Puraneguma 

Major Functions

• New water supply connections for 40,000 families and continuous supply of pure potable water for 60, 0000 families to prevent from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).
• To improve infrastructure facilities at divisional level for better service delivery.
• To promote reorganizational policies within Local Governance.

Nawagaththegama Weekly Fair

Naula Multi-purpose building

Greater Colombo Waste Water Management Project  

Component 01 – Rehabilitation and upgrade selected problematic and critical sewers within the Colombo Municipal Council area (10Km), carry out CCTV investigation and obtain condition assessment.

Component 02 - To construct 06 pumping stations and improve 02 pumping stations. To establish the main supervision unit connecting the SCADA system to the drainage division of Colombo Municipal Council. To construct working unit established with mechanical and scientific methods and construct pressure pump lines.

Major Activities

• Renovation of the waste water pump houses within Colombo Municipality.
• Renovation of waste water drains with less capacity. Renovation of the major drainage lines that release waste water to deep sea.
• Provision of necessary machinery and equipment required for the maintenance of waste water drainage system.
• Institutional and capacity development of staff of the waste water division of Colombo Municipal Council.

Expected results

• Creating an urban environment friendly for living though the improvement of waste water management.
• Providing better live status for the public within Colombo city and the suburbs.
• Improve the quality of marine and land water.

Greater Colombo Waste Water & Waste Water Management Improvement Investment Programme - Project 2 & 3   

The Investment Project on Greater Colombo Waste Water Project has been formulated with the aims of Efficient and Continuous water supply and proper waste water service within Colombo municipality.

It is expected to continue the repairs of Colombo Waste Water Drainage Project being implemented under multi-purpose development investment project of Asian Development Bank and establishment of a waste water drainage project as suitable for the future development activities of Colombo South through the financial provisions made for the improvement of water and waste water facilities in Colombo region, establishment of a waste water drainage project for the areas that don’t have that facility and to refine water before releasing to sea. Government of Sri Lanka obtains supplementary fund for this project from European Investment Bank (EIB).

Construction of Rural Bridges Project

Total number of 1,798 bridges are constructed island-wide under this project as Stage I (210 Bridges), Stage II (868 bridges) and Stage III (720 Bridges) and the objectives of the project are;

• To increase the mobility and enhance the quality of living standards of the Sri Lankan population with the aim of increasing economic growth of the communities and the country.
• To increase public safety in rural communities
• To utilize the untapped and unexploited resources in rural areas.
• To upgrade development of isolated areas through easy access.

This project was commenced in 2013 and 210 bridges under Stage I was completed in 2016 and the total cost borne in connection with this was Rs. 7, 372.87 Mn.

First stage of this project has been completed. Construction works of 329 incomplete bridges under the second state and 353 incomplete bridges under the third stage are in progress.

Before	After
Kuragammana Hapolagama Bridge - Bibila, Moneragala
Before	After
Cross bridge of Handugala Jabaraketiya

Primary Healthcare System Strengthening Project (PSSP)

Project Background

Primary Healthcare System Strengthening Project (PSSP) is a project jointly implemented by the Ministry of Health and the State Ministry of Provincial Councils & Local Government Affairs under the World Bank Funds of USD 200 Mn. This project is scheduled to be implemented from 2018 to December 2023 December.

Under this project, this Ministry plays the primary role of providing required financial provisions to uplift necessary access and infrastructure require to provide quality primary healthcare service for each citizen in Sri Lanka and proper supervision and coordination of these activities and thereby improve primary healthcare to minimize the disparities at regional level.

Project Development Objective(PDO)

The primary objective of this project is to identify the people who are in the risk of non-communicable diseases and control and manage such diseases while improving the quality of primary healthcare service in Sri Lanka.

Restructuring and Enhancements implemented Parallel to this Project

• To attach every citizen of Sri Lanka to a Primary Medical Care Institute and provide a quality medical service.
• To provide a Personal Health Record (PHR) for every adult.
• To furnish an essential package identified through all the primary level hospitals.
• To introduce a protocol which consists of service conditions and proper conduct in order to equally distribute the said services from each institute.
• To introduce healthy lifestyle clinics.
• To maintain proper integration among rural hospitals and Medical Officers of Health.
• To formalize referral for higher level treatment.
• To increase financial provisions for primary care treatment.
• To strengthen service supply networks including medical equipment
• To expand laboratory technical services on identifying risk factors.
• To expand citizen participation for these services.

General Education Modernization Programme (GEM)

Project Objective

Enhance quality and strengthen stewardship of the general education system

Project Description

The World Bank funded General Education Modernization (GEM) Project is aimed at enhancing quality and strengthening stewardship of primary and secondary education. The project components are aligned with the Education Sector Development Framework and Program of the Government of Sri Lanka. This project has three components i.e.

Component 1

Enhancing Quality and Strengthening Stewardship of Primary and Secondary Education which aims to support the implementation of activities aims at enhancing quality and strengthening stewardship of primary and secondary education. It has following six sub-components

1. Curriculum Modernization and Diversification
2. Teacher Development
3. System Level Quality Assessment
4. Enhanced Program for School Improvement
5. Strengthening Education Leadership and Management
6. Promoting Social Equity and Inclusion through Education

Component 2

Project Operations and Technical Support

Component 3

Contingent Emergency Response

Project Beneficiaries

The main beneficiaries of the project will be school students. A further important set of direct beneficiaries will be the academic and managerial staff of the schools. In addition, over the medium term, the project will benefit technical education and vocational training institutions and higher education institutions, as these will get better prepared entrants into their institutions. In the long term, public and private sector employers will also benefit as they will be able to employ better educated individuals. Finally, the project will also benefit the industries and firms that provide goods and services under the project.

Project Implementation

The project is implemented by the Ministry of Education at the national level, and the Provincial Councils at the provincial level. The Ministry of Public Services, Provincial Councils and Local Government (MPSPCLG) is the coordinating Ministry for the provincial component of the project. The PMSPCLG will coordinate and facilitate GEM implementation by the Provincial Councils.

Rural Infrastructure Development Project in Emerging Regions (RIDEP)

Project Objective

The key objective of this project is to uplift the improve the identified rural roads, supply potable water and enhancement of small and medium scale irrigations of Northern, Eastern, North Central and Uva Provinces and thereby uplift the economy and to minimize regional disparities in existing economic development.

According to the Government's 2015 Economic Policy and Budget Statements for 2016 and 2017, the objectives are to rehabilitate the areas affected due to adverse circumstances for a period of 30 years, to reduce the disparity in development in those areas and reduce poverty through economic development in the underdeveloped provinces as a whole.

According to the Economic policy statement of Government in 2015 and Budget speech of 2016 and 2017, it was highlighted that the necessity of continues investment to conflict affected are and balanced regional development taking social inclusion in to account.

Project period

Nearly seven year’s period from July 2017 to December 2023

Project Area

Northern Province, North Central Province, Uva province and Eastern Province

Criteria for selecting Project area (Provincial councils and local authorities

GDP Share index at provincial level / poverty levels of Pradeshiya Sabhas / Local Authorities.

Project Activities

• Sub Projects - 524
• Rehabilitation of rural roads - 275
• Construction of Irrigation Facilities and Rehabilitation - 151
• Drinking Water Supply - 98

Activities in 2016

• Fact finding Mission visited in September 2016 its report was signed by all the relevant parties
• Loan appraisal Mission will be visited in December
• Procurement will be from April to September 2017
• Due date of commencement of civil works - October 2017

List of Sub-projects in Irrigation Component Implementation with year 2021

Transport Connectivity and Assest Management Project-Provincial Road Development Project (TCAMP-PRDP)

Introduction

The project was initially funded by the World Bank in 2016, with the Ministry of Petroleum Resources Development providing US $ 125 Mn. for the rehabilitation of 52 km of the Ja-Ela-Chilaw road. However, since expenses were not occurred up to 2018 on behalf of the proposed works the project was restructure and a decision was made to rehabilitate selected roads in the 9 provinces in Sri Lanka. Accordingly it is intended to utilize US$109 Mn. out of that amount for the implementation of the TCAMP and to implement the project as per the project restructuring document.

Accordingly an amount of US$ 10 Mn.will be granted for the development of selected roads covering each province.

Criteria used to select suitable for improvement

Accessibility for public utilities, facilitation for transportation of agricultural output and input, connectivity to the inter-provincial road network, being a bus route, access road for schools, health institutes and government institutes, could be used for tourism, useful for industrial estates / investment zones, access to economic centres, use as an alternative route in case of disaster and using to reduce traffic congestion.

However, widening of existing road and acquisition of related property is not undertaken by this provincial road development project.

A Project Management Unit has been established under this Ministry for the implementation of the TCAMP and Project Implementation Units have been established in each province for project implementation and a Consultancy Units have been established to monitor project activities at provincial level.

The officers presently serving in the Provincial Road Development Department and the Road Development Authority and outside officers have been recruited for these units in accordance with the relevant recruitment procedures.

It has been planned to design contract packages in two stages for selected roads and two phases for each stage covering all the provinces and to implement the developments.

Local Development Support Project

Introduction

With the completion of the North East Local Government Service Improvement Project (NELSIP) in 2017 which was implemented to strengthen the local government sector, preliminary works of the “Local Development Assistance Project” (LDSP) were started in 2018 based on its results with the objective of further strengthening the local government sector . The project agreement between the World Bank and the Government was signed on 04.05.2019 to obtain a World Bank loan for this project and the project commenced on 30.06.2019.

This project is supervised by the Ministry of Provincial Councils and Local Government. Its project activities are carried out through the relevant Provincial Councils and sub-projects are implemented by relevant Local Government Authorities. Therefore, the Project Coordinating Unit for Project Management has been established under this Ministry while four Project Implementation Units have been established in the relevant Provincial Councils.

Project Objective

To ensure a responsible and accountable public service of Local Authorities by strengthening their capabilities and improving their infrastructure facilities.

Project Areas

This project covers all the districts of Northern, Eastern, North Central and Uva provinces. Accordingly, this project handles 4 provinces, 12 districts and 134 Local Authorities.

Project Period

The project will be implemented from June 2019 and December 2022.

Financial Contribution for the Project

• World Bank Loans - US$ 70.00 Mn.
• Grants of European Society - US$ 23.65 Mn.
• Contribution of GOSL - US$ 7.00 Mn.
• Total Project Investment - US$ 100.65 Mn

Sub-projects to be implemented under the project

An effective project that include sub –projects such as rural roads, rural bridges / culverts, rural weekly fairs/ shopping centres, waste water drainage systems, health centres, children’s parks, pre schools, public vehicle parks, multipurpose buildings and water supply projects which comes under the subject of Local Governance.

Project Components

This project comprises of 5 major components viz; strengthening Local Authority planning mechanism, improving services and economic infrastructure of Local Authorities, organizational development, project management and responsiveness at emergency situations.

Implementation of the components:

• Strengthening Local Authority Planning Mechanism

  Under this component, a four year participatory development plan will be prepared for the Local Authorities. This will be done at the divisional level with the participation of the people, officials and the political authorities having understood needs at Local Authority level. Local Authority Development Plan is prepared using the need assessment. These plans are updated annually.

• Improving Services and Economic Infrastructure of Local Authorities

  This component disburses funds to local authorities through the relevant provincial councils. Major sub-projects identified under the above component will be implemented using those funds. Funds were released for each Local Authority at two occasions; March and September this year following a specific mechanism. In addition, an amount of Rs. 360 will be granted to each province under this component to implement economic infrastructure development projects.

• Organizational Development

  Capacity development of human and physical resources is carried out mainly under this component. Accordingly, capacity building training and organizational development programmes are implemented at the local authority, district, provincial and national levels. It has been planned to implement various programmes, especially in the areas of designing, procurement, finance, social and environmental, redressing grievances, engineering, and technology.

• Project Management

  To facilitate for project implementation and auditing.

• Emergency responses

  Under this component funds are provided at emergencies, epidemics and natural catastrophes such as floods and droughts.

•  Environment and Social Management Framework for the Local Development Support Project (LDSP)
•  Resettlement Policy Framework for the Local Development Support Project (LDSP)

Supplying Fire Fighting Equipment