Status of Projects in Execution 2009 - Russia

The World Bank Russia Country Unit

STATUS OF PROJECTS IN EXECUTION FY 2009

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STATUS OF PROJECTS IN EXECUTION – FY09 SOPE

EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION COUNTRY: RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Operations Policy and Country Services OCTOBER 02, 2009

Introduction The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) Report for FY09 provides information on all IBRD/IDA projects that were active as of June 30, 2009. The World Bank has issued a SOPE Report every year as an internal communication to the Board of Executive Directors. In accordance with the Bank’s revised disclosure policy, since FY02, the SOPE Report is available to the public.

The report is intended to bridge the gap in information available to the public between the Project Appraisal Document or Program Document, disclosed after the Bank approves a project, and the Implementation Completion Report, disclosed after the project closes.

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In addition to the project progress description, the FY09 SOPE report contains project level comparisons of disbursement estimates and actual disbursements, and a table showing the loan/credit/grant amount and disbursements to date.

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Notes:   

Amounts and Graphs for loans/credits/grants in currencies other than U.S. dollars may not match exactly due to exchange rate fluctuations over the life of the project.

Disbursement graphs are not included for Development Policy Operations, which provide quick-disbursing financing to support policy and institutional reforms. For these operations, funds are disbursed in one or more stages (tranches), released when the borrower complies with agreed prior actions.

Projects which are not yet effective may not have a planned disbursement schedule and thus will not include a graph.

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Russian Federation Project Name(ID):

REG FISC TA (P058587)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

22-Dec-1999

Mid-Term Review Date:

14-Feb-2003

Closing Date:

31-Dec-2009

Sector:

Central government administration (50%); Sub-national government administration (42%); Law and justice (8%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The objective is to: (a) support fiscal federalism and regional fiscal reform project; and (b) to promote a series of public financial management reforms both at the federal and subnational level of government.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

Notable achievements include: the drafting of legal documents on the establishment of autonomous entities and developing a monitoring system for tracing transformation of existing state entities into autonomous entities; developing methodological recommendations on financial management reform at the regional and municipal level, as well as medium-term financial planning and preparation of three-year budget at sub-national level; preparing a guide for a financial control system for executive authorities; the drafting of model legislation on a financial body of a municipal government, including methodologies on performance measurement; the drafting of model legislation on funds for the financial support of localities, including methodologies on the assessment of the quality and efficiency of service delivery for sub-national governments; analyzing legal aspects of asset classification and management; performing statistical analysis and methodologies on the assessment of tax capacity with respect to intergovernmental transfers; and the drafting of legislation on bankruptcy procedures for sub-national authorities.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-45280

Status

Currency

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount

Disbursed

UnDisbursed

Cancellation

Effective

USD

30.00

26.67

3.33

0.00

TF-25361

Closed

USD

0.48

0.48

0.00

0.00

TF-51789

Closed

USD

1.25

1.25

0.00

0.00

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Project Name(ID):

STATE STATS SYST 2 (P092429)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

28-Jun-2007

Mid-Term Review Date: Closing Date:

25-Aug-2012

Sector:

Central government administration (100%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The project's objective is to build a sustainable state statistical system for the collection of timely, coherent and trustworthy data on the economy and social conditions.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

The project is in its first year of implementation and is developing major procurement activities. The work on economic statistics methodology and new technology for data collection and processing, as well as on large-scale training has started. Although progress is slow, the necessary arrangements to speed up project execution were discussed and agreed upon by the parties.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-48670

Status Effective

Currency USD

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount 10.00

Disbursed 1.00

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

UnDisbursed 9.00

Cancellation 0.00

Project Name(ID):

HYDROMETEO SYST MOD (P082239)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

17-Mar-2005

Mid-Term Review Date:

23-Oct-2008

Closing Date:

30-Sep-2010

Sector:

Central government administration (100%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

The government allocated an additional USD 44.5 million for the project as its co-financing. These funds will help to reach all project objectives in full.

Project development objective(s):

The main development objective of the project is to increase the accuracy of forecasts provided to the Russian people and economy by modernizing key elements of RosHydromet's technical base and strengthening its situational arrangements.

This would enable enterprise and household adjustments to protect lives and support economic growth.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

In fiscal year 2009, the project has made a good progress towards achieving its objectives. Almost all original project funds are committed or disbursed which resulted in installation of new equipment, the introduction of new techniques and practices and the provision of better services to hydromet clients.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-47690

Status Effective

Currency USD

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount 80.00

Disbursed 37.56

UnDisbursed

Cancellation

42.44

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

0.00

Project Name(ID):

REGISTRATION (P093050)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

13-Jun-2006

Mid-Term Review Date: Closing Date:

31-May-2014

Sector:

Sub-national government administration (56%); Law and justice (37%); General public administration sector (7%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The objective is to (a) simplify and improve procedures for the registration of rights in immovable property; (b) improve the information flow from the registry to users so as to facilitate the development of real property markets; (c) improve the quality of registration services provided; and (d) strengthen the linkages with other organizations dealing with real property.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

The project loan became effective only in April 2008. The previously separated cadastre and registration agencies merged into one agency in December 2008. This is good progress; however, due to this institutional uncertainty, project implementation has not effectively started.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-48260

Status Effective

Currency USD

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount 50.00

Disbursed 0.00

UnDisbursed 50.00

Cancellation 0.00

Project Name(ID):

ENV MGMT (P008821)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

08-Nov-1994

Mid-Term Review Date:

10-Feb-1999

Closing Date:

31-Dec-2009

Sector:

Other industry (67%); Central government administration (13%); Sub-national government administration (9%); Water supply (6%); Solid waste management (5%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The objectives are to: (a) strengthen and streamline federal and regional institutional structures for environmental and natural resource management; (b) improve federal and regional environment policy and strategy formulation and implementation; (c) upgrade environmental and natural resource management systems; (d) address priority environmental management investment needs through the setting up of initial capitalization of the National Pollution Abatement Facility; (e) assist in the financing of economically viable, high priority resource recovery/pollution abatement projects in the country; and (f) facilitate the flow of donor funds and resources to the environmental protection sector.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

The development objectives (a), (b) and (c) related to technical assistance components of the project were completed in 2002.

Progress reached in fiscal year 2009 towards achieving objectives (d), (e) and (f) was very limited. Only two small pollution abatement investments are under implementation.

More than USD 20 million of uncommitted resources will be cancelled.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant

Status

Currency

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount

Disbursed

UnDisbursed

Cancellation

COFN-3810

Effective

CHF

11.05

5.06

4.94

0.00

IBRD-38060

Effective

USD

110.00

83.74

26.26

0.00

Closed

USD

3.00

2.85

0.00

0.15

TF-20217

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Project Name(ID):

CAP MRKT DEV (P042622)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

30-May-1996

Mid-Term Review Date: Closing Date:

30-Jun-2010

Sector:

Central government administration (76%); Capital markets (17%); Law and justice (7%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The objective is to develop the capital markets and establish a federal debt and risk management system.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

The progress has remained good. The project has strengthened the core supervision and market monitoring capacity of the Securities Commission. It has also helped address broader financial sector policy issues, such as improving the debt and assets management framework (including the management of the reserves fund) and assess the impact of the recent government anti-crisis measures. Prior to the financial crisis, market capitalization had reached over 100 percent of GDP which is quite noteworthy. The closing date was extended until June 30, 2010 to implement a number of additional capital and financial market development activities.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-40290

Status Effective

Currency USD

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount 89.00

Disbursed 50.16

UnDisbursed

Cancellation

4.76

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

34.09

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Project Name(ID):

CADASTRE DEVT (P078420)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

05-Jul-2005

Mid-Term Review Date:

21-May-2008

Closing Date:

30-Jun-2010

Sector:

Central government administration (98%); Law and justice (1%); Housing finance and real estate markets (1%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The objective of the project is to simplify and expedite the procedures for measuring and recording of land and real estate properties in 40 oblasts of the Russian Federation.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

Training of staff in cadastre offices has been completed.

Duplicative or unnecessary steps in cadastre registration have been removed and the process simplified. Forty oblasts received, installed, and tested equipment and software for inter-relations with municipalities, including the combined land/building cadastre. This will minimize the visits by citizens to several offices. Pilot testing for real estate valuation lays the foundation for adoption nationally. As a result of the project, the average time for completion of a transaction is reduced from four months to 20 days. Some specific transactions can be completed in 20 minutes instead of two hours. The new law on cadastre is progressive and allows for simplified procedures, licensing of surveyors, and flexibility in using the private sector and electronic access to information.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-48000

Status Effective

Currency USD

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount 100.00

Disbursed 88.75

UnDisbursed

Cancellation

11.25

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

0.00

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Project Name(ID):

HOUSING & COMMUNAL SERVICES (P079032)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

26-Feb-2008

Mid-Term Review Date: Closing Date:

30-Nov-2012

Sector:

District heating and energy efficiency services (52%); General water, sanitation and flood protection sector (30%); Subnational government administration (12%); Housing construction (5%); Central government administration (1%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The project development objective is to improve the quality and financial viability of Housing and Communal Services of participating municipalities.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

The project loan was not effective before the close of the reporting period.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-48880

Status Not Effective

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Currency Amount USD

200.00

Disbursed 0.00

UnDisbursed

Cancellation

200.00

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

0.00

Project Name(ID):

N RESTRUCT (P064238)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

07-Jun-2001

Mid-Term Review Date: Closing Date:

30-Sep-2009

Sector:

Other social services (88%); Central government administration (8%); Sub-national government administration (4%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The objective is to test a set of actions to assist municipalities in the Russian Federation to cope with the effects of economic transition by providing out-migration assistance and developing strategies to draw on potential efficiency gains from a decreased population in these municipalities.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

The project has made major progress in achieving its development objective during the initial waves of out-migration support. However, since the government's request of 2007 for a project extension and partial restructuring to include additional region s for piloting the out-migration scheme and restructuring measures, no progress towards development objective has been made. This happened because of implementation failure of the federal government to set up a modified implementation scheme with the Ministry of Regional Development to become a lead agency.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-46110

Status Effective

Currency USD

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount 80.00

Disbursed 34.80

UnDisbursed 45.20

Cancellation 0.00

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Project Name(ID):

SUST FORESTRY PILOT (P053830)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

23-May-2000

Mid-Term Review Date:

04-Nov-2004

Closing Date:

30-Nov-2009

Sector:

Central government administration (90%); Forestry (8%); Agroindustry (2%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The development objective is to improve public sector management of Russia's forests and to improve the enabling environment for private sector investment.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

As the project is nearing closure, most of the development objective targets have been met. The project has included the development of policy, forest certification, measures to combat illegal logging, installation of forest fire and pest management systems, and training. However, progress with the institutional strengthening of forest enterprises has stagnated, with a lack of progress in the development of the sub-project pipeline, and slow disbursement of current sub-projects.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-45520

Status Effective

Currency USD

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount 60.00

Disbursed 40.02

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

UnDisbursed 19.98

Cancellation 0.00

Project Name(ID):

JUDICIAL REFORM SUPPORT (P089733)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

15-Feb-2007

Mid-Term Review Date: Closing Date:

30-Mar-2012

Sector:

Law and justice (100%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The objective is to strengthen judicial transparency and efficiency in courts supported by the project.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

It is too early to report on tangible outcomes under the project, though analytic activities are under way.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant

Status

Currency

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount

Disbursed

UnDisbursed

Cancellation

IBRD-48490

Effective

USD

50.00

4.22

45.78

0.00

TF-90655

Effective

USD

1.90

0.27

1.63

0.00

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Project Name(ID):

CUSTOMS DEVT (P072960)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

22-Apr-2003

Mid-Term Review Date:

22-Nov-2006

Closing Date:

30-Jun-2011

Sector:

Central government administration (100%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The project development objective is to modernize Customs administration to: (a) ensure the processing of international trade flows according to internationally acceptable practices; and (b) increase taxpayer compliance with the Customs Code.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

There has been significant progress towards achievement of the development objectives during fiscal year 2009 including the procurement and installation of major ICT packages.

However, the automation and streamlining of business processes of the Federal Customs Service was dependent on the procurement and installation of several large-scale IT systems which will require about two more years, necessitating an extension of the closing date.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-46890

Status Effective

Currency USD

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount 140.00

Disbursed 83.41

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

UnDisbursed 56.59

Cancellation 0.00

Project Name(ID):

ST. PETERSBURG ECON DEVT (P069063)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

15-May-2003

Mid-Term Review Date:

11-May-2008

Closing Date:

01-Jul-2012

Sector:

General industry and trade sector (30%); Other social services (30%); Housing finance and real estate markets (20%); Subnational government administration (20%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The objectives are to improve the business climate in St. Petersburg through a set of multi-sector reforms and investments in selected cultural sites that are critical to preserve St. Petersburg's position as one of Russia's top centers of culture and arts and to enable its future development as an international cultural destination.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

As a result of stimulating private sector participation, the number of new small and medium enterprises registered in the city has almost doubled since 2002. The number of private transactions for land and real estate is nearly twice larger than the target value. The creditworthy status of St. Petersburg continues to be confirmed by Standard & Poors, Moody's and Fitch ratings. The city continues to attract an increasing number of tourists. The number of tourists has grown by more than 150 percent since project approval and reached 4.6 million visitors per year. So far the number of visitors continues to be stable despite the beginning of the global economic crisis, and the number of foreign tourists in 2008 rose by 10 percent compared to 2007.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-46940

Status Effective

Currency USD

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount 161.10

Disbursed 59.87

UnDisbursed

Cancellation

41.23

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

60.00

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Project Name(ID):

TREASURY DEVT (P064508)

Country:

Russian Federation

Board Approval Date:

06-Jun-2002

Mid-Term Review Date:

17-Nov-2008

Closing Date:

31-Dec-2009

Sector:

Central government administration (100%)

The project was restructured, or received Additional Financing during FY09:

no

Project development objective(s):

The objectives are to: (a) ensure conditions for effective budget implementation; and (b) provide a transparent system of accounting that enables effective management and audit of financial resources.

Progress toward achieving development objective(s):

The project implementation speed has improved in 2009. The pilot testing of Federal Treasury Automation System has been completed in three regions (Saratov, Samara, Ulyanovsk).

Following the completion of data migration, all pilot regions are expected to switch off the existing system and start using the new system for daily operations from September 1, 2009. More than 80 percent of the countrywide telecommunication network and the installation of engineering systems has been established. The first wave of the system roll-out in 50 regions is scheduled to start in January 2010. The remaining 30 regions are expected to go live as the second wave in mid2010. An extension of the closing date until December 2010 is envisaged.

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary Loan/Credit/Grant IBRD-46620 TF-25812

Status

Currency

(amounts in millions, as of Aug 17, 2009)

Amount

Disbursed

UnDisbursed

Cancellation

Effective

USD

231.00

56.73

174.27

0.00

Closed

USD

0.50

0.50

0.00

0.00

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION

Lending Information/Disbursement Summary (in millions USD)

Status of Projects in Execution - FY09 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA REGION