technical cooperation operations

Donor funded technical cooperation (TC) assignments help to prepare the way for EBRD projects, to strengthen public institutions and to improve standards of corporate governance. TC assignments are selected for evaluation based on their potential for generating lessons that could be of benefit to new operations. Recent evaluations include an assignment preparing electricity distribution companies for privatisation and an assignment assisting with the upgrade of a national road network.

Project Completion Reports, which are prepared by the Bank’s operational teams, are reviewed by EvD to determine whether the assignment provided value for money. The evaluation aims to improve the quality of TC assignments over the longer term

• Energy efficiency and renewable energy credit line and residential energy efficiency credit line  (0.3Mb) - April 2008
  This report reviews a TC operation that innovatively combines energy sector restructuring with promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy.  Involving participating banks and consultants, the TC proved successful in showing the benefits of rational energy use and building expertise among particpating banks.  Key issues concern the use of marketing services, the provison of timely information to the client and the preventation of fraud and corruption.
  
  
• Azerbaijan power sector  (0.2Mb) - March 2008
  The project, which focused on the modernisation of the country's power sector, proved particularly challenging due to the lack of transparency, accountability and corporate governance in the state-controlled power sector.  
  
  
• The Surgut municipal services development programme  (0.3Mb) - February 2008
  This report pertains to three TC operations which were designed to support the Surgut Invesment Project.  The rationale of the project was to substantially improve the provision of municipal water and district heating services in terms of increased operational safety, reliability and efficiency.
  
  
• Port authority  (0.3Mb) - February 2008
  Assessment of a TC operation concerned with assisting a port authority to improve and develop a port and the surrounding area.  The report highlights both the successful and the less successful activities.
  
  
• Belgrade municipal infrastructure reconstruction programme  (0.5Mb) - August 2007
  This report examines a complex multi-donor project comprising of a loan to improve public transport, water supply and district heating.  The report scrutinises the function and effectiveness of the project's nine technical cooperation operations, which addressed issues from environmental due diligene to public participation.
  
  
• Investment in micro finance bank  (0.1Mb) - May 2007
  The project aimed to establish and operate the first commercial microfinance bank in the country.  The rationale was to foster the growth of micro, small and medium sized enterprises and to facilitate the diversification of the primarily oil-based economy.
  
  
• MSME sector development in Belarus  (0.4Mb) - April 2007
  The report looks to the effectiveness of a TC programme applied to financial intermediaries lending to MSMEs in a context of adverse policy environment.
  
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• Water and waste water supply infrastructure in various municipalities  (0.1Mb) - March 2007
  The rationale was to ensure in a systematic manner adequate monitoring of large complex municipal inftrastructure projects, which involved several parties and different borrowers.  It therefore required significant coordination for the implementation.
  
  
• Road Sector Reform in the Russian Federation  (0.5Mb) - January 2007
  This is an evaluation of a TC programme designed to improve the organisational structure and the legal framework of a road sector facing continuous administrative and policy changes.
  
  
• Promoting municipal infrastructure investment  (0.6Mb) - June 2006
  Assisting the City of Warsaw in developing its underground system through a Public Private Partnership project with a boroader focus on exploring new avenues for the financing of infrastructure projects.
  
  
• Technical Co-operation operation for privatisation of electricity distribution  (2.5Mb) - April 2006
  Evaluation of two technical cooperation pogrammes in connection with the restructuring of Bulgaria's power sector. Ultimately, it is hoped this will meet EU accession criteria.
  
  
• Three Technical Co-operation Operations in Polish Roads  (0.9Mb) - January 2006
  Evaluation of three TC's performed in order to prepare a Road Network Management pilot project suitable for EBRD financing.
  
  

Note: Confidential content has been removed. Information is based on observations made at the time of the evaluation and does not take into account that a company's situation may have changed after the evaluation took place.