The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC | Samoa | Digital Development Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2015 | Seq No: 15 | ARCHIVED on 03-Aug-2022 | ISR52311 | Implementing Agencies: Independent State of Samoa, Ministry of Finance, Office Of The Regulator, Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Samoa Submarine Cable Company Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 19-Jun-2015 Effectiveness Date: 04-Sep-2015 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 23-Jul-2018 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 20-Aug-2018 Original Closing Date: 31-Jul-2020 Revised Closing Date: 30-Jun-2022 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The Project development objective is to reduce the cost and increase the availability of Internet services in theIndependentStateof Samoa. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? Yes Board Approved Revised Project Development Objective (If project is formally restructured) The Project Development Objectives are: (a) to reduce the cost and increase the availability of internet services; and (b) to facilitate the development of initial foundations for digital government, including digital identification. Components Table Name Component 4 (a) ): Legal and regulatory enabling environment:(Cost $0.50 M) Component 4 (b) Advisory Assistance on a Samoa Digital Government Platform:(Cost $0.40 M) Component 4 (c): Establishing the NDID system and upgrading the CR system:(Cost $3.20 M) Component 1 (a) Submarine Cable System:(Cost $33.00 M) Component 1 (b) Landing stations and ancillary requipment:(Cost $2.85 M) Component 1(c) Additional costs:(Cost $7.41 M) Component 2. ICT Regulatory Technical Assistance:(Cost $1.47 M) Component 3. Project implementation and administration:(Cost $1.11 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Moderately Unsatisfactory Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial Implementation Status and Key Decisions Revised Restructuring Request 8/3/2022 Page 1 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) Following the May 2022 mission and ongoing discussions since between the bank and all relevant Government stakeholders, MOF in its letter dated 26 July 2022 submitted a revised request for a six months extension of the project closing date to December 31, 2022. This extension would allow for the completion of the ongoing activities that are currently being implemented by the MOF and the SBS under Component 3 and 4 respectively. These activities include: A. Component 3 – Project Management Support 1. Project Financial Management Officer’s Contract B. Component 4 – National Digital ID 1. Legal and Regulatory Enabling Environment 2. Technical Assistance to Develop Implementation Strategies 3. Strategic Communication Advisor Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance Moderate Substantial Substantial Macroeconomic Moderate Substantial Substantial Sector Strategies and Policies Moderate Moderate Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program Substantial Moderate Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Substantial Moderate Moderate Sustainability Fiduciary High Substantial Substantial Environment and Social Low Moderate Moderate Stakeholders Substantial Substantial Substantial Other Substantial Substantial Substantial Overall Substantial Substantial Substantial Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Impact on Telecom Sector of WB Technical Assistance Composite score:1- low impact to 5-high impact) IN01166650 ►Impact on Telecom sector of World Bank TA to OOTR (composite score: 1- low impact to 5-high impact) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 1.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 8/3/2022 Page 2 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) Cable in service Feb 2018. Operators are shareholders of SSCC. Comments: Users of Mobile Internet Services (number of unique subscribers per 100 people) IN01166649 ►Access to Internet Services (number of subscribers per 100 people) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 27.00 50.00 50.00 55.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 Mobile broadband (3G and 4G) active subscribers count is approximately 60% of national population which, with family sharing of services, indicates a user base of more than 80 percent of population, exceeding the end of Project target. Operators strongly voiced their opinion for the Government to consider reducing the duties on smartphones to facilitate even better penetration rates of the devices. This Comments: sentiment is supported by MCIT and OOTR. The availability take up and familiarity of use of affordable smartphones is essential to the success of the NID. Allowing for duplication, the estimated unique subscribers for broadband is etsimated to be about 50% of the population IN01166653 ►Retail price of internet services (lowest published price 2Gb data volume) (Amount(USD), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 16.00 1.69 0.97 5.00 Date 30-Apr-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 The lowest published rate for a 2GB data plan is based on the market survey of the 2 providers Comments: IN01166654 ►Retail price of internet services-business (lowest published price 50Gb data volume) (Amount(USD), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 80.00 16.90 13.90 30.00 Date 30-Apr-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 Based on market survey of information available on the operators websites. Actual prices are subject to Comments: negotiation and any related / complementary purchases by the subscriber. Direct Project Beneficiaries IN01166647 ►Direct Project beneficiaries. (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 105,500.00 110,500.00 96,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 8/3/2022 Page 3 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) End target project beneficiaries is 50% of the 2014 population (i.e. 96,000). Tui Samoa Cable impact is from Feb-2018. Beneficiaries are the population of unique subscribers of mobile (99,500) or landline (6000) services. Additionally, Samoa has 76,000 persons under 15 and 9,900 over 65 (total 85,900) and beneficiaries can be dependents of users (which would indicate that beneficiaries are most of the Comments: population of 202,400)). However, unique subscriber beneficiaries are cited IN01166652 ►Project beneficiaries (female) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 58,000.00 58,000.00 48,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 End target project female beneficiaries is 50% of the 2014 female population (i.e. 48,000). Female beneficiaries inclu telecom user. In Samoa, female users of Internet exceed male users (55% vs 45% - ref published stats of Facebook, and OOTR digital inclusion survey (2017). Additionally 55% of females under 15 and over 65 (86,300) are dependan Comments: estimated unique female subscriber beneficiaries are cited. Grievances registered related to delivery of project benefits addressed. IN01166648 ►Grievances registered related to delivery of project benefits addressed. (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 100.00 80.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 No grievances registered during past life of the project. Comments: Beneficiaries that feel project investment reflected their needs - female. IN01166646 ►Beneficiaries that feel project inv. reflected their needs - female. (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 48,000.00 58,000.00 36,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 End Target is 75% of female beneficiaries of the original (2014) expected subscriber base. Tui Samoa Cable impact available from Feb-2018. Female beneficiaries are subscribers in 3G/ 4G coverage or in Comments: landline areas (93,000). Survey not conducted as at August 2021 but estimated from subscriber and grievance data. 8/3/2022 Page 4 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) Beneficiaries that feel project investment reflected their needs - male. IN01166644 ►Beneficiaries that feel project investment reflected their needs - male. (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 49,000.00 55,000.00 36,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 End Target is 75% of male beneficiaries in the original expected coverage area. Tui Samoa Cable impact available fr beneficiaries are males in 3G/ 4G coverage or in landline areas (49,000). Survey not conducted as at May 2022 but and grievance data. Comments: Wholesale Internet Bandwith Price ($/Mbps/month) IN01166645 ►Wholesale Internet Bandwith Price ($/Mbps/month) (Amount(USD), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 1,500.00 107.00 107.00 400.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 Tui Samoa Cable impact is from Feb-2018. Prior capacity via SAS/ASH cable, geostationary satellite and O3B satellite is now decommissioned. Price cited is for 1Gbps capacity purchase per the registered Reference Offer in US$/Mbps/month for most common capacity sold (note capacity in service is less than Comments: capacity sold). Price represents the price associated with product that has been sold, not with the lowest possible price (which is achieved by purchase of a 15 years IRU for 10Gbps). Note that lower prices are available from the now comissioned Hawaiki and Manatua /Honotoa canbe systems. Available International Bandwidth (mbps) IN01166643 ►Available International Bandwidth (mbps). (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 250.00 9,600.00 10,500.00 3,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 Bandwidth in service. (Lit Tui Samoa capacity is 2x 100 Gbps lit to Suva; connected capacity to USA, Australia (8.4 Gbps) and Fiji (2.1 Gbps). total operating capacity ex Samoa is 10.5 Gbps). Capacity Comments: available via the now commissioned Hawaiki and Manatua /Honotoa cable systems is not known Coverage of the NDID system IN01166642 ►Percentage of Samoa’s resident population who have received their credentials from the NDID system (Percentage, Custom) 8/3/2022 Page 5 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 80.00 Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 IN01166651 ►Population who have received their credentials from the NDID system of whom are women and girls (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.00 Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 The NDID system is used for service delivery IN01166641 ►Number of institutions using the NDID system for automated identity authentication of their clients (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.00 Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 NDID System in not yet operational. Comments: Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Component 1 (a) Submarine Cable System IN01166655 ►Length of Fiber Optic Network Built (km) (Kilometers, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 1,385.00 1,385.00 1,300.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 31-Jul-2020 Cable laying was completed in Jan 2018. No change since then. Comments: Component 1 (b) Landing stations and ancillary requipment IN01166656 ►Private Capital Mobilized (Amount(USD), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 6,540,000.00 6,540,000.00 8,000,000.00 8/3/2022 Page 6 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 31-Jul-2020 Unchanged. Refer to Corporations register of Samoa Comments: Component 3. Project implementation and administration IN01166657 ►National installed data capacity (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 9,500.00 9,500.00 48,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 31-Jul-2020 Operators in Samoa can draw on more than 210 mobile BTS sites which, together with fixed terrestrial and national submarine cable network capacity, enables up to 82,000 Mbps of national connectivity that Comments: underpins international connectivity. Local, current operational capacity to accommodate variable demand is operational capacity exceeds 10.5 Gbps. IN01166661 ►Available (lit optical and contracted satellite) International Bandwidth (mbps) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 250.00 11,000.00 20,000.00 3,000.00 Date 19-Jun-2015 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 31-Jul-2020 Samoa operators have more than 11Gbps of available lit capacity including satellite as on demand backup. Lit Optical Fibre and contracted satellite capacity indicates long term planning Comments: for demand. Capacity available via the now commissioned Hawaiki and Manatua /Honotoa cable systems is not known IN01166663 ►Monthly volume of data downloaded--all service providers (Terabytes) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 650.00 2,106.00 9,000.00 1,250.00 Date 30-Apr-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 Decreased data prices and COVID limitations on travel have bolstered total data download. Data is total Comments: TeraBytes of all operators during April 2022. IN01166665 ►Monthly peak data rate (speed of data download from Tui Samoa cable to all service providers in Samoa) (Mbps) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 4.00 8,290.00 10,800.00 7.00 Date 30-Apr-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2022 Comments: Peak aggregate national download data rate (Mbps) in the month of Apr 2022 8/3/2022 Page 7 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) Component 4 (a) Legal and regulatory enabling environment IN01166658 ►Law establishing National Digital ID System is enacted (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2020 Component 4 (b) Advisory Assistance on a Samoa Digital Government Platform IN01166659 ►Government digital platform implementation options assessment completed (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2020 TA to assist Government assessment is in evaluation Comments: Component 4 (c): Establishing the NDID system and upgrading the CR system IN01166660 ►NDID implementation strategy developed (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2020 IN01166662 ►NDID awareness campaign and public consultations launched (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 31-Dec-2020 IN01166664 ►NDID system enrollment begins (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes 8/3/2022 Page 8 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 31-Mar-2021 IN01166666 ►NDID system begins automated authentication (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Jun-2021 IN01166667 ►New civil registration software is operational (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 30-Dec-2021 IN01166668 ►NDID and CR systems sharing data on births and deaths (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No No No Yes Date 01-Jun-2019 31-Aug-2021 30-Jun-2022 31-Mar-2022 NDID system not yet operational. Comments: Performance-Based Conditions Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P128904 IDA-D0630 Closed USD 16.00 16.00 0.00 12.20 4.09 75% P128904 TF-A2332 Closed USD 1.50 1.50 0.00 0.87 0.63 58% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P128904 IDA-D0630 Closed 19-Jun-2015 11-Aug-2015 04-Sep-2015 31-Jul-2020 30-Jun-2022 P128904 TF-A2332 Closed 23-Mar-2016 30-May-2016 16-Nov-2016 31-Jul-2020 30-Jun-2022 8/3/2022 Page 9 of 10 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report WS: Pacific Regional Connectivity Program: Phase 3 - Samoa (P128904) Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 16-Aug-2019 ,Level 2 Approved on 22-Jan-2020 ,Level 2 Approved on 04-Jun-2020 Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 8/3/2022 Page 10 of 10