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MONGOLIAUrban Sector Operation
4 June 2014
Tuul Badarch, Senior Project Officer (Infrastructure)
Mongolia Resident MissionAsian Development Bank
• Need for better strategic and long-term planning, infrastructure investment, financial sustainability of service provision, and land-use regulation
• Disparities in urban services: city core apartment areas vs. peripheral ger areas in Ulaanbaatar City
• Environmental degradation in ger areas: sanitation, air pollution, poor access to water, lack of waste collection, and aging facilities
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Major Challenges in Urban Sector
ADB’s operations support government initiatives including economic growth and social inclusion.
• Enhance basic urban service provision especially in water supply, wastewater, and heating
• Improve urban sector management that encourages physical and investment planning, and maintenance of the assets
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Sector Objectives and Operational Priorities
ADB Sector experience • ADB has been a leading agency in funding both technical
assistance and loan projects in the urban sector with a primary objective of supporting the government in achieving the MDGs
• Since 1997, ADB had approved grant and loan-financed investment projects amounting to $92.1 million, one mulitranche financing facility of $163 million , 14 technical assistance projects amounting to $10.0 million. Two grants from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction amounting to $3.7 million for assisting ger areas and remote rural communities were also implemented.
• ADB’s urban sector program has sought to achieve (i) improved living conditions for the urban poor, (ii) improved access of the poor to basic services, (iii) better urban environmental conditions, and (iv) improved urban planning.
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Active and Proposed Lending Program
Project NameAmoun
t ($ mil)
Fund type
Date of Approval
Date of Closing
Active L2301: Urban Development Sector (Original +Supplementary)
35.23 ADF Dec 2006Nov 2009
Jul 2015
G0204: Southeast Gobi Urban and Border Town Development Project
15.00 ADF Apr 2010 May 2015
G0380/L3098/L3099: Ulaanbaatar Urban Services and Ger Area Development Investment Program - Tranche 1
50.00 UEIF/ADF/OCR
Dec 2014 Jun 2018
Pipeline
Darkhan Wastewater Management Improvement Project
18.00 ADF Sep 2014
Ulaanbaatar Urban Services and Ger Area Development Investment Program - Tranche 2 and 3
113.00 ADF/OCR
TOTAL 231.23
ADF = Asian Development Fund, MFF = multitranche financing facility, MNRM = Mongolia Resident Mission, OCR = ordinary capital resources, UEIF = Urban Environmental Infrastructure Fund, UFPF = Urban Financing Partnership Facility.
Key lessons from ADB’s prior support
• Institutional weakness is a key constrain;
• Local governments are unable to borrow from international financial institutions and other lenders limiting their access to funds for urban development;
• lack of project management and procurement capacity should be addressed during project preparation;
• short construction period needs to be a factor when the implementation schedule is formulated;
• projects have had only limited and variable success in raising tariffs for urban services, resulting in underfunding of operation and maintenance.
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Potential Future Areas of Focus
• Support the government’s new priorities• Strengthening of institutional capacity to
undertake reforms urban sector• Introduction of innovative and affordable
technologies and mechanisms in urban infrastructure development
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