Project Information Document-Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet - Lilongwe Water and Sanitation Project- Additional Financing - P176995 (English)

Country Context 1. This Project Paper seeks the approval of the Executive Directors to provide additional financing (AF) of US$45 million to the Republic of Malawi (GoM) for the Lilongwe Water and Sanitation Project (LWSP) (P163794). [...] The PDO and the scope of the project remain the same. [...] Further, the AF will finance the sanitation marketing activities and construction of 7,000 household sanitation facilities for the poor and vulnerable to ensure that the original project target is met. [...] This component will continue to finance a set of activities designed to (i) strengthen the capacity of LWB to implement the project and to provide improved water services to its customers; and (ii) strengthen the capacity of LCC to implement the sanitation component of the project, operate and maintain the sanitation infrastructure and support the reforms needed to provide and promote safely manag [...] The AF will finance the project management costs for the additional 15 months of project implementation and the funding gap for the water supply institutional development activities, including the implementation of the PSP, dam safety measures as per safeguards commitments at appraisal, the implementation of the business continuity plan, water safety plan required to build the resilience of water