The World Bank Annual Report 2001

Health, Nutrition &
Population

Water Supply &
Sanitation

Summaries of Projects Approved for IBRD, IDA, and Trust Funds* in Fiscal 2001

The following section reports on projects approved by the Board in fiscal 2001. Projects are listed according to their primary sector classification. Lending totals obtained by adding up loan amounts for projects listed correspond to sector data classified on a loan-by-loan basis rather than a loan component basis (see table 1.1 and About the World Bank).

§ denotes projects included in the Program of Targeted Interventions (PTI). A project is included in the PTI if it has a specific mechanism for targeting poor people, and/or if the proportion of poor people among its beneficiaries is significantly larger than the proportion of poor in the total population.

† denotes adjustment operations categorized as poverty-focused. An operation is considered poverty-focused if it eliminates distortions that disadvantage poor people, reorients public expenditures toward them, and/or supports programs that provide safety nets or target specific groups of the poor.

‡denotes various levels of civil society involvement in Bank;supported projects from design to monitoring and evaluation of results.

AGRICULTURE

‡ Albania IDA–$9.9 million. This investment credit will increase rural income by addressing key constraints faced by emerging smallholder farmers in agricultural production, trade, and the functioning of land markets, benefiting all farmers in the country.
Total cost: $12.2 million.

‡ Argentina IBRD–$5 million. This learning and innovation loan will identify cost-effective mechanisms to strengthen the government’s fisheries management capacity, focusing on transparency, professionalism, and accountability, while protecting vulnerable fisheries workers.
Total cost: $8.5 million.

§‡ Brazil IBRD–$202.1 million. This investment loan aimed at expanding access to land and increasing incomes through a community-based approach to land acquisition will benefit about 50,000 poor rural and peri-urban families.
Total cost: $436.4 million.

§‡ Brazil IBRD–$54.3 million. This investment loan will benefit about 1.1 million rural poor people by helping community associations in Bahia finance, implement, and maintain approximately 3,500 productive infrastructure investments and social subprojects aimed at improving community well-being.
Total cost: $75 million.

§‡ Brazil IBRD–$37.5 million. This investment loan will benefit about 480,000 rural poor people by helping community associations in Ceará finance, implement, and maintain approximately 2,000 productive infrastructure investments and social subprojects aimed at improving community well-being.
Total cost: $50 million.

§‡ Brazil IBRD–$30.1 million. This investment loan will benefit about 110,000 rural poor people by helping community associations in Pernambuco finance, implement, and maintain approximately 1,600 productive infrastructure investments and social subprojects aimed at improving community well-being.
Total cost: $40 million.

§‡ Brazil IBRD–$22.5 million. This investment loan will benefit about 360,000 rural poor people by helping community associations in Piauí finance, implement, and maintain approximately 1,200 productive infrastructure investments and social subprojects aimed at improving community well-being.
Total cost: $30 million.

‡ Bulgaria IBRD–$50 million. This adaptable program loan will support reform of agricultural sector policies, resulting in improved income and employment generation for rural producers as well as improved agricultural product quality and greater choice for consumers.
Total cost: $50 million.

§‡ Burkina Faso IDA–$66.7 million. This adaptable program credit will help approximately two million poor people living in rural areas develop and plan their own development programs that address their basic needs, generate employment opportunities, and promote good governance.
Total cost: $114.9 million.

‡ China IBRD–$74 million. This investment loan will benefit approximately two million farmers by improving water use and quality through water saving facilities and technologies; the project will also enhance agricultural productivity on about 107,000 hectares while promoting ecological sustainability.
Total cost: $185.7 million.

§‡ Ethiopia IDA–$2.6 million. This learning and innovation credit will help the government develop a framework to support conservation, management, and sustainable use of medicinal plants for human and livestock health care that will benefit the rural and urban poor.
Total cost: $5.2 million.

Ethiopia IDA–$44 million. This supplemental credit will improve food security and reduce poverty by supporting policy and institutional reform to help accelerate sustainable agricultural production and productivity and address funding needs for fertilizer imports.
Total cost: $46.2 million.

‡ Georgia IDA–$27 million. This adaptable program credit will revitalize the irrigation and drainage infrastructures on about 255,000 hectares, resulting in increased agricultural production and income and secure food supplies for approximately 400,000 people.
Total cost: $32.8 million.

§‡ Ghana IDA–$67 million. This adaptable program credit will support good governance and decentralization, increase growth in agricultural productivity, and generate employment opportunities, all in an environmentally sustainable manner. Rural poor people–particularly women farmers, traders, and food processors–will benefit.
Total cost: $123.7 million.

§‡ Honduras IDA–$8 million. This investment credit supports a pilot project providing 1,600 low-income, landless, and rural families with access to credit to purchase arable land, and encouraging sustainable agriculture and increased participation of private financial institutions.
Total cost: $17 million.

§‡ India IDA–$100.4 million. This investment credit will benefit approximately 1.8 million of Karnataka state’s poor small landholders and landless people by improving natural resource management through demand-driven community watershed projects.
Total cost: $127.6 million.

§‡ India IDA–$110.1 million. This investment credit will expand economic and social development opportunities, altering the dynamics of power and securing the social and economic needs of women in particular, benefiting approximately 800,000 families in 2,000 villages.
Total cost: $134.7 million.

§‡ Kazakhstan IBRD–$64.5 million. This investment loan will increase agriculture and fish production in the Syr Darya basin and help secure the existence of the Northern Aral Sea, resulting in improved human and ecological conditions and benefiting 1 million people.
Total cost: $85.8 million.

§‡ Lao People’s Democratic Republic IDA–$16.7 million. This investment credit will use a community-driven and decentralization approach to increase agricultural production, rehabilitation, and construction of rural infrastructure, thereby benefiting more than 50,000 rural poor people.
Total cost: $18.2 million.

§‡ Madagascar IDA–$89 million. This investment credit will help the government increase incomes, reduce poverty, and improve access to basic social services in rural areas while preserving the natural resource base, thereby benefiting approximately 180,000 farming families.
Total cost: $106.1 million.

§‡ Morocco IBRD–$32.6 million. This adaptable program loan will support demand-driven, integrated investments in small and medium irrigation, improvements in community infrastructure, and institutional strengthening, resulting in increased rural incomes and benefiting 58,800 people.
Total cost: $42.4 million.

§‡ Pakistan IDA–$21.3 million. This investment credit will improve the water delivery system through new on-farm water management practices, and increase agricultural production and farmer income through equitable distribution of irrigation water. The project’s beneficiaries number 2.2 million people.
Total cost: $32.1 million.

‡ Romania IBRD–$80 million. This adaptable program loan will establish a self-sustainable network of financial services to serve rural enterprises and populations and mitigate the negative impact of policy reforms, resulting in growth and reduced poverty in rural areas.
Total cost: $147.6 million.

‡ Rwanda IDA–$48 million. This adaptable program credit will help rural communities, where 92 percent of Rwanda’s poor live, to benefit from the government’s program to revitalize the rural economy, increase rural incomes, reduce poverty, and reinforce national stability.
Total cost: $53 million.

Tajikistan IDA–$3.1 million. This supplemental credit will support land privatization, irrigation, and drainage; provide grants to family farms; and create a pilot rural savings and credit association to meet the credit needs of its members.
Total cost: $3.6 million.

‡ Tunisia IBRD–$21.3 million. This investment loan will develop, on a pilot basis, organizational structures that represent the needs and interests of small and medium producers and improve institutional capacity to deliver quality agricultural services.
Total cost: $42.5 million.

‡ Uganda IDA–$45 million. This investment credit will help 90 percent of the farming population adopt improved technology and management practices in their farming enterprises, resulting in enhanced productive efficiency and economic welfare, and overall poverty reduction.
Total cost: $107.9 million.

§‡ Vietnam IDA–$102.8 million. This investment credit will help local authorities and communes provide or rehabilitate public infrastructure in about 600 of the poorest communes, comprising 1.4 million people, and will create opportunities for paid off-farm employment.
Total cost: $123.4 million.

§‡ Yemen, Republic of IDA–$21.3 million. This adaptable program credit will enhance efficient water use in the main spate irrigation systems, contributing to increased and sustainable agricultural productivity and benefiting poor farmers over an area of 90,000 hectares.
Total cost: $25.6 million.

ECONOMIC POLICY

† Benin IDA–$10 million. This credit will improve the impact of government expenditures on poverty reduction and economic and social development by developing transparent budget and administrative systems to manage public expenditures.
Total cost: $10 million.

‡ Ethiopia IDA–$150 million. This credit will help the government restore key economic and social services and strengthen institutional capacity, resulting in employment opportunities for the poor, particularly in the agriculture and export sectors.
Total cost: $150 million.

Ghana IDA–$49 million. This supplemental credit will support reforms in the public sector (including in public expenditure management and privatization) and the energy and cocoa sectors. It will keep the government’s macroeconomic program on track and help prevent further economic decline.
Total cost: $49 million.

† Kyrgyz Republic IDA–$35 million. This credit will underpin fiscal adjustment and improve the conditions for private sector growth. It will also provide an impetus for energy sector reform while securing social protection programs and reallocating existing benefits, resulting in poverty reduction.
Total cost: $35 million.

Lithuania IBRD–$98.5 million. This loan will help reduce poverty by supporting rapid and sustainable economic growth, establishing macrofinancial stability, and facilitating integration into the European Union.
Total cost: $100.4 million.

Madagascar IDA–$30.4 million. This supplemental credit will reduce the negative impact of oil price increases on the poor by reducing taxes on petroleum and products, thus preventing trade losses that jeopardize the sustainability of ongoing reform programs.
Total cost: $30.4 million.

‡ Madagascar IDA–$20.1 million. This supplemental credit will help maintain macroeconomic stability while rehabilitating and restoring productive efficiency in sectors that have been affected by adverse weather conditions especially damaging for poor communities.
Total cost: $20.1 million.

† Malawi IDA–$55.1 million. This credit will support policy reforms aimed at deepening structural reforms launched in 1995 to improve public sector management, private sector growth, and the social safety net, thereby spurring economic growth and reducing poverty.
Total cost: $55.1 million.

Malawi IDA–$3 million. This credit will help the government implement policy reforms, especially in the area of financial management and public procurement, resulting in an improved budget process and public expenditure allocation.
Total cost: $3 million.

Mali IDA–$25.4 million. This supplemental credit will help mitigate the impact of oil price increases, which have severely hurt the poor, as well as other terms-of-trade losses, which are jeopardizing the sustainability of ongoing reform programs.
Total cost: $25.4 million.

† Pakistan IDA–$350 million. This structural adjustment credit will help the government reduce poverty and maintain the macroeconomic stability needed to implement already begun reforms. The focus will be on improving governance, the delivery of social services, and economic growth.
Total cost: $350 million.

Regional IDA–$5 million. This investment credit will support the set-up of the Africa Trade Insurance Agency, which will provide insurance and other financial instruments and services to support trade and investments in Africa.
Total cost: $5 million.

Rwanda IDA–$15.3 million. This supplemental credit will help mitigate the impact of oil price increases, which have severely hurt the poor, as well as terms-of-trade losses, which are jeopardizing the sustainability of ongoing reform programs.
Total cost: $15.3 million.

Senegal IDA–$100 million. This credit will assist the government in its regional integration objectives through macroeconomic stabilization and the promotion of private sector development, resulting in a more competitive Senegalese economy, which will help to reduce poverty.
Total cost: $100 million.

Sierra Leone IDA–$10 million. This supplemental credit will help provide balance of payments and budgetary support to finance the government’s program for social, economic, and protective security. It will also help revive the economy.
Total cost: $10 million.

† Tajikistan IDA–$50 million. This credit will improve investment and economic growth and support earlier endorsed reforms by providing foreign exchange to maintain imports, boost international reserves, and provide noninflationary financing of the budget while improving governance in general.
Total cost: $50 million.

Uganda IDA–$25.4 million. This supplemental credit will help mitigate the impact of oil price increases, which have severely hurt the poor, as well as other terms-of-trade losses, which are jeopardizing the sustainability of ongoing reform programs.
Total cost: $25.4 million.

† Vietnam IDA–$250 million. This credit supports comprehensive structural reforms focused on higher growth, competition, and faster poverty reduction. Support for enhanced transparency and efficient investment will also result in improved management of public expenditure, including pro-poor social spending.
Total cost: $250 million.

Zambia IDA–$30.4 million. This supplemental credit will help mitigate the impact of oil price increases, which have severely hurt the poor, as well as other terms-of-trade losses, which are jeopardizing the sustainability of ongoing reform programs.
Total cost: $30.4 million.

Zambia IDA–$2.1 million. This supplemental credit will help the government’s reform program reduce poverty by restoring macroeconomic stability, promoting diversified growth, improving governance, and improving the delivery of vital social services.
Total cost: $2.1 million.

EDUCATION

§‡ Argentina IBRD–$57 million. This investment loan will improve equity, quality, and access in secondary schools in the Buenos Aires province, benefiting 60,000 students, 3,200 teachers, and 400 school administrators in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas.
Total cost: $173.8 million.

‡ Bangladesh IDA–$53.3 million. This investment credit will improve post-literacy education by establishing a continuing education program benefiting 1.6 million poor people, half of whom are women, enabling them to better support their families and communities.
Total cost: $71.6 million.

§‡ Brazil IBRD–$69.6 million. Approximately 1.8 million young people will, through this adaptable program loan, benefit from the government’s school improvement program aimed at enhancing performance by expanding access and providing learning materials and effective management.
Total cost: $116 million.

§‡ Brazil IBRD–$90 million. Over 1 million school children will, through this investment loan, benefit from the state of Ceará’s efforts to improve both academic achievement and the learning environment, and to expand access by drop-outs and excluded youth.
Total cost: $150 million.

‡ Bulgaria IBRD–$14.4 million. This adaptable program loan will improve teaching quality and learning opportunities, benefiting primary and secondary school students; by committing more resources, it will also improve the quality of and access to higher education.
Total cost: $18.4 million.

‡ Djibouti IDA–$10 million. This adaptable program credit will increase access to schooling by improving the basic education system, the quality of education, and the management capacity of the Ministry of Education, thereby benefiting poor children and communities.
Total cost: $13.2 million.

‡ Dominican Republic IBRD–$3.4 million. This learning and innovation loan will test the effectiveness and sustainability of a Distance Learning Center, part of a global knowledge-sharing network; expand access to training of public and private sector decisionmakers; and improve dialogue among them.
Total cost: $4.5 million.

Ethiopia IDA–$4.9 million. This learning and innovation credit will test comparative learning outcomes and the sustainability of different distance learning approaches; build institutional capacity; and provide training and Internet connection to civil servants, the private sector, and nongovernmental organization employees in Addis Ababa, increasing their productivity.
Total cost: $7.1 million.

‡ Georgia IDA–$25.9 million. This adaptable program credit will help students learn more effectively by developing a national education curriculum, establishing a system to assess results, and providing training for educators and basic learning materials to classrooms.
Total cost: $31.4 million.

§‡ Guatemala IBRD–$62.2 million. Over 100,000 children, living mostly in rural indigenous communities, will benefit from this loan, which will support bilingual primary education by training 3,500 teachers and providing textbooks and classroom libraries.
Total cost: $82.5 million.

§‡ Honduras IDA–$41.5 million. This investment credit will benefit 300,000 poor children in marginalized rural communities by improving preschool and primary education, through teacher training, technical assistance to community education councils, improved management, and monitoring.
Total cost: $47.8 million.

‡ Honduras IDA–$4 million. This investment credit will raise awareness of Honduran scientific, environmental, and cultural knowledge, including sustainable development and ethnic diversity, by developing an interactive learning center at the country’s Copán archaeological site.
Total cost: $4 million.

§‡ India IDA–$74.4 million. About 1 million children living in nine districts in India’s Rajasthan state will, through this investment credit, benefit from increased availability and quality of primary education.
Total cost: $87.5 million.

‡ India IDA–$64.9 million. Disadvantaged groups in industrially and economically underdeveloped remote regions, including tribal communities and women, will, through this investment credit, benefit from improved quality and efficiency of polytechnic education and expanded facilities.
Total cost: $80.1 million.

‡ Indonesia IDA–$4.1 million. This learning and innovation credit will develop approaches to promote reading by students and communities, and develop a strategy for community and primary school library support involving local communities, nongovernmental organizations, and local governments.
Total cost: $4.5 million.

§‡ Mali IDA–$45 million. This adaptable program credit will support the government’s strategy of increasing primary school enrollment rates from about 56 percent in 2000 to 95 percent in 2010, while improving learning at all levels.
Total cost: $541.2 million.

§‡ Panama IBRD–$35 million. This investment loan supports improvements in basic education in poor communities, including rehabilitation of schools, expansion of early childhood education programs, and strengthening of management, benefiting about 60 percent of Panama’s children.
Total cost: $59 million.

‡ Russian Federation IBRD–$50 million. This investment loan will improve efficiency and access to quality education throughout the country. The project will initiate reforms in three regions with the goal of replicating success at a later stage.
Total cost: $71.1 million.

‡ Vanuatu IDA–$3.5 million. This learning and innovation credit will test whether Vanuatu can effectively adopt innovative approaches intended to help the country move toward education for all, defined as basic education of good quality through the age of eight.
Total cost: $3.8 million.

‡ West Bank and Gaza Trust Fund–$7 million. The project aims to reinforce and develop a long-term education strategy. It will strengthen the government’s capacity to manage the education system more effectively through specific investments in education.
Total cost: $7.6 million.

‡ Yemen, Republic of IDA–$56 million. This investment credit will improve access to quality education through increased resources and enhance management capacity in education and committed communities, benefiting approximately 170,000 rural children, 60 percent of them girls.
Total cost: $62.6 million.

‡ Zambia IDA–$25 million. The sector investment and maintenance credit will strengthen the government’s technical, vocational, and entrepreneurship training system, and improve the skills of workers to serve both the formal and informal sectors of the economy.
Total cost: $94.6 million.

ELECTRIC POWER AND OTHER ENERGY

‡ Belarus IBRD–$22.6 million. This investment loan will finance the rehabilitation of the heating system, thermal insulation, and lighting in over 450 buildings, targeting and benefiting schools, hospitals, orphanages, and community homes for the elderly and the disabled.
Total cost: $40.4 million.

‡ Bosnia and Herzegovina IDA–$35 million. This investment credit will assist in reconstruction of transmission systems and damaged substations to restore pre-war infrastructure, including investments in power distribution to provide electricity, benefiting many poor rural areas and returning refugees.
Total cost: $231.1 million.

Georgia IDA–$27.4 million. This investment credit will improve the reliability and efficiency of the electric supply, and improve financial and corporate management of the wholesale electric market, benefiting electricity consumers including residential, industrial, and commercial sectors.
Total cost: $56.6 million.

‡ India IBRD–$450 million. Part of an ongoing reform program, this project will continue to improve coordination in power system operations and promote inter-regional and interstate power trading.
Total cost: $1.3 billion.

‡ India IBRD–$180 million. This investment loan will benefit about 60 percent of the households in Rajasthan by improving efficiency of the state’s power sector through support for the privatization of the distribution firms.
Total cost: $266.8 million.

‡ Kosovo Trust Fund–$2.5 million. This grant supports the provision of adequate energy services (electricity and district heating supply) during winter, and efforts toward cost recovery and institution building. Medium-term objectives include reconstruction and sustainable development of the energy sector. Total cost: $2.5 million.

Latvia IBRD–$36.2 million. This investment loan will have economic and environmental benefits for consumers, including many low-income users and pensioners. It will promote sound policies and improve the reliability of service delivery, energy conservation, and the heating system.
Total cost: $140 million.

Mongolia IDA–$30 million. This investment credit will help increase revenues of electricity distribution companies in Mongolia, through targeted investments to rehabilitate current infrastructure and technical assistance to help commercialize management practices.
Total cost: $36.2 million.

‡ Poland IBRD–$15 million. This investment loan will help improve the energy efficiency of heating systems in the Krakow region by continuing the modernization program for the district heating
system, helping consumers decrease their heat energy consumption.
Total cost: $78 million.

‡ Ukraine IBRD–$28.2 million. This investment loan will increase the efficiency of the heating system in Sevastopol by replacing 40 percent of the heating load with decentralized, gas-fired miniboilers, resulting in lower cost and benefiting the overall population.
Total cost: $35.7 million.

ENVIRONMENT

‡ Bulgaria IBRD–$30 million. This investment loan aims to improve the coverage, completeness, accuracy, and responsiveness of the cadastre and real property registration systems, contributing to secure tenure and real property, and an efficient real property market.
Total cost: $37.1 million.

Latvia IBRD–$2.2 million. This investment loan will address environmental and health concerns in the Liepaja Region through improved solid waste management and the development of a waste treatment facility, utilizing modern management practices.
Total cost: $17 million.

Mexico IBRD–$404 million. This emergency recovery loan supports wide-ranging initiatives to reduce vulnerability to natural disasters and to support rapid recovery when disasters do occur, thereby reducing the human cost of natural disasters to the poorest communities.
Total cost: $658.4 million.

‡ Panama IBRD–$47.9 million. This investment loan improves land administration services covering 2.5 million hectares, enabling small-scale farmers, including women and indigenous people, to obtain land, resulting in greater participation in decisionmaking processes and equitable property rights.
Total cost: $72.4 million.

‡ Philippines IBRD–$4.8 million. This learning and innovation loan supports testing of alternative approaches to land management and administration and lays a foundation for implementing a long-term land administration and management program, benefiting poverty reduction and economic growth.
Total cost: $10.4 million.

§‡ Sri Lanka IDA–$5 million. Landholders will, through this learning and innovation credit, benefit from increased land resource productivity through a system of land administration that is fair, efficient, and sustainable.
Total cost: $6.8 million.

‡ Uganda IDA–$22 million. This investment credit seeks to build the capacity of players at the national, district, and community levels, in the private and public sectors, to work together to promote sound environment and natural resources management.
Total cost: $24.1 million.

‡ West Bank and Gaza Trust Fund–$9.5 million. Approximately 200,000 people in Jenin District will, through this operation, have access to better solid waste management services. These include: sanitary landfill construction, closures of uncontrolled dumpsites, improved solid waste management, and capacity building.
Total cost: $14 million.

FINANCE

Azerbaijan IDA–$5.4 million. This technical assistance credit will assist the government in implementing and developing its financial sector strategy through technical assistance focused on bank restructuring and divestiture by enhancing banking infrastructure and supervision.
Total cost: $6.3 million.

§‡ Bangladesh IDA–$151 million. About 1.2 million microentrepreneurs, especially rural poor women, will benefit from increased access to microlending through this financial intermediary credit. The project will also strengthen institutions providing loans.
Total cost: $181 million.

§‡ Bosnia and Herzegovina IDA–$20 million. This investment credit will help raise incomes, develop businesses, and create jobs by providing financial services to low-income people. It will also help microfinance institutions increase outreach to low-income clients.
Total cost: $27.1 million.

Brazil IBRD–$404 million. This adjustment loan will support Brazil’s financial sector reform program, promote economic growth, contribute to poverty reduction, and avoid reversal of gains by helping prevent financial crises.
Total cost: $404 million.

Burundi IDA–$7.5 million. This investment credit will complement the regional integration activities of the Common Market for Southern and Eastern Africa and set up a credible insurance mechanism against losses caused by political risks.
Total cost: $15 million.

China IBRD–$8 million. This supplemental loan will support the completion of the China National Payments System pilot, a component of the Financial Sector Technical Assistance Project currently under implementation.
Total cost: $9.2 million.

† Eritrea IDA–$90 million. This credit will help the government mitigate the consequences of the ongoing humanitarian crisis caused by war and drought by providing assistance to poor and displaced people, rehabilitating key infrastructure, and jump-starting the economy.
Total cost: $90 million.

Jamaica IBRD–$75 million. This adjustment loan will support Jamaica’s bank restructuring and debt management program, strengthening the country’s financial sector and benefiting consumers of financial services.
Total cost: $150 million.

Kenya IDA–$25 million. This investment credit will complement the regional integration activities
of the Common Market for Southern and Eastern Africa and set up a credible insurance mechanism against losses caused by political risks.
Total cost: $75 million.

‡ Kosovo Trust Fund–$5 million. This grant will provide financing for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on market-based terms in an effort to jump-start production and economic activity in the private sector and provide targeted technical assistance to banks and SMEs.
Total cost: $10 million.

Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of IBRD–$30.3 million; IDA–$20 million. This adjustment loan/credit will help the government meet its commitment to improve living standards, by supporting financial and enterprise sector reform programs and facilitating private sector growth and job creation.
Total cost: $65.3 million.

Malawi IDA–$15 million. This investment credit will complement the regional integration activities of the Common Market for Southern and Eastern Africa by establishing a credible insurance mechanism against losses caused by political risks.
Total cost: $45 million.

Mexico IBRD–$505.1 million. This adjustment loan will help the banking sector withstand external shocks, improve lending to the private sector, and open capital market access to micro, small, rural-based, and medium-size enterprises.
Total cost: $505.1 million.

Rwanda IDA–$7.5 million. This investment credit will complement the regional integration activities of the Common Market for Southern and Eastern Africa and set up a credible insurance mechanism against losses caused by political risks.
Total cost: $15 million.

‡ Sri Lanka IDA–$30.3 million. This investment credit will increase the effectiveness of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka by providing resources and technical assistance to bolster ongoing improvements and modernization within the central bank.
Total cost: $42 million.

Tanzania IDA–$15 million. This investment credit will complement the regional integration activities of the Common Market for Southern and Eastern Africa and set up a credible insurance mechanism against losses caused by political risks.
Total cost: $45 million.

Turkey IBRD–$777.8 million. This adjustment loan will help reform Turkey’s financial sector through support for the creation of an independent Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency that will bring regulations up to international practice standards, as well as restructuring and privatization of state-owned banks.
Total cost: $777.8 million.

Uganda IDA–$20 million. This investment credit will complement the regional integration activities of the Common Market for Southern and Eastern Africa and set up a credible insurance mechanism against losses caused by political risks.
Total cost: $60 million.

Western Africa IDA–$9.4 million. This technical assistance credit will help establish an appropriate set of regional payment mechanisms to satisfy the evolving needs of all market sectors in the West African Economic and Monetary Union.
Total cost: $19.3 million.

Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Trust Fund–$6 million. This project will support the bank restructuring strategy adopted by the new government in May 2001. The project is part of a broader effort by a group of key donors involved in preparing the banking strategy.
Total cost: $6.5 million.

Zambia IDA–$15 million. This investment credit will complement the regional integration activities of the Common Market for Southern and Eastern Africa and set up a credible insurance mechanism against losses caused by political risks.
Total cost: $45 million.

HEALTH, NUTRITION, AND POPULATION

§‡ Azerbaijan IDA–$5 million. This learning and innovation credit will test ways to strengthen and reform district primary health-care services, with maximum benefits accruing to poorer people.
Total cost: $5.5 million.

§‡ Bangladesh IDA–$40 million. Approximately 750,000 people will, through this investment credit, benefit from measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, through education campaigns that target high-risk groups, and to improve government capacity to monitor the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Total cost: $52.6 million.

§‡ Barbados IBRD–$15.1 million. This adaptable program loan will improve laboratory testing, pharmaceutical services, and training of community health-care workers and volunteers. People with HIV/AIDS and at-risk groups will benefit from enhanced clinical treatment, patient monitoring, and HIV/AIDS surveillance.
Total cost: $23.6 million.

§‡ Bolivia IDA–$35 million. About two million
people will benefit from this adaptable program credit to reduce infant mortality from 67 to 48 per thousand births by strengthening basic health
insurance, providing vaccines, and offering prenatal and neonatal care.
Total cost: $70 million.

‡ Cameroon IDA–$50 million. This adaptable program credit will assist people affected by HIV/AIDS, strengthen the capacity of local communities to address the epidemic, and support and design the implementation of sector HIV/AIDS strategies.
Total cost: $60 million.

§‡ Dominican Republic IBRD–$25 million. This adaptable program loan will improve laboratory testing, pharmaceutical services, and training of community health-care workers and volunteers. People with HIV/AIDS and at-risk groups will benefit from enhanced clinical treatment, patient monitoring, and HIV/AIDS surveillance.
Total cost: $30 million.

‡ East Timor Trust Fund–$12.6 million. This grant supports the rehabilition and development of a financially sustainable health system, designed to respond to the immediate needs of the population. It will also prepare the health system to meet future needs.
Total cost: $21.4 million.

§‡ Eritrea IDA–$40 million. This adaptable program credit will assist in implementing programs to prevent HIV/AIDS, malaria, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis, focusing on people of productive age and providing economic, social, institutional, and environmental benefits to society.
Total cost: $50 million.

§ Eritrea IDA–$40 million. This investment credit will provide nearly a million children with health care, nutrition, social protection, and education. Economic and social benefits will accrue at national, community, household, and individual levels.
Total cost: $49 million.

‡ Ethiopia IDA–$59.7 million. The Ethiopian population will, through this adaptable program credit, benefit from government prevention and awareness programs designed to comprehensively address the HIV/AIDS epidemic, thereby mitigating the social and economic impact of the disease.
Total cost: $63.4 million.

‡ Gambia, The IDA–$15 million. This investment credit will help develop multisectoral programs that stem the rapid growth of HIV/AIDS among vulnerable groups and the population at large, thereby mitigating the social and economic impact of the disease.
Total cost: $16.2 million.

‡ Ghana IDA–$25 million. This investment credit will reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS through awareness and prevention, benefiting the population at large, especially women and their families, by financing interventions going beyond the Ministry of Health’s mandate.
Total cost: $27.8 million.

§‡ India IDA–$30 million. Approximately 500,000 people will, through this investment credit, benefit from increased government capacity to improve national leprosy programs and to enhance diagnosis and treatment at the state level.
Total cost: $42.2 million.

‡ Indonesia IBRD–$63.2 million; IDA–$40 million. This loan/credit will promote effective health sector decentralization in three provinces and help the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare carry out its roles in a decentralized system, benefiting approximately 10 million poor people.
Total cost: $895.8 million.

‡ Kenya IDA–$50 million. This adjustable program credit will intensify the multisectoral response to HIV/AIDS, and accelerate the process of achieving the targets elaborated in the National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan, thereby mitigating the social and economic impact of the disease.
Total cost: $52.4 million.

§‡ Kenya IDA–$50 million. This investment credit will promote HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, focusing on rural and poor women, and will also address Kenya’s declining health care system by providing resources to decentralize health-care services and deliver quality care.
Total cost: $117.3 million.

‡ Kyrgyz Republic IDA–$15 million. This investment credit will improve access, quality of health care, and training of staff, and expand primary health care centers located in poor rural areas.
Total cost: $19.5 million.

§‡ Mexico IBRD–$350 million. More than 13 million Mexicans, including 7.5 million indigenous people, will benefit from this loan that extends health-care services to people living in rural and urban areas where these services are currently unavailable or inadequate.
Total cost: $581.2 million.

§‡ Moldova IDA–$10 million. This investment credit will improve health care and increase the quality and efficiency of the health sector, resulting in better access to services for the poor and improved management of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
Total cost: $20 million.

‡ Rwanda IDA–$7 million. About 326,000 refugees returning in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide will benefit from this supplemental credit aiming to strengthen and expand the health-care system. This project will also enhance national reintegration and reconciliation.
Total cost: $7.4 million.

‡ Samoa IDA–$5 million. Health-care stakeholders and disadvantaged groups will benefit from this investment credit to strengthen the capacity to implement health-care policies, legislation, and regulation, and to improve health-care facilities covered by the country’s health-care sector reform strategy.
Total cost: $6.1 million.

§‡ Uganda IDA–$47.5 million. This investment credit will support HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs by extending activities to all districts, engaging other line ministries, empowering communities to fight HIV/AIDS, and enhancing civil society participation.
Total cost: $50 million.

§ Venezuela, República Bolivariana de IBRD–$30.3 million. This sector investment loan will benefit 2.4 million poor people by providing expanded health-care coverage, integrated systems of ambulatory care services, better institutional organization and management, and activities to prevent and control HIV/AIDS.
Total cost: $60.3 million.

MINING

‡ Algeria IBRD–$18 million. This technical assistance loan will help the government implement its market-oriented reform program, increasing private sector participation and improving efficiency through legal, regulatory, and institutional reform-oriented assistance.
Total cost: $22 million.

Mozambique IDA–$18 million. This technical assistance credit will help establish a framework conducive to private investment and provide a better understanding of how different sectors and donors can improve the living standards of affected communities.
Total cost: $33 million.

MULTISECTOR

Cambodia IDA–$35 million. Approximately five million people will, through this credit, benefit directly or indirectly from the restoration of economic and social services through the rehabilitation of economic and social infrastructure to pre-flood levels.
Total cost: $40.4 million.

‡ Grenada IBRD–$5.1 million; IDA–$5 million. This combined loan and credit will help the government strengthen its responses to and preparedness for natural disasters, reducing the likelihood of loss of life and assets, and making the economy less vulnerable.
Total cost: $11.8 million.

‡Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of IDA–$5 million. This learning and innovation credit will develop projects to support site management and capacity-building activities in areas of cultural importance; promote handicrafts and community-based tourism; and improve and conserve sites.
Total cost: $6.1 million.

West Bank and Gaza Trust Fund–$11.6 million. Support for the West Bank and Gaza’s rapid response program will alleviate hardships to poor families resulting from the economic crisis through temporary employment for unskilled laborers as well as increased demand for materials and works for local suppliers.
Total cost: $25 million.

OIL AND GAS

Georgia IDA–$9.6 million. This technical assistance credit will maximize economic benefit and minimize social and environmental costs by enhancing Georgia’s capacity to negotiate and implement oil and gas transit agreements.
Total cost: $12.3 million.

Kenya IDA–$72 million. This credit will help the government restore power supplies to near normal levels, critical to reversing the decline in the economy that has resulted in substantial job and income losses.
Total cost: $72 million.

PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

‡ Bosnia and Herzegovina IDA–$19.8 million. This technical assistance credit will accelerate privatization, prepare the legislative and regulatory frameworks required for divesting monopoly companies, improve delivery of public services, and assist in setting up a transparent and regulated marketplace.
Total cost: $23.3 million.

‡ Ethiopia IDA–$230 million. This credit, which supports an important HIV/AIDS prevention component, will help approximately 620,000 war-affected people, many infected by HIV/AIDS, to rebuild their lives and resume productive economic activities; reconstruct infrastructure; and support economic stability.
Total cost: $230 million.

Guatemala IBRD–$20.3 million. This investment loan supports poverty reduction through reforms to help small businesses increase incomes; legislative changes to promote competition and foreign investment; and employee training to strengthen product and service quality.
Total cost: $33.3 million.

‡ Lesotho IDA–$28.6 million. This investment credit will help the government improve business infrastructure, in particular electricity and telecommunications services, including provisions for Internet connectivity in the future.
Total cost: $39.5 million.

‡ Nicaragua IDA–$5 million. This learning and innovation credit tests private-public partnerships
for developing consensus and reforming business practice, while introducing information technology—
based business development services.
Total cost: $5.9 million.

‡ Nigeria IDA–$114.3 million. This investment credit will encourage an enabling environment for private sector participation and competition in sectors such as telecommunications and electric power. The improved and more affordable infrastructure will promote poverty reduction.
Total cost: $225 million.

Rwanda IDA–$40.8 million. This investment credit will assist the government in establishing an enabling environment for growth and development of the private sector that will help reduce poverty in Rwanda.
Total cost: $41.2 million.

‡ Uganda IDA–$48.5 million. This investment credit will support the government’s public enterprise sector reform and privatization program aimed at restructuring and privatizing state-owned enterprises to increase productivity and the quality of services provided to the population.
Total cost: $95.3 million.

Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Trust Fund–$6 million. This grant will provide urgent assistance to the Republic of Serbia in an effort to jump-start private sector production and economic activity and unleash the potential of the private sector.
Total cost: $7 million.

PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT

Algeria IBRD–$23.7 million. This investment loan will enhance the work of budgetary institutions that favor growth, by modernizing and expanding the capacity of the Ministry of Finance to discharge its core expenditure and economic policy advice functions.
Total cost: $29.8 million.

†‡ Argentina IBRD–$303 million. This adjustment loan supports reforms in public finance and administration, as well as improvements in health, education, and social protection, benefiting millions of people living in the province of Córdoba.
Total cost: $303 million.

†‡ Argentina IBRD–$70.7 million. This adjustment loan supports reforms in public finance and administration, health, education, and private sector development, benefiting millions in the province of Catamarca, the region of Argentina with the worst social and economic indicators.
Total cost: $70.7 million.

‡ Armenia IDA–$11.4 million. This investment credit will help develop an independent judiciary, strengthening governance and rule of law that are essential for investment; strengthen the institutional capacity of the judiciary; and train judges and court personnel.
Total cost: $12.2 million.

† Armenia IDA–$50 million. This credit will support a government program aimed at facilitating private sector development and job creation, and deepening and consolidating reforms in social protection, education, and health.
Total cost: $50 million.

‡ Bangladesh IDA–$30.6 million. This investment credit will help Bangladesh make its civil justice system more efficient, effective, and accountable, primarily benefiting poor women.
Total cost: $43.7 million.

‡† Bolivia IDA–$60 million. This adjustment credit will benefit Bolivia’s poor by improving public services through the rescheduling of municipalities’ debts and strengthening the municipal funding system.
Total cost: $80 million.

Brazil IBRD–$8.9 million. This technical assistance loan will assist the government of Brazil in establishing and modernizing fiscal and financial management tools to implement Brazil’s fiscal reform program, essential to poverty reduction and growth.
Total cost: $17.7 million.

Brazil IBRD–$757.6 million. This programmatic adjustment loan supports the government’s program of fiscal reforms covering fiscal sustainability, expenditure management, and debt management, which will improve growth and public service delivery and reduce poverty.
Total cost: $757.6 million.

‡ Colombia IBRD–$35.5 million. Taxpayers and the poor will benefit from this investment loan to strengthen revenue collection and expenditure management in Colombia’s national government, and to increase transparency and accountability.
Total cost: $59.2 million.

Croatia IBRD–$5 million. This learning and innovation loan will strengthen the administration and case management system of the bankruptcy and commercial courts, and promote investment by ensuring a transparent legal process.
Total cost: $7 million.

East Timor Trust Fund–$0.5 million. This grant will strengthen East Timor’s key economic and financial institutions by training relevant East Timorese staff to compile, analyze, and maintain macroeconomic data.
Total cost: $0.5 million.

‡ Honduras IDA–$19 million. This technical assistance credit will improve public sector management by integrating transparent and accountable public finance and human resources systems, and reforming postal services, ports, and telecommunications, resulting in improved services and benefiting the government and public.
Total cost: $23 million.

‡† India IBRD–$75 million; IDA–$75 million. The state of Karnataka will, with support from this loan/credit, strengthen fiscal stability and government effectiveness through fiscal and administrative reforms, and improve poverty and social monitoring.
Total cost: $150 million.

Jordan IBRD–$120 million. This programmatic loan provides fast-disbursing external financing to meet anticipated fiscal gaps, while supporting fundamental structural changes in the core public sector to strengthen institutional capacity and the quality of public services.
Total cost: $120 million.

† Kenya IDA–$150 million. This credit will promote broad-based growth and poverty reduction, and help improve living conditions, especially in rural areas, by improving public delivery of social services and encouraging income-generating activities.
Total cost: $150 million.

Kenya IDA–$3.2 million. This supplemental credit will help improve living conditions for Kenyans by promoting broad-based growth and poverty reduction.
Total cost: $3.2 million.

‡ Kosovo Trust Fund–$5 million. This grant will support Kosovo’s economic reform program by providing financial resources to the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo. The grant will ensure sound budgetary policies and promote efficiency in economic production.
Total cost: $5 million.

Kosovo Trust Fund–$5 million. This grant will
support private sector development by providing financial resources to the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo. The grant will contribute to the establishment of a commercial legal framework.
Total cost: $5 million.

Kosovo Trust Fund–$3 million. This grant will create and strengthen the institutions that support the commercial legal framework in Kosovo. The enterprise sector and business community at large will benefit through an improved business-enabling environment.
Total cost: $3 million.

Mauritania IDA–$18.3 million. This supplemental credit will help mitigate the impact of oil price increases, which have severely hurt the poor, as well as other terms-of-trade losses, which are jeopardizing the sustainability of ongoing reform programs.
Total cost: $18.3 million.

† Mexico IBRD–$505.1 million. This adjustment loan benefits 13 million people in Mexico’s largest state by reducing the state government’s borrowing costs and protecting health and education services for the poor, as the state shifts to market-based borrowing.
Total cost: $505.1 million.

‡ Nicaragua IDA–$28.7 million. This credit provides financing and training to strengthen financial and environmental management in rural municipalities, benefiting thousands of residents, especially improving access to government services to poor communities.
Total cost: $40.7 million.

Niger IDA–$35 million. The credit will support the government’s medium-term development program aimed at stimulating growth and reducing poverty by maintaining financial stabilization and improving fiscal management.
Total cost: $35 million.

Niger IDA–$12.2 million. This supplemental credit will help mitigate the impact of unexpected oil price increases, which have severely hurt the poor, as well as other terms-of-trade losses, which are jeopardizing the sustainability of ongoing reform programs.
Total cost: $12.2 million.

† São Tomé and Principe IDA–$7.5 million.
This credit will, while safeguarding public resources toward education, health, and poverty reduction programs, help the government consolidate reforms to attain macroeconomic stability and market competitiveness.
Total cost: $7.5 million.

São Tomé and Principe IDA–$2.5 million. This credit will provide technical support, training, and equipment to implement policy measures currently proposed under the government’s reform program to assist economic growth.
Total cost: $2.5 million.

Sierra Leone IDA–$3.5 million. This credit will strengthen government structures to support economic recovery and rehabilitation through processes for economic policy planning, formulation, and implementation. It is also supportive of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention activities.
Total cost: $3.5 million.

Sri Lanka IDA–$2 million. Public and private sector decisionmakers will, through this learning and innovation credit, benefit from video-conference training programs that provide them with access to global development expertise.
Total cost: $3 million.

‡† Uganda IDA– $150 million. This credit will support the implementation of the government’s poverty reduction strategy, which aims to secure equitable use of public resources and improve governance as well as access to education, healthcare, water, and sanitation services.
Total cost: $150 million.

SOCIAL PROTECTION

§‡ Albania IDA–$10 million. This investment credit will support efforts to increase access to quality social services by assisting the government in developing, monitoring, and evaluating more effective social policies.
Total cost: $15 million.

§‡ Argentina IBRD–$5 million. This learning and innovation loan will establish the basis for community-driven development and management of natural resources on indigenous lands.
Total cost: $5.9 million.

‡ Belize IBRD–$1.4 million. Poor people in disadvantaged communities are, through this supplemental loan, gaining greater access to basic social and economic infrastructure and services, including water and sanitation, health, education, and training. Total cost: $1.6 million.

§‡ Bolivia IDA–$5 million. This learning and innovation credit will support culturally based, community, and small production initiatives that enable indigenous groups to increase their incomes and reduce poverty in tandem with their own worldview and cultural perspectives.
Total cost: $6.6 million.

§‡ Bosnia and Herzegovina IDA–$15 million. This investment credit will improve the quality of basic infrastructure and services in poor communities and strengthen capacity to manage such services. The project will be implemented in partnership with municipalities, citizens associations, and nongovernmental organizations.
Total cost: $17.6 million.

‡† Bosnia and Herzegovina IDA–$20 million. This credit will support the development of institutional and budgetary mechanisms for development and prioritization of social policy, and help improve employment opportunities and social safety nets for the poor.
Total cost: $20 million.

‡ Bosnia and Herzegovina IDA–$3.5 million. This investment credit will help to provide a sustainable system of social protection that targets spending more effectively on the poorest, and to create an improved labor relations framework in order to stimulate employment growth.
Total cost: $3.9 million.

§‡ Bulgaria IBRD–$8 million. This investment loan will improve child welfare and protect children’s rights through promotion of community-based child welfare approaches such as de-institutionalization, abandonment prevention, and services for street children.
Total cost: $19.6 million.

‡ Cambodia IDA–$10 million. This supplemental credit will finance a first round of flood rehabilitation subprojects and expand the effort based on a pilot by the government. Larger scale infrastructure is being addressed by another stand-alone IDA credit.
Total cost: $10 million.

§‡ Colombia IBRD–$150 million. Over a million of Colombia’s poorest children will benefit from this investment loan, designed to improve their health and education conditions through conditional cash transfers or grants to eligible families with students under 17 years old.
Total cost: $455 million.

§‡ East Timor Trust Fund–$8.5 million. This grant supports the creation of democratically elected village councils through which local communities would receive grants to rehabilitate basic infrastructure and restart economic activities. Most of the population will benefit, especially vulnerable groups.
Total cost: $24.8 million.

† Ethiopia IDA–$170.6 million. This credit will demobilize and reintegrate 150,000 war veterans into their communities and provide employment opportunities for them. It will also benefit the reallocation of resources from defense expenditures toward poverty reduction and accelerated economic growth.
Total cost: $170.6 million.

‡ Ethiopia IDA–$5 million. Women in selected poor districts will benefit from this learning and innovation credit, which will test methods to enhance social and economic welfare of households. The credit also supports HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.
Total cost: $8 million.

§‡ Honduras IDA–$60 million. This credit continues support for the Honduras Social Investment Fund, which benefits the poor by financing small-scale social and economic infrastructure and social assistance programs.
Total cost: $176.1 million.

§‡ Indonesia IBRD–$208.9 million; IDA–$111.3 million. This investment loan/credit will benefit the management of participatory planning development in poor rural communities and villages, improve social and economic infrastructure, and strengthen local institutions.
Total cost: $421.5 million.

‡ Indonesia IDA–$48.2 million. This supplemental credit will support third- and fourth-year funding of the Kecamatan Development Project, benefiting the management of participatory planning development in poor rural communities and villages; improve social and economic infrastructure; and strengthen local institutions.
Total cost: $48.3 million.

†‡ Kosovo Trust Fund–$5 million. This grant will improve the living conditions of poorer populations seeking to upgrade priority basic social and economic services; enhance community solidarity and initiative; and reinforce citizen participation in local governance and development.
Total cost: $10.3 million.

§‡ Lebanon IBRD–$20 million. This investment loan will raise living standards in targeted poorer communities, through investments in grassroots social and small infrastructure, income-enhancement activities, and special targeted programs for vulnerable groups.
Total cost: $30 million.

‡ Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of IDA–$2.5 million. This learning and innovation credit will increase social cohesion through social integration of at-risk youth from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Community-based approaches will be tested to support adolescents and youth at risk.
Total cost: $4 million.

§‡ Madagascar IDA–$110 million. This investment credit will strengthen social and economic services to poor rural communities and will build community capacity to plan and implement subprojects.
Total cost: $137 million.

‡ Madagascar IDA–$18.1 million. This supplemental credit will support post-cyclone reconstruction efforts, targeting communities in areas stricken by the cyclones, and improve access of the poor rural population to social and economic infrastructure.
Total cost: $24 million.

§‡ Nicaragua IDA–$60 million. This investment credit will finance small-scale social and economic infrastructure for the poor, as well as technical assistance for municipal planning, community organization, and social protection.
Total cost: $136 million.

§‡ Nigeria IDA–$60 million. About 30 million Nigerians living in extreme poverty will, through this investment credit, benefit from improved access to social and economic infrastructure and a decentralized approach to managing resources at the community level.
Total cost: $96.4 million.

†‡ Peru IBRD–$100 million. Low-income rural Peruvians will benefit from decentralized, more closely monitored, social reform programs, supporting health, nutrition, and education and giving beneficiaries oversight authority of the programs.
Total cost: $100 million.

§‡ Romania IBRD–$50 million. This investment loan will strengthen the government’s policy development, monitoring, and evaluation capacity for poverty reduction. The project will also focus on reform of the social insurance system and on labor market adjustment.
Total cost: $77.7 million.

‡ Russian Federation IBRD–$80 million. This investment loan will allow municipalities in the north to realize the benefits of economic restructuring and facilitate the implementation of sustainable municipal policies.
Total cost: $95.2 million.

§‡ Senegal IDA–$30 million. This adaptable program credit will help nearly 4,000 villages benefit from interventions aimed at improving the quality of basic social services, resulting in improved capacity to manage their own development resources.
Total cost: $46.5 million.

§‡ Tanzania IDA–$60 million. This investment credit will help cushion the near-term social impact on about 13 million poor people of reforms needed for growth and poverty reduction, ensuring that social needs are met and building capacity to implement community programs.
Total cost: $71.8 million.

Turkey IBRD–$250 million. This investment loan will monitor and mitigate the negative impact of economic reforms. It includes job loss compensations and labor redeployment services, resulting in improved productivity while supporting social safety nets for workers.
Total cost: $355.3 million.

§‡ West Bank and Gaza Trust Fund–$8 million. Implemented as a comprehensive program of capacity building, this project will strengthen the capacity of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to deliver sustainable services to poor and marginalized groups, thereby supporting the overall professional and
strategic development of the NGO sector.
Total cost: $16 million.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

† Morocco IBRD–$65 million. This loan will increase the efficiency and coverage of telecommunications, post, and information technology to poor, especially rural, areas and create job opportunities through the establishment of a conducive environment for enhanced competition.
Total cost: $65 million.

TRANSPORTATION

Albania IDA–$8.1 million. This investment credit, part of a regional program for trade and transport facilitation in South East Europe, will foster trade by promoting more efficient and less costly trade flows and by providing European Union—compatible customs standards.
Total cost: $12.3 million.

‡ Azerbaijan IDA–$40 million. This investment credit will revive the Silk Route connecting China and Central Asia with Europe. The project will modernize the East-West Highway and include rural road pilot contracts designed to provide solutions for rural road operations.
Total cost: $48 million.

Belize IBRD–$13 million. This investment loan finances paving of gravel roads and improvements to water drainage to handle floods, increasing Belize’s capacity to cope with natural disasters and improving road safety and farmers’ access to markets.
Total cost: $18.4 million.

Bosnia and Herzegovina IDA–$11 million. This investment credit will support reforms to promote more efficient trade flows in South East Europe, provide European Union—compatible customs standards, and reduce nontariff costs, smuggling, and corruption.
Total cost: $14.8 million.

Cape Verde IDA–$5 million. This supplemental credit will help the government finance the rehabilitation of the main section of the ring road serving Santiago, the country’s main island, thereby facilitating social and commercial use of the road.
Total cost: $5 million.

‡ Chad IDA–$67 million. This investment credit will help the government provide year-round access to markets and services to the population, in particular those living in rural areas, resulting in a reduction in poverty and isolation.
Total cost: $91.1 million.

‡ China IBRD–$100 million. Approximately 5.9 million people in poor areas will, through this loan, benefit from improved market access in remote inland areas, provision of efficient and economic inland waterway transport, and power generation in remote areas.
Total cost: $220.2 million.

‡ China IBRD–$200 million. About 3.3 million; people in seven counties in southern Jiangxi will directly benefit from the provision of efficient, safe, and effective highway infrastructure and improved access to health, education, and other social services in low-income areas.
Total cost: $535.7 million.

‡ China IBRD–$100 million. This investment loan will benefit 1.5 million people in the city of Shijiazhuang through the development of a more efficient and environmentally sustainable transport system with improved facilities for all modes of transportation.
Total cost: $286.2 million.

‡ China IBRD–$100 million. This investment loan will help improve the quality of life by developing the urban transportation system to facilitate future growth of Urumqi, and support the development of the wider Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Total cost: $270 million.

Croatia IBRD–$13.9 million. This investment loan, part of a regional program fostering trade, will promote more efficient and less costly trade flows across borders and provide European Union—compatible customs standards.
Total cost: $22.1 million.

‡ Honduras IDA–$66.5 million. This credit finances rehabilitation, reconstruction, and improvement of 100 kilometers of roads and 90 bridges damaged by Hurricane Mitch, thereby benefiting the poor and fostering market integration and economic growth.
Total cost: $106.8 million.

‡ India IBRD–$589 million. As part of a broader support program for India’s highway development, this investment loan will help cut travel time and boost safety on the New Delhi—Calcutta highway, which passes through some of India’s poorest states.
Total cost: $756 million.

‡ India IBRD–$381 million. Through this investment loan, approximately 48 million people will benefit from road widening and strengthening as well as technical assistance to improve the management of road resources, resulting in improved access to health and educational services.
Total cost: $533 million.

‡ India IBRD–$360 million. This investment loan will benefit approximately 50 million people by enhancing roads, meeting social and economic needs through institutional strengthening, and supporting a pilot road safety program.
Total cost: $447 million.

‡ Kosovo Trust Fund–$5 million. This grant will contribute to Kosovo’s reconstruction and economic development through support for road management capacity, sustainable road maintenance financing, emergency road maintenance activities, and local contracting capacity.
Total cost: $5 million.

‡ Kyrgyz Republic IDA–$22 million. This investment credit will provide sustainable, reliable, and affordable transportation for people living in Bishkek, Osh, and Jalalabad. It will restore selected roads and help develop a source of financing for maintenance and rehabilitation.
Total cost: $24.2 million.

Lao People’s Democratic Republic IDA–$25 million. Citizens and road users will benefit from this adaptable program credit, which supports improved road access and reduced transport costs, community delivery of maintenance services, stronger local enterprises, and user-fee sustainable financing of primary roads.
Total cost: $47.8 million.

Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of IDA–$9.3 million. This investment credit, part of a regional program for trade and transport facilitation in South East Europe, will foster trade by promoting more efficient and less costly trade flows and providing European Union—compatible customs standards.
Total cost: $14.5 million.

Mexico IBRD–$218 million. This investment loan benefits millions of Mexican motorists by supporting improved management, maintenance, and rehabilitation of Mexico’s 49,000-kilometer network of federal highways. Such support will reduce transportation costs and enhance competitiveness of Mexican products in international markets.
Total cost: $309 million.

‡ Mongolia IDA–$34 million. This investment credit will improve accessibility of isolated and remote regions of Mongolia, increase transport capacity and export trade, and reduce the number of road accidents.
Total cost: $49.5 million.

‡ Nicaragua IDA–$75 million. This investment credit will help repair and upgrade 450 kilometer of rural roads and highways damaged by Hurricane Mitch, and improve transport links for local residents, farmers, business people, and the population at large.
Total cost: $87.4 million.

Pakistan IDA–$3 million. This technical assistance credit will help Pakistan become more competitive in the international market through development of integrated, modernized, and more cost-effective transport systems to improve both industrial and commercial trade and transport efficiency.
Total cost: $3.5 million.

§‡ Peru IBRD–$50 million. This sector investment and maintenance loan will benefit rural areas by creating about 15,500 jobs in road-building and upgrading, which will improve access to social services (such as hospitals and schools), marketplaces, and income-earning activities. Total cost: $151 million.

‡ Philippines IBRD–$60 million. Lower-income residents of Metro Manila using public transport, walking, and cycling will benefit from this project, which aims to improve transport efficiency and safety and enhance the use of public and non-motorized transport.
Total cost: $97.6 million.

‡ Poland IBRD–$101 million. This investment loan will mitigate the social consequences of layoffs of some 37,000 workers resulting from commercialization and partial privatization of the state railways, and prepare the transport system for entry into the European Union.
Total cost: $335.3 million.

Poland IBRD–$38.5 million. This investment loan will help improve the Szczecin-Swinoujscie Seaway and support construction of new berths and cargo-handling areas within the existing port, resulting in reduction of cost and transit time, and benefiting the national community.
Total cost: $83 million.

‡ Russian Federation IBRD–$60 million. This investment loan will improve institutional capacity in planning, implementing, operating, and enforcing traffic management measures to improve transport mobility in the city.
Total cost: $123.2 million.

Tunisia IBRD–$37.6 million. This adaptable program loan will support sustainable growth of public transport in major cities through improvements and capacity building in public bus and rail systems as well as modernizing traffic management in the phosphate railway network.
Total cost: $57 million.

§‡ Yemen, Republic of IDA–$45 million. This adaptable program credit will improve rural access in the poorest areas, creating institutional arrangements and technical standards, and implementing pilot road projects in four governorates to assist farmers in marketing their products.
Total cost: $52.6 million.

Vietnam IDA–$110 million. This investment credit will enhance the commercial use and safety of an improved transportation network, enhance access between rural areas and major trade centers, and reduce road closures in flood-prone areas.
Total cost: $143.9 million.

‡ Zambia IDA–$27 million. This investment credit will help this landlocked country improve its railway system’s operating efficiency, reduce its cost of operations, and configure its freight services and tariffs to meet customers’ requirements and expectations.
Total cost: $31 million.

URBAN DEVLOPMENT

‡ Bangladesh IDA–$4.7 million. All residents of Bangladesh, especially the poorest, will benefit from this learning and innovation credit that will test new ways of controlling urban air pollution through pilot activities and institutional support.
Total cost: $5.9 million.

‡ Burundi IDA–$40 million. This investment credit will support the peace process and reconstruction of Burundi by helping to generate productive, labor-intensive employment for about 600,000 people, particularly youths, returning refugees, and demobilized combatants in urban areas.
Total cost: $41.6 million.

‡ China IBRD–$105.5 million. More than three million people will benefit from this investment loan, which is designed to upgrade water quality in the Huai River Basin through improved collection and treatment of wastewater.
Total cost: $226.9 million.

‡ China IBRD–$100 million. Approximately 1.5 million people in Liaoning Province will benefit from improvements in environmental quality, health, and municipal services. The project will reduce water pollution—related diseases, increase wastewater collection, and improve access to clean water.
Total cost: $203.6 million.

‡ Indonesia IBRD–$11.7 million; IDA–$5.8 million. The adaptable program loan and credit (accompanied by a Global Environment Facility grant) will finance the institutional strengthening of local governments, enabling them to achieve sustainable environmental management and growth. The project will benefit approximately 4.5 million urban poor.
Total cost: $22.8 million.

‡ Nicaragua IDA–$13.5 million. This credit improves natural disaster preparedness by strengthening a National System for Disaster Management, assessing disaster risks, and applying sustainable land-use and building standards.
Total cost: $16.1 million.

‡ Russian Federation IBRD–$85 million. This investment loan will help alleviate the financial burden on municipal governments of supplying district heating, through enhanced efficiency and sound cost-recovery policies, resulting in lower heating costs to consumers.
Total cost: $127.9 million.

‡ Tunisia IBRD–$17 million. This investment loan will assist the government in developing sustainable management of its cultural heritage by developing cultural tourism to increase tourism revenues.
Total cost: $23.8 million.

‡ Vietnam IDA–$166.3 million. Approximately 1.2 million people will benefit from this investment credit, which will improve public health and economic development in Ho Chi Minh City by reducing pollution and flooding, and by strengthening institutions.
Total cost: $200 million.

WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION

‡ Burkina Faso IDA–$70 million. This investment credit will help approximately 980,000 people in Ouagadougou gain access to adequate and reliable water sources through the expansion and distribution of tertiary water networks and improved water subsector management.
Total cost: $205.9 million.

‡ Comoros IDA–$11.4 million. This sector investment credit, supporting a multidonor-financed program, will improve living conditions and stimulate economic growth while protecting the environment through investments in water and road infrastructure, benefiting 500,000 people.
Total cost: $13.3 million.

§‡ Ecuador IBRD–$32 million. This adaptable program loan will benefit about 350,000 mostly poor people in rural areas who will gain access to basic water and sanitation services. The loan will also support institutional and financial strengthening.
Total cost: $50.3 million.

§‡ India IDA–$65.5 million. About 1.5 million people, especially poor women and disadvantaged communities, will, through this investment credit, benefit from increased access to clean water and sanitation services, resulting in greater empowerment and additional income.
Total cost: $89.8 million.

‡ Kosovo Trust Fund–$4.6 million. This grant will restore the water supply service quality and improve service efficiency and sustainability in the Gjakovë (Dakovica)-Rahovec (Orahovac) area, benefiting approximately 200,000 people by addressing both immediate needs and long-term structural issues.
Total cost: $5.9 million.

‡ Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of IBRD–$16.2 million; IDA–$13.1 million. This investment loan/credit will improve the efficiency of the water and wastewater utilities, enabling the government to provide affordable services and providing a basis for the future development of the solid-waste sector.
Total cost: $42.4 million.

‡ Niger IDA–$48 million. This credit will help the government’s water reform program improve access to safe drinking water and sanitation to about 355,000 people living in Niger’s rural and urban areas.
Total cost: $79.4 million.

‡ Russian Federation IBRD–$122.5 million. This investment loan will support critical investments needed to improve water and wastewater systems in 14 cities, restoring acceptable standards of drinking water and serving as a model for reforms elsewhere.
Total cost: $168.9 million.

‡ Senegal IDA–$125 million. About 800,000 people in low-income areas of Dakar and secondary cities will, through this investment credit, benefit from improvements in the delivery of water and sanitation services, resulting in overall improvements of public health.
Total cost: $248.4 million.

‡ Ukraine IBRD–$24.3 million. This investment loan will support efforts to improve the delivery of water and wastewater services to the people of Lviv and surrounding areas, and will help to protect and improve water quality.
Total cost: $40.8 million.

Uruguay IBRD–$6 million. This technical assistance loan will help improve the efficiency and sustainability of services in the areas of water supply and sanitation, power, natural gas, petroleum, railways and ports, telecommunications, and postal services. Expected benefits include better access, lower cost, and improved quality.
Total cost: $7.6 million.

§‡ Yemen, Republic of IDA–$20 million. Approximately 400,000 people will, through this investment credit, gain access to a more safe, reliable, and convenient water supply with improved sanitation, thus improving public health and freeing girls from water-fetching chores so that they may instead attend school.
Total cost: $29.4 million.

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