Lebanon Environmental Pollution Abatement Project Additional Financing (WB-P172032)

Countries
  • Lebanon
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
Proposed
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
FI
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 10, 2020
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 Lebanon
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Climate and Environment
  • Technical Cooperation
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 50.00 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)
$ 50.00 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.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Jul 16, 2024

Disclosed by Bank Nov 1, 2019

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Project Description
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According to bank documents, the objectives of the project are to assist the Ministry of Finance in: (a) reducing industrial pollution in targeted Industrial Enterprises; and (b) strengthening the monitoring and enforcement capabilities of the MOE.

The additional financing components will mirror the parent project and will comprise of the following:

  1. Project Management and Technical Assistance (IBRD, US$5 million). The component will include Project Management costs (US$2.5 million) for the PMU operating costs including technical, fiduciary and safeguards management, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and communication. The component will also provide Technical Assistance (US$2.5 million) to strengthen pollution management capacity of the Ministry of Environment and participating industries.
  2. Investment in Pollution Management Subprojects (IBRD, US$45 million) will provide concessional loans through the banking sector for pollution prevention and abatement measures identified in Component 1. These will include enterprises and establishments in the: (i) industrial; (ii) agricultural; (iii) healthcare and medical waste sectors; and (iv) any other classified establishments, in order to bring them in compliance with national environmental regulations in a cost-effective manner.
Investment Description
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World Bank:
Laurent Debroux
Program Coordinator

Borrower:
Ministry of Finance
Alain Bifani
Director General

Implementing Agencies:
Ministry of Environment
Manal Moussallem
Advisor to the Minister

Central Bank
Wael Hamdan
Senior Director - Head of Financing Unit

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