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Report No.: AB1951

Project Name	Huai River Basin Flood Management and Drainage Improvement
Region	EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC
Sector	Flood Management (70%); Irrigation and drainage (30%)
Project ID	P098078
Borrower(s)	P.R.CHINA
Implementing Agency
	Borrower: The People's Republic of China China Responsible Agency: Anhui Province, China Henan Province, China Jiangsu Province, China Shandong Province, China Huai River Basin Commission Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) Beijing, China
Environment Category	[X] A [ ] B [ ] C [ ] FI [ ] TBD (to be determined)
Date PID Prepared	November 13, 2005
Estimated Date of Appraisal Authorization	November 15, 2006
Estimated Date of Board Approval	May 15, 2007

Key development issues and rationale for Bank involvement

1. Key Development Issues and Rationale for Bank Involvement

1.1 The Huai River Basin is the third largest river basin in China and covers 270,000 km² in four provinces (Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu and Shandong), with a population of 165 million. The basin is strategically important from an economic perspective, producing 1/6 of the nation’s food and 1/4 of the national cash crops. However, extraordinary flood and water-logging disasters occur every 3-5 years, resulting in big economic losses as rivers, rivulets and depressions in this Basin have inadequate flood protection levels and poor drainage services. The most recent serious flood and water-logging disaster in 2003 brought great suffering to the cities and large rural areas, resulting in direct economic losses of US$4.5 billion, and thousands of people being made homeless due to inundation and collapse of their houses. In addition, small and medium water-logging disasters occur during flood season almost every year. Due to inadequate flood protection levels, people living on the flood plain of the Huai River and their activities are continuously affected by flooding during the raining season of each year. Inadequate drainage services exacerbate the situation and result in water-logging and greatly reduced agricultural productivity even in minor rainstorm events because of the large number of closed depressions on the flood plain. According to statistics, over 2/3 of the total losses in the Basin were caused by water-logging disasters.

1.2 Following the disastrous floods in 2003, the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) formulated an Accelerated Emergency Program (AEP) to enhance flood protection and improve drainage systems. This Program is being implemented over the period 2003-2007 at an estimated cost of US$5.5 billion (RMB 44.7 billion) through 19 key subprograms. It aims to rehabilitate or newly build the main flood control structures along the Huai River and main tributaries, and upgrade the flood control standards from the current once in less than 5-50 years to once in 20-100 years. Another three complementary and urgent subprograms have recently been added to improve the drainage services for the rivulets and depressions within the Basin to upgrade the drainage capacity from once in less than 3-5 years to once in 5-20 years. National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) has formally requested World Bank’s support to help accelerate further the implementation of these three additional subprograms as an integral part of the AEP. The activities to be supported by the Bank would focus on relatively medium and small sized works on the lesser tributaries in poorer rural areas, with the main AEP concentrating on the improvement to the main Huai River and significant tributaries water courses.

1.3 The Bank’s current Country Assistance Strategy (CAS 2003-2005) and the Country Water Resources Assistance Strategy (CWRAS-2002) identifies flood protection and drainage as one of the critical areas for the Bank to support with both structural measures (infrastructure construction) and nonstructural measures (institutional capacity building, river basin management, flood warning and disaster assessment systems, participatory approach, and O&M, etc.). The identification mission found that the current AEP is basically a program focusing on infrastructure construction only. This Project hence would focus more on nonstructural measures to maximize the benefit of the engineering works to be constructed under this Project as well as other works under the AEP. The Bank is currently involved in a number of relevant projects which support both structural and nonstructural measures (for example, the Yangtze Dikes Strengthening Project), as well as programs in support of river basin commissions and provincial agencies, as well and participatory approach for water resources management (a recent example is the GEF Hai Basin Integrated Water and Environment Management Project). The many lessons drawn from these projects will be incorporated in the design of the proposed Project. Therefore, Bank involvement would allow the use of experience, particularly in development of nonstructural measures, as well as introduction of international technical assistance, new technology, materials and construction methods. The project would also ensure that adequate attention is given to sustainability issues at the project design stage, including institutional reform involving both a top-down and community driven bottom-up approach and enhanced O&M of the investments made. Most importantly, the value added by the Bank through this Project would improve and strengthen the Government’s AEP and increase its benefits.

1.4 Borrower Commitment to the Project. The identification mission found a high level of preparedness by the HRBC and Provincial Water Resources Bureaus (PWRBs) and a strong willingness to cooperate with the Bank. Each province has given a commitment to fund the preparation effort and is prepared to engage first class institutions satisfactory to the Bank to prepare the Technical, Environmental (EIA) and social assessment, including the preparation of a Resettlement Action Plan (RAP).

2. Proposed project development objective(s)

2.1 The Project would aim to increase agricultural productivity and farmers’ incomes by better protecting against floods, the properties and lives of many people living in predominantly rural areas of the Huai River Basin. This would be done through the provision of improved flood control and drainage works and strengthened institutional capability to effectively reduce the severity and impact of flooding and water logging in the project areas (Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces).

3. Preliminary project description

3.1. The Project would focus on (i) structural measures involving rehabilitation/modernization and strengthening of works for flood control (dikes, waterway improvements, pumping stations, bridges, water control structures) and drainage (drainage canals, sluice gates, small pumping stations and other associated structures); and (ii) non-structural measures aimed at improving flood forecasting and warning systems through improvements to the acquisition and analysis of data and better decision support systems to give communities advanced warning of impending floods. Included under the non-structural measures would be activities aimed at the top-down institutional strengthening needs of the Huai River Basin Commission (HRBC) and provincial and local government institutions, to ensure financial and physical sustainability of the facilities improved under the Project. Bottom-up measures would aim to ensure the active participation of beneficiaries as an integral part of the institutional strengthening component.

3.2 Options. The traditional approach, which focuses on infrastructure construction only and involves only a top-down approach using government institution for management of operations and maintenance (O&M), has been rejected and replaced with a proposed new approach for integrated flood management and drainage improvement. The new approach would focus on integration of structural and non-structural measures at both river-basin level and local level and involve greater community participation in the design, construction and management of lower-level works. The non-structural measures would include use of weather forecasting to have an early flood warning and disaster assessment system for when a flood could be coming. They would also include greater community involvement, which would be developed through the creation of Farmer Drainage Associations (FDAs) that would assume responsibility for all small works (drainage laterals, gates and pumping stations etc.). This would involve the transfer of ownership and O&M of these small works to the FDAs, with Provincial, Municipality and County level Water Resources Bureaus (WRBs) retaining the responsibility for the O&M of larger works on river and water courses and drainage canals, dikes systems and pumping stations.

3.3. Possible Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Component, which would support the areas of pollution control and environmental protection in the Huai River Basin, is being considered. The objectives of such a component would be to adequately address the pollution/water quality/health dimension of Huai River flooding with innovative and cost effective solutions for reducing land-based pollution. In the past environmental disasters have occurred in association with flooding events in the basin. A huge amount of pollution is discharged and stored in countless places in the basin and it is flushed downstream and further to the Yellow Sea during major flooding events. Jiangsu in particular has suffered greatly from these occurrences. The inclusion of this component fits well with the existing water quality functional responsibilities of the HRBC, who will now develop a GEF proposal for about US$5.0 million.

4. Safeguard policies that might apply

The initial assessment is that the following SGPs may apply: Environmental Assessment, Natural Habitats, Cultural Property, Indigenous Peoples, Involuntary Resettlement, and Safety of Dams. A fuller assessment of the SGPs would be made during project preparation. There are no dams included for construction or rehabilitation in project design. However, an inventory will be prepared by HRBC and the PWRBs that will identify all large dams that supply water or provide flood protection to the project areas. The Borrower is committed to carrying out dam safety assessments of any dams identified.

5. Tentative financing

Source:	($m.)
BORROWER	200
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT	200
Total	400

6. Contact point

Contact: Liping Jiang

Title: Sr Irrigation Engineer

Tel: 5861 7683

Fax: 5861 7800

Email: [email protected]

Location: Beijing, China (IBRD)

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