The Road to the SDGs

Product and Partnership Officer and the Chief Operations Officer (COO). ACHIEVEMENTS X The QnP has provided IsDB with an opportunity to select projects which are most impactful and aligned with the P5P. X At the first stage of the project cycle, it is critical to set out the key criteria of identification of the priority development initiatives in keeping with the quality dimensions integrated in the QnP Tool. X To improve the quality of projects, the key considerations at the project programming stage include: – Strategic alignment/ sector focus – Risks – Portfolio performance in terms of country and region – Operational plan – Project quality at entry – Alignment with the KPIs set for the IWP 2021–23. X As a result of applying the QnP Tool to the 2021 Work Programme, the proposed operational plan for the year is expected to generate significant results in MCs. Together, these developmental outputs will address specific SDGs, namely SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 3 (Good Health), SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 7 (Clean Energy), SDG 8 (Economic Growth), and SDG 9 (Infrastructure, Industry, and Innovation). X Agriculture: The proposed projects are expected to irrigate over 140,000 hectares of land, enabling a storage capacity of over 50,000 tons. X Health: IsDB will contribute to providing access to health services for almost 110,000 people, by constructing and equipping nearly 80 health facilities and adding 916 new beds to hospitals. These projects are expected to provide training to more than 2,000 health personnel. They will reach a population of nearly one million with various health awareness campaigns. X Education: IsDB’s projects are expected to benefit more than 255,000 students at various educational levels through the construction of over 115 educational institutes. An estimated 6,000 teachers will be trained. X Water and sanitation: IsDB’s projects will contribute to allowing access to potable water for nearly 1,500 households and connecting nearly 200,000 households to improved sanitation facilities. X Energy: IsDB will connect over one million new households to the electricity grid by building nearly 6,000 km of transmission lines. The power plant projects are expected to generate 1.6 gigawatts of energy from renewable sources. X Finance: IsDB impacts the economic growth of the population through job creation and training of nearly 45,000 people and allowing access to microfinance to another 300,000 people, including the creation of over 1,700 rural enterprises. X Transport: IsDB will focus on building over 1,500 km of roads, among them 502 km of expressway. In addition, a total of 76 km of railway tracks will be constructed. X For the 2021 Work Programme, the ready projects are by and large in line with the sectoral distribution of the SDG gaps (within less than ± 10%).The exception is the Transport sector, where the financing variance is 37% above the required allocation, although this is in line with MC strategies. Efforts are being made to identify a more enriched pipeline, with sectoral distribution in line with the SDG sectoral gaps for the extended ready pipeline of projects for the 2021–23 Work Programme. INVESTMENT X The operation plans for these projects amount to US$ 1.2 billion. This investment will reap benefits, as the QnP provides the basis for impactful selectivity, providing IsDB with the opportunity to contribute towards selecting, monitoring and achieving significant results for MCs. P I P E L I N E P R O J E C T S IsDB will connect over 1 million new households to the electricity grid by building nearly 6,000km of transmission lines [ 175 ] T H E R O A D T O T H E S D G s | P R O G R E S S A N D A C H I E V E M E N T S