The latest World Bank pipeline projects

The World Bank Monthly Operational Summary for April 2018 is now posted and searchable on Devex’s Funding Overview page. The April MOS, which details the project pipeline of the International Development Association and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as well as third-party contributions to those projects, included 1,142 projects worth over $109 billion in total. The pipeline covers projects that are pending approval. Once they’ve been approved by the bank’s board of directors, they move out of the pipeline and onward to the initial stages of implementation. Generally, projects remain in the bank’s pipeline for an average of 13 months, though some fly through much quicker, and others stall for years. Last month, we took an in-depth look at the World Bank’s pipeline data for the first quarter of 2018, to see what it could tell us about its priorities and trend. In this quick update, we’ll take a look at the projects that have recently begun preparation and entered the pipeline in the most recent issue of the MOS. April 2018: New projects in the World Bank pipeline On April, 26 new projects entered the pipeline worth a total of $2.79 billion. The bulk of that projected spending comes from a single $1 billion health project in Nigeria that aims to cut the country’s child mortality rate in half for children under 5 years of age over the next decade. Other large projects include a $250 million education project in India; two water and rural development projects in the Ceará state of Brazil; and two large projects each in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Sierra Leone. The April 2018 MOS also saw the first projects linked to the Sint Maarten Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience Trust Fund — an agreement between the World Bank and the government of the Netherlands to provide up to $580 million in funding to rebuild the island in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. After the agreement was signed, $40 million in initial recovery funding immediately entered the MOS. Projects entering implementation Each MOS includes a list of projects that have been removed since the last monthly summary. However, the reason for the removal is not given. In most cases, it is because a project has been approved and is moving toward implementation. In other cases, projects have simply been canceled. Sometimes, it is not evident why a project has been removed. The list above shows only those projects that were removed from April’s MOS because of approval, and are likely to move toward procurement and implementation in the near future. They total $735 million dollars in budgeted funding. Among these projects, the largest is an international Sahel irrigation project in West Africa. Others include projects in Pakistan focused on financial inclusion and infrastructure, as well as two approvals in Nicaragua: One focused on public health care services and the other on property rights. For more details on World Bank pipeline projects, explore our interactive visualization of the full World Bank pipeline. To see the full lists of projects that have recently entered or exited the pipeline, check the lists in this interactive visualization. Both visualizations are updated on a monthly basis after the release of the bank’s monthly operational summary.