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Pakistan
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PPTA: PAK32024-01
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Sindh Rural Development
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Location
Sindh Province in the districts of Thatta, Badin, Mirpurkhas, Umerkot, and Dadu
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Sector
Multisector /Multisector
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Initial Listing
1 July 1998
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Most Recent Update
24 January 2001
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Executing Agency(ies)
Planning and Development Department, Sindh
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TA Fact-Finding Mission Undertaken/Scheduled: 12-24 Oct 1998
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TA Approval Date
22 December 1998
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Estimated Completion Date
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- Cost and Financing Plan (in US$)
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TASF |
800,000.00 |
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800,000.00 |
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- Description
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The ensuing Project will be aimed at reducing poverty through improving the incomes, productivity potential, living conditions of poor households, and the income-generating potential of rural women and men.
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| Strategic Development Objectives |
- Primary
- Poverty Reduction
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- Secondary
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- Objectives and Scope
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The objective of the technical assistance will be to assist the Government of Sindh in designing a rural development project suitable for Bank financing. The scope consists of a number of rural development components including: (i) rural roads; (ii) small irrigation; (iii) village and social infrastructure; (iv) microcredit; and (v) capacity building and strengthening of community and village groups, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), and government line departments.
- Policy Dialogue
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Degree of bonded labor in agriculture in the project area and effective measures to target the bonded labor households
- Environment Category:
B
- Environment Impact and Mitigation
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None
- Social Aspects and Remedies
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A full social, gender, and indigenous peoples assessment and analysis will be conducted. Poor households will be targeted through involvement of NGOs and the selection criteria for each component. Women will be similarly targeted through income-generating and credit activities, schools for adult literacy, and livestock improvements.
- Benefits and Beneficiaries
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Poor households, women, NGOs, and government line departments.
- Beneficiary Participation in Formulation
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The design team will consult representatives of beneficiaries in identifying priority components of the Project.
- Beneficiary Participation in Implementation
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With the assistance of NGOs, beneficiaries will be involved to the fullest extent possible in the identification, design, procurement, construction, implementation, operation, and maintenance of subprojects through the group-based approach.
- Consulting Services
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International: Team Leader/Rural Development Planner (6 person-months) Agriculture and Water Resources Specialist (4 person-months) Infrastructure Development (2 person-months) Environmentalist (1 person- month) Rural Finance and Microenterprise Development (2 person-months). Domestic: Agriculture and Water Resources Specialist (2 person-months) Sociologist (4 person-months) Gender Specialist (2 person-months) Institution Specialist (2 person-months) Civil Engineer - Rural Infrastructure (2 person- months) Environmentalist (2 person-months) Rural Finance Specialist (2 person-months) Economist (3 person-months),
- Procurement
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Computers, printers, photocopier, and fax machine pursuant to the Bank's Guidelines for Procurement.
- Contacts
- Bank
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Raymond Z. H. Renfro
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Principal Economist
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EAOD
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Tel. No.:
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(632) 632-6445
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E-mail:
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rrenfro@adb.org
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- Executing Agency
- Planning and Development Department, Sindh
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Contact Person
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Mr. Iqbal Durrani, Chief, Foreign Aid
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Tel. No.
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(92-021) 921-1292
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Fax. No.
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(92-021) 921-1922
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E-mail
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- Remarks
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Rural poverty was found to be about 75 percent of those communities visited during TA fact-finding. The status of women was found to be very poor and restrictive. Nevertheless, there was widespread willingness to share the costs of improvements in small water and irrigation schemes, rural link roads, other village infrastructure, agriculture, fisheries, livestock, and financial services.
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