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Operationalising Strategic Development Plan for Effective Results Presentation by Development Partners Infrastructure Development Strategic Sector presented by Asian Development Bank Timor-Leste & Development Partners Meeting (TLDPM) Dili Convention Centre, 18-20 June 2013. OUTLINE.

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  1. Operationalising Strategic Development Plan for Effective Results Presentation by Development Partners Infrastructure Development Strategic Sectorpresented by Asian Development BankTimor-Leste & Development Partners Meeting (TLDPM)Dili Convention Centre, 18-20 June 2013

  2. OUTLINE • 1. Background • 2. Key Achievements • Key Challenges • 4. The Way Forward

  3. 1. Background • Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030 • Underpins growth of the nation • Integral to the state building process • …and helps meet economic & social objectives • Program of the Fifth Constitutional Government • Clear goals to measure progress • Infrastructure is insufficient & inefficient • Institutions are under-resourced & under pressure

  4. 1. Background • Development partners helping with: • Rehabilitating and upgrading... • Roads & Bridges, • Water & Sanitation • Sea ports & Airports • Telecommunications • Capacity Development • Policy Advice • Enabling Environment for Private Sector

  5. 2. Key achievements (1) • National and regional roads • National roads underway: 260 km • …additional 410 km under negotiation, in pipeline • District roads 69 km underway • Rural roads: 450 km funding agreed • …rehabilitation of 165 km underway

  6. 2. Key achievements (2) • Urban Water & Sanitation • Dili: 14% of water supply network upgraded • …to be doubled by end-2014 • Dili: 1,535 new connections in Dili • …to be doubled by end-2014 • District capitals: 30% reduction in water loss • …3150 new connections by end-2016

  7. 2. Key achievements (3) • Rural Water & Sanitation • Improved water systems serve 5,100 households • … will reach another 5,850 by 2017 • 12 schools connected, financing for 28 more • Planning to reach all schools near water systems • 88 sub-district facilitators, who help communities manage their water systems, have been mentored and trained

  8. 2. Key achievements (4) • Sea Ports & Airports • Transactions underway to establish Tibar Bay Port and expand Dili Airport • Technical assistance is being provided for improved efficiency at Dili’s existing sea port • Feasibility work for additional north coast ferry • Telecoms • Advisory services led to enabling environment for new entrants and competition

  9. 3. Key challenges • Achieving SDP Goals Depends on: • Prioritizing Infrastructure that Delivers • Strengthened Capacity • Coordination & Approvals • Financial Resources • Sustainability • Affordability of recurrent costs • Capacity to operate & maintain

  10. 4. The way forward • Recurrent financing plans for all DP-assisted infrastructure • DPCM as basis for mutual monitoring of progress toward SDP goals • DPCM infrastructure group to identify: • Options for streamlining approval process • Best practice approaches to building capacity • Principles to guide infrastructure financing • Process must remain country-led and country-owned

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