World Bank Agriculture and Rural Development Program in Serbia

And Synergies with Other IFIs and Government Institutions

World Bank Program in Agriculture and Rural Development in Serbia Addresses issues key to global competitiveness Supports integration with the EU Five Projects:

Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project GEF Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction

Project Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation Project Rural Business Environment Project GEF In-Situ Agro-biodiversity Conservation Project

Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project Objectives:

To increase confidence and lower transaction costs by building a more efficient property registration and cadastre system, with the purpose of contributing to the development of effective real property markets;

To support the phased transfer of the legal property registration into the Real Estate Cadastre from the currently operating in some of the municipal courts in 20% of the Serbia;

To support one of Serbia’s possible EU accession requirements, of efficient markets including real property markets.

Components: Operational Development and Support Capacity Building and Institutional Strengthening

Real Estate Cadastre and Registration Project

Total Cost: US$ 56 m +

Financing: IDA: US$ 30m GOS: US$ 9.5 m EU / EAR: US$ 12 m Sweden: US$ 0.8 m Germany: US$ 1.5 m Norway: US$ 2.5 m France, Japan, Slovenia

Project effectively coordinates donor efforts to help build a single cadastre and registration system

Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation Project

Objectives: To increase agricultural productivity

through support to high priority rehabilitation of drainage and irrigation infrastructure;

To reduce the risk of damage from flooding to land, crops, property, infrastructure as well as reducing risk of life loss from flooding in project areas; and

To improve water resources management and strengthen the associated water resource management institutions and policies.

Components: Rehabilitation and Improvement of

Drainage and Flood Control Infrastructure Minor Irrigation Development Program Institutional Strengthening and Capacity

Building, and Project Management and Monitoring

Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation Project Total cost: US$ 32.7 m

Financing: IDA/IBRD: US$ 25 m GOS: US$ 7.7 m

Implementation period: 2006 - 2010

Coordination with donors: EAR focusing on medium-term

legal and institutional aspects of water resources management, Bank on urgent investment needs

CIDA funding for detailed social and environmental assessment

GEF Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction Project

Total cost: US$ 22.7 million, Financing:

GEF: US$ 9.0m, Beneficiaries: US$ 8.6m, SIDA: US$ 4.0 m; GoS: US$ 0.6 m; EAR: US$ 0.1 m.

Implementation period: 2005 – 2009

Objective: To reduce nutrient flows into the Danube and its tributaries from selected livestock farms and slaughterhouses.

Five components: Support to Policy and Regulatory

Reform, Investments in Nutrient Reduction Water and Soil Quality Monitoring Public Awareness Raising and

Replication Strategy Project Management and Impact

Monitoring.

Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction Project Benefits:

Reduced negative impact of pollution on public health, biodiversity Enhanced competitiveness of meat industry through improved environmental

compliance Financial benefits from manure recycling to land Help to harmonization with EU Nitrate and Animal By-Products Directives

SIDA and EAR co-financing Synergies

Complements EU/ EAR, Sweden and Finland initiatives on environmental management

Complements MAFWM efforts to strengthen agricultural and veterinary inspections

Coordinates with Norway initiative to clean up Great Backa Canal

Contributes to MAFWM and MSEP cooperation on environmentally friendly agriculture

Rural Business Environment Project

Objectives: To promote the competitiveness of the Serbian farms and agro-processing

enterprises on global markets by assisting them in accessing markets, credit, and relevant technology and advice; and

To alleviate rural poverty by providing matching grants for selected activities designed to boost employment and improve access to services by rural communities.

Rural Business Environment Project

Total cost: TBD Financing:

IBRD loan: US$ 25 – 40 m, GoS: TBD EAR: TBD

Implementation period: 2007 - 2011

Four components: Support to increasing farmers' and agro-processors' access to markets, credit and

knowledge Rural development grants to rural communities, enterprises and associations Support for institutional harmonization with the EU Project management and Monitoring.

Rural Business Environment Project

Synergies Existing and planned donor activities:

Rural finance (EBRD, EIA, KfW, EAR, USAID… ) Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems (FAO, USAID, SIDA,..) Access to markets (EBRD, USAID, …)

Rural development grant component to build on EAR supported Paying Agency Complement EAR funded activities to reform sanitary and phyto-sanitary system Collaboration with Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection on AKIS

In-Situ Agro-biodiversity Conservation Project

Total Project Cost: US$ 10 m Financing:

GEF: US$ 5 m, Co-financing from IBRD loan: US$ 5 m

Implementation period: 2007 – 2011

ObjectiveTo support the conservation of the globally important eco-system of the Stara Planina Nature Park and the endemic endangered flora and fauna species it harbors by promoting traditional sustainable and biodiversity-sensitive agricultural practices.

Five components: Support to policy development and planning for agro-biodiversity conservation. Developing incentives for in situ agro-biodiversity conservation. Institutional capacity building. Raising public awareness and replication strategy Project management and impact monitoring.

In-Situ Agro-biodiversity Conservation Project

Synergies Builds on environmentally friendly, local NGO implemented rural

development activities funded by Switzerland and KfW Builds on protected area planning work by the Nature Protection

Agency

Will support cooperation with Bulgaria on Stara Planina Peace Park