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The project aimed to curb air and water pollution and grow a green economy. Every year in Egypt, up to 20,000 people die prematurely because of air pollution—much of it from the burning of agricultural and municipal waste, transportation sources, and industry. Water pollution is also a growing concern for economic growth and health, with most of it coming from industrial effluent; agricultural fertilizers, pesticides, and organic materials; and untreated sewage. It turns out that only 12 percent of rural villages are served by sewage networks connected to treatment plants. This World Bank KGGTF-funded green growth implementation program aims to curb air and water pollution by improving access to sanitation and sewage treatment and limiting agricultural run-off and the burning of waste. An economic inquiry would assess the cost of environmental degradation in Egypt. And a subsequent environmental analysis would identify pollution sources, helping the government prioritize work on key policy reforms and investments to reduce air, water, and land pollution. Options include the introduction of new composting technologies, biomass production, and economical solutions for sewage treatment. The end result: enhanced rural agricultural incomes, improved health, and a country ready to face impending water shortages

List of Activities

• COED and poverty and vulnerability distribution
• Technological options for agricultural pollution and waste burning  and rural sanitation
• Technical assistance and building capacity to Ministries of Environment and Planning to develop a National Account and initiate towards Computable General Equilibrium Model incorporating air and water pollution

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• COED for Egypt updated 

Output 2:

• Identification, prioritization and analysis of viable and scalable options in agricultural and rural sanitation to deal with air, water and land pollution. 

Output 3

• Policy Notes for strengthening national accounts with wealth and natural capital accounting for air and water pollution 
• Policy Notes, initiate CGE model development.

Outcomes:

The activity led  to updating the Costs of Environmental Degradation in Egypt and built the capacity of the Ministry of Environment in environmental economics; Methodology for introducing air and water environmental services in Egypt National Accounts developed, and capacity built in the Ministry of Planning and Computable General Equilibrium model developed, validated and calibrated that incorporates air and water pollution management. Outcomes were also the identification, viability testing and prioritization of technological options to deal with air pollution coming from agricultural waste burning and technological innovative and cost effective options for rural sanitation which can be scalable all throughout Egypt and the wider region. The activity was integrated with the Bank operations ongoing for rural sanitation.

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• WBG internal partners:

Water Global Practice, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice. Agriculture Global Practice, Transport and ICT Global Practice

• Other external partners:

Pollution Management and Environmental Health Trust Funds (set up as a Multi-donor Trust Fund with five donors expected to contribute, including Korea, and Norway already signed the agreement). Egypt considered as potential host country.

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The project aimed to support Peruvian policies related to environmental sustainability and aquaculture management. Peru is plagued by poor air quality in urban areas, indoor air pollution, water and sanitation problems, deforestation, and overfishing, but hopes to strengthen its natural resources management policies in an effort to boost environmental stability, poverty alleviation, and economic growth. This World Bank KGGTF-funded green growth implementation program would support two Peruvian policies related to environmental sustainability and aquaculture management.  By improving the country’s analytical capacity and environmental regulatory framework, in addition to investigating how best to modernize fisheries, this program aims to restore public trust in the government’s ability to manage natural resources into the long-term. Armed with better information, the national Ministries of Environment and Production will be better able to support local governments in their efforts to manage environmental health.

List of Activities

• Preparation of analytical work
• Presentation and discussion of results
• Incorporation of results into project design
• Start Project implementation

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• Project Appraisal document (Bank) and the country receives 6 inputs on key environmental issues. Three technical studies will inform government policies and contribute to the design of the Project Appraisal Document.

Output 2:

• Ministry of Finance (MEF) and the Bank approved proposed investment projects

Output 3:

• Negotiation of the investment projects successfully completed

Output 4:

• Project implementation established

Outcomes:

These activities directly supported the development of two large scale projects with outcomes defined in their project development objectives (PDOs). The PDO for the Peru: Investments for Environmentally Sustainable Development Project is to: (i) increase the quality, availability and reliability of environmental data to decision makers and civil society; (ii) improve mechanisms to identify and address environmental priorities at the local, regional and national levels, and, (iii) improve mechanisms for opening up decision making on environmental aspects to public scrutiny. Achievement of the PDO would be measured through the following results indicators: (i) laboratories certified by the reference laboratory (number); (ii) user perception (from a survey) of environmental data & information provided by SINIA; and (iii) annual report with identification of environmental priorities based on economic analysis of environmental degradation costs.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• WBG internal partners: GPSURR; GEEDR; GWADR
• K-Partners: The team will search for Korean Governmental Agencies and Research Centers with expertise in green growth policies, particularly in environmental management, solid waste management, extractive industries, and fisheries.

• Other external partners:  Key stakeholders that are critical for effective environmental management and that will participate in this activity include:

1. the Ministry of Environment (MINAM) and associated entities, namely, the National System for Environmental Certification of Investments (SENACE), the Environmental Evaluation and Fiscalization Agency (OEFA), and the National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (SENAMHI);
2. the Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) and its sub-agencies General Aquaculture Directorate of the Ministry of Production, the National Fund for the Development of Fisheries (FONDEPES), the Peruvian Marine Institute (IMARPE); the National Office of Marine Health (SANIPES) and the Technology Institute of Production (ITP);
3. the Water National Authority (ANA) including Water Administrative Authorities (AAA ALA) and water service companies (EPS);
4. sector authorities including the Ministries of Health (MINSA), Mines and Energy (MINEM), Production (PRODUCE), Housing, Construction and Sanitation (VIVIENDA);
5. regional and selected local governments;
6. the National Organization for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Rights (INDECOPI) and
7. public and private laboratories.

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The objective of the proposed Air and Water Pollution Management Program is to support the pressing need to reduce air, water and soil pollution by (i) identifying and assessing key policy reforms and investment options to reduce air, water and land pollution and (ii) building capacity to apply economic and planning tools for mainstreaming environmental management in the national accounts and economic planning of Ministry of Planning and Ministry of Environment.

List of Activities

• provide an economic assessment of environmental degradation in Egypt
• identify cost effective viable agricultural waste management and rural sanitation technological options that address air, water and land pollution from agriculture
• update and strengthen the national accounts with wealth and natural capital accounting for air and water pollution

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:

• CP audits analysis
• Roadmap publication
• Dissemination event

Output 2:

• Resource efficiency audits

Outcomes:

This project aims to promote, implement, and facilitate investments of resource efficiency practices and technologies among industries in Pakistan.  More efficient use of resources – such as energy, water and raw materials – would yield economic savings for private sector companies and support climate change mitigation efforts.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• WBG internal partners:

Water Global Practice, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice. Agriculture Global Practice, Transport and ICT Global Practice

• External partners:

Pollution Management and Environmental Health Trust Funds (set up as a Multi-donor Trust Fund with five donors expected to contribute, including Korea, and Norway already signed the agreement). Egypt considered as potential host country.

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The project aimed to stem the tide of illegal fisheries catches in West Africa. Fisheries are a $3-billion-a-year business in West Africa, employing more than 3 million people and providing up to 50 percent of the total animal protein intake for a number of countries in the region. But with dramatic illegal catches, estimated at up to 45 percent of the legal catch, or $1.3 billion annually, fish stocks and food security remain at risk. This World Bank KGGTF-funded green growth implementation program will create efficient and effective, regionally connected monitoring and surveillance systems that will help coastal communities grow green economies and improve the health of fish stocks. The program will test an affordable and effective surveillance strategy, upgrade marine vessel monitoring and information systems, and include knowledge sharing with Korean partners and South American and South East Asian counterparts. By consolidating and promoting sustainable and productive uses of renewable marine resources, in addition to building on improved fisheries governance, the region will not only prepare for projected climate change impacts, it will also unlock growth that benefits poor and vulnerable populations and helps restore West African economies.

List of Activities

• Integrated sub-regional monitoring, surveillance, and control ICT strategy and implementation plan.
• AIS/VTMIS deployment and use of combating IUU
• New IUU surveillance technology identification and testing
• Capacity-building and knowledge dissemination, including south-south exchanges

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1

• 1-1. Stakeholder consultations completed
• 1-2. Surveillance ICT strategy developed
• 1-3. Implementation of investment plan prepared

Output 2

• 2-1. Action plan for improving port-state control  communication and coordination prepared
• 2-2. Investment blueprint  for  improved AIS/VTMIS coverage prepared

Output 3

• 3-1. Pilot technologies tested
• 3-2. Implementation model and protocols prepared

Output 4

• 4-1. Knowledge exchange tours completed, including knowledge exchanges with Korea on improving flag state/port state control operational coordination and collaboration
• 4-2. Regional knowledge events organized

Outcomes:

The proposed FPCS established a strong technological foundation to enable West African countries to enhance economic growth and food security by reducing illegal fishing in their waters. At the country level, the FPCS identified and introduced cost-effective solutions for strengthening IUU monitoring, surveillance, and control, both nationally and regionally. The FPCS was scaled up at the World Bank operational level by virtue of it directly informing the design and implementation on-going and planned WAFRP investment projects, leveraging a total over $228 million of IDA and GEF resources. Importantly, with IUU curtailment remaining a major issue for a number of WB client countries, the FPCS catalytic potential expands well beyond its West Africa geographical focus and to on-going and/or planned WB operations in Indonesia, the Pacific Islands, and the Eastern Pacific.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• WBG internal partners:  The FPCS will be jointly led by GPENDR’s Global Public Goods and AFR practices, in close collaboration with our  GP Transport and ICT and SURR colleagues.
• K-Partners: To be confirmed in consultation with the KGGP Secretariat. Korean partners are sought after as a source of knowledge and operational and technological know-how as well as to help broaden the dialogue on sustainable fishery services in the region. 
• Other external partners: FAO, USA, UK, GEF, NDF and Environmental Justice Foundation

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The project aimed to make cement production more energy efficient and competitive, while better managing urban waste streams. Rapidly urbanizing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is expected to be home to 90 percent of the total African population by 2050, rely heavily on cement to build houses and infrastructure. The problem is that cement production is generally energy-intensive, resulting in increased greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. At the same time, urban waste generation is expected to increase by more than 440,000 tons per day by 2025. By leveraging the increased waste from cities and turning it into fuel, this World Bank KGGTF-funded green growth implementation program aims to support green growth by reducing the amount of fossil-fuel consumption associated with making cement.  The program will find alternative fuel sources, including non-hazardous industrial waste and domestic trash, for the more than 70 cement facilities in the region. The change in energy source could reduce production costs and environmental and health impacts currently associated with urban growth in the region.

List of Activities

• Understanding the situation and the potential of green growth in cement
• Analyzing the situation of usable waste streams and identifying opportunities
• Helping stakeholders understand the opportunity through dialogue and a common vision
• Developing an action plan for greener cement in Africa
• Implementing an ICT platform for greener cement

Outputs and Outcomes

Output 1:  Diagnosis

• Events (meetings, training, workshops, etc.) with stakeholders
• Reports (assessments, surveys, etc.) completed

Output 2: Action Plan

• Events (meetings, training, workshops, etc.) with stakeholders
• Reports (assessments, surveys, etc.) completed
• Roadmaps completed

Output 3: Implementation

• Events
• Knowledge dissemination material completed
• Industrial entities implementing the recommended measures
• Decrease in fossil fuel (especially coal) use
• Increase in alternative fuel use
• Reduction in GHG emissions, by tons of CO2e per year
• Energy/Fuel cost savings, $ per year

Outcomes:

The project ran for two years and expected to achieve following outcomes: An active stakeholder engagement platform which will facilitate dissemination of information and create an inclusive decision-making environment; Diagnostic reports that analyze current state of cement industries and waste streams to present opportunities for using waste as an alternative fuel; Greener Cement Roadmap will outline the steps needs to be taken to achieve a clean cement industry, and how to create a business environment incentivizing resource efficiency; Government agencies and cement industry stakeholders will be better informed about impacts and benefits of adopting clean production measures; ICT Platform will allow better management and re-direction of waste from landfills to be used as fuel in cement kilns; an opportunity to promote a regional mechanisms that would help develop these initiatives in the region. This will be explored jointly with IFC MAS/ Infra as the project is developed.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others

• WBG internal partners: IFC MAS Investment team works with cement industry actors in Africa. These existing client relations will be leveraged to establish strategic dialogue platforms which will be crucial for diagnosing of gaps and opportunities.
• External partners from Korea: The Korea Industrial Complex Corporation has an MOU with the IFC. KICOX is a global expert on industrial symbiosis, one of the main solutions to waste use in clinker production. The team has had initial exchanges on engagement. The Korea Cement Association has over 20 years of experience in sustainable and green cement. Their knowledge could provide input to the project.
• Other external partners: The local Clean Production Centers established by UNIDO, if they are present in the country selected for the project.

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Robust Decision Making (RDM) is a state-of-the-art method for making sound investment and planning decisions in the face of uncertainties, such as climate, economic conditions, population, technology, and regulations. Used extensively in many countries—for instance, in making water and energy investment decisions—RDM uses new analytical tools to help stakeholders understand investment options and evaluate future scenarios. The multi-year program investigates new decision-making methodologies addressing climate change risks and uncertainties, and applies the methods in pilot programs. The pilots will test and validate the decision-making tools for possible use in appropriate KGGTF-supported investment programs.

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• Helping Peru to make robust water management decisions to cope with these deep climate and development uncertainties
• Presenting a valuable opportunity for tailoring and applying new methodologies for making robust decisions
• Testing and validating the decision-making tools for possible use in appropriate KGGTF-supported investment programs

Outputs and Outcomes

A qualitative application of RDM would have a number of valuable outcomes, such as improving the “robustness” of the decision-making by water utilities, better equipping water utilities to more effectively use quantitative models in the future to make investment decisions, and piloting a qualitative version of robust decision making, which has been discussed but not yet implemented in practice. This project also has the potential to show how such analyses can guide future investments in new models and data collection. A qualitative assessment of SEDAPAL’s plans will help hone in on the key uncertainties that drive SEDAPAL’s investment decisions and that must therefore be managed. This knowledge can help guide SEDAPAL in investing its limited resources in model development and data gathering that add the most value to SEDAPAL’s planning processes.

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Importantly, this project operationalizes the extensive work recently undertaken by the Bank with funding from Korea's Global Green Growth Institute to demonstrate how robust decision making can help Ho Chi Minh City develop integrated flood risk management strategies in the face of such deep uncertainty. Furthermore, the Wetland Management Planning pilot would draw heavily on the existing formal collaboration between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements.

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