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The objective of this grant is to create the processes to review and imbed green growth principles into Nepal’s upcoming infrastructure investments. Nepal has a new constitution and with it a shift from a unitary to a federal governance system that changes the constitutional provisions of executive authorities and the revenue sources of provincial and local governments.  This coupled with intense urbanization over the last few decades has led to a variety of infrastructure and basic service delivery deficits.  The government is looking to establish strong local governance systems and establish the proper policies and frameworks for implementing green growth principles as they go forward with infrastructure investments across multiple municipalities.   

Building on previous World Bank projects, this KGGTF program will support the provision and improvement of basic service delivery across 16 secondary cities, while also supporting the new federal structure and inter-governmental fiscal transfer mechanisms.  In particular, the program will help national and local policy makers address key deficiencies such as: building capacity of municipalities in basic urban management, strategic and sustainable urban planning, and prioritizing green growth investments. Additionally the program will support the establishment of guidelines, relevant performance indicators, the collection of baseline data and a review of relevant legal and institutional framework to determine priorities for investments.  The activity will engage participating cities and key public and private stakeholders in the process.  By preparing city-specific policies and plans this program will align with Nepal’s National Urban Development Strategy and promote urban resilience and effective urban management by designing smart urban land use plans.

List of Activities

1. Develop a Green Growth Framework 

• Formation of a working group + Korea Advisory GG advisory group
• Rapid sector assessments
• Identify urban basis services investments by reviewing sub-project feasibility studies using GG framework
• Establish relevant performance indicators for respective investments; conduct baseline data collection for specific investments

2. Develop Implementation Strategy

• Develop template and methodology
• Rollout implementation strategy
• Prepare close-out report

3. Develop Kathmandu Valley Metropolitan Planning and Urban Regeneration Strategy 

• Assess current institutional framework
• Propose coordination and multi-jurisdictional coordination strategy
• Identify priority urban regeneration initiatives promoting economic growth
• Institutional Capacity Building/Knowledge exchange

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1~3:

• Reports

Output 4:

• Study visit

Outcomes:

• Improved efficiency:  Given the high urbanization growth rates in the country, acting now is particularly important to avoid lock-in of cities into low density and high energy intensive urban forms. Unfortunately, the current development pattern is unstainable and put a lot of pressure on infrastructure and basic services in urban areas, and as a result, the cities have suffered greatly from severe traffic congestion, poor garbage collection and disposal, serious air pollution, and proliferation of slums. The activity will support the policy and technical dialogue on how to improve the efficiency of urban development and move towards a more compact and resource efficient development of cities. The activity also assist city governments to identify, plan and develop smart investment projects by leveraging relevant experiences learned from Korea and other countries. 
• Increased competitiveness: This activity will target cluster cities with high economic potential to materialize benefiting from agglomeration economies and system of cities. Strategically investing in these cities will spur economic prosperity across the country. This activity will also explore financing tools available to the cities to increase their financial sustainability and competitiveness in developing and managing cities. The identified high potential cluster of cities include, namely: (i) the Central Hill cluster around Pokhara; and (ii) the Eastern Tarai cluster of municipalities along the growth corridor between Itahari and Mechinagar, and around Biratnagar. In addition, the Kathmandu Valley Metropolitan Planning and Urban Regeneration Strategy will prioritize initiatives that is expected to catalyze change and economic growth that is underpinned in green and inclusive principles; and develop resilient spatial planning and city management. 
• Increased Resilience: The proposed activity will incorporate urban resilience into investment identification, design, planning process for the participating cities. This will help the cities well adapt to a variety of futures, protect against extreme weather events, and integrate water resources management and mechanisms to avoid disruptions of urban and transport services in cases of natural disasters. Resilient spatial planning and coordinated city management across multiple metropolitan/local administration jurisdictions in the Kathmandu Valley would be facilitated by the Kathmandu Valley Metropolitan Planning, Management and Urban Regeneration Strategy.  

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS)
• Seoul Metropolitan Governments
• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Asian Infrastructure Investment Agency (AIIB)
• Green Climate Funds (GCF)

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The objective of this grant is to provide technical assistance (TA) in support of Fragile and Post-Conflict countries, specifically in green initiatives and economic growth, with the help of geospatial infrastructure, data and analytics. FCV countries still face major structural challenges that complicate the adaption of green growth strategies. In this context, the World Bank’s KGGTF supports TA that helps those countries develop geospatial data and analytics. These developments will introduce green-growth approaches and ultimately improve decision making, planning, policy implementation and monitoring. This grant will also provide more cost-effective data options for policy, legal and operational work. KGGTF’s support will ensure that natural resources and assets can provide their full economic potential on a sustainable basis while protecting livelihoods and increasing beneficiary well-being.  

List of Activities

1. Inception Report - Scoping, increased awareness of green growth issues and how to address them using geospatial data
2. Study Visits - Increased awareness of Korean experience and improved knowledge of best practices 
3. Strategy paper - Improved understanding of green growth in the selected countries and improved decision-making 
4. Stakeholder consultations - Increased Awareness and buy-in within each country
5. Knowledge dissemination - Increased awareness of green growth and how to apply it to different country contexts

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Inception Report

Output 2:

• Strategy paper on operationalizing green growth principles using geospatial information

Output 3:

• Knowledge Exchange Study Visit to Korea to learn from Korean expertise; memo or visit; action plans for lessons learned 

Output 4:

• Workshops; Conferences 

Output 5:

• BBLs; communication pieces such as blog posts, media articles and videos about the use of green growth for development

Outcomes:

• Improved efficiency:  The enhanced use of geospatial information would help to improve environmental management and address climate change across all three countries. Further environmental benefits of geospatial applications are evident in areas such as water management, biodiversity protection, natural resource management, and pollution reduction. The geospatial datasets will contribute to improving planning at local government levels and in smart cities in terms of allocating resources for urban planning and the development of utilities.    
• Greater resilience:  This TA will help to increase the capacity of the countries to foster economic growth and development while ensuring that natural resources are protected and managed correctly. The resilience capacity needs to be developed within the countries while also involving different stakeholders. This TA will help to develop action plans such as: (i) disaster risk management plans; (ii) deforestation; (iii) air and water pollution mitigation; and (iv) land resources and land use in urban areas. Governments could use this data to prepare plans to incentivize the participation of the private sector to increase the resilience of the country by implementing environmentally-friendly practices.
• Increased competitiveness: The objective is to promote a paradigm shift. Developing geospatial datasets will improve public and private sector decision making to enhance and/or expand the use of spatial data infrastructure for making green-growth oriented investment decisions and sustaining growth. It will also improve the skills of the local workforce to promote innovation and efficiency.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation (LX): Semi-Governmental Agency under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MoLIT)
• Green Technology Center-Korea (GTC-K)
• National Spatial Data Infrastructure Center (NSDIC of MoLIT, for history of Geospatial Information System)
• Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement (KRIHS, for policies and the establishment of territorial, regional and urban master plans)
• Statens Kartverk (Norwegian Mapping Authority): a development partner that has worked in close collaboration with the Bank in past land and geospatial activities in Kosovo

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The objective of this grant is to tackle spatial and institutional fragmentation in Bamako by making more productive use of land, improving urban service, and supporting institutional development and coordination. Bamako is the world’s 6th fastest growing city, but it is not fulfilling its role as an engine of sustainable urban growth and service delivery.  The city’s population rise averaged 5.4% between 1998 and 2009 and is expected to reach 4.2 million by 2025. Urban sprawl has been associated with unequal access to basic services and limited mobility, mostly due to the absence of adequate investments in infrastructure. There is also a lack of institutionalized support that hinders development, significantly limits access to high-quality disaggregated data, and hampers technical capabilities and administrative coordination. In consequence there are barriers to creating well-informed, inclusive urban planning, and implementing knowledge of green approaches to infrastructure. The activities proposed under this grant will inform the metropolitan-wide urban planning process and capability building. They will support the Bamako Urban Master Plan through completion of feasibility studies for green infrastructure, technical assistance, creation of a comprehensive data platform and rapid area-based diagnostics.

This grant is linked to Pipeline Lending ($250,000,000)

List of Activities

1. Digital Platform for Bamako: Creation of an open digital platform for the Bamako Metropolitan Area through drone mapping, citizen mapping and mapping of formal and informal transport system
2. Bamako Urban Master Plan: Technical Assistance for the development of the Master Plan through feasibility studies for potential grey and green interventions on the main river basin, review of measures to address inclusivity, environmental sustainability, and resilience in urban planning, and detailed area-based investment and business plans
3. Building Capabilities for Implementation: Assessment of scope of administrative remit of national and local governments, and technical skills available at each level

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Digital Maps constructed for land-use, transport and other infrastructure 
• Communities engaged to provide data on risk perception across identified areas 

Output 2:

• Area-based urban plans completed

Output 3:

• Urban planning capabilities increased
• University faculty and students engaged in data collection and utilization process

Outcomes:

1. Improved efficiency:  Strengthening of planning and implementation capacity within the sub-national and national levels of government, including coordination across sector agencies, is expected to result in improved efficiencies on several fronts. For instance, having a well thought through master plan, with buy-in from different stakeholders, will dramatically improve affordability for households, and productivity for firms, within the Bamako metropolitan region. In addition, better connectivity and greater compactness within the city will help reduce climate emissions, and greater efficiency in service delivery. In the longer term, this would help to free up crucial private and public resources for other much-needed infrastructure investments in the region.  

2. Greater resilience:  Bamako is growing at exponential rates of growth, much of this on the extensions of the city leading to sprawl. At the same time, the city is dealing with frequent events of floods and mudslides. Building the capacity of local and national officials to plan for higher density and increasing their understanding of greener, more nature-based solutions to climatic shocks, will results in much greater resilience for the medium term.  

3. Increased competitiveness: The WBG’s recent engagement in Bamako has revealed how the city’s form and infrastructure choices have limited its competitiveness. Utilizing elements of transport-oriented development, green spaces, and urban regeneration, the project will lay the foundations for a greener and more competitive environment for future growth, starting with specific area-based interventions to demonstrate success.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS)
• Land and Housing Corporation (LH)
• Land & Housing Institute
• Seoul Metropolitan Government
• Seoul Institute
• Seoul City Development Corporation

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The objective of this grant is to operationalize Green Growth (GG) through geospatial information management. The World Bank’s Green Growth strategy aimed at promoting development includes a flexible approach to achieving progress across environmental, social, and economic pillars. The proposed activity will provide the knowledge and means of using geospatial information to achieve the WB’s green growth objective. Its main goal is to ensure that natural resources and assets can offer their full economic potential on a sustainable basis while also promoting activities that protect livelihoods and increase wellbeing. Geospatial information can be used simultaneously for achieving the WB’s twin goals as well as developing action plans to combat unsustainable development, to improve data-driven decision making and to increase innovation and related growth opportunities. By combining GG approach to the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF) and World Bank Geospatial Information Management (GIM) toolkit with capacity building and Korea knowledge exchanges, task teams and clients will be able to develop and implement realistic Country-Level Action and Investment Plans for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure and GIM eco-system. The Action Plans will identify country-specific needs to develop interoperable, fundamental data for enhancing GG approaches to socio-economic development for citizens. Leveraging the Korean experience provides good practice examples to influence GG-oriented GIM. The proposed activity will also complement the three ongoing Korean grants under the Global Land and Geospatial Unit.  

List of Activities

1. Enhanced the IGIF Implementation Guide and Country Level toolkit with GG focus and Korean good practice examples - Review of Korea GG cases and achievements for GIM and investment in the related digital infrastructure
2. Operationalizing the GG-oriented IGIF through Capacity Building for Local Experts in GIM and development of country-level Action and Investment Plans - Development of training and knowledge transfer programs, KE program, and country-level action plans
3. Knowledge management and communication – Preparation of communication, outreach and dissemination materials/events for awareness raising, stakeholder engagement and showcasing impact stories
4. World Bank Korea Office hub strategy development – Incorporation of GG-oriented GIM in the World Bank Korea Office hub strategy on technology/innovation

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Review of Korea GG cases and achievements for GIM and investment in the related digital infrastructure to enhance and incorporate GG aspects and impacts into: (a)  the IGIF implementation guide; and  (b) the World Bank IGIF implementation toolkits.

Output 2:

• Development of training and knowledge transfer programs (e-Learning, Knowledge Notes and face-to-face Korean experience) for GG-oriented GIM using the IGIF and World Bank methodology;
• Conduct of KE program to Korea with target country teams and clients to learn about GIM and GG operationalization best practices; and
• Preparation of country-level action plans in 4 countries for GG oriented GIM and investment.

Output 3:

• Preparation of communication, outreach and dissemination materials/events for awareness raising, stakeholder engagement and showcasing impact stories.

Output 4:

• Incorporating GG-oriented GIM in the World Bank Korea Office hub strategy on technology/innovation

Outcomes:

1. Improved efficiency:  Complementary measures to promote smart investments and incite changes in consumer behavior.  For example, smart and integrated land use planning underpinned by GIM is critical for policy and investments which support compact cities, green transport, more renewable energy and eco-industrial parks to promote GG.     

• GIM is a core element to governments following transformation agendas. It enables integration of shared data, improving transparency and evidence-based decision-making. In so doing, it reduces costs to government. In many governments, geospatial information is a key component of government open data agendas, stimulating innovation and job growth opportunities, including effective and efficient, citizen-centric government delivery systems. 
• In natural resource management for sustained livelihoods, improved GIM helps to determine which communities own/manage the rights to natural capital in order to avoid conflicts with outside investors while also avoiding unsustainable exploitation. 

2. Greater resilience:  Promote increased resilience.  A primary focus will be to make both urban and rural areas more resilient against risks arising from past development mistakes and a changing climate. This includes smart infrastructure design that is well adapted to a variety of futures, protection against extreme weather events, integrated water resources management and mechanisms to avoid disruptions of transport and commerce services in cases of natural disasters. 

• Geospatial information brings better measurement of the current situation, monitoring change, planning mitigation, evidence-based decision-making, and delivering mitigation projects. This is particularly important to countries that are highly susceptible to climate change and natural hazards and need to ensure resilient and sustained livelihoods for citizens in the event of a natural hazard or climatic event. From rapid response to damage assessments to rebuilding sustainably, geospatial information and infrastructure is a key component to risk management and resilience.  

3. Increased competitiveness: Underpinning the Korean vision of green growth is the notion that a focus on green sustainability need not come at the expense of growth and that greening can also be a source of increased competitiveness. This is particularly true for transport, urban and agricultural policies where substantial synergies exist between land use planning, environment, energy efficiency and growth objectives. 

• Geospatial information is used across sectors, from marketing through logistics to insurance, utilities to telecommunications. Banks use it for fraud detection and governments to improve taxation. 
• Information about spatial and resource usage helps governments at the national and local levels to make strategic decisions for incentivizing the private sector to invest in particular economic sectors (e.g. integrated transportation, precision agriculture, urban planning, etc.) 

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• Korea Land and Geospatial InformatiX Corporation (LX)
• National Geographic Information Institute (NGII)
• Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement (KRIHS)
• Korea Appraisal Board (KAB) 
• UN-GGIM

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The objective of this grant is to conduct a building back greener diagnostic and to help identify policy reforms and investment options for selected priorities towards green growth in Bangladesh. Specifically, this grant will support Bangladesh to take a multi-sectoral approach to advance green growth involving: green finance and fiscal policy, the agriculture/water/forest nexus, clean energy and transport, resilient infrastructure and urban development, nature-based tourism, biodiversity, and waste and pollution. Knowledge and institutions could benefit from the value addition and support offered by the KGGTF providing an opportunity to influence and inform decision-making in Bangladesh to transition to green economies and recovery. This grant will be mapped to, Bangladesh CMU Green Growth DPC (Pipeline) based on the Bangladesh Build Back Greener project. 

List of Activities

• Activity 1: Green growth diagnostics and thematic deep dives. 
• Activity 2: Green growth platforms for policy dialogue, knowledge promotion and dissemination.
• Activity 3: Green growth capacity building, pilot and demonstration. Outputs include (i) Review of policies for identified new technology to create new jobs; (ii) Report on green skills in Bangladesh; (iii) Pilot on green tech in Bangladesh; (iv) Training programs to develop new skills; (v) Knowledge Exchange (virtual and in person)

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1 

• Prioritized list of financial and fiscal instruments for green growth for Bangladesh
• Case study of Korean experience, and benchmarking with Bangladesh in promoting green investment by public and private sector
• Report on Economic valuation of natural capital for the southwest
• Report on Bangladesh’s systems for environmental risk management
• Air Quality Action Plan.

Output 3

• Review of policies for identified new technology to create new jobs
• Report on green skills in Bangladesh
• Pilot on green tech in Bangladesh
• Training programs to develop new skills
• Knowledge Exchange (virtual and in person)

Outcomes 

• Investment dialogues on WBG pipeline development informed by diagnostics
• Improved country capacity on EIA and risk management
• Increased awareness on air pollution and its impacts leading to behavioral change contribution towards the development of a green growth roadmap and action plans for Bangladesh
• Enhanced awareness on green growth, environmental issues amongst policy and decision-makers in Bangladesh
• Increased green jobs
• New partnerships created for knowledge exchange and industrial capacity building on green tech
• Technology transfer and investments in new green tech in the countries

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• Korea Environment Institute (KEI)
• Korea Energy Agency (KEA)
• Korea Management Association Consulting (KMAC)
• Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI)
• Korea Environment Corporation (KECO)
• Korea Development Institute (KDI)
• Korea Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF)
• European Union (EU)
• Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

(tentative)

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