JBIC Pilot Study for Project Formation for Transport Network Development in Western Balkans

Client: Study Team for Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Japan

Name of partner(s): EXeIdea Co. Ltd., Japan and Padeco Ltd., Japan

Start/Completion Date: April 2005 - October 2005

Project description: Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), an executing agency for Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans, initiated the Pilot Study for Project Formation for Transport Network Development in the Western Balkans (the Study). This study seeked to identify promising regional transport infrastructure projects and to propose a short- to medium-term strategy for JBIC activities in Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro), while considering major envisioned works supported by the EC and the IFIs. Accordingly, JBIC commissioned the Study to a team formed by EXeIdea Co., Ltd. of Japan (the Study Team). SEEC as subcontracted firm participed in following tasks:

• Logistics and Administration;
• Assistance and Participation to the Field Surveys;
• Assistance to the Study Team in collecting information and data needed to undertake the Study in the subject countries (Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro)
• Follow-up information and data requests made by the Study Team, and to obtain the information/data;
• Assistance to the Study Team in reviewing and interpreting the information and data collected and in formulating the recommendations on potential JBIC focus routes and candidate projects for future JBIC financing;
• Assistance to the Study Team in preparing preliminary plans for potential projects for future JBIC financing;
• Liaison between the concerned agencies in the subject countries and the Study Team while the Team is outside of the subject countries over the study period;
• Assistance and Participation to the preparation of Draft Final Report and Final Report.