Armenia : Yerevan Sustainable Urban Transport Project

Transport / Urban public transport

A. Sector strategy: strategic directions; success factors and constraints; policy, institutional, legal and regulatory frameworks; management capacity; and operations and sustainability.

B. Policy Framework and Institutional Development Plan: including MFF reform action plan aimed at cost-efficiency, sustainability and private sector involvement; to include capacity assessments and comparative analysis of options.

C. Investment program comprising non-physical investments in: i) Organizational structures for improving service efficiency, new contracting modalities, private sector participation, clean development mechanism, etc.; ii) Infrastructure works, comprising feasibility studies, preliminary design and due diligence work for first tranche investments;

D. Financial Analysis and Plan i) Financial projections/FIRR calculation;

E. Due diligence analyses and documentation: i) Baseline service delivery and transport coverage surveys; ii) Passengers traffic surveys and road counts; iii) Poverty analysis; iv) Economic analysis/EIRR calculation; v) Social safeguards and thematic documentation (e.g., Land Acquisition and Resettlement Framework; land acquisition due diligence reports/resettlement plans, including consultation with relevant communities and any affected persons; assessment of impact on any indigenous people; gender impact analysis; labor impact analysis, etc.); vi) Environmental safeguards documentation (e.g., Environmental Assessment Review Framework, Initial Environment Examinations for subprojects, including consultation with relevant communities and any affected persons.); vii) Implementation risk analysis and mitigation plan.

F. Consultation and communication strategy and plan covering both Facility processing and program implementation period; to include workshop to seek stakeholder inputs and consensus on program design.

G. Capacity development for accelerated program implementation including: i) recruitment of MFF-financed consultants (e.g., detail engineering design & construction supervision consultants, program support consultants, etc.); ii) development of results monitoring and evaluation system.

Time frame. The PPTA extends over 9 months and divides into two components, the first focusing on MFF Design (6 months) and the second, carried out simultaneously, performing due diligence for MFF first tranche implementation (9 months). Reporting outputs are (i) Inception (September 2009); (ii) Interim (November 2009); (iii) Draft Final Report-Feasibility studies (January 2010); (iv) Draft Preliminary Design (March 2010); (v) Final Report-Preliminary Design (May 2010). Workshop seeking stakeholder views will also be provided as produced.