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Kosovo Digital Economy (KODE) Project is a five-year investment operation financed by the World Bank and implemented by the Ministry of Economy, Employment, Trade, Industry, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Investments (MEETIESI). Objective of the Project is to improve access to better quality and high‐speed broadband services in project areas and to online knowledge sources, services and labor markets among citizens, and public and academic institutions.
The KODE Project is structured along three main components: Digital Inclusion, Digital Work and Empowerment, and Project Implementation Support. Subcomponent 1.2 will finance (a) provision of support towards the deployment of NSMS for ARKEP to facilitate investments in wireless infrastructure roll‐out through technical inputs on radio‐frequency bands assignment and usage and (b) provision of technical assistance and capacity building activities for ARKEP in spectrum management and topics related to improving the quality of wireless broadband services across the country. Through NSMS ARKEP will ensure efficient spectrum monitoring in the country. Specifically, this activity will finance the deployment of hardware and software elements (e.g. towers and antennas), setup (launch) of the system (including the setup of a control center and launch of the spectrum management software), and training for ARKEP. The NSMS will be operated by ARKEP in accordance with its mandate under the Law.
This ESMP Checklist has been prepared for activities that will be carried by the selected contractor for NSMS implementation. The ESMP Checklist presents the project description, technical details, scope, setting and location based on which it assesses environmental and social risks. Implementation of mitigation measures addressing the identified risks and issues as well as monitoring plan defined in the ESMP Checklist is mandatory as is compliance with the national environmental and other regulation, and World Bank (WB) operational policies.
This list is published on the official website of the KODE Project and is also accessible here through the following link where citizens can provide their comments and suggestions in a period of 14 days;
