Madagascar - Integrated Growth Poles Project

Page 1 INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET CONCEPT STAGE Report No.: AC603 Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: March 17, 2004 I. BASIC INFORMATION A. Basic Project Data Country: Madagascar Project ID: P083351 Project Name: Integrated Growth Poles Task Team Leader: Ivan Rossignol Estimated Appraisal Date: December 15, 2004 Estimated Board Date: June 30, 2005 Managing Unit: AFTPS Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Lending Sector: Ports (30%); PSD (30%); General Transport (20%); General water, sanitation and flood protection sector (10%); Power (10%) Theme: Infrastructure services for private sector development (P); Small and medium enterprise support (P) Safeguard Policies Specialists in the task team: Serigne Omar Fye, Robert Robelus, Gordon Appleby, Amadou Konare (AFTS1) Loan/Credit amount ($m.): IDA: 125 Other financing amounts by source: ($m) B. Project Objectives [from section 3 of PCN] The proposed project development objective is to support private sector led growth through the provisioning of a legal, physical and business environment in three selected regions (called