Donor Coordination. Throughout the multi-year development of the Compact, MCC and the Government have engaged in an inclusive process that included consultations with the United States Government, Nepali communities and key private sector actors, non-government actors, and other donors as well as multilateral organizations. In particular, MCC worked closely with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank in reviewing and agreeing on various power sector reforms required in Nepal for future programming by the two banks. MCC also consulted frequently with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (“DFID”) during its preparation of a political economy analysis of power sector reform.
Donor Coordination. MCC worked closely with the World Bank on issues of targeting and impact evaluation strategy over the course of project development in 2009. As of January 2010, the World Bank intends to provide an additional loan to expand KC1. The World Bank and MCC plan to continue close collaboration during and beyond the scope of this additional funding and share lessons learned with each other and with DSWD as KALAHI-CIDSS continues to mature and develop towards a potential national expansion that could involve many other donors. MCC will also be joining DSWD’s donor forum related to KALAHI-CIDSS.
Donor Coordination. The Secondary National Road Development Project is anchored on preliminary work undertaken with the assistance of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (now known as the Japan International Cooperation Agency), which was instrumental in identifying viable priority road segments eligible for MCC investments. MCC has coordinated closely with the World Bank on the ongoing efforts in: (i) road sector reform; (ii) improving the adequacy of the “Special Road Support Fund” (as described below);
Donor Coordination. The due diligence for the tax administration aspects of the Revenue Administration Reform Project was undertaken in close cooperation with the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Division as well as with the World Bank’s National Program Supporting Tax Administration Reform program to support tax reform efforts in the Philippines. The outlines of the eTIS sub-Activity and its emphasis on process redesign and training are based on long-standing recommendations that have been made by the IMF and World Bank to the BIR. It is anticipated that the tax administration advisors provided to the BIR under the Compact will be sourced through the IMF and coordinated by a resident IMF advisor in Manila, the Philippines. The Automated Audit Tools sub-Activity builds on the previous efforts of the Swedish International Development Agency and the World Bank. Both donors have sponsored pilot programs in the utilization of automated audit tools.
Donor Coordination. There are two primary donors working on maintenance related work on the SRN: the Asian Development Bank and DFID. MCC will coordinate its technical assistance efforts under the Compact, to the extent possible, to reinforce these technical assistance efforts.
Donor Coordination. While DFC shall appraise, oversee and monitor ACFD Project activities, MCC and the Government expect to work closely with DFC during all phases of the ACFD Project from identifying activities to developing, designing and implementing such activities.
Donor Coordination. The majority of donors in Vanuatu have focused more consistently on the social sectors. Donors such as Australia and New Zealand have recently committed to enlarging their assistance to the agriculture and tourism sectors in response to the priorities for growth and poverty reduction outlined in the Government’s PAA. MCC’s focus on transport infrastructure presents a number of mutually beneficial coordination opportunities with ongoing and planned donor programs, namely: the European Union (the “EU”) and France’s Agricultural Producers Organization Project; the EU and the Asian Development Bank’s (“ADB”) Tourism Training and Education project; ADB’s Rural Credit Strengthening and Secured Transaction Framework projects; New Zealand Agency for International Development’s Customary Land Tenure initiatives; the Australian Agency for International Development’s “AusAID”) Business Climate Reform program; and the EU’s Institutional Strengthening for Infrastructure Maintenance program. Moreover, AusAid is providing funding for key household data surveys (such as the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (“HIES”), which will be used in monitoring Program impacts. The United States Agency for International Development does not maintain a mission in Vanuatu and is not currently providing any development assistance programs to Vanuatu.
Donor Coordination. The Rural Land Governance Project builds on land tenure, rural development and decentralization efforts supported by the World Bank, the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement or, “AFD”), the Danish International Development Agency (“DANIDA”), the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH, or “GTZ”), the Austrian Development Corporation, the Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (“IFAD”), the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”), the African Development Bank (“AfDB”), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (“FAO”), the Swedish International Development Agency (“SIDA”), and the United Nations Development Program (“UNDP”). MCC funding will co-finance, with the World Bank, support for stakeholder consultation, legal drafting, and passage of the new land law and application texts, as well as outreach and dissemination once the new law is passed.
Donor Coordination. The Project design draws extensively on the work of other donors. MCC consulted with the EU on the IWRM, and with the World Bank and AfDB on irrigation and agriculture. Lessons learned, particularly with regard to including supporting technical assistance for farmers, have been incorporated to improve the design of this project and xxxxxx its sustainability. A number of other donors have been active in the target rural areas of the Project, including the World Bank, AfDB, USAID, the Fonds Européen De Développement (“FED”) as well as Swiss and Belgian bilateral aid agencies. In several cases, the actions to be taken under the Project complement other initiatives. For example, the market information system will continue work begun under a USAID project, and the improvements to district markets will draw on the experience of the Swiss Development Agency. In addition, the Access to Rural Finance Project Activity has been designed in consultation with other donor funded micro, small and medium sized rural enterprise (“MSME”) activities in Burkina Faso. In particular, synergies will be gained in implementation through close coordination with the International Finance Corporation’s MSME credit program, the World Bank’s Projet d’Appui aux Filières Agro-Sylvo-Pastoral Project (“PAFASP”), and the World Bank and EU-funded Maison de l’Enterprise which provides business support services. MCC anticipates that consultations will continue with these donors and with others who may develop interventions within the Project zones.
Donor Coordination. Throughout due diligence, MCC has consulted with major donors involved in funding road construction and capacity building/institutional strengthening projects in Burkina Faso. MCC has been particularly active in coordinating its approach to road maintenance, an increasingly important collective concern among the major donors. Technical assistance under the Capacity Building and Technical Assistance for Road Maintenance Project Activity has been structured to complement ongoing technical assistance programs, to build on the World Bank’s assistance that resulted in the establishment of the Road Fund, and to strengthen work initiated by the AfDB and the EU on road maintenance. Design of the IMFP, in particular, was developed in collaboration with the World Bank and the EU. The road segments selected for MCC Funding provide connections with current road construction activities funded by other donors. The Koudougou to Dedougou road segment, funded by the Islamic Development Bank (“BID”), Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (“BADEA”), Arab Development Fund (“FAD”), Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, Saudi Fund for Development, OPEC Fund for International Development and the Government, lies in between the Dedougou-Mali border road and the Sabou-Koudougou-Didyr road. The Sabou to Koudougou road segment intersects with the EU-funded periodic maintenance on the Sabou to Xxxx-Dioulasso road and works on the Sabou to Ouagadougou road anticipated to be funded by the World Bank.
