Pakistan: Lahore Water and Wastewater Management Project (AIIB-000074)

Countries
  • Pakistan
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
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Project Status
Proposed
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Bank Risk Rating
A
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Borrower
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Water and Sanitation
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Investment Type(s)
Loan
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 235.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Loan Amount (USD)
$ 235.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 533.30 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ AIIB website

Updated in EWS Jun 22, 2023

Disclosed by Bank May 2, 2018

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

The project objectives are to: ensure a sustainable supply of safe water; reduce deteriorating environmental impacts due to untreated sewage disposal; and, strengthen the institutional capacity of the Lahore Water and Sanitation Authority (LWASA).

According to AIIB documents, the project has the following 3 components:

Component 1: Investment for safe water supply infrastructure, which will comprise the construction of a diversion structure for the surface water from BRBD Canal and associated SWTP, rehabilitation/replacement of leaking pipes and pumping machinery, and installation of bulk and consumer water meters.

Component 2: Investment for safe sanitation infrastructure, will include the construction of three WWTPs at the locations of Mahmood Booti, Shadbagh, and Shahdara; rehabilitation/replacement of inefficient wastewater pumping stations and selected sewer lines; and the construction of main trunk sewers to be connected with the new WWTPs. The proposed WWTPs will treat the wastewater from
North and Northwest areas of Lahore. The plants will be fed by disposal stations located at Shadi Pura, Bhogiwal, Khokhar, Shadbagh, Shahdara and Farkhabad; and by drainage stations at Mehmood Booti and Siddique Pura through trunk sewers fed by secondary and tertiary sewerage networks.

Component 3: Technical Support for Institutional Performance Improvement, and Project Construction Supervision. The LWASA will appoint Project Management Consultant (PMC) for the execution of activities relating to (a) institutional performance improvement; and (b) project construction supervision support.

The project implementation period (Start Date - End Date) is January 2019 to December 2023.

Investment Description
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Contact Information
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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank:
Shakeel Khan
Project Team Leader / Principal Investment Operations Specialist
Tel: +86 10 8358 0185
E-Mail: skhan@aiib.org


Borrower:
M. Aslam Chaudhary
Joint Secretary, China/AIIB
Economic Affairs Division
Government of Pakistan.
Tel: +92 51 920 5292
E-Mail: aslam26@gmail.com

Implementing Agency
Zahid Aziz Syed
Managing Director, Water & Sanitation Agency, Lahore
Tel: +92 42 99263142-3
E-Mail: zaziz99@yahoo.com

 

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF AIIB

The AIIB has established the Accountability Mechanism for Project-Affected People (PPM).  The PPM provides “an opportunity for an independent and impartial review of submissions from Project-affected people who believe they have been or are likely to be adversely affected by AIIB’s failure to implement the ESP in situations when their concerns cannot be addressed satisfactorily through Project level GRMs or AIIB Management processes.” Two or more project-affected people can file a complaint.  Under the current AIIB policy, when the bank co-finances a project with another development bank, it may apply the other bank's standards. You can refer to the Project Summary Information document to find out which standards apply.  You can learn more about the PPM and how to file a complaint at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/how-we-assist-you/index.html.

The complaint submission form can be accessed in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, Chinese, English, Tagalog, Hindi, Nepali, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu. The submission form can be found at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/submission/index.html.




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