PHN 1991 Sector Review _58_ sectoral strategies and reform program management: a framework and action plan for new burden-sharing arrangements, a medium-term strategic plan for hospital development, hospital architectural masterplans and reform program management. (b) Improvement of service quality. The project would support: (i) the replacement of priority medical equipment; (ii) the strengthening of hospital maintenance units; and (iii) improvements in patient accommodations, hospital hygiene, and handling of medical wastes.

# _Yemen - Emergency Recovery Project_

The objective of the project is to support a set of core components from the ERP that will help meet immediate retarnee-induced needs for essential social services, maintain basic nutritional levels, and expand housing facilities and social infrastructure. Actions will be focused on the geographic centers of concentration of returnees and will help to create employment opportunities associated with project expenditures. In addition, the project is expected to provide the framework for mobilizing bilateral and other multi-lateral support for the ERP Within the above objectives, components for the ERC have been selected on the basis of: (i) maximum potential assistance to returnees, (ii) capacity for emergency implementation, and (iii) Government's preferences and other sources of aid available for expanding social services. The project will provide financing for the following: (a) Expanding social infrastructure through: procurement of key equipment, materials, and training, for: (i) the labor intensive construction and maintenance of 410 km of priority and economically viable secondary and feeder roads related to centers of concentration of returnees (US$22.8 million); and (ii) the provision of 2,500 serviced sites for housing construction by returnees (US$9.4 million). (b) Strengthening essential social services through: expansion of existing education facilities (construction of 420 classrooms), equipment, materials and teacher training construction of, to incremental meet part of the increased demands from returnees and to partially compensate for shortages of expatriate teachers (US$17.0 million). (c) Supporting agricultural activities through: provision of gabion baskets (to help in land and water conservation), as well as supplies of seeds, chemicals, fertilizers and spare parts for farm machinery, and feedstuff and veterinary products, to help maintain crop and livestock production, thereby reducing the need for incremental food imports and helping to ensure basic nutritional standards for returnees, a majority of whom have returned to rural areas (US$9.7 million,. (d) Strengthening program management through: equipment, vehicles, training and operating expenses and technical assistance (12 staff months) for planning and procurement (US$0.6 million). The project would be fully implemented within three years, with components being specifically designed to create temporary employment for returnees. All construction would be restricted to small, simple structures, for which plans or models already exist, and with emphasis on quick implementation and wide distribution of benefits to centers of concentration. A map of ROY (IBRD 22921R) is attached to the report.

# LAC Region

# _Vl Salvador - Social Sector Rehabilitation Project_

The objectives of the proposed project would be to: (a) improve the delivery of basic social services targeted to some 80 of the most disadvantaged municipalities. Selected priority areas are based on the severity of malnutrition among children, according to the National Nutrition Survey conducted by the Institute for Nutrition for Central America and Panama (INCAP), and low supply of health and education services; and (b) strengthen the institutional capabilities of MIPLAN, MOH and MOE to efficiently plan and manage the delivery of social programs.