Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological and Climate Services (WB-P159217)

Countries
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Active
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Mar 8, 2017
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Democratic Republic of Congo
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Climate and Environment
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 8.03 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.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Sep 18, 2017

Disclosed by Bank Jun 1, 2016


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Project Description
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The development objective of the Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological and Climate Services Project for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of is to improve the quality of the Government of the DRC’s targeted hydro-meteorological and climate services. The project comprises of four components. The first component will invest in strengthening institutional setup and building capacity of human resources. The second component, modernization of equipment, facilities, and infrastructure for basic observation and forecasting will finance: (i) hydrological and meteorological monitoring networks (small-scale rehabilitation of priority stations and installation of new sensors, for about 20 meteorological and six hydrological stations); (ii) transmission, data management, and data dissemination hardware (equipment needed for data concentration from the field to Kinshasa, management of secured databases interoperable with producers, and users of hydromet information, etc.); (iii) refurbishment of facilities needed to support the services (in Kinshasa and up to two provincial offices); and (iv) technical systems and software for performing meteorological, hydrological and climate forecasting, products, and services. The third component, improvement of hydromet information service delivery will provide technical assistance for delivery of more accurate, timely, and user-friendly products and services to users and decision-makers. The fourth component, project management will finance the following activities: (i) incremental operating costs; (ii) technical design of sub-projects; (iii) procurement, financial management, safeguards, monitoring and evaluation, quality control, and contract management; and (iv) audit, studies, and assessments required under various project components.
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National Agency of Meteorology and Teledetection by Satellite (Mettelsat) Jean-Pierre Mpundu Elonga Director General jpmelonga@yahoo.fr ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF WORLD BANK The World Bank Inspection Panel is the independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who believe they are likely to be, or have been, adversely affected by a World Bank-financed project. If you submit a complaint to the Inspection Panel, they may investigate to assess whether the World Bank is following its own policies and procedures for preventing harm to people or the environment. You can contact the Inspection Panel or submit a complaint by emailing ipanel@worldbank.org. You can learn more about the Inspection Panel and how to file a complaint at: http://ewebapps.worldbank.org/apps/ip/Pages/Home.aspx.

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