Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. The Airport Improvement Project leverages and complements other donor, private sector and civil society activities in Mali as described below. Throughout implementation, MCC will continue to collaborate with these donors to strengthen the institutional reforms and broaden access to the Airport for passengers and goods. The SSFA program is intended to promote sustainable improvements in aviation safety, security, and air navigation, and to support Africa’s integration into the global economy. It is based on the premise that “Safe Skies” are a prerequisite for increased trade and investment and long-term economic development in Africa. Specific goals of the SSFA program include: (a) increasing the number of sub-Saharan African countries that meet ICAO safety standards (based on Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) assessments); (b) improving airport security in the region; and
Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. The Dutch Development Agency, French Development Agency, the World Bank, and USAID, in particular, have been working in the ON over the past several decades resulting in a more efficient, decentralized management structure, while increasing production and productivity of the Alatona zone. The Alatona Irrigation Project leverages and complements other donor, private sector and civil society activities in Mali as described below. Throughout implementation, MCC will continue to collaborate with these donors to ensure equitable water distribution, transfer of skills and knowledge in agriculture production, farm management and access to credit for the farmers. The Alatona Irrigation Project will involve close coordination with donors involved in strengthening the management of the ON agency to provide effective operations and maintenance of the irrigation infrastructure, as well as conformity with the established cropping calendar.
Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. The MCC, together with the Government, will continue to pursue opportunities to coordinate with the “
Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. Donors, including the governments of Sweden, Norway, Japan, the World Bank and the AfDB, among others, play an active role in improving Tanzania’s energy sector through technical assistance and infrastructure projects. The Energy Sector Project has benefited significantly from these donors’ activities. For example, the Malagarasi hydropower plant project benefited from a pre-feasibility study financed by the AfDB. The MCC’s due diligence review of the Distribution Systems Rehabilitation and Extension Activity benefited from active support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the World Bank. The Government has been engaged in an extensive consultative process that allowed civil society, along with the business community, to discuss local needs and priorities relating to the Energy Sector Project. Such consultation is expected to continue during the implementation of the Energy Sector Project.
Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. All the components of the Water Sector Project are priority projects identified under the Water Sector Development Program 2006-2025 (“WSDP”). The WSDP was designed under the sector wide approach to planning with the objectives of equity of water access, water managment capacity, and proper maintenance of water and sanitation sytstems, use of environmentally sound technologies and effective water tariffs, billing and revenue collection mechanism. The donors participating in the WSDP include the governments of Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Japan as well as the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, Food and Agriculture Organization and the AfDB (collectively referred to as the “Development Partners Group - Water”). The MCC has been coordinating with the Development Partners Group - Water, and will continue to explore opportunities to use various features of the WSDP, to the maximum extent possible, in order to reduce transaction costs and avoid building parallel structures. Private sector firms are expected to participate in the bids, and perform, studies, design, construction, and construction supervision associated with the Water Sector Project.
Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. Activities supported under the Education Activity will interface with the principal strategies of the international donor community, and is in consonance with the national educational development plan, Plan 2021, that receives support from major donors. Initial coordination meetings have been held with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (“IADB”), the European Union, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency and donor agencies within El Salvador’s private sector. Private sector organizations are already intensely involved in the delivery of human resources development in El Salvador. The private business group FEPADE plays a major role in overseeing five vocational training facilities, and will be assigned a critical role in MCC funded operations. Several donors, including the German Development Bank, IADB, the European Union, and Luxemburg, support FISDL programs that invest in providing basic services (including water and sanitation) to communities throughout El Salvador. FISDL’s Red Solidaria is the largest program, targeting the 100 poorest municipalities of El Salvador. Current plans across these programs include the investment of nearly US$ 30 million in the Northern Zone over the 2006 to 2011 period. However, the Community Development Activity has targeted municipalities (among those deemed the poorest) where currently there are no plans for funding. The Community Infrastructure Sub-Activity will constitute an extension of Red Solidaria. In extending the reach of Red Solidaria efforts rather than overlapping with them, MCC Funding will be dedicated to projects and communities (among the poorest) where there are not existing plans or dedicated funds from other donors. Japan and the European Union are the primary donors already active in rural electrification in El Salvador. To ensure there is no overlap in funding with MCC, the Government, through MINEC, has indicated that US$ 6.6 millions from these two donors that had initially been planned for rural electrification programs in the Northern Zone will be redirected to municipalities outside the Northern Zone. Several national and international NGOs are active in water and sanitation in El Salvador, with experience in of the areas of project development, design, and implementation; these include CARE, Project Concern International, and Plan International. These organizations are eligible to submit proposals for and could potentially be selected to perform projects under the Water ...
Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. Loans and donations programmed by multilateral institutions in 2005 for El Salvador totaled $128.61 million. Out of the planned and on-going donor assistance to El Salvador, the amount targeted for the Northern Zone amounts to $43.5 million from multilateral donors: (a) World Bank - $20.1 million for Land Regularization Program; (b) International Fund for Agricultural Development - $10.8 million for agricultural development; (c) the Central American Bank for Economic Integration - $3.3 million for agricultural development; and (d) IADB - $3.1 million for Environmental Management of the Xxxxx River Valley. MCC has consulted IADB on two projects with relevance to the Financial Services Activity. First, the IADB is expecting to approve a micro-finance project of $1.5 million This IADB project will increase the resources available for on-lending from qualified intermediaries to micro and small enterprises. These intermediaries in turn will be eligible for participating in the PROGARA guarantee program, and therefore will have a ready source of funds available for lending to potential guarantees beneficiaries of the Financial Services Activity. Second, IADB has approved a regional technical assistance program for improving agricultural insurance programs in Central America. The program seeks to strengthen the regulatory and legal framework for agricultural insurance in the region; develop a platform to systematize climatologic information for risk analysis, and design innovative insurance products for agriculture. Although the Financial Services Activity will not be directly affected by this IADB project, the development of better risk analysis tools will be a positive factor for the growth of the agricultural insurance market in El Salvador. The World Bank is providing advisory and financial assistance to complete the SEA related to the Program, the first of its kind led by MARN. Bilateral assistance in the Northern Zone amounts to $30 million, comprised of assistance from the European Union ($24.7 million to support a bi-national program), GTZ ($800,000 for environmental management), and China, Japan and USAID ($3.5 million for agricultural development). Japan’s recent four-year, $90 million loan activity for the Port of Cutuco is directly relevant to the Productive Development Project, as this investment will enhance the importance of the Northern Zone as a logistical corridor and source for labor and agricultural commodities. The Productive Development Proj...
Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. The Industrial Park Project leverages and complements other donor, private sector and civil society activities in Mali as described below. This Project will continue to collaborate closely with these actors throughout implementation to support private management of, and attract new businesses to invest in, the Industrial Park.
Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. (a) Donors. The Justice Project will benefit significantly from lessons learned by the European Union (“EU”) regarding the construction and equipping of new courthouses. A current EU project is underway to refurbish several existing courthouses and build four new TPIs and appellate court. Assuming the Beninese and others are satisfied with the design of the courts being built by the EU, the Justice Project would follow the same design. Several donors have been engaged with projects related to Access to Justice. Bi-lateral assistance from France and Belgium has supported re-drafting of codes for which MCC will require enactment as conditions precedent to court construction. MCC will coordinate with in particular AFD in connection with the adoption and development of the Procedural Code as the AFD has supported the code redrafting efforts. Their involvement provides some comfort that the codes are modern and harmonized, where appropriate, with codes of neighboring countries. Neither the World Bank nor the African Development Bank have justice sector projects in Benin but both are interested in promoting passage of modernized codes as it will increase the likelihood and degree of success of other World Bank programs. It is anticipated that some of the NGOs supported by the legal aid services activity described in Section 2(c)(iv) may funded as well by other donors and it is also possible that some of the matching funds contemplated with respect to that activity could be provided by other bilateral or multilateral donors (as well as private sector or other sources).
Donor Coordination; Role of Private Sector and Civil Society. The Metolong Dam project is being developed in coordination with several donors, including the OPEC Fund for International Development, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), the Saudi Fund for Development, and the World Bank. The European Union has a sustained presence in Lesotho’s water sector. The European Union is currently funding detailed designs for components of the Metolong bulk water conveyance system, as well as components of the larger lowlands water supply system. The European Investment Bank is currently funding the Greater Maseru wastewater improvement project. The World Bank has been an active development partner in Lesotho’s water sector, primarily through the 2004 Lesotho Water Sector Improvement Project. Performance benchmarks, as defined in the Water Sector Improvement Project, will be monitored against, and in some cases will be linked to, Disbursements for this activity. Irish Aid has been the only active donor in Lesotho’s rural water supply and sanitation sub- sectors. Through Irish Aid, a total of €2.35 million was disbursed during 2005 for continued implementation of the DRWS five-year strategic plan. Outputs included the maintenance of 626 hand pumps and over 15 villages were provided with new tapped water sources. Fifty-five more sources were designed and are now under construction. Finally, the DRWS’s new maintenance strategy was implemented over the course of the year with the inspection of 1,786 existing waster systems.
