Moldova Rural Connectivity Project (WB-P180153)

Countries
  • Moldova
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
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
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
Apr 29, 2024
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 Moldova - Ministry of Finance; State Road Administration; Customs Service of Moldova
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Transport
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)
$ 105.98 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)
$ 120.60 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 May 29, 2024

Disclosed by Bank May 3, 2023

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Project Description
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According to the Bank’s website, the Project Development Objective is to facilitate road transit through selected border crossings with the EU and to improve the quality of road connectivity that selected local communities have to international corridors.

Component A: Facilitating trade and expanding Solidarity Lanes (US$ 18.0 million)

Component B: Linking local communities with economic opportunities (US$ 77.8 million)

Component C: Building delivery capacity and project management support (US$ 4.2 million)

Component D: Contingent emergency response (US$ 0 million)

Early Warning System Project Analysis
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The environmental risks associated with the proposed project are assessed as Substantial. The project will provide a combination of investments in connectivity and rural roads rehabilitation on at least three main corridors (Component B), road safety, upgrade border crossing physical capacity and improve key roads level crossings by construction of short section of new access road, upgrading of an exiting road and expansion the capacity of existing parking (Component A), technical assistance and support for specific regulatory and institutional reforms. Although the long-term impacts of the project are likely to be positive, all anticipated civil works activities could, cumulatively, result in potential significantly environmental risks and adverse impacts that are mainly generated by the activities under Components A and B. Except the construction of a short (1 km) new access road to Ungheni bridge and a short (0.5 km) road widening in Leuseni, the proposed activities are essentially road rehabilitation and maintenance within the "Right of Way" (ROW) areas. Thus, the substantial environmental risk rating is justified mainly because the cumulative impacts related to air and water pollution, solid and hazardous wastes, labor security etc., may be significant, but site specific, mostly temporarily, predictable, and/or reversible and the magnitude and spatial extent are likely to be limited in geographic scope and within the technical footprint of the project. The impact on natural vegetation associated with operating the quarry and borrow areas and constructing detour and access roads to the borrow material pits and quarry sites, will not be applicable as there will be used the existing borrow/quarry sites which operate based on legal licenses and permits.

Investment Description
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IBRD Commitment: 100.00

IDA Commitment: 5.98


Contact Information
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World Bank

Elena Lungu, Dominic Pasquale Patella
Senior Transport Specialist

Borrower/Client/Recipient

Ministry of Finance
Veronica Sireteanu Vragaleva
Minister
veronica.sireteanu@mf.gov.md

Implementing Agencies

Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova
Igor Iurco
Head of Customs Control Division, Customs Service of the Rep
igor.iurco@customs.gov.md

State Road Administration
Sergiu Bejan
General Director
sergiu.bejan@asd.md

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