Bangladesh Social Investment Program Project

Ratings for the Social Investment Program Project for Bangladesh were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was moderate, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also satisfactory. 

Some lessons learned included: integration and interaction of all levels as well as horizontal and vertical learning and experience sharing from similar operations within and outside the country, provide critical leverage to build and deliver more meaningful and inclusive programs.

The sustainability of the strengthened primary institutions will be further addressed by transcending the village boundaries through networking, federating and strategizing second generation issues. 

In order to achieve all these, strong ongoing technical support from the Bank, field presence of task team leader (TTL), managing to constantly raise and deepen the dialogue on the performance benchmarks and keeping the central agencies fully briefed are essential. 

A successful Community Driven Development (CDD) operation involves innovative, community-friendly tools that reach the hard core poor and poor and empower women. 

This includes, though is not limited to the following: a participatory targeting methodology to ensure ownership of the operation by the beneficiaries and prevents elite capture of its benefits; user-friendly community operational manuals developed with participation of the community to help internalize the rules and guidelines of the approach, and develop a shared understanding among community leaders, members of the community institutions and facilitating staff; a successful community financing model to provide new opportunities for improved access of the hard core poor and poor, including women to financial services; a proper social auditing mechanism, governance and accountability action plan and community assessment mechanism, to ensure improved governance, downward accountability and transparency of the operation; and an independent and effective process monitoring system as a permanent checking and informing mechanism in order to ensure timely addressing of impediments as well as learning.

World Bank. Document Date: 2011/12/21.Document Type:Implementation Completion and Results Report.Report Number:ICR2089

Bangladesh Social Investment Program Project

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Bangladesh.Railway Sector Investment Program

The projects proposed for financing under the requested PFR are: 1. Financing of the funding gap due to cost overrun in the Tongi-Bhairab Bazar Double Track subproject under the first tranche; 2. Rehabilitation of yards and extension of loops at different stations in the Darsana - Ishurdi - Sirajganj Bazar section; and 3. Upgrading of Signaling at 11 Stations between Ishurdi and Darsana.

1. A framework financing agreement (FFA) for the Railway Sector Investment Program (RSIP) was signed on 7 September 2006 between the Government of Bangladesh and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The RSIP was approved on 10 October 2006 by ADB s Board of Directors as a multitranche financing facility (MFF) for $430 million. The RSIP is based on the Government s Sector Roadmap and Investment Plan for 2007 2013 and will improve the performance of the railway sector by implementing (i) a reform project of sector policy, organizational, and capacity building reforms to make Bangladesh Railway (BR) more commercially focused, and improve governance and accountability; and (ii) an investment project of infrastructure and rolling stock capacity improvement investments to overcome capacity bottlenecks in sectors where such investments are both economically and financially viable, e.g., the Dhaka Chittagong and the Dhaka Darsana Khulna corridors.

2. The MFF is structured such that the reform project will provide continuous support to implement the agreed reform agenda, whilst the investment program will be supported by a series of four tranches. The reform and the investment projects are integrated as approval of subsequent tranches for investment subprojects is dependent on the implementation of specific reform actions agreed upon in the railway reform action plan in the FFA.

3. The first tranche under the MFF was approved on 13 February 2007 and comprises of two loans: (i) loan 2316 for $100 million from ADB s ordinary capital resources to finance investment projects; and (ii) loan 2317 for $30 million equivalent from ADB s special fund resources to finance the reform project.

4. The second tranche with a loan for $150 million was scheduled for approval in January 2008. It will finance (i) construction of other subprojects in the Dhaka Chittagong corridor and Dhaka Darsana Khulna corridor studied and prepared under the first loan and that satisfy the agreed subproject selection criteria in the FFA, and (ii) construction supervision consulting services for the approved subprojects.

Asian Development Bank.Project Number.32234-04

MFF - Railway Sector Investment Program (Subproject 2) :  Bangladesh

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Bangladesh Local Governance Support Project

Approval Date 29-NOV-2011.Closing Date 30-NOV-2016.Total Project Cost** 532.Region South Asia.Major Sector (Sector) (%) Public Administration, Law, and Justice (Sub-national government administration) (100%).Themes (%) Decentralization (100%). Environmental Category B. Bank Team Lead Menon Parameswaran, Balakrishna.Borrower/Recipient GOVERNMENT OF BANGLADESH. Implementing Agency LOCAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION

World Bank. Bangladesh Local Governace Support Project II

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Bangladesh.Health, Nutrition, and Population Sector Development Program Project

Consolidated Procurement Plan of DGFP for July 2011- December 2012.General Procurement Notice (GPN) in UNDB issue no 118798.Name of Operational Plans: 1. Field Services Delivery Programme. 2. Maternal child and reproductive health service delivery prog.3. CLINiCAL contraception service delivery prog.) 4. Procurement Storage and supply management

Document Date: 2011/08/01. Document Type: Procurement Plan.Report Number:65819.Volume No: 1 of 1

World Bank.Bangladesh - Health, Nutrition, and Population Sector Development Program Project : procurement plan for July 2011- December 2012

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Bangladesh.Railway Sector Investment Program

The projects proposed for financing under the requested PFR are:

1. Financing of the funding gap due to cost overrun in the Tongi-Bhairab Bazar Double Track subproject under the first tranche;

2. Rehabilitation of yards and extension of loops at different stations in the Darsana - Ishurdi - Sirajganj Bazar section; and

3. Upgrading of Signaling at 11 Stations between Ishurdi and Darsana. 

Project Rationale

1. A framework financing agreement (FFA) for the Railway Sector Investment Program (RSIP) was signed on 7 September 2006 between the Government of Bangladesh and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The RSIP was approved on 10 October 2006 by ADB s Board of Directors as a multitranche financing facility (MFF) for $430 million.

The RSIP is based on the Government s Sector Roadmap and Investment Plan for 2007 2013 and will improve the performance of the railway sector by implementing (i) a reform project of sector policy, organizational, and capacity building reforms to make Bangladesh Railway (BR) more commercially focused, and improve governance and accountability; and (ii) an investment project of infrastructure and rolling stock capacity improvement investments to overcome capacity bottlenecks in sectors where such investments are both economically and financially viable, e.g., the Dhaka Chittagong and the Dhaka Darsana Khulna corridors.

ADB.South Asia Department.Project Number 32234-04, Bangladesh Railway (BR). 

MFF - Railway Sector Investment Program (Subproject 2) :  Bangladesh

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Bangladesh.Health,Nutrition and Population Sector Development Program Project

Name of Operational Plans: 1. Field Services Delivery Programme.2. Maternal child and reproductive health service delivery prog. 3. CLINiCAL contraception service delivery prog.).4. Procurement Storage and supply management

World Bank.Document Date 2011/08/01.Document Type Procurement Plan.Report Number 65819.Volume No 1 of 1

Bangladesh - Health, Nutrition, and Population Sector Development Program Project : procurement plan for July 2011- December 2012

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Bangladesh. Reaching Out of School Children Project

Bangladesh. Reaching Out-of-School Children (ROSC) Project. Detailed Procurement Plan & Processing Schedule for Goods & Services 2004-2013. Directorate of Primary Education. Document Date: 2011/11/01.Document Type: Procurement Plan.Report Number:65755.Volume No: 1 of 1

Bangladesh. Reaching Out of School Children Project

Introducing energy-efficient clean technologies in the brick sector of Bangladesh

This study's objectives are: (i) to present the pros and cons of existing and alternative brick technologies in Bangladesh with specific focus on pollution and energy efficiency; (ii) to estimate the private and social benefits of these technologies (iii) to summarize China's experience in the development of the brick industry, as the world leader brick producer and (iv) to provide concrete recommendations for adopting cleaner technologies in Bangladesh. The study focuses on the brick cluster located in northern Dhaka, which comprises 530 Fixed Chimney Kiln (FCKs) that produce 2.1 billion bricks annually (14 percent of the country's brick production).

As the brick sector is a prominent contributor to air pollution in Dhaka, it is important to distinguish its contribution to the city's air pollution from other sources, including transport and other industries. Because of limited data availability, the analysis relies on the most realistic assumptions drawn from monitored data in Bangladesh or neighboring countries (i.e., Nepal and India).

As a result, the estimated net returns for each technology are orders of magnitude rather than precise estimates. This report analysis the brick sector in Bangladesh and assesses the feasibility of cleaner alternative technologies.

World Bank. Document Date: 2011/06/30. Document Type: Other Environmental Study. Report Number: 60155. Volume No: 1 of 1

Introducing energy-efficient clean technologies in the brick sector of Bangladesh