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Adaptability

1 delivery linked to Disaster preparedness and recovery.

Bosnia and Herzegovinasince 2014delivered and closedbears on Disaster preparedness and recovery

Floods Emergency Recovery Project after the May 2014 floods

After the May 2014 floods displaced about 90,000 people and directly affected about a million in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the two entities' agriculture and water ministries and Brcko District distributed US$27 million of emergency goods and restored 446 public service facilities to pre-flood condition against a target of 200, including more than 260 km of rural roads and 53,460 m of flood defences, by the project's June 2019 closing.

446 facilities, public service infrastructure facilities recovered to pre-flood condition, 2019-06-30. 200 facilities, target for facilities recovered, 2014-06-30. World Bank, Implementation Completion and Results Report, Bosnia and Herzegovina Floods Emergency Recovery Project, December 2019, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The state treasury on-lent an emergency loan to the two entities and Brcko District, whose ministries bought relief goods through strategic reserves and then rebuilt municipal and regional infrastructure from a list drawn from the joint needs assessment.

Preconditions

  • A joint recovery needs assessment agreed by all levels of government within weeks
  • Entity-level strategic reserves able to procure and distribute goods
  • Municipalities with project lists ready for rebuilding

Limits: The figures are the World Bank's, from a completion report on its own US$100 million emergency loan; the event figures are in the context section (printed page 5), the outcome table on page 13, and the road and flood defence figures on page 18. The 446 facilities exceeds its target partly because unused emergency-goods funds were moved into infrastructure in January 2016, so the target was not a fixed plan. 'Facilities' counts very different things, from a culvert to a bridge, and the report does not say how many were fully rebuilt. Emergency goods reached beneficiaries according to third-party audits in 2017, but some agricultural goods arrived late. The project closed six months after its December 2018 original date, five years after the floods, so this is slow recovery, not rapid response, and it covers one loan, not the whole post-flood programme financed by the EU and others.

Building

1 delivery linked to Large project delivery.

Bosnia and Herzegovinasince 2017delivered and closedbears on Large project delivery

Federation Road Sector Modernization Project, and its shrunken rehabilitation scope

The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina's public road company PC Roads FBH delivered 76.9 km of road works, including a 35 km upgrade of the Neum to Stolac road, under a project approved in August 2016, but rehabilitated only 41.75 km of main roads against an appraisal target of 178 km, which was cut to 42.23 km in 2021, and the closing date moved from December 2021 to September 2023.

41.75 km, roads rehabilitated, non-rural, achieved at closing, 2023-09-30. 178 km, target for roads rehabilitated, non-rural, at appraisal, 2016-08-02. World Bank, Implementation Completion and Results Report, Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation Road Sector Modernization Project, April 2024, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The entity road company took a multilateral loan for a list of sections whose designs did not yet exist, then cut the list to what designs, land and budget allowed and concentrated on one strategic coastal link.

Preconditions

  • Detailed designs and land acquisition finished before the results framework is fixed
  • An entity-level road agency able to borrow with state guarantee
  • Co-financing that can be raised when costs move

Limits: The figures are the World Bank's, from a completion report on a project it co-financed with the EIB. The 178 and 42.23 km targets are in para. 55 (printed page 19), and the 41.75 km achieved against the revised 42.23 km target is in the outcome table (Table 4, page 13), the 76.9 km and the Neum to Stolac upgrade in paras. 30 to 31 (page 11), the cost per km in para. 45 (page 17) and the dates on the datasheet (page 2). The Bank attributes the cut to designs that were only 1.0 km complete at entry, so the 178 km target may have been an error of preparation rather than a delivery that shrank; the report says rehabilitation cost per km came out more than five times the plan for the same reason. Total project cost rose from US$101.3 million to about US$105.5 million, mostly as an EIB increase. Land acquisition and COVID-19 delayed the Crnaja tunnel and led to sections being cancelled. The project covers one of the country's two entities, not Bosnia and Herzegovina as a whole.