Water Sector Governance and Infrastructure Support Project

active

Prospective

The Project aims to provide safely managed water in participating municipalities, ensuring water reaches beneficiaries on premises, available when needed, and free from fecal and priority chemical contamination. The Project also aims to build capacity for service delivery at the local level, empowering municipalities to deliver on their water supply mandate. Given the lack of institutional capacity, the Project aims to help the participating local governments develop WASH institutions. The goal is to shift the current weak practices of the municipalities in planning, financing, and implementation of water infrastructure by equipping them to respond to their rapidly increasing infrastructure and service delivery requirements in a context of climate change. Component 1: Improving Sector Governance and Institutional Capacity, Project Management. This component focuses on improving water sector governance and building institutional capacity of water supply and sanitation related agencies at the three levels of governance in Nepal, i.e., Federal, Provincial and Local Municipality Level, including establishing dedicated municipality WASH units and municipal utilities.Component 2: Water Supply and Sanitation Infrastructure. This component is comprised of three subcomponents:(a) Urban and peri-urban water supply which includes: i. the construction and rehabilitation of water supply schemes in two urban municipalities (i.e., Birendranagar and Dipayal Salghadi in Karnali and Sudurpashchim provinces respectively), and ii. the construction of public toilets.(b) Rural water supply and sanitation, involving construction and rehabilitation of water supply schemes and the construction of public toilets in four rural municipalities (i.e., Sharada, Janaki, Joshipur and Bardogoriya) of Karnali and Sudurpashchim Provinces to provide safely managed water supply services.(c) Water Quality and Monitoring Management, involving the operationalization of a national water quality surveillance and governance system and integrated management information system (MIS).Works under this component will be phased and aligned with the institutional reforms implemented under Component 1 to ensure that the responsible implementing units would acquire the capacity to undertake the infrastructure works and to manage respective WSS services sustainably.Component 3: Contingency Emergency Response (US$0 million): A provisional zero amount Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC) is included, which will allow for rapid reallocation of credit proceeds from other project components in the event of an eligible disaster, including climate-related events and pandemics. This Component will finance the implementation of emergency infrastructure reconstruction, rehabilitation, and associated studies (Emergency Response Activities).

FY17 - Water, Sanitation and Waste Management

World Bank

Project

Water Supply and Storage, Chemical (Industrial), Power Transmission, Manufacturing (Industrial), Waste Processing and Treatment, Power Generation (CCGT), Government, Commercial