The World Bank contribution to The World Bank contribution to Almaty POAAlmaty POA

6-th Inter-agency Consultative Group meeting on the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action.

Marc Juhel, Jean-François Arvis

The World Bank

UN HQ New York

November 2, 2010

World Bank POA activities

1. Projects (IBRD-IDA) portfolio

2. Technical assistance: the TFF, partnerships

3. Knowledge production and dissemination

=> Key findings and lessons for the Almaty POA.

1 Projects Portfolio

Portfolio of Almaty related

projects

� To be added

Key active corridor projects

� CEMAC TTF (Douala Corridor)

� West Africa (Tema Ouaga)

� North-South Corridor

� Afghanistan (new tranche customs support), and

Pakistan (national corridor)

� Kazakhstan (Western corridor, customs support)

� Earlier projects: Beira, Mombasa corridors.

� Not LLDC related corridors, Mashreq, Abidjan

Lagos, Caucasus

Not just corridor infrastructure: Project Design & linkages

The objective of improving service delivery

for traders implies to combine:

• Investment in infrastructure.

• Institutional capacity building

• Regulatory reforms

=> Combine and balance support to

investment and TA-CB

2 Technical Assistance

What is the Trade Facilitation Facility (TFF)

Multi-donor trust fund ~ 40MUSD

Managed by the World Bank

Support concrete improvements in TF systems

Help reduce developing countries’ trade costs

Emphasis on Africa/low-income countries

TRADE TRADE

FACILITATIONFACILITATION

FACILITYFACILITY

Beneficiary ownership: request from countries REC

Focus AreasBorder Border

managementmanagementImprovement in border management in a broad sense:

integration of customs, product standards, tax, rules of origin, etc.

TradeTrade

InfrastructureInfrastructure

Improvement in the management of key trade related infrastructure,

especially gateways and multimodal facilities

LogisticsLogistics

servicesservicesImprovement of the quality/professionalism of private logistics services,

through technical/economic regulation and capacity building

RegionalRegional Regional trade facilitation including transit systems

IndicatorsIndicatorsPerformance monitoring and indicators: e.g., data on time, cost,

and reliability along corridors

Action planAction plan Development and implementation of comprehensive action plan

addressing all of the above

Examples of TA relevant to Almaty

� Performance management in customs (Cameroon,

Togo)

� Trade Facilitation CEMAC (improvement of transit

regime on Douala corridor)

� AOE (?) in West Africa

� DRC TTF TA

� Support to SACU

� SSATP; Eastern and Southern Africa corridor

study

Examples of TA (2)

� Hidrovia

� Central America TTF

� Central Asia: TTFA and performance

measurements

� GMS (corridor performance), Vietnam TTF

� In preparation, South Asia (Nepal, India,

Bangladesh), UEMOA

Global support & Partnerships

� Support to the WTO TF negotiating group,

� … Preparation of expanded assistance to address

gaps on the ground.

� Global Facilitation Partnership

� Private Sector Partnerships:

� A4T facilitation with GEA (->IT)

� Private Investor in Africa (-> West Africa Corridors)

� Road Safety Partnerships. (-> East West Central

Africa)

3 Knowledge Production and dissemination

The knowledge Map TTF

Data: LPI

TTFA

Transit

Regional TF Border

Management

Corridor Toolkit

Services

Performance metrics/

Modeling

Logistics costs/performance

Councils observatories

Broad

Specific

Lagging Regions

ongoing

new

New indicatorsConnectivity

Transport Toolkits

Ports, SCS

Data Implementation

To come:

“Connecting to

Market…”

&

Corridor Management

toolkit.

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Targeted dissemination and training

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Data

� LPI

� Jan 2010 Next Jan 2012

� Regional briefs, LLDCs findings in book.

� Others:

� Doing business,

� ICAs

� Corridor data (under development in the corridor

toolkit)

Other knowledge relevant to POA

� Border Management Handbook

� Freight Transport Toolkit

Plus

� Trucking services agreements database

� Port performance and revision of “TRS”

� Revision of the compendium of SSA legal

instruments

� Research Dpt (DEC) outputs: Trade costs,

services, impact of A4T…

=> Key findings and lessons for the Almaty POA

What are the lessons for Transit

Corridors and Almaty POA?

� Not a lack of:

� Infrastructure (road, borders, IT…)

� Legal framework

… which are the traditional areas of focus.

� But lack of implementation mechanism for transit,

dysfunctional markets for logistics services, and

governance.

The potential for cost reduction is… in two key policy areas:

� Transit systems and processes: simplify processes, ensure effective implementation mechanisms, and reduce multiple clearance, differentiated treatment of operators

� Logistics Services market: Align incentives for efficient transport and transit operations, liberalization and competition, phase out anti-competitive practices such as cartels and queuing system wherever possible.

=>Key findings for Almaty POA

No short cut: a challenging

implementation agenda

� Universal set of principles means

� … little potential for tailor made paradigms: “TIR

lite” concept does not work.

� Need to bring Private Sector capacities up to

functional requirements not the reverse

� No technological silver bullet

� Lack of incentives for change means

� … reforms challenged by political economy

constraints, design of exit strategies.