Railway Efficiency Improvement Project: Report and ...

Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors

Project Number: 49111-005 July 2019

Proposed Loan and Technical Assistance Grant Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: Railway Efficiency Improvement Project

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CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 11 June 2019)

Currency unit ? Sri Lanka rupee/s (SLRe/SLRs) SLRe1.00 = $0.0057 $1.00 = SLRs176.45

ADB EIRR GDP km km2 MOTCA PAM PMU SLGRTTC SLR TA

ABBREVIATIONS

? Asian Development Bank ? economic internal rate of return ? gross domestic product ? kilometer ? square kilometer ? Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation ? project administration manual ? project management unit ? Sri Lanka German Railway Technical Training Center ? Sri Lanka Railways ? technical assistance

NOTES (i) The fiscal year (FY) of the Government of Sri Lanka ends on 31 December. (ii) In this report, "$" refers to United States dollars.

Vice-President Shixin Chen, Operations 1

Director General Hun Kim, South Asia Department (SARD)

Director

Ravi Peri, Transport and Communications Division, SARD

Team leader Team members

Peer reviewer

Johan Georget, Transport Specialist, SARD Laureen Laurito, Senior Social Development Officer (Safeguards), SARD Yang Lu, Transport Specialist, SARD Theresa Mora, Project Analyst, SARD Aruna Nanayakkara, Senior Project Officer (Transport), SARD Vankina Sri Rekha, Principal Counsel, Office of the General Counsel Kirsty Rowan Marcus, Transport Specialist, SARD Yukiko Sakurai, Senior Financial Management Specialist, SARD Dinesh Shiwakoti, Procurement Specialist, Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department Mitzi Vina Tamayo, Operations Assistant, SARD Karma Yangzom, Senior Environment Specialist, SARD Nanyan Zhou, Young Professional, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department Takeshi Fukayama, Transport Specialist, Southeast Asia Department

In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area.

CONTENTS

PROJECT AT A GLANCE

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I.

THE PROPOSAL

II. THE PROJECT

A. Rationale B. Impact and Outcome C. Outputs D. Summary Cost Estimates and Financing Plan E. Implementation Arrangements

III. ATTACHED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

IV. DUE DILIGENCE

A. Technical B. Economic and Financial C. Governance D. Poverty, Social, and Gender E. Safeguards F. Summary of Risk Assessment and Risk Management Plan

V. ASSURANCES AND CONDITIONS

VI. RECOMMENDATION

APPENDIXES 1. Design and Monitoring Framework 2. List of Linked Documents

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