INDIA: Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project

INDIA Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (P007985)
First Implementation Support Mission, June 2011
Activity Current Progress Agreed Next Steps & World Bank Recommendations
Project
Management
1. SPMU office was established; office space refurbished and repaired,
the minimum office infrastructure has been created.
2. Recruitment process for nearly all SPMU staff completed including
staff of the operations unit, communication unit, finance and
procurement unit. For the position of procurement specialist, no
suitable candidate could be identified; and the recruitment process for
this position will be started again. The State Project Director
nominated at the time of appraisal of the Project could not provide
substantial time for this project; and therefore the State is planning to
appoint a new senior officer of the State as the State Project Director.
In the interim period, the Additional Project director (Administration)
will act as the State Project Director.
3. The State Steering Committee has not met.
4. The Procurement and Financial management cell has now recruited
most of the staff needed, and the consultants for (i) procurement and
financial management support; (ii) internal audit; and, (iii) preparation
of a dedicated website for SPMU. With these, it is expected that the
SPMU will become fully operational by September 2011. However,
Bengal. The proposal under NCRMP should also be examined in a
similar way; otherwise the construction of cyclone shelters under the
ICZM Project or the NCRM Project, even if permitted will not serve
the intended purpose of saving lives. SPMU and the Disaster
management Department will prepare a revised proposal covering (i)
community mobilization, (ii) community capacity building, (iii)
construction of cyclone shelter including its appropriate design, (iv)
plan for providing water supply, power, back-up power, sanitation and
other required facilities in the cyclone shelters, (v) equipment and
safety gears needed at the cyclone shelters, (vi) siting plan or strategy
for cyclone shelters in schools or other regularly used public facility,
(vii) management and operation of cyclone shelters including
management of regular and periodic maintenance, (viii) full-fledged
warning system in the villages managed by the communities, and (ix)
cost estimates covering all of above and the cost of supporting all
above, construction supervision, and supervision during operation.
This proposal should be shared with the World Bank by December
2011.
1. Nil.
2. The necessity of having a full-time (or near full-time) senior official as
the State Project Director had been discussed with the State
Government since October 2011. Owing to several administrative and
procedural requirements, the issue could not be resolved until after the
mission. The Government will nominate a senior official of the State
Government as State Project Director as soon as possible (likely by
October 2012 latest). Until then, the Additional Project director
(Administration) will act as the State Project Director. This interim
arrangement is acceptable to the World Bank.
3. SPMU will organize the first meeting of the State Steering Committee
latest by September 2011.
4. It is important to renew agreements with PEAs those seem to be
wavering (such as the Sundarban Affairs Department, the Forest
Department or the Disaster management Department) from the
agreements and objectives of the Project (and consequently all PEA
level activities) with relation to the principles of ICZM, especially the
need to implement activities through the community groups and the
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