health, contracting out, facility-basedmanagement, health financing Dar es Salaam Water Supply and Sanitation: The project specificdiseaseprograms, monitoringand evaluation,municipal wouldsupport technical,commercialand financialrehabilitation publicfinance,and health insurance.Ministry of Health and the of the water supplyand sanitationservice in Dar es Salaam.This Prime Minister's Office,PO Box 9083,Dar es Salaam,Tanzania, wouldbe achievedby privatizing Dar es SalaamWaterand Sew- Tel: (255-51)20261,Fax: (255-51)36992 erage Authority'soperationsand implementinga programof re- habilitation of all water supply and sanitation facilities and extension of piped water in poorly served neighborhoods.Ap- PrivateSectorDevelopment praisal mission is scheduled for October 1999.Environmental (R) Privatization:The projectwouldprovide technicalsupport AssessmentCategory B. US$35.0 (IDA).Consultingservices to for (a) the second stage of implementationof the government's be determined.Implementng agency iS to be determined. privatizationprogram through private sector development;(b) design and implementationof regulatory institutionsfor public Togo utilities;and (c) improvementin the business environmentfor private and foreign investment. Negotiations for were scheduled HealthandNutrition Population, late August 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 28.8 (IDA).Consulting services to be determined. Implement- (R) Health:The projectwill (a) applysector policiesand strate- ing agency is to be determined. gies in a limited number of health districts; (b) support the gov- ernment strategy to decentralizehealth services; (c) strengthen PublicSectorManagement capacityat the districtlevel to enable the district to provide es- sential health services to the populationat a sustainable cost; Public Service Reform:The projectwillprovide technicalsup- and (d) strengthen the institutionalcapacity of the Ministry of port and capacity building for implementation of the govern- Health. Appraisal mission is scheduledfor late October 1999. En- ment's medium-term civil service reform strategy. This will vironmentalAssessmentCategory C. US$5.0 (IDA).Consulting include (a) continuationof key systems improvements (payre- serviceswillbe required for (a) developmentof managementin- form,job regrading, publicfinancingmanagement reform);and formation systems; (b) review and standardizationof reporting (b) sectorplans for improved service deliveryand policyformu- forms; (c) developmentof an accountingsystem at the district labon in sectors. Appraisal is completed. Negobabons were and regional levels; (d) internet networkdevelopment;and (e) scheduledforSeptemberl 999.EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- on-the-job training of health personnel. Ministry of Health, egory to be determined. US$ 13.8 (IDA). Consulting services to Lomr, Togo, Tel: (228) 22-53-73,Fax: (228) 232-38-73,Contact: be determined. Civil Service Department, PO Box 2483, Dar es Mr. Ketor Adjwoly,Project Unit Coordinator Salaam, Tanzania, Fax: (255-51) 13084, Contact: Joseph Rug- umyamheto, Permanent Secretary Power Tax Administration (Cr. 3184-TA): The project will support Power V: The project would support institutional reform includ- the government's efforts to increase revenue collection.It will ing privatizationof the distributionutilities and reinforcement also support the newly established Tanzania RevenueAuthori- and expansionof the transmissionand distributionsystems,and ty's (TRA)capacity-building efforts by (a) introducingmodern creating the environmentfor the private sector power genera- operating systems for the major departments of the TRA; (b) tion. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assess- computerization of systems and training; and (c) refurbishing of ment Category A. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services are facilities and provision of equipment and vehicles. Approved by required for (a) institutional reinforcement and engineering and the Executive Directors on 30 March 1999. Environmental As- preparation of bid documents; and (b) technical assistance for sessment Category C. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consultants will be re- the restructuring of the private sector. CEET, 10 Ave. du Golfe, quired under the project preparation facility to help define the BP 42, Lome, Togo, Tel: (228) 21-7744, Fax: (228) 21-64-98 project and to design and implement a tax identification system. Tanzania Revenue Authority, Ministry of Finance, Box 11491, Urban Development Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tel: (255-51) 31539, Fax: (255-51) Urban Management and Rehabilitation Regional Center: 31105 The aim of the project is to (a) develop the planning and manage- ment capacity of urban institutions; (b) support the five main cit- Social Sector ies with an aim to increase local resource mobilization; and (c) cities. Preappraisal Action Fund: late in five main the 2000. Social Social Action to improve execute priority works urban for 'Me objective Fund: The objective of the project project is of.the is to improve mission is scheduled May Environmental Assess- the social conditions and economic opportunities for households ment Category B. PID: TGPE39976. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consult- in targeted communities. Preappraisal is completed. Appraisal ants have been selected. Ministry of Equipment, Lome, Togo, mission is scheduled for October 1999. Environmental Assess- Tel: (228) 21-25-28,Fax: (228) 21-68-12,Contact: Mr. Tchamdja ment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be de- Andjo termined. Implementing agency is to be determined. WaterSupply/Sanitation Adjustment Structural Water Sector: The project will support (a) improvement of the (R) Structural Adjustment II: This adjustment credit will sup- management of ground water resources; (b) the establishment it aims to en- port the reform of public institutions.Specifically, of equitableand efficientcost-recoverypolicies;(c) community- hance the efficientuse of publicresources as wellas improvethe managedwater servicesin small towns;and (d) the expansionof environmentfor privatesector investment.Preappraisal mission water services in Lome. Appraisalmission was scheduled for was scheduledfor late August 1999. Environmental Assessment late August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ Category U. US$ 115.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. The 19.0 (IDA). Consultant selection is under way for a study on del- Planning Commission, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania egation of commercial management of urban water services. PAGE18 Summary MonthlyOperational 1999 SEPTEMBER Regie nationale des eaux du Togo (RNET),Angle Ave. de la PublicSectorManagement liberation-ruedu chemin de fer, Lome,Togo,Tel: (228)21-42-68, (R) Economic and Financial Management:The projectwill Fax: (228) 21-46-13 support the first phase of the managementreform programthat was agreed upon in StructuralAdjustment CreditIII. Appraisal Uganda mission was scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental As- sessment Category C. PID: UGPA44679. US$21.0 (IDA).Con- Agriculture sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Planning and Economic Development,Uganda House, No. 10, KampalaRd., AgricultureExtension: The projectwouldbe the initialphase PO Box 7086, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41)23-01-51, Fax: of an adaptable program loan focused on the agriculture exten- (256-41) 23-01-63 sion subsector.This initialphase wouldinclude designinginsti- tutional reforms to further decentralize the extension system; Transport institutingcontractingout of some ofthe extensionservices field Road Development Program (Cr. 3267-UG): The project activities; expanding the plurality methodologies being em- will (a) support institutionalstrengthening and capacitybuild- ployed;and establishing greater participation by farmers in the ing; (b) improvethe classifiedroad networkthrough pavement designand management ofthe extension system.Appraisalmis- strengthening, (c) rehabilitatethe classifiedroad network; (d) sion is scheduled for November 1999. EnvironmentalAssess- maintainof existing roads; (e) construct traffic terminals in Ka- ment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be mpala; and (f) provide technicalassistance.Total projectcost is determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and US$ 750.0 million.Approvedby the Executive Directors on 29 Fisheries, PO Box 102, Entebbe, Uganda, Tel: (256-42)20981, June 1999.EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. Parallel fi- Fax: (256-42) 20803 nancing is expected from Germany and EU. US$ 100.0 (IDA). AgricultureResearch and Training II (Cr. 3204-UG): The Consultingservicesto be determined.Ministry ofWorks,Trans- objectivesof the projectare to (a) strengthen the NationalAgri- port and Communication,PO Box 10, Entebbe, Uganda, Tel: cultural Research Organization(NARO)to improveits effective- (256-42) 20101,Fax: (256-42) 20135 ness and efficiencyfor research planning,implementationand technology transfer; (b) establish and operate at least two zonal Zambia agricultural research centers in designated agro-ecological zones by restructuring the current institutes; (c) develop and Education/Training adapt technologyto intensifyproductivity;(d) reinforceNARO's Training Subsector Investment Program: The project will technical backstoppingand in-service training support for the (a) strengthen the Technical Education,Vocationaland Enter- districtextension services; and (e) strengthen the research and preneurship Training Authority, (b) build capacitywithin the graduate training capacityof selected departments of the agri- Ministry of Science, Technologyand VocationalTraining; (c) cultural facultiesof Makerere University. Approvedby the Exec- support institutionalrestructuring; and (d) provide information utive Directors on 6 May 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment and develop privatetraining institutions.Project preparation is Category C. US$ 26.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be deter- under way.EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 25.0 mined. National AgriculturalResearch Organization,PO Box (IDA).Consultingservices to be determined. Ministry of Sci- 295, Entebbe, Uganda, Tel: (256-41)320-512, Fax: (256-41) 321- ence,Technologyand Vocational Training,PO Box 50464,Lusa- 070,Contact:Prof.J.K. Muklibi,Director General ka, Zambia, Tel: (260-1)252-411,Fax: (260-1)252-951,E-mail: Veet@zamnet.zm, Contact:Ms. Josephine Mapoma,Permanent Finance Secretary Financial Markets Assistance (Cr. 3227-UG): The project Management Sector Public will provide technical assistance and investmentfunds to sup- port reforms in three areas of the financialsector (a) non-bank (R) Public Services CapacityDevelopment: This adaptable financial institutions; (b) payment systems; and (c) capacity programloan willassist in developingthe capacityof the govern- building in bank supervisionand monetary control at the Bank ment to implementthe next phase of its public service reform of Uganda. Approved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 27 May EnvironmentalAssessment Cats sCheduedforlate August 1999 1999.EnvironmentalAssessmentCategory C. PID:UGPA44213 sultants willbe required. CabinetOffice,PO Box20308,Lusaka, US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Imple- Zambia, Tel: (260-1)252-644,Contact:Mr.Leslie Mbula,Deputy menting agency is to be determined. Secretaryto the Cabinet Infrastructure Zimbabwe Local Government Development Program: The aim of the project is to improve water supply, sanitation and public hygiene Agriculture for the population in poorer urban areas by building and main- taining appropriate facilities with the involvement of the benefi- (R) Land Reform andcredit Resettlemente The (LIL) are to objectives build of this the capacity to tainingpprprate fa the invontexent of the decentralizationnstaaisl learning and innovation ciaries in the context of the decentralization statutes. Appraisa test alternative privately initiated or community-based resettle- mission was scheduled for September 1999. Environmental As- ment approaches as part of the inception phase of the govern- sessment Category B. PID: UGPE2992. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Con- ment's land reform and resettlement program. The project sulting services are presently being used for: an investment includes (a) institutional capacity building; (b) funding or pri- formulation study, environmental impact assessment and facili- vately initiated or community-based pilot resettlement schemes; tation of community participation. Ministry of Local Govern- (c) technical assistance and studies; and (d) monitoring and ment, PO Box 7037, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: (256-41) 23-30-35, evaluation. The project was scheduled to be approved, following Fax: (256-41) 23-50-51 LIL procedures, in late August 1999. Environmental Assessment 1999 SEPTEMBER Summary MonthlyOperational PAGE19 Category B. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Office gory B. Cofinancing will be required. US$ 70.0 (DA). Consult- of the President and Cabinet, Private Bag 7700, Causeway, ants willbe required. Ministry of Transport and Energy, PO Box Harare, Zimbabwe, Tel: (265) 707-091 8109, Harare, Zimbabwe, Tel: (263-4) 70121, Fax: (2634) 708225 HealthandNutrition Population, National Health Strategy Support. The project will support (a) decentralization of the health sector and a public/private mix East Asia and Pacific Region on health financing issues; (b) provision of drugs and medical supplies; (c) preventive and curative care for reproductive health; and (d) strengthening of human resources. Appraisal mission is scheduled for November 1999. Environmental As- Cambodia sessment Category C. PID: ZWPE3325. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Con- sultants will be required. Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Education/Training 1-4th Floor, Kaguvi Bldg., 4th St./Central Ave., Causeway, PO Box CY 1122, Harare, Zimbabwe, Tel: (2634) 727-951, Fax: (263- (R) Education Quality Improvement Program: This learn- 4) 702-293,E-mail: PMUFHPII@healthnet.zw ing and innovation credit (LIL) will support quality improve- ments in basic education. The project was tentatively scheduled to Public Sector Management be approved, following LIL procedures, in early September 1999. (R) Capacity Building: The objective of the project is to Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: KHPE59971. US$ strengthen the capacity of government agencies involved in 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Ed- macroeconomic and structural policy formulation, implementa- ucation, Youth and Sport, 169 Norodom Blvd., Phnom Penh, tion and monitoring. This project is no longer in the lending pro- Cambodia, Tel/Fax: (855-23) 210-349 gram; further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consulting services Environment will be required. Ministry of Finance, Munhumutapa Bldg. Samora Machel Ave., Private Bag 7705, Harare, Zimbabwe, Tel: Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management: The project (263-4) 722-101, Fax: (263-4) 796-563, Mr. C.T. Kuwaza, Senior would assist the government and local stakeholders in improv- Secretary ing biodiversity conservation and environmental management. Local Government and Development: The project will pro- Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment vide infrastructure financing and capacity building support for Category B. US$ 2.75/2.25 (GEF/IDA). Consulting services to local governments, including urban and rural district councils. be determined. Ministry of Environment, N. 48, Sandeeh Preah Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment St. Sinanouk, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 427-894, Category B. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be re- Fax: (855-23) 427-844, Contact: Dr. Mok Mareth, Minister quired. Ministry of Local Government and National Housing, Private Bag 7706, Causeway. Harare, Tel: (263-4) 790-601, Fax: Public Sector Management (263-4) 708-943,Contact: Mr. S. Chakaipa, Deputy Secretary (R) Northeast Village Development (Cr. 3216-KH): The Structural Adjustment learning and innovation credit (LIL) aims at improving rural live- (R) Fiscal Restructuring: The credit will support the govern- lihoods by piloting innovative approaches to the selection, fi- ment's reform program to restructure public expenditures, re- nancing and sustainable operation of rural investment duce domestic debt, privatize state enterprises and initiate land subprojects in select poorer districts of northeast Cambodia as reform. Negotiations completed. Board presentation was sched- part of a government decentralization initiative. This project was uled for September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category approved, following LIL procedures, on 18 May 1999. Credit was C. PID: ZWPE50320. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consultants will be re- signed on 15 July 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. quired. Ministry of Finance, Munhumutapa Bldg., Samora Ma- PID: KHPE58841. US$ 5.0 (IDA). A limited amount of technical chel Ave., Private Bag 7705, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe, Tel: assistance will be required. Ministry of Rural Development, cnr. (263-4) 722-101, Fax: (263-4) 796-563, Contact: Mr. C.T Kuwaza, St. 169 / Pochentong Blvd., Phnom Penh. Cambodia, Tel: (855- Senior Secretary 23) 366-440, Fax: (855-23) 366-790, Contact: Mr. Ngy Chanphal, Undersecretary of State Transport (R) Railways Restructuring: The project will include staff re- Rural Development trenchment and rationalization, infrastructure rehabilitation, (R) Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot: studies and technical assistance, training and counseling and as- The project will assist the government in placing a comprehen- sistance to retrenched staff. Project preparation is under way. The set of assist thengovernmentoinrplacinglatcomprehen- Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: ZWPE57096. US$ sive set of management planning and control regulations on se- 60.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. National Railways of lected forest concessions. Appraisal mission was tentatively Zimbabwe, PO Box 596, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Tel: (2634) 363- scheduled for mid-September 1999. Environmental Assessment 838, Fax: (263-4) 363-502 Category B. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services willbe required (R) Road Rehabilitation: The project will strengthen the gov- to (a) conduct inventories and to prepare strategic and opera- ernment's ability to rehabilitate and maintain its roads through tional forest management plans; (b) design and conduct training coordinated sector development plans, policy and institutional programs; and (c) assist in project management. Department of reforms, improved programming of rehabilitation and mainte- Forestry and Wildlife, 40 Preah Norodom Blvd., Phnom Penh, nance, private sector participation and human resource develop- Cambodia, Tel: (855-23) 219-282, Fax: (855-23) 214-966, E-mail: ment. This project is no longer in the lending program; further Secretariat©Camnet.com.kh, Contact: Mr. Ty Sokhun, Director, reporting will be discontinued. Environmental Assessment Cate- Department of Forestry and Wildlife 20 PAGE MonthlyOperational Summary SEPTEMBER 1999 Structural Adjustment 6354-8037,Fax: (86-10) 6320-2690,Contact: Mr. Shen Guoyi, Di- rector (R) Structural Adjustmnent- The credit would assist the gov- ernment in implementing policy actions in the areas of revenue mobilization, forestry management, expenditure rationalization Education/ITraining and other areas to be determined. Appraisal mission is tentatively (R) Higher Education Reform (Cr. 321 3-CHA; Ln. 4474- scheduledfor October 1999. Environmental Assessment Catego- CHA): The project is expected to include (a) curriculum and ry to be determined. US$ to be determined. (IDA). Consulting teaching reform; (b) efficiency improvements in higher educa- services to be determined. Ministry of Economy and Finance, tion institutions; (c) a pilot student loan scheme; and (d) devel- 92nd St., San Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: (855-12) opment of management capacity at State Education and 831-903, Fax: (855-23) 427-798, Contact: Mr. Vongsey Vissoth, Provincial Education Commissions. Approved by the Executive Deputy Director of External Finance Directors on 18 May 1999. Loan and credit agreements were signed on 29 July 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. China PID: CNPE46051. US$ 50.0/20.0 (IDA/IBRD). Consulting ser- vices to be determined. Ministry of Education, Xi Dan Da Mu Agriculture Cong, Beijing 100816,China, Tel: (86-10)6603-3641,Fax: (86-10) 6602-0332 (R) Smallholder Cattle Development: The project includes (a) livestock production, processing and marketing in Anhui, Environment Henan, Hebei and Shanxi Provinces; (b) crop by-product feed- ing; (c) household and larger scale beef production; (d) breed Beijing Environment II: The project will support (a) air pollu- improvement and technical support services; and (e) process- tion reduction by supporting the conversion from coal to natural ing. Negotiations are scheduled for October 1999. Environmen- gas; (b) boiler improvement to conserve energy and reduce pol- tal Assessment Category B. PID: CNPE45264. US$ 97 0 (IBRD). lution; and (c) wastewater management for about 30 per cent of No further consultants are required. Ministry of Agriculture, the Beijing urban area. Project is being identified. Environmen- Foreign Economic Cooperation Center, No. 11 Nong Zhan Guan tal Assessment Category A. PID: CNPE42109 US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Nan Li, Beijing, 100026, China, Tel: (86-10) 6419-4631,Fax: (86- Consulting services to be determined. Beijing Municipal Gov- 10) 6419-4578, Contact: Mr Xie Guoli ernment, Finance Bureau, No. 6 Chegongzhuan St., Beijing (R) Western Poverty Reduction (Cr. 3255-CHA; Ln 100044, China, Tel: (86-10) 6842-3815, Fax: (86-10) 6842-2833, 450 1-CHA): The project seeks to reduce absolute poverty through Contact: Mr. Jiaqi Sun, Director an environmentally sustainable rural development program that Huai River Basin PoUlution Control: The project will assist lo- includes upland agriculture, irrigation and land improvement, ru- cal governments in (a) developing and financing municipal in- ral infrastructure, social services, voluntary settlement and rural vestments and (b) formulating policies to control water pollution enterprise development. Approved by the Executive Directors on in the basin. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- 24 June 1999. Qinghai component implementation pending In- sessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been spection Panel review clearance. Environmental Assessment appointed for project preparation. Implementing agencies are at Category B. PID: CNPE46564. US$ 60.0/100.0 (IBRD/IDA). the provincial level (Urban Construction and Finance Depart- Consulting services to be determined. Three Provincial Govern- ment). ments of Gansu, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia, No. 14 Xiaoying Rd., Chaoyong District, Beijing 100101, China, Tel: (86-10)6496- Finance 0256,6491-4443, Fax: (86-10)6492-0134,Contact: Mr. Wang Guo- liang, Director, Foreign Capital Project Management Center Agriculture Bank of China Commercialization: The objec- Guanzhong IrnigationImprovement (Cr. 3221-CHA; Ln. tive project of the Bank ricultural of to support isChina thethrough commercialization of the Ag- (ABC) technical assistance 4476-CHA): The project seeks to improve existing infrastruc- supportthne of Creditpro g/ control proce ture facilities in nine project areas. Also, the project seeks to (a) s to te Anealoceditprocessig/riskcontrolprocess develop new water resources to extend irrigation to another es and systems. An earlier line of credit component may be 50,000 ha; (b) improve the agricultural production of 180,000 ha dropped pending ABC/government agreement. An appraisal of currently low yielding lands; and (c) strengthen organization- mission will be scheduled after receipt from ABC management al, tcuntaly of, andyiinglands technical low andec)so financial aspects stregathn oranizati on- Of irrigation management, in- of their commitment to medium- and long-term reform objec- tie.EvrnnalAssmtCtgoyBF.PD cluding arrangements for operation and maintenance. Approved tives. En ironmental dAssetmined (IBRD). Consultants wIll be by the Executive Directors on 25 May 1999. Environmental As- required. Agricultural Bank of China, 5/F Yu Long Hotel, 40 Fu sessment Category B. PID: CNPE51888. US$ 80.0/20.0 (IBRD/ Cheng Lu Rd., Beijing 100036, China, Tel: (86-10) 6847-5247, IDA). A limited amount of technical assistance will be required. Fax: (86-10) 6841-6011,Contact: Ms. HUA Ruoming, Chief, For- Provincial Water Conservancy Bureau of the Government of eign Fund Utilization Division, International Department Shaanxi, 134 Shande Rd., Xi'an, China, Tel: (86-29) 742-4062,742- 5303, Fax: (86-29) 742-4604,Contact: Mr. Hong Xiaokang, Depu- ty Director Population, Health and Nutrition Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation II (Cr. 3222- (R) Health IX (Cr. 320 1-CHA In. 4462-CHA):The project CHA; In. 4477-CHA): The project will build on the success of will support maternal health and a comprehensive package of Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabilitation I (Cr. 2616-CHA). It will health, nutrition and psycho-social interventions for childhood support four provinces on the Loess Plateau through (a) land im- development. Approved by the Executive Directors on 4 May provement, construction of silt retention structures and affores- 1999. Loan and credit agreements were signed on 29 July 1999. tation; and (b) programs to support training, technology transfer Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. PID: and research. Approved by the Executive Directors on 25 May CNPE36953. US$ 10.0/50.0 (IBRD/IDA). Consultants for 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: CNPE56216. project preparation have been identified. Ministry of Health, US$ 50.0/100.0 (IDA/IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- Foreign Loan Office, CAPM Floor 7, 27 Nan Wei Lu, Xuanwu mined. Ministry of Water Resources, International Cooperation District, Beijing 100050, China, Tel: (86-10) 6303-3033,Fax: (86- Department, 1 Lane 2, Baigung Rd., Beijing, China, Tel: (86-10) 10) 6303-0077 SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE 21 Power provincial agencies in support of project preparation and the government'seconomicreform programand related institution- (R) Tongbai Pumped Storage: The first objective of the al strengthening. Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 18 project is to increase peaking capacity and improveload-follow- May 1999.Loan and credit agreementswere signed on 27 July ing capabilityand power qualityin the Zhejiangpower system. 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: The construction of a major pumped storage power plant, and CNPE42299. US$10.0/35.0(IBRD/IDA). Consultantswillbe re- the implementationof an efficientmechanismto price its output quired to carry out studies, deliverthe training componentand in the market will be undertaken to achieve this objective.The support project preparation.Ministry of Finance,San LiHe Lu, second objectiveis to improvethe operatingand investmentef- Beijing100820, China,Tel: (86-10)6852-8731, Fax: (86-10) 6851- ficiencyin generation by developing and implementing a com- 1062 petitive generation market in Zhejiangprovince. An associated objectiveis to ensure that the market structure created can eas- Pension Reform (Cr. 3241-CHA): This learning and innova- ily transitionto wholesalecompetition. The associated sector re- tion credit (LIL) willsupport policyassessment,informationsys- structuring, regulatory capacity building and removal of tems design and implementation and training in one pilot transmission constraints will be undertaken as part of the province and one municipality. This projectwas approved,fol- project. Negotiations were tentatively scheduled for September lowing LIL procedures, on 4 June 1999. Environmental Assess- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: ment Category C. PID:CNPE58308. US$5.0 (IDA).Consulting CNPE56424. US$324.0 (IBRD).Consultantshave been selected services willbe required. Ministry of Laborand SocialSecurity, for preparation.Consultantswillalsobe required for detailedde- No. 12, Hepingli,Zhaongjie,Beijing 100716, China sign, review and construction supervision, financial manage- ment information system expansion, technical assistance in RuralDevelopment generationplanning,tariffdesign and regulatory systemdesign. A general procurement notice was published in Development (R) GuangxiBaise Multipurpose:The projectis designed pri- BusinessNo. 485, dated 30 April 1998;an updated general pro- marilyto protect Nanning and nine other downstreammunici- curement noticewas publishedinDevelopment BusinessNo.513, palitiesand counties against floods.The Baise Dam and Power dated 30June 1998.An invitationfor expressions of interest was Facilitiescomponentwill consist of a 130meter-highRCCdam publishedin Development BusinessNo. 514, dated 16July 1999. and spillway, powerfacilitiesincludinga hydropowerplant of540 ZhejiangElectric Power Company,2, Jinzhu Rd. (South), Hang- MW,two saddle dams and underwater works for a navigation zhou 310007, China, Tel: (86-571)515-1166, Fax: (86-571)515- shiplift. The institutional development component includes 3979, Mr. Zhao Hubin, Deputy General Manager, E-mail: strengthening the YoujiangRiverBasin DevelopmentCorpora- xishj@mail.hz.zj.cn tion, developmentof a flood forecastingand monitoringsystem and operationprocedures includingthe EPP and related institu- Renewable Energy Development (Ln. 4488-CHA): The ob- tionalreform. The project also includes a resettlement compo- jectives of the project are to supplyelectricityin an environmen- nent and an environmental management component. Project tally sustainable manner and to provide modern energy to preparation is under way.Environmental Assessment Category remote rural households and institutions.The project includes A.US$400.0(IBRD).Consultantsfor projectpreparationandfea- (a) installationand operationof 190MWof grid-connectedwind sibilitystudiesand dam safetyreviewpanel have beenselectedA tarms in four provinces; (b) supply of about 10 MW of photovol- panel of international environmental and social experts is also be- taic (PV) systems to households and institutions; (c) support for ing selected. Youjiang Water and Power Development Corpora- technology upgrading to improve the performance and reduce tion, No. 36 Jianzheng Rd., Nanning, Guangxi 530023,China, the cost of windfarmsand solar PV technologies in China; and Tel: (86-771)562-8529, Fax:(86-771) Contact: 563-7491, Mr Yang, (d) assistanceto strengthen institutionalcapacityand market in- General Manager frastructure for commercializationof windfarms and PV. Ap- proved by the Executive Directors on 8 June 1999. (R) Middle Yangtze Flood Management. The project in- EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID:CNPE46829. US$ cludes (a) rehabilitationof 900km of main dikes and associated 100.0/35.0(IBRD/GEF).Consulting services will be required structures on the middlereach YangtzeRiver;(b) rehabilitation for strengthening the government'sinstitutionalcapabilityto im- of some ofthe majordetention basin structures; and (c) upgrad- plement windfarmsand PVprojects. Please refer to the general ing of flood emergency management systems and advanced procurement notice publishedin Development BusinessNo. 493, floodforecastingsystems. Project preparationis under way.En- dated 31 August 1998.PID: CNPE46829. State Power Corpora- vironmentalAssessment Category.B. US$300.0 (IBRD).Con- tion, 137 Fuyou St., Beijing,China; State Economicand Trade sultants will be required for design reviews and construction Commission, 26 Xi Da Jie, Xuan Wumen, Beijing supervision. Implementing agencies are the three provinces (Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi) coordinated by a central office under Private Sector Development the Ministry of Water Resources (R) Enterprise Reform (Cr. 3271-CHA): The credit willfi- (R) Sustainable Forestry Development: The project will (a) nance consulterprseRviesform (Craining to71-CHA: The re ilot fi- improveprotection and managementof naturalforests; and (b) nance consulting services and training to support the pilot im- develop new forestry resources to address China's increasing plementation of various enterprise reform measures. The timber deficit and to support economic development of local project was approved, followingLIL procedures, on 28 June communitiesto redress the socialand fiscal impactsof the new 1999.EnvironmentalAssessment Category C.PId. CNPE627o logging ban. Projectpreparation is under way. Environmental As- US$5.0 (IDA)d.Consultingservices to be determied. State Eco- sessment Category B. US$200.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices to nomic and Trade Commission,No. 26 Xuan Wumen XidaJie, be determined;mostlikelyfinancedby otherdonors. State Forest- Beijing100053,China,Tel: (86-10)6319-3116, Fax: (8610) 6319- ry Administration,18HepingliEast St., Beijing,China,Contact: 3111,Contact:Qin,YongFa, Vice Chief Mr.Jiang Xingyong,Director,Tel: (86-10)6422-3216, Fax: (86- 10) 6421-7796 Public Sector Management Guizhou Agriculture Development: The project will support (R) Technical Cooperation IV (Cr. 3212-CHA; In. 4473- the government's objective of reducing poverty in Guizhou CHA):The projectwillprovide a lineof credit to financeconsult- through a participatoryand multisectoralrural developmentap- ing services,training, equipmentand studies for key central and proach. The project will focus on (a) environmentallysustain- PAGE22 MonthlyOperational Summary SEPTEMBER 1999 able improvements in agricultural production, (b) rural services to be determined. Hebei Finance Bureau, World Bank enterprise development, (c) improved access for the poor to ba- Loan Utilization Office, Fax: (86-311) 582-1129, E-mail: hbw- sic infrastructure and financial services and (d) monitoring and bo@public.sj.he.cn, Contact: Mr. NingJinbiao, Director evaluation of poverty reduction programs at the local level. (R) Third Henan Provincial Highway: The project would in- Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category clude (a) construction of a 95 km expressway connecting the to be determined. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- counties of Zhumadian and Xinyang; (b) construction or upgrad- quired, but there is limited need for international consultants. ing of five linking roads to improve access to the expressway; (c) Implementing agency is to be determined. construction and improvement of rural roads; and (d) training, Water Conservation: The project will support improvements equipment and studies to strengthen agencies/institutions in- to irrigation delivery systems and on-farm irrigation systems in volved in highway research, planning, design, construction su- the North China Plain and in Northeast China. The project pervision, construction management, environmental monitoring would include canal lining and canal system improvements, put- and operations and maintenance of highways. Preappraisal mis- ting existing tertiary canals and ditches into low-pressure pipe, sion is scheduledfor September/October 1999. Environmental As- developing sprinkler and micro-irrigation systems, improving sessment Category A PID: CNPE58844. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). on-farm surface irrigation systems, agriculture practices im- Consulting services to be determined. Henan Provincial Com- provements, forestry and environment improvements and insti- munications Department, 93 Zhongyuan Rd., Zhengzhou, tutional development. Project preparation is under way. Henan 450052, China, Tel: (86-371) 797-1214,797-1224,Fax: (86- Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Dur- 371) 743-9540,Contact: Mr. Shi Faliang, Vice Director ing project preparation, consulting services will be required in (R) Urumqi Urban Transport The objective of the project is the areas of irrigation, agriculture, water balance, environment, to develop the urban transport system as a means to facilitate fu- institutional development and project management. Ministry of ture growth, economic development and expansion of the city, Water Resources, Department of Rural Water Resources, and serve the development needs of Xinjiang Yugur Autono- Baiguang Rd., Beijing, China, Contact: Mr. Liu Bin, Deputy Di- mous Region, while improving the quality of life within the city. rector, Tel: (86-10) 6320-2877, Fax: (86-10) 6320-2870 The project will focus on (a) improvements to the road network; (b) improved traffic management and road safety; (c) improved Transport level of public transport services; (d) environmental protection and improvement; and (e) better urban planning. Appraisal mis- (R) Liaoning Urban Transport (Im. 4453-CHA): The sion is scheduled for October 1999. Environmental Assessment project includes construction of infrastructure, public transport Category A. PID: CNPE45915. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants improvements, traffic management and safety, motor vehicle have been selected for project preparation. Consulting services pollution control, street maintenance and technical assistance in for implementation to be determined. Urumqi Municipality, the cities of Shanyang, Anshan and Fushun. Approved by the Ex- Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, Fax: (86- ecutive Directors on 30 March 1999. Loan was signed on 27July 991) 281-9357,Contact: Mr Zhou En-Liang, Vice Mayor, E-mail: 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A PID: lijinhua@public.nl.xjcn CNPE41890. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected for preparation. Liaoning Urban Construction and Renewal Container Transport (In. 4444-CHA): The aim of the Project Office (LUCPRO), No. 282 Danan Shenhe, Shenyang project is to facilitate the inland penetration of seaborne contain- 110015, Liaoning, China, Tel: (86-24) 481-2920,Fax: (86-24)481- ers. The project will support government efforts to establish a 2392 policy framework conducive to competitive and user-oriented in- ter-modal markets. The project includes (a) development of in- (R) National Railway: The project will assist the government land container depots; (b) enhancement of container handling and the Ministry of Railways in (a) planning and managing the efficiency at Tianjin Port; and (c) building up the operational ca- transition in policy and organization from a planned to a socialist pability of container handling. Approved by the Executive Direc- market economy; and (b) addressing railway capacity bottle- tors on 16 March 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. necks. Preappraisal mission is tentatively scheduledfor November PID: CNPE3653. US$ 71.0 (IBRD). Consulting services are re- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 300.0 quired for enhancing container handling capacity for inland con- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Rail- tainer depots and Tianjin Port. Central Project Management ways, 10 Fuxing Rd., Beijing, 100844, China, Tel: (86-10) 6324- Office, No. 2 Railway Middle School, 9 Sanlihe, East Rd., Xi- 8416, Fax: (86-10) 6324-1845, Contact: Mr. Yang Haichang, Di- cheng District, Beijing, Tel: (86-10)6853-3272,Fax: (86-10)6853- rector 3272, Contact: Prof. Wang Derong and Ms. Wang Huimin, Dep- (R) Second Fujian Highway (Ln. 4502-CHA): The project uty TeamLeaders includes (a) construction of a 140 km, four-lane expressway be- Guangxi Provincial Highway: The project would include (a) tween Zhangzhou and Zhao'an; (b) institutional strengthening; highway capacity expansion focusing on the construction of the and (c) highway maintenance management and expressway cor- 238 km of national trunk highway system (NTHS) connecting poratization. Approved by the Executive Directors on 24 June Shuiren and Nanning; (b) a highway rehabilitation and improve- 1999. Loan was signed on 29 July 1999. Environmental Assess- ment program; (c) a highway safety component focusing on ment Category A. PID: CNPE51705. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consult- black spot improvement; and (d) strengthening highway man- ing services to be determined. Fujian Provincial Transport agement capacity of Guangxi Communications Department. Department, 6th Floor, Bldg. 2, Hongyang New Zone, 118 Yang- Preappraisal mission was scheduled for August 1999. Environ- qiao Rd., Fujian, China, Tel: (86-591) 760-1472,Fax: (86-591)760- mental Assessment Category A. PID: CNPE58843. US$ 200.0 1477, Contact: Mr. Zhuo Chao, Deputy Director (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Guangxi Provin- (R) Shi.iazhuang Urban Transport: The objective of the cial Communications Dept., No. 67, Xinmin Rd., Nanning, project is to reduce congestion, improve transport conditions Guangxi, China, Tel: (86-771) 280-4365, Fax: (86-771) 280-5550, and establish an institutional capacity for the planning and man- Contact: Mr. Li Shangyan, Deputy Director, Mr. Liao Xfaobo, Di- agement of sustainable transport operations. The project will in- vision Chief clude road infrastructure, public transport and traffic National Highway IV (In. 4493-CHA): The project will fi- management components. Project is being identified. Environ- nance the construction of a four-lane expressway between Wu- mental Assessment Category A. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting han in Hubei and Changsha in Hunan (about 300 km). Approved SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE 23 by the Executive Directors on 17 June 1999. Environmental As- es including water, wastewater collection and treatment, and mu- sessment Category A PID: CNPE41268. US$ 350.0 (IBRD). nicipal solid waste management and cultural heritage Consulting services to be determined. Hubei Provincial Com- management. The target sector investments will be in Chong- munications Department, Hubei, China, Fax: (86-27) 281-9589, qing municipality.The policy components will focus on strength- Contact: Mr. Xiong Guoxian, Deputy Director; Hunan Provincial ening municipal finance, GIS systems, environmental Communications Department, Changsha, Hunan, China, Fax: management and financial sustainability of urban services. Ap- (86-731) 225-2801, Contact: Mr. Li An, Director praisal mission is scheduled for late September 1999. Environ- Waterways: The objective of the project is to Third Inland WaterwayConsulantsewillvbeoequired.rCjonqingsMunicipapro- mental Assessment Category A. PID: CNPE49436. US$ 250.0 vide more efficient water transport in inland provinces by up- GvBRD).Consultants will be required. Chongqing Municipal grading inland waterways and providing policy guidelines to Government, 234 Renmin Rd., Chongqing, China, Fax: (86-811) encourage modernization of inland water vessels. The project 385-1258, Contact: Mr. Zhou Lin Jun, Vice Director, Planning would include construction of dams and shiplocks with a capabil- Commission ity of hydropower generation at Jialingjiang waterway in Si- Rural Water Supply IV (Cr. 3233-CHA; 4485-CHA): The chuan, Xijiang waterway in Guangxi and Xianjing waterway in project will include (a) provision of safe water to poor communi- Hunan. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment ties lacking such supplies; (b) assistance to ongoing rural sanita- Category A US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Im- tion and health education efforts to improve water use and plementing agencies to be determined. sanitation and hygiene practices; and (c) support to beneficiary villages through surveys/research and training programs. Ap- Urban Development proved by the Executive Directors on 3 June 1999. Environmen- tal Assessment Category B. PID: CNPE57352. US$ 16.0/30.0 (R) Liaoning River Basin: The project will be implemented in (IBRD/IDA). Consulting services will be required for technical the provinces of Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and Jilin and focus on assistance and training. National Patriotic Health Campaign major river basin pollution cleanup. The policy component will Committee, NPO 17 Government St., Changping County, China, focus on environmental management and urban services pric- Tel: (86-10) 6874-4468, Fax: (86-10) 6974-4437, Contact: Mr. Shi ing. The investment component is expected to cover water sup- Malin, Director ply, wastewater management, municipal and industrial solid waste, heritage asset management and environmental resource Fiji protection. Identification mission completed. Project preparation F mission is tentatively scheduled for mid-October 1999. Environ- mental Assessment Category A. US$ 350.0 (IBRD). Consultant Urban Development services will be required. Liaoning Provincial Government/LU- I S CRIPO and Liao River Basin Project Office with City Govern- Informal Settlements: The projectwill (a) strengthen security ments, 19 Caita St., Shenyang, China, 110015, Tel: (86-24) 2384- of tenure and improve infrastructure and utility services; and (b) 2898, Fax: (86-24) 2392-2290, E-mail: LUCRPOA@PUB.SY.LNP- support economic opportunities in low-income, squatter and in- TA.NET.CN, Contact: Zeng Juequn, Director formal urban settlements. The project is on hold pending the Contact: Zeng Juequn, Director TA.NET.CN, government's efforts in securing grant financing. Environmen- Sichuan Urban Environment (Cr. 3251-CHA, Ln. 4496- tal Assessment Category B. US$ 3.5 (IBRD). Consultants will be CHA): The project is the first phase of a long-term program to required for socioeconomic surveys, topographical surveys, en- improve urban environmental services such as water, wastewa- gineering and design work and consultations with beneficiaries. ter and solid waste management; geographic information sys- Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Government Bldgs., tems; and cultural heritage asset management. The target cities PO Box 2212, Suva, Fiji, Contact: Mr. Hamayat Ali, Head, Office are expected to be Chengdu and other major cities of Sichuan of Human Resettlement Province in the two river basins. The policy components will fo- cus on municipal finance, GIS systems, land management and fi- Indonesia nancial sustainability of urban services. Approved by the Executive Directors on 17 June 1999. Environmental Assess- ment Category A. PID: CNPE43933. US$ 150.0/2.0 (IBRD/ Agriculture IDA). Some bilateral assistance is being provided for project preparation Sichuaratin consultants. Enviroenal consultants. Additional consultants will be required. PronltMantsagemlbent ruired. 3 (R) Decentralized he project Agricultural will improve and Forestry extension support Extension: services at the district Sichuan Urban Environment Project Management Office, 36 level through the establishment of an integrated farmer and agri- Section 4 Renminnanlu, Chengdu 610041, China, Tel: (86-28) business-oriented agricultural and forestry extension system that 557-1036, Fax: (86-28) 557-1037, 556-8193, Contact: Mr. Yang would promote the adoption of economically viable, environmen- Hong Bo, Deputy Chief tally sustainable and socially acceptablefarming practices and in- crease farmers' income. The project will (a) enhance farmers' Water Supply/Sanitation capacity to participate in and to lead extension activities; (b) (R) Hebei Water Supply and Environment: The project will strengthen the district extension system; and (c) provide central ex- focus on the water supply and waste water treatment in four cit- tension policy and project management support. Board presenta- ies in Hebei Province in the context of overall environmental pro- tion was scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental tection and urban services delivery. Preappraisal completed. Assessment Category C. PID: IDPE3983. US$ 18.0 (IBRD/ Appraisal mission is tentatively scheduledfor December 1999. En- IDA). Consulting services will be requiredfor technical assistance. vironmental Assessment Category to be determined. PID: Ministry of Agriculture, National Center for Agricultural Exten- CNPE45910. U$s 150.0 (IBRD). Proposed consulting services sion, Ji. Harsono, Room No. 3, A Bldg., III floor. Ragunan Passar contract is being reviewed. Hebei Provincial Government, Fi- Minggu, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel/Fax: (62-21) 780-4226,Contact: nance Bureau, 40 South Zhonghun St., Shijiazhuang 050051, Dr SoedradjatMartaamidjaja China, Tel: (86-311) 701-1251, Fax: (86-311) 701-0246, Contact: Mr. Meng Zhanbiao Education/Training Chongqing Urban Environment: The project is the first phase Basic Education V: This project will provide support for basic of a long-term program to improve urban environmental servic- education (grades one through nine) through quality improve- 24 PAGE Monthly Summary Operational 1999 SEPTEMBER ment programs in several provinces. Project preparation is un- scheduled for November1999. EnvironmentalAssessmentCate- der way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 75.0 gory B. PID: IDPE40528.US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consultants for (IBRD/IDA).Technical assistance will be required for institu- project preparation are in the field.A Japanese grant has been tional development, teacher training programs and physical signedto financeprojectpreparation.Implementing agency is to school rehabilitationprograms. Ministry of Education and Cul- be determined. ture, E Bldg., 5th Floor,JI.Jenderal Sudirman,Jakarta, Indone- sia, Tel: (62-21)5299-3000, Fax: (62-21)5299-3111 (Tel.and Fax Infrastructure c/o WorldBank ResidentStaff in Indonesia),Contact:Mr.Indra Djati Sidi, Director General of Primary and Secondary Educa- Lombok Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Infra- tion structure: The projectwill support economicdevelopmentin CommunityEducation: The projectaims to enhance the qual- Lombokin an environmentally and sociallyresponsible manner ity of primary educationin selected districts. Preappraisal mis- through (a) infrastructureinvestments; (b) establishingmecha- sion is scheduled sionfor for early arlyOctobr s schdule 1999. Environmental October 199. Enironmntal nisms for environmental tourism-related andand investmnents; social (c) protection for institutional project and strengthening Assessment Category C. US$50.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices capacity.Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAs- to be determined. Ministry of Education and Culture, Jl. Jend. sessment Category A US$50.0 (IBRD). A Japanese Granthas Sudirman, Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (6221) 5734477, been signed to finance prefeasiblity studies. Consultants for Fax: (6221) 573-1436 project preparation are in the field. Ministry of Public Works, JI. Distance Learning and the New Technologies: The project Fax: (62- Pattimura 20, Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: (62-21)712-805, will support the government's Open Universityby improvingits 21) 739-2563 primary and secondary teacher training programs, strengthen the Center of Communicationand Technologyin several areas HealthandNutrition Population, of its activities, and support proposals for developing on-line based courses in selected resource universities. Preappraisal District Health:The projectwillbuildon the government'spro- mission was tentativelyscheduled for mid-September1999.En- gram to decentralizehealth services to the provincialand dis- vironmentalAssessment Category C. US$30.0 (IBRD). Consult- trict level. The project will develop, in selected provinces, a ing services to be determined. Ministry of Education and medium-termplan for the health sector withstrong participation Culture, Jl. Jend. Sudirman, Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: by the provincialand districthealth administrators.The overall (62-21)573-2594, Fax: (62-21)573-1436 strategy is to move to programmaticlending in provinceswith Irian Jaya Basic Education: The project will support quality adequate institutionalcapacities,and the Bank willfinancetime- improvementsin basic education (primary and lower second- slices of expenditure programs for municipalitiesand districts. ary) through (a) teacher training, school rehabilitation;(b) pro- The project will address issues related to manpower,capacity vision of books and equipment;and (c) capacity-building at the building, service quality,flow of funds and performance moni- provincial and district levels. The project may also include ex- toring. Appraisalmission is tentativelyscheduled for mid-No- pansion of access, particularlyfor childrenin poor familiesin re- vember 1999.Environmental AssessmentCategory C. US$50.0 mote areas. Identification mission is scheduled for October (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of 1999.EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Health,J. H.R Rasuna,Said,Blok.X5, Kav.49, Jakarta, Indone- Consultants will be required to determine effectiveteaching! sia, Tel: (62-21)520-1597, Fax: (62-21)580-5188 learning strategies specificto IrianJaya. Ministry of Education Provincial Health II: The projectwill strengthen government and Culture, E Bldg., 5th Floor,J1.Jenderal Sudirman,Jakarta, communicabledisease control activitiesthrough (a) improved Indonesia, Tel: (62-21)5299-3000, Fax: (62-21)5299-3111 (Tel. laboratory capacityat the central level; (b) targeted control ac- and Fax c/o WorldBank Resident Staff in Indonesia),Contact: tivitiesat the provinciallevel;and (c) capacitybuilding.Project Mr.Indra DjatiSidi,Director General of Primary and Secondary is in the early stages of identification.EnvironmentalAssess- Education ment Category to be determined. US$45.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health,Jl. H.R.Rasuna, Environment Said, Blok. X.5, Kav. 4-9,Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21)520- 1597,Fax: (62-21)520.5188 (R) MalukuConservation and NaturalResources Manage- ment- The projectwill include (a) environmentalperformance- QualityImprovement of Medical Education: The project based kabupaten blockgrants; (b) on-sitemanagementof prior- qaim ty improved specinistredical ity c) rotcte rotctedares ares, sstes esablshmnt- education in Indonesia through improvedtraining, strengthen- ity protected areas; (c) protected-areas systems establishment; ing of policyframeworkrelated to medicaleducationand estima- (d) biodiversitymonitoring; (e) an environmentalpublicaware- tion of requirements for medical graduates in the short-term. ness campaign;and (f)independentmonitoring.Project prepara- Environmental Project is in the early stages of identification. As- tion has been delayed due to civilunrest in Maluku. Theproject ses t Category tage ofridentification . Cont- concept may be redesigned to focus on the northern part of the prov- sessment Category tobe determined. US$65.0 (IBRD). Consult- ince, an area unaffectedby civil unrest. EnvironmentalAssess- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Education and ment Category B. PID: IDPE37095.US$2.0/6.0 (IBRD/GEF). Culture, Jl. Jend. Sudirman, Senayan,Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: Consulting services to be determined. BANGDA, Jl. Kalibata (622-1)573-2594, Fax: (622-1) 573-1436 Raya 20, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21)744-2631;Ministry of Forestry, Manggala Wanabakti, Jl. Gatot Subroto, Jakarta, Indo- Public Sector Management nesia, Tel: (62-21)570-4501-4 Public Sector Performance and Governance ReformPro- (R) West Java and Jakarta Environmental Management: gram:The projectwillprovideinitialsupportfor a medium-term The projectwilladdress (a) air qualityand provisionof sanitation program of anti-corruptionmeasures, structuralreform, decen- services to residential areas; (b) solid waste collectionand dis- tralization, civil service reform, legal and judicial systems posal; (c) social strategy to emphasizewaste reduction; (d) im- strengthening and key sectoral reforms. Program design and provements to the manufacturing process of small-scale projectidentification are under way.Environmental Assessment industries; and (e) regionaland nationalenvironmentalmanage- Category U. US$30.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices to be deter- ment strategies and action plans. Appraisalmissionis tentatively mined.CoordinatingMinistry for DevelopmentSupervisionand SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE25 AdministrativeReform,JI. Gatot Subroto Kav.51, Jakarta, Indo- Selatan,Indonesia,Tel: (62-21)724-4045, Fax: (62-21)724-6973, nesia, Fax: (62-21)525-2720, Contact:Mr.Darmin Nasution,As- Contact:Mr.ParlindunganSimanjuntak, Director,BINKOT sistant Minister UrbanDevelopment RuralDevelopment KalimantanUrban/Rural linkages: The projectwillfinance (R) Semarang Flood Control:The aim of the projectis to mit- priority investments in institutional development,urban plan- igate flooddamages to areas locatedeast and west of Semarang ning, improved provisionof decentralized municipal services in Central Java. The project will finance floodprotection works and enhanced environmentalservices.Project is delayeddue to and related studies for possible future investments and intro- the problems in Indonesia. Environmental Assessment Catego- duce a cost recovery policyfor such works.Theprojectis no long- ry to be determined. US$ 100.0 (IBRD).A grant will finance er in the lending program; further reporting will be discontinued. preparation activities. Ministry of Public Works. Jl. Pattimura 20, Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ Fax: (62-21)739-2563 Jakarta, Indonesia,Tel: (62-21)739-5588, 75.0 (IBRD).Consultantshave been selected for projectprepara- tion studies. Ministry of Public Works, Directorate General of WaterSupply/Sanitation Water Resources Development, Jl. Pattimura 20, Jakarta, Indo- nesia,Tel: (62-21)739-5588, Fax: (62-21)739-2563 (R) WaterSupply and Sanitationfor Low-IncomeCommu- nities II: The project will provide water, sanitation and health ed- Structural Adjustment ucation to low-income villages. Preappraisal mission is tentatively scheduled for early October 1999. Environmental Assessment Agriculture Sector Adjustment-The projectwouldassist the US$50.0 (IBRD).Consulting Category to be determined. services government in policy reforms designed to overcome the present to be determined. Ministry of Health, JI. H.R. Rasuna, Said, Blok. crisis, including agricultural restructuring, price liberalization X.5, Kav. 4-9, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62-21) 520-1597, Fax: Preappraisal mission was scheduled for Sep- and privatization. (62-21)580-5188 tember 1999.EnvironmentalAssessment CategoryC. US$300.0 (IBRD).Consulting services are not required. BAPPENAS, Jl Jatiluhur Water Resources Management. The project will Taman SuropatiNo. 2, Jakarta, Indonesia (a) improvethe existingJatiluhur canal networks and strength- en system organizationand managementto increase agricultur- Transport al productionand guaranteecontinuationof the water supplyfor Transport agricultural, industrial, municipal, and other uses and (b) pro- (R) Ports Environment Improvement.The projectwillassist vide water for industrialpurposes and new irrigation on about the government in the implementationof policies that address 5,000ha. Project preparationis proceedingunder a technicalas- the environmentalissues of maritimetransport. The objectives sistance study.Environmental AssessmentCategory tobe deter- are to (a) develop the capacityfor appropriate disposal of ship mined. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected. wastes; (b) upgrade the capacityfor oil-spillpreventionand con- Ministryof PublicWorks,DirectorateGeneralofWater Resourc- tingencyplanning;and (c) developthe capacityto manage pollu- es Development,Jl. Pattimura 20, Jakarta, Indonesia, Tel: (62- tion from contaminated dredged materials. Project preparation 21) 739-5588,Fax: (62-21)739-2563 is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: IDPE40892.US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices to be deter- Lao People'sDemocraticRepublic mined.Research and DevelopmentAgency,Ministry ofCommu- nications, Jl. Angkasa No. 1 Kemayoran, Jakarta 10610, Indonesia,Fax:(62-21)424-1741,424-6805, Tel: (62-21)424-5939, Education/Training 424-0908, Contact:Mr. Soebagio Sumadihardjo,Chairman, Re- Education Development II: The objective of this adaptable search and DevelopmentAgency programloan is to improveaccess to and qualityof primary and Eastern Indonesia Regional Roads: The projectwillsupport secondary education within the context of strengthening the decentralizationand transport network preservation and devel- management and delivery of education services. Preappraisal opment in Eastern Indonesia. Project preparation is under way. missionis tentativelyscheduled for January 2000.Environmen- A PHRDGrant for projectpreparation is available. The terms of tal Assessment Category C. US$10.0 (IDA).Consultantswillbe reference for the preparatory studies are under preparation.En- required.Ministry of Education,LaneyAugAve.,Vientiane,Lao vironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. US$100.0 PDR,Tel: (856-21) 216-006,Fax: (856-21)412-415,216-006 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. Population, HealthandNutrition Jakarta Urban Transport:The projectwill include secondary FamilyHealthand Child Development. Thislearningand in- road networks, traffic managementand publictransport servic- novationcredit willfinance a three-yearpilotprojectin fiveprov- es within the frameworkof the Jabotabek Urban Mass Transit inces where UNICEF has already laid the groundwork for project. Project is being identified.EnvironmentalAssessment development. further village-level The projectwill offer commu- Category to be determined. US$ 75.0 (IBRD).Consultantswill nity support grants for (a) demand-drivendevelopment activi- be required for project preparation. Implementingagency is to ties; and (b) a packageof health, nutritionand educationinputs be determined. to improvevillagehealth and childdevelopmentin selectedcom- Second Strategic Urban Roads Infrastructure:The project munities.Project is being identified.Environmental Assessment will financethe construction of bypasses for several large towns Category C. US$3.0 (IDA).Specialistswillbe required to (a) to in the North Java transport corridor.Project is being identified. monitor the design and conduct impact assessments of village- Environmental Assessment CategoryA.US$150.0(IBRD). Con- level development interventions, gender dimensions and de- sulting services will be required for projectpreparation and im- mand-drivenfinancialintermediaries; (b) plan health nutrition plementationsupport. A request for expressions of interest was and educationcomponentsfor executionat the villagelevel; (c) published in Development BusinessNo. 509,dated 30 April1999. design socialfunds; and (d) conduct institutionalanalysis.Min- BINKOT, Ministry of PublicWorks,JI. PattimuraNo. 20,Jakarta istry of Finance and LaoWomen'sUnion PAGE 26 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 Rural Development US$ 2.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Prime Minister's Office, State House, Ulaanbaatar 12, Mongolia, Tel: (R) District Upland Development and Conservation (Cr. (976-1) 329-103, Fax: (976-1) 310-011, E-mail: enkham- 3186-IA): The objective of this learning and innovation loan galan@prime.pmis.gov.mn, Contact: Mr. A. Enkhamgalan, Eco- (LIL)is to foster adoption of more intensified agricultural prac- nomic Advisor tices by farmers in pilot areas as a means to improve the liveli- hood of local communities while at the same time conserving the biodiversity of high-priority protected areas. The project was ap- Power proved, following LIL procedures, on 18 March 1999. Credit was Energy Sector: The project will support power distribution sys- signed on 15 July 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. tem development and efficiency improvements. Negotiations US$ 2.0 (IDA). International and local services required include are scheduled for fiscal year 2000. Environmental Assessment project management; in-service and on-the-job training to devel- Category B. PID: MNPE40907. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants op implementation capacity; monitoring and evaluation; and spe- have been selected for project preparation. Energy Authority of cialized technical expertise in agroforestry/farming systems Mongolia, Chiuggis Ave., Ulaanbaatar 36, Mongolia, Tel: (976-1) wildlife biology, anthropology and non-timber forest products. 341-105 Governor's office in Khammouane Province, Mekong River Side St., Thakhek City, Khammouane Province, Lao PDR, Tel: (856- 51) 212-132, Fax: (856-51) 212-307, Contact: Mr. Thongphoun Transport Chanphengxay, Director, Project Implementing Unit (R) Transport Infrastructure Development: The project will include (a) rehabilitation of a badly deteriorated paved road; (b) Transport upgrading of an interprovincial road to all-weather gravel sur- face; (c) establishment of a fund for rural road improvement, and Road Maintenance: The project would support the develon- (d) implementation of a vehicle testing system. Project is being ment of an efficient maintenance management system for the en- identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- tire road network. Preappraisal mission scheduled for mined. US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. December 1999. Environmental Assessment Category to be de- Ministry of Infrastructure Development, PO Box 1104, Ulaan- termined. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Minis- baatar, Mongolia, Fax: (976-1) 310-612, Contact: Acting State try of Communication, Transport, Post and Construction, Wat Secretary Nark Noy Rd., Vientiane, Lao PDR, Tel: (856-21) 313-192, Fax: (856-21) 414-132, E-mail: sommad@pan-laos.net.la, Contact: Mr. Sommad Phalsena, Director of Communication Department PapuaNew Guinea Malaysia Education/Training Education Reform: The project will support education reform Transport with appropriate policy reform and investments. Project is being Road Asset Management: The objective of the project is to as- identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 sist the government during the present financial crisis in pre- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Department of serving the existing highway network and increasing safety of Education, PO Box 446, Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea, Tel: travel. The project includes (a) pavement strengthening and re- (675) 301-3469,Fax: (675) 325-0525,Contact: Mr. Benedict Kip- habilitation of the federal roads; (b) protection of slopes along ma, Project Coordinator high-risk areas on selected highways; (c) replacement and reha- bilitation of bridges; (d) a road safety program; (e) capacity ex- Environment pansion of some priority sections of the federal roads; (f) a Forestry and Conservation: The project will improve the en- program for control of axle loads and vehicle weights; and (g) in- vironmental sustainability of forest harvests and implement a stitutional strengthening and training of staff of Department of strategy to promote conservation areas and small-scale sustain- Works and Highway Planning Unit, including development of a able use enterprises. Appraisal is completed. Negotiations to be road asset management information system. Preappraisal mis- scheduled. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 12.5/ sion is completed. Appraisal mission will be scheduled if the gov- 17.0 (IBRD/GEF). Consultants will be required. National Forest ernment decides that it will borrow from the Bank for this Service, PO Box 5055, Boroko, Papua New Guinea, Tel: (675) project. The timing of the appraisal mission would depend on the 327-7877,327-7930,Contact: Mr. Kanawi Poruo, General Manag government's decision. Environmental Assessment Category to er be determined, but will most likely be category A for most of the capacity expansion works. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting servic- es to be determined. Ministry of Public Works, Jalan Sultan PublicSector Management Salahuddin, 50580 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tel: (60-3) 468-4030, Public Sector Reform: This project will support development, Fax: (60-3) 469-6564,E-mail: tksu@hgjkr.gov.my, Contact: Dato strengthening and management of regulatory mechanisms and Ali Bin Bahri, Deputy Secretary General building institutional capacity in the public sector. Project is be- ing identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 Mongolia (IBRD). Consultants will be required to establish a training data- base within the Department of Personnel Management and es- Environment tablish a national employment database within the Department of Employment and Youth. Department of Personnel Manage- (R) Community-Based Sustainable Land Management: ment, Waigani, NCD, Papua New Guinea, Fax: (675) 327-6732 The learning and innovation credit (LIL) will facilitate the adop- tion of rangeland management systems by target groups and Reconstruction/Rehabilitation livelihood changes that promote sustainable herding practices in different pilot ecological zones. Project preparation is under (R) Gazelle Restoration II: The project will complete the res- way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: MNPE60941. toration and access to a range of essential infrastructure and util- SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE27 ity services (transport, electric, power, water supply and Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ sewerage, solid waste, communications, social services, health, 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Depart- education, public safety and fire protection) following the volca- ment of Energy, Energy Center, Merrit Rd., Fort Bonifacio, nic eruption in the peninsula. Negotiations completed. Board pre- Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 844-1021 to 40, sentation is tentatively scheduledfor October1999. Environmental Fax: (63-2) 818-8614,Contact: Mr. Reuben Emmanuel T Quejas, Assessment Category B. PID: PGPE54238. USS 40.0 (IBRD). Chief, Nonconventional Energy Division, E-mail: rque- Consulting services are needed for socioeconomic impact as- as@doe.govph sessment, regional/urban strategic planning and development g . studies, engineering designs and project assessment. Gazelle Restoration Authority, Kokopo, East New Britain, Papua New PublicSector Management Guinea, Tel: (675) 9828-633, Fax: (675) 9828-767, Contact: Mr. (N) Judicial Reform: The objectives of the project are to (a) John Painap, Project Manager strengthen the competence, integrity, efficiency and effective- Transport ness of the judiciary; (b) enhance access to justice; and (c) in- crease the efficiency with which the courts dispose of cases. The Highlands Highway: The project will rehabilitate the High- project is expected to include (a) improvement of the curriculum lands Highway and support the establishment of an authority to and continuing judicial education for justices, judges, court per- manage it with reliable funding arrangements. Project is being sonnel and lawyers, in specialized areas such as environment, identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- bankruptcy and intellectual property rights; (b) improvement of mined. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required to assist court administration; (c) improvement of court process and case in the preparation of engineering, environmental, economic, in- flow management; (d) development of a communications strate- stitutional and financing aspects. Department of Transport and gy to enhance communication between the judiciary and the cit- Works, PO Box 1108, Boroko NCD, Papua New Guinea, Tel: izenry; and (e) pilot improvements in model courts to be (675) 3241343, Fax: (675) 324-1277 selected. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 6.0 (IBRD). Consulting servic- Philippines es will be required. Supreme Court, Padre Faura, Manila 1000, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 434-9531, Fax: (63-2) 521-7242, Contact: Agriculture Prof. Myrna Feliciano, University of the Philippines Mindanao Rural Development: This Adaptable Program (R) Housing Finance Technical Assistance: The project will Loan is being designed as a long-term targeted poverty reduc- redefine the role of the government in the housing finance sys- tion program for the rural poor of Mindanao (including indige- tem and clarify the allocation of roles, responsibilities and risks nous communities). It will aim at increasing farm and non-farm between the public and private sector. Appraisal mission was incomes of smallholders (including increased productivity) and scheduledfor late August 1999. Environmental Assessment Cate- build up the planning and implementation systems and capaci- gory C. PID: PHPE50596. US$ 4.1 (IBRD). Consultants will be ties of local government units to better support the rural com- required to (a) strengthen capacity for policy formulation; (b) munity. Negotiations were tentatively scheduled for mid-August design a housing subsidy scheme; (c) develop the primary and 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: PHPE58842. secondary mortgage markets; and (d) rationalize government US$ 28.0 (IBRD). Consultants are being financed by a PHRD housing finance institutions. Housing and Urban Development grant. Department of Agriculture, Elliptical Rd., Quezon City, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 920-1407, Fax: (63-2) 928-8741. Contact: Council, 6th Floor, Atrium Bldg., Makati Ave., Makati, Philip- Ms. Zenaida Villegas, Chief, Project Packaging Group pines, Contact: Ms. Toby Melissa C. Monsod, Deputy Secretary General, Tel: (63-2) 811-4113,Fax: (63-2) 811-4158 Finance (R) Public Sector Reform: The loan will assist the govern- (R) Contractual Savings and Housing Finance: The loan ment in formulating and implementing a reform program cover- would support the government's reform agenda for housing fi- ing civil service, public expenditure programming and nance and contractual savings. Appraisal mission is scheduledfor management, tax incentives and privileges and local govern- February 2000. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: ment finance. Project preparation is under way. Environmental PHPE64563. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- Assessment Category U. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services mined. Department of Finance, 6th Floor, Department of Fi- to be determined. Department of Budget and Management, Es- nance Bldg., BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Malte, Manila 1004, pinosa Bldg., DBM Compound, Gen. Solano St., San Miguel, Ma- Philippines, Contact: Mr. Joel Banares, Undersecretary, Tel: (63- nila, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 735-4934, 735-1782, Contact: Ms. 2) 525-0260,Fax: (63-2) 521-2948,E-mail: jab@dof.gov.ph Laura Pascua, Assistant Secretary Power Rural Development (N) Rural Electrification: The project would support the im- Land Administration and Management Program: This plementation of the National Energy Plan through (a) invest- project is being designed as learning and innovation loan (LIL). ment support to provide selected rural areas with reliable It aims to develop a clear consensus among stakeholders on the electricity supply in a sustainable manner, including, as appropri- policy and institutional reforms in land management as well as ate, environmentally friendly renewable energy; and (b) techni- develop and pilot test procedures in land titling, management cal assistance and training for capacity building to improve the sector performance and to support an enabling environment to and evaluation. Project is being identified. Environmental As- promote private sector participation. This operation will be fi- sessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to nanced through an Adaptable Program Loan (APL), and the first be determined. Department of Environmental and Natural Re- phase of the APL is expected to support investments for off-grid sources, DENR Bldg., Visayas Ave., Diliman, Quezon City, Phil- rural electrification directed at achieving visible results on the ippines, Tel: (63-2) 928-0691, Fax: (63-2) 920-352, Contact: ground within a relatively short term. Project is being identified. Honorable Antonio Cerilles, Secretary PAGE28 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 Social Sector nance, Rm. 516, Five-Storey Bldg., Central Bank Complex, (R) Social Expenditure Management: The main objectve of CManila,Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 521-2948, Fax: (63-2) 521-9495, the loan is to protect the financing of basic social services during . y rub, ndersecrety a period of continuing fiscal difficulties in the aftermath of the East Asia financial crisis. The second project objective is to im- Water Supply/Sanitation prove the performance and efficiency of the social sector depart- Solid Waste and Ecological Enhancement- The project aims ments by reforming systems, strengthening financial to (a) improve the legal and regulatory framework and cost re- management and laying the groundwork for future structural re- covery me the solid wate mament costo forms. Appraisal mission was scheduled for late August 1999. En- covery mechanisms of the solid waste management sector to vironmental Assessment Category C. PID: PHPE65113. US$ safeguard the environment and encourage prvate sector in- 200.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required in the areas of financial volvement; (b) increase technical, administrative and regulatory management, procurement and MIS. Department of Budget and capacities at the national and local levels to improve sector man- Management, Espinosa Bldg., General Solano St., San Miguel, agement and operations; (c) improve solid waste services and Manila, Philippines, Tel: 63-2-735-4943,Fax: 63-2-735-4918, Con- extend their coverage in participating cities; and (d) mitigate the tact: Ms. Laura Pascua social impact on waste-pickers and promote recycling and com- posting of appropriate wastes. Appraisal mission is scheduled for Transport February 2000. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: PHPE48587. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants for project prepara- (R) Metro Manila Urban Transport Integration: The project tion are being financed by a PHRD grant. Department of Envi- aims to improve the transportation system in Metro Manila ronment and Natural Resources, Visayas Ave., Diliman, Quezon through (a) road construction and rehabilitation; (b) traffic man- City, 1100, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 929-6626 to 29, Fax: (63-2) 928- agement and safety measures; (c) and strengthening transporta- 0970, Contact: Mr. Antonio Cerilles Secretary tion, planning, traffic management and policy formulation capabilityin the Metro Manila DevelopmentAgency.Appraisal mission is scheduled for June 2000. Environmental Assessment Repubic of Korea Category B. PID: PHPE57731. US$ 89.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been shortlisted for detailed engineering. Department of Structural Adjustment Public Works and Highways, Bonifacio, Drive., Port Area, Ma- nila, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 527-7871,Fax: (63-2) 527-4121,Con- (R) Corporate and Fmancial Sector Restructuring: This tact: Ms. Linda Templo, Director, Planning III Service loan will support the continued implementation of reforms com- menced under the previous structural adjustment loans, focus- (R) National Roads Improvement Management. The ing on key aspects of corporate and financial sector project will promote reform in the highway sector in order to de- restructuring. Appraisal is tentatively scheduledfor October 1999. velop a sustainable national highway network. It will (a) provide Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Con- information technology and associated technical assistance to sulting services to be determined. Financial Supervisory Com- improve the effectiveness of management system; and (b) reha- mission, Ministry of Finance and Economy, 11th Floor Securities bilitate and maintain critical links in the national highway net- work. Appraisal mission is scheduled for October 1999. Supervsory Board Bldg., Yoido, Seoul, Korea, Tel: (82-2) 3771- Environmental Assessment Category A/B. PID: PHPE39019. 5114, Fax. (82-2) 3771-5307, 3771-088. US$125.0 (IBRD). Consultants for project preparation are being financed by a PHRD grant. Consulting services are needed for Samoa project implementation. Department of Public Works and High- ways, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila, Philippines, Tel: (632) * . . 527-8921, Fax: (632) 527-5618, Contact: Mr. Manuel M. Bonoan, Populaton,HealthandNutriton Assistant Secretary for Planning Health Sector: The project will provide support for the sector CAIA Regional Transport. The project will promote an inte- within the framework of the Health Sector Strategic Plan. Specif- grated strategy for regional development and transport, through ically, the project will provide support in the areas of policy de- the initiation of local government-based land management prac- velopment and health care legislation, improvement of regional tices, investments in priority transport infrastructure and service delivery, upgrading of physical infrastructure, priority strengthening of cooperation among local governments. Project interventions in women's health and studies of emerging issues is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be and problems. Project is being identified. Environmental Assess- determined. US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Consultants for project prepara- ment Category to be determined. US$ 7.0 (IDA). Consulting ser- tion are being financed by a PHRD grant. National Economic vices to be determined. Implementing agency is to be and Development Authority, NEDA Complex E de Los Santos determined. Ave., Quezon City, Philippines, Tel: (63-2) 976-479, Fax: (63-2) 926-6556,Contact: Mr. Oskar D. Balbastro, Project Director Solomon Islands Urban Development Education/Training (R) Local Government Units Finance and Development (Ln. 4446-PH): The project will finance municipal infrastruc- Fourth Education: The project will provide support for basic ture and services in poorer local government units. It will also education, particularly to improve the quality of the Community strengthen and reorganize the Municipal Development Fund High Schools (CHS) and improve the financing and manage- and will support technical assistance and training to national and ment of the sector. Project is being identified. Environmental As- local government agencies. Approved by the Executive Direc- sessment Category C. US$ 8.0 (IDA). Consulting services will tors on 23 March 1999. Loan signing was scheduledfor late August be required for preparation and implementation. Ministry of Ed- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: ucation and Human Resources, PO Box G28,Honiara,Solomon PHPE48588. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants for project prepara- Islands, Tel: (677) 23900, Fax: (677) 21560, Contact: Mrs. Mylyn tion are being financed by a PHRD grant. Department of Fi- Kuve, Acting Director, IPU SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE29 Population, Health and Nutrition Division, Bankgok, Thailand, Tel: (66-2) 273-9822, Fax: (66-2) Health: The project is expected to support (a) national care and 273-9058,Contact: Sun Vithespongse family planning; (b) malaria prevention and control; and (c) pro- vincial health programs and the Ministry of Health and Medical Public Sector Management Services. Appraisal mission was tentatively scheduled for mid- (R) Public Sector Reform: This loan is designed to support September 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. PID: Tailand's Public Sector Governance Program, which aims to im- SBPE58358. US$ 3.0 (IDA). Consultants have been selected for prove publc Sector Gement Progra) which aiment preparation. Consulting services for implementation to be deter- prove public sector management through (a) better management mined. Implementing agency is to be determined. offinancial and human resources; (b) improved service delivery; and (c) greater accountability and transparency. Negotiations Adjustment Structural were scheduledfor August 1999. Board presentation is scheduled for October 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: (R) Structural Adjustnent (Cr. 3252-SOL): The credit will THPE56522 US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- support the government's efforts in (a) improving the develop- mined. Ministry of Finance, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 10400, ment effectiveness of public expenditures; (b) reforming the fi- Thailand, Tel: (662) 273-9209,Fax: (662) 273-9404 nancial sector; (c) sustainable forestry management; (d) private sector development and (e) addressing selected social sector is- Social Sector sues. Approved by the Executive Directors on 17 June 1999. Credit was signed on 18 June 1999. Environmental Assessment (N) Social Investment II: The primary objective of the project Category C. US$ 12.0 (IDA). Consultants have been selected. is to improve and expand the targeting, coverage and efficiency Ministry of Finance, PO Box 26, Honiara, Solomon Islands, Tel: of selected social protection programs and instruments to assist (677) 22535, 23700, Fax: (677) 20392, Contact: Mr. George Kiri- individuals, households and communities in better managing in- au, Ministry of Finance come shocks. The project is expected to include (a) activities successfully implemented under the Social Investment Project I Thailand and the Economic and Financial Adjustment Loan II that merit continuation and/or expansion to mitigate the continuing nega- Power tive social impacts of the crisis; (b) further development of the microfinance sector in Thailand; and (c) enhancing the enabling (R) Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand - Invest- environment for civil society organizations (CSOs) through le- ment Program Support Through the raising of two bonds of gal and regulatory reforms to increase their contribution to so- US$ 300.0 million each, one around September 1998 (which has cial protection initiatives. Project is being identified. already closed) and the other around October 1999 (subject to EnvironmentalAssessment Categor to be determined. US$to market conditions), the project would help meet part of the - be determined. Technical assistance for project preparation is nancing gap for EGAT investments during the period fiscal year 1998-2001. The project was presented to and approved by the required for each component. To improve the responsiveness of Board as a single operation for two bond issues. In the first in- selected employment generation and social assistance pro- stance Board authorization was obtained for a partial credit guar- grams, technical assistance will be needed to assess the institu- antee for the first bond issue. Board approval will now be sought tional capacities of implementing agencies and the effectiveness for the terms and conditions pertaining to the second bond issue of selected programs in reaching targeted beneficiaries. To ex- and the provision of a second partial credit guarantee. The pand and improve the microfinance sector, technical assistance Board would be informed of the progress in respect of financial will assess demand for microcredit, analyze existing informal ar- and institutional aspects, without undertaking a second full rangements and formal institutions currently providing micro- project appraisal. A review mission to assess this progress was credit and review the regulatory and legal framework for fielded in February 1999, and another such mission was to take microfinance. To enhance the enabling environment for civil so- place in early September, prior to Board presentation. Environ- cial organizations, technical assistance will be required to review mental Assessment Category A. PID: THLL58697 US$ 300.0 existing laws and regulations governing the sector, draft a new (IBRD Partial Credit Guarantee). Consultants have been select- legal framework and prepare a public consultation/communica- ed. Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), Non- tions strategy for the new framework. Implementing agency is to thaburi 11130, Thailand, Tel: (662) 424-2894, Fax: (662) 433- be determined. 6317, Contact: Mr. Viravat Chlayon, Governor PrivateSector Development Vanuatu (R) Corporate Restructuring Implementation: The project Education/Training will support large corporate restructuring through (a) provision of mediators; (b) accounting, legal and industry expert support (R) Education II: The project will provide assistance for pre- for mediators; (c) training and other capacity building for the schools, primary schools and secondary schools including Corporate Debt Restructuring Advisory Cormnittee (CDRAC); teacher training, improving the supply of educational materials, and (d) strategic advisory support for CDRAC. Support for re- providing facilities and improving management planning. Prepa- structuring by small and medium enterprises will be provided ration is on hold pending finalization of the Vanuatu Education through three regional business advisory centers. Board presen- Mater Plan Envinmenal Asemnt Cate c.tiDn tation is scheduledfor October 1999. Environmental Assessment Master Plan. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: Category C. US$ 75 (IBRD). Consulting services to deter- VUPE04823. US$ 8.0 (IDA). Consultants recruited under the mined. Bank of Thailand, 273 Samsen Rd., Bankhunprom, Japanese Grant Facility have conducted a preliminary evaluation Bangkok 10200,Thailand, Tel: (66-2) 2283-5900,Fax: (66-2) 283- of the education system for project preparation. Need for further 6488, Contact: Sub. Lt. Uodchair Choosri, Director, The Office of consultants is to be determined. Ministry of Education, Sports the Corporate Debt Restructuring Advisory Committe; Ministry and Youth, Port-Vila, Vanuatu, Tel: (678) 22-309, Fax: (678) 24- of Finance, Fiscal Policy Office, Loan and Policy & Management 569 PAGE30 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 Viet Nam Power (R) Rural Energy: The project's main development objectives Agriculture are to (a) expand rural access to electricity in about 690 com- (R) Mekong Delta Water Resources (Cr. 3198-VN): The munes located in 32 provinces of Vietnam through grid exten- projectwill support (a) rehabilitation, completion and improve- sion; (b) establish institutional mechanisms for rural meat of infrastructure for irrigation, drainage, flood protection electrification within EVN, the distribution companies and the and control of salinity intrusion; (b) provision of clean water and provinces/communes that facilitate the long-term viability of the improved sanitation; and (c) institutional development. Ap- power sector and continued implementation of power sector re- improved proved by sanitheExction;vendc the Executive Directiton4al Directors on 4 May 1999. Crdtwswas develCredit forms and (c) in accordance promote with the 1995 the application Policy Letter of renewable and energy strategy; sources in signed on 3 August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category areas inaccessible to the national grid and to supplement grid B. PID: VNPE4854. US$ 101.8 (IDA). Consulting services in the ar supply to th enation of so demontrid amount of US$ 7.9 million are required for studies, design, im- power supply through implementation of some demonstration plementation, supervision and monitoring. Ministry of Agricul- projects. The project is expected to provide energy to about ture and Rural Development, 23 Hang Tre, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: 500,000 households in Vietnam and includes some of the poorest (844)82636, (844) 824-2363, Fx.(844)824232,Contact: Fax: (84-4) 824-2372, Mr. Le Van Hien, communes identified in the is Government's special commune program. Project preparation under way. Retroactive financing Project Manager, CPO, MLARD is being considered. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Elec- Education/Training tricity of Viet Nam, 18 Tran Nguyen Han St., Hanoi, Viet Nam, Primary Education in Disadvantaged Areas: The project Tel: (84-4) 825-3553, Fax: (84-4) 824-9462, Contact: Mr. Hoang would support provisions of basic/primary education to disad- Trung Hai, General Director vantaged groups in selected targeted zones. The project will tar- get poverty alleviation and increase access to primary schooling PublicSector Management through (a) school construction; (b) use of special delivery methods; and (c) scholarships, targeted subsidies and other in- (R) Ministry of Finance Financial Systems: The project centives to enroll and maintain children in primary schools, would support the ministry's reform and modernization effort in Project processing is on hold. Environmental Assessment Cate- one or two high-priority areas, such as treasury, budget, tax or gory C. US$ 90.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined, state-owned enterprise monitoring. It would help establish an Implementing agency is to be determined, overall information technology design for the ministry's systems and build institutional capacity. The project will provide funding Primary Teacher Education: The project would support pri- for policy advice, technical assistance, computerization and mary teacher education programs in one or two provinces. This training. Project preparation is currently on hold. Environmental will be the first operation in a series of four Adaptable Program Assessment Category C. PID: VNPA36944. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Con- Loans to professionalize the primary teaching force with a com- sultants have finished their initial preparations for the project. prehensive program of professional development through pre- Consultants will be required for implementation. Ministry of Fi- and in-service training in accredited programs followed by the nance, 8 Phan Huy Chu St., Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4) 826- adoption of new terms of service. Preappraisal mission is tenta- 3468, Fax: (84-4) 824-8259,Contact: Mr. Pham Van Thuan tively scheduled for late November 1999. Environmental Assess- ment Category C. PID: VNPE51838. US$ 80.0 (IDA). Consulting Rural Development services to be determined. Ministry of Education and Training, Primary Teacher Training Project, 49 Dai Co Viet, Hanoi, Viet Community-Based Rural Infrastructure: This is a targeted Nam, Tel/Fax: (844) 868-1683 poverty reduction project that will assist Viet Nam's poorest communes. The project will be demand-driven, providing a Environment range of infrastructure (roads and access, drinking water, irriga- tion systems, schools and health centers and rural electrifica- Coastal Wetlands Protection and Development: The objec- tion) in response to priorities identified at the local level through tives of the project are to re-establish and protect mangrove wet- a participatory planning process. The proiect will focus on Cen- land areas and valuable ecosystems in southern coastal tral Viet Nam. It will strengthen local capacities to plan and im- provinces to revive fishery nurturing abilities, promote sustain- plement local development projects, and central capacities to able aquaculture and agriculture in the buffer zone. Board pre- coordinate, monitor and evaluate decentralized development in- sentation was scheduled for early September 1999. itiatives. A second preparation mission is scheduled for October Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: VNPE45268. US$ 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA). 32.0 (IDA). Technical assistance will be required for project im- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Planning and plementation. Bilateral financing will be provided by DANIDA. Investment, 2 Hoang Van Thu St., Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dept. of Inter- Tel: (84-4) 0804-3034, Fax: (84-4) 8234176, Contact: Mr. Pham national Cooperation, 2, Ngoc Ha St., Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84- Hai, Director, Local and Regional Economic Development De- 4) 845-9670,Fax: (844) 8454319, Contact: Mr. Le Van Minh, Di- parent rector of Dept. of International Cooperation (R) Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction: The objective Population, Health and Nutrition of this project is to reduce poverty in the Northern Mountains Region through (a) an integrated grass-roots program of envi- Curative Care for the Poor: The project will develop a hospital ronmentally sustainable improvements to agricultural produc- rationalization program and analyze alternatives; the program tion; (b) construction of small-scale basic rural infrastructure; will also design programs for financing catastrophic curative and (c) improved access to basic education, health and nutrition. care for the poor. Preappraisal mission was tentatively scheduled Secondpreparation mission is scheduledforDecember 1999. Envi- for mid-August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. ronmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 100.0 US$ 60.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry (IDA). A limited amount of technical assistance will be required of Health, 138A Giang Vo, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4) 846-4051, during project preparation. Ministry of Planning and Invest- Fax: (84-4) 846-405 ment, No. 2 Hoang Van Thu, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Contact: SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE31 Mr. Phan Doanh, Director, Agriculture and Rural Development Water Supply/Sanitation Department, Tel: (84-4) 846-1421,Fax: (84-4) 843-2016 (R) Three Cities Sanitation (Cr. 3211 -VN): The project will River Basin Management: The project will introduce integrat- eliminate drainage, sewerage and sanitation bottlenecks in Dan- ed water resource management in selected basins. Project is be- ang, Haiphong, Halong City and Cam Pha Town by (a) rehabili- ing identified. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ tating drainage and sewerage networks; (b) improving solid 130.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of waste management; (c) strengthening operating agencies; and Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), 2 Ngoc Ha St., Ha- (d) assisting in preparing a long-term investment program. The noi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4) 733-0782,Fax: (84-4) 824-7133, Con- project will complement the Water Supply Project (ITF N0260). tact: Mr. Pham Hong Giang, Vice Minister, MARD Approved by the Executive Directors on 18 May 1999. Credit was signed on 3 August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category Structural Adjustment A. PID: VNPE51553. US$ 80.5 (IDA). Consulting services will be required for construction management and institution develop- (R) Structural Adjustment II: The credit will finance a struc- ment in Danang. It is anticipated that similar services will be sup- tural adjustment program in support of the government's medi- ported in Haiphong and Halong Kam Pha by DANIDA and um-term program of macroeconomic stabilization and structural FINNIDA, respectively. AUSAID is also considering supporting reform, as well as measures to strengthen the social safety net. institutional development in Danang. Danang Urban Environ- Appraisal mission is tentatively scheduledfor October 1999. Envi- ment Co., 253 Nui Thang, Danang, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-51) ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 250.0 (IDA). Consult- 825299, Fax: (84-51) 615912, Contact: Mr. Nguyen Tan Lien, Di- ing services to be determined. State Bank of Viet Nam, 47-49Ly rector, Haipong Sewerage and Drainage Co., Fax: (84-31) Thai To St., Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4) 255-769, 252-831, Fax: 841072), Contact Mr. Nguyen Ba Can, Director, Halong Envi- (84-4) 258-385, Contact: Mr. Le Duc Thuy, Deputy Governor ronment Co., Tel: (84-33) 826501, Contact: Mr. Nguyen Manh Ha Ho Chi Minh City Environmental Sanitation: The project Transport will rehabilitate the drainage system in the basin, improve envi- ronmental conditions in the area and enhance operating capabil- (R) Highway Maintenance Adaptable Program Lending: ity of drainage system operating agencies. The project will (a) This project is a mix of technical assistance, training and gradu- renovate existing drainage network and extend it in under- ally declining capital funding to help the government address served areas; (b) upgrade management of septic tanks including the currently inadequate periodic maintenance of roads and set disposal of septage; (c) provide interceptor sewers along the ca- up an efficient management and funding system at all levels of nal including necessary pumping and suitable wastewater treat- government. The declining funding would be matched by a ment; (d) upgrade the embankment, alignment and bottom growing allocation of locally raised users' charges into a road stability of the canal; (e) develop institutional capabilities of op- maintenance fund. The technical assistance and training will erating agencies, improve the skills of the staff and enhance the support the required policy,legislative and institutional changes cost recovery to ensure sustainability of the physical investment; while the APL design will link institutional/policy progress to and (f) provide equipment, materials and vehicles required for tranches of funding. This program will be managed in close co- adequate operation and maintenance of facilities. Project is be- ordination with other donors. Identification mission is tentatively ing identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- scheduledfor early March 2000. Environmental Assessment Cat- mined. US$ 140.0 (IDA). Consulting services for feasibility egory to be determined. US$ 200.0 (IDA). Consulting services studies and preliminary engineering design are being financed are required for preparation and for implementation. A PHRD through a PHRD grant, Department of Transport and Public grant is being sought for project preparation. Ministry of Trans- Works, 252 Ly Chinh Thang St., District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, port, 1876 Tay Son St., Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4) 851-1277, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-8) 8467-400, Fax: (84-8) 8290-458, Contact: Fax: (84-4) 857-2213,Contact: Mr. Pham Ngoc Thuy, General Di- Eng. Phan Chan Tranf rector, E-mail: MU-PMU1@FPT.VN (R) Mekong Transport and Flood Protection: The project will support the government's efforts to complete the rehabilita- tion of Highway One. It will focus on (a) the protection of flood- South Asia Region prone sections in the central coastal area; and (b) the improve- ment of the surface transportation system in the Mekong Delta area.. Appraisal mission is scheduledfor October 1999. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. PID: VNPE42927. US$ 150.0 Bangladesh (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Trans- port and Communications, 187B Tay Son St., Hanoi, Viet Nam, Agriculture Tel: (84-4) 851-1278, Fax: (84-4) 852-1013, Contact: Mr. Pham NgocThuy, General Director, PMU1 (R) Fourth Fisheries (Cr. 3276-BD): The objective of the project is to support sustainable growth and the equitable distri- (R) Second Rural Transport. The project will contribute to bution of the benefits generated from increased fish and shrimp the government's poverty alleviation program in the rural areas. production. The project includes (a) inland open-water fisheries Specific objectives are to (a) improve access of rural communi- management; (b) coastal shrimp aquaculture; (c) freshwater ties to markets, off-farm opportunities and social services; and aquaculture extension and training; (d) aquatic resources devel- (b) develop the local capacity to improve the level of service of opment management and conservation studies; and (e) institu- the rural transport network and to maintain it on a sustainable tional support. Cofinancing is confirmed from GEF and DFID. basis. Negotiations were tentatively scheduled for mid-September Total project cost is US$ 60.8 million. Approved by the Executive 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Directors on 20July 1999. Environmental Assessment Category VNPA59864. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. B. PID: BDPA9468. US$ 28.0/5.0 (IDA/GEF) .Ajapanese PHRD Project Management Unit 18, Ministry of Transport, 80 Tran grant is being used to finance consulting services. Ministry of Hung Dao, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Tel: (84-4) 825-2945, Fax: (84-4) Fisheries and Livestock, Dept. of Fisheries, Bhaban 6, Room 826-7291,Contact: Mr. Bui Tien Dung, General Director 507, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) PAGE32 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 834-699, 415-005, Contacts: Mr. Matin, Director General; Mr. Na- quired. Terms of reference are being drafted. Ministry of Envi- sir Uddin Ahmed, Project Coordinating Director ronment and Forestry, Department of Environment, E-16 Agricultural and Rural Development- The objectives of the Agargaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 911-2490,Fax: (880- project are to (a) eliminate policy barriers to agricultural growth 2) 911-8682, Contact: Mr. A.R. Khan, Director General, E-mail: and effective poverty alleviation; (b) improve the efficiency of DOE@FSBD.NET public investments; (c) create an environment more conducive to private sector investment; (d) strengthen local government in- Finance stitutions; and (e) reform food policy. Project is being identified. A new project concept document is being prepared. Environ- Central Banking Tec Assistance: The project will fo- enical mental Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consulting cus on strengthening the central bank in the areas of functional services to be determined. A PHRD grant has been approved for reorganization, human resources development, bank regulation project preparation. Ministry of Agriculture, Bhaban 4, Room and supervision, problem hank unit, external debt management, 508, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) accounting and auditing and automation/MIS. Appraisal mis- 864-513, Contact: Mr. A. Waheed Khan, Deputy Chief, Policy sion was tentatively scheduled for mid-August 1999. Environ- Planningtand Coordination mental Assessment Category C. PID: BDPE62916. US$ 24.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. A PHRD grant has been signed. Bangladesh Bank, Head Office MotijheelC/A, Dhaka, Education/Training Bangladesh, Fax: (880-2) 956-6212,Contact: Dr. Sohrab Uddin, Education Quality Improvement. The project will aim at im- Deputy Governor; Ministry of Finance, Bhaban 7, Room 238, proving the overall quality of education by making specific inter- Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 860- ventions for improving teaching and learning in the classroom. 406, Fax: (880-2) 865-581,Contact: Mr. Akbar Ali Khan It will pilot innovative government and NGO models and provide Financial Institutions Development: The project aims at de- continuous feedback to the system to help upgrade teaching and veloping non-bank financial institutions on a sustainable basis. It learning practices in schools. Project preparation is under way. would assist the government in (a) facilitating resource mobili- Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consult- zation by non-bank financial institutions through eliminating dis- ants will be required for project preparation. Directorate of Pri- tortions in government savings schemes, establishing an mary Education, Section 2, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: appropriate infrastructure for bond markets and eliminating bar- (880-2) 805-491, Fax: (880-2) 806-499, Contact: Shamsul Haque, riers to institutional investors; and (b) ensuring the development Director of Training of quality non-bank financial institutions and other financial in- Post Primary Education: The aim of the project is to improve termediaries providing investment financing through a tempo- poor people's access to and the quality of post primary educa- rary financing facility and/or a backstop facility that would tion. The project will support (a) establishment of a research support bond issuance by them. Board presentation was sched- fund; (b) creation of scholarship funds and/or loan funds that uled for mid-September 1999. Environmental Assessment Cate- meet merit and equity criteria; and (c) strengthening the nation- gory B. PID: BDPE44811. US$ 46.9 (IDA). A Japanese PHRD al institutions that oversee the quality of secondary education grant is financing consulting services for project preparation. and higher education. Project is in the early stages of identifica- Ministry of Finance, Bhaban 7, Rm. 303, Bangladesh Secretariat, tion. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 869-302, 865-360, Contact: Mr. Consulting services to be determined. A Japanese PHRD grant Golam Rahman, Additional Secretary, Banking Division of US$ 500,000 is financing preparation work. Directorate of Sec- Microcredit II: The project will support poverty alleviation for ondary and Higher Education (DSHE), Shikkah Bhavan, 16, Ab- targeted groups. It includes (a) extension of microcredit to the dul Ghani Rd., Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 956-3390, rural poor; (b) extension of urban credit to the urban poor; (c) Contact: Prof. Naiyar Sultana, Directorate General microenterprise lending to borrowers who have graduated from Post-Literacy and Continuing Education for Human De- microcredit activities, and acquired skills and resources to move velopment: The project will support the government in achiev- to microenterprises; and (d) technical assistance for sustainable ing its objectives to increase the functional application of literacy institutional development and impact assessment of the borrow- skills by providing post-literacy and continuing education to neo- ers. Project Concept Document is being prepared. Environmen- literates and school dropouts through a more comprehensive tal Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consulting and enhanced system of non-formal education.The project will services will be required. Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation, support the Directorate of Non-Formal Education and other House 31/A, Rd. 8, Dhanmondi RA, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: stakeholders to deliver quality programs. Project preparation is (880-2)912-6240,Fax: (880-2) 912-6244,Contact: Dr. Salehuddin under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 Ahmed, Managing Director, PKSF (IDA). Consultants will be required during project preparation. A PHRD grant has been approved. Directorate of Non-Formal Population, Health and Nutrition Education, PMED, Block E, 2/6 Lalmatia, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 814-814,Fax: (880-2) 810-980,Contact: Mr. Khandak- National Nutrition Program: The project will seek to achieve er Shahidul Islam, Director General, DNFE progress in meeting the objectives and targets of the National Plan of Action for Nutrition 2000-2010 (NPAN). The objective of Environment the NPAN is to eliminate malnutrition as a public health problem by 2010. The project will address this objective by reducing se- Air Quality Management. This learning and innovation loan vere and moderate malnutrition among children through reduc- (IIL) will address the rapidly worsening air pollution problems ing anemia and other micronutrient deficiencies among in Dhaka and selected cities. The project includes (a) vehicular pregnant women, school-aged women and adolescent girls. emissions enforcement, update of standards and regulation Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment awareness raising; (b) air pollution monitoring equipment and Category C. US$ Amount to be determined. (IDA). A PHRD training; and (c) and source assessment analysis. The project is grant is financing preparation activities. National Nutrition Pro- scheduled to be approved, following LIL procedures, in Decem- gram, 7 Paribag, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2)966-5509, ber 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: Contacts: Prof. Rezaul Karim, Team Leader and Mr. Salim Khan, BDPE57833. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be re- Program Preparation Team Coordinator SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE 33 Power RuralDevelopment (R) Haripur Partial Risk Guarantee: An IDA partial risk Rural Credit. The objective of this learning and innovation guarantee will support implementationof the Haripur Indepen- credit (LIL)is to alleviatepoverty and promote rural economic dent Power Project. Total project cost is US$ 175.0 million. growth through testing the provisionof group credit to eligible Board presentation was tentatively scheduled for mid-September NGOs to small and marginal farmers and other small rural entre- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: preneurs that have no access to formal publicor private banks. BDGU65131. US$ 70.0 (IDA Partial Risk Guarantee). No con- Projectis being identified.EnvironmentalAssessmentCategory sultants are required. Ministry of Finance and AESCorp. to be determined. US$ 5.0 (IDA).Consultingservices to be de- termined. Ministry of Agriculture,Bhaban 4, Room534, Bang- Power Reform: The objectiveof the project is to promote sec- ladesh Secretariat, Dhaka 1000,Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)867- tor reform by unbundlingand commercializing the operatingen- 474,Fax: (880-2)867-040 tities and establishing a regulatory body. The project will be carried out as an adaptableprogram loan (APL)operationwith Second Coastal Embankment Rehabilitation: The objec- the first stage covering transmission separation, rationalization tives of the project are to (a) save life and property during cy- ofperipheral distribution clones; (b) secure and increaseagriculturalproduction;and (c) ofe,riral distribution sytm and . prn . Te sc a socia rmitigate against environmentaldegradation caused by earlier ond,athior and fouh generation pnivatizatioA ladressstemreiabuiti and enhance system reliability and exstito access water metlAssmn investments. sector Project isedtrie. aeoyt being identified. USEnviron- 1. electricityin rural areas. Project preparation is under way.Cofi- mnDA)Cosserc arto be determf ned. USr 117.0 nancing is expected from OECE Environmental Assessment (IDA).Consultg services are Cboastal Embankment Rehabilita- Category B. US 125.0(IDA) .A Japanese PHRDgrant has been tion Project.BangladeshWaterBoard Development, Directorate extended to undertake the preparatory work. Ministry of Ener- General of Planning, WAPDABldg., Motijheel, C/A, Dhaka, gy and Mineral Resources (MEMR),Bhaban 6, BangladeshSec- Bangladesh retariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)863-992, Fax: (880-2) 865-097, 861-110;Power Grid Co. of BangladeshLtd.,House No. Sector Social I/A (5th flr), Rd. No. 13, Mirpur Rd., Dhanmondi,R/A,Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2)823-225,823-226,823-228,Fax: Cultural Heritage: This learning and innovationcredit (LIL) (880-2)823-227; Rural ElectrificationBoard (REB),Joarsahara, willtest a mechanismto channelfunds through a CulturalHeri- Ebilkhet,Dhaka, Bangladesh,Tel: (880-2) 896-412, 896-403,Fax: tage Foundationto privateand publicsector institutionsdedicat- (880-2)896-400 ed to promotionand conservationof cultural heritage.Project is being identified.Environmental AssessmentCategory to be de- SectorManagement Public termined. US$ 5.0 (IDA).The government is expected to re- quest a PHRD grant to finance project preparation.Ministry of Legal and Judicial Capacity Building: The projectwill sup- CulturalAffairs,Bhaban 6, Room1011,BangladeshSecretariat, port the government's efforts to improve governance by en- Dhaka 1000,Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2)868-977, Fax: (880-2)869- hancing the quality and cost effectiveness of the legal, 512, Contact: Mr. Muhammad Azizur Rahman, Secretary in regulatory and institutionalframeworkfor privatesector devel- Charge opment in the country.Projectcomponentsinclude (a) strength- Social Investment Program:The main projectobjectiveis to ening the legal and regulatory framework; (b) improvingcourt improve access of the poor to basic social and economic infra- administration and streamlining court procedures; (c) imple- structure and services,by supportingsmall scale projects iden- menting a MISfor the judiciary; (d) developingjudicialtraining tified and implementedthrough communityparticipation.The and legal education;and (e) buildingand/or upgrading physical key project components are (a) communitysubprojects spon- infrastructure. Appraisalmissionwas scheduled for September sored by eligibleNGOs,civilsocietyorganizationsand localgov- 1999.Environmental AssessmentCategory C. PID:BDPE44810. ernment bodies; (b) institutional support to establish and US$ 45.0 (IDA).A Japanese PHRD grant financed consulting operate the SocialDevelopmentFoundation;(c) technicalassis- services for project preparation. The grant financed both local tance to build capacity; and (d) communication development for and international consulting services to prepare an in-depth informationdissemination. Appraisalmissionwas scheduledfor analysis of the current situation of the legal system, identify key September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: issues, determine needs and recommend measures for develop- BDPE53578. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for ing legal and judicial capacity. A draft strategy paper based on project preparation and implementation. A PHRD grant of US$ the consultant's report was discussed with stakeholders in Feb- 475,000 has been approved. Ministry of Finance, Secretariat, ruary/March 1999. Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tel: (880-2) 860-406, Fax: (880-2) 865-581, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Rm. 722, Contacts: Mr. Akbar Ali Khan, Finance Secretary; Mr. Zakia Bhaban 4, Bangladesh Secretariat, Segunbagicha, Dhaka, Bang- Chowdhury, Prime Minister's Office ladesh, Tel: (880-2) 864-693, Fax: (880-2) 868-557, Contact: Mr. M. Aminullah, Secretary, Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Af- Telecommunications fairs Telecommunications Sector Reform: The project will sup- Public Sector Management-The projectwillfinancetechnical port the governmentin implementinga comprehensive telecom- assistance to support subprojects for policy reform, capacity municationssector reformprogram designedto promoteprivate building of public and private sector institutions, initiatives to im- investments, operations and competition. The project includes provepublicsector managementefficiencyand institutionbuild- (a) technical assistance for the Telecom Regulatory Commis- ing. Project preparation is under way. Environmental sion (TRC)to build up its regulatory capabilitiesand undertake Assessment Category to be determined. US$30.0 (IDA).AJap- selected studies; (b) a frequency managementand monitoring anese PHRD grant has been approved and will finance consult- system; (c) financing necessary facilities in the Bangladesh ing services for project preparation. Economic Relations Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTITB) networkto satisfyfu- Division,TA Cell, Block 8, Sher-e-BanglaNagar, Dhaka, Bang- ture interconnectionneeds of privateoperators;and (d) a study ladesh, Tel: (880-2)818-611, Contact:AZM Fax: (880-2)811-660, to improvefinancialmanagement,billingand collectionand net- ShafiqulIslam,Project Director work management to make BTTB more efficient and competi- 34 PAGE MonthlyOperational Summary SEPTEMBER 1999 tive. Appraisal mission is tentatively scheduled for November tricts. The project will support activities designed to (a) increase 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: BDPE44788. access to primary education; (b) reduce dropout and improving US$ 12.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for preparation and learning achievement; and (c) strengthen the capacity of institu- implementation. Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, tions at the state and district level to manage primary education. Bhaban 7, Rm. 411, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category Tel: (880-2)831-480, Contact: Secretary; BTTB, Telejogajog Bha- C. US$ 75.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. De- ban, 37/E, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh, Tel: (880- partment of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Government 2) 407-800, 831-500, Fax: (880-2) 832-577, Contact: Chairman of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Tel: (91-141) 383-061, Fax: (91-141) 380-061; Ministry of Education, Government of Water Supply/Sanitation Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, Tel: (91-141) 380-654,Fax: (91-141) 380- 928, Contacts: Mr. O.P Behari, Principal Secretary and Develop- School and Community Sanitation: The objective of the ment Commissioner, GOR; Mr. A-K. Singh, State Project Direc- project is to reduce sickness and premature mortality caused by tor, Rajasthan; Department of Education, New Delhi, India, Tel: lack of sanitary facilities, poor surface water quality and inade- (91-11) 338-2298, Fax: (91-11) 338-6153, Contact: Mr. R.S. Pan- quate hygiene practices. A secondary objective is to establish a dey, Joint Secretary sustainable framework for sanitation and water supply invest- Upper Primary Education: This project wil build upon a se- ments through reorienting the central government agency, rier cry which his madetoillbuid an im- strengthening local government functions and increasing bene- ries of IDA credits which have been made to expand and im- ficiary participation in the design, construction and mainte- prove the quality of primary education across 12 states in India. nance of assets. Project preparation is under way. Environmental The project will support the development of upper-primary Assessment Category B. US$ Amount to be determined. (IDA). schooling in one or more states. Project is being identified. En- Consulting services will be required for project preparation. De- vironmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 100.0 partment of Public Health Engineering, DPHE Bhavan, 175-178 (DA). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing Kakrail, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh agency is to be determined. Uttar Pradesh District Primary Education III: The project India will help strengthen institutional capacity to ensure that more children in Uttar Pradesh, especially those from socially disad- vantaged groups, complete a five-year primary education cycle Agriculture of appropriate quality. Appraisal mission was scheduled for late Integrated Watershed Development-Hills II (Ln. 4492- August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 178.0 IN; Cr. 3242-IN): The project has two components. The water- (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Department of Ed- shed development and protection component includes (a) water- ucation, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow 22601, Uttar shed treatment; (b) fodder and livestock development; and (c) Pradesh, India, Tel: (91-522) 386-477,Fax: (91-522) 386-481,Con- rural infrastructure development. The institutional strengthen- tact: Vrinda Sarup, Director, State Project Office ing component includes (a) policy reforms, studies and human resources development; (b) beneficiary capacity building; (c) in- Infrastructure come-generating activities for women; (d) information manage- Capital Markets Development: The project will (a) support ment, monitoring and evaluation; and (e) support to project th coordination. Approved by the Executive Directors on 15 June te government's program to increase private provision of infra- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. UJS$ 50.0/85.0 structure through supporting funding operations of select finan- (IDA/IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Govern- cial institutions and (b) assist development of domestic capital nents of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, markets through a stand-by facility to provide for term extension menjab and Uttaryana,-HimacPradesh Village De , end Ksmits of funding. Project is being identified. Environmental Assess- Punjab and Uttar-Pradesh; Village Development Committees; men Category to be determined. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consulting The Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Eco- sentrCes to be determined. US$ Develo)mentuing nomic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, DIN 110001, In- services to be determined. Infrastructure Development Finance ic A ' ' ' Co. Ltd., Ramon House, 169, Backbay Reclamation, Mumbai 400 dia 020, India, Tel: (91-22) 204-6986,Fax: (91-22)285-0078,Contact: (R) Rajasthan Water Resources Consolidation: The project Mr. Nasser Munjee, Deputy Managing Directors will include a comprehensive program of reforms of the state's water resources management in general, and irrigation drainage Population, Health and Nutrition and groundwater management in particular. The project con- tains the following components (a) participatory rehabilitation Second National AIDS Control (Cr. 3242-IN): The project and farmer organization; (b) systems and agricultural improve- will help implement the government's second phase of its nation- ment and farmer turnover; (c) institutional reorganization re- al HIV/AIDS control program. The project will run over five forms; (d) agricultural intensification; (e) groundwater years. The project will be part of an overall government national management; (f) water resources planning and environment AIDS control program. The objectives of the project are to (a) re- management; (g) resetflement and rehabilitation; and (h) water duce the rate of the growth of HIV infection; and (b) strengthen resources research, innovations and demonstrations. Project India's capacity to respond to HIV/AIDS. Approved by the Exec- preparation has been progressingslowlypending completion of Sep- utive Directors on 15 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- tember/October elections. Fast-track preparation will resume fol- egory C. PID: INPA40511.US$ 191.0 (IDA). Consulting services lowing elections. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ to be determined. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Gov- 100.0/150.0 (IBRD/IDA). Consulting services to be determined. ernment of India, New Delhi 110 001, India, Tel/Fax: (91-11) Government of Rajasthan Irrigation Dept., Secretariat, Jaipur 301-7706, Contact: Mr. J.V. Prasada-Rao, Additional Secretary 302005, India, Tel: (91-141) 380335, Contact: Mr. P.K Deb, Sec- and Director, National AIDS Control Organization retary (R) Uttar Pradesh State Health Systems Development: The (R) Rajasthan District Primary Education II: The objective policy reform component will (a) strengthen policy development of the project is to assist the government of Rajasthan to build and strategic planning; and (b) strengthen management imple- and strengthen state, district and subdistrict capacity to acceler- mentation capacity and accountability. The service quality compo- ate progress toward universal education in nine low-literacy dis- nent will (a) improve clinical service quality through skills SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE35 development, quality assurance systems, renovated and upgraded assistance in support of the energy efficiency initiative. Board facilities, equipment, drugs, supplies, improved maintenance ser- presentation has been postponed until further notice. Environ- vices and information, education and communication (IEC); (b) mental Assessment Category B. US$ 80.0/50.0/5.0 (IBRD/ improve public health service quality through strengthened disease IDA/GEF). Consultants will be required. India Renewable Ener- surveillance and control, food and drug quality control, waste gy Development Agency Ltd., Core 4-A East Court, 1st Floor management and IEC; and (c) improve access to health services Habitat Centre Complex, Lodhi Rd., New Delhi 110003,Tel: (91- in under-served areas and disadvantaged populations through in- 11) 460-1344,Fax: (91-11)460-2855,E-mail:gen@iredal, Contact: novative approaches. A project concept document has been pre- Dr. V. Bakthavatsalam, Managing Director pared and project preparation is under way. Environmental Solar Thermal Power: The project will focus on construction Assessment Category B. US$ 125.0 (IDA). Consultants for of a solar thermal/fossil fuel hybrid power plant of about 140 project preparation have been identified. Department of Medical MW incorporating a parabolic arough solar thermal field of 35 to Health and Family Welfare, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Luc- 40 MW. It will also include a technical assistance package to sup- know, India, Tel: (92-522) 239-237, Fax: (91-522) 238-312, Con- port comecalso of a thmcal teckage.torsup- tact: Mr. V.K. Dewan, Principal Secretary, Health, Government preparation is under way. GEF approved a US$ 750,000 advance of Uttar Pradesh for project preparation. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 49.0 (GEF). Consultants will be required. Rajasthan Energy Power Development Agency, E-166, C-Scheme, Yudhisther Marg, Powergrid System Development II: The project will support Jaipur, India, Tel: (91-141) 382-759, Fax: (91-141) 380-928, Con- a five-year time-slice of Powergrid's investment program and is tact: Mr. Subhash Garg, Executive Director expected to help implement (a) power system coordination and Uttar Pradesh State Power Sector Restructuring: The control facilities for the Eastern and Western regions; (b) trans- project willinclude (a) upgrading and expansion of transmission mission system development, including inter-regional transmis- and distribution facilities; (b) systems and retail consumer sion links from the Eastern region to the Northern, Southern meters; (c) implementation of demand-side management and and Western regions and related regional transmission system other efficiency improvement measures; and (d) technical assis- reinforcement programs; (c) technical assistance for institution- tance and training for implementing the reform program and in- al development and training, including promofing private sector stitutional strengthening to the power sector corporations. participation in the power sector and assessing Powergrid's pro- Project preparation is under way. A PPF advance of US$ 3.0 mil- posed diversification into telecommunications; and (d) the com- lion was extended for project preparation. Environmental As- pletion of similar facilities and activities financed by the Bank sessment Category to be determined. PID: INPE35172. US$ under Loans 3237-IN and 3577-IN. Board presentation has been 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required for imple- postponed until further notice. Environmental Assessment Cat- mentation of the reform program and various investment com- egory A. US$ 450.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected. ponents. Department of Energy, Government of Uttar Pradesh, POWERGRID Corporation of India Ltd., B-9, Qutab Institutional Lucknow 226001, India, Tel: (91-522) 211-119,Fax: (91-522) 215- Area, Katwaria Sarai, New Delhi 110 016, India, Tel: (91-11) 656- 279 0190, Fax: (91-11) 656-0086,Contact: Mr. S. Majumdar, General Manager, Corporate Planning Public Sector Management Rajasthan Power Sector Restructuring: This adaptable pro- (N) Modernization of the State Statistical System: The gram loan will include (a) an investment component to finance project will include (a) statishcal development within the macro- expansion and upgrading expansion and of transmission upgrading of transmission and and distribution distribution facili- facili- poetwl nld economic financial a social and eeomnihntemco ttsia framework; (b) institutional capac- ties; and (b) a technical assistance package to assist the govern- ity development; (c) improvement of relations with data users ment of Rajasthan in implementing the sector reform program . ' Project preparation is under way. A PPF advance of US$ 2.0 mil- and providers; and (d) communications and information technol- lion was was extended foryproject tendeg for project preparation. preparation. Environmental As- ogy to support these objectives. Project preparation sessmnt 1way. Enviro38334l A- Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 200.0is under (IBRD). sessment Category B. PID: INPE38334. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Department of Statistics Consultants will he required for implementation of the reform and Program Implementation of India, Sardar Patel Bhavan, Par- program. liament St., New Delhi 110001, India, Tel: (91-11) 336-0889,Fax: The Superintending Engineer, (SSPC/TLPC/PROC-I), Rajast- (91-11) 334-2384, Contact: C.G. Lal, Director, Central Statistical han State Electricity Board, New Hotel Bldg., Ajmer Rd., Jaipur Organization, E-mail: nadsco©hub.nic.in 302 016, India, Fax: (91-141) 368-134, Contact: Mr. C.S. Rajan, TechnicalAssistanceforEconomicReform:Theprojectwill Secretary of Energy; Government of Rajasthan, Room No. 140 T A echnical ssistance fcorm: troject wil First Floor, Secretariat, Jaipur, India, Tel: (91-141) 380-222 ext provide funds for technical assistance (consulting, training) for First Floor, Secretariat, Jaipur, India, Tel: (91-141) 380-222 ext. government agencies at the central, state and local levels, to as- 2238, Fax: (91-141) 380-635 sist them in the design and implementation of economic reform (R) Second Haryana Power Sector Restructuring: The programs. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- project will focus on privatization of distribution business, sessment Category C. US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consulting services to achievement of financial sustainability in the power sector, insti- be determined. Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Fi- tutional development and improvement in the system efficiency, nance. Contact: V. Bhaskar, Director (FB), Tel: (91-11) 461-7241 quality of power and customer services. Project preparation is (R) District Poverty Initiatives (Andhra Pradesh): The under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 200.0 proDtct Povertp andtistines dirdctappradesh)o The (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Shakti Bhawan, Sector 6, project wll develop and test new direct approaches to improving Panchkula 134109, Haryana, India, Tel: (91-172) 560-579, 560- the living standards of the poor. The specific objectives of the 652, Fax: (91-172) 560-087, E-mai: hseb%hry.nic.ininternet, project are to (a) establish mechanisms for the poor to identify, Contact: M91YS. Malik, Chairman plan and execute small-scale, demand-led, poverty reducing ac- Chairman Contact: MrYS. Malik, tivities in selected districts; (b) strengthen the capacities of the Second Renewable Energy: The project includes (a) a small district and subdistrict governmental and civil institutions to en- hydro component which will finance 200 MWs of small hydro in- gage in demand-driven development; and (c) reduce the levels of vestments by the private sector; (b) an energy efficiency compo- poverty in the areas covered by increasing employment oppor- nent to finance selected investments; and (c) technical tunities, land productivity and earning capacity through better PAGE 36 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 organization and skills. Completion of appraisal is expected in Oc- Delhi 110 001, India, Tel: (91-11)375-5440,Fax: (91-11)371-6111, tober/November 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. Contact: Mr. P.K. Garg, Joint Wireless Advisor; Telecommunica- US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Govern- tions Engineering Center, Kurshid Lal Bhawan, Opp. Janpath ment of Andhra Pradesh, Dept. of Finance and Planning, Hyder- Hotel, New Delhi 110 001, Tel: (91-11) 332-4703,Contact: Mr. abad, Andhra Pradesh, India; Department of Economic Affairs, S.K Malhotra, Deputy Director General Ministry of Finance, Gate 2, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91-11) 301- 1558 Transport Social Sector Gujarat State Highways: The project will support (a) widening and strengthening of about 800-900km of state highways; (b) pe- District Poverty Initiatives (Madhya Pradesh): The project riodic maintenance of about 1,000 km of state roads; (c) design will develop and test new direct approaches to improving the liv- and supervision of civil works contracts; and (d) technical assis- ing standards of the poor. The specific objectives of the project tance for strengthening institutional capacity to manage the are to (a) establish mechanisms for the poor to identify, plan and state road network including improved road management meth- execute small-scale, demand-led, poverty reducing activities in ods. A general procurement notice for this project was published selected districts; (b) strengthen the capacities of the district in Development Business No. 465, dated 30 June 1997. Board pre- and subdistrict governmental and civil institutions to engage in sentation has been postponed until further notice. Environmen- demand-driven development; and (c) reduce the levels of pover- tal Assessment Category B. US$ 381.0 (IBRD). Consultants will ty in the areas covered by increasing employment opportunities, be required for supervision of civil works. Consultants have land productivity and earning capacity through better organiza- been selected for supervision of phase one works. Prequalifica- tion and skills. Project preparation is under way. Environmental tion for Phase worksone . Prentalific- Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consulting services tion for Phase One civil works is completed. Government of Gu- to be determined. Government of Madhya Pradesh, Dept. of Ru- jarat, Roads and Building Department, New Sachivalay ral Development, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; Department Complex, Block No. 14, Gandhinagar 38210, India, Tel: (91) of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Gate 2, New Delhi, In- 2712-20177,Fax: (91) 2712-20052,Contact: Mr. H. P Jamdar dia, Tel: (91-11) 301-1558 Haryana State Highways: The project includes (a) the widen- (R) District Poverty Initiatives (Rajasthan): The project will ing and reconstruction of about 600-700 km of state highways; develop and test new direct approaches to improving the living (b) periodic maintenance of about 2,600 km of state roads; (c) es- standards of the poor. The specific objectives of the project are tablishment and initial operation of a road-management system to (a) establish mechanisms for the poor to identify, plan and ex- for state highways; and (d) associated institutional strengthen- ecute small-scale, demand-led, poverty reducing activities in se- ing reforms. Board presentation has been postponed. Environ- lected districts; (b) strengthen the capacities of the district and mental Assessment Category B. US$ 275.0 (IBRD). Consultants subdistrict governmental and civil institutions to engage in de- have been selected for supervision of major works. Public Works mand-driven development; and (c) reduce the levels of poverty Department, Government of Haryana, Chandigarh 160 001, In- in the areas covered by increasing employment opportunities, dia, Tel: (91-172) 740-128, Fax: (91-172) 740-526, Contact: Ur- land productivity and earning capacity through better organiza- rashi Gulati, Commissioner and Secretary tion and skills. Completion of appraisal is expected in October/No- vember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: (R) Rajasthan State Highways: The project will support (a) INPA10505. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- widenitng and strengthenng of 1200 km of state highways and mined. Government of Rajasthan, Dept. of Planning, Jaipur, Raj- man distrct roads; (b) perodic road maintenance; and (c) tech- asthan, India; Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of nical assistance for strengthening institutional capacity to man- Finance, Government of India, Gate 2, New Delhi, India, Tel: (91- age the state road network including improved road 11) 301-1558 management methods. A general procurement notice for this project was published in Development Business No. 465, dated 30 Telecommunications June 1997. Board presentation has been postponed until further notice. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: (R) Technical Assistance for Telecommunications Sector INPE50640. US$ 360.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for Reform (formerly Telecommunications Sector Support): The construction supervision. Government of Rajasthan, Public project seeks to promote private investment and competition in Works Department, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Tel: (91-141) 222- the telecommunications sector through strengthening ele- 309, Fax: (91-141) 222-248, Contact:Mr M.CPandya, ChiefEn- ments of the policy and regulatory environment. This will be gineer achieved by assisting (a) the Department of Telecommunica- tions to strengthen its government functions, including Tamil Nadu Road Sector: The project would enhance the effi- strengthening and modernizing the Wireless Planning and Co- ciency of the state road network by reducing transport costs and ordination Wing's radio frequency management and monitoring transport constraints on economic activity; improving riding systems and the Telecommunications Engineering Center's quality and capacity of selected core road segments; improving technical standards setting; and (b) the Telecommunications maintenance effectiveness; and improving the State's institution- Regulatory Authority of India in strengthening its capability to al capabilities for managing and monitoring its expenditures in promote effective competition in all market segments. Negotia- road sector. The project components are (a) upgrading and tions were tentatively scheduledfor October 1999. Environmental strengthening of priority roads; (b) design and supervision; (c) Assessment Category C. PID: INPE55456. US$ 68.0 (IBRD). land acquisition and resettlement, and rehabilitation; (d) period- Consultants will be required. Department of Telecommunica- ic maintenance; and (e) institutional strengthening of State Road tions, Sanchar Bhawan, Room No. 301,20 Ashoka Rd., New Del- Agency. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- hi 110-001, India, Tel: (91-11) 371-7411, Fax: (91-11) 337-2049, sessment Category B. US$ 330.0 (IBRD). Consultants willbe re- Contact: Mr. Gurdeep Singh, Joint Secretary; Telecoms Regula- quired for construction supervision, institutional strengthening tory Authority of India, 16th Floor, Jawahar Vyapar Bhawan 1, and maintenance. Highways and Rural Works, Tamil Nadu Road Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi 110 001, India, Fax: (91-11) 33167, Sector Project, Highways Research Station, Guindy, Chennai Contact: Mr. Rakesh Kapur, Joint Secretary; Ministry of Com- 600 025, India, Fax: (9144) 230-0195,Contact: S. Ramakrishnan, munications, Dak Bhawan, Room No. 317, Parliament St., New Project Director 1999 SEPTEMBER MonthlyOperational Summary 37 PAGE Third National Highways: The project includes the rehabilita- to be determined. Ministry of Human Resources, Employment tion and widening of about 400 km of National Highway Two and and Labor, Ghazee Bldg. Male 20-05, Republic of Maldives, Tel: construction of bypasses. The components include institutional (960) 327-352, Fax: (960) 331-578, Contact: Rasheeda Ali, Direc- strengthening; road and corridor maintenance management; tor, Human Resources Development Program bridge maintenance system; road safety systems; and preinvest- ment feasibility studies for follow-up projects. Project prepara- Nepal tion is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 400.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for supervision. Na- tional Highways Authority of India, 1 Eastern Ave., Maharani Agriculture Bagh, New Delhi 110065, Tel: (91-11) 692-3901,Fax: (91-11)692- Land Resources Management: The project will aim to sup- 4383, Contact: Mr. Deepak Dasgupta, Chairman port the conservation and management of land resources, through the integration of forest management with soil conser- WaterSupplylSanitation vation and biodiversity protection and management, as set out in the Forest Sector Master Plan. Project components may include Karnataka Water Supply Management and Municipal (a) institutional development; (b) policy and market analysis; (c) Strengthening: The objectives of the project are to (a) Improve program implementation to support an integrated approach to the efficiency, management and delivery of water supply and land resource management; and (d) assistance for prioritized re- sanitation services in participating urban local bodies through search, technology and extension programs. Project preparation the introduction of the private sector; (b) enhance the general is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 planning and financial management capacity of the participating (IDA). Recruitment of local consultants is under way. Ministry of urban local bodies; and (c) initiate the preparation of urban ser- Forests and Soil Conservation, Singa Darbar, Kathmandu, Ne- vice improvements to be implemented in Bangalore under a fu- pal, Tel: (977-1)223-862,Fax: (977-1) 226-099,Contact: R. B. Bis- ture operation. Project Concept Document has been approved. pa Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: INPE59821. US$ Amount to be determined. (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project preparation. Government of Karnataka, UDD GOK Agriculture MS Bldg., Bangalore 560 001, India, Tel: (91-80) 225-3958, Fax: Terai Groundwater Irrigation: The project will support (a) (91-80) 225-3958,Contact Mr. Philipose Mathai, Principal Secre- the strengthening of national and local institutions in prepara- tary Urban Development Department tion of groundwater legislation and regulation, monitoring, ex- ploration and exploitation of groundwater in Terai; (b) WaterSupplylSanitation development of groundwater irrigation by small, medium and deep tubewells on about 4000 ha in central Terai; and (c) man- Second Hyderabad Urban Water Supply and Sanitation: agement transfer of public tubewells to the water users' groups The project includes (a) the reorganization/reengineering of the after necessary rehabilitation of the tubewells on 2000 ha in cen- Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board; (b) tral Terai. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- reduction of unaccounted-for water programs; (c) rehabilitation sessment Category B. PID: NPPE50672. US$ 21.8 (IDA). and expansion of water supply transmission and distribution sys- Consultants will be required. Department of Irrigation, Jawala tems; (d) strengthening and expansion of the sewerage system; Khel, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1)537-136,Contact: Mr. M.N. and (e) engineering and consulting services. Negotiations have Aryal, Director General been postponed. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: INPE42755. US$ 180.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required to .c.T . implement the reengineering program, supervise civil works Educaton/Traing and conduct studies. Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and (N) Higher Secondary Education: The project will support Sewerage Board, Khairatabad, Hyderabad 500004, India, Tel: ongoing higher secondary education reforms that complement (9140) 339-4402, Fax: (9140) 3394610, E-mail: hm- the tertiary education reforms carried out under the Higher Ed- wssb@hdl.vsnl.net.in, Contact: L.V. Subrahmanyam, Managing ucation Project (Credit 2560-NEP). The project will assist the Director Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Higher Secondary Educa- Third Chennai Water Supply and Environmental Sanita- tion Board in improving educational planning, management, mo- tion: The project will finance the rehabilitation and expansion of bilization and utilization of resources with an emphasis on water distribution and sewerage system as well as investments decentralization and implementation capacity. The project will in low-cost sanitation. A preappraisal mission was held in mid- also focus on upgrading facilities, equipment and information June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: technology as well as human resources development at the INPE42744. USS 105.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be re- MOE and the regional level. Project is being identified. Environ- quired for construction supervision. Chennai Metro Water, No. mental Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consulting ser- 1 Pumping Station Rd., Chennai 600 002, India, Tel: (9144) 853- vices to be determined. Higher Secondary Education Board, 5998, Fax: (91-44) 853-1243, Contact: C.P Singh, Managing Di- Sano Thimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal, Contact: Dr. Shreeram Lam- rector ichane, Member-Secretary, HSEB Maldives Finance Financial Sector Technical Assistance: The project will sup- Education/Training port financial sector reform with a particular emphasis on (a) strengthening the capacity of the banking supervision depart- (R) Third Education and Training: The project will (a) im- ment to competently conduct examinations of financial institu- prove educational quality and relevance; (b) improve access and tions and undertake appropriate remedial action; (b) the equity; (c) reduce skill shortages; (d) improve institutional ca- production of timely and reliable financial accounts of the banks pacity; and (e) assess sectoral needs. Negotiations are tentative- and improving central and commercial banking legislation; (c) ly scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1999. Environmental production of bid packages for the privatization of Rastriya Ban- Assessment Category C. US$ 17.5 (IDA). Consulting services ijya Bank (and possibly Nepal Bank Limited) with the participa- PAGE 38 MonthlyOperational Summary 1999 SEPTEMBER tion of an international strategic partner; and (d) liberalizing the Transport banking sector and improving market orientation. The project includes a small technical assistance component and a large pol- (R) Road Development and Maintenance II The project will icy-based operation. Project preparation is under way. Environ- include (a) a policy reform component to establish a roads board mental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting and fund; (b) upgrading and development of priority feeder services will be required. Nepal Rastra Bank, Bulawatar, Kath- roads (450 km); (c) rehabilitation (160 km) and periodic mainte- mandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 414-552, Fax: (977-1) 414-533, Con- nance (470 km) of highways and feeder roads in the strategic tact: Mr. Ram Babu Pant; Ministry of Finance, Kathmandu, network; and (d) strengthening and training of the Department Nepalc National Planning Office of Roads. Boardpresentation is tentatively scheduledfor mid-Octo- ber 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: NEPE45052. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for Power feasibility studies, design and supervision of road works. Minis- Power Development The objectives of the project are to (a) try of Works and Transport, Director General Department of Powe Devlopmnt-The bjecive of he poje tarto Roads, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 231-510, optimize the use of Nepal's hydropower potential in an environ- Fax: B977-1t 225-993 mentally sustainable and socially acceptable way; and (b) pro- a mote private participation in the development of Nepal's power sector to meet the domestic demand for electricity and to export Pakistan power where possible and justified; (c) to ensure appropriate balance between investments in generators, transmission, and Agriculture distribution; and (d) improve the efficiency of operations of the Nepal Electricity Authority. Project components include (a) Agricultural Sector Investment: The project will support con- transmission and distribution investments and institutional tinued agricultural growth through agricultural price and mar- strengthening measures to be implemented by the Nepal Elec- ket policy reforms, restructuring of agricultural public tricity Authority; (b) technical assistance for the establishment enterprises and private sector development. Board presentation of the power development fund which will provide and catalyze was tentatively scheduled for early September 1999. Environ- funding for private investments in the power sector; and (c) tech- mental Assessment Category B. PID: PKPE10541. US$ 75.0/ nical assistance for capacity building at the Ministry of Popula- 35.0 (IBRD/IDA). Consulting services for financial manage- tion and Environment and Ministry of Water Resources. Board ment will be required. Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Live- presentation is tentatively scheduled forJanuary 2000. Environ- stock, Islamabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 921-0351,Fax: (92-51) mental Assessment Category A. PID: NPPA43311. US$ 40.0 922-1246 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Water Resourc- Fourth On-Farm Water Management:- The project would fo- es, Singha Durbar, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 228923, Fax: cus on policy improvements and institutional reforms in the irri- (977-1)227536, Contact: Mr. D. N. Dhungel, Secretary gation sector. The project has the following components (a) social mobilization program for developing effective farmers' or- Structural Adjustment ganizations; (b) improvement and rehabilitation of distributaries and minor watercourses in canal commanded areas; (c) im- Financial Sector Adjustment: This credit will support the pol- provement in water distribution facilities in the barani and hill icy components of the financial sector reform program. It will torrents areas; and (d) pilot projects to introduce technological place particular emphasis on (a) privatizing Rastriya Banijya improvements of water management. Board presentation is ten- Bank (RBB) and (b) helping to complete the privatization of Ne- tatively scheduled for November 1999. Environmental Assess- pal Bank Limited. Project preparation will begin shortly. Envi- ment Category B. PID: PKPE50754. US$ 75.0/61.8 (IDA/ ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting IBRD). Consulting services will be required for social mobiliza- services will not be required. Nepal Rastra Bank, Bulawatar, tion, transfer of irrigation management, introducing technologi- Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 414-552, Fax: (977-1) 414-533, cal improvements in water and management, project accounting Contact: Mr. Ram Babu Pant; Ministry of Finance, Kathmandu, and external auditing. Federal Coordination Unit of Ministry of Nepal; National Planning Office Agriculture and Provincial On-Farm Water Management Direc- torates Telecommunications Lower Bari Dob and Chenab Canal Command: The project will (a) decentralize irrigation management; (b) support policy Telecommunications Sector Reform: The objectives of the and institutional reforms for participatory irrigation manage- project are to promote private investments, operations and com- ment; (c) establish a public utility and farmer organizations on petition in the provision of telecommunications services. The Lower Chenab Canal and on Lower Bari Doab Canal command. project will assist sector entities in developing an appropriate areas; and (d) improve the operational efficiency of the irriga- regulatory and sectoral legal framework, including the manage- tion system through rehabilitation of the irrigation/canal system ment of the radio frequency spectrum, and by improving Nepal infrastructure. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Telecommunications Corporation's (NTC) ability to intercon- Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consulting services nect with private operations. The project would also support the to be determined. Ministry of Water and Power, Office of Chief expansion of telecommunications services into rural areas. Engineering Adviser, 16-D East Safdar-Mansi, Blue Area, Islam- Components are likely to include (a) regulatory and sector re- abad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 826-589 form; (b) privatization of NTC; (c) introduction of competition; (d) rural development; and (e) interconnection facilities. Ap- Education/Training praisal mission was scheduled for September 1999. Cofinancing has been arranged with OPEC, DANIDA and NDE Environmen- (R) Balochistan K-8 Education Development The project tal Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consultants will be aims to (a) continue building on the success of the Balochistan required for preparation and implementation. Ministry of Infor- Primary Education Project (BPEP) at the primary level, espe- mation and Communication, National Telecommunications Au- cially those initiatives focused on increasing access and improv- thority, Singh Durbar, Kathmandu, Nepal, Tel: (977-1) 215-444, ing quality; (b) expand pilots implemented under BPEP in using 227-525, Fax: (977-1) 226-260 participatory approaches to increase access and improve school SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE39 outcomes to cover grades K-8; and (c) support ongoing institu- Fax: (92-42) 516-8256,Contact: Dr. Naeem-ud Din Mian, Execu- tional reforms supported by BPEP and the Social Action Pro- tive Directors, Special Projects, E-mail: drmian@brain.net.pak gram to improve financial and resource management, and increase efficiency and capacity of the system. Project processing Public Sector Management has been delayed. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 70.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Government Tax Administration Reform: The project will support the of Balochistan, Department of Education, Quetta, Balochistan, start-up phase of tax administration reforms, focusing on pilot Pakistan, Fax: (92-81) 920-2360, Contact: Director of Primary testing of new processes for tax collection and tax facilitation. Education, Tel: (92-81) 920-2499 This learning and innovation credit (LIL) was scheduled to be Basic Education and Capacity Development: The Sindh approved, following LIL procedures, in late July 1999. Environ- Sindh ic the nd city copleng ele mental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting ser- project will ncrease the number of children completing elemen- vices will include reengineering of customs, income, sales and tary education and their knowledge base and skills. The objec- excise taxes for simplification and reduction of taxpayer compli- tives are to (a) strengthen service delivery capacity of NGOs; ance costs. Central Board of Revenue, Constitution Ave., G-5 Is- (b) enhance planning and management capacity of the depart- lamabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 920-4418,Fax: (92-51) 920-5308, ment of education; (c) decentralize appropriate management Contact: Mr. Munir Qureshi, Member, Restructuring and supervision functions to the district and school levels, espe- cially in monitoring and assessment; (d) buttress capital devel- SocialSector opment efforts initiated under the Social Action Program; (e) improve access to elementary education for girls and other un- (R) Poverty Alleviation Fund (Cr. 3248-PAK): The project der-served populations; (f) foster community involvement in aims to alleviate poverty by empowering the rural and urban schools; and (g) improve public expenditure effectiveness and poor and providing them with access to resources and services. timely resource allocation. Project preparation is under way. En- Specifically, the project will (a) increase the income of poor vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 75.0 (IDA). Consult- households by providing loans and technical support; (b) em- ing services will be required for technical assistance on (a) power the poor, especially women; (c) increase access to physi- designing a more effective administrative and implementation cal infrastructure in order to improve livelihood opportunities mechanism for linking NGOs to government activities; (b) con- for the poor; and (d) strengthen the institutional capacity of the ducting policy and planning seminars; (c) designing a monitor- Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund and of its partner organiza- ing and evaluation mechanism; (d) developing a student tions and communities. Project components include community performance assessment mechanism; and (e) designing and infrastructure, microcredit, working capital loans, program sup- evaluating programs for teacher training and curriculum reform, port and capacity building. Approved by the Executive Directors Government of Sindh, Department of Education, Old KDA on 17June 1999. Credit was signed on 7July 1999. Environmental Bldg., Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, Tel: (92-21) 263-3603, Fax: (92- Assessment Category C. US$ 90.0 (IDA). Consulting services 21) 921-1221 will be required for impact assessments, performance and finan- cial audits and sector studies. The Poverty Alleviation Fund, Environment House GA, Park Rd., F-8/2, Islamabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 253-178, Contact: Mr. Kamal Hyat, Chief Executive Protected Area Management. The objective of the project is to conserve globally important species, their populations and Structural Adjustment habitats in the protected areas of Pakistan. The project will in- clude (a) integration of local communities in protected area man- Banking Sector Adjustment II: This structural adjustment agement; (b) strengthening of park management; (c) public loan will support privatization of financial institutions in the con- environmental awareness; and (d) human resources develop- text of the government's medium-term banking sector reform ment. Negotiations are tentatively scheduled for late September program. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (GEF). sessment Category C. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). No consultants are re- An international NGO has completed project preparation. Minis- quired. Ministry of Finance, Pakistan, Secretariat, Block Q, try of Environment, Local Government and Rural Development Room 202, Islamabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 920-2253,Fax: (92- 51) 920-5166 Population, Health and Nutrition Power Sector Adjustment. The objective of the loan is to as- sist the government's efforts to implement deeper structural re- Health Sector Reform: The project will support reforms in the forms in the power sector and to achieve higher levels of health sector in Punjab province, with a focus on primary health, efficiency, competition, customer service and financial viability. maternal and child health, family planning and communicable The loan will provide balance of payments support to sustain disease control. Project is being identified. Environmental As- macroeconomic adjustment and help forestall a financial crisis in sessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IDA). Consulting services to the power sector. Negotiations are scheduled for October 1999. be determined. Environmental Assessment Category U. PID: PKPE57308. US$ Health Department, Government of Punjab, Civil Secretariat, 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Lahore, Pakistan, Tel: (92-42) 516-8043, Fax: (92-42) 516-8526, Finance, Pak Secretariat, Block Q, Islamabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92- Contct: Di Contact: Dr. Naeem-ud Mia, r. Neem-d Din Executive Diecto, Mian, Excutie Director, Spcial Special 51) 920-2576, er, Pak Fax: (92-51) Secretariat, Block 920-5166; Ministry A, Islamabad, of Water Pakistan, and Tel: Pow- (92-51) Projects, E-mail: drmian@brain.net.pak 920-2335,921-1852,Fax: (92-51) 920-6272 Punjab Pilot Hospital Autonomy: This learning and innova- tion credit will support and experiment in greater autonomy in Transport three large teaching hospitals in Punjab province. Appraisal mis- sion was scheduled for September 1999. Environmental Assess- Balochistan Rural Infrastructure: The objectives of the ment Category C. PID: PKPE58461. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting project are to provide rural access roads, increase agricultural services to be determined. Health Department, Government of production and marketing and reduce rural poverty. Project is Punjab, Civil Secretariat, Lahore, Pakistan, Tel: (92-42)516-8043, being identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ PAGE40 Monthly OperationalSummary 1999 SEPTEMBER 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting services are needed for feasibility stud- investment; and (c) strengthen the financial, administrative and ies. Balochistan Provincial Government managerial capacities of the Urban Local Bodies. Appraisal is scheduled for December 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- Highways Rehabilitation: The objective of the project is to im- egory B. US$ 100.0/50.0 (IBRD/IDA). Consulting services to be prove the efficiency of the National Highway Network by the determined. Government of Punjab, Punjab Municipal Develop- year 2010 through (a) a more rational allocation of public expen- ment Fund, Chief Minister's Secretariat, 90-Shahrae Quaid-e- ditures in the highway sector, including increasing the share of Azam, Lahore, Pakistan, Tel: (92-42)631-211,631-0803,Fax: (92- resources for rehabilitation, maintenance and selective improve- 42) 631-219,Contact: Dr. Zafar Iqbal Qureshi, Team Leader, Ad- ments; (b) introduction of new sustainable sources of finance for visory Team, PMDF road maintenance, with greater user and private sector participa- tion in generation of revenues and management of funds; and (c) efficiency improvements through institutional strengthening/ Sri Lanka progressive commercialization of road sector agencies and pro- motion of private sector provision and operation of highway and Power related services. Preappraisal mission is scheduled for October 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 125.0 Power Sector Restructuring: The policy component will (a) (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. National High- support restructuring and corporatization of the Ceylon Electric- way Authority (NHA) , Plot No. 27, Mauve Area, G-9/1, Islama- ity Board, and initiate a gradual decentralization of the power bad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 926-0409, Fax: (92-51) 926-0983, sector; (b) create an enabling environment for private sector par- Contact: Muhammad Ijaz Khan, Member, NHA ticipation; and (c) establish a power sector regulatory frame- work. The technical assistance component will finance (a) Karachi Port Development. The project will include (a) im- various studies; (b) an MIS system; (c) project consultancy; and provement of the navigation channel and rehabilitation and ex- (d) other institutional capacity-building measures including tension of the breakwater; (b) provisions for pollution control training. The hardware component may address transmission equipment and hazardous cargo terminal; (c) regulating the flow and/or distribution. Project preparation is under way. Environ- of port traffic; (d) development of an off-dock terminal; (e) en- mental Assessment Category B. PID: LKPE44795. US$ 40.0 hancement of privatization initiatives; (f) improvement of the (IDA). Consultants will be required for preparation of bidding regulatory framework; (g) rationalization of the labor force; and documents, bid evaluation and supervision. Ministry of Irriga- (h) the procurement of equipment and technical assistance. tion, Power and Energy, 600 TB Jayah Mawatha, Colombo 10,Sri Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Lanka, Tel: (94-1) 687-370,Fax: (94-1)694-968;Ceylon Electricity Category A. PID: PKPA41886. US$ 100.0 aBRD). Consultants Board, 50 Sir Chittampalam Gardiner Mawatha, PO Box 540,Co- will be required to (a) review the existing regulatory frame- lombo 2, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-1) 329-108, Fax: (94-1) 449-572 work; (b) prepare implementation plans and bidding documents for works on the channel and breakwater; (c) upgrade the com- Public Sector Management puterization initiative; (d) enhance private sector participation; (e) assist in project supervision. Karachi Port Trust, PO Box No. Legal and Judicial Reform: The project aims to (a) improve 4725, Karachi 74000,Pakistan. Tel: (92-21) 231-1132;Fax: (92-21) the legal framework, legal education and access to legal informa- 231-1567,Contact: General Manager tion in the area of commercial law; (b) enhance the capacity of the Registry of Companies; and (c) improve the efficiency and Railway Privatization: The project would support the privatiza- quality of judicial services and training. Project preparation is tion of Pakistan Railways through investments and technical as- under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: sistance based on an agreed restructure and reform agenda. The LKPE44809. US$ 18.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required dur- project components include (a) technical assistance for the new ing preparation and implementation. Ministry of Justice, Su- Railway Regulatory Authority; (b) financing of a portion of the preme Court, Superior Court Complex, Colombo 12, Colombo, severance pay in addition to retraining and placement for redun- Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-1) 329044, Fax: (94-1) 320785, Contact: Mr. dant employees; (c) finance of emergency investments to reme- M.S. Jayasinghe, Secretary, Ministry of Justice dy critical safety and operational deficiencies; (d) technical assistance for the overall privatization program; and (e) techni- Postal Sector Reform: The objective of the project is to devel- cal assistance to develop a project management system. Preap- op the postal service into an efficient, high-quality provider of praisal mission is scheduled for January 2000. Environmental postal communication and financial services through (a) reha- Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be bilitation of the retail network; (b) institutional and regulatory required during identification. Privatization Commission of Paki- reform; and (c) improving operational efficiency. Project prepa- stan, Government of Pakistan, 5-AConstitution Ave., Islamabad, ration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 921-6514, Fax: (92-51) 920-3076, Contact: PID: LKPA57176.US$ 37.2 (DA). Consultants have been select- Mr. Mahmood Rashid ed for project preparation support. Ministry of Posts, Telecom- munications and Media, World Trade Center, West Tower, Floor Trade and Transport Facilitation: The project will assist in in- 18, Echelon Square, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-1) 329-568, troducing modern transport facilitation procedures and trans- Fax: (94-1) 441-659, Contact: Mr. KC. Logeswaran, Secretary port legislation. Negotiations were scheduled for August 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: PKPE56213. US$ Sector Social 3.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Commerce, Islamabad, Pakistan, Tel: (92-51) 920-3825,Fax: (92- Poverty Alleviation/Rural Development. The project will fa- 51) 920-5241,Contact: Secretary cilitate access to resources and social services to promote self employment and entry into the labor market for the poor. Project Urban Development has not yet been identified. The government is reviewing its pov- erty alleviation strategy. Environmental Assessment Category to Punjab Municipal Development Fund: The project will (a) be determined. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be re- mobilize additional resources for urban infrastructure develop- quired. Ministry of Finance Policy Planning, Ethnic Affairs and ment in the province of Punjab; (b) develop an efficient mecha- National Integration, Sethsiripaya, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, Tel: nism for allocating public resources for urban infrastructure (94-1) 562-485 SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary 41 PAGE Transport tors on 3 June 1999. Credit was signed on 19 July 1999. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. PID: ALPE43178. US$ 24.0 Port Efficiency Improvement: The project will include (a) a (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agri- policy component to support the corporatization of the Jaya Con- culture and Food, Skenderbej Square, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355- tainer Terminal; (b) a safety and environmental component; (c) 42) 23825, Contact: Mr. Dede, Irrigation Director, Project Man- a trade facilitation component; and (d) technical assistance. agement Unit Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: LKPA44886. US$ 40.0 (IDA). Consulting ser- EducationiTraining vices are being financed through a PPF advance. Sri Lanka Port Authority, 19, Church St., PO Box 595, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tel: Education Reform II: This is a follow-upto the first schools re- (94-1) 432-714, Fax: (94-1) 421-201, Contact: Chairman habilitation project. The objective is to prepare a strategy with the government that focuses on fundamental problems of gover- Urban Development nance, management, financing and feedback on the system's performance. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Clean Settlements: The project will support the government's Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting services to efforts to improve the living conditions of low-income settle- be determined. Project Coordination Unit, Ministry of Educa- ments in the Colombo metropolitan area. Project components in- tion and Sciences, Durresi St., No. 23, Tirana, Albania, Tel/Fax: clude (a) settlement improvements; (b) housing finance for low- (355-42) 495-14, Contact: Mr. Bujar Dida, Director and middle-income families; (c) supply of serviced land for hous- ing; (d) institutional strengthening of urban local authorities for Finance effective service delivery. The project components were changed in March 1999, and the completion of appraisal has (R) Microcredit (Cr. 3253-ALB): The project will support the been delayed. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: establishment of a private, sustainable rural finance system LKPE41885. US$ 60.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required for based on the current system of village credit funds. It will also studies and advisory services and implementation. Clean Settle- support the expansion and further development of the existing ment Project Unit, Ministry of Housing, Construction, and Pub- urban microcredit pilot program. Approved by the Executive Di- lic Utilities, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-1) 872170, Fax: (94-1) rectors on 22 June 1999. Credit was signed on 19July 1999. Envi- 872167 ronmental Assessment Category C. PID: ALPE51310. US$ 12.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing Water Supply/Sanitation agency is to be determined. Community and Private Sector Water Supply and Sanita- Water Supply/Sanitation tion: The project would form part of a program of rural water and sanitation investments to be implemented over five years by Municipal Water and Wastewater: The project will rehabili- a variety of service providers. The project will provide access to tate and upgrade water and sanitation systems in Durres, Fier, water and water sanitation to about 2.5 million people in 2,500 vil- Lezhe and Saranda, and provide technical assistance to strength- lages. Partner organizations would help create community- en local water and sewerage networks. Project preparation is un- based organizations that would be actively involved in the plan- der way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 25.0 ning, design and implementation of the schemes with private (IDA). Consultants have been selected. Ministry of Construc- sector support. The project would adopt policies, criteria and tion and Tourism, Skenderbej Square, Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355- procedures developed during the Community Water Supply and 42) 28345, Fax: (355-42) 27879 Sanitation Project (Credit 2442-CE) and introduce enabling re- forms for further private sector participation. Project prepara- Armenia tion is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 60.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required during identification. Government of Sri Lanka, Community Water Supply Project Agriculture Unit, Ministry of Housing and Development, 9th Floor, Sethsiri- paya, Sri Jayewardenepura, Kottes, PO Box 30, Battaramulla, Co- Dam Safety. The objectives of the project are to (a) improve the lombo, Sri Lanka, Tel: (94-1) 872144, Fax: (94-1) 872143, critical aspects (stability of dam bodies, spillway capacities, leak- Contact: Mr. W. Piyasena, Director age, crest settlement) of the most dangerous irrigation dams; (b) reestablish efficient operations and maintenance capability for dams; and (c) establish an early warning system in the event of dam failure. Approved by the Executive Directors on 24 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Europe and AMPE64879. US$ 26.6 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- mined. Ministry of Agriculture, 13 Vardanants St., Yerevan, Ar- Central Asia Region menia 375010, Tel: (374-2) 555-196, Fax: (374-2) 151-829, Contact Mr. Adibek Kazarian, Project Manager Albania Private Sector Development Private Sector Development: The project would focus on ac- Agriculture celerating enterprise privatization, provide post-privatization as- sistance to the enterprise sector and promote an increase in (R) Irrigation and Drainage (Cr. 3232-ALB): The aim of the foreign direct investment. Project is being identified. AJapanese project is to establish a sustainable irrigation and drainage sub- PHRD grant has been approved for project preparation. Environ- sector by (a) completing the rehabilitation of physical infrastruc- mental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 20.6 (IDA). ture; and (b) introducing comprehensive water resource Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance and management in rural areas. Approved by the Executive Direc- Economy, Government House-1, Republic Square, 375010,Yere- PAGE42 MonthlyOperational Summary 1999 SEPTEMBER van, Armenia, Tel: (374-2) 523-471,503-113,Fax: (374-2) 151-736, Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants have E-mail: BAGRAT@FFPMC.AM,Contact: Bagrat Yengibarian been selected. Implementing agency is to be determined. Transport Bosniaand Herzegovina Transport/Trade: The project will include highway rehabilita- tion and restructuring and repair of railways. Project preparation Education/ITraining is under way. Cofinancing of US$ 30.0 million is expected from OECE Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 Education Development The project will improve the quality (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of of education in the classroom, while improving the efficiency of Transport, Zaijan 10,375015, Yerevan, Armenia, Tel: (374-2) 563- public resource management in education. The project objec- 391, Contact: Mr. Eduard Karapetyan, Department of Invest- tives include establishing (a) a state-wide Bosnia and Herzegov- ment and Construction ina Standards and Assessment Agency to set and monitor the achievement of professional standards; (b) a Professional Devel- Azerbaijan opment Fund to empower schools to contract for training of teachers and school directors and to build teacher development Agriculture capacity in Faculties and Pedagogical Institutes; (c) education management information systems in the Cantons and Republika (R) Irrigation I: The project will support the rehabilitation of Srpska and reforming budgeting and monitoring mechanisms; major irrigation and drainage infrastructure. Project is being and provisionally (d) a fund to promote university consolidation identified. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 and institution in higher education. Preappraisal is scheduled for (IDA). Selection of consultants for project preparation is under September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ way. State Irrigation Committee, V Floor, Government Bldg., 10.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required to support preparation Prospekt Azaldique, Baku, Azerbaijan, Tel: (994-12) 936-154, of standards and assessments, teaching training, education man- Fax: (994-12) 931-176,Contact: Mr. Ahmed J. Ahmedzade, Chair- agement information systems, education finance and higher ed- man ucation reform. Federation Ministry of Education, Skemderija Agricultural Development (Cr. 3236-AZ): The project will 24/V, 7100 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-71)210- establish (a) an interim, short-term agricultural lending scheme; 557, Fax: (387-71) 665-261,Contact: Mrs. Azra Jaganjac, Feder- and (b) a new privately funded and operated rural agricultural fi- ation PIU Director; Republika Srpska Ministry of Education, nance system. The project includes (a) financial intermediary Vuka Karadzica 1,78000 Banja Luka, Tel: (387-58) 18-416,Fax: lending to farmers; (b) a policy and institutional reform compo- (387-58) 18-417,Contact: Mr. Zdravko Marjanovic, PIU Director nent; and (c) a technical assistance component for institution building and project implementation. Approved by the Executive Directors on 8 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category Finance B. PID: AZPE35813. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be Enterprise and Bank Privatization (Cr. 3262-BOS): The determined. Ministry of Agriculture and Food, c/o Project Man- project wi support the design and implementation of (a) priva- agement Unit (PMU), 40 V. Hajibekov St., Government House, tizatio oll eneprises (b) and tankin lestuturin of Room 807, Baku 370016, Azerbaijan, Tel: (99-412) 934-693, Fax: tization of all enterprises and (b) restructuting of the banking (99-412) 981-395, Contact: Mr. Vagif Husseynov, Director, PMU system with a view to privatize all solvent banks, liquidate insol- vent banks and adopt confidence-building measures and Structural Adjustment strengthen institutions within the banking system. It will encom- pass both entities (the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Structural Adjustment Credit II: The project will support the and Republika Srpska). Approved by the Executive Directors on establishment of the capacity for macroeconomic management, 24 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: including policy formulation, screening, appraisal and monitor- BAPE48461. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consultants have been selected. ing of public investment proposals, budgeting and medium-term Ministry of Finance of Republika Srpska, Vuka Karadzica 4, Ban- expenditure framework, fiscal transparency and accountability, ja Luka, Republika Srpska, Tel: (381-78) 18365, Fax: (381-78) civil service and administrative reform, as well as legal and judi- 49611, Contact Ms. Gordana Duvinovic; Ministry of Finance, cial reform. Project preparation is underway. Environmental As- Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-71-203-153), sessment Category U. US$ 70.0 (IDA). A Japanese grant has Fax:ati87f71 sma3n152zeovia,acl:(37-7-2o-13) been obtained to support the preparation of the public sector re- Fax: (387-71-203-152), Contact: Pero Bosnic form program. President's Office, Baku, Azerbaijan, Contact: RaminMekhtiev, Chief of Staff Private Sector Development Enterprise Export Facility-BEEF (Cr. 3257-BOS): The Belarus project will support an increase in exports by (a) financing work- ing capital loans to enterprises engaged in export activity; (b) es- Power tablishing a performance bond support facility; and (c) Social Sector Energy Efficiency:The project will focus on de- providing technical assistance for strengthening the implement- mand-side energy efficiency improvement in schools and hospi- ing agency (Investment Guarantee Agency) and exporters. Ap- tals. The project components include (a) basic, fast payback proved by the Executive Directors on 24 June 1999. energy saving measures in selected schools and hospitals, in- Environmental Assessment Category FI. PID: BAPE62936.US$ cluding building envelope and heating system improvements 12.0 (IDA). Retroactive financing of up to US$ 200,000 for the and (b) electrical system and equipment improvements. The technical assistance component. Investment Guarantee Agency, project would also support energy efficiency rehabilitation in ap- No. 1 Fra Audjela Zvizdavica St., 2nd floor, 71000 Sarajevo, Bos- proximately 100 schools and hospitals through sub-loans to mu- nia and Herzegovina, Fax: (3877) 202-231, Contact: Ms. Lamija nicipalities. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Kozaric, General Director SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE 43 Bulgaria PublicSector Management Cadastre/Land Registration: The objectives of the project are Education/Training to (a) provide security for recently restored real estate owner- ship rights; and (b) establish simple and cost-effective proce- (R) Education Sector Reform: The project will focus on re- dures for real estate transactions. Project preparation is under form in specific areas of the education sector, including, curric- way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). ulum, textbooks, teacher training, cost effectiveness, Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, 102 assessment and facilities upgrading. Project is being identified. Rakovski St., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, Tel: (359-2) 869-355, Fax: Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Con- (359-2)801-148 sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education and Science, 21 Naria Louiiza St., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, Tel: (359-2) Structural Adjustment 987-9429, Fax: (359-2) 987-9618 (R) Financial and Enterprise Sector Adjustment II: The Environment loan will support structural reforms in the enterprise and finan- cial sector through privatization of state-owned enterprises, Environmental Remedies and Private Support This is a fol- banking reform, energy sector restructuring and capital market low-up project to the Environmental Remediation Pilot Project development. Project preparation is under way. Environmental (Ln. 4321-BUL).The project will (a) assist the government in ful- Assessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services filling its obligations in respect to past environmental liabilities are required. Council for Structural Reform, I Dondoukov Blvd., of large public enterprises; (b) facilitate the privatization of large Sofia, Bulgaria, Contact: Mr Mladen Georgiev, Senior Adviser industrial polluters by reducing risks of environmental liabilities; Tel: (359-2) 981-4459, Fax: (359-2) 980-7707 (c) mitigate environmental liabilities; and (d) mitigate environ- (R) Financial and Enterprise Sector Adjustment Loan III: mental risks caused by past operations. Project preparation is This project will support the completion of the government's under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- current Financial and Enterprise Sector Adjustment Program mined. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required Ministry and set the stage for the next generation of reforms. Project is of Environment and Waters, 67 William Gladstone St., Sofia being identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be de- 1000, Bulgaria, Tel: (359-2) 88 25 77, Fax: (359-2) 80 32 24, Con- termined. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- tact: Marin Marinov, Deputy Minister mined. Council for Structural Reform, 1 Dondoukov Blvd., Sofia, Bulgaria, Contact: Mr Miaden Georgiev, Senior Adviser, Tel: Finance (359-2) 981-4459, Fax: (359-2) 980-7707 Partial Risk Guarantee: The objective of the operation is to in- WaterSupply/Sanittion crease the flow of private financing for viable production activity by providing political risk guarantees to foreign business and fi- Irrigation Restructuring: The project will improve irrigation nancial institutions who lack financial exposure in Bulgaria. systems utilization and management, mainly through the trans- Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment fer of management and investment responsibility to users' orga- Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- nizations and assisting them in improving related irrigation mined. Implementing agency is to be determined. system deficiencies on the basis of acceptable cost-sharing. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Population, HealthandNutrition Category B. PID: BGPA8311. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting ser- vices to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Health Insurance: The project will begin to address institution- Agrarian Reform, 55 Christo Botev Blvd., 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria, al and efficiency quality issues which must accompany the intro- Tel: (359-2) 980-1862, Fax: (359-2) 853-2626, Contact: Mr. An- duction of health insurance. It would also help define the dreev Kalin, Head of Irrigation Policy Unit, Plant Production De- appropriate balance between the public and private sector in the partment provision of financing health care services. Project is being iden- tified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Central Asia Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health, 5 Sve- ta Nedelya Square, 2000 Sofia, Bulgaria, Tel: (359-2) 80-00-16, Fax: (359-2) 80-00-16. Enwronment Central Asia Trans-boundary Biodiversity: The project will Power focus on (a) protection of mountain ecosystems, critical biodi- versity and vulnerable habitat; and (b) strengthening of existing District Heating II: The project will assist with the rehabilita- protected areas and reinforcement of national biodiversity strat- tion of the Rousse, Bourgas, Pleven, Plovdiv and Kazanlak heat- egies. Approved by the Executive Directors on 22 June 1999.En- ing systems. Project is being identified. Environmental vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 10.15 (GEF). Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Con- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Ecology of sulting services to be determined. Committee of Energy, 8 Tria- the Kyrgyz Republic; Ministry of Ecology and Bio-resources of ditza St., 1040, Sofia, Bulgaria, Fax: (359-2)875-826, Contact: Mr. the Republic of Kazakhstan; State Committee for Nature Protec- Drumi Drumev, Vice President tion of the Republic of Uzbekistan District Heating: The project will assist with the rehabilitation of the heating systems in Sofia and Pernik. Project preparation Croatia is under way. Cofinancing will be required. Environmental As- sessment Category B. PID: BGPE8314. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Con- Population, Health and Nutrition sulting services to be determined. Committee of Energy, 8 Triaditza St., 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria, Fax: (359-2) 875-826, Contact: (R) Health II: The project will reinforce the progress made un- Mr. Drumi Drumev, Vice President der the Health I project and will support an extension of the gov- PAGE44 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 ernment's medium-term reform agenda for the health sector. Georgia Negotiations completed. Board presentation is tentatively sched- uled for mid-September 1999.Environmental Assessment Catego- EducationlTraining ry B. PID: HRPE51273. US$ 29.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required. Ministry of Health, Project Implementation Education I: The project will support the government's realign- Unit, Baruna Trenka 6, Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: (385-1) 459-1333, ment and strengthening program in the education sector. Fax: (385-1) 431-067 Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- mined. Ministry of Education, 52 Uznadze St., Tblisi, Georgia, PublicSector Management Tel: (995-32) 958-886, Fax: (995-32) 770-073 Pension System Investment. The project will help finance in- vestments required to support the reform of the pension system. Environment The reforms are intended to restructure the current pay-as-you- Biodiversity Conservation: The project will support imple- go pension tier while adding both mandatory and voluntary mentation of the Georgian National Park Planning program. funded tiers to the pension system. The project is likely to in- Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment clude (a) a broad range of technical assistance and training; (b) Category to be determined. US$ 9.6 (GEF). Consulting services support for the strengthening or creation of organizations to to be determined. Ministry of Environment, 68A Kostava St., Tb- plan, implement, administer, regulate or supervise the reformed lisi, Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 334-853, Fax: (995-32) 983-425, Con- system, especially the second and third pillars; and (c) prepara- tact: Nini Chkhobadze tion of public information programs concerning the reforms. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Transport Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- Transport Sector Reform: The project will include (a) high- mined. Implementing agency is to be determined. priority investments; and (b) restructuring and institutional re- form measures including enhancing commercial management Structural Adjustment and cost recovery, strengthening of the private sector and im- proving competition and market determined prices. The project Public Sector Adjustment: The project will support the gov- will cover technical services, roads, rail and ports. Project prep- ernment in implementing fundamental reforms in the pension aration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. system, including the development and introduction of a funded PID: GEPE40556. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be de- second pillar. Project preparation is under way. Environmental termined. Transport Reform and Rehabilitation Center, 12 Ka- Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be zbegi Ave., Tblisi, Georgia, Tel: (99-532)986-385,Fax: (732) 888- required. Ministry of Finance, Katanciceva 5, 41000 Zagreb, 9688 ext. 147, Contact: Mr. George Tsagareli, Director Croatia, Tel: (385-1) 433-446, Fax: (385-1) 432-789 Water Supply/Sanitation Urban Development Tbilisi Water Supply: This project is a follow-up to a municipal Kastela Bay Cultural Heritage: The loan will support the re- infrastructure rehabilitation project, and will focus primarily on habilitation of Diocletian's Palace, a museum and other rehabil- further rehabilitation and upgrading of municipal services in wa- itation investments in Trogir and Solin. Appraisal is completed. ter supply and wastewater in Tbilisi. Project preparation is under EnvironmentalvAssessments m Categorylm.APID l ISRPE57255. US$ way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: GEPE49171. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: HRPE57255. US$ US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Tbilisi 18.3 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. The Agency Water and Sanitation Utility (Tbilkalcanal) and Thilisi Water Util- for the Historic Core, 21000 Split, Croatia, Fax: (385-21) 345-300; ity Development Bureau CIWUDB), 33, 1st Lane, Kostava St., The Regional Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments, Tbilisi, Georgia, Tel: (995-32) 94-21-84,Fax: (995-32) 98-26-07, Split, Croatia, Fax: (385-21) 345-710 Contact: Mr. Sergo Lomtatidze, Director Estonia Hungary Transport Environment Transport: The project will support (a) the upgrade of the Szekesfehevar Biomass: The project aims to improve the glo- Tallinn-Tartu highway; (b) construction of the Narva bypass and bal and Hungarian environment by reducing harmful emissions new border facilites in Estonia, coordinated with a correspond- through system modernization (network and CHPS) energy ing project in Russia; (c) implementation of a second safety pro- conservation and use of biomass energy (reduction of green- gram; (d) introduction mtouhno mrvdra road user of improved charges srcagscovenng house systems.gasProject and other emissions) preparathon is at to four three way. under city district heat Environmental As- the cost of network access and use; (e) institutional strengthen- yses. pto pProjery iner y way. EF). As- sessment Category to be determined. US$ 6.0 (GEF). Consult- ing of the Estonia Road Administration; and (f) development of a ing services to be determined. Ministry of Industry and Trade, trade and transport facilitation strategy. Project preparation is Vigado Utca 6, 1051 Budapest, Hungary, Tel: (36-1) 118-5415, under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Fax: (36-1) 118-4452,Contact: Mr. Kalman Gergely, Ministry of EEPE35775. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be pro- Industry and Trade vided under PHRD funding. Consulting services are required Szombathely Biomass: The project will support the develop- for feasibility studies, design, and institutional support. Imple- ment of an environmentally friendly and cleaner new source of menting agency for civil works: Estonia Road Administration, 24 energy through (a) an assessment of the biomass potential of Paernv Rd., EE 001, Tallinn, Estonia, Tel: (372-6) 442-381, Fax: the country; and (b) an investment operation. Project prepara- (372-6) 313-112,Contact: Aleksander Kaldas, Technical Director tion is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be de- 1999 SEPTEMBER Summary MonthlyOperational 45 PAGE termined. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Resources,Ministryof Agriculture,Almaty,Kazakhstan, Tel: (7- determined. Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vigado Utca 6, 3272)623-3 623-983; 10, Fax: (7-3272) State Committeefor Water 1051Budapest, Hungary, Tel: (36-1)118-5415, Fax: (36-1)118- Resources,28AMazhayevsky St.,Astana,Kazakhstan,Tel/Fax: 4452, Contact: Mr. Kalman Gergely,Ministry of Industry and (7-3172)241-428, Contact: Mr. Serikbay Smailov,Director; Trade AtyrauDevelopmentCorporation,45Aiteke bi St.,Atyrau,Kaza- khstan, Tel: (7-3122)254-058,Fax: (7-3122) Contact:Mr. 254-056, Water Supply/Sanitation Gabit Mynbaev, Director (R) MunicipalWastewater:The project willconsist of (a) the KyzlOrda Water Supply Project Supplemental Loan:The first phase of a nationalmunicipalsewagetreatment programfor project includes four components (a) water supply: (b) sanita- Hungary's 23largest cities (including Budapest,Szekesfehervar tion; (c) hygiene educationand publicawareness;and (d) capac- and Dunajuvaros)and (b) technicalassistancefocusingon priva- ity building. Project preparation is under way. Cofinancingof tization,water quality management, sector issues and commer- US$ 15.0 million by KfWis proposed. EnvironmentalAssess- cial operations. Board presentation is tentativelyscheduledfor ment Category B. US$ 7.8 (IBRD).Consultants have been se- early September 1999. Cofinancingof US$18.0millionis expect- lect Category B. U$ ReDources Ministry of ed from the EU. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID lected. State Committee for Water Resources, Ministry of HUPA08497. US$30.0 (IBRD). Consultantshave been selected Agriculture,Almaty,Kazakhstan,Tel: (7-3272) 622-310,Fax: (7- for project preparation, design and supervision.Municipalityof 3272) 623-983;State Committee for Water Resources, 28A Dunajuvaros, 24000 Dunajuvaros,Varoshaza ter. 1, Hungary, MazhayevskySt., Astana, Kazakhstan,Tel/Fax: (7-3172)241- Tel: (36-25)411-407,Fax: (36-25)410-404,Contact: Mr. Gal 428, Contact:Mr. SerikbaySmailov, Director Zoltan, Director of Municipal Development; Municipality of Syr Darya Control and Northern Aral Sea: The projectwill Budapest, 1364Budapest 4, PO Box 1, H-1052,Hungary, Tel: allowmore water to be passed downto the delta and the North- (36-1)117-6310, Fax: (36-1)327-1811,Contact: Mr. AttilaPocs, alwmr ae ob asddw otedlaadteNrh Head of PIU ern Aral see to benefit the environment,agriculture, livestock and fisheries. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: KZPA46045. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Kazakhstan Consultants will be required. State Committee for Water Re- sources, Ministry of Agriculture, Almaty,Kazakhstan,Tel: (7- Finance 3272)622-310, Fax: (7-3272)623-983; State Committeefor Water (R) Partial Risk Guarantee:A partial risk guarantee facility Resources, 28AMazhayevsky St.,Astana,Kazakhstan,Tel/Fax: will be established to issue guarantees against politicalrisk to (7-3172) 241-428,Contact:Mr. SerikbaySmailov, Director private investors. Projectis being identified.EnvironmentalAs- sessment Category to be determined. US$50.0 (IDA).Consult- Kyrgyzstan ing services to be determined.Agencyfor Foreign Investments in Kazakhstan,10 BeibitshilikSt., Astana,Kazakhstan,Contact: Mr.AnwarSaidenor,Chairman Finance RuralFinance II (Cr. 3259-KG): The projectwill establishfi- Power nancial services in rural areas. The project will (a) provide a Electricity Transmission Rehabilitation:The project will in- credit fund to private farmers and processing enterprises; (b) clude (a) substation refurbishmentincludingthe replacementof support and strengthen financialinstitutions;and (c) strengthen high-voltageequipment (circuitbreakers, disconnectingswitch- the institutionallegal frameworkto establish a more flexiblecol- es and measurement transformers, etc.) at 30substations and re- lateralsystem, developcooperativesand expeditethe creation of placementofprotectiverelayingat 63 substations;(b) upgrading land markets.The projectwillinvolvethe KyrgyzAgricultureFi- of dispatch through installationof SCADA/EMS, reinforcement nance Corporation (KAFC)and other commercialbanks and of the telecommunicationssystem and commercial meters; (c) credit unions.Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 24 June institutionalstrengthening through introductionof management 1999.EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). informationsystems; and (d) technicalassistanceto improvethe Consultingservices to be determined. KyrgyzAgriculturalFi- Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company's capabilityto nance Corporation,60 Tagolok Mldo St., Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, undertake managerialand operationalimprovementsand to pro- Tel: (996-3312) 211-534, 620-664, Fax: (996-3312) Contact:Ms.B. videengineering services and trainingunder the project.Project Jeenbaeva preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 140.0 (IBRD).Consulting services will be required for project preparation and implementation.KazakhstanElectricity Latvia Grid Operating Company, 162 zh, Shevchenko St., Almaty, 480008,Kazakhstan,Tel: (3-272) 686-200, Fax: (3-272) 684-308, Education/Training Contact:Mr. Etik Ulfikh, Director Education Improvement (Ln. 4463-LV): The objectiveof WaterSupply/Sanitation the projectis to improvethe cost-efficiency ofeducationservices .. ) Atyrau (R? Atyrau Municipal Rehabilitation Municipal (ln. Rehabilitation (Ln. 4486-KZ):he 4486-K(Z):The through (a) improved space efficiency; resource including utilization, energyand and (b) buildingand strengtheningeducational objective of the project is to encourage economic growth in . e Atyrau by improving the water supply, sewage disposal and achievement and institutionalcapacity to assess and promote drainage system with possiblereuse of treated effluenton farm qualitylearning in basic and secondary education.Approvedby land and in oil production.Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors the ExecutiveDirectors on 6 May 1999.Environmental Assess- on 8 June 1999.Cofinancingof US$ 1.5millionis expected from ment Category C. PID:LVPE49172. US$31.1 (IBRD). Consult- USAID. Loan was signed on 3 August 1999. EnvironmentalAs- ing services to be determined. Ministry of Education and sessment Category B. PID: KZPE8500. US$ 16.5 (IBRD).Con- Science,2 ValnuSt. LV1098,Riga, Latvia, Tel: (371-7)224-512, sulting services to be determined. State Committee for Water Fax: (371-7) 212-005, Contact:GatisKristaps PAGE 46 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 Power Public Administration, Reforms, Gedimino Ave., 11, LT 2039, ... RigaDist.t HeatngRhablitaion:Vilnius,Lithuania, Tel: (370-2) 235-249, Fax: (370-2) 233-626, (R) Riga District HeabingRehabilitation:The projectwould Conact Arya Bagdonviciu (a) support the rehabilitation of the district heating system in Contact: Arvydas Bagdonavicius Riga to improve reliability and service level and (b) support the development of the heating company. Appraisal report is being Poland prepared. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: LVPE8530.US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been selected for Environment project preparation. Rigas Siltums, CESU lela 3, Riga, Latvia 1012, Tel: (371-7) 017-300,Fax: (371-7) 017-363,Contact: Mr. Zig- (R) Rural Environment Protection: The project will provide urs technical assistance and investment to (a) introduce sustainable agricultural practices and (b) build water and sanitation infra- Public Sector Management structure to reduce nutrients flowing into rivers that drain into the Baltic Sea. Boardpresentation is tentatively scheduledfor early Local Government Management Finance: The project will October 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: provide investment support to various municipalities and im- PLPE50660. US$ 2.5/3.0 (IBRD/GEF). Consulting services to prove the system of local government budgeting and investment bEdermn. Ntn Fund foRDEnvironment Proteto planning. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- be determaed. Nag onal F,undfor Environmental Protecs on and sessment Category U. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to Water Management, 02-673, Warsaw, Konstruktorska 3A, Po- be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. Rand,Tel (48-22) 49-00-80, Ext. 521, Contact: Ryszard Jacek Rogowski, M.Sc. Lithuania Renewable Energy/Geothermal: The project will help devel- op geothermal energy as a resource for district heating systems Population, Health and Nutrition and reduce local air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. Project preparation is under way. Cofinancing is being sought. Health: The project will include health care financing, primary Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: PLPA37339.US$ health care and hospital restructuring. Project preparation is un- 32.6 (IBRD). No consultants are required. Geotermia Podhalan- der way. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: ska, Olcza, Stachonie 2A, 30-502,Zakopane, Poland, Tel: (48-18) LTPA35780. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. 2015-041,Fax: (48-18)2015-044 Ministry of Health, Gedimino Dr. 27, 2682 Vilnius, Lithuania, Tel: (370-2) 620-150, Fax: (370-2) 224-601, Contact: Mr. Kostas Power Vilimas (R) Krakow Energy Efficiency: The project will improve ener- Power gy efficiency and reduce emission of atmospheric pollutants in the Krakow region by (a) continuing the implementation by the local (R) Vilnius District Heat: The project will include rehabilita- municipal district heating utility (MPEC Krakow) of the optimiza- tion of the Vilnius and Klapeida district heating systems and sup- tion program for the district heating network in Krakow; (b) help- port for the commercialization and strengthening of the two ing heat consumers decrease their heat consumption by district heating companies. Project preparation is under way. En- improving the energy efficiency of their buildings and heating in- vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IBRD).The fea- stallations; and (c) developing in Krakow the knowledge and sibility study being conducted in Vilnius is being financed by the mechanisms necessary for financiers to fund energy retrofit Government of Sweden. The municipality of Klapeida is still con- projects so that the energy markets price signals can motivate en- sidering financing options for the feasibility studies. Vilnius Mu- ergy efficiency. Under the proposed project, MPEC Krakow nicipality, Gedimino Ave. 9, 2600 Vilnius, Lithuania, Tel: (370-2) would establish a subsidiary company tentatively called the 626-136, Fax: (370-2) 225-615, Contact: Mr. Vladimiris Kakura, MPEC Energy Service Company (MPEC-ESCO).t is company Adviser to the Mayor, E-mail: Vkakura@vilnius.savlt would (a) develop and implement energy efficiency investments at the end-user (consumer) level for heating and other energy Transport uses as appropriate; (b) arrange financing through local commer- Klaipeda Port: The project will include the reconstruction of cial banks, supported initially by the World Bank; and (c) assume breakwaters, realignment of the enteric channel and deepening all project performance risks associated with these investments of selected berths. Project preparation is under way. Bilateral co- for the consumers. Project preparation is underway. Environmen- financing of US$ 10.0 million is proposed. Environmental As- tal Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting servic- sessment Category A. US$ 28.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to es for preparation have been required. Municipal District Heating be determined. Klaipeda State Seaport Authority, J. Janonio 24, Enterprise of Krakow (MPEC Krakow SA), Al. Jana Pawla II 188, LT5800, Klaipeda, Lithuania, Tel: (370-6) 39-32-49,Fax: (370-6) 30-969Krakow, Poland, Tel: (48-12)644-18-22,Fax: (48-12)644-55- 31-17-00,25-71-70,Contact: Mr. Vytautas Kaunas, Manager 10, Contact: Mr Marek Jaglarz, President, E-mail: Wzyg- munt@Mpec.Krakow.Pl, E-mail:Jmiechow@Mpec.Bci.Krakow.Pl UrbanDevelopment Hard Coal Sector Adjustment (Ln. 4490-POL): The prima- Municipal Development (Ln. 4481-LT): The project will in- ry objective of the adjustment loan is to support the govern- clude (a) a municipal investment component to finance priority ment's Hard Coal Sector Restructuring Program, particularly municipal infrastructure investments in selected municipalities; the labor force rationalization. Approved by the Executive Direc- (b) a local capacity-building component to organize technical as- tors on 10 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. sistance to municipalities; and (c) a technical assistance compo- US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required for sec- nent for policy development and project implementation. tor privatization assessment, sector environmental assessment Approved by the Executive Directors on 27 May 1999. Bilateral and auditing of program's cash flows. Inter-Ministerial Coal cofinancing of US$ 6.0 million is proposed. Environmental As- Steering Committee Chaired by the Ministry of Economy, Plac sessment Category B. PID: LTPA35802.US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Con- Trzech Krzyzy 5, 00-950 Warsaw, Poland, Tel: (48-22) 628-1887, sultants have been selected for project preparation. Ministry of Fax: (48-22) 628-6808,Contact: Mr. Szlazak SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE47 PublicSector Management getary framework. Project preparation is under way. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 10.0 (IDA).Consulting Pension Reform: The project will help the social security ad- services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be deter- ministration implement pension reform. Project preparation is mined. under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Zaklad Ubez- Power pieczen Spolecznych (ZUS), ul. Czerniakowska 16, 00-701,War- saw, Poland, Tel: (48-22) 623-3201, Fax: (48-22) 640-3495, Energy II: The project will support the demonopolization and Contact: Mr. Stanislaw Alot, President, ZUS privatization program for the power sector, including (a) upgrad- ing of power system control and data acquisition facilities; (b) Rural Development commercial metering equipment; (c) upgrading of electrical substations; and (d) technical assistance for institutional reform. Rural Development: The objective of the project is to alleviate Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category rural poverty through the creation of new employment-generat- to be determined. US$ 15.0 (IDA).Consulting services to be de- ing economic activities. Project preparation is under way. Envi- termined. Department of Energy and Energy Resources, 50 M. ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Eminescu St., Chisinau 277012, Republic of Moldova, Fax: (373- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture 2) 22-22-64,Contact: Mr. Anatol Gonciar, Director General and Food Economy, ul. Wspolna 30,00-930, Warsaw, Poland, Tel: (48-22) 621-8711,623-1157,Fax: (48-28) 623-2206,Contact: Dep- Romania uty Minister Henryk Wujec; Ministry of Education, Al. J. Ch. Szucha 25, 00-918 Warsaw, Poland, Tel: (48-22) 629-7241, 628- 0461, Fax: (48-22) 628-6953, Deputy Minister Karwacki; Minis- Agriculture try of Finance, ul. Ewietokrzyska 12, 00-916Warsaw, Tel: (48-22) (R) AgriculturalSupport Services: The project will (a) pro- 694-5555,Fax: (48-22) 826-6352, Deputy Minister K. Ners; Min- -") t ic it for a strategic renew of agricultural o Inerir, 79, 2-91 isty l.Baloreo arsw, oladSTepi- support services; (b) develop a competitive research grant fund (48-22) 621-0251, Fax: (48-22) 628-9983, Deputy Minister Stepi to support applied research on priority problems of private farm- en; Ministry of Labor, ul. Nowogrodzka 1/3/5, 00-513 Warsaw, es n c upr noaie fo ntaie ots lentv Poland, Tel: (48-22) 621-8550, Fax: (48-22) 661-0159, Deputy ers; and (c) support ini ryiservices for pnvate farmersn v pdilo Minister Grazyna Gesicka; Ministry of Economy, Polish Founda- Proachesfranizing ay Ervicestfo Atefamers Sml an don~~~~~ fo Meiu Eneprs Prmto,adDv Project preparation Is under way. Environmental Assessment tion for Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion and Develop- Category C. PID: ROPA43882. US$ 11.0 (IBRD). Consultants ment, Al. Jerozolimske 125/127, 02-017 Warsaw, Poland, Tel. 48- will be required. Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Directorate 22-699-7044or 45, Fax. 48-22-699-7046,Director General, Krysty- of Research, Education and Extension, 24 Blvd. Carol I, Buchar- na Gurbiel, Email: zarzad@msp.org.pl est, Romania, Tel/Fax: (40-1) 614-5340, Contact: Mr. Gheorghe Transport Sin, Director General Grain Market Export The project will support improvements Ports Modernization II: The loan will support (a) rehabilita- in the flow of grain to and from Romania and neighboring coun- tion of port infrastructure for general cargo in Gdynia; (b) basic tries. The project includes (a) infrastructure improvements in infrastructure for the first development phase of a ferry terminal selected Danube ports; (b) construction of a 100,000 ton capaci- in Gdynia; (c) breakwater extension in Gdansk; and (d) physical ty grain silo; (c) improvement of marketing, quality control and rehabilitation of the Szczecin-Swinoujcie Fairway. Project prepa- associated services; and (d) possible provision of foreign ex- ration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category A. change for export working capital. IFC Agrobusiness has ex- PID: PLPE8615. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be de- pressed an interest in financing the grain silo. Project termined. Component A. Ministry of Transport and Maritime preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category Economy (MTME), ul. Chalubinskiego 4/6, 00-928 Warsaw, Po- B. PID: ROPA8790. US$ 47.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be land, Tel: (48-22) 628-64-38,Fax: (48-22) 830-09-47,Contact: Mr. determined. Ministry of Transport, B-dul Dinicu Golescu No. Andrzej Gdula, Director, Components B-D: Department of Ship- 38, Bucharest, Romania, Tel: (40-1) 222-3636, Fax: (40-1) 312- ping and Seaports; Port Authority of Gdansk, Tel: (48-58) 43-92- 0772, Contact: Ms. Liliana Barna, Director International Rela- 00, Fax: (48-58) 43-93-08, Contact: Mr. Byczkowski, President; tions, Tel: (40-1) 638-3584 Port Authority of Gdynia, Tel: (48-58) 20-91-86,Fax: (48-58) 21- 69-16, Contact: Mr. Jerzy Czartowski, President/Managing Di- Environment rector; Port Authority of Szczecin-Swinoujcie, Tel: (48-91) 34-41- 12, Fax: (48-91) 33-37-42,Contact: Mr. Michal D. Popik, General Biodiversity- The project will focus on developing Romania's Director national parks system in forest ecosystems. It will seek to devel- op systems of working with local communities in preparation and implementation of management plans, taking selected pro- Republicof Moldova tected areas and managed natural forests as models. It will also coordinate with conservation of carpathian ecosystems in adja- Population, Health and Nutrition cent countries and expand Romania's system of national parks and protected areas. Approved by the Executive Directors on 27 (N) Health Reform: The main objectives of the project are to May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.5 improve the health status of the population and to guarantee the (GEF). Consultants will be required Ministry of Waters, Forests long-term fiscal sustainability of the health system. The project and Environment, 12 Libertatii Blvd., 5 Bucharest, Romania. would focus on (a) physical restructuring of the health care de- Fax: (40-1) 411-14-36,Contacts: Mr. loan Seceleanu, Secretary of livery system and the consolidation of health facilities; (b) State or Mr. Btond Kiss, Secretary of State strengthening primary health care through implementation of a general practitioner system and sound public health and health Population Health and Nutrition promotion practices; and (c) revision of the current incentive system, fostering decentralized decision-making, focus on (R) Health Sector Reform: The project will support the devel- health status, quality and user satisfaction within the given bud- opment of a health sector that is (a) realigned to focus on priority PAGE48 Monthly OperationalSummary 1999 SEPTEMBER health problems, using cost-effective and technically efficient in- RussianFederation terventions; and (b) based on equitable and sustainable financ- ing. It will consist of two phases. Phase one focuses on (a) Agriculture integrated health services including health services planning and development, primary health care upgrading, essential hos- Agricultural Sector Adjustment: The project will support the pital services upgrading, and emergency medical services; and agriculture sector policy reform program and finance imports of (b) public health problems. Phase two will focus on (a) capitali- critical agricultural inputs and/or provide balance of payments zation of a Health Services Development Fund to support nation- support. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment wide implementation of health service management and service Category C. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- wldeImplmenatlo of ealh seucemanaemen an serlce mined. Implementing agency is to be determined. delivery models developed during phase one; and (b) priorty needs for further development in the areas of health finance, Sustainable Forestry Pilot: The project provides for the devel- pharmaceuticals, quality assurance and accreditation. Appraisal opment and testing of reform models in federal and regional for- mission is scheduledfor late October 1999. Environmental Assess- est regulatory framework and sustainable use of forests in three ment Category C. PID: ROPE8797. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consult- pilot regions.Category Assessment Project preparation B. US$ 60.0is under way. (IBRD). Environmental Consulting services ing services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. determined. Industry Power Coal Mining Safety: The project will support the elimination of (R) MiningSector Restructuring:The projectwill support re- unsafe situationsand acts in the workplace.It will (a) introduce structuring of the miningsector and the promotionof privatein- modern and more efficient practices for safety management, vestment in the sector. The project will include assistance in the monitoring and enforcement; (b) incorporate the extensive use development of an appropriate legal and regulatory framework, of protective equipment and controls; (c) modernize the safety restructuring of the mining sector and closure of several uneco- regulatory framework of the coal industry; (d) address the need nomic mines. Board presentation was tentativelyscheduledforAu- to improve the mine rescue services and the increasing inci- gust 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 150.0 dence of occupational diseases. Furthermore, it will include sup- (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Industry and port for technical assistance to enhance safety in current mine 152 Commerce, Bucharest,layouts CaleaVictorieiNo. and designs, and to assess options for methane draw- Commerce, Calea Victoriei No. 152, Bucharest, Romania, Tel: ings/use on the basis of well proven technologies, which will re- (40-1) 650-2183, Fax: (40-1) 312-0513, Contact: Mr. Nicolae Stai- duce dangerous conditions and enhance the economic viability culescu, Secretary of State of some mines. Appraisal mission is tentatively scheduled for the first quarter of fiscal year 2000. Environmental Assessment Cat- Private Sector Development egory C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Refor- mugol, Smolenskiy Blvd. 3/5, 119121, Moscow, Russian Private Institution Building (In. 4491-RO): This project Federation, Tel: (7-095) 915-5887, Contact: Mr. Dmitry Novosy- will support the development of the business environment. It will olov, Executive Director, E-mail: rcoal@reugol.dol.ru include (a) a set of policymeasures to improvethe business en- vironment; (b) support to the development and demand of busi- Population, Health and Nutrition ness advisory services; and (c) creation of special financial investments for the enterprise sector. Approved by the Execu- Health Reform Implementation: The project will help the tive Directors on 10 June 1999. Loan was signed on 17 June 1999. government and the Federal Ministry of Health to develop spe- Environmental US$ Assessment Category C. PID: ROPE39251. cific instruments that will support the health reform process. y o . M These instruments will be tested in two pilot regions. The main 20IDCstgi objectives of the project are to (a) identify a range of concrete Finance, 17 Apolodor St., Bucharest, Romania, Tel: (40-1) 410- measures to improve the cost-effectiveness and quality of health 3400, Fax: (40-1) 312-2077, Contact: Traian Decebal Remes care; and (b) develop the technical, regulatory and institutional framework for reform at the federal and regional levels in order SocialSector to facilitate implementationof these measures countrywide. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Social Sector Development. The project will support reforms Category C. PID: RUPE46497. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting ser- in the social sector including pension reform, social assistance vices will be required. Russian Health Care Foundation, Malays program improvements, local government financial manage- Trubetskaya ul., 12th Floor, Office 8, Moscow 119048, Russian ment and social programs for minority groups. Project is being Federation, Tel: (7-095)257-2665,Fax: (7-095)257-2606,Contact: identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0 Mr. Anatoly Pleshanov (IBRD).Consultingservices to be determined. Ministry of La- bor and SocialProtection,2, Demeru I. Dobrescu St.,Bucharest, Power Romania,Tel: (40-1)615-0200, Fax: (40-1)613-8764 Municipal Heating: The objectiveof the project is to support the government's reform program for housing and communal Structural Adjustment services.The projectwillreduce the financialburden on munic- StructuralAdjustment II: The project will support structural ipalities associated with the supply of heat. Appraisalmission was tentativelyscheduled for September 1999. Environmental reforms in public administraton and public enterprse develop- Assessment Category B. PID: RUPE38551 US$ 300.0 (IBRD). ment. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Consultingservices to be determined. Central Project Develop- Category U. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consultants will not be required. ment Unit, 117331,PB 92, Prospect Vernadskogo 29, Room 2201, Ministry of Finance, 17 Apollodor St., Bucharest, Romania, Tel: Moscow, Russian Federation, Tel: (7-095) 131-6910, 131-6911, 410-3550, (40-1)410-3400, Fax: (40-1)312-1630 410-5025, Contact:Ms. MarinaVelikanova Fax: (7-095)131-6947, 131-6901, SEPTEMBER 1999 Monthly OperationalSummary PAGE49 Public Sector Management Structural Adjustment (R) Regional Fiscal Technical Assistance: The projectwill Regional Fiscal Reform Adjustment: The objective of the include (a) strengthening of federal legislation on intergovern- projectis to acceleratestructural reforms at the subnationallev- mental fiscal relations; (b) strengthening of federal monitoring el, primarilyfocused on the fiscal reform agenda.Project prepa- capacity;(c) regionalreform of accountingand budgetingprac- ration is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. tices; and (d) sectoral publicexpenditurereviews.Boardpresen- US$800.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices will be required. Imple- tation is tentatively scheduled for late November 1999. menting agency is to be determined. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$30.0 (IBRD).Con- sulting services will be required. Bureau of EconomicAnalysis, Transport Maly GnezdnikovskiPereulok, 4, Moscow 103009,Russia,Tel: Moscow UrbanTransport:The objectivesof the project are to (7-502) 937-6750, Fax: (7-502) 937-6753, E-mail: Igrig Move trban Transport opections of the ef- or@beap.dol.ru, Contact:Leonid s M. Grigoriev, SDirector General (a) improve traffic and ~~~~~~~~~~~~ficiency of existing transport traffic operations and transport by increasing facilities; the ef- (b) improve (R) Treasury Development: The project will support a com- utilizationof availableroad-basedpublic transport vehicles; (c) prehensive reform in public expenditure managementsystems, reduce traffic-relatedemissions; (d) improve road safety; and leading to specificmeasurable improvementsin various dimen- (e) assist inimprovingthe institutionalcapacityand efficiencyof sions of public expenditure control and transparency.The im- the agencies to plan and design traffic managementschemes provements will include (a) the control frameworkfor budget and to enforce traffic regulations.The project componentswill execution, (b) the accountingsystem and associated operational be infrastructure,traffic systems management,publictransport procedures and (c) the fiscal reporting systemto providethe in- operations management and metropolitan transport strategy. formationrequired by MOF management.Projectpreparationis Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 200.0 Category B. US$150.0 (IBRD). Consultantswill be required for (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Federal Trea- detailedengineering and for preparation of a strategictransport sury, 9 Iljinka St., Moscow 103097,Russian Federation,Tel: (7- plan. Department for Unique Projects, Moscow City Govern- 095)298-9640, Fax: (7-095)298-0059, Contact:Ms. Tatiana Nest- ment, Prospect Mira 19, Moscow 129090,Russian Federation, erenko, Deputy Ministerof Finance Tel: (7-095) 281-59-55,281-57-27, Fax: (7-095)281-62-55, Contact: Deputy Minister of Finance erenko, Ms. Ekaterina Popova,PIU Director Development of the State Statistical System (Ln. 4468- RU): The project will consist of several subprojects to support WaterSupply/Sanitation (a) improvementin organization,managementstrategy and per- spective planning; (b) fostering knowledge of standards and Water/Sewerage:The projectwill support rehabilitation,insti- methodologies; (c) strengthening of statistical infrastructure; tutionaldevelopment,and selectiveinvestmentsin expansionin (d) reorganizationof data collection,processingand dissemina- water, sewerage, and sanitationservices in selected cities.The tion methods, includingthe systemicintroductionof samplesur- projectwill support institutionalstrengthening of participating veys; (e) improvementof the governmentfinance statisticsand municipalwater and waste water companiesand the rehabilita- the compilationof financialstatistics;(f) improvementof the cov- tion and expansionof water and wastewater services to improve erage and qualityofbalance ofpayments statistics;and (g) estab- service safetyand reliabilityand operationalefficiencyof plants erageandtq of ofy autonomous pfoundation banlautneoms to lishment an systion to support by the the and networks. Assessment Project preparation Category is underUS$ B. PID: RUPA8832. way.150.0 Environmental (IBRD). developmentof the state statisticalsystem.Approvedby the Ex Consultantswillbe required for feasibility studies, designand in- ecutive Directors on 13 May 1999.EnvironmentalAssessment stitutionalsupport. Project Preparation Unit,StroitelySt., Mos- Category C. PID:RUPE50487. US$30.0 (IBRD). Consultingser- cow Russia Tel (7 095) 930-37ax: Unit, 930t9600o vices will be required. State Committee on Statistics (Gosko- Contact:ValeriaSergeeva,Project Manager mstat) and Foundation, 39 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow 103450, RussianFederation,Tel: (7-095)207-4536, Fax:(7-095) 763-3431, 921-8480, Contact:Mr.VladimirL Sokolin,Deputy Chairman Slovakia Social Sector Public Sector Management Northern Out-Migration:The project will include (a) migra- Social Benefits Reform:The projectwill improveimplementa- tion assistanceto peoplevoluntarilyleavingparticipatingNorth- tion capacityfor the new socialinsuranceprogram,includingim- ern settlements; (b) financingof technicalassistance for policy provedcollection of beneficiarycontributionsand policyreforms makers to provide analysisneeded for the developmentof a new designed to contain public outlays on social benefits. Project migrationstrategy and draftingof legislation;and (c) monitoring preparationis under way.Environmental Assessment Category and evaluation.Projectpreparation is under way.Environmental C. US$27.0 (IBRD). Consultingservicesto be determined.Min- Assessment Category C. US$80.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices istry of Labor, SocialAffairs and Family,Spitalska4-6,816 43 willbe required during project preparationto undertake the de- Bratislava,SlovakRepublic, Tel: (42-7)338-1310, 338-1312, Con- sign ofthe migrationassistancescheme and to undertake the so- 29. Augsta, 81363, Brateiselretavya SocialInsuranceAgencylU34 cial assessment. ImplementingagencyiS to be determined. 8301,384-8302, Contact:JUDr.Igor Liptak,Director;NationalLa- Pension Reform Implementation: The project will support bor Office,SlovakRepublic,Contact:DanielaBacikova, Director the government's pension reform programby assisting the Pen- sion Fund in (a) the implementationof the individualaccounts Slovenia initiative;and (b) designing systems for implementingpension reform. Negotiationswere scheduled for August 1999.Environ- mental Assessment Category C. US$ 100.0(IBRD).Consulting Environment services will be required. Pension Fund of the Russian Federa- Real Estate Registration(In. 4498-RO): The projectwillcon- tion, 1 SushevskyVal.,Moscow127018, RussianFederation,Tel: tinue the work carried out on the geographicalinformation sys- (7-095) 972-9205,Fax: (7-095)973-1125 tems (GIS)in the EnvironmentProject (Ln. 4022-SLO). It will PAGE 50 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 enlarge the area for the GIS to a larger part of the country. Total 206-340,Contact: Mr. Stipo Vujevic, Director; Republic Customs project cost is estimated at US$ 20.0 million. Approved by the Ex- Administration, 7 Mladena Stojanovica, Banja Luka, Republika ecutive Directors on 22 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Srpska, Tel: (387-58) 42-009, Fax: (387-58) 44-251, Contact: Mr. Category C. PID: SIPE55304. US$ 15.0 (IBRD).Consulting servic- Dragoljub Trivanovic, Director; General Department for Cus- es to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. toms, Bucharest, Romania, Tel: (40-1) 312-1395,Fax: (40-1) 210- 6577, Contact: Mr. Nini Sapunaru, General Director Population, Health and Nutrition (R) Health Sector Reform and Information Management Tajikistan (formerly Health Sector Reform): Phase one of this adaptable pro- gram loan will include (a) pilot implementation of integrated op- Infrastructure erational and management information systems in three hospitals including the largest teaching and research hospital in Slovenia (N) Rural Infrastructure Rehabilitation: The project would as well as one large and one small district secondary hospitals, (b) be part of the government's programs for encouraging sustain- implementation of the National Health Information Clearing- able increase in agricultural production, raising income levels house, and (c) detailed planning, design, evaluation and manage- and reducing rural poverty. It would complement the farm priva- ment activities. Project preparation is under way. Environmental tization program through (a) rehabilitation of inter-farm irriga- Assessment Category C. US$20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services tion and drainage structures; (b) rehabilitation of village to be determined. Ministry of Health, Stefanova 1, 1000 LIublja- drinking water and electric systems; and (c) strengthening insti- na, Slovenia, Tel: (386-61) 178-6076, Fax: (386-61) 178-6058 tutions to improve water management and rural infrastructure. Contact: Dr Tanja Mate, E-mail: Tanja.Mate@Gov.Si Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- PublicSectorManagement mined. Project Management Unit, No. 46, Rudaki St., Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tel/Fax: (7-3772) 21-13-67,Contact: Mr. Tokhir Oste- Pension Reform: The project will assist the government in its naev, Project Director efforts to reform the pay-as-you-go system and implement a three pillar system. It will take measures to strengthen institu- Population, Health and Nutrition tional capacity of the pension fund, including (a) new payroll tax collection and audit mechanisms; (b) better client services; and Health: The objective of the project is to determine whether a (c) improved revenue/expenditure monitoring and project capa- model of health care delivery based on primary care and per cap- bilities. Project preparation is underway. Environmental Assess- ita resource allocation will improve service delivery and the ment Category C. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). An actuary consultant has quality of care. Project preparation is under way. Environmental been identified. A PHRD grant is approved and the technical Assessment Category C. PID: TJPE49892. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Con- work initiated. Ministry of Finance, Beethovnova 11, 1502 Ljubl- sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health, Dushan- jana, Slovenia, Tel: (386-61) 178-3331,Fax: (386-61) 125-2067,E- be, Tajikistan mail: irena.sodin@mfg.sigov.mail.si, Contact: Irena Sodin, Advi- sor to the Minister RuralDevelopment (R) Rural Infrastructure: The project will be part of the gov- Southeast Europe ernment's program to encourage sustainable increases in agri- cultural production, raise income levels and reduce rural Transport poverty. The project will (a) rehabilitate inter-farm irrigation and drainage structures; (b) pilot sustainable village water and elec- Trade and Transport Facilitation in Southeast Europe: tricity developments; and (c) strengthen institutions to improve The project will include physical improvements of border cross- water management and rural infrastructure. Project is being ings and technical assistance to restructure the customs admin- identified. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 14.95 istration and border crossing posts. The physical improvement (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Irriga- component will include (a) construction/refurbishment of infra- tion and Water Resources, 105 Rudaki St., Dushanbe, Tajikistan, structure and equipment for selected expansions of border Tel: (7-3772) 212-031, 328-705, Contact: Mr. Mubsoyabshob crossing stations; (b) introduction/improvement of MIS sys- Nazriev, Minister tems used to cover the needs of customs, border police, sanitary and veterinary inspection and transport agencies. The technical SocialSector assistance component will include (a) legal amendments; (b) training; and (c) process reengineering required to formulate Poverty Alleviation II: The project will support the expansion and enforce a revised legal framework, reorganize customs and of the microproject and microfinance program carried out by the border inspection posts and implement new procedures and sys- Tajikistan Social Investment Fund. Project preparation is under tems. Project preparation is under way. PID: 7EPE65041. Envi- way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 15.0 (IDA). ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ 31.1/39.1 (IDA/IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Tajikistan Social Invest- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, ment Fund, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tel: (7-3772) 218-753, Con- Deshmoret e Kombit Blvd., Tirana, Albania, Tel: (355-42) 284-05, tact: Jamshed Karimov, Executive Director Fax: (355-42) 284-94, Contact: H.E. Anastas Angjeli, Minister; Ministry of Finance, 14 Dame Gruev St. Skopje, FYR Mace- donia, Tel: (389-91) 116-012, Fax: (389-91) 117-280,Contact: H.E. The former YugoslavRepublic Boris Stojmenov, Minister; Ministry of Finance, 5 Katanciceva of Macedonia St., Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: (385-1) 433-687, Fax: (385-1) 422-414, Contact: H.E. Boris Skegro, Minister; Ministry of Finance, 102 Power Rakovski St., Sofia, Bulgaria, Tel: (359-2) 987-4745, Fax: (359-2) 980-2425, Contact: H.E. Muravei Radev, Minister; Federation Development of Mini-Hydropower Plants: The objectives of Customs Administration, 6 Mula-Mustafe Baseskije, Sarajevo, the project are to (a) reduce the emission of carbon dioxide by Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tel: (387-71) 442-256, Fax: (387-71) substituting hydropower for electricity generated from burning 1999 SEPTEMBER Summary MonthlyOperational 51 PAGE fossil fuels, primarily lignite; and (b) encourage the development Environment of independent small-scale power hydropower plants. The project will help finance about six small hydropower plants Biodiversity: The project will strengthen Turkey's capacity to which will be installed on town water supply pipes and which will manage its system of protected areas and national parks. It will be owned and operated by town utilities. The project has been prepare and implement management plans with local communi- submitted to the GEF Secretariat for approval. Environmental ties and build on the experience gained under the ongoing gene Assessment Category B. US$ 0.8 (GEF). There will be cofinanc- conservation project. Project preparation is under way. Environ- ing in the amount of US$ 2.2 million. Ministry of Economy, Bote mental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (GEF). Consulting ser- Bosevski 9, 91000 Skopje, Macedonia, Fax: (389-91) 111-541, vices to be determined. Ministry of Forestry, General Contact: Magdalena Manuseva, Advisor Directorate of National Parks, Games and Wildlife, Milli Parklar General Mudurlugu, Gazi Tesisleri 11, nolu Bina, Sogutozu, An- Structural Adjustment kara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 213-9281, Fax: (90-312) 222-5140, Contact: Mr. Nejat Ozkan, Deputy Director General (R) Second Financial and Enterprise Sector Adjustinent The objectives of the adjustment operation are to (a) strengthen fi- Finance nancial discipline and corporategovernance in the enterprise sec- tor; (b) promote growth of private enterprises and attract foreign (R) Export Finance Intermediation (In. 4506-RU): The investment; (c) strengthen shareholders' rights; (d) improve legal loan will provide short- and medium-term financing for the pro- framework for the banking system; (e) improve conditions of banks curement of goods, equipment and services by private import- in the system; and C9 improve banking infrastructure by modern- ers. Approved by the Executive Directors on 6 July 1999. Loan izing payments systems. Project preparation is under way. Envi- was signed on 2 August 1999. Environmental Assessment Cate- ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 40.0 (IBRD/IDA). gory FI. US$ 252.5 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required. Consultants have been selected in the areas of private sector de- Turkish Export Import Bank, Mudafaa Caddesi, 20/B Bakan- velopment, capital markets, banking sector reform, tax reform, liklar 06100, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 417-1300, Fax: (90- payments systems and project preparation work. Ministry of Fi- 312) 425-7896, Contact: Mr. Osman Aslan, Assistant General nance, Dame Gruev 14,91000 Skopje, FYR Macedonia, Tel: (389- Manager 91) 117-288, Fax: (389-91) 117-280, E-mail: IFD@UN- ETCOM.MK, Contact: Mr. Boris Stojmenov, Minister of Fi- Private Sector Development nance (R) Industrial Technology (Ln. 4495-TU): The project will Water Supply/Sanitation support (a) strengthening of measurement, standards, testing and quality (MSTQ) and industrial property rights infrastruc- Water Supply and Wastewater: The project will improve the ture; (b) restructuring of the research and development institu- operations of water and wastewater companies in Skopje, Bitola tions; and (c) strengthening of the technological capabilities of and Prilep. In Bitola and Prilep it will finance the completion of industry through financing of research and development the wastewater collection system and build wastewater treat- projects, technoparks, venture capital funds, technical assis- ment plants. Project preparation is under way. Environmental tance and training. Approved by the Executive Directors on 17 Assessment Category A. US$ 16.0/16.0 (lBRD/IDA). During June 1999. Loan was signed on 2August1999. Environmental As- implementation, consulting services will be required for design sessment Category C. PID: TRPE9073. US$ 155.0 (IBRD). Con- of collector and treatment plants and to assist water and waste- sulting services will be required. National Institute of Metrology, water companies in improving their operations. Consultants PO Box 21, 41470, Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey, Tlx: 34123, Tel: (90- have been selected and are conducting feasibility studies. Minis- 41) 2300, Fax: (90-41) 2309, Contact: Mr. Kumuran Turkogly, try of Urbanism and Construction, Dame Gruev 14, Skopje, Tel: PIU Manager; Technology Development Foundation of Turkey, (389-91) 277-204, Fax: (389-91) 117-163, Contact: Mr. Strahinja Attaturk Bulvari No. 221, Kavaklidere 06100, Turkey, Tel: (90- Trpvski, Undersecretary, Ministry of Urbanism and Construc- 312) 46-2189, Fax: (90-312) 46-409, Contact: Mr. Medar Okte, tion PIU Manager Turkey SectorManagement Public Social Development Fund: The project will support poverty Agriculture reduction activities in Turkey's poorest regions, including Sanliurfa and Harran Plains on-Farm and Village Devel- Southern and Central Anatolia and the Black Sea region. Project opment. The project will include (a) land development, consist- preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category ing of land consolidation and land-use planning, farm access B. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Turk roads and land leveling; ingrofcadastand aland levinage (b) improved land managementconsist- , farmertraining and extension ser- PaetEsiuu( ),znrCdNo28064KiilyAk- ra, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 419-0230,Fax: (90-312) 419-0248,Con- ingefs aastra management fndsoiresrtoration; and (c) village tact: Mr. Ulgen Gummussoy, Manager, PIU; Marmara, Arstirma soil restomraton;d vicers,rutpes imanagementsan arndk(c)vilager Turkey,Tel: (90-262) Merkezi,P0 Box 21, 41470Begzo-Kocaeli, and village roads. Project preparation is under way. A PHRD 641-2309, Contact: Ms. Nilgun Orenchik, Vice President, Head Grant will be used for technical assistance. Environmental As- IU sessment Category B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- quired for project preparation. A request for expressions of Turkmenistan interest from consulting firms to provide preparation assistance was published in DevelopmentBusinessNo. 462, dated 16 May Agriculture 1997. Southeastern Anatolia Project, Regional Development Ad- ministration, Ugur Mumcu'nun Sokagi No. 59, Gazi Osman Pasa Agriculture Development The project will support the gov- 06700, Ankara, Turkey, Tel: (90-312) 445-0215, 445-0216, 445- ernment's ongoing agricultural reform program by supporting a 0217, 445-0218, Fax: (90-312) 437-6777, Contact: Sahin Cengiz, land registration system, training and advisory services and a Deputy Director credit component. Project preparation is under way. Environ- PAGE 52 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 mental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IBRD).Consulting determined. Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear services to be determined. Cabinet of Ministers, Ashgabat Security, 11/1 Observa Tornaya St., Kiev, Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 744000, Turkmenistan, Tel: (993-12) 356-945, Fax: (993-12) 392- 226-2428,Fax: (380-44) 228-0644 464, Contact: Mr. Yolli Gurbanmuradov Finance HealthandNutrition Population, (R) Financial Services: The project will include (a) a line of Health: The objectives of the project are to (a) improve the qual- credit of about US$ 100.0 to 150.0 million to be channeled ity of care and efficiency of health care delivery in a pilot district; through qualifying participating banks and financial leasing and (b) build sufficient capacity in the Ministry of Health and companies to private and privatized enterprises; (b) technical as- medical industry to prepare, evaluate and replicate reforms. Re- sistance to support problem bank resolution and bad loan work- forms would consist of (a) rationalization of health services; (b) out for selected banks; (c) technical assistance to support the implementation of incentive systems and new clinical protocols; creation of a credit rating agency; and (d) automation financing and (c) implementation of organizational schemes focusing on for selected banks. Project preparation is currently on hold. Envi- the integrated provision of cost-effective care aimed at reducing ronmental Assessment Category B. US$ About 200.0 (IBRD). the burden of disease. Project preparation is underway. Environ- Consulting services to be determined. National Bank of mental Assessment Category C. PID: TMPA43330. US$ 10.0 Ukraine, 9 Institutska St., 252007 Kiev, Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Health and 226-2914,Fax: (380-44) 293-1698,Contact: Mr. Victor A. Yoush- Medical Industry, 95 Magtumguly, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan chenko, Governor 744000, Tel: (7-3632) 251-063, Fax: (7-3632) 253-250, Contact: Mr. K. Berdimuhamedov, Minister (R) Rural Finance: The loan will support capitalization of pilot lending institutions which focus on financing private farms and WaterSupply/Sanitation restructuring farms. Project preparation is under way. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting Irrigation and Drainage: The project will (a) rehabilitate two services to be determined. National Bank of Ukraine, 9 Insti- large hydraulic control structures on the Karakum Canal; (b) im- tutska St., Kiev 252007, Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 293-2192, Fax: prove the canal operation by means of telemetry; and (c) provide (380-44) 293-1698,Contact: Ms. Natalia Ivanik, Deputy Director, capacity building through provision of technical assistance and Economic Group equipment. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- sessment Category B. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to Power be determined. Ministry of Land Reclamation and Water Man- agement, 1 Seidi St., Ashgabat 744000, Turkmenistan, Tel: (993- (R) Kiev Public Buildings Energy Efficiency: The project 12) 393437, Fax: (993-12) 398-539,298-539, Contact: Mr. TA. Al- would (a) support public initiatives to improve energy efficiency tyer, Vice Minister in schools, hospitals, kindergartens, and public administration buildings and (b) support the development of an energy efficien- cy market in Kiev. Negotiations are tentatively scheduledfor late Ukraine October 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: UAPA55739. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services for project Agriculture implementation will be financed by the Government of Sweden. Kiev City State Administration, Khreschatic St., Kiev 252044, Agribusiness Development: The project will improve the stan- Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 442-5289,Fax: (380-44) 446-8023,Contact: dard of agribusiness management through (a) agribusiness ed- Mr. Victor Padalka, Vice Mayor, Finance ucation at the Ukrainian National Agricultural University; (b) agribusiness centers which will provide consulting services and Coal Mining Improvement: The objective of the project is to training to agribusiness companies and restructured farms; (c) foster the development of viable coal mining companies by im- establishment of agricultural marketing information system; and proving the operations of selected low-cost mines and closing (d) upgrading the policy research unit at the Institute of Agricul- uneconomic mines. The project will provide support for reduc- tural Economics. Project preparation is on hold. Environmental ing labor redundancies, improving the efficiency of selected via- Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services ble mines, closing uneconomic mines, creating employment and to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, 24, Kreshchatik St., divesting social assets. Project preparation is under way. It is ex- Kiev,Ukraine, Tel: (380-44) 229-8756,Fax: (380-44) 226-3466 pected that bilateral donors will finance technical assistance. En- vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ Amount to be Environment determined. (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Coal Industry, 4, B Khmelnitsky St., Kiev, Ukraine Biodiversity Conservation: The project will support the Black 252008, Tel: (380-44) 226-2847,Fax: (380-44) 228-2131 Sea Environment Program by building capacity in local Ministry Sevastopol Heat Supply Improvement. The project would of Environment Staff and creating a sufficient coastal wetlands Svsoo etSpl mrvmn h rjc ol ofEntironalepark national sytaffmP park system. preparation isufendr d ctrepatingna Project cway. is under Environ- wyEnio- support (a)and the introduction of a decentralized heating service in Sevastopol (b) development of a new heating enterprise. Ne- mental Assessment Category C. US$ 6.9 (GEF). Consultants Sevatons are (b)tdevelopmed or late emberprise. N- have been selected for project preparation. Ministry of Environ- gotiaons are tentatvely scheduled for late November 1999. En- mentl PotecionandNuclar afet, 5KhrshchtykSt. vironmental Assessment Category B. PID: UAPA55738. US$ mental Protection and Nuclear Safety, 5 Khreshchatyk S.Y , 28.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be financed by the Gov- 252601, Kiev,Ukraine, Fax: (380-44) 228-2922,Contact: Mr. Yaro- ernment of Finland. Sevteploserviss, 3 L. Pavlitchenko St., Sev- slav Movchan, Deputy Minister of Environment astopol 335000, Ukraine, Tel: (380-0690) 52-5896, Fax: (380- Donetsk Environment: The project will (a) reduce pollution 0690) 52-0720, Contact: Mr. Sergey Doral, Director and protect areas with abundant natural resources; (b) improve the delivery of essential urban resource recovery programs in PrivateSector Development industry; and (c) improve environmental management and relat- ed regulatory infrastructure at local and national levels. Project Private Sector Development: The project will (a) promote the preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category private sector by strengthening the competitiveness of Ukraini- B. PID: UAPE43880. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be an enterprises; (b) accelerate the entry of private small- and me- SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE 53 dium enterprises; and (c) create a supportive business Water Supply/Sanitation environment. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 270.0 (IBRD). Consulting services Lviv Water: The project will focus on institutional reorganiza- to be determined. Ukrainian Center for Enterprise Restructur- tion and strengthening of water and wastewater enterprises in ing and Private Sector Development, 28 Predsalvinska St., Suite Odessa and Lviv, investments in water and wastewater infra- 403, Kiev 252006, Ukraine, Tel/Fax: (380-44) 234-3814 structure, engineering services and environmental activities. Project preparation is under way. Cofinancing expected from SIDA in the amount of US$ 6.0 million. Environmental Assess- Public SectorManagement ment Category B. US$ 24.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- (N) Community Development Program: The program seeks quired. Municipal Water and Wastewater Enterprise of Lviv,City to develop a sustainable system for financing local government of Lviv Council, 1 Rynok Sq., 290008 Lviv, Ukraine, Fax: (380) investment which will improve local service delivery and assist 482-664-093; Municipal Water and Wastewater Enterprise of the government in better management of intergovernmental fi- Odessa, City of Odessa, 5 Basseynovaya St., Odessa, Ukraine nance. The program will include (a) program-supported reforms in intergovernmental finance to create incentives for municipal- Uzbekistan ities to better manage their fiscal affairs; (b) development of a Municipal Development Loan Fund (MDLF); and (c) assistance to municipalities to help them prepare to borrow and to assess Agrculture their capacity to repay loans from the MDLF. Project preparation Agriculture Enterprise Restructuring: The project will (a) is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- help create the enabling conditions for farm privatization and re- mined. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services in the fields of in- structuring, including the legal framework, land registration and tergovernmental finance and development of municipal credit training of farmers; and (b) initiate the process of farm privatiza- markets are being employed in the preparation phase, and are fi- tion by providing the necessary support to farmers who choose nanced by individual consultant trust funds and a PHRD grant. to participate in the process. Project preparation is under way. Implementing agency is to be determined. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: UZPE46043. US$ Legal Reform: The project will (a) support the creation of an in- 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. The Cabinet dependent, effective judiciary system; (b) upgrade and expand of Ministers, Project Implementation Unit, 29 Suleymanova St., existing sources of legal information; (c) upgrade the quality of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (7-3712) 391-887, Fax: (7-3712) 394- legal education; and (d) rationalize the process of legislative 469, Mr. Inoiat Nurov, Director General drafting. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- sessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to Finance be determined. Ministry of Justice, 13 Karl Marx St., Kiev, (R) Financial Institution Building (Ln. 4479-UZ): Te Ukraine, Tel/Fax: (380-44) 229-5401 project will support enhancement of the financial sector,focusing Public Resource Management: The project would support on (a) improving the policy environment forfinancial sectoractiv- the government's Public Sector Reform Program, with an em- ity, (b) restructuring of the banking sector, and (c) upgrading of phasis on taxation and budgetary reform. Project preparation is financial sector legaland supervisoryframework and development under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- of information and payments systems. Approved by the Executive mined. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required. Directors on 27 May 1999. Loan was signed on 23 June 1999. En- Implementing agency is to be determined. vironmental Assessment Category C. PID: UZPE9131. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Financial Devel- Transport opment Agency (FSDA), c/o Central Bank of Uzbekistan, 6 Uzbekistan Ave., 70001 Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Tel: (998-71) 33- Highway Rehabilitation: The project will include (a) expan- 6829, Fax: (998-71)33-3509 sion of periodic road maintenance; (b) technical upgrading through introduction of improved standards and quality control; Social Sector (c) improvement of road management; (d) institutional improve- ments through technical services and training to Ukravtoddor Social Transformation Fund: The project will include (a) and one oblast road organization; (e) a road safety program; (f) small-scale infrastructure rehabilitation; (b) support to micro- assistance in developing a competitive road construction and en- credit programs; and (c) support to small- and medium-size en- gineering industry. Project preparation is under way. The Euro- terprises and financial institutions in the form of support pean Union will cofinance the project in the amount of US$ 2.4 services and small credit lines. Project preparation is under way. million. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Con- UAPE9110. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services are being fi- sulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be nanced by the European Union. UKRAVTODOR, 9 Fitzkultura determined. St., Kiev, Ukraine, Tel/Fax: (380-44) 220-1034 Transport UrbanDev'elopment (R) Urban Transport. The project will support transport in- Community Development. This is an adaptable program loan vestments in five Uzbek cities. The project will include the pro- which will support decentralization through investment in mu- vision of new vehicles and the rehabilitation of existing vehicles, nicipal infrastructure and targeted social investments in commu- and the supply of workshop tools and equipment. Appraisal mis- nities. The first phase will focus on (a) investments in municipal sion is scheduledfor September 1999. Environmental Assessment and communal services in urban areas and (b) community- Category B. PID: UZPE50508. US$ 31.0 (IBRD). Consulting ser- based microprojects in targeted communities. Project prepara- vices to be determined. Uzbek State Stock Corporation of Auto- tion is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ motive Transport, 6 Amir Temur St., Pass 1, Tashkent 700000,- 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Imple- Republic of Uzbekistan, Tel: (7-371) 133-6148,Fax: (7-371) 133- menting agency is to be determined. 1525, 133-2483 PAGE 54 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 Egypt Middle East and North Education/Training Africa Region Skills Development- The project will focus on improving the current vocational and technical education system in order to produce market-relevant skills. The project will support (a) ratio- Algeria nalization of the training system; (b) improvement of the internal and external efficiency of training; (c) improvements in training; Education/Training (d) the development of a governance structure for vocational and technical education; and (e) development of sustainable fi- Education Reform: The project will (a) help increase enroll- nancing mechanisms. Preappraisal mission is scheduled for Sep- ment rates in secondary education; (b) upgrade the quality of tember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 40.0 learning through the generalization of standard setting and eval- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing uation methods; and (c) promote changes in curricula and edu- * to b deter d cation research. Project preparation is under way. agency iS e etrmied. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Con- sulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is to be Private Sector Development determined. Private Sector and Agricultural Development (Ln. 4500- Finance EGT; Cr. 3254-EGT): The project would (a) increase employ- ment and income in rural Egypt; (b) strengthen the financial and Financial System Infrastructure Development. The project institutional viability of the Principal Bank for Development and will (a) support modernization of the payments system including Agricultural Credit (PBDAC); and (c) expand technology dis- data and teletransmission facilities; (b) fund the development semination in agriculture to enhance productivity and value-add- costs of a long-term professional bank training program leading ed activities. The project will include a line of credit and to a graduate degree under a consortium of international learn- institutional development of PBDAC. Approved by the Executive ing institutions and based on distance learning technology; and Directors on 22 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Category (c) improve the statistical database of the financial sector and B. PID: EGPE53832. US$ 225.0/75.0 (IBRD/IDA). Consulting the management information system of the central bank. Nego- services to be determined. Principal Bank for Development and tiations were tentatively scheduled for September 1999. Environ- Agricultural Credit, 110 Kasr El Enin St., Cairo, Egypt, Tel: (20- mental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 20.0 2) 354-4827,Fax: (20-2) 354-1494,Contact: Dr. Hassan A. Khedr, (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Bank of Algeria, 12, Blvd. Chairman Colonel Amirouche, Algiers, Algeria, Tel: (213-2) 73-89-50,Fax: (213-2) 68-39-54, Contact: Mr. Mohamed Laksaci, Vice-Gover- nor, Bank of Algeria Social Sector Social Fund III (Cr. 3230-EGI): The project will support the Population, Health and Nutrition Social Fund for Development (SFD). The objectives of the SFD Health Sector: The project will support the government's ef- are to (a) create employment opportunities for the poor and un- fort to improve the efficiency and organization in the health care employed; (b) improve living conditions for the poor; (c) im- deliver system and to prepare for broader policy reforms in the prove infrastructure in poor and underserved areas; and (d) help sector. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assess- the Social Fund define its long term role. Approved by the Exec- ment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be utive Directors on 1 June 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- determined. Ministry of Health, 125, Chemin Abderrahmane, egory C. PID: EGPA52705. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services Laala, Algiers, Algeria, Tlx: 65339, Tel: (213-2) 66-33-15, Fax: to be determined. Social Fund for Development, 1 Hussein He- (213-2) 66-24-13 gazy St., Cairo, Egypt, Tel: (20-2) 354-0077, 354-8339,355-9877, Fax: (20-2) 355-0628,Contact: Dr. Hussein El Gammal, Manag- Social Sector ing Director Social Safety Net II: The project is an expansion of Social Safe- Social Protection Initiatives: The project is a Learning and In- ty Net I and will finance phase II of the project, consisting of la- novation Credit to assist the Ministry of Insurance and Social Af- bor intensive public works to create temporary employment and fairs in developing capacity to design and manage quality community development programs to improve social services in programs for vulnerable groups, in this case children with dis- poor communities. Project preparation is under way. Environ- abilities and their families, and youth at risk for street life. A se- mental Assessment Category C. PID: DZPA42419. US$ 24.0 ries of subprojects will be contracted to a range of service (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project preparation. providers and monitored closely to learn how best to deliver the Agence de developpement social, Rue des 4 Canons, Algiers, Al- services required. Lessons learned will be fed into the emerging geria, Tel: (213-2) 71-97-57,Fax: (213-2) 74-99-31,Contact: Mo- government strategy for providing for vulnerable groups. roject hamed Thaminy was approved, following LIL procedures, on 29 June 1999. Envi- ronmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting Water Supply/Sanitation services will be required for technical assistance for quality con- Algiers Sanitation: The project seeks to improve, rehabilitate trol in the delivery of subprojects and for training the Ministry and expand sewerage services in Algiers. Project preparation is staff and staff of other agencies to foster inter-agency coordina- under way. Environmental Assessment Category A PID: tion in service provision. Ministry of Insurance and Social Af- DZPE4957. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for fairs, 19 El Maraghy St., El Agouza, Cairo, Egypt, Tel: (20-2) 340- construction supervision. Algeria Wilaya, Algiers, Algeria, Tel: 6057, Fax: (20-2) 338-7603, Ms. Sohair Kansour Habib, Adviser (213-2) 64-63-29,Fax: (213-2) 61-85-51 to the Minister of Social Affairs SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE55 Water Supply/Sanitation Environment Second National Drainage: The project will support the sec- Waste to Energy: The project would support the reduction of ond phase of the national investment program for (a) provision methane gas from landfills to minimize greenhouse gas emis- of subsurface drainage; (b) renewal and rehabilitation of exist- sions. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assess- ing malfunctioning subsurface drains; (c) remodeling of open ment Category B. US$ 8.0 (GEF). Consulting services to be surface drains for agricultural lands; and (d) provision of drain- determined. Council for Development and Reconstruction, PO age for the Western Desert and Siwa Oasis. Project preparation Box 5351/116, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 643-960, Fax: (961- is under way. PID: EGPE45499. Environmental Assessment Cat- 1) 647-947, Contact: Mr. Mahmoud Othman, President egory B. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be re- quired. Egyptian Public Authority for Drainage Projects, Infrastructure Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources, Giza Street, Gi- za, Cairo, Egypt, Tel: (20-2) 573-8039,573-8280,Fax: (20-2) 573- Municipal Development: The project will (a) finance the reha- 8647, Eng. Mohamed Fathy, Chairman bilitation and upgrading of essential physical infrastructure, par- ticularly in low revenue base communities; and (b) provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Af- Jordan fairs, and pilot municipalities. Project will require post-appraisal prior to negotiations. Environmental Assessment Category B. Power PID: LEPE50544. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Beirut, (R) Samra First Private Power: The project will consist of a Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 924-310, 924-308, Fax: (961-1) 468-456, 300-450MW, dual-fired (diesel oil and natural gas) combined-cy- Contact: Eng. Naji Hasan, Project Manager and Adviser to the cle power plant to be located near Amman and developed by a Minister private special purpose company on a build, own and operate ba- sis. It will (a) support the government's new initiative for private Private Sector Development power generation and its efforts to tap new sources of private capital for the power sector; (b) add new power generating ca- Awali-Beirut Water Conveyor: The project is a bulk water sup- pacity at competitive prices while improving the efficiency and ply build-operate-transfer operation to provide water to greater reliability of the power supply; and (c) strengthen the capacity of Beirut. The project includes construction of a water conveyor to the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources to prepare future tunnel water from Joun for a distance of 24 km, with a treatment private projects and put into effect key policies for the sustain- plant and reservoir and distribution link to supply water to south able development of the energy sector. Evaluation of proposals Beirut. Request for proposals is being finalized. The prequalifi- for selection ofprivate project sponsors is under way. Environmen- cation process is under way.The prequalification notice was pub- tal Assessment Category A. US$ 50.0 (IBRD partial risk guaran- lished by the Council for Development and Reconstruction on 22 tee). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Energy and October 1998, prequalification documents have been submitted Natural Resources, PO Box 140027, Amman, Jordan, Fax: (962- to CDR and are being evaluated. Environmental Assessment 6) 582-1398, Contact: Eng. Ahmad Bashir, Secretary General, Category A. PID: LBEC45101. US$ 65.0 (IBRD Partial Risk Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources Guarantee). Consulting services to be determined. Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR), PO Box 116-5352, Water Supply/Sanitation Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1)981-431,Fax: (961-1)981-252, Con- tact: Mr. Mahmoud Osman, President Disi/Amman Water Conveyor: The development objective of the operation is to provide an adequate and reliable supply of Transport bulk water to meet the needs of municipal and industrial con- sumers in greater Amman. The project will be implemented and (R) Beirut Urban Transport: The project will (a) improve traf- managed by a private sector concessionaire, with costs recov- fic management through technical assistance to build capacity ered from consumers, and within the context of a strengthened for traffic management within a Traffic Management Organiza- national water resources management capability. Project prepa- tion and financing traffic signals and layout improvements for in- ration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category A. tersections in the greater Beirut area; (b) control parking in PID: JOGU51749. US$ 100.0 (IBRD partial risk guarantee). Con- selected zones, enforce paid on-street parking and increase off- sulting services to be determined. Water Authority of Jordan, street parking capacity in those zones through developing ap- PO Box 2412-5012, Tel: (962-2) 680-100, Fax: (962-2) 679-143, propriate regulations and operational arrangements and financ- Contact: Dr. Hazim El-Naser ing the construction of two parking facilities to be concessioned to private operators; (c) improve traffic flow along major corri- dors by financing the construction of grade separations at thir- Lebanon teen highly-congested intersections; and (d) develop urban transport plans and follow-up projects. Project processing is con- Education/Training tinuing. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: LBPA34038.US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- General Education: The objective of the project is to improve mined. Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR), Ta- the equity, quality and management of general education. The let El-Serail, PO Box 116-5351,Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1)643- project includes (a) management and institutional development; 966, Fax: (961-1) 647-947, Contact: Mr Elie Helou, Project Man- (b) expansion of access; and (c) quality interventions. Negotia- ager tions are scheduled for October 1999. Environmental Assess- ment Category B. PID: LBPA45174. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Urban Development Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 866-475, Fax: Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development: The project (961-1) 645-844, 647-947, Contact: Minister Jean Obeid; National will finance (a) priority site conservation and enhancement in- Center for Educational Research and Development, Beirut, Leb- vestments and associated urban infrastructure improvements in anon, Contact: Professor Mounir Abou-Assali, President the selected sites of Baalbeck, Beirut, Byblos, Saida, Tripoli and 56 PAGE Summary MonthlyOperational 1999 SEPTEMBER Tyre; and (b) technical assistance services to strengthen the ca- Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of National Ed- pacity of the Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA), Ministry ucation, Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-7) 773-016,Fax: (212-7) 772- of Tourism (MOT) and target municipalities in cultural heritage 048; Ministry of Higher Education preservation and tourism development. The project components include (a) cultural heritage preservation; (b) site operation and Environment visitor management; (c) conservation of Saida and Tripoli histor- ic old towns; (d) Urban regeneration and infrastructure improve- Protected Areas Management: The overall project objectives ments; and (e) capacity building in cultural heritage are to (a) establish a system of protected areas in Morocco; and preservation and cultural tourism development. Project prepara- (b) promote sustainable conservation management, with the tion is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ participation of the local population, in the ecosystems in the 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Council for project areas. The project includes (a) implementation of conser- Development and Reconstruction (CDR), Talet El Serail, PO vation management plans in selected protected areas; (b) prepa- Box 116-5351,Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 981-373/4/5/6, Fax: ration and implementation of pilot programs for reintroduction (961-1) 864-494, Contact: Dr. Wafa Sharaf el Dine, Project Man- of selected mammals and raptors; (c) training of park manage- ager ment staff and rangers; and (d) public awareness activities, in co- operation with NGOs, schools and local organizations, to Water Supply/Sanitation promote understanding about nature conservation. Appraisal is Greater Beirut Water Supply and Sanitation: The objectives Assessment Category C. PDsa ts beinp0repared. En8ronmental of the project are to (a) improve water supply and distribution shortter Cats wl be required4i t S of poEcte and wastewater collection services in greater Beirut, and (b) lay Short-term consultants will be required m the areas of protected the groundwork for the sustainable institutional development of areas management/park management and social assessment. water and wastewater services. Project preparation is under way Adninistration des eaux et des forets et de la conservation des Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: LBPE49903. US$ sols, Ministry of Agriculture, Cite administrative, Rabat, Moroc- 65.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project prepara- co, Tel: (212-7) 76-44-46,Contact: Dr. Abderrahmane Hanan, Di- tion. Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR), Talet recteur general de ladministration El Serail, PO Box 116-5351, Beirut, Lebanon, Tel: (961-1) 981- 431, Fax: (961-1) 981-252, Contact: Mr. Mahmoud Osman, Pres- Population, Health and Nutrition ident Health Management (Ln. 4424-MOR): The project will (a) support the development and implementation of new financing Morocco mechanisms, mainly health insurance; (b) support hospital man- agement reforms; and (c) improve the quality of services provid- Agriculture ed through priority rehabilitation of health infrastructure, training of relevant personnel, maintenance programs and so Lakhdar Watershed Management Pilot (Ln. 4426-MOR): forth; and; (d) improve the capacity for policy formulation. Ap- The project will test a participatory approach to improve land proved by the Executive Directors on 17 December 1998. Envi- use and natural resources management in mountainous areas. ronmental Assessment Category C. PID: MAPA5525. US$ 66.0 The project includes (a) natural resources management and ero- (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of sion control; (b) community investments (such as access roads, Health, 335, Ave. Mohamed V,BP 812, Mechanar, Rabat, Moroc- water points and simple irrigation works); and (c) supporting in- co, Tel: (212-7) 76-16-75,Fax: (212-7) 76-38-95,Contact: M. Mo- stitutional strengthening. Approved by the Executive Directors hamed Laaziri, Director, Planning and Financial Resources on 22 December 1998. Environmental Assessment Category B. Directorate PID: MAPA5519. US$ 4.0 (IBRD). Consulting services are need- ed. Ministry of Water and Forestry, Cite administrative, Rabat, Morocco, Tel: (212-7) 76-44-46 SocialSoctor Pilot Fisheries Development (in. 4464-MOR): The objec- Social Fund: The project will establish a social fund to finance tives of the project are to test and implement options to enhance social investments and promote local community participation. value-added and competitiveness of the fisheries sector and pro- Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment mote exports. The project will assist the government in imple- Category to be determined. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting servic- menting its fisheries development strategy by (a) strengthening es to be determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. the Ministry of Marine Fisheries' capacity to manage and devel- op the sector, mainly by improving sector planning and informa- Syran Arab Republic tion systems; and (b) testing, on a pilotbasis, new approachesto improve fish product quality, develop landing facilities for small- scale fisheries and upgrade marketing infrastructures around Environment three fishing ports. Approved by the Executive Directors on 6 May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: Conservation of Biodiversity and Protected Area Manage- MAPE52247. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- ment: The project aims at creating the enabling environment to mined. Ministry of Marine Fisheries (MOMF), Office national protect biodiversity. The objectives include strengthening insti- des p&hes (ONP), 66, Ave. Moulay Youssef, Rabat, Morocco, tutional capacity to manage protected areas, including adoption Tel: (212-7) 77-05-48, Fax: (212-7) 77-85-40, Contact: M. Tijani of necessary legal mechanisms, and the development and imple- Rhanmi, Secretary General, Tel: (212-7) 77-10-61 mentation of a pilot protected area site. The project is likely to re- ceive cofinancing from UNDP and the FAO. The project brief Education/Training was approved by the GEF in October 1998. Environmental As- sessment Category C. US$ 1.4 (GEF). Consulting services will Education Reform: The project will implement reforms in gen- be required. Ministry of Environment, PO Box 3773, Tolyani, eral and higher education. Project preparation is under way. En- Damascus, Syria, Tel: (963-11) 444-7608,Fax: (963-11) 441-2577, vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Contact: Eng. Yahya Awidah 1999 SEPTEMBER MonthlyOperational Summary 57 PAGE Tunisia Population, HealthandNutrition (R) Health Sector: The project will improve financial sustain- Infrastructure ability, efficiency and equity of the health system. Negotiations were scheduled for mid-September 1999. Environmental Assess- Cultural Heritage Management.e The objective of the project ment Category C. PID: XOSF53892. US$ 5.0 (IDA). Consulting is to conserve and promote Tunisia's cultural heritage, by updat- services to be determined. Ministry of Health, PO Box 14, Nab- ing the nationwide inventory of sites and increasing the contri- lus, Jerusalem, Tel: (972-7) 829-173, Fax: (972-7) 869-809, 826- bution of this heritage to the local and national economy. The 295, 826-325, E-mail: Mohgaza@palnet.com, Contact: Dr. Riyad project will identify a clear strategy on cultural heritage manage- Zanoun, Minister ment for the Ministries of Culture, Tourism and Regional Devel- opment, NGOs and the private sector. The project will select appropriate measures from the long-term strategy to conserve Power key sites, set up a legal protection policy and promote them Electricity Sector Investment and Management: The based on an assessment of their significance and economic jus- roect includes a upadin and rehabilitation of the West tification. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- Bank mclution) upgrk (g and south)an of thnical sessment Category C. PID: TNPA48825. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Bankdistrnbution network (icnstitutions Board presentaeioniwas Consultants are currently conducting strategy and feasibility scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- studies. Additional consulting services will be required. Institut egory B. PID: XOPE40506. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Consultants will be national du patrimoine, Ministry of Culture, 2 Place du chateau, egoryd. P ian0Energy .iD 15.0 (A Consultants wieh Tunis, Tunisia, Tel: (216-1) 26-16-22,26-12-59,Fax: (216-1)56-24- required. Palestlan Enragy ACutyh,o,TeP (972-2) 998-6190, Fax 52, Contact: M. Boubaker Ben Fraj (972-2)998-6191 WaterSupply/Sanitation PrivateSectorDevelopment Water Sector Investment: The project will promote integrated development and demand management of water resources. It (R) Financial Sector Development: The project will support will include (a) physical works for water storage, ground water new financial sector programs and institutions to improve access exploration and monitoring; (b) small-scale irrigation; (c) to credit by businesses and to reduce the credit risk inherent in ground water management pilot; and (d) studies, technical assis- commercial bank lending. Negotiations are tentatively scheduled tance and policy measures. Project preparation is under way. En- for late September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. vironmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 75.0 PID: XOPE43340. US$ 12.0 (IDA). Consultants are being used. (IBRD). Preparatory studies by consultants have been complet- Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA), Omar Mukhtar St., El ed. Ministry of Agriculture, 30, Rue Alain Savary, Tunis, Tunisia Rimal, PO Box 4026, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Tel: (972-7)282-5713, Fax: (972-7) 282-4599,Contact: Dr. Fouad Beseiso, Governor WestBankand Gaza WaterSupply/Sanitation Environment Southern Area Water and Sanitation Improvement: The project aims to (a) improve the sufficiency and efficiency of wa- (N) Solid Waste and Environmental Management: The ter and wastewater services to customers in terms of quality, project will establish solid waste management (SWM) systems quantity and management by building on existing authorities in in the governorates of Jenin and Hebron. The SWM systems will Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Beit Sahour and the water departments of include collection, transfer and controlled disposal of solid the Municipality of Hebron and the villages in the southern West wastes. The project would also help the participating municipal- Bank; and (b) prepare for and implement an appropriate institu- ities and the Ministry of Environment put in place a functioning tional framework for water and wastewater services provision, institutional and management structure to operate and maintain including the implementation of a performance-based manage- the SWM systems. Project is being identified. PID: XOPE54051. ment contract and building regulator and institutional capacity in Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ 8.0 (IDA). A PHRD the Palestinian Water Authority. Approved by the Executive Di- grant from Japan has been used for conducting feasibility stud- rectors on 27 May 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. ies for the solid waste component. The report is scheduled to be PID: XOSF51564. US$ 21.0 (IDA). Management contract was ini- finalized by late September 1999. Ministry of Local Government, tialed with selected operator. Palestinian Water Authority, PO PO Box 98, Jericho, Tel: (972-2)232-2619, Fax: (972-2) 232-1240, Box 891, Ramallah, West Bank, Tel: (972-2) 574-7147,Fax: (972- Contact: Dr. Husain Araj, Deputy Minister 2) 574-7148,Contact: Fadle Kawash, Deputy Commissioner Infrastructure Yemen (N) Second Municipal Infrastructure Development. The project will continue the efforts begun under the first Municipal Agriculture Infrustructure Development Project to help (a) improve infra- structure services (roads, water, drainage and sewerage) to and (R) Irrigation Improvement. Theproject is the first phase of a within villages and municipalities in the West Bank and Gaza, long-term program to rehabilitate and improve main spate irriga- and preserve existing infrastructure assets; and (b) build munic- tion systems. It includes (a) improvement of operations and main- ipal and central governmental planning, programming, financial tenance services and articipation of users in the management of management and technical capacity. Preappraisal mission is in those schemes; (b) institutional strengthening and capacity build- the field. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 5.5 ing; (c) technical assistance; and (d) rehabilitation, improvement (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Local and protection of the main spate irrigation schemes. Project prep- Government (MLG) and Ministry of Public Works (MPW), Tel: aration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category B. (972-2)240-2206, Contact: Mr. Mahen Ghanem, Director Gener- US$ 14.0 (IDA). Consulting services will be required for prepa- al ration of studies and to assist in project supervision. Ministry of PAGE58 MonthlyOperational Summary SEPTEMBER 1999 Agriculture and Irrigation, Sana'a, Yemen, Fax: (967-1) 289-509, Social Sector 277-177, contact: Mr. Farid Mujawar, Deputy Minister (R) Child Development: The project will follow-up on recom- .Trainig .mendations Education of a study conducted by UNICEF and the World Education/Training Bank. The project will design and support maternal and child (R) Basic Education Expansion Project (formerly Education health care, girls education and early childhood development Sector Management Reform): The project will improve the ability programs through community-based approaches. Appraisal is and the effectiveness of the education system at the central and completed. Negotiations were scheduledfor mid-September 1999. governorate levels to plan, finance, implement and monitor basic Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: YEPE50483. US$ and secondary education services. Appraisal mission is tenta- 30.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Yemeni Coun- tively scheduled for November 1999. Environmental Assess- cil for Childhood and Motherhood, Ministry of Insurance and ment Category C. PID: YEPA43255. US$ 29.3 (IDA). Consulting Social Affairs, Sana'a, Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 262-809, Fax: (967-1) services to be determined. Ministry of Education, Project Coor- 262-806, Contact: H.E. Mohamed Abdullah Al-Batani dination Unit, PO Box 96, Sana'a, Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 235-919, Fax: (967-1) 236-005, Contact: Dr. Toufik Sufian, Executive Di- Water Supply/Sanitation rector (R) Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS): The objec- Population, Health and Nutrition tives of this five year project are to (a) test a decentralized, de- Population, HealthandNutrition mand-based, community participation and management Health Sector: The objective of the project is to improve the de- method; (b) improve rural health by expanding RWSS coverage; livery of essential curative and preventive services to the poor, and (c) lay the ground for a RWSS Development Strategy and a particularly women of reproductive age and young children. The large-scale national RWSS program. The project would help re- project will strengthen the planning and regulatory role of the habilitate existing water supply schemes, build new ones, and Ministry of Health, improve health sector financing and support provide health education and sanitation infrastructure. In the new interventions for services delivery at the community level. first two or three years, the project would work in the governorates Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment of Abyan, Ibb and Hajja, and could later expand to other priority Category C. US$ 10.5 (IDA). Consulting services to be deter- governorates. Project preparation is under way. Environmental mined. Implementing agency is to be determined. Assessment Category B. PID: YEPE5906. US$ 15.0 (IDA). Project is currently being prepared by consultants. Ministry of Private Sector Development Planning, PO Box 175, Sana'a, Yemen, Tel: (967-1) 250-113,Fax: (967-1) 251-503, 250-605, Contact: Mr. Anwar Harazi, Deputy (R) Privatization Support: The project will help (a) strength- Minister for Project Programming and Planning en the Republic of Yemen's institutional capacity for privatiza- tion; (b) prepare a small number of large transactions for privatization; and (c) provide programmatic support for the privatization of smaller assets. The project will primarily finance - technical assistance. Board presentation was scheduled for mid- September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: LahnAmericaand YEPE49735. US$ 10.9 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Tech nical Privatization Office, PO Box 19544, Sana'a, Yemen, Tel: the CaribbeanRegion (967-1) 413-716, Fax: (967-1) 264-248,Contact: Mr. Abdul-Karim AlSaidi, Chief Operating Officer Argentina PublicSectorManagement Agriculture (R) Civil Service Modernization: The program will support (R) Sustainable Fisheries Management. This learning and (a) improvements to personnel and financial management sys- innovaton loan will support (a) strengthening of fisheries plan- tems; (b) reengineering of government agencies with an objec- ingoan moniwill ort activit ies plan tive to improve the incentiveframeworkfor delivering services ning and monitoring and control activities;(b) implementation and to increase the efficiency of work flow, policies, procedures of an Individual Transferable Quota system; and (c) other mea- and or ast nd (c) the development of a work andforeadjustmnt ment associated ationalswtructure;andctherdeshedulopmenofaorelsures with improved, including assistance sustainable to displaced fisheries workers. manage- Negotiations force adjustmentprogram. Negotiations were scheduled/or early were tentatively scheduledfor September 1999. Environmental As- September 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: semntCegrC.PDAR579 U$.0IBD o- YEPA50706. US$ 30.0 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Tech- sessment Category C. PID: ARLL57459. US$5.0 (IBRD).Con- nical Secretariat to Supreme Council for Civil Service and Ad- sultants will be required for project preparation. Secretariat of ministrative Reform, Ministry of Civil Service, Sana'a, Republic Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, 982 Paseo Colon, of Yemen, Tel/Fax: (967-1) 276-715, Contact: Nabil Shamsan, Buenos Aires, Argentina General Manager (R) Legal and Judicial Development (Cr. 3274-YEM): The Education/Training project would assist the government in (a) increasing the effi- (R) Millennium Science Initiative: The objective of the ciency of the judicial process; and (b) commencing the process project is to revitalize the Argentine National Innovation System of putting in place a legal framework adequate to encourage pri- through the support of advanced training of human capital by vate sector activity. The project was approved, following LIL pro- world-class scientists engaged in cutting-edge research. The cedures, on 29 June 1999. Credit was signed on 4 August 1999. project will provide the necessary technical assistance and fund- Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: YEPE57915. US$ ing to establish and strengthen centers of excellence in re- 2.5 (IDA). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Justice and search. These centers would be part of a network of centers of Ministry of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Sana'a, Yemen, Tel: excellence in the Southern Cone. This project is no longer in the (967-1) 202-735, Fax: (967-1) 202-737, Contact: Mr. Abdullah current lending program; further reporting will be discontinued. Ahmed Ghanem, Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 5.0 SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE59 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Implementing Population, Health and Nutrition agency to be determined. (R) Health Insurance for the Poor: This learning and innova- Environment tion loan would provide the necessary technical assistance and inputs in a few pilot provinces to design and implement a health (R) World Bank-GEF Coastal Contamination Prevention insurance scheme for the non-insured poor. Appraisal mission and Sustainable Fisheries Management: The main objec- was scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental Assessment tives of the GEF project are to promote the conservation of biodi- Category C. US$ 4.8 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- versity along the Argentine coastline and to protect the mined. Ministry of Health and Social Action, Ave. 9 de Julio Patagonia Shelf large marine ecosystem through prevention and 1925, 1332 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4381-8911,Fax: mitigation of coastal pollution and the sustainable management (54-11) 4381-2182 of fisheries resources. The project will strengthen institutions Public Health Surveillance and Disease Control: The and implement priority investments to (a) address the threats project will include (a) strengthening of health surveillance sys- from land-based contamination in the Patagonia coastal area; (b) tem and lude (a)rstructhe; of healtrol; (cealth improve fisheries management policy to prevent over-harvest- tem and laboratory infrastructure; (b) disease control; (c) health inginte large marne osystem,wich met is aversely erhaffeti promotion; and (d) project administration. Negotiations are sub- marine and coastal biodiversity; and (c) safeguard coastal and stantially completed. Environmental Assessment Category bodivrsiy; marie ad castl nd c) afegardcoataland PID: ARPE55482. US$ 52.5 (IBRD). Consulting services are B. to marine biodiversity from accident and pollution risks resulting be determined. Ministry of Health and Social Action, Buenos from increased commercial traffic. The main project outputs are be dentina, try of Health Social ax: 4804n0680o the establishment of an integrated, operational strategy for Aires,Argentina,Tel: (54-11)4345-3612, Fax: (54-11) 4804-0680, coastal pollution management; the design and installation of an Contact: Horacio Lopez. electronic marine information infrastructure; and the develop- Second Health Insurance Reform: The project would follow ment and implementation of a sustainable fisheries management up, extend and consolidate the results obtained by the first program. Project preparation is under way with support from a Health Insurance Reform Project (Lns. 4002/3-AR), which sup- GEF Grant. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 8.4 ported the launch of the Health Insurance Reform Program. Spe- (GEF). Consulting services will be required for project prepara- cifically, the project will support three sets of policy and tion. Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Desarrollo Sustentable, institutional changes including (a) policy reforms and regulato- Lavalle 547, Piso 7, Buenos Aires, 1047, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) ry development; (b) restructuring of provincial and national so- 4393-9257, Fax: (54-11) 4322-5014, Contacts: Dra. Mabel Behal, cial health insurance funds; and (c) health insurance for the Lie. Ricardo Del Fino poor. Project preparation has been postponed to fiscal year 2001. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Con- Finance sultants will be required. Ministry of Health and Social Action, Ave. 9 de Julio 1925, 1332 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) (R) Special Repurchase Facility Support (Ln. 4406-AR): 4381-8911, Fax: (54-11) 4381-2182 TMe project would support the Central Bank's repurchase facili- ty as a contingent loan. Approved by the Executive Directors on 10 November 1998. Loan was signed on 22 July 1999. Environ- Power mental Assessment Category U. US$ 505.0 (IBRD). Consulting (R) Renewable Energy for Rural Markets (Ln. 4454-AR): services will not be required. Banco Central de la Republica de The project will supply energy to rural areas using renewable re- Argentina Reconquista 266 (1003), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: sources where feasible. It will (a) support the transfer of the op- (54-11) 4348-3715, Fax: (54-11) 4394-0976, Contact: Dr. Pedro eration of the rural power sector from the government to the Pou, Presidente private sector; and (b) strengthen the regulatory function of provinces. Approved by the Executive Directors on 30 March Industry 1999. Loan signing is tentatively scheduled for late September (R) Mining Decontamination: The objectives of the project 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 30.0/10.0 are to clean up uranium mines and tailing sites and strengthen (IBRD/GEF). Consulting services will be required. Secretariat the environmental management capacity of the responsible of Energy, Paseo Colon 171, Piso 8, Ofic. 803, Buenos Aires, Ar- agency, Comisi6n Nacional Energia At6mica. The project will be gentina, Tel: (54-11)4349-8423,Fax: (54-11)4349-8417, Contact: an adaptable program loan. The first loan will represent US$ 21.0 Ing. Walter von Ledaber, General Coordinator million, while the estimated total would be around US$ 61.0 mil- lion. Appraisal mission was tentatively scheduledfor late Septem- Public Sector Management ber 1999. Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: ARPE57124. US$ 16.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- (R) Provincial Reform III: The project will support reforms, mined. Comisi6n Nacional Energia Atomica, Ave. del Liberta- including fiscal adjustment, improvement of social services de- dor, 8250 Buenos Aires, 1429, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4704-1217, livery and efficiency, and private sector development. Appraisal Fax: (54-11) 4704-1165, Contact: Jose Gregui mission was scheduledfor late August 1999. Environmental As- sessment Category C. US$ 250.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to Export Promotion/Small and Medium Enterprises II: The be determined. Ministry of Economy, Hip6lito Yrigoyen 250, objective of the project is to help increase the international com- Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina, Tel: (54-11)4349-5521, petitiveness of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The Fax: (54-11) 4349-5833,Contact: Lic. Alejandro Caldarelli project will include (a) a cost-sharing grant scheme to continue assisting SMEs in obtaining information and skills needed to de- Municipal Reform: The project will support reforms at the mu- velop export plans; and (b) institutional strengthening aimed at nicipal level to improve fiscal management and local resource helping SMEs obtain credit through development of activities to mobilization, and enhance the quality and efficiency of munici- reduce banks' perception of risks involved in lending to SMEs. pal services. Project is being identified. Environmental Assess- Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category ment Category C. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be C. US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Sec- determined. Ministry of Interior, Hip6lito Yrigoyen 340, Buenos retaria de Pequenlas y Medianas Empresas, 25 de Mayo 22, Bue- Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4342-0171, Fax: nos Aires CP1002, Argentina (54-11) 4342-7390,Contact: Dr. Rodolfo Vacchiano 60 PAGE MonthlyOperational Summary SEPTEMBER 1999 Provincial Pension II: The projectwill support the transfer of Structural Adjustment provincialpension funds to the reformed NationalPension Sys- tem. Project is being identified.EnvironmentalAssessment Cat- Buenos Aires Social Sector Reform:The loan willsupportre- egory C. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be forms in health care, educationand socialprotectionin the Prov- determined. Ministry of Economy,Hip6litoYrigoyen250, Bue- ince of Buenos Aires in order to extend second generation nos Aires,CapitalFederal, Argentina reforms initiatedin the other provincialreform projects. Project Reform of Justice System: The projectwill support indepen- is being identified.Environmental AssessmentCategory U. US$ dence of the judiciary,the administrationof the Ministry of Jus- 400.0 (IBRD).Consultantswill be required for projectprepara- tice and the Attorney General's Office.It will establish training tion. Ministryof Economy,Hip6litoYrigoyen250,BuenosAires, facilities,improve access to justice, establish alternativedispute CapitalFederal,Argentina,Tel: (54-1)349-5521, Fax: (54-1)349- resolution mechanisms, strengthen the role of the legal profes- 5833,Contact:FedericoMongan sion and support research of law and economics.Appraisalmis- sion is scheduled for October 1999. A Project Preparation WaterSupply/Sanitation FacilityAdvanceof US$1.5 millionhas been approvedto finance preparation of legal registries and the Judicial Council compo- (R) Drainage Infrastructureand Management.The project nent. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$10.0 (IBRD). wouldcomplementthe investmentsmade under the FloodReha- Consultingservices willbe required in the areas of court admin- bilitationProject and the Flood ProtectionProject by providing istrationand judicialtraining. Ministry ofJustice,Sarmiento329, adequate drainage infrastructure and other associatedservices Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina, Tel: (54-11) 4328- ineconomicallyactiveurban areas. Projectis being identified. A 3015/19, Contact:Hugo Mercer, Project Coordinator PHRD Grantproposal for projectpreparationhas beenapproved. Environmental AssessmentCategoryA.US$175.0(IBRD). Con- Sector Social sulting services to be determined. Sub-Unidad Central de Coor- (R) Social Protechion1V (Ln. 4398-AR): The projectIS ex- dinaci6n Emergencia paraPiso Irigoyen340, (SUCCE), 5, Oficina 5076, (CPMinisteriodel Interior,H. 1086),Buenos Aires,Ar- pected to (a) provide targeted and focused socialservices to the . ' ' ' ' poor; and (b) promote transparency and efficiency,and partici- gentina,Tel: (54-1)342-1030, Fax: (54-1)342-6727 pation of the civil society.These objectives would be accom- Water Sector Reform (In. 4484-AR): The projectwill (a) plished by supporting the second phase of (a) Participatory support the reform strategy of the governmentto transfer water SocialDevelopmentFund (FOPAR); and (b) informationsystem and sanitation sector operations to the private sector; and (b) for monitoring and evaluation of social programs (SIEMPRO). strengthen the regulatory function of the government. The Approvedby the ExecutiveDirectors on 15October 1998.Loan projectwill be an adaptableprogram loan.The first loan will be signingis tentativelyscheduledforlate September1999. Environ- for US$30.0million, whilethe estimatedtotalwillbe aroundUS$ mental Assessment Category B. US$ 90.75 (IBRD).Consulting 200.0 million.Approvedby the Executive Directors on 1 June services to be determined. The SocialDevelopmentSecretariat, 1999.Environmental Assessment Category B. PID:ARPE6046. Ave.9 de Julio 1925,Piso 13, BuenosAires, Argentina,Tel: (54- US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be required for 11) 4381-8157,4383-9961,4383-3166,4384-7523,Fax: (54-11) US$ IBRD).tCon, seryice will Resoured San 4383-4439; FOPAR Contact: Ms. Ana Etchegaray; SIEMPRO project implementation.Secretary of Natural Resources, San Contact:Ms. Irene Novakovsky Martin 459, Piso 2, 1004Buenos Aires, Argentina,Tel: (54-11) 4348-8382, Fax: (54-11)4326-7682, Contact:Ms. MariaJulia Al- Indigenous Development- This learning and innovation loan sogaray will establish three pilot indigenous protected areas in three grY provincesof the south and northwest regions to be co-managed by indigenouspeoples, Parques Nacionalesand INAI (Instituto Belize NacionalIndigenista).The projectwillbe formulatedwiththe di- rect participation of indigenous organizationin the three prov- Education/Training inces. Main project components will be (a) investment in production and resource management systems; (b) assistance Education Sector Improvement Project. The major objec- for capacity building; and (c) administration, monitoring and tivesof this sector projectare (a) to support implementation of a evaluation.Project preparation is under way.EnvironmentalAs- primary and a secondary school reform programthat wouldin- sessment Category C. US$5.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices to crease access, equity,and qualityof education;and (b) to assist be determined. Instituto Nacionalde Asuntos Indigenos (INAI), the government in the design of appropriatepoliciesand levels Pte. Per6n 524, Piso 4 (1038), Buenos Aires,Argentina,Tel: (54- of budget support for sustainable educationprograms. Project 11) 4343-0370, Fax: (54-11)4342-1584, 4342-1734,Contact: Dr. preparationwill start in fiscalyear 2000.Environmental Assess- Jorge Pereda, Director ment Category C. US$ 12.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- Integrated Drug Abuse Prevention Pilot (Ln. 4472-AR): quired. Ministryof Education,Belmopan,Belize,Tel: (501)823- This learning and innovationloan (LIL)will (a) reduce the de- 342,Fax: (501) 823-389 mand for illicit drugs through strengthening of public and pri- vate drug abuse prevention institutions; and (b) support Bolivia informationgatheringto assess the prevalenceand factors asso- ciatedwith drug abuse. Participatory mechanism,targeting vul- nerable groups (i.e. youth) wouldbe used to establish capacity Environment in drug abuse prevention, treatment, rehabilitationand reinte- gration of addicts into society.The projectwas approved,follow- (R) Sustainabilityof the Bolivian Protected Areas System: ing LILprocedures, on 5 May 1999.EnvironmentalAssessment The projectwill support the managementof nationalparks and Category to be determined. US$4.8 (IBRD).Consultingservic- protected areas.Appraisalmissionwas scheduledfor mid-Septem- es to be determined. Secretariatof Drug Prevention,Sarmiento ber 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 15.0 546, Piso 4, 1041 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tel: (54-11)4383- (GEF). Consultingservices to be determined. Ministry of Sus- 3166, 4383-8741, 4381-8157, Fax: (54-11)4383-4439, 4393-3166, tainable Developmentand Planning,La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) Contact:Licda.VivianaFridman 430-881, Fax: (591-2)434-540 SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE61 PublicSectorManagement (R) Land Management III (SAo Paulo) (Ln. 4238-BR): The project aims to generate sustainable productivity gains through Judicial Reform: The project will assist in (a) the implementa- improved land management and soil conservation in approxi- tion of the srrategic plan adopted by the Judicial Council for mately 1,500 microcatchments (6 million ha) involving 90,000 2000-04; (b) implementation of alternative dispute resolution farmers in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo. Approved by the mechanisms; (c) the establishment and operation of a judicial Executive Directors on 28 October 1997. Loan signing is tenta- school; and (d) the implementation of the Judicial Career Act, in- tively scheduled for late September 1999. Environmental Assess- cluding development of an incentive package. Project is being ment Category B. US$ 55.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be identified Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 determined. Secretary of Agriculture of Sao Paulo, Ave. Brasil (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Jus- 2340, CP 280, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tel: (55-19) 241-3800,Fax: (55- tice/Judicial Council 19) 241-4963 SocialSector (R) Land Reform II: The project, the first component of an APL, would address land distribution and its effects on the poor. Indigenous People: The project will (a) strengthen the institu- Adopting an innovative, market-based approach, it would em- tional and organizational capacity of indigenous and Afro-Bolivi- power communities to take the lead in land purchases and devel- an peoples as well as governmental institutions working with opment. The project would build upon lessons learned during these groups; (b) revise and reform indigenous legal frame- the implementation of the Land Reform Project. Negotiations are work; (c) test innovative microprojects managed by and for in- scheduled for late September 1999. Environmental Assessment digenous and Afro-Bolivian communities; and (d) establish Category B. PID: BRPE50772. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting communal reserves for biodiversity conservation. Project is be- services to be determined. Ministro Extraordinaria de Politica ing identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 Fundiaria SBN, Ed. Palacio do Desenvolvimento, Andar 18, (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Viceministerio 70057-900Brasilia, DF, Brazil, Tel: (55-61)214-7474,Fax: (55-61) de Asuntos Indigenas y Pueblos Originarios (VIPO), Sanchez 226-3855 Lima 2072, Mazzanine, CP M-10126, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591) 237-4295 Education/Training Transport Bahia Education: The project is designed to increase enroll- ments, permanence, performance and promotion rates of stu- San Jose-Puerto Suarez: The credit will finance construction dents in secondary cycle (9-11grades) and fundamental cycle (1- of the San Jos&Puerto Suarez road, a section of about 400 km of 8 grades) schools in the state of Bahia. The design is coordinat- the export corridor Santa Cruz-Puerto Suarez. Identification ed with planned federal projects and complements their activi- mission is scheduled for fiscal year 2000. Environmental Assess- ties in the State. Appraisal mission is scheduled for early ment Category to be determined. US$ 65.0 (IDA). Consulting November 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. PID: services to be determined. Servicio Nacional de Caminos, Edif. BRPE59565. US$ 180.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Centro de Comunicaci6nes, Piso 8, Ave. Mariscal Santa Cruz, Secretariat of Education, Bahia, Centro Administrativo da Bahia, esq. Ororu, La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 342-957, Fax: (591-2) 5 Ave. 550, Andar 3, Salvador, 41796-900Bahia, Brazil, Tel: (55- 391-764 71) 371 5611, Fax: (55-71)371 5650, Contact: EraldoTinoco Me- lo, State Secretary UrbanDevelopment Ceara - Quality Improvement in Basic Education: The Municipal Sector II: The project will provide financing for in- project will improve the quality of basic education in the state of vestments in municipal services as well as technical assistance Ceara though the following actions (a) promotion of early child- to improve the institutional capacity of local governments and hood development activities; (b) regularization of student flows; Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Regional. Project preparation is (c) teacher training programs; (d) programs in the area of sci- under way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 ence education; (e) support of school development projects; (f) (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Fondo Nacional decentralization of educational management; and (g) communi- de Desarrollo Regional (FNDR), Ave. 20 de Octubre, No. 2038, ty participation and social mobilization. Appraisal mission is La Paz, Bolivia, Tel: (591-2) 390-896, Fax: (591-2) 392-123, Con- scheduled for mid-December 1999. Environmental Assessment tact: Bernardo Silva Category C. PID: BRPE59566. US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Secretariat of Education, Ceara, Centro Admin- Brazil istrativo Virgilio Tavora, Bairro Cambeba, 60830-070,Fortaleza, Ceara, Tel: (55-85) 218-1412, Fax: (55-85) 218-1446, 488-8310, Contact: Antenor Manoel Naspolini, State Secretary, E-mail: nas- Agriculture po@seduc.ce.gov.br (R) Animal and Plant Health Protection (Ln. 4480-BR): Fundescola II (La. 4487-BR): The objective of the project is The project will continue to support the government's effort to to increase student learning and achievement. The program reduce/eliminate animal and plant diseases affecting Brazilian would finance and support subprojects prepared by states, mu- exports of beef, pork, poultry and selected fruits. It would be nicipalities and schools in the North, Northeast and Center West mainly concentrated in the exporting areas of southern Brazil. regions. The project would also support the provision of new This is a follow up to a livestock control project financed by the classrooms for out-of-school children in these three regions. Ap- Bank. Approved by the Executive Directors on 27 May 1999. proved by the Executive Directors on 8 June 1999. Loan signing Loan signing is tentatively scheduled for late September 1999. En- is tentatively scheduled for late September 1999. Environmental vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 44.0 (IBRD). Consult- Assessment Category C. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be ing services to be determined. Ministry of Agriculture, required. Ministry of Education, Projects Management Center, Esplanada dos Ministerios, BI "D", Anexo B, Sala 406, Brasilia, Via N-1 Leste Paviliao das Metas, Brasilia, DF 70150-900,Brazil, DF 70043-900, Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 226-6182, Fax: (55-61) 224- Tel: (55-61) 316-2908, Fax: (55-61) 316-2910, Contact: Ant6nio 3995 Emilio Sendim Marques, Director General PAGE62 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 Environment Infrastructure (R) Biomass Pilot Power: The project will include commercial (R) Fortaleza Urban Transport: The objectives of the project scale demonstration technology for generation of electricity, are to (a) improve the quality ofpublic urban transport in the For- based on the gasification of wood chips or sugar cane bagasse. taleza Metropolitan Region (FMR) by enhancing the development Project feasibility is well advanced under GEF/UNDP technical ofa fully integrated urban transport system under the coordination assistance funding. Appraisal mission is scheduled for late Sep- of a Regional Transport Coordination Commission (RTCC); (b) tember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: rehabilitate the Metrofor North Line; and (c) increase private BRPA37048. US$ 22.0/23.0 (IBRD/GEF). Consulting services sector participation in the operation and management of the to be determined. Ministry of Science and Technology; Compan- Metrofor system (North and South lines). Project is being iden- CHEtified. hia Hidro Electrica do Sio Francisco Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. ia Hidroolectricaao raio Francisco RCHeSF),Dlivsao de Pro- US$ 82.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Com- jeto de Fontes Alternatives (FEFA), Rua Delmiro Gouveia, 333, panhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (CBTUJ),Estrada Velha da Anexso 1, Bloco B. Sala 3, 50761-901, Bonji, Recife PB, Brazil, Tijuca 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, Tel: (55-21) 575-3399,Con- Tel: (55-81) 251-0011/ 228-2605, Fax: (55-81) 251-2785,Contact: tact: Dr. Flavio Mota Monteiro, CBTU Mr. Eduardo Carpentieri, Manager (R) Emergency Fire Prevention (Ln. 4389-BR): The HealthandNutrition Population, project will help identify risk areas, take mitigation measures and combat fires. Approved by the Executive Directors on 10 Bahia Health: The project's main objective is to support the Septeomber 1998s.LAn s n i sheduled forelte Setme health reform process of the State of Bahia, specifically to (a) de- 1999.tenvr1998Lonent B.te AsigningisessmentuCtegory SepTeb velop and strengthen the health secretariat's initiatives; (b) in- 1999PE58129ironm15e0n(IBRD) Assessensltig Ctegorvs Pe B. dcrease access to basic health care services; and (c) improve the BRPE58129. US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- efficiency and quality of public hospitals and clinic services. Ap- mined. Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos praisal mission is scheduled for March 2000. Environmental As- Naturais Renovaveis (IBAMA), SAIN - Ave. LANorte, Ed. Sede sessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be 70800-200,Brasilia, DF, Brazil, Tel: (55-61)316-1212,Fax: (55-61) required. Secretariat of Health, Bahia, Ave. Luis Viana Filho - 4 316-1025 Ave., Platafoma 6, Lado B, CAB, 41746-900Salvador, Bahia, Tel: National Environment Project II:The project will strengthen (55-71)370-4383,Fax: (55-71)371-2488,Contact: Jose Maria Ma- environmental protection institutions at the state and local level galhaes Neto, State Secretary and support decentralized initiatives involving market mecha- Integrated Early Child Development: The project will sup- nisms and the private sector. This is an Adaptable Program Loan port expansion of access to education, health and social services and the first loan is for $15.0 million. Negotiations are scheduled for low-income children and their families, including improved for October 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: integration of services across sectors in Rio de Janeiro munici- BRPE35741. US$ 15.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- pality. Project processing is currently on hold. Environmental mined. Ministry of Environment, Water Resources and the Am- Assessment Category C. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services azon Region, Esplanada dos Ministerios, Zona Central, Bloco B. to be determined. Government of Rio de Janeiro Municipality, CEP 70.068-900, Tel: (55-61) 321-6323, Fax: (55-61) 224-5605, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Contact: Dra. Regina Crespo Gualda, Coordenadora do Progra- ma Nacional do Meio Ambiente Power PROAGUA II: The objectives of the project are to (a) promote Energy Efficiency (GEF): This project is the GEF component a continuous policy of sustainable use and participatory manage- for the Energy Efficiency (IBRD) project. Negotiations were ment of water resources in federal rivers, especially in the South, scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- Southeast and center West; (b) decentralize the function of water egory C. US$ 20.0 (GEF). Consulting services to be determined. resources management to independent user associations and ELECTROBRAS, Secretario Executivo Adjunto do PROCEL, river basin committees; and (c) evaluate an appropriate institu- Ave. P. Vargas 409, Andar 12, Edif. Hermes Stoldz, CEP 20071- tional framework for the creation and expansion of a network for 003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tel: (55-21) 221-5739,296-3939,Fax: technical support and operation of an integrated water resource (55-21) 224-2060 management to make effective use of water resources from fed- Energy Efficiency (IBRD): The objective of the project is to eral and state rivers. Project is being identified. Environmental improve the efficiency of electricity supply and use. The project Assessment Category A. US$ 200.0 (IBRD). Consulting services consists of three main interrelated components (a) demonstra- to be determined. Secretariat of Water Resources SGAN, Quadra tion projects involving new energy efficient technologies, proper 601, Lote 1, Edif. CODEVASF,Sala 401, Brasilia, Brazil, Tel: (55- price signals and delivery service options; (b) core support ac- 61) 317-1291,Contact: Dr. Fernando A. Rodriguez, Secretary tivities to facilitate future replication of energy efficient mea- sures; and (c) a capacity-building module to enhance policy, regulatory and implementation functions. Negotiations are Finance scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental Assessment Cat- Northeast Micro Finance: The objective of the program is to egory C. PID: BRPA39200.US$ 43.4 (IBRD). Consulting servic- develop and demonstrate an independent, sustainable mecha- es to be determined. ELECTROBRAS, Secretario Executivo nism for providing financial services to poor entrepreneurs in ur- Adjunto do PROCEL, Ave. P Vargas 409, Andar 12, Edif. Hermes ban and rural areas in the northeast region. The project would Stoldz, CEP 20071-003,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tel: (55-21) 221- support the Credit Amigo microfinance pilot program's expan- 5739, 296-3939,Fax: (55-21) 224-2060 sion in the areas of client outreach and financial services of- fered. Project preparation is under way. Environmental PublicSector Management Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Con- (R) INSS Reform: This learning and innovation loan will help sulting services to be determined. Banco do Nordeste, Ave. improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Social Security Paranjana 5700, Caixa Postal 628, CEP 60740-000,Fortaleza, Bra- Administration, at the national and state level, in order to reduce zil, Tel: (55-85) 299-3041, 299-3050,Fax: (55-85) 299-3674. undue pension payments and improve the quality of services. SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE63 Negotiations are tentatively scheduledfor late September 1999. En- State Highway Management III: The project would help fi- vironmental Assessment Category C. U$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consult- nance (a) the rehabilitation and maintenance of Minas Gerais' ing services to be determined. Ministry of Social Security, state road network; (b) the upgrading and paving of gravel Esplanada dos Ministerios, Bloco F, 70059-900Brasilia, DF, Bra- roads; and (c) the strengthening of the state's road sector man- zil, Tel: (55-61) 224-5914,Fax: (55-61) 225-7490 agement. Project processing is currently on hold. Environmen- Minas Gerais State Privatization (Ln. 4318-BR): The tal Assessment Category B. US$ 165.0 (IBRD). Consulting project will support the reform of the states' fiscal and financial services to be determined. Departamento de Estradas de Roda- accounts and institutional development. Approved by the Execu- gem do Estado de Minas Gerais, Ave. dos Andradas, 1,120-s/215 tive Directors on 28 April 1998. Congress has not approved the - Predio A-CEP 30120-010Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, loan, and it is on hold. Environmental Assessment Category C. Tel: (55-31) 224-8497, 235-1278, E-mail: der@mg.gov.br., Con- US$ 170.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Secretaria de tact: Julio Cesau Diviz Oliveira, Project Coordinator, Tel: (55-31) Estado do Planejamento e Coordenacao Geral (SEPLAN-MG), 235-1025 Rua da Balma 1600, Andar 10, (30160-907) Belo Horizonte, Mi- nas Gerais, Brazil, Tel: (55-31) 273-5733,Fax: (55-31)339-3109 Water Supply/Sanitation Structural Adjustment (R) Ceara Water Resource Management: The project will support the implementation of the State of Ceara's Integrated (R) Administrative and Labor Reform Adjustment. The Water Resource Management Plan. The project will include the project consists of actions to improve fiscal performance chiefly development of the institutional framework, management meth- through reducing the burden of the wage bill in the federal, state odologies and the infrastructure to achieve the integrated man- and municipal governments, as well as in the Federal District. agement of the state's water resource basins and to improve the Negotiations were tentatively scheduled for mid-September 1999. efficiency of use and stabilize the water supply. Project prepara- Board presentation is tentatively scheduledfor October 1999. This tion is under way. Environmental Assessment Category A. US$ project is part of the Bank's US$ 4.5 billion emergency package. 144.2 (IBR-D). Consulting services to be determined. Unidad de Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 750.0 (IBRD). Con- Prepara,ao do Proagua, Secretaria de Recursos Hidricos, sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Esplana- SGAN, Quadra 601, Lote 1, Ed. Sede da CODEVASF,Andar 4, da dos Ministerios, Bloco P, Andar 5, 70048-900 Brasilia, DF, Brasilia DF 70068-900,Tel: (55-61) 224-7020; Secretaria de Re- Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 321-3995, Fax: (55-61) 226-7935; Ministry of cursos Hidricos do Estado do Ceara, Rua Antonio Augusto 555, Administration, Esplanada dos Ministerios, Bloco C, Andar 7, Aldeota Fortaleza, Ceara, 60110-370, Brazil, Tel: (55-85) 219- 70046-900Brasilia, DF, Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 217-1414,Fax: (55-61) 1710/11, Fax: (55-85)219-1073 321-2625, Contact: Nelson Marconi (R) Prosanear II: The project will develop institutional capacity Transport to extend water and sewerage services to the urban poor, using community participation and appropriate low-cost technology. Salvador Urban Transport (Ln. 4494-BR): The project will Board presentation is scheduled for early October 1999. Environ- improve the quality of public transport by contributing to a fully mental Assessment Category B. PID: BRPA39199. US$ 30.0 integrated transport system including a new light rail system. (IBRD). Consulting services will be required. Secretary of Ur- Approved by the Executive Directors on 17 June 1999. Loan ban Development, SEDU, Palacio do Planato Anexo I, Terreo, signing is tentatively scheduled for September 1999. Environ- Brasilia, DF, CEP 70076-900, Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 411-2128, Fax: mental Assessment Category A. PID: BRPE48869. US$ 150.0 (55-61) 411-2124,Contact: Adelmar Torres (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. CBTU, Estada Velha da Tijuca, 77 Usina 20531-080, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, (R) Water Sector Modernization II (Ln. 4292-BR): The Tel: (55-21) 575-8750,Fax: (55-21)208-1780 project will (a) finance investments in water and sewerage utili- ties in poor states and municipalities of the North, Northeast and Sao Paulo Integrated Urban (BARRA FUNDA-Roosevelt) Center-West Regions; (b) assist these utilities to improve their Transport (In. 4312-BR): The project will integrate the rail- operational and managerial efficiency; and (c) assist states and based modes in the Sao Paulo Metro region (including CBTIU municipalities to study and implement institutional and regulato- FEPASA, METRO) and the inter-municipal bus system seeking ry reforms of their water sector, including private sector partici- a reduction of buses on the street, reducing travel times and im- pation. Approved by the Executive Directors on 5 March 1998. proving the environment by building a 7.3 km rail link on an ex- Loan was signed on 16 June 1999. Cofinancing of US$ 105.0 mil- isting right of way. Approved by the Executive Directors on 7 April 1998. Loan signing is tentatively scheduled for September yon ISexpected from OECF EnvIronmental Assessment Catego- 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: BRPA06559. ry A PID: BRPA43420. US$ 144.2 (IBRD). Consultants will be US$ 45.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Trans- required. Secretary of Urban Development PMSS, Sector Ban- port Secretariat of Sao Paulo, Ave. Paulista 402, Andar 15, 01310- cario Sul, Edif. BNDES, Andar 18, Brasilia, DF, CEP 70076-900, 903 Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tel: (55-11) 285-0993, 281-6101,Fax: (55- Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 322-7170, Fax: (55-61) 322-7223, Contact: 11) 285-9054, Contact: Mr. Arnaldo Pereira Marcio Tagliari, Coordinator Sao Paulo Transport (Fourth Line): The project would inte- Paraiba do Sul: The loan will support an integrated resources grate the rail-based modes in the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region management project including water quality management for (including CBTU, FEPASA and Metro) and the Sao Paulo Mu- Brazil's second most important watershed - the Paraiba do Sul nicipal system and build a 13.5km underground metro line. Ap- River in the States of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais. praisal mission is postponed until further notice. Environmental Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Assessment Category B. US$ 350.0 (IBRD). Consulting services Category B. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- to be determined. Transport Secretariat of Sao Paulo, Ave. mined. Ministerio do Meio Ambiente, dos Recursos Hidricos e Paulista 402, Andar 15, 01310-903Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tel: (55-11) da Amazonia, (MMA) and Secretaria Recursos Hidricos (SRH), 285-0993,281-6101, Fax: (55-11) 285-9054,Contact: Mr. Arnaldo Esplanada dos Ministerios Bloco B, Andar 5, 700553-900 Pereira Brasilia, DF, Brazil, Tel: (55-61) 317-1000,Fax: (55-61)226-4345 64 PAGE MonthlyOperational Summary SEPTEMBER 1999 Chile mechanisms for carrying out the five-to ten-yearprogram for the eco-regionwhichis definedin the plan.Project preparationis WaterSupply/Sanitation under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 5.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. National Plan- (R) Water Resources Management. The project would sup- ningDepartment,Edif.Fonade,Calle26, No. 13-19, Bogota,Co- port the government's efforts to defineand implementa national lombia,Tel: (57-1)336-1600 water resources management policyand develop an innovative High Andes: The projectwill support the implementationof a institutionalframework suitable for the decentralized manage- program for conservationand sustainableuse of biodiversityin ment of water resources. Project is being identified.A PHRD the Andes. Project preparationis under way.Environmental As- grant for Projectpreparationhas beenapproved.Environmental sessment Category B. US$ 15.0 (GEF).Consultingservices to Assessment Category B. US$25.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices be determined. Ministro del Ambiente, Calle 37 No. 8-40, willbe required. Implementingagency is to be determined. BogotA, Colombia, Tel: (57-1)288-6877,Fax: (57-1)288-9892 Sierra Nevada: The project will support the conservation of Colombia globallysignificant biodiversitywithin the frameworkof the sus- tainabledevelopmentplan for the SierraNevadade Santa Marta. Agriculture Project is being identified.Environmental AssessmentCategory C. US$ 7.0 (GEF). Consultingservices to be determined. Fun- Partnership for Peace: The project will support the restruc- daci6n Pro-Sierra Nevada de Sta Marta, Calle 74, No. 2-86, turing of the land reform agency and facilitate the transfer of BogotA, Colombia, Tel: (571)310-0571 land to the rural poor.Appraisalmission is scheduled for Febru- ary 2000. Environmental Assessment Category B. PID: COPA41642. US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consultantswillbe required for Finance studies on farm size/efficiency relationships and cost/benefit Infrastructure Project Finance Facility:The loan wouldes- analysis. Ministry of Agricultureand ColombianLand Reform tablish an Infrastructure FinanceFacilityto be managedby Ban- Institute co de Comercio. The Facility would aim to attract private financingand investments of sufficientmagnitude and at the Education/Training best possibleterms to help meet Colombia's growinginfrastruc- Decentralized Human Capital:The project would ture needs. Project is being identified. EnvironmentalAssess- nmtroduce ment Category C.US$50.0 (IBRD). Consultantswillbe required and test innovative financial intermediation arrangements to for project preparation. Implementing agency is to be deter- channel funds to decentralizedentities (departmental and local mined governments) for investments for human development,while mined ensuring fiscal discipline.Project preparation is under way.En- vironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. US$30.0 Infrastructure (IBRD).Consultingservices to be determined. Fundaci6n So- EarthquakeEmergency Recovery:The projectwillassist the cial,Calle72 No. 10-71, Pisos 11y 12, Santafede BogotA, Colom- government in the reconstruction of socialand economicinfra- bia, Tel: (57-1)310-5700, Fax: (57-1)321-0841, Contact:Alvaro structure in the area affectedby the earthquake that hit the cof- Davila,Presidente; Departamento Nacionalde Planeaci6n,Edif. fee growing region in late January 1999. Project is being Fonade, Calle 26 No. 13-19,Piso 14, Santafede BogotA, Colom- identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be deter- bia,Tel: (57-1)281-3348, Fax: (57-1)334-0221, Contact:Dr.Jaime mined. US$ 225.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- Ruiz,Director mined. Fondo para la Reconstrucci6n de la Regi6n del Eje Millenium Science Fund: This learning and innovationloan Cafetero (FOREC) will revitalizethe nationalinnovationsystem through support of advancedtraining of human capitalby world-class scientists en- SectorManagement Public gaged in cutting-edgeresearch. The projectwill providethe nec- essary technical assistance and funding to establish and Judicial Reform: The JudicialReform Program will (a) intro- strengthen centers of excellence in research. Project prepara- duce community-based, conflictresolutionmechanisms;(b) im- tion is under way.Environmental Assessment Category to be de- prove the civil process and court administration; and (c) termined. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be improve the judiciary's governance and managerial capacity. determined. Colciencias, Transversal 9A,No. 133-28, Santaf6de Projectis being identified.Environmental AssessmentCategory Bogota,Colombia,Tel: (571)216-3963, Fax: (571)625-1788, Con- C. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. tact: Fanny Almario,Asesora, Subdirecci6nde Programas de Corte Suprema de Justicia,Campode la Judicatura Desarrollo CientificoyTecnol6gico Public Financial Management II: The project will support Rural Education:The projectwill improvethe equityof access the consolidationand completionof reform in tax and customs to qualityeducationbetween rural and urban areas. Project prep- administration.It would also enable the extension of the inte- aration is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. grated financial management system throughout the central US$20.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices to be determined. Minis- government and improve public expenditure management. try of Education,Grupo de Educaci6n,Ave.El Dorado Can, Ofi- Projectis being identified.Environmental AssessmentCategory cina 301, Santafede Bogota Colombia,Tel: (571) 222-3828, Fax: to be determined. US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices to be (571)222-3828, Contact:Mrs. TemildaOlarte determined. Ministry of Finance, Carrera 7A,No. 6-45,Santafe de Bogota,Colombia,Tel: (57-1)286-3656, Fax: (57-1) 284-8026, Environment 284-5396 (R) Sustainable Development of Sierra Nevada de Santa Structural Adjustment Marta:This learning and innovationloan (LIL)willsupport the implementationof the SustainableDevelopmentPlan for Sierra FinancialSector Adjustmentk The loanwillsupport a compre- Nevada de Santa Marta. The LIL would support the establish- hensive financialsector adjustmentprogram, includingreforms ment and effective operation of the institutionaland financial in legislationand regulatory framework,depositinsurance and SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE65 reform/privatization of state-owned banks and cooperative sys- Telecommunications tems. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment (R) Telecommunications Regulation (in. 4505-DO): The Category to be determined. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting ser- ()TlcmuiaosRglbn(n 55D) h vices to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Carrera 7A No. 6- project seeks to improve the ability of the government to regu- 45,cisto beBogota,ieColomiistry N Tel: (571)n286-, Carax. (571) - late and grant telecommunication concessions and licenses and 45, Piso 3, Bogot3, Colombia, Tel: (571) 286-3656,Fax: (571) 284- to increase efficiency of telecommunication services within a competitive framework. Approved by the Executive Directors on 6 July 1999. Loan signing was scheduledfor late August 1999. En- Urban Development vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 12.3 (IBRD). Consult- Colombia Barro Uing services to be determined. Secretaria Tecnica de la Colombia Barrio Upgrading and Land Regularization: 'Me Presidencia (SECTEC), Edif. Oficinas Gubernamentales, project will support the improvement of living conditions in low- Bloque C, Piso 2, Ave. Mexico, Esquina Dr. Delgado, Santo Do- income areas in Colombia's largest cities (Bogota, Cali, mingo, Dominican Republic, Tel: (809) 221-2977,Fax: (809) 221- Medellin, Barranquilla and Cartagena) by (a) improving sanita- 2980, Contact: Jose Manuel Luna tion services, access roads, public spaces and communal servic- es; (b) regularizing land titles; (c) strengthening community development programs; and (d) supporting development of a Ecuador longer term strategy to finance low income shelter. Project is be- ing identified. Environmental Assessment Category to be deter- Education/Training mined. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined Municipalities of Bogota, Cali, Medellin, Barranquilla and Cart- Education of Bogot., Cali, Medellin,BarranquillaandCart- Municipalities ministrative II: and include The project will strengthening; (a) institutional (b) support andand for expansion ad- agena; Ministry of Development quality improvement of primary and secondary education. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Water Supply/Sanitation Category to be determined. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting servic- (R) Cartagena Water and Sewerage: The project will finance es to be determined. Ministerio de Educaci6n, San Salvador y sewerage and wastewater treatment works including (a) expan- EloY Alfaro (s/n)5Pi0 o ntact 4, Sra RosangelaAdoum, Ministen5a sion of sewerage networks and main collectors; and (b) con- de Educacion struction of municipal wastewater treatment and disposal installations. Approved by the Executive Directors on 20 July 1999. Education Sector Development: The project would support Environmental Assessment Category A. PID: COPA44140. US$ strengthening of the framework for pre-service and in-service 85.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Municipali- teacher training. Project preparation is under way. Environmen- ty of Cartagena in Partnership with Aguas de Barcelona, Manga tal Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). 3ra, Ave. 21-62, Cartagena de India, Colombia Consulting services to be determined. Ministerio de Educaci6n, San Salvador y Eloy Alfaro (s/n), Piso 4, Quito, Ecuador, Tel: (593-2) 555-360, Fax: (593-2) 557-015, Contact: Sra. Rosangela Costa Rica Adoum, Ministra de Educaci6n Education Systems and Management. The project would Finance support transformation and strengthening of the Ministry of Ed- Pension Reform and Financial Sector Development The ucation. Project preparation is under way. Environmental As- project will support the reform of Costa Rica's pension system sessment Category to be determined. U$ 5.0 (IBRD). and institute reforms in the banking/financial sector. The Consulting services to be determined. Ministerio de Educacion, on technical projectwill buil work undertaken wt PHRD San Salvador y Eloy Alfaro (s/n), Piso 4, Quito, Ecuador, Tel: project Will build on technical work undertaken with PHRD (593-2) 555-360, Fax: (593-2) 557-015, Contact: Sra. Rosangela grant funds in 1997. Project is in the early stages of identification. Adoum, Ministeria de Educaci6n Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Power Finance, San Jose, Costa Rica, Tel: (506) 255-4874 Public Enterprise Reform and Privatization: The project Dominican Republic will support structural and regulatory reform and privatization of the hydrocarbon, electricity and telecommunications sectors. Project has been identified. Environmental Assessment Catego- Power ry B. US$ 22.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Power Market Development: The project's overall objective is Implementing agency to be determined. to support power sector reform by establishing a competitive bulk supply market for electricity. Specifically, the project seeks Rural Development to lift transmission constraints that hinder open access of power Rural and Small City Water: The project will (a) finance water generators and to support (a) installation of an Energy Control and sanitation projects in about 55 small towns and 500 rural Center (ECC) and Financial Setflement Center (FSC); (b) communities; (b) provide capacity building for national and pro- strengthening and expansion of the Interconnected Transmis- vincial governments to assist small towns and rural communi- sion System; (c) providing technical assistance to sector regula- ties; and (c) provide technical assistance for institutional tory entities; and (d) contribution to separation costs for sector strengthening of beneficiary towns and communities. Appraisal staff. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assess- mission is scheduled for September 1999. Environmental As- ment Category B. US$ 89.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will be sessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting services will required for engineering studies. Comision de Reforma de la be required. Ministerio de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano Empresa P6blica (CREP), Tel: (51-809) 683-3591,Fax: (51-809) (MIDUVI), Toledo 684 y Lerida, Ecuador, Tel: (593) 554-400, 683-3888,Contact: Carlos Jeremias Santana Fax: (593) 560-338,Contact: Sigifredo Aldaz PAGE66 Summary MonthlyOperational 1999 SEPTEMBER SocialSector Guatemala Peace and Integration: This loan will assist the government on the peace process with Peru by supporting activities which Agriculture would help strengthen and increase the economic development and integration in the border area. Activities are likely to be (R) Land Administration (Ln. 4415-GT): The project will (a) geared toward providing basic infrastructure needed to support increase legal security of land tenure in Peten Department in other economic activities. Project is being identified. Project Guatemala; (b) strengthen the legal and institutional framework preparation will depend upon progress attained in the peace pro- of land registry and cadastre services in Peten; and (c) establish cess. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). a project management unit. This is to be achieved through a par- Consultants will be required for project preparation. Implement- ticipatory process for conflict mitigation and resolution. Ap- ing agency is to be determined. proved by the Executive Directors on 3 December 1998. Loan signing is tentatively scheduledfor December 1999. Environmen- Social Safety Net- The project will support the consolidated tal Assessment Category B. PID: GTPA49616. US$ 31.0 (IBRD). safety net for the poorest subgroup to mitigate the social impact Consultants will be required. Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock of the economic crisis. Project preparation is under way. Envi- and Food, 7 Ave. 12-90,Zona 13, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatema- ronmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 30.0 la, Tel: (502) 362-4762,Fax: (502) 334-3510 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Secretariat of State of Social Sectors (SEDES), San Salvador y Ave. Eloy Alfaro, (R) Land Fund (Ln. 4432-GT): The project would support Piso 4, Tel: (593-2) 555-360, Fax: (593-2)557-015 one of the land-related commitments under the December 1996 Peace Accords. Specifically, the objectives are to (a) facilitate ac- Structural Adjustment cess to land; (b) provide technical assistance and subproject fi- nancing to beneficiaries, and (c) initiate improvements to the Financial Sector Assessment: The loan will provide technical efficiency of land markets. Approved by the Executive Directors assistance and partial financing for bank failure resolution in or- on 7 January 1999. Loan signing is tentatively scheduled for De- der to contribute to a stronger banking system. Project is being cember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 23.0 identified. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Agri- (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project preparation. culture, Livestock and Food, 7 Ave. 12-90, Zona 13, Ciudad de Ministry of Finance, Ave. 10 de Agosto y Jorge Washington, Guatemala, Guatemala, Fax: (502) 334-3510, Contact: Lic. Luis Edif. Min. de Finanzas, Quito, Ecuador, Tel: (593-2)500-704,Fax: Alberto Castaneda, Vice Minister (593-2) 569-386 Finance T=ransport Rural Financial Markets: The project will support govern- Rural Roads and Development: The loan will finance (a) ment efforts to improve the functioning of financial markets in technical assistance for institutional strengthening, regulatory rural areas. Specifically, it will (a) improve the business environ- reform and increased private sector participation; and (b) a rural ment for financial transactions; (b) improve regulatory/supervi- roads rehabilitation and maintenance program. Project prepara- sory framework for non-bank financial institutions; (c) support tion is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be de- target poverty alleviation interventions; and (d) support overall termined. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be policy reforms for the sector. An analysis of rural finance issues determined. Implementing agency to be determined. and a study on the environment for secured transactions are nearly completed. Project identification and preparation will be Water Supply/Sanitation initiated shortly. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Implement- Guayaquil Water III: The project will support privatization of ing agency is to be determined. water and sewerage services of Guayaquil and initial investment program, including rehabilitation of the drainage networks, and extension of the water and sewerage network to low income Private Sector Development neighborhoods. Appraisal mission is scheduled for December Competitiveness: The project will support regulatory changes 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). and institutional development to promote increased internation- Consulting services to be determined. Implementing agency is al competitiveness of businesses, most likely through assistance to be determined. in firm-level skills training, information technology, internation- al trade and product quality and certification systems. Project El Salvador preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Education/Training determined. Ministry of Economy, 01001 8a. Ave. 10-43Zona 1, Guatemala, Tel: (502) 251-8606,251-7135,Fax: (502) 238-2413 Education Reform (Ln. 4320-SV): The loan will support the first phase of an Adaptable Program Loan. It will assist the gov- Transport ernment in (a) improving equity both in access and quality of ba- sic education to achieve universal coverage at this level and Rural Roads: The project will continue the work started under strengthen programs in initial and preschool education; and (b) Loan 4260-GUto improve road transport access in the poorer ar- further the institutional modernization process initiated under eas of the country to stimulate economic activity, improve com- previous Bank-supported projects in the sector. Approved by the mercialization of non-traditional agricultural products and Executive Directors on 7 May 1998. Loan signing was tentatively provide greater access to social services. Project preparation scheduled for late September 1999. Environmental Assessment will begin once the ongoing Rural Roads project is more ad- Category B. US$ 85.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- vanced. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. mined. Ministry of Education, Intersection Calle Guadalupe y US$ 75.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Institu- Alameda Juan Pablo II, Edif. Plan Maestro, Nueva San Salvador, to de Fomento Municipal, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Fax: El Salvador, Tel: (503) 281-0299,Fax: (503) 281-0305 (502) 334-6709,Contact: Alberto Alfaro, Manager SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE67 Urban Development Social Sector Low Income Urban Settlements Improvements: The Economic and Social Fund II: The project will support con- project includes (a) a community subprojects component to im- tinued financing of small-scale subprojects in the social sectors. prove physical infrastructure and build the social and technical Appraisal mission is tentatively scheduled for mid-January 2000. capacity of communities to participate in the improvement of set- Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 35.0 (IDA). Con- tlement living conditions; (b) a land tenure regularization com- sulting services to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Port-au- ponent to provide registered land titles to squatters of public Prince, Haiti, Fax: (509) 223-1247 land in project areas; and (c) an institutional strengthening and project management component to provide technical assistance Honduras and equipment and carry out studies. Project preparation is un- der way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Pub- Environment lic Finance, Guatemala City, Guatemala Sustainable Coastal Tourism Planning and Management. This learning and innovation loan will support development of a Guyana national policy for sustainable tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Honduras through a learning and participatory process. The Environment project will work at the national and municipal levels to create the necessary safeguards to ensure that environmental goods, National Protected Area Systems: The project will enable the services and amenities that are the basis for marine-based tour- government to establish a national system of protected areas ism in the region are guaranteed, and that benefits from tourism which would conserve globally important biodiversity as an es- are widely distributed to ensure a broad participation in the eco- sential step toward the sustainable management of the country's nomic development that investment in the Caribbean corridor is natural resources, and the maintenance of access to internation- likely to bring about. Project is being prepared with PHRD al markets for these resources. Project preparation is under way. funds. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 aDA). Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 6.0 (GEF). Most Consulting services to be determined. Honduras National Insti- consultants have been contracted. Office of the President, Geor- tute of Tourism, Apartado Postal 3261, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, getown, Guyana Tel: (504) 222-4002,Fax: (504) 238-2102 Structural Adjustment Population, Health and Nutrition Structural Adjustment. This credit is a follow-up to the recent- Health Sector Reform: The objectives of the project are to (a) ly closed Private Sector Development Adjustment Credit and the improve the institutional capacity and management systems of ongoing Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program. The opera- the Ministry of Health and the health fund of the social security tion will focus on accelerating privatization, civil service reform system; (b) increase the quality of service delivery; (c) strength- and financial sector strengthening. Project preparation is under en the financing mechanisms of the health sector; and (d) pro- way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 25.0 (IDA). vide support to institutionalize existing rural water supply and Consultants will be required. Ministry of Finance, Privatization nutrition initiatives. Project is being identified. Objectives will be Unit, Main St. & Urquhart Rd., Georgetown, Guyana, Tel: (592) revised to take into account the damage caused by Hurricane 260-576, Contact: Winston Brassington Mitch. A PHRD Grant has been approved for project prepara- tion. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. UrbanDevelopment US$ 45.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Health and IHSS, Contiguo al Correo Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Secondary Towns Infrastructure Development: The project Honduras, Tel: (504) 2228-518,Fax: (504) 2384-141 will support (a) policy reform support; (b) development of urban and rural infrastructure facilities and inter-urban roads in the Social Sector project area;and (c) strengthening of the institutional, manageri- al, financial and technical capabilities of the concerned towns to (N) Fifth Fondo Hondurenio de Inversi6n Social (FHIS V): operate and maintain these facilities effectively. Environmental The project would provide continued support for the successful Impact Assessment has been reviewed. Environmental Assess- FHIS program which aims at (a) increasing access among the ment Category A. PID: GYPA35723. US$ 25.0 (IDA). Consult- poor to small-scale social and economic infrastructure in accor- ants have been selected to prepare studies in the areas of urban dance with local development priorities; and (b) developing so- transportation, development, and environment. Ministry of Pub- cial assistance programs for disadvantaged groups and lic Works, Communications, and Regional Development, Fort contributing to the prospects for sustainability of such invest- St., Kingston, Georgetown, Guyana, Tel: (592-2) 59868, Fax: ments. It would continue the support provided under FHIS IV (592-2) 59865 which became effective in November 1998. Funds from that credit were committed almost in their entirety for priority reha- bilitation work resulting from damage caused by Hurricane Haiti Mitch in November 1998. Project preparation is under way. En- vironmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 60.0 Education/Training (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Fondo Hondurefio de Inversi6n Social (FHIS), Edif. APROHCAFE, Apartado 3581, Basic Education: The project would assist the government in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Contact: Iliana Waleska, Pastor Minis- promoting greater equity and quality in delivery of basic educa- ter/Director tion services. Negotiations are tentatively scheduled for Novem- ber 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 28.0 Structural Adjustment (IDA). Consultants will be required. Ministry of Education, 5 Rue Audain, Local IPN, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tel: (509) 222- Financial Sector Adjustment. The credit will support reform 5042, Fax: (509) 23-78-87 of the banking sector. Identification mission to be scheduled PAGE68 MonthlyOperational Summary SEPTEMBER 1999 shortly.EnvironmentalAssessment Category to be determined. and industry; (b) improve the qualityof training deliverysys- US$50.0 (IDA).Consultingservices to be determined. Ministry tems and outcomes in the labor market; (c) developmore effec- of Finance/Central Bank, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Fax: (504) tive and financially sustainable training institutions; (d) 237-6261 consolidatelabor competenciesnorms and certificationsystem; and (e) increase privatesector participationin training delivery. Transport Projectis being identified.Environmental AssessmentCategory to be determined. US$450.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices to be (R) RuralRoads: The originalobjectiveof the projectwas to re- determined. Secretaria de Educaci6n Publica, Ave. Argentina habilitatehigh-priorityroad sectionswhich connectHondurasto No.28, Oficina301,Piso 2, Col.Centro,06029Mexico,DF,Mex- its neighboring countries and improve road transport access in ico,Tel: (525) 510-8927 the poorer areas of the country to stimulate economicactivity and provide greater access to social services. Project prepara- Environment tion is under way and willnow need to take into accountthe im- pact of Hurricane Mitch. EnvironmentalAssessment Category (N) Disaster Management. This projectwill help the govern- to be determined. US$ 50.0 (IDA). Consultingservices to be de- ment to better prepare for and financerecovery from naturaldi- termined. Secretariade Obras Publicas,Transporte y Vivienda, sasters. Project preparation under way. Environmental Barrio La Bolsa,Comayaguela,Honduras,Tel: (504)333-038 Assessment Category B. US$140.0 (IBRD). Consultantswillbe required for project preparation.Implementingagency is to be Jamaica determined. (R) Alternative Energy:The projectwould assist the govern- Environment ment in removing barriers to the use of solar and windtechnol- ogy for productive applications in isolated areas inhabited Cockpit Country Conservation: The goal of the projectis to primarily by poor rural households and small farmers. This conserve the biodiversityof the Cockpit Country in northwest- wouldbe achievedthrough an integrated approachinvolvingfi- ern Jamaica by managing it as a protected area, and to strength- nancialsupport for investmentin equipment,technology dem- en Jamaica's overall system of protected areas. Project onstration and dissemination, and technical assistance to preparation is under way.EnvironmentalAssessment Category strengthen local industrial capacity,vendor chains and institu- C. US$3.5 (GEF).Consultantswill be required. Ministry of En- tions involvedin the developmentof alternativeenergy applica- vironmentand Housing, 2 HagleyPark Rd., Kingston,10Jamai- tions. The project would complement the activities of the ca, Tel: (504) 32-2011,Fax: (504) 32-1828,Contact: Michael recently approved Agricultural Productivity Improvement White,President Project.Appraisal mission was scheduled for late August 1999. EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 8.7 (GEF). Con- Mexico sulting services to be determined. FIRCO,San Luis PotosiNo. 209, Mexico,DF, Mexico,Tel: (52-5)264-5288, Contact:Inanvel Agriculture ContijochEscontria,Director (R) Mesoamerican Biological Corridor: The objectiveof the Rural Development in MarginalAreas II: This projectis the projectis to promote conservationand sustainableuse of biodi- second phase of the Rural Developmentin MarginalAreas pro- versitythrough the establishmentof biologicalcorridors in the gram under the AdaptableLendingProgram approach.It aimsat southeast of Mexico.The corridors will foster the ecological expanding the program into new regions, and improvingfarm- equilibriumofland and coastalecosystems,withina sustainable er's income through productiveinvestments, communitydevel- developmentapproach.Project being identified.Environmental opment and technical assistance. Project preparation is under Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 14.0 (GEF).Con- way.EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. US$ 65.0 (IBRD). sulting services to be determined. Instituto Nacional de Consultingservices are no longer required. SAGAR, Ministryof Ecologia, Ave.Revoluci6n 1625,Nivel25, Ca.Tlacopac,S. Angel, Agricultureand Rural Development,RecreoNo. 51, Col Actipan 0100Mexico,DF, Mexico,Tel: (525) 624-3332, Fax: (525) 624- del Valle 03230,Mexico,DF, Mexico,Tel: (525) 534-9263, Con- 3589,Contact: Hans Vander Wal tact: EduardoPerez Haro, Director General,RegionalPrograms Air Quality and UrbanTransport: This project will comple- ment activitiesunder the Air QualityII project.The objectiveis Education/Training to reduce the costs of environmentaldegradation caused by Basic Education Development II: This project is the second emission of greenhouse gases in the MexicoCity metropolitan phase of a current adaptable adptale phas program rogrm loan ofa crren lan program. The project rogarn.Ibeproect area. Project ment Categorypreparation is (GEF). under way. Environmental Assess- B. US$25.0 Consultants willbe required includes (a) measures to increase access and improvequalityin msn ameg nry M (a i Plz de Cituirnd basic education services; (b) innovations in education to im- Comision AmbientalMetropolitana,Plaza de la Constituci6n, prove the qualityof education; and (c) strengthening the man- No. 1, Piso 3, Col. Centro Delegaci6nCuauhtemoc,CP 06068, agement of the Ministry of Education and decentralizationand Mexico strengthening of administrationat the state level.Appraisalmis- Air Quality II: The project is a follow-up to the First Urban sion is scheduled for the second quarter of fiscalyear 2000.En- Transport (Ln.2824-ME)and the Transport Air Pollution Con- vironmental Assessment Category C. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). trol (Ln.3543-ME)projects.The main objectivesof the project Consultingservices to be determined. Secretaria de Educaci6n are to improve air qualityand help establish a sustainable air Pulblica,Ave. Argentina No. 28, Ofic. 301, Piso 2, Col. Centro, qualitypolicyframeworkin the MexicoCity metropolitanarea. 06029Mexico,DF, Mexico,Tel: (52-5)510-0358, Fax: (525) 521- Project preparation is under way. EnvironmentalAssessment 8293 Category B. US$ 70.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Technical Trainingand Certification:The general objective ComisionAmbiental Metropoltana, Plaza de la Constituci6n, of the projectis to enhancethe internationalcompetitivenessof No. 1, Piso 3, Col. Centro Delegaci6nCuauhtemoc,C.P.06068, the labor force by improvingthe skill level of workers. Specific Mexico goals are to (a) develop a demand-led vocationaltraining system PROMAD: The projectwill assist the governmentin strength- in selected states and stronger links between training programs ening environmentalmanagementand decentralization. Project SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE69 preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category Health Reform ISSTE: The scope of the project is to be deter- B. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consultants have been contracted. Ministry mined. Identification mission is scheduled for September 1999. of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries (SEMAR- Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 350.0(IBRD). Con- NAP), Periferico Sur No. 4209, 60 Piso, Col. Fracci6n Amineto sulting services to be determined. Implementing agency to be Jardines en al Montafia, Mexico, DF, Mexico, Tel: (525) 628-8602 determined Programa de Ampliaci6n de Cobertura(PAC):This project Finance will complement activities under the Second Basic Health Care Financial Infrastructure: The loan will support reforms in Project. The objective is to consolidate the Programa de Ampli- regulation and law in the areas of secured transactions, bank- aci6n de Cobertura (PAC) and its expansion to rural and peri-ur- ruptcy, asset securitization and capital markets. It will also sup- ban areas located in states not covered by the ongoing project. port improvements in the institutional infrastructure for lending Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category and capital markets transactions. Project preparation is under C. US$ 300.0 (BRD). Consultants will be required for project way. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ 150.0 (IBRD). preparation. Secretariat of Health, Ave. Jose M. Vasconcelos 221, Consultants will be required for several components. Secretaria Piso 7, San Miguel Chapultepec, Mexico, DF 11850, Mexico, Tel: de Hacienda y Credito Publico (SHCP), Jose Maria Ibarraran (525) 211-7788,Fax: (525) 553-0583 No. 33, Piso 2, Colonia Jose Maria Insurgentes, Mexico, DF, Mexico,Tel: (525) 651-7284 Private Sector Development States Decentralization:The projectwould support the states' Business Development Services: This learning and innova- development as part of Mexico's ongoing decentralization pro- tion loan will seek to increase the outreach, impact, cost-effec- cess. Project preparation is under way. A PHRD grant was tiveness and financial viability of Mexico's business signed. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. development services for micro-, small- and medium-scale firms. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Imple- Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Category menting agency is to be determined. to be determined. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be de- termined. Implementing agency is to be determined. Infrastructure State-Level Private Sector Development: The project will Border Infmastructure Juarez: This learning and innovation support the competitiveness of the private sector on the regional loan will finance urban services and physical investments in se- level. Project is being identified. Environmental Assessment Cat- lected municipalities in the Northern Border area. Project prep- egory to be determined. US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consulting services aration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be to be determined. NAFIN determined. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- mined. Implementing agency to be determined as SEMARNAP Social Sector is facing budget constraints. (R) Social WelfareInstitutionalDevelopment (formerly Mu- Border Infrastructure Tijuana: This learning and innovation nicipalization ofDIF):The project will be designed as a learning loan will finance urban services and physical investments in se- and innovation loan with pilot experiments in selected states. It lected municipalities in the Northern Border area. Project prep- will support the restructuring of the National System of Integral aration is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be Family Development (DIF). Specific objectives include the de- determined. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- velopment of a national policy for social protection program; the mined. Implementing agency to be determined as SEMARNAP strengthening of the capacity of local governments to take over is facing budget constraints. from the Federal Government the function of policy develop- ment and program implementation; and more efficient use of Population, Health and Nutrition DIF resources. Negotiations are scheduled for October 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Con- (N) Programa de Ampliaci6n de Cobertura (PAC) III: This sulting services to be determined. Desarrollo Integral de la Fa- project will complement activities under the Second Basic milia, Emiliano Zapata 340, Piso 1, Col. Santa Cruz Atoyac 03310, Health Care Project. The project aims at consolidating the Pro- Mexico, DF, Mexico, Tel: (525) 629-2304 grama de Ampliaci6nde Cobertura (PAC)and expanding it to rural and peri-urban areas located in states not covered by the Social Welfare: The general development objective of the ongoing project. Project is being identified. Environmental As- project is to complement other poverty-oriented projects in Mex- sessment Category C. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be re- ico. The project would follow up the pilot food distribution pro- quired for project preparation. Secretariat of Health, Ave. Jose gram included in an earlier loan, and replicate the pilot program Maria Vasconcelos 221, Piso 7, San Miguel Chapultepec, Mexi- on a wider scale to other poor states covered by the Basic Health co, DF, Mexico, 11850,Tel: (525) 211-7788 I and II projects, taking into account lessons learned from evalu- Health Investment SSA The scope of the project is to be de- tified. Environmental Assessmten trCgramt Project is being iden- termined. Identification mission is scheduled for early fiscal year US$ 400.0 (IBRD)o . Consulting services to be determined. Secre- 2001. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 300.0 taria de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL), Ave. Constituyentes 947, BRD). Consulting services to be determined. Implementng Edif. B, PA., Col. Belem de las Flores, 01110 Mexico, DF, Mexi- agency to be determined co, Health Reform IMSS: The project will consolidate health re- form within Instituto Mexicano de Seguridad Social that was Structural Adjustment started under the adjustment loan. Identification mission is scheduled for May 2000. Environmental Assessment Category Financial Sector Restructuring II: The loan will support C. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. In- structural reforms in Mexico's banking sector. Project prepara- stituto Mexicano de Seguridad Social (IMSS), Alvaro Obreg6n tion is under way. Environmental Assessment Category to be de- 121, Piso 5, Mexico, DF, 06700 Mexico, Tel: (525) 208-5433,Fax: termined. US$ 500.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be (525) 533-2793 determined. Implementing agency is to be determined. PAGE70 MonthlyOperational Summary SEPTEMBER 1999 Transport system. At the same time, the operation will improve banking su- pervision and foster changes in other areas of the financial sec- Second Highway Rehabilitation: The project would support tor that are required by the pension reform effort. Project is (a) rehabilitation and periodic maintenance of federal roads; (b) being identified. Environmental Assessment Category U. US$ improvement in road maintenance management and toll roads 50.0 (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of management; and (c) staff training. Project preparation is under Finance, Managua, Nicaragua, Tel: (505) 222-7061,Contact: Es- way. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$200.0 (IBRD). teban Duque Estrada, Minister of Finance. Consultantswill be required for engineering and rehabilitation, maintenance and works supervision. Secretariat of Communica- tion and Transport, Mexico, DF, Mexico, Tel: (525) 519-3097 Telecommunications State Roads: The project will support (a) development of state (R) Telecommunications Sector Reform: The objectives of road networks and (b) state road institutions. This is an adapt- the project are to strengthen the policy and regulatory environ- able program loan. Project is being identified. Environmental As- ment in the telecommunications sector and improve access to sessment Category B. US$ 300.0 (IBRD). Consulting services services. Appraisal mission was scheduled for late August 1999. will be required. Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes; Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 7.0 (IDA). Consult- other selected state transportation agencies ing services to be determined. Empresa Nicaraguense de Tele- comunicaci6nes (ENITEL), Managua, Nicaragua, Tel: (505-2) 784-444,Ext. 72130,Fax: (505-2) 770-669,Contact: Ing. Raul Bar- Nicaragua rios; Instituto Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaci6nes y Correos (TELCOR), Managua, Nicaragua, Tel: (505-2) 632-171, Fax: Education/Training (505-2)632-169, Contact: Ing. Mario Montenegro (R) Second Basic Education Development. The project will support a second-phase development program for basic educa- Panama tion and will include (a) expansion of coverage and consolidation of the primary and secondary school decentralization model; (b) Agriculture expansion of coverage of the non-formal pre-primary education model; (c) quality improvements in basic education (teacher Land Administration: The objectives of the project are to (a) training, provision of educational materials, rehabilitation of ed- provide access and increased use of land administration services ucational infrastructure); and (d) institutional support to policy by stakeholders in project focus areas; and (b) consolidate the development, planning and research. Negotiations completed. National System of Protected Areas (SINAP) and indigenous Board presentation was scheduled for late August 1999.The peoples territories, which implies mapping, field demarcation, project will be modified according to needs arising from the im- buffer zone limits and legal status, and a local consultation pro- pact of Hurricane Mitch. Environmental Assessment Category cess. Project preparation is under way. Environmental Assess- to be determined. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be ment Category B. US$ 30.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Education, Centro Civico M6dulo S, determined. Ministry of Planning and Political Economy, Apar- Managua, Nicaragua, Tel: (505) 265-1253, Fax: (505) 265-2162, tado 2694, Zona 3, Ciudad de Panama, Panama, Tel: (507) 269- E-mail: aprendel@ibw.com.ni, Contact: Orlando Ortega, Coordi- 3276, Fax: (507) 264-7755 nador Proyecto Aprende Education/Training Finance Basic Education II: The project will expand the current Basic (N) Pensions Reform Technical Assistance: The objective Education Project to approximately 120 townships. The project of the project is to support the government's plan to create a will include (a) expanding the coverage and improving the qual- more equitable and sustainable system of old-age income securi- ity of primary education by supporting rehabilitation and con- ty for workers. Project preparation is under way. Environmental struction of primary schools, supporting in-service and pre- Assessment Category C. US$ 7.0 (IDA). Consulting services to service teacher training with an emphasis on multigrade teach- be determined. Technical Secretariat of the Presidency, Ave. Bo- ing and supporting the provision of textbooks and didactic mate- livar, Casa Presidencial, Managua Nicaragua rials for primary schools; (b) expansion of non-formal and preschool education programs (Community and Family Center Public Sector Management for Initial Education and Madre a Madre) with active participa- tion of the communities; and (c) support for the decentralization (R) Economic Management Technical Assistance: The of the Ministry of Education. Appraisal report is being prepared. project wili provide technical assistance to (a) strengthen the Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 42.0 (IBRD). Con- government's capacity to formulate and manage economic poli- sulting services will be required to prepare studies of several ar- cies with emphasis on public expenditures; (b) regulate and su- eas. Ministerio de Educacion, Banco Exterior, Ave. Balboa, Piso pervise the banking sector; (c) reform the national pension 13, Ciudad de Panama, Panama, Tel: (507) 227-1472,Fax: (507) system; and (d) increase the country's competitiveness in key 227-1473,Contact: Reynaldo Humberto Bedoya, Coordinator sectors. Appraisal mission was tentatively scheduledfor mid-Sep- tember 1999. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 10.0 PublicSector Management (IDA). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Fi- nance, Frente a la Asamblea Nacional, Ave. Bolivar, Managua, (R) Public Policy Reform Technical Assistance: The project Nicaragua, Tel: (505-2) 227-061, Fax: (505-2) 222-934, Contact: will support the government's public policy reform program in Esteban Dugue Estrada, Minister of Finance the areas of (a) trade reform, (b) civil service reform, (c) social security reform, (d) privatization, (e) domestic competition poli- Structural Adjustment cy, (f) tax reform, and (g) poverty reduction. Appraisal mission was tentatively scheduled for early September 1999. A Project Adjustment II: The project will support the government's ef- Preparation Facility Advance of US$1.0 million was approved to fort to reform its pension system from a publicly managed de- finance preparation of the project, including the designing, mon- fined benefit system to a privately managed defined contribution itoring and implementation of the Public Policy Reform Pro- SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE 71 gram, civil service, social security and poverty reduction ment and procurement. The project will also support a two-year reforms. Environmental Assessment Category C. PAPE55844. capital investment program. Project preparation is under way En- US$ 10.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Ministry of vironmental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consult- Economy and Finance, Apartado 2694, Zona 3, Ciudad de Pan- ing services have been completed. Municipality of Asunci6n, ama, Panama, Fax: (507)264-260,Contact: Elna Medrano de Asunci6n, Paraguay, Fax: (595-21)61-0591,Contact: Martin Burt Gonzales, Director of Technical Unit Transport Peru Second Roads Rehabilitation (Ln. 4393-PA): The project Agriculture will support (a) rehabilitation of selected high-priority primary and secondary roads, urban roads and intersections; (b) contin- (N) Agricultural Research and Extension: The purpose of ued development of institutional capacity of the Ministry of Pub- this adaptable program loan is to increase the productivity and lic Works; and (c) urban traffic management, improving urban competitiveness of the agricultural sector through the adoption passenger transport, improving maintenance management and of environmentally sound technologies generated and dissemi- training staff. Approved by the Executive Directors on 15 Sep- nated by a private sector-led program. Project preparation is un- tember 1998. Loan signing is scheduled for mid-September der way. Environmental Assessment Category C. US$ 116.0 1999. Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 85.0 (IBRD). (IBRD). Consultants will be required for project preparation. Consultants will be required. Ministerio de Obras Puiblicas, Cu- Ministry of Agriculture PIIEA, Nataio Sanchez 220, Of. 1007, rundu, Ciudad de Panama, Panama, Tel. (507-2) 325-420, Fax. Lima 11, Peru, Tel/Fax: (51-1)423-9043,Contact: Hugo Fano (507-2) 325-353, Contact: Ing. Carlos Mclean, Director, Unidad Especial Coordinadora del Programa BID-BIRF Population, HealthandNutrition Paraguay Health Sector Reform: The project will support the govern- ment's efforts to develop and implement policy and structural changes within the context of a broad health sector reform pro- E'.nvironment gram. Appraisal mission is scheduled for late September 1999. Sustainable Rural Investment: The project will support small Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. PID: agro-industry investments targeted to rural poor communities PEPE62932. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- within the framework of sound natural resources management mined. Ministry of Health, Ave. Salaverry, Cdra. 8, s/n Jesus practices. Project preparation is under way. Preparation is being Maria, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1) 424-8425,Fax: (51-1) 432-6177 supported by a pilot program in three departments. Environ- mental Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consultants Social Sector have been selected. Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Pts. Franco entre O'Leary y Ayolas, Edif. Ayfra, Asunci6n, Paraguay, Indigenous People: The project will (a) strengthen the institu- Tel: (595-21) 449-614, Fax: (595-21) 449-951 tional and organizational capacity of indigenous and Afro-Peruvi- an peoples as well as governmental institutions working with Finance these groups; (b) revise and reform indigenous legal frame- work; (c) test innovative microprojects managed by and for in- (R) Banking Sector Restructuring: This policy operation will digenous and Afro-Peruvian communities; and (d) establish support the establishment of a new regulatory framework gov- communal reserves for biodiversity conservation. Project is be- erning the intervention,resolution and liquidationprocesses for ing identified.EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$5.0 reformingthe banking system.The operationwill establish the (IBRD).Consultingservices to be determined.SecretariaTecni- legal tools and powers to allowasset and liabilitytransfers from ca ParaAsuntosIndigenas(SETAI), Ministeriode Promoci6nde failingbanks to healthy banks, whileminimizing the use of fiscal la Mujer del Desarrollo Humano (PROMUDEH), Jr. Camana funds for payment of defined deposit insurance coverage to de- No. 616-Lima 1, Lima,Peru, Tel: (511) 428-5467 positors. 7Tis project is no longer in the current lending program;' further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental Assess- ment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be Structural Adjustment determined. Banco Central del Paraguay,Asunci6n,Tel: (595- (R) Poverty Reduction and Social Sector Reform:The loan 21) 608-011,Ext. 2532, Fax: (595-21)608-149, Contact:Mr. Gab- willdeal with poverty and social sector policyissues. Appraisal riel Gonzalez,Superintendentof Banks mission is tentatively scheduled for mid-October 1999. Environ- mental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 500.0 Transport (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Fi- (R) Rural Roads: The project will promote community partici- nance, Jr. Junin 319, Lima, Peru, Tel: (511) 426-8495,Fax: (511) pation in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of 428-2101 rural infrastructure. This project is no longer in the current lend- ing program; further reporting will be discontinued. Environmen- Transport tal Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 25.0 (IBRD). Consultants will be required. Implementing agency is to be de- (R) Lima Urban Transport: The project will focus on improv- termined. ing public transport and other mobility needs of the low-income population. This project is no longer in the current lending pro- Urban Development gram; further reporting will be discontinued. Environmental As- sessment Category B. PID: PEPE35740. US$ 60.0 (IBRD). (R) Asunci6n Municipal Modernization: The project will Consultants have been selected for project preparation. Consejo provide assistance to the Municipality of Asuncion for reform to de Transporte y Lima Callao, Ave. 28 de Julio No. 800, Piso 4, Li- include outsourcing solid waste collection and disposal, im- ma, Peru, Tel/Fax: (51-1) 433-2968,Contact: Mr. Alejandro Mo- provements in revenue administration and financial manage- rales Espinoza, Secretario Tecnico PAGE72 Monthly Operational Summary SEPTEMBER1999 Transport administration;and (b) introductionof a number of mechanisms designed to expediteand enhancethe qualityand cost-effective- Transport Rehabilitation II: The project will assist with (a) ness of dispute resolution services provided by the judiciary. improvements to nationalhighwaysin Northern Peru; (b) traffic Project being identified.EnvironmentalAssessment Category safety program; and (c) pilot program to strengthen highway C. US$ 5.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices to be determined. Su- maintenance and management. Project preparation is under preme Court of Trinidad and Tobago, Hall of Justice, Port of way.Environmental Assessment Category B. US$184.0(IBRD). Spain, Trinidad and Tobago,West Indies, Tel: (868) 627-2695, Consultantshave been selected for project preparation.Proyec- Fax: (868)677-4431, 677-4577 to Especial Rehabilitaci6n Infraestructura de Transportes (PERT),Ave.Bolivia120,Torre de Lima,Piso 4, Lima,Peru, Tel: Postal Services Reform (In. 4458-TI): The projectwill (a) (511) 433-4606, 330-3960,Fax: (511) 330-2233, Contact:Waldo restructure the Post Office (includingcorporatization,revitaliza- CarrefioMeza, Director Ejecutivo tion of postal networkand resources, and developmentof insti- tutional capacities; (b) arrange and partially finance, on a UrbanDevelopment declining basis, private sector participation in the Post Office through an incentive based managementcontract;and (c) pro- (R) UrbanRehabilitationand Management. The projectwill vide technicalassistanceto assist the governmentin addressing strengthen institutionaland policyreform in selected municipal- labor retrenchment issues resulting from these reforms. Ap- ities, including the metropolitan region of Lima, and improve proved by the ExecutiveDirectors on 13 April 1999.Environ- services in selected urban subsectors. Project appraisalis await- mental Assessment Category C. US$ 14.85 (IBRD). Most ing Governmentconfirmation. EnvironmentalAssessment Cate- consultingcontracts havebeen awarded.Ministry of PublicUtil- gory B. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services have been ities, Port of Spain,Trinidadand Tobago,West Indies,Tel: (868) completed. Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Urbano Jr., Cara- 6274424(PBX),Fax: (868) 625-2783, 625-7004 baya 422 - Piso 4, Lima, Peru, Tel: (51-1)427-1649, Fax: (51-1) 427-1651, Contact:Gilberto Romero WaterSupply/Sanitation Saint Lucia (R) Waterand Sewerage Rehabilitation:The projectwill ad- dress a high-priority emergencyinvestmentprogram to reduce water losses including metering, replacement of water mains SocialSector and rehabilitation of pumpingstations,groundwaterwells,water (R) Poverty Reduction Fund: The projectwouldimprove ac- treatment plantsand water reservoirs. Thisproject is no longer in cess amongthe poor in relativelydisadvantagedcommunitiesto the current lendingprogram; further reportingwill be discontin- basic social and economic infrastructure and services, through ued EnvironmentalAssessment Category B. PID: TTPA8107. the financingof small-scaleprojects identifiedand implemented US$ 95.0 (IBRD).Consultants have been selected. Water and witha high degree of communityparticipation. The project'sde- SewerageAuthority(WASA), Farm Rd., St.Joseph,Trinidad and velopmentobjectivesare to (a) developthe institutionaland op- Tobago,Tel: (868)662-2301-7, Fax: (868) 662-3584 erationalframework for a social fund model that is appropriate Drainageand Flood Control:The projectincludes (a) rehabil- for SaintLucia,and to pilot the model's abilityto increase access itationof selected existingirrigationand floodcontrolinfrastruc- to basic socialand economicinfrastructureand services among ture installations; (b) construction of the Caroni River Basin the poor and vulnerable,in accordancewith their demands; and works; (c) construction of the Vistabellaand MarbellaRiverBa- (b) contribute to the sustainabilityof such investments;and (c) sin works; (d) and construction of the short term Caparo River foster and build capacity for community-led developmentinitia- Basin works. Project preparation is under way.Environmental tives. Theprojectwas approved, followingLIL procedures, on 22 Assessment Category B. US$ 20.0 (IBRD).Consultants have July 1999. Loan was signedon 22 July 1999. EnvironmentalAs- been hired. Ministry of Works and Transport, Level5, Salvatori sessment Category B. US$ 3.0 (IBRD/IDA).Consultingservic- Bldg., Frederick St., Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago,Tel: es to be determined. Ministry of Finance, Planning and (868)625-4512 SustainableDevelopment,GovernmentBldg.,Conway,Castries, Saint Lucia, West Indies, Tel: (758) 453-7919, Fax: (758) 452- 6161,Contact:Mr.Curtis Greer, ExecutiveDirector,Poverty Re- Uruguay ductionFund Environment Trinidadand Tobago (R) Coastaland MarineManagement The projectwouldpro- vide technical assistance and investments to strengthen the Environment management of coastal and marineresources, and address pri- ority issues by (a) mitigatingand preventingmunicipal,agricul- National Parks: The projectwill address renewablenaturalre- tural and industrialpollutionalong the Uruguayancoastline;(b) source management issues, and will introducea system of pro- supportingthe implementation of policychanges in the fisheries tected areas including a National Parks Authority. Project sector, (c) applyingleast-cost, technologicalsolutionsto assist in preparation is under way.EnvironmentalAssessment Category enforcement and monitoring; and (d) establishing public/pri- B.US$6.0 (IBRD).Most consultingservices havebeen contract- vate partnerships to improve environmental performance. ed. Ministry of Agriculture,Fisheries, NationalParks and Ma- Project is being identified.A GEF marinebiodiversity/interna- rine Resources, Saint Claire Circle, Saint Claire, Port of Spain, tionalwaters componentis alsobeing identified.Environmental Trinidad and Tobago,Tel: (868) 622-1221 Assessment Category B. US$25.0 (IBRD). Consultingservices to be determined. Presidencia de la Repuiblica, Oficinade Pla- Public Sector Management neamientoy Presupuesto (OPP),Edif.Libertad, LA. de Herrera Judicial Reform: The projectwill support an institutionalre- 3350,Montevideo,Uruguay, Tel: (598-2) 487-2110,Fax: (598- form programwithin the judiciary to test the Ministry of Public 2) 480-7085,Contact:Cra. MariellaMaglia Administration'scapacityto support such institutionalreforms, (R) Coastal Contamination-Fisheries:The project will ad- including(a) restructuring and professionalization of the court's dress (a) environmentalimprovementsin ports, and prevention SEPTEMBER1999 Monthly Operational Summary PAGE73 and control of ship wastes; (b) oil spill contingency plans and determined. Fundayacucho Segundo Projecto de Reforma de strengthening of emergency response capacity; (c) improved Credito Educativo, Caracas, Venezuela, Tel: (58-2) 241-3894, storage, handling and transport of hazardous materials and Fax. (58-2) 241-3777,Contact: Dr. Andres Mujica wastes; (d) updating and completion of the naval cartography along the Uruguayan coast; (e) establishment of a satellite-based Environment and/or terrestrial electronic marine information infrastructure (EMID); (f) regulatory and enforcement strengthening; and (g) Biodiversity (GEF?): The project will support conservation and institutional capacity building, particularly in the areas of pro- sustainable use of biodiversity by reducing threats from mining, moting integrated coastal and marine management. Project oil production and forestry. Project is being identified. Environ- preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category mental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 10.0 B. US$ 50.0 (GEF). Consulting services to be determined. Pres- (GEF). Consulting services to be determined. Ministry of Envi- idencia de la Republica, Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto ronment, Simon Bolivar Bldg., Caracas, Venezuela, Tel: (58-2) (OPP), Edif. Libertad, L.A. de Herrera 3350, Montevideo, Uru- 408-1266,Fax: (58-2) 483-9112 guay, Tel: (598-2) 487-2110, Fax: (598-2) 480-7085, Contact: Sustainable Management of Imataca: The project will assist Cra. MariellaMaglia the government with specific measures and recommendations aimed at improving its environmental performance. Project Public Sector Management preparation is under way. Environmental Assessment Category Second Contractual Savings Adjustment. The project will A. US$5.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices to be determined. Min- implement further measures for strengthening capital markets istry of Environmentand Natural Resources, Edif.Simon Boli- and enhancing the private pension scheme. Project is being var, Caracas,Venezuela identified. EnvironmentalAssessment Category C. US$ 100.0 (IBRD).Consulting services to be determined. Implementing Population, HealthandNutrition agencyto be determined. Caracas Metro Health: The project will support the reform and modernizationof the health care delivery network in the StructuralAdjustment metropolitanarea of Caracas,with the goal of improvingthe ac- (R) Financial Sector Reform: The project would support the cess to and qualityof health services for the poor.Projectprepa- government's efforts to strengthen the financialsector, includ- ration is under way.Environmental Assessment Category to be ing banking supervision and regulations. Negotiations were ten- determined. US$ 40.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be deter- tatively scheduled for late August 1999. Environmental mined. Ministry of Health, Centro Sim6n Bolivar, Edif. Sur, Piso Assessment Category C. PID: UYPE63390. US$ 80.0 (IBRD). Fax: (582)483-8189, 9, Caracas,Venezuela,Tel: (582)481-5380, Consultingservices to be determined. Implementingagency to Contact:Dr. GilbertoRodriguez,Minister be determined. Public Sector Management Venezuela Public Expenditure Management (Ln. 4503-VE): The project aims at improving transparency and accountability in the Education/Training management of public finance, and at strengthening mecha- nisms of monitoring and control of public resources. Approved Technology Fund:This learning and innovationloan will ren- by the ExecutiveDirectorson 29June 1999.Loan signing is ten- talize the national innovation system through support of ad- tatively scheduled for late September 1999. Environmental As- vanced training of human capital by world-class scientists sessment Category C. US$ 20.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to engaged in cutting-edge research. The project will provide the be determined. Ministry of Finance, Ave. Urdaneta, Edif. Ramia, necessary technical assistance and funding to establish and 802-1724, Tel: (58-2)802-1723, Piso 7, Caracas, Venezuela, Fax: strengthen centers of excellence in research. Project prepara- (58-2)802-1730, 802-1731 tion is under way.Environmental Assessment Category to be de- termined. US$ 5.0 (IBRD). Consulting services to be determined. Universidad Sim6n Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, SocialSector Tel: (582) 906-4201,ext. 3607,Fax: (582) 906-3624,Contact:Dr. Social Safety Net: The project will support the consolidated KlausJaffe safetynet for the poorest subgroups to mitigatethe socialimpact Education Sector Development. The projectwillsupport pro- of the economic crisis. Project preparation is under way. Envi- fessionaldevelopmentin education.Projectpreparation is under ronmental Assessment Category to be determined. US$ 80.0 way. Environmental Assessment Category to be determined. (IBRD). Consultingservices to be determined. Ministryof Fam- US$60.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices to be determined. Minis- ily,Ave.Lecuna,Torre Oeste, Piso 41, Caracas,Venezuela, Tel/ try of Education, Esquina de Salas, Mezzanine, Caracas, Venezu- Fax: (582) 571-7486,Contact: Fausto Fernandez Fax: (582) 564-0370, ela, Tel: (582)562-9198, Contact:Dr.Hector Navarro, Minister Urban Development Secondary Education: The project would promote increased Low Income Barrios II (National):The project includes (a) coverage, quality,efficiencyand equity in secondary education institutionaldevelopmentfor the central government and local through reforms in curriculum, textbooks, teacher training and governments on decentralizationissues and (b) investmentfor management of schools. Project is being identified. Environmen- barrio upgrading, focusing on water and sanitation, power distri- tal Assessment Category C. US$ 50.0 (IBRD). Consulting servic- bution, paving, titling and urbanization in secondary cities out- es to be determined. Ministerio de Educaci6n, Proyecto de side of metropolitan Caracas. Project is being identified. Educaci6nSecundaria,Tel: (582)564-1243, Fax: (582)564-0370, Environmental Assessment Category B. US$ 40.0 (IBRD).Con- Contact:Dr. Hector Navarro, Ministro sulting services and infrastructure works to be determined. Student Loan II: The scope of the projectis to be determined. FUNDACOMUN, MinisterioFamilia,Ave.Abrahma Lincoln,fi- Project is being identified.Environmental AssessmentCategory nal Blvd.de SabanasGrandes,Edif.FUNDACOMUN, Chacaito, to be determined. US$ 50.0 (IBRD).Consultingservices to be Apartado50.218,Caracas,Venezuela, Fax: (58-2)952-0947 PAGE74 Summary MonthlyOperational 1999 SEPTEMBER Water Supply/Sanitation Caracas Water: The project will (a) arrest the deteriorationof key facilitiesin the water supply system of Caracas and improve EastAsia and PacificRegion its reliability;(b) support the government's initiativeto privatize the Caracas water system; and (c) help the governmentbuild up Democratic LaoPeople's Republic an appropriateregulatory frameworkin the sector.The new gov- ernment is reviewingthe priorityof this project.Environmental Assessment Category C. US$40.0 (IBRD).Consultantswill be Power required for projectpreparation. Ministry of Environment,Cen- Nam Theun Power: (Private Sector) Construction of a 682 tro Simon Bolivar,Torre Sur, Piso 25, Caracas, Venezuela,Tel: MWhydropowerprojectto export powertoThailand.Estimated (58-2)408-1001, 408-1002, Fax: (58-2)483-1148 408-1004, totalprojectcost: US$1.3billion.Apartial risk enclaveguarantee Water Sector: The projectwill support the decentralizationof of a maximumof US$ 100.0millionis being considered for this water supply and sanitation services in selected states. Project project.The operationreceived conditionalapprovalby the OC preparation is under way.EnvironmentalAssessment Category late last year.PPA and ConcessionAgreement are currentlybe- C. US$ 30.0 ORD). Consulting services to be determined. ing discussed. Board presentation is tentativelyscheduled for HIDROVEN, States and Municipalities, Ave.Principalde Marip- fiscal year 2000-01. erez con. 9a. Transversal, Edif.Hidroven, Caracas,Venezuela, Tel: (58-2)793-1275, Fax: (58-2)793-0238 Viet Nam Power Phu My 2/2 Power: (PrivateSector) Constructionand opera- Guarantee Operati^ons tion of gas-fired generation plant of about 700MW capacity by a private sponsor. Estimated total project cost: US$400.0million. IDApartial risk guarantee of up to US$75.0millionin support of commercialdebt financewas offeredas an optionin the bidding. In September 1994,the Bank's ExecutiveDirectors approved a Bids were submitted on 2 April1998.Whether the IDAguaran- proposal to make guarantees a mainstream instrument of Bank tee wouldbe required by the winningbidder will not be known operations.These guaranteesare most likelytobe used for infra- for another 3-5months. Board presentationis tentativelysched- structure financing,where the demands for funding are large, uled for fiscalyear 2000. politicaland sovereign risks are significant,and the need for long-maturityfinancingis often criticalto a project'sviability. Thailand By coveringsome of the risks that the market is not able to bear or adequately evaluate, the Bank's guarantee can attract new Finance sources of finance, reduce financingcosts, and extend maturi- Investnent Program Support Project-Bond Issue 1I: ties. The guarantee can be especiallyvaluable where activities sectogrst o rt ret gue of traditionallyundertaken and financedby the governmentare be- (PublicSector) The first of the two partial credit guarantees of traditiong untdtheprivakenad ing shifted to fnct but the private sector whethe where th government but oenetr- re- US$ bond300.0 millioneach, is scheduled was for fiscal closed year in October 2000. 1998.The second Boardpresentation is ten- mainsas a regulator or providerofinputs and a buyer of outputs. The Bank's participation as guarantor can also facilitate the tativelyscheduledfor fiscalyear 2000. transparency of these transactions. Sincethe guarantee is intended to be a catalyticinstrument, the South Asia Region Bankoffers onlypartial guarantees, and risks are clearlyshared between the Bank and privatelenders. The Bank's objectiveis to to bear givenits credit, its ex- cover risks that it is well-positioned perience with developingcountries, and its specialrelationships Bangladesh with governments. The risk-sharing may be for specific risks (the partial risk guarantee) or for part of the financing (the par- Power tial credit guarantee). Haripur Power: (Private sector) Estimated total project cost: A partial risk guarantee covers risks arising from nonper- US$ 175.0million.Partial risk guarantee of about US$70.0 mil- formanceof sovereigncontractualobligationsor from force ma- lion in support of the project is being considered. OC approval jeure aspects in a project.A partial credit guarantee typicallyex- was obtained earlier this calendar year. Board presentation is tends maturities beyond what privatecreditors could otherwise tentativelyscheduled for fiscal year 2000. provide,for example, by guaranteeing late-datedrepayments or by providing incentives for lenders to roll over medium-term Sri Lanka loans. For more informationon the Bank's guarantee program and to Power obtain a copy of the pamphlet "The World Bank's Guarantees," Kelinlissa Power Project. (Private sector) Estimated total (availablein English, French and Spanish) please contact the projectcost: US$125.0million.Partial risk guaranteein support Manager,Project Finance Group.Tel: (202)473-1650; Fax: (202) of the projectis being considered. Board presentation is tenta- 477-0218 tivelyscheduledfor fiscal year 2000. SEPTEMBER 1999 MonthlyOperational Summary PAGE 75 Europe and Middle East and Central Asia Region North Africa Region Romania Lebanon Industry WaterSupply/Sanitation ConstantzaSouth Marine Grain Terminal: (Private Sector) Awali-BeirutWaterConveyerProject. (PrivateSector) Con- Construction and financingon a BOO/BOTbasis of an export- struction of a water conveyerto tunnel waterfrom Juan for a dis- oriented intermodal grain handling and storage complex. Esti- tance of 24 kilometers,with a treatment plant and reservoir,to mated total projectcost: US$65.0million.Partial risk guarantee supply water to south Beirut. Estimatedtotal projectcost US$ of about US$20.0millioncoveringRomania'sGovernmentcon- 210.0million.Partial risk guarantee of at least US$50.0 million tractual obligationsunder a concessionagreement. Prequalifica- against governmentobligationsto the project. Request for pro- tion and Request for Proposal (RFP) under preparation. Board posal is under preparation. Board presentation is tentatively presentationis tentativelyscheduledfor fiscalyear 2000. scheduled for fiscal year 2000-01. Turkey Latin America and Power the Caribbean Region Pskenderum Power Project: (Private Sector) Construction and Operationof a 1200MW coal firedpower projectand related coal handling facilities in western Turkey. Estimated total project cost: US$1.4billion.A Partial Risk Guarantee of about Bolivia/Brazil US$180.0millionto back Turkish Treasury's obligationsto the project. The Energy Sales agreement was signed in January. Power Board presentationis tentativelyscheduled for fiscalyear 2000. Bolivia-Brazil Gas Pipeline (Publc/Private Sector):The con- struction of an approximately3,000km pipelineto transport nat- ural gas from Rio Grande in Boliviato Porto Alegre in Brazilvia Sao Paulo.Estimatedtotal projectcost:US $2.0billion.A partial credit guarantee of about US$180.0millionis being considered for the projectcompany in Brazil.The Brazilianinterministerial body,COFIEX, has approvedthe use of partial creditguarantees for the project. The projectwas approved by the ExecutiveDi- rectors on 18December 1997.Requestfor Proposal (RFP)to be issued soon. Board presentationis tentativelyscheduledfor fis- cal year 2000. 76 PAGE Summary MonthlyOperational 1999 SEPTEMBER BUSINESSBRIEFINGS Executives interested in tracking and bidding on World Bank Briefings will be held from 8:30 am. to 3:30 p.m. at World Bank's projects are strongly recommended to attend the Bank's Month- offices in Washington, DC. There is a US$ 100 registration fee for ly Business Briefings, which are held at the Bank's Washington, each participant. Registrations should be received at least three DC, Headquarters or at its European office in Paris. At the brief- weeks prior to the requested briefing date. 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