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World Bank Agriculture and Rural Development Program in Serbia
And Synergies with Other IFIs and Government Institutions
World Bank Program in Agriculture and Rural Development in Serbia Addresses issues key to global competitiveness Supports integration with the EU Five Projects:
Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project GEF Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction
Project Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation Project Rural Business Environment Project GEF In-Situ Agro-biodiversity Conservation Project
Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project Objectives:
To increase confidence and lower transaction costs by building a more efficient property registration and cadastre system, with the purpose of contributing to the development of effective real property markets;
To support the phased transfer of the legal property registration into the Real Estate Cadastre from the currently operating in some of the municipal courts in 20% of the Serbia;
To support one of Serbia’s possible EU accession requirements, of efficient markets including real property markets.
Components: Operational Development and Support Capacity Building and Institutional Strengthening
Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project
Total Cost: US$ 56 m +
Financing: IDA: US$ 30m GOS: US$ 9.5 m EU / EAR: US$ 12 m Sweden: US$ 0.8 m Germany: US$ 1.5 m Norway: US$ 2.5 m France, Japan, Slovenia
Project effectively coordinates donor efforts to help build a single cadastre and registration system
Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation Project
Objectives: To increase agricultural productivity
through support to high priority rehabilitation of drainage and irrigation infrastructure;
To reduce the risk of damage from flooding to land, crops, property, infrastructure as well as reducing risk of life loss from flooding in project areas; and
To improve water resources management and strengthen the associated water resource management institutions and policies.
Components: Rehabilitation and Improvement of
Drainage and Flood Control Infrastructure Minor Irrigation Development Program Institutional Strengthening and Capacity
Building, and Project Management and Monitoring
Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation Project Total cost: US$ 32.7 m
Financing: IDA/IBRD: US$ 25 m GOS: US$ 7.7 m
Implementation period: 2006 - 2010
Coordination with donors: EAR focusing on medium-term
legal and institutional aspects of water resources management, Bank on urgent investment needs
CIDA funding for detailed social and environmental assessment
GEF Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction Project
Total cost: US$ 22.7 million, Financing:
GEF: US$ 9.0m, Beneficiaries: US$ 8.6m, SIDA: US$ 4.0 m; GoS: US$ 0.6 m; EAR: US$ 0.1 m.
Implementation period: 2005 – 2009
Objective: To reduce nutrient flows into the Danube and its tributaries from selected livestock farms and slaughterhouses.
Five components: Support to Policy and Regulatory
Reform, Investments in Nutrient Reduction Water and Soil Quality Monitoring Public Awareness Raising and
Replication Strategy Project Management and Impact
Monitoring.
Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction Project Benefits:
Reduced negative impact of pollution on public health, biodiversity Enhanced competitiveness of meat industry through improved environmental
compliance Financial benefits from manure recycling to land Help to harmonization with EU Nitrate and Animal By-Products Directives
SIDA and EAR co-financing Synergies
Complements EU/ EAR, Sweden and Finland initiatives on environmental management
Complements MAFWM efforts to strengthen agricultural and veterinary inspections
Coordinates with Norway initiative to clean up Great Backa Canal
Contributes to MAFWM and MSEP cooperation on environmentally friendly agriculture
Rural Business Environment Project
Objectives: To promote the competitiveness of the Serbian farms and agro-processing
enterprises on global markets by assisting them in accessing markets, credit, and relevant technology and advice; and
To alleviate rural poverty by providing matching grants for selected activities designed to boost employment and improve access to services by rural communities.
Rural Business Environment Project
Total cost: TBD Financing:
IBRD loan: US$ 25 – 40 m, GoS: TBD EAR: TBD
Implementation period: 2007 - 2011
Four components: Support to increasing farmers' and agro-processors' access to markets, credit and
knowledge Rural development grants to rural communities, enterprises and associations Support for institutional harmonization with the EU Project management and Monitoring.
Rural Business Environment Project
Synergies Existing and planned donor activities:
Rural finance (EBRD, EIA, KfW, EAR, USAID… ) Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems (FAO, USAID, SIDA,..) Access to markets (EBRD, USAID, …)
Rural development grant component to build on EAR supported Paying Agency Complement EAR funded activities to reform sanitary and phyto-sanitary system Collaboration with Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection on AKIS
In-Situ Agro-biodiversity Conservation Project
Total Project Cost: US$ 10 m Financing:
GEF: US$ 5 m, Co-financing from IBRD loan: US$ 5 m
Implementation period: 2007 – 2011
ObjectiveTo support the conservation of the globally important eco-system of the Stara Planina Nature Park and the endemic endangered flora and fauna species it harbors by promoting traditional sustainable and biodiversity-sensitive agricultural practices.
Five components: Support to policy development and planning for agro-biodiversity conservation. Developing incentives for in situ agro-biodiversity conservation. Institutional capacity building. Raising public awareness and replication strategy Project management and impact monitoring.
In-Situ Agro-biodiversity Conservation Project
Synergies Builds on environmentally friendly, local NGO implemented rural
development activities funded by Switzerland and KfW Builds on protected area planning work by the Nature Protection
Agency
Will support cooperation with Bulgaria on Stara Planina Peace Park
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