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The project Emergency Demobilization and Transitional Reintegration Project AF is now in the pipeline.

2013-05-11T04:00:00.000Z

The project Emergency Demobilization and Transitional Reintegration Project AF is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Sustainable Coffee Landscape Project has changed to Closed

2013-05-03T04:00:00.000Z

The project Sustainable Coffee Landscape Project has changed to Closed. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The development objective of the Sustainable Coffee Landscape Project is to pilot sustainable land and water management practices in the coffee landscape of Burundi. There are four components to the project. The first component of the project is sustainable coffee landscape management. This component will finance technical assistance, workshops, goods, works, matching grants for associated subprojects, services and operational costs in order to promote sustainable land and water management, agroforestry and shade grown coffee cultivation, as well as conservation activities in one protected area. The second component of the project is addressing pollution point sources in coffee washing stations. The component's objective is to address the sources of pollution in the coffee washing stations (CWS) that will have direct environmental benefits and support attempts to access higher value markets that demand improved production standards. The third component of the project is diversification of livelihoods. This component would finance works, goods, technical assistance, workshops and training, matching grants for associated subprojects and operational costs for the following activities. The fourth component of the project is knowledge and learning. The component will finance operational costs, services and technical assistance for the project's management, the implementation of the project's monitoring and evaluation (M&E) particularly an Impact Evaluation (IE) as well as communication activities.

The project Sustainable Coffee Landscape Project has changed to Active

2013-05-02T04:00:00.000Z

The project Sustainable Coffee Landscape Project has changed to Active. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Sustainable Coffee Landscape Project is now in the pipeline.

2013-02-12T05:00:00.000Z

The project Sustainable Coffee Landscape Project is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Burundi Sixth Economic Reform Support Grant has changed to Closed

2013-01-31T05:00:00.000Z

The project Burundi Sixth Economic Reform Support Grant has changed to Closed. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The objective of the Sixth Economic Reform Support Grant (ERSG VI) Project for Burundi is to (i) promote greater efficiency and transparency in public spending; (ii) improve conditions for private investment and promote greater private participation and market access in the export and service sectors; and (iii) decrease the vulnerability of households to shocks through an improved social protection system. The main areas Bank is focusing on is: (1) Public financial management (PFM) and budget transparency strengthening through: (a) improving the budget process; (b) enhancing transparency of spending and procurement; and (c) streamlining the management of the civil service; (2) Private sector development (PSD) and economic diversification promotion through: (a) improving the legal and regulatory framework for private sector investment; (b) improving agriculture productivity and restructuring the export and services sectors; and (c) promoting the development of the mining sector; (3) Social protection strengthening through: (a) developing safety nets systems and institutions; and (b) improving targeting for social services delivery.

The project Health Sector Development Support - Additional Financing has changed to Active

2013-01-23T05:00:00.000Z

The project Health Sector Development Support - Additional Financing has changed to Active. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The objective of the Second Additional Financing for the Health Sector Development Support Project for Burundi is to increase the use of a defined package of health services by pregnant women, children under the age of five and couples of reproductive age. The project has two components. First component is subdivided into two subcomponents: (a) subcomponent, which accounts for the bulk of the project funds, finances the Free Package of Health Services on the Basis of Results-Based Financing (RBF). It co finances the national RBF program, providing incentives on the supply side to health facilities to increase the use of a free package of health services targeted principally to pregnant women and children under the age of five; (b) subcomponent, which finances Capacity Building for Community Health Actors. It finances community mobilization entities (called facilitating agencies) and other activities to build the capacity of local community actors to increase service demand, promote healthy behavior, and help vulnerable groups to access health services. Second component supports the Strengthening of the Capacity of the Ministry of Public Health and Fight against HIV/AIDS (MPH) and other entities involved in RBF in various areas.

The project Community and Social Development Project has changed to Closed

2013-01-04T05:00:00.000Z

The project Community and Social Development Project has changed to Closed. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The development objective of the Community and Social Development Project for Burundi is to promote better and more equitable local service delivery. The project will achieve its objective by establishing and operational a decentralized participatory and transparent financing mechanism that empowers local governments and communities. This restructuring paper to correct an omission of the previous restructuring from December 2010. The ministry of planning and communal development, the line ministry of the project, reports to the Second Vice President. According to the financing agreement, the chair of the National Orientation and Steering Committee (NOSC) of the project is the Vice Presidency representing the line ministry of the project. As such, the Second Vice President is the chair of the NOSC. The previous amendment to the financing agreement omitted this change.

The project Second Additional Financing Burundi Health Sector Development Support Project has changed to Active

2012-10-26T04:00:00.000Z

The project Second Additional Financing Burundi Health Sector Development Support Project has changed to Active. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Burundi Sixth Economic Reform Support Grant is now in the pipeline.

2012-10-25T04:00:00.000Z

The project Burundi Sixth Economic Reform Support Grant is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Second Additional Financing Burundi Health Sector Development Support Project is now in the pipeline.

2012-08-09T04:00:00.000Z

The project Second Additional Financing Burundi Health Sector Development Support Project is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Economic Management Support Project has changed to Closed

2012-08-02T04:00:00.000Z

The project Economic Management Support Project has changed to Closed. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The development objective of the proposed Economic Management Support Project (EMSP) is to increase the efficiency of Burundi's macroeconomic, financial, and administrative management by strengthening accountability and transparency through improved procedures and controls. This in turn will raise the effectiveness of public expenditure for growth and poverty reduction, and help reduce transaction costs for private economic activity. The project has the following five components: Component 1) would help the Ministry of Planning and the "Institut National des Statistiques et d'Etudes Economiques" (ISTEEBU) to develop instruments and collect more complete and comprehensive social and economic data for national accounts and other economic reports to be produced by the Government. This component would also strengthen data management in the economic core agencies which would improve the quality of economic statistics for decision making. Component 2) Since the early 1990s, many documents produced by donors (Bank and IMF among others) and the Government have underlined the sore state of financial and administrative management, characterized by its inefficiency, formalism, opacity and arbitrariness. Five main constraints have been identified: (i) regular procedures have been abandoned; (ii) legal texts and manuals have disappeared; (iii) control procedures and responsibilities are redundant, and inefficient; (iv) information is neither managed nor utilized; and (v) training and retraining is inexistent. In the budgeting system, the problems are: (i) procedural deterioration; (ii) proliferation of extra budgetary accounts, special funds and special treasury accounts; (iii) abandonment of budget annuality; (iv) abandonment of specialization of budget accounts; (v) late or inexistent regularization; (vi) incomplete, inaccurate and late accounting for commitments; and (vii) lack of regularization procedures. In payroll management, the largest item of expenditure, coherence between the payroll and civil service management is lacking, resulting in: (i) proliferation of non-salary allowances; (ii) swelling of extraneous payments; (iii) inflated pay scales; (iv) exceptional promotions; (v) non-enforcement of penalties; (vi) lack of incentives; and (vii) lack of training. Component 3) Reforming Public Procurement System and Modernizing Private Sector Legal and Regulatory Framework. Component 4) Defining Legal and Judicial Reform Strategy and Stregthening Oversight Structures Capacity. Component 5) Overall project coordination, management and administration is enthrusted to three structures: the Steering Committee, the Technical Committee, and the Project Coordination Unit.

The project Public Works and Urban Management Project - Additional Financing has changed to Active

2012-05-10T04:00:00.000Z

The project Public Works and Urban Management Project - Additional Financing has changed to Active. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The objective of the Additional Financing (AF) for the Public Works and Urban Management Project for Burundi is to increase access to basic socioeconomic services and short-term employment opportunities in target areas. The AF will allow the Public Works and Urban Management Project (PWUMP) to: (i) implement additional works (US$14 million equivalent) that will scale up the project's impact; and (ii) continue supporting institutional reforms and municipal management practices and policies that affect the sustainability of the investments (US$1 million equivalent). From an initial review of the sub-project requests received, this is likely to support the following: (i) cobblestone paved roads (around 30 to 32 kilometers); (ii) markets (around 9); (iii) secondary schools (around 2); (iv) health and social center (around 1); and (v) basic earth roads including drainage system for low income urban areas (around 4 subprojects). The AF will also support an additional capacity building program on resource mobilization in the three selected cities (Bujubura, Gitega and Ngozi). With the recent inauguration of the completed 27 sub-projects, the project's visibility is high. The success of the previous project and the current International Development Association, or (IDA)-funded Public Works and Urban Management Project (PWUMP) has attracted a lot of interest from many constituencies and stakeholders in Burundi. Additional requests for sub-project financing have been submitted by municipalities and communities and the required beneficiary contributions have been committed. The needed funding far exceeds the remaining resources under the original grant. Furthermore, the AF will continue supporting critical capacity building programs for local resource mobilization and the intergovernmental fiscal transfer system. This fiscal transfer system is the only sustainable manner for providing predictable financing to municipalities and enabling them to finance investments, operations, and maintenance.

The project Health Sector Development Support - Additional Financing is now in the pipeline.

2012-04-13T04:00:00.000Z

The project Health Sector Development Support - Additional Financing is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Public Works and Urban Management Project - Additional Financing is now in the pipeline.

2012-03-16T04:00:00.000Z

The project Public Works and Urban Management Project - Additional Financing is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Burundi - Energy Efficiency Project has changed to Active

2012-03-13T04:00:00.000Z

The project Burundi - Energy Efficiency Project has changed to Active. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The objective of Energy Efficiency Project for Burundi is (i) to develop and adopt selected policy frameworks for energy efficiency and (ii) to selectively improve the energy efficiency of households and buildings in Bujumbura city. Project has four components. Component 1. Distribution and promotion of compact fluorescent lights will focus on: (a) distribution compact fluorescent lights; (b) development and implementation of media communication and public awareness for energy efficient lights; and (3) technical and managerial capacity building. Component 2. Utility energy audit and technical assistance component will support the implementation of a program of activities aimed at supporting the application of results generated from the audit of energy consumption financed by the Multi-Sectoral Water and Electricity Infrastructure Project. It comprehends the development of an action plan with short, medium, and long term objectives to prioritize energy efficiency investments, and the design of small investment packages for energy efficiency. Component 3. Promotion of energy efficiency investments by large consumers component includes: (a) energy efficiency advice to large public institutions, commercial and industrial consumers; and (b) developing national guidelines for application of energy efficient technologies in new housing and commercial real-estate. Component 4. Support to project management, monitoring and evaluation will support to project coordination, management, implementation of an energy efficiency, and preparation of financial audits and periodic evaluations.

The project Burundi Fifth Economic Reform Support Grant has changed to Closed

2012-01-21T05:00:00.000Z

The project Burundi Fifth Economic Reform Support Grant has changed to Closed. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The Fifth Economic Reform Support Grant (ERSG V) is the second in a programmatic series of two operations (the first operation of the series, ERSG IV, was approved in December 2010), designed to help the Government of Burundi (GoB) to consolidate recent efforts to transform Burundi's economy from a post-conflict to a sustainable development oriented economy. In practice, these efforts consist to formulate and implement policies to accelerate growth and promote human development, including through private sector development. At the conclusion of the ERSG IV-V programmatic series, tangible progress with respect to each component of the reform program is expected, including: (i) measurable improvements in public finance management; (ii) measurable improvements in the environment for private sector development, with a focus on improved performance of the energy sector; (iii) progress in the liberalization of the productive sector, including the execution of the reform program in the coffee sector; and (iv) measurable progress towards coping with the effects of an ongoing fuel and food crisis.

The project Burundi Fifth Economic Reform Support Grant is now in the pipeline.

2011-12-21T05:00:00.000Z

The project Burundi Fifth Economic Reform Support Grant is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Burundi - Energy Efficiency Project is now in the pipeline.

2011-06-24T04:00:00.000Z

The project Burundi - Energy Efficiency Project is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The project Burundi-Fourth Economic Reform Support Grant - ERSG IV is now in the pipeline.

2011-06-15T04:00:00.000Z

The project Burundi-Fourth Economic Reform Support Grant - ERSG IV is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The Fourth Economic Reform Support Grant Program (ERSG IV) is the first in a programmatic series of two operations, designed to assist the Government of Burundi (GoB) to consolidate recent efforts to transform Burundi's economy from a post-conflict context and to formulate and implement policies to accelerate growth and promote human development. The ERSG IV operation aims to reinforce and operationalize reforms begun during ERSG II and III and will support the government to continue reforms in: (i) the public finance management system to improve accountability and transparency in public spending; and (ii) the business environment to foster private sector-led growth, particularly in the export crop subsector. At the conclusion of the ERSG IV-V programmatic series, tangible progress with respect to each component of the reform program is expected, including: (i) measurable improvements in public finance management; (ii) measurable improvements in the environment for private sector development, including as relates to the constraints posed by the energy sector; and (iii) progress in the liberalization of the productive sector, including the execution of the reform program in the coffee and tea sectors.

The project Financial and Private Sector Development -Additional Financing Project is now in the pipeline.

2011-06-15T04:00:00.000Z

The project Financial and Private Sector Development -Additional Financing Project is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The overall development objective of the Additional Financing for the Financial and Private Sector Development Project is to strengthen the financial system and improve the business enabling environment. This will be achieved by: a) modernizing financial sector infrastructure and improving financial sector regulations, b) supporting measures in selected public enterprises to improve the governance structure, and c) improving the regulatory environment for businesses through economic and regulatory reforms. The Additional Financing (AF) will support additional activities in the development of the required information technology (IT) infrastructure at the Banque de la Republique de Burundi (BRB) to support a modern payment system. Second, the AF will support a second generation of activities which build upon the reforms that began under the Economic Management Support Project (EMSP). These activities will also underpin th Development Policy Operations (DPO) and the Government's efforts to improve Burundi's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) rating. There are no changes in the Project Development Objective (PDO) or design of the project. Again, it is fully expected that all of the additional activities will be implemented prior to the original closing date.