About the OBA Project

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 418.

МАРКЕТИНГ

Тисенкова

Ольга Анатольевна

Методические рекомендации
по выполнению контрольных работ

Подп. в печать 00.00.00. Формат 60x84 ¹/₁₆.

Бум. офсетная. Гарнитура «Times». Печать цифровая.

Объем 00 уч.-изд. л. Тираж 10 экз. Заказ № 00.

Отпечатано в типографии ФГБОУВПО «ОГИМ»

460038, г. Оренбург, ул. Волгоградская, д. 16.

Тел./факс: (3532) 30-50-00, доб. 127

The project ‘Output-Based Aid (OBA) for Municipal Solid Waste Management in Nepal' aims to improve the quality and financial sustainability of SWM services in participating municipalities, through an output-based subsidy scheme. Given the generally poor financial situation of the SWM sector, the project is designed to provide incentives to enable the gradual development of a beneficiary charging mechanism for SWM services in order to enhance financial sustainability, improve service quality, and enable expansion of SWM service coverage over a four year period. The project has three components as described below:

· Component 1 - Service delivery subsidy ($3m): This component will finance output-based service delivery subsidies for each Participating Municipality, over a four (4) year period, to cover the gap between the operating and maintenance costs of delivering identified SWM service improvements and the Beneficiary Revenues collected through SWM fees, provided that the said services meet verified minimum performance criteria. Subsidies will be paid to municipalities based on agreed multiples of verified beneficiary revenue collected provided that services meet pre-agreed minimum performance criteria.

· Component 2 - Implementation support to participating municipalities ($0.58m): This component will finance critical technical assistance to participating municipalities to assist them in successfully implementing the project, including preparation of service improvement plans; preparation of manuals and training in landfill operations and management; improvement of billing and revenue collection systems for solid waste management services; monitoring and evaluation and performance management systems for solid waste management services; design and implementation of integrated solid waste management activities based on 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle) principles; design and implementation of information, education and communication campaigns; and design of appropriate contractual arrangements in cases where a municipality chooses to contract with the private sector, non-governmental organizations or community-based organizations.

· Component 3 - Project management, monitoring, evaluation and communications ($0.695m): This component will finance project management costs; consulting services for monitoring and verification of outputs and performance, baseline and beneficiary assessments, studies and other M&E activities, and communication and dissemination activities.

The main central government counterparts for project are (i) the Town Development Fund (TDF) – a government-owned, autonomous municipal finance institution which will act as the Fiduciary Agent for the project; and (ii) the Solid Waste Management Technical Support Centre (SWMTSC) within the Ministry of Urban Development. SWMTSC is the lead technical agency for Nepal's SWM sector and will assist in the technical aspects of the project.

Basic eligibility criteria for participating in the project include:

· Municipalities must commit upfront to the project objective of improving quality and financial sustainability of SWM services, through a resolution or signing of letters of commitment;

· Municipalities must already have access to a landfill that is operational, and is considered environmentally acceptable within Government of Nepal (GoN)'s environmental guidelines and standards;

· Municipalities must already have a basic functioning SWM system in place (collection and disposal) and an existing system for collecting solid waste charges from beneficiaries;

· Municipalities must agree to prepare a SWM strategy and action plan, which must include a four year action plan to improve the quality and financial situation of SWM operations, hereinafter referred to as a Solid Waste Management Service Improvement Plan (SWM-SIP);

· Small municipalities (<50,000 people) must be participants in the ongoing Bank-financed Urban Governance and Development Program/Nepal Emerging Towns Project (UGDP/ETP) in order to benefit from broader municipal capacity building initiatives that are critical to SWM service delivery in small municipalities with limited capacity; and

· Sub-metropolitan cities larger than 500,000 people are excluded from the project given that their specific SWM challenges may be large enough to warrant dedicated city-specific projects on their own.

SWMTSC has facilitated a self-selection process based on the above eligibility criteria. Five municipalities have come forward to form the initial pipeline. The pipeline is reasonably diverse, consisting of (i) two small hill towns (Tansen and Dhankuta) serving as market and administrative centers for the surrounding areas; (ii) two sub-metropolitan cities (Pokhara and Lalitpur), and one medium-size town (Lekhnath) located less than 10km from Pokhara. All five municipalities have provided written confirmation of interest to participate and commitment to the project's principles. Three of the municipalities (Tansen, Dhankuta and Lekhnath) are also participants in the on-going Bank-financed UGDP/ETP project. It is estimated that a total of about 800,000 people will benefit from the OBA project.

Participating municipalities will each sign Tripartite Project Implementation Agreements (TPIAs) with TDF and SWMTSC as a basis for participation in the project. The project requires participating municipalities to (i) develop SWM-SIPs, identifying those service delivery improvements to be covered under the project; (ii) decide on the service delivery model; (iii) implement service delivery improvements as per agreed plans; (iv) implement a designated SWM fee charged to all waste generators, and collect the revenues; and (v) gradually increase the SWM fee charged as per agreed tariff profile during the project period.

The project is financed by a grant from the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) – a multi-donor trust fund administered by the World Bank. The project complements an ongoing World Bank-supported Urban Governance and Development Program/Emerging Towns Project (UGDP/ETP).