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.
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
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)
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
June 2010
New overhauled edition of the 2001 toolkit.
50+ examples
Next:
• Spanish Edition (with IADB)• French and Russian (tbc)
Targeted dissemination and training
activities in sub-regions to be undertaken in 2011 (Latin America,
Africa)
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…
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.
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.