World Bank.India,The project Karnataka Watershed Development II is now in the pipeline.

As noted in the India Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) 2009-12, national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at more than 9 percent per annum from 2004-2007. High rates of investment and savings and strong export growth, and rapid growth generated substantial public and private resources for investment and development programs.

From 2008 to 2010, average annual GDP has moderated to approximately 6.5 percent due to the global recession. More than 400 million people still subsist on under USD1.25/day, with the majority living in rural areas and dependent on agriculture or other land-based resources.

Agriculture accounts for around 16 percent of Indian GDP. Approximately 60 percent of India’s population depends on agriculture for primary livelihood, largely from rainfed agriculture.

Out of a net sown area of 141 million hectares in India, approximately 68 percent are under rainfed cultivation, mostly in arid and semi-arid areas. Thirteen states, including agriculture as used in the PAD includes crops, horticulture, livestock and agro-forestry, all components of rural land-use in India.

Document Date:  2011/11/09.Document Type: Project Information Document.Report Number: AB6853.Volume No: 1.Country: India. Doc Name: India-Karnataka Watershed Development II

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World Bank.China Technology Needs Assessment

The proposed project development objective is to enhance client capacity to assess climate mitigation and adaptation technology needs and adopt global best practices.

Project Description [from section 3 of PCN]

Component 1: Technical Oversight, Synthesis and Dissemination. This component will support technical oversight and results synthesis of the technology assessments. An important component of this task will be peer review of the assessment methodologies and the sector level results. This component will also provide an outlet for dissemination through a series of workshops coordinating the steering committee and other stakeholders.

Component 2: Technology Assessments at the Sector and Provincial Levels. This component will support technology assessments of identified mitigation and adaptation sectors and several provinces.

Component 3: Capacity Building to Support Climate Technology Networks, TNA, and Technology Transfer. This component will consist of capacity building activities to support one national center, two sectoral centers, and five provincial networks with their own climate technology databases and personnel to serve as knowledge hubs in their respective areas. It will also include capacity building activities to better understand technology transfer mechanisms and the barriers to timely and widespread deployment of global best practice options.

Component 4: Project Management Office. This component will support the establishment and operation of the Project Management Office (PMO).

Project location (if known).

China, nationwide.

Borrower’s Institutional Capacity for Safeguard Policies [from PCN] The Government of China, through the Division of International Policy and Negotiations of NDRC and the national GEF focal point, has requested US$ 5 million from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to contribute to its own TNA. As one of the main counterparts of the Bank at the central level, NDRC is familiar with Bank's safeguard policies and procedures.

Document Date: 2011/11/08.Document Type:Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet.Report Number: AC5386. Volume No:1

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