text: 163. UNDP is assisting the @vernment in its development planning process through aproject whose purpose is to help streaml.ine the general organization of thenational economy and strengthen the co-ordinating capacity for management andplanning in the sectors and subsectors which are crucial to economic recovery andgrowth, namely, mining, processing industries, industrial fishing, feeder roids,and foreign trade. To the same end, the World Bank is involved in a 99 millionproject of technical assistance for economic management. The objective of thisproject is to improve Guinean services responsible for the planning, evaluation andfollow-up of the public investment programme, macro-economic and sectoraJ. planning,and the management of the para-public sector. This world Bank-assisted project hasa technical assistance component with a view to the disengagement of the State fromproductive sectors of the economy, where it was invorved through suchintermediaries as state and semi-public companies and enterprises. Thisrestructuring of the para-public sector is part of the liberalization of theeconomy and will result in the liquidation of non-profitable enterprises and thetotal or partial transfer of certain enterprises to the private sector. 154. The expertise for these two UNDP and world Bank projects wiII be mobilizedwith effect from I JuIy 1985. This policy of rehabilitating and revitarizingenterprises has red, in the er.ectricity sector, to the graniing of a gg mirlionloan to Guinea by the rnternational Development Association (rDA) for the purposeof improving the organization and management of that sector and overhauling theinstallations for the production, conduction and supply of electricity. 165. rn the transport sector, a meeting of donors has just been held at the ConakryRairway office on the guestion of rehabilitating an initial 36-kilometre sectionand carrying out a diagnostic survey of Guinea's railways. The meeting broughttogether, among others, representatives of the world Bank, the European EconomicCommunity and the Central Economic Co-operation Fund166. Efforts to mobilize donors in the months ahead within the auspices of the Vlorld Bank. 167. FinallY the Government of assistance of the World Bank in co-ordination and mobilizationA/ 40 / 44t English Page 59 for the other sectors of the economy will continue framework of advisory panels organized under the Guinea has decided, for the future, to seek the organizing an aid consultative group for the of external assistance for Guinea. X. LESOTHO A. Background 168. The special programme of economic assistance for Lesotho was instituted in I9?? in response to Security Council resolution 402 (1976), which reguested the Secretary-General to organize such a proqramme to enable Lesotho to overcome the
analysis: The text appears to be discussing various economic development projects and initiatives in Guinea and Lesotho, focusing on sectors such as mining, industry, foreign trade, and infrastructure development. The language used is technical and policy-oriented, suggesting a focus on macroeconomic development and governance.