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RETROSPECTIVE 20 years in Moldova The World Bank Group

RETROSPECTIVE 20 years in Moldova The World Bank Group. Abdoulaye Seck, Country Manager for Moldova Chisinau, May 25, 2012. Moldova and the World Bank Group. Moldova joined the World Bank in 1992 as a Borrower of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

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RETROSPECTIVE 20 years in Moldova The World Bank Group

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  1. RETROSPECTIVE 20 years in MoldovaThe World Bank Group Abdoulaye Seck, Country Manager for Moldova Chisinau, May 25, 2012

  2. Moldova and the World Bank Group • Moldova joined the World Bank in 1992 as a Borrower of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) • It was reclassified as an IBRD/IDA blend country in 1997 • It later became eligible for IDA lending only • The first lending operation was approved in 1993 • The Bank financed 45 operations; total commitments of $910 million since 1992 • 9 IBRD operations; $303 million • 36 IDA operations; $606 million • MIGA issued guarantees for 7 projects, totaling $ 88.8 million • IFC’s portfolio in Moldova stands at $76 million

  3. Country Partnership Strategy Three pillars in the period of June 2008-2013 Economic competitiveness Minimizing social and environmental risks, building human capital, and promoting social inclusion Improving public sector governance

  4. Current IDA Portfolio Snapshot • 13 investment operations; net commitments $285.8 mln • disbursement ratio constantly exceeds 20 percent annually • ongoing investment portfolio is broad ranging • highest concentration of commitment in social protection • Social Protection – 30.2% • Energy and Mining – 16.6 % • Financial and Private Sector Development – 12.5% • Agriculture and Rural Development – 11.4% • Global Information/Communications Technology – 7.4% • Health, Nutrition and Population – 6.3% • Water – 5.2%

  5. Share of IDA commitment by Sector

  6. Trust Fund Portfolio Among the largest in the Europe and Central Asia region trust fund portfolio of US$80 million provides co-financing to IDA operations; finances Global Environment Facility (GEF) operations; carbon operations; US$ 16.7 million Regional Development TF with the EC; US$ 9.9 million TA Support to Public Administration Reform; US$ 7 million Support to the Second Rural Investment and Services Project.

  7. IFC in Moldovaas of January 2012 • Since Moldova became a member in 1995, IFC has played a substantive role, committing US$181 million of its own funds and arranging US$25 million in syndications to support power, telecommunications, agribusiness, SMEs, and the financial sectors in 19 investments. • IFC has been very supportive of Moldova’s privatization program in particular in telecoms and energy

  8. Investment Climate Reform Project first IC activity in Moldova Main activities: • Improve the investment climate for business operations and exit: • business inspections • construction permits • insolvency • Streamline agribusiness regulation • Promote investment in agribusiness Duration: 36 months as of December 2011 Value: $US2.5 million Donors: Governments of Sweden and Austria, EU

  9. Results Competitiveness Enhancement Project - Number of days required to register a new company decreased by 25%, from 20 days in 2005 to 15 in 2011; - Percentage of management time spent on meeting regulatory requirements has decreased from 16 percent in 2007 to 10 percent in 2011; - The number of annual inspections per firm declined from 17 in 2004 to 4 in 2011; - Over 1,100 government officials and sector experts were trained in Regulatory Impact Assessment by 2011; - The number of European-Union compatible standards adopted in Moldova reached 2826 by end - 2011, from 133 in 2004; - The total number of accredited testing facilities available to enterprises reached 123 in 2011 compared to the baseline of 36 in 2005; - The total number of international quality management system certifications received by Moldovan enterprises increased to over 170 compared to a baseline of 50 in 2004; - 59 loans extended to exporting companies from CEP Credit Line in the period June 2010 to December 2011, in the total amount of US$ 22.5 million (100% disbursement of the CEP Credit Line, over 6 months ahead of schedule).

  10. Results Moldova Community Forestry Project - The forestation of more than 10,000 hectares of degraded land (2,000 more than the initial target), resulting in an estimated sequestration of 600 thousand tons of CO2 over the Project’s five year duration. - A national competitive grant scheme for participating communities to provide grant funding for localized capacity building and improvements in forest and pasture management.

  11. Results Moldova Public Administration Reform TA Project - Institutional reorganization: Horizontal functional review was conducted in five policy sectors, represented by all Government ministries and approximately 110 subordinated Government bodies. Recommendations for optimization of allocation of functions have been developed and partially implemented. As a result, an improved separation of policy development and implementation function has been achieved. Consolidation of the Government structure was also achieved by cutting the number of central public administration bodies from 29 to 24 and the number of government agencies from 16 to 8; - Policymaking: Institutional capacity, in terms of a dedicated policy coordination unit, has been established in the State Chancellery and competent staff have been hired and trained. Methodologies for the development of the National Development Strategy and sector strategies have been introduced. Each ministry has formulated and approved its Institutional Development Plan, which includes policy objectives and institutional capacity-building targets. The National Development Strategy acts as a policy framework for developing a medium-term expenditure framework. A system of ex ante policy impact analysis has been developed and introduced for selected policies; - Human Resources: The new Law on Public Office and Status of Civil Servant, drafted in line with EU’s best practices, was adopted. In total, seven new human resource (HR) management procedures have been introduced, including: government regulations on competitive selection, performance appraisal, probation period, preparation of job descriptions, etc. A personnel policy division was established within the State Chancellery and its capacity is being strengthened for the purposes of enforcing the civil service law and coordination of HR units. A network of personnel managers has been established to facilitate implementation of relevant rules and procedures across the entire civil service. Training in application of new civil service rules has been implemented.

  12. Results Moldova Energy II Project The project contributed greatly to the overall performance of the electricity transmission company Moldelectricain the last five years. The technical and non-technical losses were reduced, as well as the outage rates of Moldelectrica transmission lines and substations. The transmission system rehabilitation has contributed to more reliable power supply. The heating component improved the educational and medical facilities by providing access to heat and hot water over the entire year for many schools and hospitals. - The outage rates of Moldelectrica transmission lines and substations were reduced by 48% (the initial target was 35%). - The non-technical losses in the transmission network were nonexistent in 2009, while the non-technical losses in the distribution network were reduced by 94.5%, reaching 0.6% in 2009 (the initial target was the reduction of non technical losses in the transmission and distribution networks by 75 %). - There were no cases of unserved energy during 2009 (compared with 602 MW in 1999 - the initial target was to reduce unserved energy by 200 MW per year. - The technical losses of Moldelectrica were reduced by 11.7% since 2002 (the initial target was 5%). - 35 institutions and 37 residential buildings have heat and domestic hot water availability throughout the entire year (including during the winter season, which is more than 120 days/year as initially planned). 8,399 students and 1.5 million patients, staff and visitors benefit from facilities heated 120 days or more during the winter season.

  13. Results Health Services & Social Assistance Project - Rehabilitation and construction of 33 Primary Health Centers (PHCs), in addition to modernization of curriculum for PHC doctors and nurses, and its use in medical schools; - Supported key policy developments, such as reform of payment systems for hospitals based on the complexity and number of cases treated, development of a Hospital Master Plan and elaboration of Human Resource Strategy for the health care sector, identification and implementation of PPP with IFC, and helping build a National Health Accounts (NHA) framework, which would improve its ability to plan, execute and monitor resource allocation decisions in the health sector; - The design of a surgical block for the Republican Clinical Hospital has been finalized to enable commencement of construction from EU; - Ongoing consolidation of a database for targeted social assistance transfers. A new, targeted social assistance system was approved in September 2008, scaling up to 44,200 households as of June 2011. In addition, health insurance law has been revised to provide health insurance to those under the new poverty targeted social assistance program; - Helped mitigate the impact of food price shocks through: (i) provision of nutritional supplements to at-risk pregnant women, lactating mothers and infants/young children; and (ii) provision of temporary cash transfers to social institutions to provide food to children, elderly, and other vulnerable groups.

  14. Results Social Investment Fund II - Over 400,000 people took part in community planning and in management of subprojects supported by MSIF II; - 1018 sub-projects have been completed, nearly triple the initial target of 388; - Over 1.4 million people (over one-fourth of the country’s population) have benefited from MSIF interventions, significantly exceeding the target of 420,000; - Due to increased labor intensiveness of subprojects, poor rural communities gained an additional 100,000 person days of employment in public works; - About one-half of rehabilitated schools developed and implemented new educational programs. The rate of student attendance increased by 3 percent and as a result of heating systems installed in schools and other energy efficiency measures; - MSIF spurred innovations and practices that were replicated by both government and non-government organizations; - The project improved access to safe water by building 570 km of water networks, improved access to schools, health facilities and agricultural lands through rehabilitation of 284 km of roads and facilitated access to gas supply and heating for health facilities and household by building over 1,400 km of natural gas networks.

  15. Results Public Financial Management TA Project - Transparency and efficiency of national budget management were increased through consolidation of all state and local budget balances at the Treasury Single Account; - Budget comprehensiveness was improved through consolidation of extra budgetary funds (EBF). The number of EBF was reduced from 14 in 2005 to 5 in 2009. The share of these funds in the total revenues of the national public budget has been reduced by 0.5% (from 1.1% to 0.6%); - Alignment of the newly-developed budget classification and chart of accounts with international standards has laid a solid foundation for improved transparency of budget reporting; - New Methodological Guidelines for budget preparation developed under the project integrate medium-term budget planning into the overall budget cycle and enable stronger links between budget allocations and government policy priorities; - Internal financial control and audit systems were strengthened through introduction of National Internal Audit Standards; - A modern legal framework to support the implementation of new systems was prescribed in the Law on Public Internal Financial Controls, aligned with European Union requirements, which came into force at end 2010; - Institutional capacity of agencies involved in the budget process is being strengthened through newly-developed training programs on various PFM dimensions: 17 training modules have been developed in the field of public financial management and around 1,240 civil servants from central and local public authorities have been trained; - Further improvements in budget management processes and procedures are expected with the launch of FMIS, expected to become operational during 2013-2014.

  16. Results Quality Education in the Rural Areas of Moldova Project The project has been instrumental in highlighting and bringing to public attention the need for efficiency reforms in Moldova. It is envisioned that, based on the gains made/lessons learned throughout the implementation of the project, education financing reforms would be expanded nationwide by the Government. Visible progress has been made towards improving the quality of education through curriculum reform, teacher training and the ongoing development of textbook guides. Main achievements include: - Endorsement of the new National curriculum; - Establishment of the National Centre for Examinations and Quality Assurance, which enables Moldova to participate in international assessments such as TIMSS and PISA; - Moldova’s Participation in the PISA 2009 plus; - Provision of grants for teaching and learning improvements to a total of 1,376 schools; - Purchase of specialized equipment for biology, chemistry and physics classes to 204 high schools in rural areas; - Piloting a new formula of financing for general secondary schools in two rayons and its subsequent expansion to an additional 9 rayons and two municipalities to start in 2012; - Piloting school optimization activities for general schools in two rayons (Causeni and Riscani) with an assessment of quality improvements and savings resulting from optimization currently under preparation; - Purchase of 10 school buses in support of school optimization activities.

  17. Results Moldova Rural Investment and Services Project - Over 400,000 farmers are benefiting from high quality services of the national agricultural extension agency – ACSA – established with support from RISP, which are positively impacting their production practices; - Credit lines provided through RISP have created over 1,700 new businesses in high-value agriculture, livestock breeding, small-scale industries, and generated 7,000 new jobs, mainly in rural areas; - The work to modernize the legal and regulatory framework for Savings and Credit Associations (SCA) has considerably advanced, strengthening the supervisory capacity of the State and ensuring that, among others, only the strongest associations continue to collect deposits; - Over 40 percent of the population in six selected pilot villages has taken part in a land re-parceling exercise, prompting the government to scale up this activity to an additional 40 villages. Lessons from all 46 villages are being integrated into a government strategy.

  18. Results Moldova – Soil Conservation Project - The forestation of 20,300 hectares. As a result, the project host, Moldsilva – the State Forestry Agency, is receiving regular carbon payments for an estimated total of 1.9 million tons of CO2 to be sequestered by 2015; - A methodology applied in the two Projects, successfully registered with the UNFCCC (AR-AM0002), and can now be applied to other forestation/reforestation projects in the world; - The implementation of a national competitive grant scheme for participating communities that provided grants to more than 50 localities for capacity building activities aimed at improving management of more than 6,000 hectares of community land (mostly pastures).

  19. Results Disaster and Climate Risk Management Project (2010-2014) Results to be achieved: - Installation of a Doppler radar that would improve the precision of forecasting severe weather; - Introduction of weather now-casting tools; improvements in data collection, processing and dissemination; - Establishment of a modern Emergency Command Center and an associated emergency management system; - Demonstration of climate risks adaptation technologies and agronomic practices to farmers.

  20. Results • Water Supply and Sanitation • The number of hours per day of adequate water supply increased since 2003 in the pilot areas: Cahul – 19 hours (versus 13), Orhei– 24 hours (versus 10), Soroca – 24 hours, Stefan Voda – 18 hours (versus 4), Balti– 24 hours; • Metered connection rate increased since 2003: Cahul – 78% (versus 73); Orhei– 79% (versus 73), Soroca – 82%, Stefan Voda– 100% (versus 34), Balti – 92%; • Percentage of microbiological water quality samples meet target values: Cahul – 100% (versus 98.5), Orhei – 100% (versus 99.8), Soroca – 98.8%, Stefan Voda • Physical losses, measured by m3/km/day, decreased since 2003: Cahul – 11.3 (versus 13.3), Orhei – 11 .3 (versus 12.04), Soroca– 8 (versus 9.3), Stefan Voda – 7.5 (versus 29.5), Balti – 51.5. • Average collection ratio exceeds 86.91%; • Non-revenue water decreased on average from 70% in 2003 down to 55% today; • The share of energy use in 1 cubic meter of water billed reduced by 30% since 2003; • All utilities have established operating and maintenance and emergency response procedures.

  21. Governance e-Transformation Project Open Data (BOOST) Shared Services (Identification, e-Payment Gateway, Access Control) M-Cloud Shared Infrastructure e-Services (G2C, G2B, G2G) Results

  22. Find Data About World Bank Projects in Moldova • Financial data (https://finances.worldbank.org) • Commitment, disbursement and repayment data at the project and loan level for IBRD and IDA • Commitment and disbursement data for trust fund grants • Build your own reports and visualizations • Project data (http://www.worldbank.org/projects) • Search by Country, Topic, Sector • Sub-national location data (http://maps.worldbank.org/) • See where current World Bank projects are located within Moldova

  23. Moldova Breaks Ground Open Financial Data Website and Mobile Application

  24. NEW: Moldova Breaks Ground with Open Data Pilot • Moldova is the first country in the world to publish expenditure data at the category level via https://finances.worldbank.org • See not just what was disbursed under each loan, but expenditure category balances (vis a vis allocations laid out in the financing agreement) • Data that is collected by the World Bank via the loan disbursement process • See data at the project and loan levels Open Financial Data Website and Mobile Application

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