World Bank Projects Documents & Reports 10 March 2008 134 views No Comment  Print This Post  Email This Post

2008-03-10 09:30:00

The project Sri Lanka: Second North East Housing Reconstruction Program is now in the pipeline. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

The North East Housing Reconstruction Program (NEHRP) development objectives remain unchanged from the original Project Appraisal Document. A Joint Donor Needs Assessment in 2003 estimated that 290,615 houses, destroyed during the conflict in the North and East prior to 2002, needed repair. 25,300 more houses in the Batticaloa and Trincomalee districts were badly damaged in 2006. The destruction to housing at different times coincided with significant levels of population displacement and economic deprivation as armed hostilities erupted. 206,995 conflict-damaged houses of the pre-2002 caseload still remain unrepaired. 23,398 houses destroyed in 2006 are yet to be rebuilt. The NEHRP is the only program in Sri Lanka intended to rebuild conflict-damaged houses on the scale envisaged. The parent project was intended to rebuild 34,784 houses. International Development Association (IDA) rated progress towards achieving NEHRP’s development objective and its implementation performance as satisfactory. Implementation complied with IDA fiduciary, social and environment safeguards. The Government of Sri Lanka was keen to scale-up the program given its results in a challenging security environment. An additional 13,615 houses will be rebuilt in the North and East under the IDA additional financing. This will include houses both from the pre-2002 caseload of 206,995 conflict-damaged units; and the 2006 caseload o f 23,398 that need to be repaired. The houses to be rebuilt under the parent project, European Commission parallel-financing and supplemental IDA funds covers 18 percent of the original caseload. The houses to be reconstructed will be distributed across the eight districts in proportion to the incidence of conflict-damage. The most vulnerable households will be identified. The first tranche of Euros 5.8 million in European Commission resources currently supports the reconstruction of 3,514 houses under the parent project. The second tranche of Euros 9.8 million will support the reconstruction of 4,900 houses to complement the IDA additional financing. The 13,615 houses to be covered under IDA and the 7,742 to be rebuilt under the second tranche of the European Commission parallel-financing add up to a total of 21,357 houses.

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