Urban Basic Sanitation Program and Private Sector Participation in the
Sanitation Sector
BOLIVIA
SECTOR: Sanitation
PROJECT NAME: Urban Basic Sanitation Program and Private Sector
Participation in the Sanitation Sector
(987/SF-BO and ATN/MT-5442-BO)
TOTAL COST: $88,833,000
FINANCING:
IDB $70,000,000
IDB $ 980,000 (Multilateral Investment Fund)
LOCAL $17,853,000
DATE OF APPROVAL: December 4, 1996
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The objective of the project is to improve the hygiene
and health status of the Bolivian urban population,
through the expansion and improvement of water supply
and sanitary sewerage services in cities with over 5,000
inhabitants. The program further seeks to: (a) promote
greater private-sector participation; (b) support the
process of developing and consolidating the sector's
regulatory framework and organizing and strengthening
its regulatory agency, the Water Board; and
(c) contribute to the development and strengthening of
local companies or cooperatives responsible for
delivering water supply and sanitation services in the
participating cities.
The program consists of three components: (a) works
involving water collection and supply, and sewage
collection, treatment, and disposal (installation of
70,000 new water and sewage connections, construction
and improvment of surface water catchment areas,
drilling or rehabilitation of wells, installation of
pumping equipment, construction of conveyance pipes,
storage tanks, hydraulic interconnections, water
treatment plants, distribution systems, storerooms,
workshops, laboratories, construction of secondary
networks, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, pumping
stations, outfalls and sewage treatment plants); (b) a
MIF technical cooperation operation (approved on
December 11, 1996) to support the development of a
regulatory framework for the sector and the
establishment of the Water Board, including drafting
regulations on institutional matters, use of public
goods, granting of easements, concessions and
authorizations, rates, service delivery, and infraction
and penalty provisions, as well as defining service
quality standards; and (c) institutional strengthening
of companies delivering the services, through
improvement of inventory systems, billing collections,
customer service, accounting, budgetting, materials and
human resource management systems and operations,
including master metering, house metering, inventories
of systems and facilities, loss reduction, equipment and
civil works maintenance, and sanitary control.
CONSULTANTS: Consultants will be required to: (a) provide training
and institutional strengthening of service delivery
companies and the Ente Administrador de los Recursos
Hídricos del Río Ripay; (b) support a
special unit in the Ministry of Capitalization, which
will be responsible for drafting regulations for the
sector and strengthening the Water Board (local and
international consultants); (c) conduct engineering
studies and designs, environmental studies, plans and
specifications for the construction projects;
(d) supervise the construction works; and (e) conduct
studies involving the sector regulatory framework and
startup and operation of the Water Board.
GOODS AND EQUIPMENT: Goods will be required to support the civil works
projects. Equipment and materials will be required,
including maintenance equipment, water quality
laboratories, tools, workshops, and storerooms.
CIVIL WORKS: It is estimated that there will be ten calls for bids
for civil works and three for procurement of goods
associated with the construction works in various
cities, including Santa Cruz (materials and civil works
for the sewerage system), Cochabamba (materials,
equipment and civil works for the water supply and
sewerage system), Montero (civil works, materials and
equipment for the water supply and sewerage system), and
Riberalta (materials and civil works for the sewerage
system), as well as other cities. In some cases the
procurement of goods and works will be combined in
single packages. Civil works include installation of
new water supply and sewerage systems in several
Bolivian cities.
EXECUTING AGENCY: Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Regional
Av. 20 de Octubre No 2038
Edificio Foncomin, Piso 5
La Paz, Bolivia
Tel: (591-2) 37-8942; 39-2856
Fax: (591-2) 39-4880
Contact: Ing. Alonso Caballero
Gerente General
