Third Additional Financing for Sri Lanka COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Project (WB-P177714)

Regions
  • South Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Sri Lanka
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
Approved
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Bank Risk Rating
A
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
Sep 21, 2021
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
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 100.00 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)
$ 100.00 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)
$ 100.00 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.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS May 11, 2022

Disclosed by Bank Sep 24, 2021


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Project Description
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According to World Bank documents, the objective of the proposed investment is to prevent, detect and respond to the threat posed by COVID-19 and strengthen national systems for public health preparedness in Sri Lanka.

The changes proposed for this AF entail scaling-up of activities in the second AF. It will cover the procurement of additional Pfizer vaccines, additional cold chain equipment, and any incremental transport costs and service delivery costs required for the deployment of vaccines to the target populations under subcomponent 1.3 of the project.

The target of the percentage of the population vaccinated will be adjusted to reflect the increased financing for vaccination. The target will be increased to 55 percent for both males and females.The GoSL is expanding the population to be vaccinated to go beyond the initially set target of 60 percent. Of this, vaccination acquisition for 26.5 percent of the population and deployment and service delivery cost to cover approximately 10 percent of the population will be supported by the proposed AF. The priority order of different groups has been determined based on the WHO Fair Allocation Framework. It is anticipated that 80 percent of the population become eligible based on the current scientific evidence.

The environmental risks are considered Substantial. The key risks include: (i) potential environmental pollution and community health and safety issues from handling, transportation, and disposal of HCW. Wastes such as sharps, syringes, vials, swabs, reagents, medical equipment and PPEs, some of which would be contaminated with blood and bodily fluids, will be generated in significant quantities.HCW will require special handling and awareness as it may pose a huge risk to health care workers from occupational infections and to the communities if not disposed properly. (ii) OHS issues related to potential infection of health care workers as well as communities through handling of patients, supplies, vaccination and, if deemed required, the installation of cold chain facilities.

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1.Ministry of Health,

Dr. S.H Munasinghe Secretary, Ministry of Health

secretary@health.gov.lk

2.Ministry of Finance

Ajith Abeysekera Mr.

ajith@erd.gov.lk

3.State Ministry of Samurdhi, Household Economy, Micro Finance, Self-Employment, Business Development,

Mr. N. Happuhinne
Secretary, State Ministry of Samurdhi
msesecretary@sltnet.lk

1.Deepika Eranjanie Attygalle,

Senior Health Specialist

Telephone: 5723+311 / 009-411-5561311

Email ID:dattygalle@worldbank.org

2.Srinivas Varadan,

Senior Social Protection Specialist

Telephone:5785+79127

Email ID: svaradan@worldbank.org

Borrower:

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Mr. Ajith Abeysekera
Director General, Department of External Resources, Ministry dg@erd.gov.lk

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