Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Partnership

About QII

The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Partnership with the objective of raising awareness and scaling-up attention to the quality dimensions of infrastructure in developing countries. These include economic efficiency, safety, environmental and social sustainability, local economic and social contribution, as well as resilience against natural disasters. The QII Partnership accomplishes this through financial support for project preparation and implementation, in addition to knowledge dissemination.

The QII Partnership is managed by the Infrastructure, PPP & Guarantees (IPG) Group, housed within the Infrastructure Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group. The Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) oversees knowledge products and their dissemination.

Eligibility for grants under the QII Partnership is limited to projects that are financed by the World Bank Group and that have an approved Project Concept Note. This provision applies to both Standard Grants and to Just-in-Time Grants. Projects that are (i) under preparation; (ii) in early stages of implementation; or (iii) under consideration for additional financing are eligible for support from the QII Partnership. Task teams from the following operational units are eligible to submit proposals for grants:

Energy Global Practice
Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice
Transport and Digital Development Global Practice
Water Global Practice

Project Grants will be provided under two funding windows:

Window 1: Standard Grants for up to $700,000, which are approved following the procedures outlined in Section 4 (Grant Approval Process) below
Window 2: Just-in-Time Grants for up to $70,000, which are approved following the procedures outlined in Section 4 (Grant Approval Process) below.

Project teams seeking support from the QII Partnership should demonstrate how the grants will promote enhanced attention to the following elements:

Economic Efficiency: achieving value for money over the full project lifecycle; supporting adoption of value-for-money and/or full life-cycle cost considerations in procurement; mixed and flexible use of infrastructure; leveraging of parallel finance for World Bank-financed projects; and project level public-private partnership structuring.
Safety: enhancing physical and operational safety and durability through improved construction standards; use of management information systems and smart design.
Environmental and Social Sustainability: minimizing harmful environmental impacts; improving welfare for all groups in society, with particular attention to needs of traditionally excluded groups, including gender considerations; increasing accessibility (particularly for elderly and disabled citizens); encouraging citizen engagement in planning.
Local Economic and Social Contribution: support of enhanced competitiveness of local firms, particularly small and medium enterprises, through technology transfer and human capital development; facilitation of job creation and productivity growth; support for preservation of cultural heritage; support for citizen security and reduction of crime and violence.
Resilience to Natural Disasters: achieving resilience against natural disasters through better understanding of disaster risk to avoid the creation of new risk and reduce existing risk in infrastructure planning, design, construction, use, and operation; adequate systems for disaster preparedness and response.

FY	Grant type	Country	Activity	GP	Grant Amount	Project Size
FY17	Just-in-time	Argentina	Support for the Preparation of ToRs and Early Implementation of the Salado Integrated River Basin Management Support Project	Water	$ 70,000	300,000,000
FY17	Just-in-time	Bangladesh	Enhancing Quality of Municipal Infrastructure in Bangladesh	Social/Urban- Rural/Resilience	$ 70,000	410,000,000
FY17	Just-in-time	Ecuador	Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership (Ecuador Manta)	Water	$ 70,000	100,000,000
FY17	Just-in-time	Ecuador	Ecuador Ibarra Transport Infrastructure Improvement Project	Transport	$ 70,000	52,500,000
FY17	Just-in-time	Mexico	Quality Infrastructure Support for the Mexico Urban Transport Transformation Program	Transport	$ 70,000	150,000,000
FY17	Just-in-time	Tuvalu	Implications of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Infrastructure	Transport	$ 70,000	2,880,000
FY17	Standard	Argentina	Preparation and Implementation of Management and Results Plans (PGRs) for main Water Supply & Sanitation Operators of Northern Provinces	Water	$ 275,000	125,000,000
FY17	Standard	Bangladesh	Bangladesh - QII Enhancement to Clean Air and Sustainable Environment (CASE) Project	Transport	$ 450,000	87,200,000
FY17	Standard	Egypt	Support for the Implementation of Infrastructure Aspects of the Upper Egypt Local Economic Development (UELDP) PforR – a US$ 500 Million Flagship Operation in the MENA Region	Social/Urban- Rural/Resilience	$ 500,000	500,000,000
FY17	Standard	Ethiopia	Support to Establishment of Effective Pperation and Management Model for Sanitation Facilities in Addis Ababa and 10 Other Selected Cities	Water	$ 300,000	445,000,000
FY17	Standard	India	Urban Infrastructure for Amaravati City Development	Social/Urban Rural/Resilience	$ 700,000	300,000,000
FY17	Standard	Mexico	Technical Assistance to the Water Utilities of the MAS Oaxaca Program	Water	$ 275,000	55,000,000
FY17	Standard	Peru	Supporting Measures to Develop New Management Models and Improve Efficiency of Water Supply and Sanitation Service Providers in Peru	Water	$ 275,000	100,000,000
FY17	Standard	Tunisia	Support for Implementation of Infrastructure Aspects of the Tunisia Urban Development & Local Governance Program (UDLGP) P for R	Social/Urban Rural/Resilience	$ 270,000	300,000,000
FY17	Standard	Vietnam	Vietnam City Infrastructure Financing Facility: Provincial Government Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility	Social/Urban Rural/Resilience	$ 400,000	200,000,000
FY17	Standard	Vietnam	Support to the Vietnam: Results‐based Scaling Pp Rural Sanitation and Water Supply Program	Water	$ 300,000	200,000,000
FY18	Just-in-time	Africa Regional	Africa Regional Capacity Building for Urban Infrastructure Contract Management (Tanzania, Cameroon, Malawi, DRC, Rwanda, Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Madagascar, Senegal, Nigeria, Benin and Togo)	Transport	$ 70,000	343,000,000
FY18	Just-in-time	Fiji	Bus Scrappage Financing Model Scheme	Transport	$ 70,000	50,000,000
FY18	Just-in-time	Kenya	Strengthening Design of Urban Infrastructure and Planning in Nairobi Metropolitan Region	Social/Urban Rural/Resilience	$ 70,000	300,000,000
FY18	Just-in-time	Philippines	Applying Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) concept to Cebu City and BRT Corridor	Transport	$ 69,000	116,000,000
FY18	Just-in-time	Vietnam	High-Priority Urban Transport Infrastructures in Haiphong, Vietnam	Transport	$ 65,000	175,000,000
FY18	Standard	Bangladesh	Support to the Preparation of the Dhaka Sanitation Improvement Project	Water	$ 300,000	300,000,000
FY18	Standard	Bolivia	Urban Sanitation, Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in Bolivia	Water	$ 325,000	250,000,000
FY18	Standard	Cambodia	Support to Cambodia Water Supply and Sanitation Project	Water	$ 150,000	50,000,000
FY18	Standard	DRC	Kinshasa Resilient Urban Development Project	Social/Urban- Rural/Resilience	$ 700,000	150,000,000
FY18	Standard	Ecuador	Vision and implementation strategy for Transit Oriented development in Quito (phase 1)	Transport	$ 300,000	205,000,000
FY18	Standard	Egypt	Improving Septage Management in Rural Egypt through Institutional Strengthening, Business Development and ICT	Water	$ 250,000	550,000,000
FY18	Standard	Lebanon	Support to Preparation of Additional Financing for the Greater Beirut Water Supply Project	Water	$ 300,000	200,000,000
FY18	Standard	Romania	Investing in Resilient Infrastructure and Institutional Capacity: Cultivating a Model of Sustainable Urban Development in the Heart of Bucharest	Social/Urban Rural/Resilience	$ 690,000	150,000,000
FY18	Standard	Rwanda	Enhancing Efficiency and Sustainability of Infrastructure Investments in Urban areas of Rwanda	Social/Urban Rural/Resilience	$ 200,000	95,000,000
FY18	Standard	Sri Lanka, Fiji,	Implementation of Innovative and Efficient Bridge Technologies	Transport	$ 192,500	175,000,000
FY18	Standard	Tunisia	Support to Irrigation Infrastructure Performance Enhancement in Tunisia	Water	$ 300,000	120,000,000
FY18	Standard	Vietnam	Universally Accessible Infrastructure Design and Green Infrastructure Development in the Vietnam Scaling Up Urban Upgrading Project	Social/Urban Rural/Resilience	$ 650,000	240,000,000
FY18	Standard	Vietnam	Rapid Assessment of Water Security in Vietnam Mekong Delta	Water	$ 250,000	400,000,000
FY18	Standard	West Bank & Gaza	Promoting Resilient Municipal Services and Infrastructure in Gaza	Social/Urban Rural/Resilience	$ 400,000	10,000,000

					$ 9,516,500	7,206,580,000

Donor: Japan Ministry of Finance

Strategic Partners:

Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC)
World Bank Tokyo Office
Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF)
Japan-World Bank Program for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries
Infrastructure, PPPs & Guarantees, World Bank

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