Document of The World Bank Report No: ICCR97624 IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETION AND RESULTS REPORT (TF011853) ON A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF US$3.83 MILLION EQUIVALENT TO THE GOVERNMENT OF MALDIVES FOR A WETLAND CONSERVATION & CORAL REEF MONITORING FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT June 23, 2015 Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice Maldives Country Management Unit South Asia Region
Indicator Baseline Value Original Target Values (from approval documents) Formally Revised Target Values Actual Value Achieved at Completion or Target Years Indicator 1: Number of participatory planning workshops involving local councillors and community stakeholder groups Value (Quantitative or qualitative) 0 6 Not applicable 6 Date achieved 09/15/2011 09/30/2014 11/30/2014 Comments (including % achievement) 100% achievement. 6 participatory consultations were held with local councillors and community stakeholders in Hithadoo and Fuvahmulah. Community Advisory Boards have been formed for management of wetlands in Fuvahmulah and Hithadoo. Indicator Baseline Value Original Target Values (from approval documents) Formally Revised Target Values Actual Value Achieved at Completion or Target Years Indicator 2: Number of ecotourism facilities Value (Quantitative or qualitative) 0 1 Not applicable Partly completed Date achieved 09/15/2011 09/30/2014 11/30/2014 Comments (including % achievement) By end of project, ecotourism works were partly completed in Hithadhoo due to insufficient funds (funds were transferred from this activity to the drinking water works in Ukulhas) and delays in supply of environmentally certified wood.
Indicator Baseline Value Original Target Values (from approval documents) Formally Revised Target Values Actual Value Achieved at Completion or Target Years Indicator 3: Number of Best Practice / Learning / Policy note Value (Quantitative or qualitative) 0 1 Not applicable 1 Date achieved 09/15/2011 09/30/2014 11/30/2014 Comments (including % achievement) 100% achieved. Final report on Best Practices in management of wetlands was submitted by Hidria/Aquatica for Hithadoo and Fuvahmulah was reviewed and accepted by the PMU Indicator Baseline Value Original Target Values (from approval documents) Formally Revised Target Values Actual Value Achieved at Completion or Target Years Indicator 4: Number of geo- hydrological assessment reports Value (Quantitative or qualitative) 0 1 Not applicable 1 Date achieved 09/15/2011 09/30/2014 Comments (including % achievement) 100% achievement. Geo-hydrological assessment report was produced for Fuvahmulah.
Indicator Baseline Value Original Target Values (from approval documents) Formally Revised Target Values Actual Value Achieved at Completion or Target Years Indicator 5: Percentage completion of functional rain water harvesting structures Value (Quantitative or qualitative) 0 100% Not applicable 100% Date achieved 09/15/2011 09/30/2014 11/30/2014 Comments (including % achievement) 100% achieved. Rain-water harvesting and RO-Desalination based water supply system with solar power has been commissioned in Ukulhas and handed over to STELCO who are awaiting approval of tariff by MEE to start operations. Indicator Baseline Value Original Target Values (from approval documents) Formally Revised Target Values Actual Value Achieved at Completion or Target Years Indicator 6: Percentage of local councils trained in climate change adaptation Value (Quantitative or qualitative) 0 30% 229 persons from 10 local councils trained Date achieved 09/15/2011 09/30/2014 06/12/2014 11/30/2014 Comments (including % achievement) 158% achievement of target. There are 21 atoll councils in Maldives. The project planned to cover 30% of them, but actually managed to cover 10 of them leading to nearly 50% of them being covered under the training. Indicator Baseline Value Original Target Values (from approval documents) Formally Revised Target Values Actual Value Achieved at Completion or Target Years Indicator 7: Number of datasets
Value (Quantitative or qualitative) 0 1 time dataset for each of 5 resorts for each agreed protocol on the web with key data available to NGIS NA Partly completed for baseline data only. Date achieved 09/15/2011 09/30/2014 11/30/2014 Comments (including % achievement) 82% achievement. Only baseline data was collected by the training agency from 5 resorts which have been uploaded into the CoralDatabase web portal. Indicator Baseline Value Original Target Values (from approval documents) Formally Revised Target Values Actual Value Achieved at Completion or Target Years Indicator 8: Number of functional decision support systems (tools) Value (Quantitative or qualitative) 0 2 2 Date achieved 09/15/2011 09/30/2014 11/30/2014 Comments (including % achievement) 100% achievement. CoralDatabase and the Bleach Risk Assessment Tool (BRAT) were both completed and ready to use. Indicator Baseline Value Original Target Values (from approval documents) Formally Revised Target Values Actual Value Achieved at Completion or Target Years Indicator 9: Number of Best Practice / Learning / Policy notes
Value (Quantitative or qualitative) 0 3 0 Date achieved 09/15/2011 09/30/2014 11/30/2014 Comments (including % achievement) 0% achievement. No policy notes were produced or disseminated. RATINGS OF PROJECT PERORMANCE IN Implementation Status and Results Reports (ISRs) NA. RESTRUCTURING Date Amount Disbursed Reasons for Restructuring NA NA NA
1.3 Strengthen local government capacity to mainstream climate change Percentage of Local Councils trained in climate change adaptation Percentage of local councils 30% 30% Nearly 50% of the 21 atoll councils were covered in the training. In all 229 persons from 10 atoll councils were trained on climate change adaptation. Coral Reef Monitoring 2.1 Training and capacity building Developed and tested training module for coral reef monitoring and trained government and resort staff No. of resorts trained 5 5 Staff of 5 resorts and 3 government staff were trained. 2.2 Monitoring coral reefs Protocol derived datasets developed by at least 5 resorts Number of datasets 1 time dataset for each of 5 resorts for each agreed protocol on the web with key data available to NGIS 0 No follow-on data set was collected by any of the resorts after receiving training. 2.3 technology platform (‘the Coral Reef Monitoring Functional decision support systems on coral reef monitoring available on the website Number of functional decision support systems (tools) 2 2 Both the CoralDatabase and the Bleach Risk Assessment Tool were developed as planned and operational, although, the CoralDatabase
system was reportedly slow to use 2.4 and policy inputs Best Practice / Learning / Policy notes on coral reef monitoring developed in 3 areas through a consultation process and disseminated Number of Best Practice / Learning / Policy notes 3 0 No policy notes were produced or disseminated Annex 3: Economic & Financial Analysis Financial analysis has been carried out for the two largest investments that the project made viz., water supply system in Ukulhas and ecotourism facilities in Hithadoo. Break-even Analysis of Water Supply System in Ukulhas Plant Capacity Unit Value Source of data RWH Capacity m3/year 7665 WAPCOS report RO Plant Capacity m3year 21363.45 Total plant capacity m3/year 29028.45 Demand Unit Value Source of data Domestic m3/year 5475 WAPCOS report, but discounted to reflect conservative estimates Institutional m3/year 456.25 Commercial 1 m3/year 912.5 Commercial 2 m3/year 5475 Total m3/year 12318.75