August 2016 Quarterly Summary Report on Approved (A) Project Preparatory Technical Assistance Not Exceeding $5,000,000; (B) Technical Assistance Projects Not Exceeding $225,000; and (C) Technical Assistance Cluster Subprojects (April June 2016) This document is being disclosed to the public in accordance with ADB's Public Communications Policy 2011.
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LIST OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECTS Seq. No. TA No. TA Name Amount ($'000) Date Approved (A) PROJECT PREPARATORY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NOT EXCEEDING $5,000,000 1 9106-AZE Shah Deniz Stage II Investment Plan 1,000.0 26-Apr-16 2 9104-INO Banten and West Nusa Tenggara Wind Power Development 500.0 8-Apr-16 3 9107-INO Affordable Healthcare Network Study 225.0 3-May-16 4 Multipartner Financing Facility for the Highlands 9117-PNG Highway 1,500.0 13-May-16 5 Guangxi Modern Technical and Vocational 9096-PRC Education and Training Development Program 500.0 18-Apr-16 6 Guangxi Regional Cooperation and Integration 9120-PRC Promotion Investment Program 950.0 7-Jun-16 7 9105-SRI Capital Market Development Program 500.0 20-Apr-16 8 9099-UZB Power Generation Efficiency Improvement 1,500.0 19-Apr-16 9 9108-UZB Affordable Rural Housing Program 700.0 29-Apr-16 10 9101-VIE Financial Sector Development and Inclusion Program 900.0 22-Apr-16 11 Improving the Quality of Basic Education in the 9097-REG North Pacific 500.0 18-Apr-16 (B) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECTS NOT EXCEEDING $225,000 None (C) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CLUSTER SUBPROJECTS 12 9109-INO 13 9113-INO 14 9116-INO 15 9098-REG Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program - Strengthening Fiscal Risk Management of Accelerated Infrastructure Delivery (Subproject 9) Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program - Strengthening Verification in Results-Based Programs in Indonesia's Power Sector (Subproject 8) Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program - Improving Multimodal Connectivity to Support Integrated Land and Sea Tollway (Subproject 7) Strengthening Project Preparation Capacity in Asia and the Pacific - Support for Capacity Development, Knowledge and Networking (Subproject 1) 1,000.0 6-May-16 500.0 16-May-16 1,250.0 16-May-16 5,000.0 19-Apr-16
2 (A) PROJECT PREPARATORY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TA 9106-AZE: Shah Deniz Stage II Investment Plan Executing Agency : Southern Gas Corridor Closed Joint-Stock Company TA Amount ($'000) : 1,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 26 April 2016 Date Approved : 19 May 2016 The multitranche financing facility (MFF) will support the government s investment in the Shah Deniz Stage II gas field expansion. It aims to improve Azerbaijan s economy by increasing revenues through the: (i) export of natural gas from the expanded Shah Deniz natural gas production and processing facility, providing the fiscal space to diversify its industry away from oil; and (ii) creation of additional domestic employment. As a new source of gas supply to Europe, it will diversify Europe s energy sources and contribute to the development of a multi-seller, multibuyer market. The investment plan s impact is aligned with: (i) the improved fiscal position of Azerbaijan; (ii) regional integration through increased exports and opening of the European market to Azerbaijan natural gas exports; and (iii) increased foreign direct investment in Azerbaijan. The outcome will be increased volume of natural gas exports. The major outputs are: (i) completed Shah Deniz Stage II (SDII) natural gas production and processing facility; and (ii) increased employment of Azerbaijani nationals. The TA will prepare a feasibility study to process the investment plan and partial credit guarantee and/or loan for tranche 1. TA 9104-INO: Banten and West Nusa Tenggara Wind Power Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 27 April 2016 Date Approved : 8 April 2016 The TA will support grid integration, and environmental and social studies across three sites. The grid integration studies will investigate the robustness of the grid structure and make specific recommendations for grid upgrade in order to address the instability of electrical output for each site. The environmental and social assessments will include reviews of environmental constraints analyses, as well as biodiversity and socio-economic baseline studies required by the Indonesian government, international best practice and ADB safeguards for wind farm development. The project will ultimately increase the renewable energy capacity in Indonesia to meet the country s rapidly growing demand for power in a more sustainable manner. In addition, the project will contribute to Indonesia s broader initiatives to achieve the national targets of: (i) increasing the use of renewable energy to 23% by 2025; and (ii) reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 29% by 2030. The project will also demonstrate the viability and sustainability of private sector wind developments in provinces across various grids with different size and demand profiles. TA 9107-INO: Affordable Healthcare Network Study Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 4 May 2016
3 Date Approved : 3 May 2016 The TA will assist Asia Venture Capital Holdings Private Limited (AVCH, or the Company ) in the development of a new low-cost healthcare business model for the Indonesian mass market. The Company currently owns and operates Indonesia s fifth-largest network of pharmacies under the Viva Generik brand. Founded in 2011, Viva Generik has grown to become one of the fastest growing private operators in Indonesia s healthcare industry. The existing network consists of 153 outlets in 4 provinces serving 4.5 million customers. To supplement its pharmacy business and address unmet demand, the Company is piloting a new business model, in which pharmacy outlets are equipped with physician and medical testing services. The integrated approach, if deployed at scale, could help address critical service gaps in less-developed towns and suburbs in Indonesia. The TA would help the Company develop and assess the new business model, and improve likely success by ensuring that newly hired general practitioners (GP) are trained to a high quality standard. The TA will support: (i) an operational assessment of the Company s GP operations, with a view of identifying and implementing initiatives aimed at improving the quality of health care delivery, including those provided to women and children patients; and (ii) a business model performance review to validate the Company s multi-service approach to private sector healthcare services in less developed urban areas in Indonesia. The review will also identify associated impacts (if any) of Universal Healthcare rollout, and indicate the potential to participate in and improve alignment with the program. The studies will provide crucial information to serve as basis for scaling-up the Company s business. TA 9117-PNG: Multipartner Financing Facility for the Highlands Highway Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 1,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 31 March 2016 Date Approved : 13 May 2016 The Highlands Highway was identified as a priority investment in the National Transport Strategy-2014 2030, the government s roadmap for development in the transport sector. The project provides an opportunity to revisit the sector road map and the loan undertakings, focusing on road maintenance and safeguards, based on the current progress. The expected impact is aligned with national strategies to improve access to health, education and standard of living of the people of PNG, increase opportunities for equality and prosperity in rural areas and provide well integrated, safe, financially and environmentally sustainable transport systems. The expected outcome is efficient and safe movement of people, goods and services between the Highlands region and domestic and international markets. The investment and maintenance project is proposed to achieve the following outputs: (i) restored, upgraded and effectively maintained 450 kilometers of 2-lane rural Highlands Highway from Lae Nadzab airport to Kagamuga airport at Mt. Hagen; (ii) increased road safety for pedestrians and vehicle passengers on the Highlands Highway; (iii) improved transport logistics and services in the Highlands region to strengthen value chain for domestic and international trade; and (iv) improved project management and institutional capacity to deliver the project and sustain its benefits. The following due diligence will be carried out under the PPTA for the MFF and its first project: technical, economic and financial, governance, poverty and social, safeguards, and integrity due diligence for proposed cofinanciers.
4 TA 9096-PRC: Guangxi Modern Technical and Vocational Education and Training Development Program Executing Agency : Guangxi Education Department TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 27 October 2015 Date Approved : 18 April 2016 The program will: (i) promote regional cooperation and integration by expanding formal linkages and exchange programs between Guangxi s technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions and those in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Pacific region countries, focusing on priority trade and investment sectors; (ii) promote partnerships with industry and national, regional, and international institutions for improving the quality and responsiveness of TVET to Guangxi s priority economic growth sectors; and (iii) focus on poverty reduction, emphasizing development of skills that enhance rural incomes, particularly in the agriculture sector. An impact evaluation will also be conducted by ADB to measure impacts of the reforms on learning and employment outcomes. The TA will support the development of the program. It will: (i) define program scope and design; (ii) undertake assessments to establish program soundness, the expenditure framework and financing, and results; (iii) undertake program system assessments; and (iv) enhance knowledge of the Guangxi Education Department of other TVET programs in similar contexts. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. TA 9120-PRC: Guangxi Regional Cooperation and Integration Promotion Investment Program Executing Agency : Guangxi Government Leading Group for Utilization of Foreign Loans TA Amount ($'000) : 950.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 10 June 2016 Date Approved : 7 June 2016 The investment program aims to support the efforts of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Guangxi) of the People s Republic of China (PRC) for promoting regional cooperation and integration (RCI), particularly with neighboring Viet Nam. Given the nature of RCI, the investment program will cover various sectors and will have impacts not only on Guangxi, but also on the other side of the border. Various subprojects in multiple sectors have been proposed for financing under an MFF. The MFF will help realize economic growth potential for border areas and beyond, in PRC and Viet Nam, and provide efficient transport and trade operations along GMS North-South Economic Corridor. The TA will be needed to design the MFF and properly address the RCI dimension of the investment program. It will: (i) conduct sector reviews to identify key issues to be addressed by the investment program; (ii) identify subprojects in the first tranche of the MFF and help the executing agency (EA) prepare preliminary feasibility studies, which may include technical, financial, economic, and socioeconomic analysis; cost estimates; environmental and social impact assessment; institutional and capacity development plans; and a study for initial benchmark indicators; (iii) conduct pre-implementation work for the investment program; (iv) assist the EA and implementing agencies in assessing preliminary engineering designs and specifications; verifying detailed cost estimates; recommending procurement arrangements and preparing terms of references for procurement consulting services during MFF implementation; (v) suggest key features in contractual agreements or other necessary legal or institutional arrangements
5 arrangements; and (vi) contribute to the preparation of the facility administration manual. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. TA 9105-SRI: Capital Market Development Program Executing Agency : Ministry of National Policies and Economic Affairs TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 27 April 2016 Date Approved : 20 April 2016 The program aims to enhance the capacity and size of the capital market in Sri Lanka, through a strong legal and regulatory framework. It would combine policy reforms with information and communication technology investments and technical assistance to support reforms that will strengthen capital markets in Sri Lanka. It aims to provide a well-functioning financial system that supports basic capital and investment needs, as well as to align Sri Lanka s longer-term economic objectives with the Capital Market Development Master Plan. The program s outcome will be greater capacity and size of the capital market. The outputs will be: (i) improved legal and regulatory structures; (ii) a developed bond market; (iii) improved financialinstrument tax policies; (iv) an enabling environment for derivatives (including commodities); and (v) developed insurance and pension industries. The TA is necessary to effectively formulate the program, which will support the government s commitment to meaningful capital market reform. Its objective is to identify policy measures to support the development of a robust financial market system in Sri Lanka that is well balanced, sustainable, and resilient; and which is able to effectively intermediate savings to finance investment. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. TA 9099-UZB: Power Generation Efficiency Improvement Executing Agency : Joint-Stock Company Uzbekenergo TA Amount ($'000) : 1,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 22 April 2016 Date Approved : 19 April 2016 The ensuing project from this PPTA will construct two units of 450 megawatt (MW) energy efficient combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT) at the Talimarjan Thermal Power Plant located in Kashkadarya region. It will build on the experience gained through Talimarjan Power Project (Phase 1) by further improving the corporate governance and promoting commercialization of the energy sector. The impact is aligned with Uzbekistan s national investment program for 2015 2019. The outcome will be increased energy efficient power supply. The project will have two main outputs: (i) increase in installed power generation capacity; and (ii) improved financial management capacity of Talimarjan Thermal Power Plant (TPP). The TA is necessary to: (i) review the technical, economic and financial viability of the project and ascertain the project rationale, scope, cost, schedule, implementation arrangements, risks and mitigation measures; (ii) ensure the compliance with ADB Safeguard Policy Statement (2009) and identify mitigation measures and institutional strengthening; and (iii) assist the project executing agency/implementing agency in advance contracting for the ensuing loan project.
6 TA 9108-UZB: Affordable Rural Housing Program Executing Agency : Ministry of Economy TA Amount ($'000) : 700.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 6 May 2016 Date Approved : 29 April 2016 The program impact is aligned with the national goal of improved quality of life in rural areas of Uzbekistan based on availability of quality housing, related infrastructure, and improved services. The outcome will be increased number of rural population benefiting from affordable housing in line with standards of equity, transparency and quality. The outcome is supported by three outputs: (i) improved quality of application process and construction process; (ii) improved policies and systems for the rural housing sector; and (iii) strengthened national capacities in program management and performance monitoring. The disbursement-linked outcome indicator (DLI 1) focuses on the rural population that live in new quality housing. Output indicators (DLI 2, DLI 3 and DLI 4) focus on mortgage-backed loans for the beneficiaries, minimum share of women among home buyers in the RBL program, and climate change risk mitigation. DLI 5 measures the improvements to ensure sustainability of rural mortgage financing through improved financial management in participating banks. DLIs 6, 7 and 8 focus on improvements in program level systems in engineering, procurement, and management and monitoring of the RBL program and progress. Indicators for prior results ensure that the government finalizes the multi-year housing program with systems to ensure equity in beneficiary selection, upfront improvements in climate change risk mitigation, and efficient procurement systems. The TA will help: (i) the government design the multi-year housing program; (ii) undertake technical assessments to establish program soundness, expenditure and financing, and results; and (iii) undertake program system assessments. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. TA 9101-VIE: Financial Sector Development and Inclusion Program Executing Agency : State Bank of Viet Nam TA Amount ($'000) : 900.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 28 April 2016 Date Approved : 22 April 2016 To achieve the targets of the Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDS) 2011 2020, the Government of Viet Nam has established the strategic objective of developing financial markets that provide efficient and inclusive intermediation, and that are safely operated, efficiently managed and effectively supervised. A specific reform agenda has been set out under the SEDS 2011 2020, the bond market development road map and the government s action plan to address deficiencies identified by the Financial Sector Assessment Program. The TA will support the program by developing select areas of the capital market, furthering the government s financial inclusion agenda, and enhancing the capacity of implementing agencies to undertake the proposed reforms. It will: (i) increase financial sector stability; (ii) deepen the nonbank financial sector; and (iii) promote financial inclusion. The TA will also encompass initiatives to achieve measurable reductions in systemic risk through non-performing loan resolution. Sequenced reforms will prioritize the establishment of a more highly developed government debt market to serve as the foundation for a corporate debt market. New initiatives will be introduced to engage the contractual savings sector in this process and eventually provide stable and sophisticated institutional demand for long-term asset classes. The TA will promote financial inclusion by enhancing the role of microfinance and microinsurance, providing
7 more inclusive access to the payment system, and introducing agent banking. TA 9097-REG: Improving the Quality of Basic Education in the North Pacific Executing Agency : National Department of Finance and Administration in Federal States of Micronesia (FSM), and the Ministry of Finance in the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 22 April 2016 Date Approved : 18 April 2016 The project will improve the learning progress of students with a focus on literacy and numeracy in the basic grades, and will strengthen teacher development, and early grade learning assessment. It will develop bilingual teaching and learning resources for literacy and numeracy, improve school governance and management; and increase parent/community involvement in education. It will allow for a more comprehensive and sustained approach required for effective reforms within the sector. Its impact will be improved quality of education in the FSM and RMI. The outcome will be improved student learning in primary education. Project output areas include: (i) better prepared teachers in primary education; (ii) strengthened capacity to use assessment to improve learning; (iii) expanded access and usage of bilingual teaching and learning resources and materials for literacy and numeracy; and (iv) strengthened governance and management of schools, including parent/community engagement. The TA will assist in the preparation of assessments, studies, and due diligence requirements for the ensuing investment project in the basic education sector. It will assess existing challenges and develop a project that is anchored in the FSM and RMI country context, and suitable for ADB and cofinancing with regard to technical, financial/economic, institutional capacity, and safeguards.
8 (B) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECTS NOT EXCEEDING $225,000 None
9 (C) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CLUSTER SUBPROJECTS TA 9109-INO: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program - Strengthening Fiscal Risk Management of Accelerated Infrastructure Delivery (Subproject 9) Type of Technical Assistance : Capacity Development Executing Agency : Directorate General of Budget Financing and Risk Management TA Amount ($'000) : 1,000.00 Business Opportunities Listing : 18 April 2016 Date Approved : 6 May 2016 The current constraints in fiscal risk management affect the ability of the Ministry of Finance to timely evaluate guarantee requests and adequately manage the fiscal risk of a rapidly growing, more complex and diverse portfolio of infrastructure projects. The lessons learned under a TA on enhancing private sector participation in infrastructure provision (TA 4872-INO) include the need to: (i) have sufficient fiscal space to realize well-intended infrastructure reforms; (ii) have some level of legal and institutional maturity for managing private participation in infrastructure; and (iii) focus capacity building through on-the-job advisory assistance to enable knowledge and skill transfer without distracting the government staff from delivering their work programs. All these lessons have been incorporated in this TA subproject which will synergize with ADB s ongoing policy-based loans on Stepping Up Investment for Growth Acceleration Program and Sustainable and Inclusive Energy Program and associated TAs. The TA will provide capacity building and on-call advisory assistance to the Ministry of Finance's Directorate General on Budget Financing and Risk Management for the timely and efficient evaluation, negotiation, issuance, monitoring, budgeting, financing, and disclosure of government guarantees for infrastructure projects. The impact of the TA will be the increase of fiscally sustainable public and private investments in infrastructure by 2019. The outcome will be strengthened government capacity to manage fiscal risks due to the acceleration of infrastructure delivery. TA 9113-INO: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program - Strengthening Verification in Results-Based Programs in Indonesia's Power Sector (Subproject 8) Type of Technical Assistance : Capacity Development Executing Agency : P. T. Perusahaan Listrik Negara TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 27 April 2016 Date Approved : 16 May 2016 The TA subproject supports P. T. Perusahaan Listrik Negara s (PLN s) broader program for the strengthening of the Sumatra grid with the results-based lending (RBL) program covering both transmission and distribution. It will support the overall program impact of enhancing the quality of life in Indonesian society, with the sustainable use of electricity acting as a key driver of increased economic activity. The outcome is strengthening the monitoring and evaluation methodologies and capacity of PLN through the assistance of a third party independent verification agent. The TA subproject will be coordinated with the World Bank s program for results (PforR) which complements ADB s RBL and also supports PLN s program to strengthen the Sumatra grid. While the ADB program covers both transmission and distribution, World Bank PforR focuses entirely on distribution. Given the conceptual closeness of the ADB and World Bank programs, the proposed TA on independent evaluation will cover both institutions
10 and its implementation will be overseen by ADB. TA 9116-INO: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program - Improving Multimodal Connectivity to Support Integrated Land and Sea Tollway (Subproject 7) Type of Technical Assistance : Capacity Development Executing Agency : National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS) TA Amount ($'000) : 1,250.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 12 May 2016 Date Approved : 16 May 2016 The TA will support the strengthening of domestic transport connectivity in Indonesia related to Sea Tollway. The World Bank (WB) is the only other major development agency currently involved in sector planning support and logistics reform especially in major ports. This TA has been discussed with the WB and other development agencies during the scoping exercise between November 2015 and January 2016 and at the BAPPENAS stakeholder meeting on 7 January 2016 to ensure that the TA will complement, but not overlap with other agency maritime sector initiatives. The TA will: (i) complete port and network analysis of cargo movements along the Sea Tollway corridor; (ii) improve policy framework to support implementation of Sea Tollway; and (iii) develop an implementation plan and an investment project pipeline for the Sea Tollway. The impact will be improved implementation of Sea Tollway and hinterland multimodal connectivity policy. The outcome will be enhanced organizational capacity for implementing Sea Tollway. TA 9098-REG: Strengthening Project Preparation Capacity in Asia and the Pacific - Support for Capacity Development, Knowledge and Networking (Subproject 1) Type of Technical Assistance : Capacity Development Executing Agency : Asia Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 5,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 26 April 2016 Date Approved : 19 April 2016 ADB established the Asia Pacific Project Preparation Facility (AP3F) in October 2014 to provide the additional resources and technical support for the preparation of public private partnerships (PPPs) and developing the enabling environment for PPPs. AP3F s primary objective is to assist developing member country (DMC) governments and their public sector agencies (DMC Agencies) prepare and structure infrastructure projects with private sector participation (including PPP modalities) and bring them to the global market. Subproject 1 will provide ancillary capacity development support to DMCs to continuously improve their skills in project identification, preparation, structuring, and financing of infrastructure PPP projects as well as streamline DMC agencies access to the resources of the AP3F. It will support a range of upstream activities and will give priority to infrastructure projects that: (i) have a positive impact on regional connectivity and support regional economic integration; (ii) take into account climate change and are demonstrably climate-friendly and climate-resilient; and (iii) demonstrate value for money and the potential for replication in the sector, country, and/or region. Subproject 1 resources will be made available to DMC agencies to help assess and build their capacity for integrated infrastructure and strategy planning; capital investment planning and programming;
11 financial management; and project management and supervision. It will also include knowledge generation and dissemination on policy, fiscal, and institutional frameworks for sustainable delivery of PPP projects. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded.