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Client: Inter- American Development Bank
Found 26 projects

Preparation of a document of the country for the Consultive Group
Year: 2004
Country: Honduras
Description: The study included a base document of the country to be considered in the Consultive Group that will be used as a base to prepare a sectorial strategy in: education, health, agriculture and rural development. It analyzes sector strategies, resource assignments and the required funding to achieve the poverty reduction strategy goals.
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Race Considerations in the Millenium Development Objectives: Honduran Case
Year: 2004
Country: Honduras
Description: The main objective of the consultancy is to contribute to the knowledge of the potential impact in the considerations of ethnicity and race in the execution of the Objectives of the Millenium ODM Program using the study case of Honduras. Besides, it will provide information of the aspects of race and ethnicity that need to be considered in the poverty strategies in order to ensure that the ODM programs and the poverty reduction strategy do not worsen the situation of the traditionally excluded groups.
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Design of a Monitoring System for Indicators of the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Honduras
Year: 2002
Country: Honduras
Description: To create a National Monitoring System for Poverty Indicators (Sistema Nacional de Seguimiento de Indicadores de Pobreza - SIERP) used to coordinate and develop data gathering, monitoring and indicator analysis activities related with the Poverty Reduction Strategy. This System will transparently provide policy makers and the general public current information on the advances in Poverty Reduction. It will be used to center political discussions on agreed goals, to broadcast the accomplishment of agreed objectives, and when necessary, to identify the delayed areas and allow the correction or strengthening of policies that are not producing the desired results.
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Preparation of the Map on Poverty in Haiti
Year: 2001
Country: Haití
Description: The objective of the consultancy was to improve Haiti’s Poverty Map, which presents alternative conceptual approaches to measure poverty, the Map’s use and it’s design implications.
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Evaluation of Program for Strengthening of SOPTRAVI. Multi-phase Program for the Highway Sustainable Rehabilitation in Honduras
Year: 2001
Country: Honduras
Description: This consultancy aimed to review the institutional stregthening of SOPTRAVI and make recommendations related to institutional aspects that are needed before a new loan is negotiated for the road sector in Honduras.
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Administration of the Technical Unit for the Financial Facility for Municipal Development (Facilidad de Financiamiento para el Desarrollo Municipal - FDDM)
Year: 2001
Country: Honduras
Description: The goal of the consultancy was to assist the municipalities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula in the components of solid wastes, roads and transportation, organization of finances, environment, and poor and outlying neighborhoods. The Technical Unit was in charge of analyzing the project requests presented by the Municipal Governments of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, authorizing disbursements, supervising the execution and conclusion of works, and with it issuing a report on the administration of the executed works.
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Distributive Effects of Water Prices in Central America
Year: 2000
Country: Centro América
Description: The goal of this consultancy was to prepare an analysis on the demand and allocation of drinking water, and the distribution of impacts on price policies, based on the analysis of the information from home surveys on the demand for water in 17 cities in Central America and Venezuela.
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Financial Agreements for Sub-loans of the Financial Facility on Municipal Development
Year: 2000
Country: Honduras
Description: This study considers options for the redefinition of the financial agreements for sub-loans of the Financial Facility of Municipal Development (FFDM) to the Honduran municipalities, under loan 1024/SF-HO and 1048/SF-HO.
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Business Plan for the Empresa Municipal de Aguas of the City of Guatemala
Year: 2000
Country: Guatemala
Description: Preparation of a Business Plan for the Water Company of Guatemala (EMPAGUA) on which several scenarios of development of the system were considered, specially in search of modernizing the company, giving it a truly metropolitan projection whereby it turns to be the sole supplier of services, and include the private sector in the rendering of services.
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Survey on Basic and Middle Education in Honduras
Year: 2000
Country: Honduras
Description: A survey carried out on middle and basic educational centers, distributed among the 18 departments of the country, its purpose being the gathering of information to assist in understanding the present status of middle education in Honduras, as regards physical and human resources.
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Survey on Socio-economic Characterization for the Program of Family Relief (PRAF)
Year: 1999
Country: Honduras
Description: Performance of a social evaluation oriented to the identification of the main demographic characteristics of the population of 80 Municipalities of Honduras, through a survey of 2,400 households and 240 commercial surveys.
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Strategy for the Reconstruction of the Water and Sanitation Sector after Hurricane Mitch
Year: 1999
Country: Honduras
Description: We provided assistance to the National Reconstruction Cabinet on the preparation of a document to define a short, medium and long-term sector strategy, as well as preparation of profiles of projects for the restoration of potable water and sanitation services after Hurricane Mitch
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Short Term Study/Water and Sewage Sector
Year: 1999
Country: Guatemala
Description: The main objective of this consultation was the development of an analysis on the situation of the potable water and sewage sector of Guatemala. The analysis was mostly descriptive with a quantitative base which, together with figures and indexes reflects the present status of the sector.
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Environmental Strategy for the Reform and Modernization of the Municipality of San Pedro Sula
Year: 1998
Country: Honduras
Description: The purpose of this consultation was the development of an environmental strategy of integrated management on the implementation of the plan for the program HO-0115, so as to present the strategy on the Environmental Program and Report on the Social Impact
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Technical Assistance to Decentralized Suppliers of Water and Sanitation at 16 municipalities of Honduras
Year: 1998
Country: Honduras
Description: ESA Consultores in a joint venture with the firm FRISA Engineering, were contracted by the Inter-American Development Bank to provide technical assistance to Suppliers of Decentralized Services on their involvement in the preparation of an investment program in the sector of potable water and sanitation at 16 municipalities of Honduras. The technical assistance included: preparation of material for the technical assistance, preparation of profiles of investment projects, preparation of diagnosis on the situation of the potable water services, training, institutional strengthening and preparation of recommendations.
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Economic-Financial Evaluation, Potable Water and Sanitation Program in Intermediate Cities of Honduras
Year: 1998
Country: Honduras
Description: The purpose of the consultation was the establishment of rules to be applied at each of the projects of the program, showing that investments are reasonable and hold an economic-financial justification
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Study of Economic Impact of Programs HO-0115 and HO-0135
Year: 1998
Country: Honduras
Description: The purpose of this consultation was: a) support to the decision of selection of the optimum scenario of assignment of resources of the Program among the various eligible components and b) study of the economic impact of the Program on the different types of inhabitants of the city
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Consolidation of Reform of the Potable Water and Sanitation Sector
Year: 1998
Country: República Dominicana
Description: Study of Design of the Corporatization Process of the State Suppliers of Potable Water and Sanitation Service in the Dominican Republic.
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Review of the Estimate of Tariff Structure of DIMA and Financial Forecasts 1999-2010
Year: 1998
Country: Honduras
Description: A review of the rate for water services was carried out, and, as a result, recommendations and the estimate of a new rate structure were provided.
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Specification and Dimensioning of the Program for Improvement of Slumps in San Pedro Sula
Year: 1998
Country: Honduras
Description: Quantification of targets and requirement of financial support to the Program of Slump Improvement
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Evaluation of Environmental and Social Impact: Project of Potable Water and Sanitation of Puerto Cortés
Year: 1997
Country: Honduras
Description: The objective of the consultancy was the determination of direct and indirect environmental impacts (to the physical, biological and social environment) , to be produced at the area of impact of the project.
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Institutional and Financial Study. Sewage Project for Puerto Cortés
Year: 1997
Country: Honduras
Description: Support to the Municipality of Puerto Cortés and to the IDB on the design of the institutional and contractual components for the supply of potable water and sanitation.
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Social Economic Evaluation (cost benefit analysis) of a Water and Sanitation Project of the Cities of: Santa Ana, Sonsonate and San Miguel, El Salvador.
Year: 1996
Country: El Salvador
Description: This is an updating of a feasibility study for water and sewerage projects in the cities of Sonsonate, San Miguel and Santa Ana, El Salvador. The contract comprises the implementation of a new study for willingness to pay, based on a household survey (2,250 questionaries) in the three cities. The results of this study establish a model of rates for the improved system, as well as quantifying the probable rate of connection to the new systems. The study will allow the comparison of the economic benefits flow that will come out from the project with the cost flow, and in this way establish the internal rate of return on investment and social income from their different components.
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Regulation, Organization and Incentives. The Economic Policy of the Potable Water Services: Honduran Case
Year: 1996
Country: Honduras
Description: This study of the urban water and sanitation in Honduras focuses on the low level equilibrium LLE phenomenom. It seeks to characterize the LLE in terms of sector performance and why it is difficult to escape from it, showing and analysis of the failures of recent reform efforts.
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Environmental Evaluation Study for a Municipal Development Project in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and neighboring municipalities.
Year: 1996
Country: Honduras
Description: This project will assist the local technical team of the IDB to determine the environmental viability of the HO-115 project, and as such will complete the environmental studies necessary for the project’s approval by the Bank. The study involves reviewing the different steps related to the environmental evaluation of the project and preparing a report that summarizes its relevant environmental characteristics (the program context). Specific environmental impact assessments are carried out for the different sub-components of the project (infrastructural development and institutional support). The elements of planning, design specifications, management plans, follow-up activities, supervision, monitoring and institutional support are all considered, to ensure the environmental quality of the operation
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Updating of the Economic and Financial Feasibility of the Sewage Project of Puerto Cortés. Coordination Unit IDB-Municipality of Puerto Cortés 2001.
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Country: Honduras
Description: The purpose of this consultancy was to prepare a document with the results of the economic and financial evaluation fo the sewage project based on updated costs of the investment, operation and mantainance, based on the data and results of the evaluation and prior conceptualization of the project in 1997.
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