GPOBA supported the design and implementation of the $150 million Nepal Urban Governance and Infrastructure Project (NUGIP). The activity conducted an operational deep-dive assessment and addressed opportunities for establishing results-based approaches.

This TA would: 

1) diagnose at operational level the institutional and policy challenges to deliver solid waste management services;

2) propose service improvement plans

3) assess infrastructure investment needs for SWM, and

4) Identify opportunities for strengthening accountability in policy development and financing through results-based approaches.

In 2013, GPRBA developed a successful subsidy pilot program in Nepal that utilized performance-based grants to improve service delivery and financial sustainability in five municipalities. 

This was a joint World Bank-IFC initiative to scale up off-grid household renewable energy access in rural Nepal.  The objectives of the initiative were:
  Recommend  technical assistance and  investment options for scaling up rural mini-/ micro-hydropower;
  Recommend options for scaling up renewable technologies (PV, biogas, biomass cook stoves, improved water mills), and the role of OBA/RBF instruments;
  Recommend opportunities for micro-finance institutions,  financial  intermediaries  and  the private sector;
  Outline the World Bank Group prospects for support  to  the  Government's  recent  National Rural  Renewable  Energy  Program  and  Central Renewable Energy Fund.

Responding to the request of Government of Nepal, the Bank and GPOBA support the Government in preparing a municipal Solid Waste Management (SWM) OBA program within a broader SWM sector support.

The deliverables have been prepared as planned. This TA activity developed standard contractual arrangements for private SWM operators to participate in the 2nd batch of municipalities, whereas in the 1st  batch of municipalities, SWM operators were public. During the upcoming World Bank / GPOBA Midterm Review mission for the W3 SWM OBA Program planned for March 2016, the 2nd batch municipalities and private / NGOs operators from the SWM sector will discuss the implementation of these contractual arrangements.

This TA will support the National Vigilance Center (NVC) which serves as the Government of Nepal’s IVA for civil works. The TA aims at improving NVC’s verification capabilities for the IDA Strengthening the National Rural Transport Program (SNRTP, $100 million). SNRTP will pay for the direct costs of technical audits. The TA will support technical training and accreditation in partnership with a Nepalese university and the Nepal Engineering Council (component A) as well as the implementation of three initial rounds of technical audits (component B). 

In 2013, GPRBA has developed a successful pilot program in Nepal under Window 3 that utilized performance-based grants to improve service delivery and financial sustainability in five municipalities. It builds on the success of previous GPRBA support to Nepal’s MSW sector and seeks to expand the scope of the GPOBA model, taking a comprehensive end-to-end service delivery approach that will also address institutional barriers at the local level. 

This activity conducts a deep-dive assessment of municipal solid-waste (MSW) systems for urban local governments, including identifying opportunities for establishing results-based approaches in Nepal. The activity will support the Nepal Urban Governance and Infrastructure Project (NUGIP), a $150-million lending program. It builds on the success of previous GPRBA support to Nepal’s MSW subsector and seeks to expand the scope of the GPOBA model, taking a comprehensive end-to-end service delivery approach that will also address institutional barriers at the local level.