Loan No: 2648-PRC Project Implementation Management and Capacity Building for Chongqing Urban-Rural infrastructure Development Demonstration Project

ADB

China

• Strengthen urban-rural linkages, and to provide a replicable demonstration model for small-scale urban-rural roads and water supply development in eight poverty districts/counties in Chongqing Municipality;
• Improve the efficiency, effectiveness and financial viability of infrastructure service delivery among the participating districts/counties, in support of its sustainable urban-rural development
• To provide advisory services and trainings to CPMO, IAs and IUs on project management, construction supervision, financial management and compliance with safeguard policies.

Project Management and Quality Assurance (PMQA) for SPAN and SPAN Support Initiatives.

The Ministry of Finance

Indonesia

• Assess the environmental impact of this program
• Conducts investigations into and resolves environmentally related complaints from citizen and industrial clients.
• Evaluates environmental health status of the state, and prepares relevant reports; performs environmental lead assessments in response to elevated blood lead levels; performs epidemiological investigations to prevent environmental health and protection incidents; performs environmental lead assessments in response to elevated blood levels.
• Conduct air, water and soil inspections and investigations; issues discharge and water use permits; conducts and administers natural resource investigations and studies; conducts studies to protect; collects and analyzes environmental samples; provides technical assistance; prepares enforcement documentation.
• Serves as an expert witness in the enforcement of the state’s environmental protection and public health laws.

Project Management Consultant for Establishment of South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Information Highway Project

ADB

Bangladesh

• Manage and coordinate all activities associated with the implementation of the SASEC Information Highway Project initiatives throughout Bangladesh.
• Support, plan, cooperate and allocate resources to ensure that project plans under the control of his team is compatible with planning by other Project Management Consulting Teams in other countries to ensure that future technical requirements for bilateral peering will be met, and interoperability between networks of the four countries ensured.
• Prepare a detailed project plan for each project element to ensure that all tasks and resources are allocated and sufficient to complete the Project within the allocated time frame and budget, and manage the Project on the basis of this plan, reporting any significant change that may affect the Project’s term and budget

Support to Development of National Road Strategy Framework in Transport Infrastructures

WB

Cote D'Ivoire

• Making a diagnosis of the transport sector;
• Identify actions needed to maintain infrastructure to a satisfactory operating condition;
• Identify and propose options for private sector participation in future investments;
• Identify challenges, vision and goals of development and maintenance of infrastructure;
• Develop strategy to implement to achieve these objectives;
• Develop an indicative program for the short, medium and long term.

Power sector Master Plan

ADB

Afghanistan

• Update the last master plan completed in 2004 by Norconsult to match with present power sector issues.
• Develop the future transmission network, by following technical standards
• Study the economic aspect of the power purchasing agreements with neighbouring countries to achieve maximum benefit for the national economy.
• Improve the planning cell staff's theoretical knowledge, and analytical and practical skills on power system planning. Conduct practical training to update required components of the master plan.
• Develop mathematical models for the Afghanistan power system, including econometric load forecasting, generation planning.
• Coordinate with the consultants developing the Central Asian regional power sector master plan

Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development (LASED)

The General Secretariat for Social Land Concessions (GSSLC) & the Secretariat of National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDDS)

Cambodia

• Formulate study design and approach, and coordinate its overall conduct.
• Determine contributions of initial project results, outcomes and impact to the achievement of the project development objective.
• Evaluate the transparency and governance aspects of land identification, allocation, distribution and use through the SLC approach.
• Assess effectiveness and relevance of project design, implementation arrangements and capacity, and related institutional and coordination issues.
• Review experiences with MLMUPC, MoI, WB, GTZ, and NGO collaboration and partnerships.
• Determine the internal and external policy environment affecting the overall implementation and management of the project.
• Determine sustainability of project investments, including mainstreaming of project and approaches and strategies in the overall Government’s program.
• Provide specific recommendations to improve overall management and implementation of the project, and increase the likelihood of achieving the project development objective.
• Lead the overall analysis, consolidation and finalization of the study reports.

TA 7619 – MON: Updating Energy Sector Master Plan

ADB

ADB

• Review the Government of Mongolia's present and proposed energy sector policy, strategies,, laws, regulations, and sector organizations. Identify gaps between achievements and goals in the sector policy and strategy.
• Review progress of single-buyer model development and sector privatization. Identify policy actions to be required for functioning single-buyer model and promoting sector privatization.
• Review the progress, achievement, and prospect of energy sector investment (including external assistance, ongoing projects, and proposed projects) planned in the energy sector master plan of 2001.
• Review energy consumption (including power generation and loss performance), intensity, and elasticity trend. Identify factors of inefficient energy use and actions to improve energy efficiency. Propose several medium- and long-term energy intensity targets in comparison with countries in similar economic and meteorological condition.
• Review air pollution standard from coal-fired power plants by referring to outputs from Mitigation of Trans-boundary Air Pollution from Coal-Fired Power Plants in North East Asia.