SOUTH ASIA TRANSPORT SECTOR

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SOUTH ASIA TRANSPORT SECTOR
COLLABORATION BETWEEN NORWAY AND THE WORLD BANK
GROUP, MAY 12-13, 2003, WASHINGTON DC
Presentation by Terje Wolden Senior Transport
Specialist , South Asia Region World Bank
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The Millennium Development Goals

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development

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Bank-wide Transport Operational Strategy

• Sharper focus on MDGs
• Improve the investment climate
• Assist low-income countries under stress
• Improve knowledge services
• Align staffing and skills with strategy

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Transport Sector Objectives

• Reduce poverty and increase economic growth by
  improving access to markets, employment and
  services to further economic and social
  development in our client countries
• Assist our clients to adjust to new roles for the
  public and private sectors in the provision of
  transport services
• Assist our clients to adopt innovative financial
  and management techniques in the provision of
  transport services
• Facilitate trade through the removal and/or
  streamlining of regulations and promotion
  regional integration.

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Transport Average FY98-02 US5,391 million
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Bank Lending Annual Average Commitment () and
Number of Projectsby Sector Board FY00 to FY02
Annual Average Bank Commitment US 17,349
million Annual Average Bank Number of Projects
226
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South Asia Infrastructure Sector Mission and
Strategic Thrust

• Mission Reduce poverty by helping SAR countries
  to make their infrastructure services more
  inclusive, efficient and sustainable
• Strategic Thrust Build accountability to users
  through
• Competition
• Private delivery and regulation at arm-length
• Community Management
• Disclosure, user voice, process rules for
  government-delivered services
• Slow reforming countries, strong vested interests
  in producer-led or captured services/markets
• selectivity

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Instruments
Ownership

• finance public goods
• credit enhancement
• OBA/targeted financing
• adjustment lending
• how to AAA

Reformed Reforming Reform-shy Reform-proo
f

• demo/pilot lending
• what AAA

Walk

• why AAA, WBI

• monitoring

CAS Relevance
Low
High
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South Asia Transport Historical Data1950-2002
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South Asia Transport Main Activities

• Afghanistan
• Re-establish transport facilities
• Bangladesh
• Road rehab/maintenance/new construction, sector
  management/financing
• Rural Transport
• Dhaka Urban Transport
• Transport Strategy Note
• Nepal
• Rural access and decentralization
• Trade facilitation / Logistics
• Road Asset Management
• Pakistan
• Highway Rehabilitation
• Trade Facilitation
• Sector dialogue

• India
• State PWD lifting the game
• Support capacity expansion, maintenance and
  institutional reforms of road agencies
• National highways program
• Dialogue with India Railways/IWT
• AAA on Bus and trucking service efficiency, and
  highway financing study
• Rural Roads
• Bhutan
• Rural Access / Road Asset Mgmt

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AMOUNT APPROVED VS. TRANSPORT AMOUNTCY1996-2003
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AMOUNT APPROVED VS. TRANSPORT AMOUNTCY1996-2003
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AMOUNT APPROVED VS. TRANSPORT AMOUNTCY1996-2003
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AMOUNT APPROVED VS. TRANSPORT AMOUNTCY1996-2003
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AMOUNT APPROVED VS. TRANSPORT AMOUNTCY1996-2003
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South Asia Transport- New Themes

• Afghanistan
• From reconstruction of key transport links to
  secondary roads
• Bangladesh
• Road sector reform enhancing accountability in
  road management, sector allocation/sustainable
  funding/road classification and division of
  responsibility between RHD LGED/traffic safety
  enforcement/transparency in procurement
• May look beyond road sector - IWT
• Bhutan
• Shift from rural access to PER
• Pakistan
• Highway Asset Management
• Rural Access
• Sri Lanka Opportunistic
• Nepal
• Asset management of strategic network,
  operationalization of road fund, expansion of
  rural access

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South Asia TransportFuture Themes/areas -
India

• User Voice / ME report cards, condition survey
  of core network, cross-state benchmarking, user
  satisfaction survey, corridor management,
  performance-based contracting, cross-border road
  transport regulation
• Road finance sharpening the focus in state
  projects, enhancing linkage between road
  financing and state fiscal reform medium term
  fiscal plan,
• From dialogue to lending development on railways,
  IWT
• Re-entry in urban transport MUTP, seeking other
  urban transport opportunity/leveraging ongoing
  work on urban finance
• Engagement with MORTH on policy/planning/regulatio
  n, esp. maintenance/operation of NH in relation
  to the role of state PWD, possible support to
  non-NHDP NH capacity expansion
• Rural roads, lending preparation to support the
  RR program of GOI, with emphasis on asset
  preservation
• Preparation of a business strategy for the medium
  term

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FY03 - transport
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FORECAST PIPELINE
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Transport Staff ListEnergy and Infrastructure
Sector UnitSouth Asia Region, World Bank
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Suggested issues for discussion

• Revise!! Consistency in the application of
  safeguard policy in transport infrastructure
  projects
• Roles of transport staff in field offices -
  clarifications
• Sharing of information/documents/sector works
  are we doing enough? Any way we can do better?
• Other topics