Uruguay

The objective of the Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance Program Project for Uruguay is to improve transport efficiency through rehabilitation and maintenance of th... Mostrar más + e national road infrastructure and enhanced public sector capacity to plan, regulate and monitor transport and logistics services. The funding level of the Program is not sufficient to improve, in absolute terms, the road network condition on the National Road Network as a whole. In this context, the Program is expected to ensure that the condition of the National Road Network remains a given threshold, as reflected in the key results. Such results are deemed to be the best achievable outcome at network level when compared not only to the past declining trend shown but also to counterfactual situation prevailing in the absence of support to the Program. The Program will be implemented by: (a) the Road Department of the ministry of transport and public works, and (b) the Uruguay Road Corporation. The CVU (Corporacion Vial del Uruguay - Uruguay Road Corporation) is linked to the MTOP (Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Publicas - Ministry of Transport and Public Works) through: (a) a concession agreement, making CVU responsible for managing part of Uruguay's main road network, including highway maintenance, rehabilitation, and, as needed, development; and (b) a technical assistance agreement, through which DNV provides technical and administrative support to CVU. The Program is implemented through contracts to the private sector (road and bridge rehabilitation, performance-based rehabilitation, maintenance or performance-based maintenance) or through routine maintenance works executed by DNV (Direccion Nacional de Vialidad - Road DepartmenT) directly. Usually, except for bridge rehabilitation and reconstruction (design-build contracts), design and supervision functions required by Program-related activities are carried out by DNV staff. Mostrar menos -

The development objective of Obras Sanitarias del Estado (OSE) Sustainable and Efficient Project is to support OSE’s adaption to climate change by increasing the re... Mostrar más + silience of existing and future water supply and sanitation systems. The development objective of the new project is to improve the sustainability of water services and sanitation of OSE: (i) increasing the reliability, efficiency and resilience of the water and sanitation and (ii) strengthening its management capacity. For projects requiring the displacement of population, there is a close relationship between technical stages of the work and the formulation and implementation of the Resettlement Plan. This will ensure the availability of land and resolution of the damages that do not involve acquisition of property at the time of starting the construction works and give the time necessary to implement the resettlement plan. The following describes the relationship between construction phases and activities of the Plan: potential impacts will be identified in order to determine the social feasibility of the work and the main problems faced; the Plan shall assess the involvement of land and population to shift the costs of the resettlement plan, including land, houses, infrastructure basic and necessary equipment, if applicable. Mostrar menos -

The objective of the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Climate Change Project is to support Uruguay's efforts to promote farmer adoption of improved e... Mostrar más + nvironmentally sustainable agricultural and livestock practices that are climate smart. There are four components to the project. The first component is Establishment of an Agricultural Information and Decision Support System (IDSS) to integrate, synthesize, and generate critical and timely information in relation to natural resource management, short and medium term climate forecast, as well as potential long term changes and impacts. The second component is on farm investments for 'climate-smart' agriculture and livestock management. This component would be implemented by Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP's) Rural Development Directorate (DGDR) and would finance carrying out of demand-driven subprojects consisting of investments and technical assistance. The third component is to capacity building and training. This component would finance activities aimed at strengthening the capacity of (a) farmers (regardless of their farm size) and technical staff of advisory service providers to adopt integrated natural resource and water management practices, and (b) MGAP, specifically of its Natural Resources Directorate (RENARE), to implement its natural resources management programs and climate change strategy in the agricultural sector. The fourth component is project management and monitoring and evaluation (M and E). This component would provide the funds required for (a) supporting the operation of the? Project Management Unit (PMU) for the efficient coordination and management of the project; (b) supporting the operation of the project's M and E system; (c) coordinating and supervising the implementation of the training activities described in third component; and (d) supporting the design and implementation of a communication strategy to disseminate results and lessons learned within the country and the region. Mostrar menos -

The Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Climate Change Project's main objective is to promote among farmers and rural people to adopt sustainable integr... Mostrar más + ated production systems in economic, social and environmental, within a context of integrated ecosystem management and natural resources. By incorporating management measures on soil, water, natural pastures, it seeks to improve the productivity of rural establishments integrating biodiversity conservation, tending to reduce the vulnerability of family farmers to climate variability. In parallel, it will improve early warning systems, improving decision-making process and the predictability and risk management to extreme weather. The development objective of the project is to make investments in agriculture and livestock production systems environmentally sustainable and resilient to climate variability while reducing GHG emissions from the sector. The objective would be achieved through developing instruments that would provide critical and timely information, as well as technical and financial assistance, to farmers in order to promote investments in their production systems aimed at reducing risks and making them more resilient to extreme climatic events. As a sector project where funding for specific subprojects will be examined on a case by case basis during implementation, the environmental impact depends on: i) how each sub-project will be evaluated for potential environmental consequences that lead to rejection acceptance, redesign or acceptance subject to mitigation measures, and ii) the likelihood of an institutional structure that could implement the recommendations of the Environmental Assessment. This project is to generate demand from the productive sector investment projects. This may mean that a proposal could create a risk of environmental impact. The project will contribute to the sustainability of the expansion and development of the agricultural sector in the medium and long term upgrading the integrated management of natural resources through improving the environmental quality of farms among other things to improve water use, soil and natural pastures, to increase forest cover with native species, reduce the use of agrochemicals, improved water catchment areas and others such as those mentioned in the preceding paragraphs. Since this is the expected result, it does not qualify as a project that generates a negative environmental impact; quite the contrary, at the environmental level it will have a positive or neutral effect. Mostrar menos -

The bank has a long relationship with Uruguay's agricultural sector, expanding over a period of more than 60 years in which several projects and various analytical ... Mostrar más + and advisory assistance initiatives have been implemented. The main purposes of the present report are: a) to analyze the main characteristics of family agriculture as well as its development potential and constraints; b) to examine Uruguay's current agricultural policy and institutional framework; c) present a set of measures aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and increasing development opportunities for family producers; and d) contribute to Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fishery's (MGAP's) preparation of an agricultural and rural development plan 2010-15, by presenting a set of policy recommendations and measures to support an economic and environmentally sustainable family agriculture development within the Government's overall strategy to promote more equitable rural development. Uruguay's agricultural and food sector has successfully mastered past crises and retained its role as an important sector of the national economy, which saw its contribution to Gross Domestic product (GDP) increased from 6.0 percent during the economic crisis in 2000-2001 to 9.1 percent of national GDP, or 13.7 percent including agro-food processing, in 2008. Mostrar menos -

"El objetivo principal del Proyecto de Parque Eólico del Uruguay es reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero por medio del uso de energía eólica. La red... Mostrar más + ucción de emisiones se logrará reemplazando la generación de electricidad basada en combustibles fósiles en la red nacional. El proyecto contribuirá al desarrollo sostenible del Uruguay. El proyecto tendrá un impacto positivo en el empleo local durante la construcción, la operación y el mantenimiento en una región con desempleo alto. Además, deberá mejorarse la red de carreteras local, un beneficio indirecto de la construcción de la planta. Si bien el proyecto está en un área de praderas en su mayoría originarias (modificadas por el pastoreo de ganado), no provocará ninguna pérdida ni degradación significativa de hábitats naturales. Los molinos de viento y las mejoras en las líneas de transmisión y las carreteras de acceso tendrán una huella espacial muy pequeña. Además, no se prevén cambios en el uso local de la tierra como resultado de los mejoramientos viales, pues el área del proyecto corresponde a estancias privadas establecidas hace mucho tiempo, utilizadas para ganadería, y no hay presiones de colonización por parte de personas externas. Algunos de los impactos negativos del proyecto son: riesgo de accidentes por alta velocidad; ruido, polvo y deterioro de carreteras; generación de residuos y cloacas; compactación del suelo." Mostrar menos -